Monthly Archives: January 2010

Minority radio – Why is it improper for a privately owned company to say “I don’t want to buy ads on Spanish language stations” but it is OK for the US Census to allocate piles of ad money that can … Continue reading →

MGM considering bankruptcy – MGM is owing about $3.7 billion in debt and put itself up for sale -none of the bids were even $2 billion so they may try to do a bankruptcy in order to then be sold. … Continue reading →

Glenn Beck has set an all time one day record for listeners and the day isn’t even over yet. Rush would have set the new all time high too… Beck is generally about 20% above Rush’s numbers every day (unless … Continue reading →

Haiti’s Radio Caraibes station is back on the air on the Internet, according to a report by Reporters without Borders. Prior to the quake, Port au Prince had about 50 radio stations – about half a dozen are in operation … Continue reading →

Bing on your iPhone? Bloomberg is reporting that Apple is in talks with Microsoft to replace Google Search on the iPhone with Microsoft’s search engine. Google recently started selling the Nexus One cell phones based on its Android operating system. … Continue reading →

Jim Cramer was wrong (along with everyone on the poll)… the stock market is going down today. The good news is that the stock market is going down because the dollar is getting stronger (those two things offset each other … Continue reading →

Oh but they’re sooooooo gooooood. Especiallh if you get to boig ole glazed ones while they’re still warm. Dunkin Doughnuts couldn’t touch those. Are they going out of business or just retreating to the South where they’re entrenched?

The end of Krispy Kreme – it is with great sadness that I report the demise of the last Krispy Kreme donut store in New England (in Milford Connecticut). That “poll” about how a business with a high margin product … Continue reading →

2 hours of Rush in the evening – one of the new NC FM “Rush” stations is running Rush from 5-7 PM (Eastern), at least for now

Phil Hendrie almost died over the holidays – last night, Phil was back on the air. He was in the hospital for a week with pneumonia after oral antibiotics didn’t work. Phil has started to realize he is a mere … Continue reading →

Payment in kind – this is the new deception to hide the financial problems. Morris publishing which owns a number of newspapers (and used to be part of the same company that runs MCC) filed for reorganiztion today. The lenders … Continue reading →

WRKO is back – just in time. (and WTKK-FM) Long time readers know that WRKO has been excluded from the directory for requiring personally identifying information to listen to a stream. Entercom was the last holdout among the bigger station … Continue reading →

The odd thing about the Mercury News bankruptcy (actually the parent company) is the CEO who ran it out of money not only keeps his job, but winds up owning 20% of the new company and retains voting control of … Continue reading →

Egalitarianism will kill you… From the London Times: One of them [82nd Airborne soldiers] Private First Class Patrick Jones, told The Times that only a few supplies of food and water had arrived. ”We don’t want to go out and … Continue reading →

And now the really bad Haiti news – the “rainy season” starts in February. Contrary to Michael Savage’s impression that Haiti is poor because “it is on the dry side of the island”, Haiti has more than abundant rainfall with … Continue reading →