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Your skin color isn’t black enough!

The primary for Mayor in Washington DC (which is essentially the general election since there is no Republican party in DC to speak of) happened last night. The incumbent mayor Adrian Fenty – who is biracial – has made school reform … Continue reading →

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The Washington Times damage spreads

The benefactors of the Washington Times in Asia have pulled the financial plug. One of the things this surfaced is the practice of a syndicated radio show paying to have their show distributed. The Times is reported to have been … Continue reading →

Posted in Internet Streaming, Obama Nation, Radio Biz | 4 Comments

Witness the Democratic Echosphere

Minerva Ohio is a village of 4,000 people located in the rural farmland of Eastern Ohio near Canton Ohio on US 30 in Amish country. The Village council has 4 Councilmen and Mayor. A sudden opening happened in the job … Continue reading →

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Heading for the exits

Long time readers know I’ve pointed to the metric of “Look at music stations switching to talk or sports” as a metric of whether the NAB is going to lose the “Performance tax” battle.   If the thing passes, then those … Continue reading →

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Mike Castle voted to impeach George Bush?

So when someone says something that is patently not true – you basically have two options.  They didn’t know it was not true, or they know it is not true and they don’t care they are misleading people. Rush just … Continue reading →

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“Christians who speak in tongues are mad”

A leader of the National Democratic Party in Ghana has officially declared that “Christians who speak in tongues are mad”. Probably not mad enough to burn a Koran, though. Business Ghana Coverage Ghana has been in my news watch since … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, Global Finance, Obama Nation | 5 Comments

Savage out in San Francisco – again

Tom Taylor’s newsletter reports that Comerica Bank has seized KTRB-AM and put the station into receivership. The station had been in Modesto and Pappas Broadcasting moved the station closer to the bay about 3 years ago. The station had switched … Continue reading →

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Islam and prisons

One of the current friction points between the Islamic world and the non-Islamic world is Nigeria. The Northern part of the country is majority Muslim and the Southern is majority Christian. One method Islam uses to spread is to evangelize … Continue reading →

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“Speaker of the House Boehner”

Media types and Political pundits are pushing you to accept as a fact that when the Republicans win control of the House,  John Boehner will become that Speaker of the House. It doesn’t work that way.   Unlike the Senate, the … Continue reading →

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Scott Hennen out

Tom Taylor is reporting that the owners of “The Flag” have pushed part owner Scott Hennen off the air and out of the operations. “The Flag” is a really curious station that I’ve written about before. It was created a … Continue reading →

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John Kluge dead, liberals angry

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2010/09/john-w-kluge-telecom-billionia.html John Kluge was a wheeler dealer in Radio, TV and the telephone business. He had the nerve! to die on September 7th. He was a billionaire and left much of his wealth to the University of Virginia. So why … Continue reading →

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Looking for Glenn Beck?

Since the Christmas Tsunami in 2008, it’s been my policy to move shows that are “best of” or where the host is on vacation to the end of the list to draw attention to those shows that are live with … Continue reading →

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Trouble in Chicago

I’ve never worked in radio, but as a long time listener have suspected it is a common practice for employees at the station (especially the producer) to pretend to be a real caller. Busted big time Feder’s account (Robert Feder … Continue reading →

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Michigan returning to Mother Gaia

The past few days have been hard on Flint and Detroit.    There is a very strong windstorm in the area – with wide swaths of the city abandoned and little or no fire protection, the cities are burning and there … Continue reading →

Posted in American Politics, Islam and war, Radio Biz | 6 Comments

The final days of CNN

Larry King is retiring. CNN has announced its lineup changes Larry will be replaced by a guy from the UK whose main credential is having been a judge on America’s most talented. Also announced was the final details of the … Continue reading →

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