Monthly Archives: October 2009

Senate committee passes “performance tax”… The NAB is counting on the House blocking passage of the bill that ends radio’s exemption from paying royalties to musicians for their performances

High cost of bankruptcy – defunct investment bank Lehman Brothers has paid lawyers $417 million so far to handle the liquidation of the company

Chicago’s Don Wade & Roma’s ratings fall through the floor Sun-times story I have a different theory – Mancow coming on after their show is chasing away the older listeners – trying to attract non-existent young talk radio listeners. Either … Continue reading →

Being anti-NFL is the new racism… But if you love the NFL so much that you want to be part owner of a team, then you are really racist. This is so confusing. ESPN is reporting that Rush has left … Continue reading →

Dollar down, stocks go up. For American economists, this seems illogical – but if you think of the dollar as not the reference currency – all other things being equal – the stock marker should go up when the dollar … Continue reading →

Chris Plante back at WMAL starting on Monday – The Joe Scarborough show with Ms Brzezinski gets the boot. Perhaps this will happen on all the Citadel stations, so Joe can return to focusing all his energy on his MSNBC … Continue reading →

Security problem with Acrobat http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb09-15.html This sounds pretty bad – advise not reading pdf files on “sketchy” web sites until you have the fixed version installed

Silver lining to dollar collapse – the good news is that if the dollar becomes worthless, that solves the real estate / mortgage problem. People with money invested now in Euros or Yen will flood the country buying up real … Continue reading →

Dollar rumor mongering? – the NY Post has a very pessimistic article declaring that the U.S. Dollar is dead as the currency of the world’s central banks, having been replaced by the yen and the Euro (note the story confused … Continue reading →

President of CIT is “retiring” in a few months. Look for some resolution of this in the next few days.

New Show Search availalbe – kick its tires are see if you can break it…. Nobody objected, so I went ahead and did it….

Dear Anonymous Monica Crowley fan – WABC’s steam is dead on Saturday because they carry Army football games and they don’t play her show during football season. It has nothing to do with Streaming Radio Guide. Will you be requesting … Continue reading →

NASA’s moon rocket impact looks like a flop. The two pieces hit the moon, but very little visual evidence that it did anything. Oddly, there was a female voice the last few minutes calling out last second changes to the … Continue reading →

Reworking show search – I’m thinking about redoing the way “search for show” works… right now it does a convoluted thing in the “What’s on now” format, showing you the list of programs that might match what you are looking … Continue reading →