Belatedly, I’ve started checking the Phil Hendrie listings to see how it’s going. Phil’s TRN show ended June 25th – it will resume July 8th as a live show at a better hour – 7-10 PM Pacific (10 PM – 1AM ET). In the meantime, he is on the new network airing “best of” shows
About half of the stations are sticking with Roy Master’s “Advice Line”. A few have picked up Jon Grayson, Clear Channel is going with Coast to Coast. Whether stations will pick up the show at the new time is yet to be seen.
TRN dropped the ball with Phil Hendrie. Even more so than Laura Ingraham and Michael Savage, there are no comparisons to similar shows. Hopefully Dial Global will know what to do with the show. I personally liked the midnight-3 (central) time slot because it worked with my schedule, but perhaps there’s a better chance of succeeding at an earlier time. I can’t imagine anyone would choose to air Roy Masters’ pseudo-Scientology crap, but some stations take TRN’s entire slate of awful programming without even blinking. And that includes Mancow, which is as bad as it gets.
Thanks Art for keeping track of Phil’s whereabouts and carrying his show. That’s why I visit your site on a daily basis. Keep up the great work.
Douglas Engelbart is not starting over…. but deserves some recognition
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/07/douglas_engelbart_mouse/
I always enjoy it when Apple fans say “but Microsoft stole everything from Apple!”. I point out that Apple stole everything from Xerox PARC. I didn’t know this man, but it sounds right – that’s where the technology came from
John Batchelor did a show the other day about Turing – a British mathematician who helped to break the German cypher machine and conceptualized the modern computer before the technology existed to create such a machine.
The old batchelor shows are available as free podcasts. Some are on this page, http://www.johnbatchelorshow.com/podcasts but are hard to find and not all of them seem to be there.
It is much easier to find them here where they are also free, but you have to use an Apple product. 😉
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/john-batchelor-show/id589864479
FWIW- KLIF in Dallas streams the shows opposite of Coast to Coast AM, so if the ghosts scare you, you have a place to hide. 😉
Batchelor is solidly in the podcast business. He was an early adopter – he’s a Major Apple Fanboy. He frames it now this way – he’s actively promoting iTunes as “this interview and many others are available on iTunes” – basically his pre recorded segments. The formality of what he says makes me think he and Lew Dickey negotiated a deal – John could stay on the air working for free and in return John can promote his podcast library, probably with the Hoover Institution funding it all behind the scenes.
Been listening to John Batchelor a little bit and enjoy some of the subjects he talks about, as well as his guests.
So much of technology comes by way of the mighty military machines. Always having to have a ‘trump card’ to play against the ‘enemy’. Point that out to the friendly Apple aficionado’s.
In case it doesn’t make Coast to Coast AM 😉
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/car-splits-half-accident-driver-disappears-173038090.html
My question to ponder – did the driver disappear before the car split, or after? 😉
An old girl friend, many years ago, had a father that loved AMC’s, well for that matter any fast, sporty car. Anyway, she wrecked his AMC. Front end was badly damaged. Her father found an AMC that had a badly damaged backend. He bought it, cut both cars in half and welded the 2 good halves together. Painted it to look just like a stock car and let her drive it. I got to drive it too. Nice car! Nice girl friend too!
Wow. I’d be afraid to drive any car fast that was wielded together from two halves.
I just realised that i really wrecked my pun above. It should read ” did the driver split before the car split, or after?” lol
He did a great job. Key thing was to reinforce the chassis to make it stronger than original.
Hey, that was a weird accident. Hmmmm…., weird the girlfriend would not ID the guy. Watch for a follow-up to the story. Could get even more weird, who knows?
The father of my college roommate did this for a living – finding two halves of cars and welding them together. At some point, they made a law that you have to disclose this to a buyer. Front wheel drives made this easier since you don’t have an axle and differential that have to be lined up – you still have to be sure things are squared up and the wheels point in the same direction. Chassis as a concept doesn’t really exist any more – the passenger cabin is an integrated unit with it all working together to provide rigidity and crash protection with the minimum amount of weight. Car design has come a long way.
Phil is not going live tonight citing technical issues though there’s a question of whether he has any affiliates. Rumor has it TRN is the one offering the best of’s on there second channel in place of what is suppose to be a Advice Line refeed. TRN owns the rights to all the shows from the run.
TRN has an active lawsuit against Dial Global and the new syndicator. Hard to sell a new show under that cloud of FUD. I’m pretty sure Phil owns his shows. Even if he doesn’t he has shows from the Premiere days.
KZNU may be carrying it live
http://www.foxnews1450.com/
Show is best of on this station
Code blue !
Show is still “best of”.. Only about 6 stations still carrying that. There is no critical mass left. The train has left the station.
Phil Hendrie is still “best of” shows
This is getting more confusing. Based on the web site, Phil did a “live” show tonight on his video cast – playing old bits.
Phil Hendrie will be remembered as a weird one, funny? yes, and weird, yes.