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- Parrott said Holy Cow. Fred, you and Countess are in our prayers. keep us posted best Parrott
- TheChairman said Anyone home? Are you okay Fred?
- TheChairman said Sorry to hear about Countess and you. I’ll pass the news to my wife for prayer. Perhaps advise a neighbor of your situation so they can check-in occasionally.
- Fred Stiening said About the only reason that comes to mind why an HIV infected transgender person would want to join the military would be to pay for the gender reassignment surgery
- CC1s121LrBGT said Tom Petty on a Donald Trump policy http://ultimateclassicrock.com/tom-petty-american-girl-transgender/
- Fred Stiening said So the Democrats want to arrest President Trump. President Trump side stepped the attempt to appoint Pence’s chief of staff as Trump’s chief of staff. There is no provision in the Constitution for a...
- Fred Stiening said He is a character right out of Atlas Shrugged, the guy from Colorado. He acquired huge tracts of land, only to be told it was sacred Indian Land. He eventually gave up trying drill exploratory Wells...
- Parrott said On the other hand, was it bad that I watched the funeral train today ? I like trains. President Bush liked trains. I guess he knows now if there are trains in heaven. I always check that poll of t...
- Parrott said Interesting. I recognized that name, Philip Anschutz. He was that guy that bought Rio Grande Railroad in 84, then somehow parlayed his cash and Rio Grande to take over Southern Pacific in 1988. I ha...
- CC1s121LrBGT said The real problems will start when the spent batteries start showing up in landfills. The landfills will make “Love Canal” near Buffalo look quaint in comparison. With Harry Ried gone, ma...
- Fred Stiening said Now that more than a handful of subsidized electric cars are on the road, some issues are going to surface. While Tesla’s cars get around 130 mpg of electric gasoline equivalents, they are not...
- CC1s121LrBGT said I believe Tesla has been getting those checks now, from federal taxpayers like you and me. 😉
- CC1s121LrBGT said I’ll put in a plug for US Women’s Olympic basketball. I don’t even like the sport of basketball, but the US Women’s team is so far ahead of the other teams that is amazing to w...
- Parrott said I remember years ago, maybe in the 90’s, Westwood one, use to broadcast NFL football games. It wasn’t bad. Sunday and evening drives back home after a visit some or going somewhere fo...
- TheChairman said Many years ago I read that GM gets a ‘royalty’ (for lack of a better word) from every barrel of oil sold in the U.S. Not sure if it was imported, domestic, or all oil… or if the arr...
- Fred Stiening said My contacts with GM – I did contract work for Oldsmobile (Lansing Michigan) in 1982-83, Buick (Flint) 84/5 and a brief time at the GM Parts division in Schwartz Creek Michigan. I also did consu...
- Fred Stiening said A local Charlotte website reports that Famous “Wally” Amos is currently living in a one bedroom apartment in Fort Mill, just over the South Carolina state line http://www.charlottemagazine...
- Parrott said Two things tonight. First, General Motors: I listened to Rush today. he said that GM CEO mary Barra didn’t expect President Trump to tweet that GM sucks for closing plants in North America. Wh...
- Parrott said I use KIVA for the stream, for Ark midnight, its good. Stan Deyo , weather guy, inventor and geologist, will be on the second hour at 11pm eastern saturday night. He doesn’t believe in glo...
- Parrott said Ark midnight is not on during the live time of the ark, on WIQO. They had something else on. That would be a good pickup for WIQO. parrott
- Parrott said I will check tomorrow night., if they do carry John B Wells ‘Ark’. I’m starting to like the Ark pretty good. Its a pretty good substitution for ‘Spaceman’ on Saturdays....
- Fred Stiening said WIQO is the station that carries (carried?) Ark Midnight by John B Wells. The website has no useful information and the stream does not play on an Android tablet, so there is not much to do. Happy Th...
- Fred Stiening said GCN is offering its own Hour by hour feed so you don’t have to wait until the end of the fourth hour to hear the first hour http://rss.gcnlive.com/alexJones/feed.xml
- Parrott said Chris plante just said he has been picked up on WIQO in Lynchburg VA. Laura Ingraham use to have that 9am to noon slot on there. Guess they made the switch already. I listen to them sometimes, th...
- Parrott said well, Last week, WEBY Milton FL was not streaming. They are good on Sundays. They also played their home-made commercials over the stream. I looked at their website, and it was classic. Kinda 19...
- Fred Stiening said The poll https://streamingradioguide.com/show-poll.php?pollnum=864
- Parrott said On the polls front, I noticed that Howard Sprague is only 22 behind Floyd the Barber on votes for second place ‘top-gay’ in Mayberry. not that there is anything wrong with that, par
- TheChairman said Parrot: Glad you liked the pic. Right now, the ‘dream’ is a bit of a nightmare… as I write this, we’re packing for our seasonal migration to Arizona. Temps in 20’s + sn...
- Parrott said Awesome ! I always follow the Arthur Anderson around the lakes on that Maritime watch boat locater program. Yeah, I tried to win a cruise on that ship. Damn, You are living the dream up there C...
- Parrott said Hi Mrs. Countess! Good to hear from you , Yeah Bojangles is okay. Great observation on the ‘fern bar crowd’. They advertise that on the TV stations in Roanoke Virginia, ” Charlott...
- Fred Stiening said The station was sold to Bustos Media company that primarily operates Spanish language radio and TV stations. Back in 2009, I did a profile of the company https://streamingradioguide.com/blogradio/?pa...
- TheChairman said So I did some follow-up: the station is KVOI. Apparently, the station has been taken over by democrat aliens. They removed L Elder, D Prager, M Medved, and D Loesch, among others. Replaced with fluf...
- CC1s121LrBGT said “NC State rolls out Ph.D. in ‘social justice education’” … ““The goal of the program is to help educators recognize and disrupt systems of oppression… ” from https...
- TheChairman said Along similar lines, my wife wants to express her gratitude for SRG. In the wee hours of the morning she had been listening to a station in Tucson (while we are in MI) and said: “a couple days p...
- Fred Stiening said From today’s Plaza Midwood crime blotter http://www.wbtv.com/2018/11/15/crime-stoppers-undisguised-unarmed-man-robs-gas-station-plaza-over/?outputType=amp
- Fred Stiening said Just today I reminded Countess about the existence of Craigslist and how it has devestated classified ads, both in conventional and alternative newspapers. It is real time ad placement and obviously...
- TheChairman said Well, hello Countess! Good to see you here on the blog… my wife really enjoyed those photos of the Greek Orthodox church. Last time I picked up and perused a weekly alternative paper was probab...
- CountessRobini said Dear Parrott: never ate at a Bojangles before the sale was announced so I went yesterday. Great country ham biscuit — light and fluffy biscuit (nicely greasy)and salty thin-cut ham. Enjoyed e...
- CountessRobini said Yup. Thanks Haiti for terrific article.
- CC1s121LrBGT said He also rounded up some American citizens by race and concentrated them into camps. He was the master of “Intersectionality”.
- CountessRobini said Dear Jersey Devil. You are welcome. It was our duty to stand up. We had planned to go to the Trump rally (I was so hoping I could maneuver my way into the press area and talk to some of the people co...
- CountessRobini said Dear Parrott: thank you. It was the principle. But I must say the shrimp and grits with spicy mango sauce was excellent.
- Fred Stiening said The first Harris Teeter supermarket was in Plaza Midwood back when being a mile from downtown was the suburbs as well as the first Family Dollar store. Since moving back, the two news stories I rememb...
- CountessRobini said Chairman: Did you really buy space in this publication? With my working background I try really hard to support any print publication I can by 1. Reading it and 2. Patronizing the advertisers and doi...
- Fred Stiening said So Mr Harris did win by a little under 2,000 votes. The pattern was very interesting. Absentee and early voting skewed heavily toward Mr McCready, the Democrat who lost. As I suggested, Union Cou...
- Fred Stiening said By that definition, FDR was a fascist, too – but we tolerated it because we had a war to fight. FDR installed censorship in Hollywood, hired Hollywood to produce propoganda, directed private co...
- TheChairman said Parrott, here’s one for you… freighter spotting is the ‘sport’ at our new place. If a vessel is close enough to shore, I grab the camera and snap a few photos. A few weeks ago...
- Parrott said A few days ago, & 43 years, the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in a Lake Superior storm on November 10, 1975. I remember seeing that on news when I was a kid. I didn’t get to go see the Great L...
- TheChairman said The images of Obama hosting a dinner for ‘tech titans’ (Media’s term) from Google, FB, Yahoo, Apple, Microsoft, Amazon, etc –to cement the Socialist Surveillance State–...
- briand75 said Definition of fascism: a political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government heade...
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Cumulus launches rights plan
http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/news/2017/06/05/cumulus-media-adopts-anti-takeover-defense.html The market capitalization of Cumulus Media (NASDAQ: CMLS) is down to a mere $14 million, carrying debt of around $2.4 billion. The board just executed a preferred rights agreement intended to block a takeover attempt if any owner or … Continue reading
Posted in Cumulus Media, Radio Owners
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Hugh Hewitt in talks with MSNBC
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/04/sources-hugh-hewitt-in-talks-for-msnbc-show.html When Hewitt took over for Bill Bennett to do the 6-9 AM shift, I wondered if he was going to last as a morning guy. The purported MSNBC show would be an evening show, so it seems unlikely Hewitt … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative Talk, Salem, Salem Radio, Talk Radio
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“Going concern” warning expected for IheartMedia
Marketwatch Story In the accounting business, one of the obligations of auditors is to evaluate whether the business has the resources and income to sustain itself as a business in the future. When the auditor feels the obligation to issue … Continue reading
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WCHB-AM in Detroit Sold
WCHB-AM (1200 kHz) is an urban talk station owned by Radio One, the national radio owner focused on serving the black community. Mildrid Gaddis is a long time radio personality and activist in the Detroit Area – she will move … Continue reading
Posted in Radio One, Station Sales / Transfers
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Variety Magazine: Bob Pittman may not be able to save iHeart
Time is running out for iHeart / Clear Channel and Cumulus iHeartMedia CEO Bob Pittman’s Efforts May Not Be Enough to Avoid Looming Bankruptcy I await the rebirth of radio patiently. It may well just return to dust, but the … Continue reading
Posted in IHeart Media, Radio Biz
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Meghan McCain gets shown the door
Countess spotted this before I did. Maybe I can add her to the staff as a hard news reporter. If I teach her how to use Google News, this could become a “go to” radio news site So Meghan signed … Continue reading
Posted in Buck Sexton, IHeart Media, Premiere (IHeart)
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CBS Radio to be merged into Entercom
The rumors were true http://www.cbscorporation.com/2017/02/cbs-corporation-and-entercom-announce-merger-of-cbs-radio-with-entercom-to-create-preeminent-radio-platform/ Thanks to JerseyDevil for breaking the story while I was asleep having nightmares about ostriches looking in my windows. The deal is structured as a tax free exchange called a Reverse Morris Trust. CBS shareholders … Continue reading
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Man convicted of Home Invasion of Stu Epperson Jr
Winston Salem Journal Stu Epperson Jr is the son of the cofounder of the Salem media networks (SALM). A man attempted to break into his house and was caught by the police. The original story was kept fairly discrete, but … Continue reading
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Hispanics love sports too!
Univision, the Spanish language Radio and TV giant has announced it will be converting 10 of its radio stations to carry Univision Deportes (Sports) Radio in competition with ESPN Deportes Radio. http://www.univision.com/deportes/udn Univision had previously converted most of its AM … Continue reading
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Michael Baisden Returns to Syndication
Newspaper coverage in the Atlanta Urinal and Constipation Just in time for the Donald Trump hateathon, Michael Baisden is returning to radio syndication. He used(?) to do a show for TV One, the TV arm of Radio One, the racially … Continue reading
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