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Scofflaw!

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Art Stone

It’s hard to not laugh, though

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Bar Inflation

Posted on July 2, 2010 by Art Stone

Apple admitted today that the # of bars of signal strength is wrong. Two real bars may show up as 4 bars. There have long been reports that the “AT&T problem” isn’t a problem with the AT&T network, but rather … Continue reading →

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Dr Demento leaving radio

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Art Stone

Washington Times reports Dr Demento is calling it quits at age 69. If you’re under 50 – like much of radio – you may not know who he is. He finds and plays really demented music. “Weird Al” Yankovic and … Continue reading →

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Another Radio Owner takes the plunge

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Art Stone

Bustos Media story. Back at the end of the 2009, I created a list of the probality of failure of the various radio owners. Bustos Media was an 8 on a scale of 1-10 (with 10 being certain failure). The … Continue reading →

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New Beck Show Opening

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Art Stone

Glenn Beck’s radio show has a new “opening”. It’s similar to the previous one, although a little less “dark”. The song is the same, but is either a different recording or a different artist. A while ago, Glenn had made … Continue reading →

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Census jobs and Unemployment

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Art Stone

How many times can economic experts say “unexpected” and retain any credibility? Temporary census jobs are ending. That will start to show up on Friday. While the AP was glad to ignore Census jobs as the reason unemployment went down, … Continue reading →

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Radio stocks the past few days…

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Art Stone

I don’t follow stocks day to day, but noticed odd things the past few days. There were huge spikes in volume last Friday on several of the stocks. I think stock options unwind on the 3rd Friday of the month, … Continue reading →

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Winding down of FindAnISP.com

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Art Stone

Back around 1996, I started working on a directory to provide unbiased information about the dialup Internet choices that were available as non-geeky people started to become aware of the Internet, and focused on information for people who decided that … Continue reading →

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Verizon iPhone coming in January

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Art Stone

Bloomberg is reporting that Verizon will start selling the iPhone in January. AT&T’s phones are based on GSM, which is the global standard. Verizon uses CDMA, which is basically only used where the US Government has a military presence – … Continue reading →

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Driving off a Cliff

Posted on June 30, 2010 by Art Stone

This morning, I bumped into a show by accident doing testing – it wasn’t on the station schedule. It was a program hosted by Ron Insana called IQ Radio. Ron was having a love-in with a former President of the … Continue reading →

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Supreme Court and Sarbanes-Oxley

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Art Stone

Somewhat obscured by the Chicago gun ban case was the Supreme Court also struck down a part of the Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002. If you’ve ventured at all into the “Who owns Big Radio” part of the web site, … Continue reading →

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The coming EU / Russia Security alliance

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Art Stone

A week ago, Germany organized a meeting of EU foreign ministers and Russia to discuss the possibility of creating a European Security alliance – similar to a NATO, but with no United States. One of the key events in the … Continue reading →

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Supreme Court – media bias

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Art Stone

So the Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that the 2nd amendment applies by “incorporation” – that states and local governments cannot prevent their citizens from owning guns – a right enumerated in the 2nd amendment in the Federal Constitution. … Continue reading →

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Glenn Beck’s Macular Degeneration

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Art Stone

Last week, Glenn mentioned in passing that he was having trouble seeing people’s faces. Having spent way too much of my life in ophthalmologist offices, I knew immediately what the most likely cause is – macular degeneration. The macula is … Continue reading →

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Wachovia and Drug Money

Posted on June 29, 2010 by Art Stone

When Wachovia attempted to fend off Hank Paulson, the FDIC and Tim Geithner’s forced marriage to CitiGroup, and they flew into the arms of Wells-Fargo to escape – I sort of wondered when the U.S. Government would bring out the … Continue reading →

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