You may remember the story of Jennifer Strange, the woman who participated in a “Hold Your Wee For A Wii” contest on a radio station in Sacramento and ended up dying from drinking too much water. It was another wacky morning radio stunt that went wrong. Last week, a jury ordered Entercom, owner of the […]
Congrats to Dave Greene and James Oelkhaus, who have been running KFNS Radio for Big League Broadcasting, and today announced they’ve formed a business group (Grand Slam Sports) to buy the station and make it their own. I’ve enjoyed dealing with them and having their support as the home base of our poker radio show, […]
In the last 30 hours, I have seen and heard seven different media outlets — radio and TV — tout their “exclusive” interviews with Sen. Arlen Spector about his party switch. There was a time when “exclusive” meant “we were the only ones to get this, and boy, are the others jealous of us.” Now […]
Tim Cavanaugh explains the controversy in the radio industry over the Personal People Meter, the device Arbitron came up with to replace the diary method of tracking who listens to what station — technology that has forced some owners to flip formats after finding out how small their audience really was.
As a news consumer, the imminent death of a big city newspaper makes me sad. There has always been something comforting to me about sitting down to breakfast and reading the morning paper, wherever I am. When I travel, to big cities or small towns, I’ll pick up the local daily to see what’s going […]
For about ten years now, my friend Frank O. Pinion has had a running joke on his KTRS show in which he confuses me with Paul Harvey, whose news commentary is also heard on that station. I suppose the joke is over now that Harvey has died after nine decades on this planet and seven […]