Category Archives: Internet Streaming

Who are the streaming holdouts?

Busy, busy, busy… a lot of stations added streaming in the last 6 or so months – the total is now over 8,700 – closing in on 60% of all licensed stations. So who are the holdouts why haven’t yet … Continue reading

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Washington DC about to get new AM station

The new station is called WCRW-AM (Conservative Radio Washington?). The station is an upgrade to the former WAGE-AM on Leesburg, Virginia. The revamp has been tied up in legal knots by local land use bullies, who are trying to make … Continue reading

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The Glenn Beck situation

Glenn is dropping the strong hint that the reason for breaking things off with Fox is so he can move out of New York, possibly to Texas.  Told ya. :) and here and here and here

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WMFE (Orlando, Florida) sells PBS TV station to save radio station

Story WMFE is selling its PBS TV station to DayStar for $5 million.    Contributions to the TV station are down 40% since 2007, and corporate giving (from those greedy immoral capitalist pigs) is off even more. Their NPR station is facing the … Continue reading

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Wall Street Journal comes to evenings

The Wall Street Journal has launched an evening program called “The Daily Wrap”.  The first show was Monday April 4th, 2011.    So far, KLIF is the only affiliate I’ve found. I think this is a really good concept.   Based on … Continue reading

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Westwood One warns of potential default

http://www.radio-info.com/news/westwood-one-missed-filing-its-yearly-10-k-report-with-the-sec You know that any company that has to pay 15% to borrow money must be in a risky business.  Westwood One syndicates Jim Bohannon, Dennis Miller and Doug Urbanski, but its main involvement has been with NCAA athletetics. According … Continue reading

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Glenn Beck has at least 413 affiliates

That’s my conclusion after processing the entire list and researching every one – something I’m in a unique position to do.   You can play along here As of now, this is the totals which you see on the page: Current … Continue reading

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Buckley & Glenn Beck

Media Matters was a-twitter a week ago with the news that Glenn Beck has been dumped by Buckley (the small Connecticut owner who lucked into buying WOR for a fire sale)… http://www.talkofct.com/ Buckley is one of the last holdouts in … Continue reading

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Glenn Beck Counts – Part 1

http://mediamatters.org/blog/201103310020#1269181 Since Glenn Beck has deleted the evidence, this is what I have to start with.  I’m probably the single most qualified person in America to do this analysis, other than the people Media Matters got raw data from.   Just … Continue reading

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Counting affiliates – lies and bigger lies

Glenn Beck seems to be inviting a credibility battle with Media Matters over how many affiliates he has.  Glenn says 430, Media Matters says “less than 400”. http://www.glennbeck.com/2011/04/01/april-fools-media-matters-caught-in-a-web-of-lies-in-their-war-on-glenn-beck/ Syndicators lie about affiliate counts.   Constantly.   I don’t even waste my time looking … Continue reading

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Beware Fake Antivirus sites

There is currently active an “exploit” of web servers labeled “LizaMoon”. The attack perhaps is originating from Romania. It has the ability to add an extra line at the end of a web pages you might visit that causes anyone … Continue reading

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If you went to the bar and got drunk today…

If you quit your job and loaded up on Jack Daniels to celebrate that Barack Obama had sought political sanctuary in Paris and the birthers were right after all….   just remember the #1 rule of the Internet – if it’s … Continue reading

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What Public Radio can be

…if it wasn’t spending all its money buying NPR programs and paying its “executives” $300k a year… http://www.wfwm.org/video/depot2009/Hanna_Livingston/video_large.html If you’re on a slow internet connection, you may want to use their main page: http://www.wfwm.org/

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Drudge Report – Show prep

Rush’s show today has been little more than Rush going down the stories on the Drudge Report and reading them.   It’s :20 after the hour in the second hour, and Rush has yet to take a call during “Open line Friday”. … Continue reading

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Mission Creep

Around 9:30 PM on Sunday, during the first hour of the John Batchelor show, he had on a guest – former CIA analyst Pat Lang, who was involved in the targeting of Qadaffi in 1986.   A few of the comments give … Continue reading

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