The Wires (Mar 12, 2010)

Gary Lycan: tarting Monday KSPA 1510 will offer Mancow, 3 am; Laura Ingraham, 6 am; a cooking show, 9 am; Chuck Wilder, 11 am; Dr Laura Schlessinger, noon; Michael Savage, 3 pm; Rusty Humphries, 6 pm; Mike Horn's own PM Show, 9 pm; Lee Klein or John and Jeff, 10 pm; and Barry Farber, 2 am - Details are expected to appear on www.am1510kspa.com

Jacobs Media: As more and more markets become part of the PPM measured world, we continue to grapple with the impact of the methodology on radio formats. Clearly, there are many morning personalities getting less sleep, not to mention radio pros who have labored away in Smooth Jazz formats over the past many years only to find their stations becoming casualties

Radio Survivor: The migration to digital will deconsolidate broadcast radio -- Next Tuesday the Federal Communications Commission will reveal the entirety of its National Broadband Plan, over a year in the making. Required by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, which authorized $7.2 billion in broadband stimulus spending, The Plan will weigh in on about a thousand broadband related subjects - how to help more people get it, how to help industries provide it, ways to encourage innovations that the FCC hopes will stimulate more broadband adoption, like IP video. The chances are, though, that it won't have much to say about radio

Dave Kohl: The NFL has announced a 4-year deal with a wireless provider that will result in Sunday and Thursday night games being streamed on certain mobile devices from the NBC-TV or NFL Network feeds. Incredible as it may seem, this deal is estimated to be valued at more than $100,000,000

TV Tech: Broadband Expansion May Threaten Satellite Radio. Satellite radio broadcasters are also concerned about interference from adjacent spectrum.

TV Tech: CBS to offer Final Four in 3D Theaters. CBS Sports will be working with NEP on the 3D productions, along with Vince Pace.

Grupo Prisa sets U.S. expansion. A 22-nation footprint makes Madrid-based Grupo Prisa the world's largest Spanish-language media company. The broadcaster reaches 620 million people around the globe and operates 1,240 radio stations. And it's set to make a bigger move into the American market.

Radio World: CBS Radio's WJFK Launches an HD4 Channel. This is believed to be the first HD4 channel anywhere. The announcement continues a trend of populating digital multicast channels with out-of-market station feeds, and plays up the prominence of sports formats in 2010.

Tom Taylor of radio-info: CBS Radio's talk-based stations will be geo-blocked starting tomorrow - no foreign access. This ends the unexpected reprieve from the new CBS policy T-R-I told you about last month, where CBS joined the ranks of those streamers which cut off access to their online product for computer users outside the U.S. The cutoff affected just the music stations and surprisingly left the sports, talk and all-news stations available. Now I hear that on Thursday, "CBS Radio will complete all phases of the GEO-IP project.this includes all music, talk, news and sports stations streaming [their] broadcasts." The CBS internal memo makes it very clear that "this project effectively disables all non-U.S.-based consumers from accessing content via the AOL, Yahoo! and CBS streaming networks." This is going to disappoint a lot of Americans abroad who've monitored WCBS-AM, New York or KCBS, San Francisco to maintain ties with their home cities. Foreign users will still be able to download podcasts and "episodes-on-demand." But if they're trying to click on a live stream, they'll get a message "directing them to our sister property Last.fm, where the consumer can enjoy endless personalized radio stations and discover more music."

"Southern California Talk" replaces adult standards "Spa" on Art Astor's two AMs. It's happening Monday, says Don Barrett's LARadio.com site and the schedule is a hybrid of Talk Radio Network-syndicated shows and programs from CRN (Cable Radio Networks). CRN's Michael Horn will function as both program director and sales consultant for KSPA, Ontario (1510) in the Riverside market and San Diego North KFSD, Escondido (1450). Horn says "individually, the AM stations have been very difficult to sell." So the plan is to "package Art's two AM stations along with the lineups also being offered on one of our CRN Satellite channels. The three outlets should provide a strong sales story for local and national advertisers." What's the lineup? At least for the 1510 signal, it begins at 3am on Monday with TRN's Mancow. Then Laura Ingraham live at 6am. Followed by a CRN lifestyle show that includes Horn titled "What's Cooking Today." Then there's the 11am-noon "Talk Back" with Chuck Wilder. Then Dr. Laura from noon-3pm (same three hours she's on CBS Radio's KFWB/980 in L.A.). Then TRN's Michael Savage, Rusty Humphries, the "PM Show" with actor Robert Conrad and (again) Michael Horn. Then Doug McIntyre's Red Eye Radio, and Barry Farber, 2-3am. Weekends feature some original programming from KSPA ops director Jeff Gehringer. The schedule above is for KSPA and it will be simulcast on KFSD from 6pm-3am. But there will need to be some replacements on KFSD to prevent conflicts with local affiliates. Such as - Doug Stephan, 3-7am, Dennis Miller, 7-10am. Lou Dobbs will start at noon and Laura Ingraham runs in PM drive until the simulcast kicks in at 3pm. Both stations will use CNN Radio news.

Rick Dees is recruited to join TKO Radio Network's Classic Top 40 format, taking the place of Charlie Tuna in the weekend lineup. That puts Rick's "Weekly Top 40" shows from the 1980s on TKO, and positions Dees alongside talents like John Landecker, Jim Zippo, Eric Chase and Marty Thompson.

Italian TV News Fight 2010

The Wires (March 11, 2010)

Raw Story: Rush Limbaugh has told his audience he will leave the US and go to Costa Rica for health care if health care reform becomes law - or did he say that he would leave the US -- period -- and then backed down and clarified his remarks?

Modern Rock KROQ/Los Angeles moves the Loveline show to 12-2 a.m. on Monday through Thursday, but will remain in its orginal 10 p.m. to midnight slot on Sunday evenings.

Randy Dotinga: And now, something completely different. If you tuned in to the last moments of "The Mikey Show" on FM 94/9 last Friday morning, you would have heard host Mikey Esparza and his sidekicks engage in some usual morning-show chatter.

Astor To Flip 1450 To Talk (Mar 10, 2010)

The stations will be billed as "Southern California Talk." CRN Digital Talk Radio will be programming the stations and package them for sales with one of CRN's satellite channel lineups.

The lineup on KSPA will be like this: Mancow Muller, Laura Ingraham, What's Cooking Today, Talk Back, Dr. Laura Schlessinger, Michael Savage, Rusty Humphries, The P.M. Show, Red Eye Radio, and Barry Farber. Days and times not published.

The lineup on KFSD will be like this: Doug Stephan, Dennis Miller What's Cooking Today, Talk Back, Lou Dobbs, Laura Ingraham on tape, Rusty Humphries, The P.M. Show, Red Eye Radio, and Barry Farber. Days and times not published.

The Wires (Mar 10, 2010)

CBS creates HD sports "quadcast." CBS Radio creates "The Fan Sports Network" on "106.7 The Fan" WJFK-FM, Washington making sister sports stations from Baltimore (HD2), New York (HD3) and Philadelphia (HD4) available as HD Radio multicasts. CBS VP or programming Chris Oliviero says Washington is the "ideal home" for the quadcast since the market attracts people from throughout the Northeast.

The era of HD4 begins. HD Radio signals can technically be sliced into eight separate channels, even though most engineers have stopped at three. A software upgrade by iBiquity has now made it possible to carve out a fourth station, and the first station to upgrade is in D.C.

Raw Story: Rush Limbaugh has told his audience he will move to Costa Rica if health care reform becomes law. And now the only question that remains is whether Limbaugh will make good on his word, or join the ranks of the empty-promisers

NY Times: One of the labels' biggest concerns remains: If people can listen to whatever they want online, why would they buy music? Meanwhile, Internet radio services like Pandora, which cannot play music on demand, are attracting millions of listeners and cautious support from record labels

Inside Music Media: Technology is enabling consumers to get their news when they want or when they need to have it while radio stations seem to be conceding the battle for the digital frontier. If you factor in the 40 million Pandora users, whatever listening radio stations can manage (typically one to three percent of their audiences online), increasingly available WiFi Internet streams and personal iPod-type devices, it begs the question - is radio ready for the digital future?

Q96 Now Testing Full Power (Mar 9, 2010)

Q96, KSIQ 96.1, relocated from Brawley to Campo and has recently begun broadcasting its signal in full power. The question is...is my reception of KSIQ coming from the new booster station on Mount San Miguel, or is it coming from the transmitter near Campo broadcasting at its full 25kw of power? I presume that it's coming from its booster since it's unlikely that I can get the Campo transmitter if its even broadcasting at full power.

The station boasts that it plays all the hits. This is the first competetor for Channel 933 in over a decade. And yes, they even played one of Miley Cyrus's songs, an artist that I never heard on any other station in San Diego.

I listened to the station all day while driving all over Claremont and the 52 and I-8 freeways. The signal faded when I was on 52 going east and a mile to the west of the summit entering Santee.

The station now has 25,000 watts ERP from its Campo transmitter, and the booster station licensed to Santee is licensed for 700 watts ERP. The station primarily will serve the market south of the I-8 and Northern Baja California.

The Wires (Mar 9, 2010)

NY Times: For more than 70 years, royalty payments for air time have flowed to the songwriters and music publishers but not to the musicians or record companies. Now there is a renewed drive to revisit that arrangement, and in recent weeks the volume of the discussion has increased several decibels. For the radio industry, that has meant taking the battle to a place it knows: the airwaves

Gary Lycan: Stryker, who joined AMP Radio 97.1 FM in afternoon drive one year ago, has returned to his previous home, KROQ 106.7 FM, 4-7 p.m. weekdays + KFWB 980 AM is making what could be a really smart move, trading rants for money news, starting March 15

Hear 2.0: Jeff and Jer's Garage-gram: This is where top-ranked morning shows go when they go off the air - to the garage. At least, that's the destination (so far) for San Diego's legendary Jeff & Jer

Weird Dream (Mar 9, 2010)

Facebook Stuff (Mar 8, 2010)

Dave Rickards on Facebook

Bring back Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw now boasts 6,789 fans.

Didja Hear? (Mar 8, 2010)

Stumbled on 91X at about 4:45pm yesterday. They were playing "True" by Spandau Ballet. Looks like they're going into an hourly time warp back to the 80s with one song an hour.

Reception of KSIQ 96.1 finally reaches my house, though, very weak and muddly.

In a time where San Diego is reeling from the grisly deaths of two teenage girls, Chelsea King and Amber DuBois, it may be relieving to go to the Jesus Christ Show and listen to a couple of shows there http://www.thejesuschristshow.com/. Follow him on twitter http://twitter.com/jesusshow.

Busy Web Week (Mar 8, 2010)

My website eightisenough.com logged a whopping 14,400 plus hits on Monday, the day seven of the cast members of Eight is Enough reunited. No e-mails about the website crashing with that many people visiting the site peaking at some 2600 visitors in a single hour! This is the most hits of any website that I run in a single day since over 3,000 stormed over to sandiegoradionews.com the day that Dave, Shelly, and Chainsaw left KGB-FM two months ago.

Update...WABC Back on Cablevision (5:45pm PST Mar 7, 2010)

Just In...WABC Pulled From Cablevision (9pm PST Mar 6, 2010)

Read more at Variety

Could this corporate vs. cable TV feud spill over into San Diego? Stay tuned.

Fish Sandwich Testing (Mar 6, 2010)

These are my findings. This report is not an implied endorsement. Your taste may vary.

1. Carl's Jr. Catch Fish Sandwich. Reg price: $3.69. Special price: N.A. Too much tartar sauce, ok amount of lettuce, tomato, fish is average size, moist, soft, and a bit greasy, no onion, no pickle, and no cheese (note: no cheese is a plus). 50 out of 75 points for quality. Price it should be for what you get: $1.99. Grade for quality and regular price: C minus.

2. Burger King BK Fish. Reg price: not listed, but around $3.69. Special price: $1.49. Too much tartar sauce, ok amount of lettuce, no tomato, fish patty is large, moist crisp, but way too greasy, no onion, no pickle, and no cheese. 40 out of 75 points for quality. Price it should be for what you get: $1.49. Grade for quality and regular price: F.

3. McDonald's Filet O'Fish. Reg price: $3.49. Special price: $1.29. Moderate tartar sauce, no lettuce, no tomato, fish patty is average size, moist, soft, and not greasy, no onion, no pickle, but prescence of cheese (a minus). 40 out of 75 points for quality. Price it should be for what you get: 99 cents. Grade for quality and regular price: F.

4. Jack in the Box Fish Filet. Price: $1.49. No indication if it's a special or regular price. Moderate tartar sauce, lettuce, no tomato, fish filet is moist, crisp, and not greasy, no onion, no pickle, and no cheese. 60 out of 75 points for quality. Price it could be for what you get: $1.99. Grade for quality and $1.49 price: A+.

5. Wendy's North Pacific Cod. Price: not listed, but might be around $3.69. Moderate tartar sauce, lettuce, no tomato, fish fillet is moist, crisp, and not greasy, no onion, no pickle, and no cheese. 60 out of 75 points for quality. Price it should be for what you get: $1.99. Grade for quality and rumored to be $3.69 price: C.

Findings:

Wendy's and Jack's fish sandwiches were a match in terms of quality, but Jack's $1.49 price made it a far better bargain than Wendy's overpriced almost identical fish sandwich.

Wendy's beats Carl's fish sandwiches because Wendy's fish is less greasy and doesn't overdo it on the tartar sauce, but Wendy's could use a tomato to match what Carl's offers, then Wendy's would get a C plus.

Carl's Jr. needs to get a Six Dollar Fish Sandwich with all the trimmings of a regular burger to make it earn the $3.69 its priced at.

Burger King needs to grill the fish sandwiches instead of deep frying them. Their fish patties are the greasiest of the five: only Long John Silvers' fish is worse.

McDonalds' fish sandwich overall is the skimpiest of the five. It should be 99 cents, the price of a cheeseburger.

These tests were paid for by me and none of the sandwiches were paid for by anybody. These fish sandwiches named above are what you will get when you buy them at the restaurants. Your taste may vary. If this survey was informative and unbiased to you, then please Donate a Buck here

David Tanny Podcast For Morning Commnute

You can listen to some of the funny songs that I found on the Internet, followed by a feature called the Demented Datebook, which is a feature full of celebrity birthdays and today in history events.

I also play some features such as Berger and Prescott from the old days of KGB and 91X, plus Police on the Scene with a Crime Prevention Lean, A Minute More, and other stuff.

I produce this show twice a week, but sometimes like this week, I have four produced for the week.

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"I Still Get Demented" Show Returns!

The long dormat dementia and comedy showcase of songs, sketches, and parodies is making a comeback in time for the Halloween weekend with a marathon airing exclusivelt on ifunnyradio.com.

The original run of ISGD began as a regular series in January of 2003 and ended in July of 2007, though a web-only download version was produced in August of 2007.

Now that live 365 has caved in and decided to give all of their streaming package subscribers more space, the time felt right to make the move to put the premier dementia radio show back into production.

iFunnyRadio can be heard by clicking on the link http://www.live365.com/stations/davidtanny?play

"ISGD" will not be available on a podcast, another radio station, or as a streaming download on another website. It will exclusively on the iFunnyRadio stream and won't be made available for sale.

Listen to the ISGD Show

Saturdays: 10am ET, 9am CT, 7am PT
Mondays: 9pm ET, 8pm CT, 6pm PT
Mondays: MID ET, 11pm CT, 9pm PT

Comedy artists who perform music, skeches, stand-up, and parodies are welcome to submit their works to host David Tanny by e-mailing him, or sending a package (mp3 rips encouraged for faster response) to David Tanny, iFunnyRadio, PO Box 19569, San Diego, CA 92159.

Donations of $1 or more are accepted to help pay for the stream. For information about donating, just visit the home page of ifunnyradio.com for details.

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