I went home tonite after the University Place Tree Lighting and I watched HBO’s 25th Anniversary of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The show was in New York. It was awesome! There was a laundry list of inductees that performed; Jerry Lee Lewis started off the show with “Great Balls of Fire. Crosby, Stills [...]
Does it make KIRO 7 News better than KING 5 News because KIRO calls their newscast Eleven@11? Channel 7 used to call their news “Eyewitness News”. That was many years ago. KING 5 has used “The Home Team” slogan which is memorable and fairly described the people who were anchors and reporters for many years, [...]
He complained to a friend by phone on Saturday of headache and flu-like symptoms. Ken Ober was found dead in his home on Sunday. Ober was the witty host of an MTV game show [REMOTE CONTROL - subject: TV shows] Actor Dennis Cole, a leading-man type of actor who appeared in many TV shows, had [...]
50s/60s kiddie show host and former WNBC radio DJ, Soupy Sales, died Thursday. He was 83. He might hold the pie-throwing record, beating the Three Stooges by a couple thousand pies at least. He had a hit record with a dance tune, Do The Mouse. Not a great tune by any means. But, he was [...]
I attended LH Bates Vocational-Technical College, now called Bates College, back in the early 70s. The radio broadcast tech program allowed one to practice being a broadcaster on a working radio station and acquire your 1st-Class FCC License in the meantime. These days, a “1st” is not required. A lot has changed in the radio [...]
The failure of AIR America Radio to gain audience acceptance and ratings = bounced paychecks, stations going dark and lots of whining from liberals. There is a movement underway to bring about a change in how talkradio operates. A movement by Liberals to change the rules to suit their needs. There is even a movement [...]
