Monthly Archives: January 2011

One more try with P2

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Art Stone

Back to the old “twitter like” blog format. It’s been a while and they put out an update – perhaps they fixed some of the really annoying bugs like it closing windows and forgetting your updates for no apparent reason…. … Continue reading →

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Too many damn lawyers

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Art Stone

Radio-Info.com just sent out a news flash that Cumulus is buying Cumulus Media Partners (CMP).     CMP was formerly known as Susquehanna Radio – it owned a large number of major market stations – Cumulus is a small market operator.   The … Continue reading →

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Mayors against Illegal Guns

Posted on January 31, 2011 by Art Stone

Report by Aman Ali for Reuters (a news organization from England, the country from whom we revolted through using guns illegally) http://us.mobile.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE70U6WI20110131?ca=rdt Apparently, the law enforcement budget in New York City is swimming in cash enough to send investigators to … Continue reading →

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It’s about the oil, stupid

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Art Stone

Egypt is sitting on at least 4 billion barrels of oil, and a ton of natural gas.   Offshore under the Red Sea, oil drilling has been finding oil deposits in the last year. Curiously, the reason Egypt hasn’t exploited the oil … Continue reading →

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Today’s out of control person in the news

Posted on January 30, 2011 by Art Stone

A man was arrested outside the Mosque in Dearborn, Michigan. Story He was carrying an unspecified number of M-80 fireworks (an M-80 is roughly 1/4 of a stick of dynamite).  Note this arrest happened last MONDAY, but just made the news … Continue reading →

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Buried in the Friday Night News

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Art Stone

You may remember John Wheeler – the Cybersecurity expect and long time consultant to the government in a number of roles whose body showed up oddly in a Delaware landfill after he had been wandering around Newark Delaware appearing disoriented. The … Continue reading →

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Today’s black-washing

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Art Stone

You may have heard in passing that a man in California was arrested for making phone threats to former Congresswoman Diane Watson.   Diane Watson served in the U.S. House for 10 years as a Democrat.  She was idenified by at … Continue reading →

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The Government is your shepherd…

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Art Stone

Glenn Beck is getting perilously close to the Truth.  He’s had the “Aha!” moment realizing that “Progressives” [ed. and leaders of religions] view themselves as the farmer and the rest of humankind who aren’t enlightened or smart as “the sheep”.   … Continue reading →

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Financial Double Speak

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Art Stone

Why don’t people trust “capitalism”?  (and I use that word loosely)

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Another copper thief

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Art Stone

This happened in the local area: News Coverage Notice how they didn’t mention the names of Mr Johannesen and Mr Prutting, their ages and their street addresses – in order to protect their immigration status.

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Connecticut – January 2011

Posted on January 27, 2011 by Art Stone

Or is it the summer of 1816?

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Canadian / Mexican radio stations

Posted on January 26, 2011 by Art Stone

I just added data from the FCC about Canadian (stations begin with “C”) and Mexican (stations begin with “X”) into the database.  Many of these stations can be heard in border cities – in San Diego, the Mexican stations are … Continue reading →

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“blockbuster deal” in context

Posted on January 22, 2011 by Art Stone

It took a little digging to find the price that Bonneville paid to acquire WTOP-AM in Washington DC, one of the 17 stations Bonneville just agreed to sell for $505 million. According to Billboard Magazine from pg 97 on August 23, … Continue reading →

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January 24, 2011 – a day of change

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Art Stone

Doug Urbanski debuts on Westwood One, replacing Fred Thompson – 18 Cumulus stations should be carrying the show – only two stations are promoting it – if you assume Cumulus is  just replacing with Thompson with Urbanski, that’s 16 streaming stations.   Cumulus … Continue reading →

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ARNN update

Posted on January 21, 2011 by Art Stone

Talk Radio Network’s serious competitor to NPR’s news broadcasts goes live on Monday after an exhaustive week of planning, as I passed along a few days ago.    The 3 hour news show will be “non-partisan” so as to not scare away national … Continue reading →

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