Monthly Archives: December 2010

Halo Burger says Goodbye

This means nothing to almost everybody, but since I just happened to stumble on it by accident… News Story Another story History of Halo Burger Halo Burger is a local hamburger chain around the Flint, Michigan area since 1923. Bill … Continue reading

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How to lose a lot of money in the radio business

By all accounts, K Earl Durden was a Very Good Person. He dabbled in a lot of business ventures, like all good Rich Republicans. One of his more successful ventures was Rail Management Corporation, which owned and operated a number … Continue reading

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Diversity at Sirius/XM

I expect this will be a topic of discussion at the “Social Justice” conference next month with the FCC. As a condition of approving the merger of Sirius and XM, the U.S. Government extorted a promise that Sirius/XM would set … Continue reading

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“Social Justice” comes to the FCC

If you listen to Glenn Beck at all, you know how he hammers on the idea that “Social Justice” is just “code” for Marxism. Read this In about 3 weeks, the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council is having a meeting … Continue reading

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Tom Tancredo coming to radio Monday

First the good news – Conservative activist Tom Trancredo has a radio show starting next week on KVOR-AM in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He just recently lost his attempt to run for Governor of Colorado on a third party ticket drawing … Continue reading

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Where did my favorite show go?

So this is a great site, but suddenly you can’t find your favorite show where you expect it. What’s up? Starting for 2011, testing of stations and programs is mandatory. You won’t be able to listen to a station or … Continue reading

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Manicuring your garden

So you want a piece of turf to call your own? You’re the expert on Public Radio stations in Minnesota? Gospel radio in Mississippi? You know every radio station in Michigan? The Streaming radio station list now has the ID … Continue reading

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The outlook for talk – 2011

Dr Laura is gone to satellite, Dr Edell is gone, Michael Savage’s contract with TRN is in dispute, Bob Brinker is down to 3 hrs/week, Howard Stern is staying on Sirius/XM for 5 more years, Mike Smerconish is dropping his … Continue reading

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New “ID Show” feature

A couple people have stumbled onto what the coding elf has been working on for Christmas – but now it is offcially active (although probably still fragile). “ID Show” is a middle of the road approach in between “Art/Fred micromanages everything” and … Continue reading

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Michael Savage’s other shoe drops

I’ve reported here a couple times that Michael Savage has indicated on air that he might just quit radio “by the end of the year”.    I’ve also watched as TRN hosts have been accepting non-network work and wondered what is going … Continue reading

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Today is FCC Net Neutrality Day

While everyone is on vacation, the 5 member FCC Commission is voting today on Net Neutrality. The scope of what is being voted on today is nowhere near the “end of Internet Freedom” that some radio hosts have been fretting … Continue reading

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Liberty Works Isn’t

Liberty Works is dedicated to reawakening Americans to the founding principles of natural rights and limited government, as embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, by broadcasting Liberty-oriented talk radio shows through an expanding network of  commercial and … Continue reading

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Congress green lights expansion of LPFM

LPFM stands for Low Power FM.   A low power FM station is allowed to use 10 to 100 watts of power – at most they can be heard 5 miles from the transmitter.  LPFM is intended for stationary listening, not … Continue reading

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What radio didn’t learn from Howard Stern

A brief history… Infinity Broadcasting started in 1972, back when the full restrictions on radio ownership were still in place.   The company was relatively unimportant until 1981, when a guy named Mel Karmazin showed up.  Mel broke the “rules” of radio.   He quickly … Continue reading

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Tobacco Terrorism

So I’m walking through a local supermarket yesterday and I’m walking past the bathrooms near the front of the store… and a female store employee frantically is yelling for a male co-worker to “come here right now”… the urgent kind … Continue reading

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