Monthly Archives: July 2009

John Batchelor gets Saturdays on WABC – Bob Brinker is out on his flagship.

Bloggers are quitting in droves – as I’m reviewing web sites, large numbers of them lost interest shortly after the 2008 election. Are they all moving to Facebook and Myspace? Twitter? Intimidated into silence? Abducted by aliens? Herded off to … Continue reading →

CIT trading halted – either it is because they will file for bankruptcy, or the Feds will announce a loan beyond the $2.3 billion we already gave CIT back in December. Do you feel lucky? WSJ is reporting there has … Continue reading →

68% utilization – America’s factories are at the lowest level of production since we started keeping records – but since last month the factories only slowed by 0.4% percent more last month, that’s a sign that the economy is turning … Continue reading →

EMT checks Wikpedia – as I’m double checking the “random web site links”, I read one of the more interesting ones out there and got a real chuckle. The author of the blog is an ambulance attendant (probably not actually … Continue reading →

Don’t visit St Louis if you think freedom is a good thing. This was on the news wires before, but here is the

Want to play with a search engine not controlled by Google’s political censorship? I’m getting the database up to date. My approach is a bit different than Google’s or Yahoo’s. It works on the 80/20 rule… that 80% of what … Continue reading →

New York Times is selling WQXR, its classical FM radio station in New York City. It’s a complex deal, but the ultimate buyer is Univision. The fact that NY Times is largely controlled by a Mexican billionaire is completely unrelated, … Continue reading →

Palin to leave GOP? That has been my belief all along, and she has been telegraphing it for the past few days more clearly. If I were her, after the way John McCain’s people shafted her during and after the … Continue reading →

Glenn picks up on the notion that the government is going to break up big radop and turn the licenses over to minority owners and other political supporters of the Obama administration… and the Henry Paulson / Goldman-Sachs connection Glenn … Continue reading →

Prestream ads are vanishing – I wonder if is a lack of advertisers or if radio stations figured out we’re fed up with untargeted repetitive ads every time we switch between stations

Fun with words…. For more than 10 years, I’ve had a little project in the background running a spider on the web watching it evolve…. the “search engine” I created didn’t run well on my older server, so the entire … Continue reading →

Jason Lewis in the A.M.? Clear Channel’s WREC in Memphis is doing a bit of unconventional programming. They’re running Jason Lewis (now syndicated by Premiere) next morning from 8-11 AM. Ben Ferguson (local in TN, but syndicated nationally by Radio … Continue reading →

Clear Channel player… just had the experience of the stream playing for like 15 seconds and then the advertisement started playing over it. A new marketing strategy?

Steve Dahl the “Founding Father” of talk radio? Wow, CBS radio has hit a new low in hyperbole. For the 98% of Americans who don’t know, Steve Dahl is an unemployed former “hot talk” jock who used to be on … Continue reading →