Jay Posner: Five things to watch: Chargers at Cowboys

John Maffei: TUBE TALK: Oceanside's appearance in state title game will be tough to find on TV

SDRadio.net: Mikey Doesn't Like It Anymore. Mikey is expected to return to the San Diego airwaves at 94.9 FM. Rock 105.3 sez that another station has more money to offer.

Gary Lycan: Classic rock KLOS/95.5 FM is No. 3 overall in Orange County Arbitron ratings, and its success can be attributed to teamwork and recruiting someone who is considered a radio living legend - Scott Shannon + More than 30 radio personalities are lined up to appear at Universal Studios Hollywood through Dec. 22 (Tuesday) as part of a new "Radio Family Grinchmas" event at the theme park

The Wires (Dec 18, 2009)

Free Press: The U.S. House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to open the airwaves to hundreds of new Low Power FM radio stations across America. The Local Community Radio Act (HR 1147) now awaits a vote by the full Senate

The Wires (Dec 17, 2009)

Ron Jacobs: If you are a radio pro, or a listener who lived and died by a local station, it is hard to make a serious case for Sirius being innovative in ANY way. While Karmazin and crew crow about "branding," the fact is that Sirius has little or no image, no vibrant theme, no singular identity. They have a gimmick, satellite transmission, which is so commonplace in today's media, that it means nothing to the public

Randy Dotinga: Give, give, give: It's all I ever do

The Wires (Dec 15, 2009)

Tom Taylor of radio-info.com (note: this will be a trend that won't end...the jettisoning of yearly million-dollar morning jocks). Chicago's "million dollar mouths" are disappearing. Last week Steve Dahl penned a Tribune column contending that the PPM is partly responsible for decimating the ranks of interesting Chicago radio talent. Now Lewis Lazare in the Sun-Times takes a census of the millionaires on Radio Row, and finds it's becoming depopulated. Just 18 months ago, the paper named nine personalities who were estimated to be making $1 million or more. Six of the nine are now benched. (Though CBS is still paying former WCKG and "Jack" WJMK personality Dahl into 2011.) So Dahl's gone, but so is Spike O'Dell, who decided to take the money and retire from WGN (720) at age 55. Sports personality Mike North is off WSCR (670) for budgetary reasons, and he's already cycled through the "Webio" Internet radio crash and recycled himself onto television. There's ex-WLUP (97.9) personality Jonathan Brandmeier, whose expensive deal was up this coming Spring. And another couple of guys CBS is still paying (Eddie Volkman and Joe Bohannon), who are off the air at rhythmic "B96" WBBM-FM. They both indicate they're not ready to retire and would work for less than seven figures.

Is San Diego's XEPE/1700 still "The Talk of San Diego"? One observer on the San Diego Board of Radio-Info.com caught it simulcasting oldies XHPRS (105.7) - "The Walrus" - all day on Saturday. That's a change. John Lynch's Broadcast Company of the Americas leases both Mexican-border stations, and you wonder if something's changed at the AM. It's been running a mix of financial talk (Ray Lucia) and mainstream talk such as Dennis Miller, with content from CNN Headline News. The San Diego Board discussion's going on now.

Motley Fool: It's time to address the 800-pound gorilla in the room. A year from now, Howard Stern will be at the end of his five-year deal with Sirius XM Radio. In a tactfully prudent move, satellite radio's biggest celebrity has yet to divulge his plans for 2011. Will his contract be renewed? If his deal is extended, will the terms be for more or less money and for more or less time on the air? Can satellite radio survive without him?

Redding: Redding, California's newest AM talk radio station hits the air at 12:01 a.m. Monday with the Phil Hendrie Show, a nationally syndicated comedy talk program. Laughs aside, it promises to be a conservative smack down as KCNR will pit hosts like Dennis Miller and Michael Savage against KQMS' daily lineup of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity