Conform. You WILL Watch Soccer and You WILL Like It!
I admit watching some of last Sunday’s World Cup game between “USA, USA, USA” and Portugal. It was more of a curiosity than me being a fan. You now, it’s like when you slow down to see the wreck on...
View ArticleArmstrong – Famous for Being “Really” Famous
Ask yourself a question. Who is the most famous person you’ve ever had the chance to meet or just get physically close to? It might be a famous actor, a President or maybe someone very rich. Late one...
View ArticleNFL & FCC Team Up Against Fans with Blackout Rule
This week In Buffalo, New York, home to the NFL’s drunkest fans and deservedly so, FCC Commissioner Ajit Pai said it’s time for the FCC “to be on the side of the sports fan” and get rid of the rule...
View ArticleWRNO-FM New Orleans – No Longer “Rush Radio”
FM’s recently taken away in Pittsburgh and Cedar Rapids. His station’s ratings in Los Angeles, New York and Chicago in the tank. And now his name being purged from a station moniker in New Orleans....
View ArticleFCC to Ban Announcers from Saying “Redskins?” Have They Thought This Through?...
Doesn’t the F.C.C. or Federal Communication Commission have something better to do like attempt to save the dying AM radio band? Good grief. The late comic George Carlin is rolling in his grave....
View ArticleThe Tipping Point for Newspapers
Last week Borrell Associates made their media predictions for 2024. That sounds like a long way off, but it’s just 10 years away. A few predictions were startling, because media is quickly...
View ArticleJohn Kiesewetter – Keeper of Cincinnati’s Broadcast History Will Be Missed
Newspaper media critics and the radio and television personalities they cover have always had an interesting interaction. On one hand, those in radio and television want the free publicity given to...
View ArticleDarryl Receives His Invite to the Consumer Electronics Show – Radio at Least...
When it comes to electronic gadgets, it doesn’t get any bigger than the International Consumer Electronics Show, the CES, each January in Las Vegas. In 2015, the event starts January 6th and runs...
View ArticleThe Tale of Two Americas and the Great Opportunities for Talk Radio
There was a regular caller on 700WLW back in the day, so regular we created a jingle for him: “He hates blacks. He hates Jews. Here come some more of his Aryan views. It’s Ken!” Ken reads this blog...
View ArticleBrian Williams Needs a Wingman to Tell Him the Truth
The brilliant writers and the retiring Jon Stewart, the talented comedian and fake newsman who is so good at what he does that he became a real newsman, said it all, “Why Bri Lie? Sigh.” Some are...
View ArticleIt’s The Most Wonderful Time Of The Year
The wife and I just subscribed to Netflix. We’re a little late to the party on this one. We just finished watching the third season of House of Cards. My wife is sort of Claire to my Francis without...
View ArticleBengals’ Fans Can’t Hold Their Liquor
You either watched it live on CBS, were there or you saw and read about the rowdy Steelers-Bengals NFL Wildcard Playoff game later. The sad thing is Cincinnati, the well-mannered “northern most...
View ArticleHannity’s misstep displays truth about “News Radio”
Many of the conservative, mostly AM talk radio stations across America still tell you they’re news stations, when in reality they are no different than what their talk hosts will claim the Fox News...
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