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June 25, 2009Sad news from the world of local radio tonight via PA Watercooler; Philadelphia talk legend Irv Homer is dead.
Hall of Fame sports broadcaster Harry Kalas, 73, was found unconscious in the broadcast booth at Washington DC’s Nationals Park and rushed to the hospital according to media reports.
Philadelphia Phillies President David Montgomery is quoted as speculating “it’s serious.”
Update: Sadly, Philadelphia broadcasting legend Harry Kalas is dead at 73 according to AP.
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Philadelphia soft pop station WBEB-FM (known to all as B101) will stop it’s internet simulcast as of Sunday March 15 in reaction to jacked-up royalty rates imposed by the customer raping music industry. The station will no longer provide internet streaming.
B101, Philadelphia’s number one station which also happens to be terrible unless you’re in the mood to eat a bullet or spend your evenings weeping endlessly, is one of the few radio stations not owned by a huge conglomerate.
The latest Arbitron radio ratings are out, and details of the period beginning October 16 and ending November 12 are disturbing for Philadelphia’s Big Talker 1210 WPHT-AM.
Despite a hotly contested election, financial market meltdown and the Phillies’ successful World Series run occurring during the ratings period, the station was down almost a full share point and lost more than 272,000 listeners weekly compared to the month before.
Hmmmm…Increased interest in baseball, financial news and an election, yet the WPHT’s numbers were substantially lower overall. Shouldn’t they have gone up? What could have changed during that time to account for the dive? I’m not finding individual show ratings anywhere yet, but let’s see if we can figure out what’s different. Glenn Beck? Nope, he’s the same. Rush Limbaugh? Nope, same Rush. Sean Hannity? Nope, Sean stayed consistent.
Oh, yeah. Now I remember. That opportunistic attention whore Michael Smerconish announced his support for Barack Obama in the Presidential race on October 17.
I don’t listen to the guy, but I hear his commercials during the listenable shows the rest of the day. As a side note, am I the only one who says “like hell I will” every time I hear Smerconish tell me to call or patronize one of the station’s advertisers when he endorses them in a commercial during Rush’s or Hannity’s show?
Various sources are reporting a mini-shakeup in the works at New York’s right talk radio station WABC.
A deal to begin a local radio show with an eye toward national syndication for MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough has been talked about all day.
Here are the web sites, articles and videos referenced by Rush Limbaugh on his October 3, 2008 Show.
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Here are the web sites, articles and videos referenced by Rush Limbaugh on his October 1, 2008 Show.
Full Text of the Senate Bailout (Financial Rescue) Bill (WARNING: Giant 451-Page PDF File)
Erroneous Politico article claiming Rush lambasted House Republicans
NBC News report downplaying the brutal torture John McCain sustained at the Hanoi Hilton based on the torturer’s account.
C. Edmund Wright of American Thinker’s Time For McCain to Name Names about Democrat Fannie Mae / Freddie Mac Corruption
News article about the Rudman Report (still searching for the WSJ article Rush read).
VIDEO: VP Debate moderator Gwen Ifill is dismissive and derisive of Sarah Palin’s GOP Convention speech
VIDEO: John McCain tells off the Georgetown Cocktail Party Republicans in interview.
AUDIO: Governor Sarah Palin on the Hugh Hewitt Show (MP3 Download) (Full Transcript)
VIDEO: Joe Biden says Corn Syrup is more dangerous than terrorism
VIDEO: NBC News report from 1987 detailing Joe Biden’s plagiarism.
ARTICLE: Andrew C. McCarthy’s National Review article Biden’s Baggage about Joe Biden’s foreign policy experience largely consisting of being wrong about foreign policy.
That called to mind the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. As policymakers considered potential responses to the attacks, Biden had a brainstorm. “Seems to me,” he told Foreign Relations staffers, that “this would be a good time to send, no strings attached, a check for $200 million to Iran.”
Governor Palin must admit: She doesn’t have the foreign-policy background to come up with something like that.
WizBang Blog calculates some rescue package (bailout) numbers.
Here are the web articles and videos referenced by Rush Limbaugh on his September 30, 2008 Show.
- Instapundit (initially misidentified as Little Green Footballs) gets an email verifying the left-wing bias in the media.
- Supposedly grassroots but actually Hollywood produced video of indoctrinated little kids singing praise to Barack Obama.
- Wizbang Blog
- Rasmussen poll on the Congressional rescue plan.
- Politico incorrectly reports House Republicans Mocked by Rush
- Rush Limbaugh Show Hour One Transcript, showing the Politico’s inaccurate reporting.
The Laura Ingraham Radio Show, usually heard on WNTP-AM from 9AM to Noon, will be replaced by Mike Gallagher’s show beginning September 15 due to a contractual dispute with station owner Salem Radio according to Radio Info.
The move leaves Ingraham without a Philadelphia outlet and, although more stations are expected to be announced in the coming week, there does not currently appear to be an alternative Philadelphia station lined up.
Talk Radio Network promises to identify seven more – to fully replace what it’s losing with the Salem breakup – next week. CEO Mark Masters tells Radio-Info “We continue to think warmly of Salem and our relationship with them” and says the split “was a business decision based on the continuing expansion and demand for the Laura Ingraham show.” That daily conservative talkshow had cleared on 17 Salem stations since the former Westwood personality went to TRN in 2003. Here are the ten new affiliates that are being identified: In Los Angeles – Saul Levine’s KGIL at 1260. In Atlanta, JW Broadcasting’s WCFO (1160). In Phoenix, Embee’s KXAM (1310). In San Diego/Tijuana, Saul Levine’s XESURF (540). In Tampa, Genesis-owned WWBA (1040). In Denver, Crawford’s KLZ (560). In Orlando, another Genesis property, WAMT at 1190. In Louisville, Sports Zone Radio’s WAMT at 1570. In Honolulu, Clear Channel’s KHBZ at 990. And in Hot Springs, AR, Noalmark’s KPZA (590). But next week brings the announcements for new partners in some of Laura’s biggest markets: Seattle, Minneapolis, Sacramento, Cleveland, San Antonio, Portland, Oregon and Colorado Springs.
Ingraham’s web site does not list any Philadelphia radio station at this time.
A list of radio stations offering streaming of the Ingraham show can be found here.
97.5 WJJZ has flipped formats. The station turned off their Smooth Jazz format over the weekend and began a simulcast of 95.7 WBEN.
This morning at 9AM, the station began a “Younger Approach to Today’s Soft Rock” format by playing a short montage featuring the history of rock music in Philadelphia followed by P!nk’s Who Knew.
The new station’s second song was Every Breath You Take by The Police.
You can follow the songs played on the new 97.5 (possibly rebranded as “Now 97.5″) here and listen online here.
