Monthly Archives: October 2009

Year to date: 3,163,193 valid listen attempts… 2,385,851 are for AM radio stations (75%) [How weird are we?] 163,150 for WW direct streams (5% – Sirius/XM, Radio America, TRN, etc) 6,388 for total of ALL 1,219 HD2/HD3 channnels – that’s … Continue reading →

Old Dominion Peanut Crunch may contain peanuts. (Worth looking for in your supermarket)

Obama more annoying than doorbells?…. at least that’s what the latest poll is saying so far…. I can’t remember President Obama even being on a radio commercial.

Anyone still interested in testing with Google Chrome, but don’t want to do a full installation? You may want to try the portable version: http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/google_chrome_portable Just because it’s labeled as “portable” doesn’t mean that it must be installed on a … Continue reading →

John Batchelor program… here is this weekend’s schedule: http://johnbatchelorshow.com/schedules/2009/10/saturday-and-sunday-24-and-25-october/ Pretty clear the show IS prerecorded, or at least most of it, given that each segment is listed with guests and duration and specifics of what they talked about…. The “roundtable” … Continue reading →

KTNI-FM in Denver seems to be trying the FM talk durng the week and “screwing around” with randomly played no DJ hard rock music on the weekends. At least this station has Mancow, which makes a little more sense.

Calpers – keep an eye on it. It is one of the largest institutional investors in the United States. It manages the pension funds for the State of California. There are several stories of “deals” that were made to divert … Continue reading →

NY Times “news” – Drunks in Anchorage (sure that’s not related to Sarah Palin), gay getting groin operation, Warren Buffet’s son and his misguided idea of philanthropy, and Paris fashions… I don’t get how they could be losing money and … Continue reading →

Capmark – one of the country’s largest commercial real estate lenders will declare bankruptcy this weekend, according to the NY Times and the WSJ. Capmark holds a large amount of loans it acquired from GMAC.

$3.3 billion in 2010 political ads – do you think that could possibly be corrupting the political process, and especially media coverage?

H1N1 is “national emergency” – according to USA Today, on Friday President Obama signed an Executive Order declaring the flu to be a national emergency. Alex Jones told you this would happen.

Carl Icahn resigns from Yahoo board… The man who is trying to save CIT from bankruptcy suddenly resigned his Board Seat on Yahoo. Perhaps he expects to have his hands full starting next week…

NATO supports the idea of the U.S. Sending more troops into Afghanistan. Details about what NATO countries will do will be determined at a later date

Pre-stream ads on common programs – a while back, I made an effort to remove schedule items where a program is carried on dozens of stations at the same time, where some stations insist on adding an extra ad before … Continue reading →

FDIC Friday – 7 banks taken over today…. that’s a new record for this year. Today’s batch will only cost the FDIC a total of $350 million