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SECTION 1 of 4 / SECTION 2 of 4 / SECTION 3 of 4 / SECTION 4 of 4 ... Topics include: Eric Brandon Keeping Busy, Will Be On Wife Swap ... You May Be Broadcasting Illegally And Not Even Know It! ... Just Like The Miami Heat Did, Big 105.9's Paul & Young Ron (& Fans) Destroy The Maverick ... Rick Shaw Celebrates 50th Anniversary on Radio ... Golden Oldies Still Heard Evenings On WJNA ... Mark Levin Joins WIOD ... Wink Martindale Joins WJNA ... Former ESPN Now Caribbean MYSTIK 1400 ... New CD From WEDR's DJ Khaled ... WOLL-FM's Mo Foster Named Man of the Year ... Stephanie Miller Joins WINZ Talk ... Deena Lang Leaves Coast FM ... Sirius' Chris Rathaus, Formerly of WRMF, WJNO, & WQAM, Dies of Cancer ... Jim DeFede To Get Another Radio Show? ... WEDR Marketing Conference ... Dance Music Returning To Miami? ... Ed Bell's South Florida Arts Beat ... Did you miss May Radio News?

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JULY 2006 RADIO NEWS: SECTION 1 of 4 ⇒ Eric Brandon on Wife Swap, Paul & Young Ron Beat Maverick, Illegal Broadcasting, & Indian Music

You May Be Broadcasting Illegally -- And Not Even Know It! You know those little devices people use to send a signal from their satellite radios and iPods and MP3 players to the car radio? It seems that 76% of the FM modulators tested flunked a field test by the NAB, exceeding the FCC's limits for field strength, Read the NAB Study (PDF format). Indian Music on WHSR Indian music can be heard all day Saturdays on Beasley's WHSR 980. WTPS Hurricane Preparedness WTPS 1080 "The People's Station" held a series of Hurricane Preparedness Town Hall Meetings in May and June, in Dade and Broward. Participants included Channel 4, FPL, and several local governments. WTPS (the former brokered WVCG) doesn't have its own web site yet, but you can read about WTPS and its predecessor, WVCG, here. And, speaking of hurricanes, check out Hurricane Info on South Florida Radio.

Eric Brandon is Keeping Busy -- Will Be On ABC's Wife Swap This Fall! INTERVIEW (Miami Lakes, FL -- June 30, 2006) ... "I had 20 years of really good listeners" says Eric Brandon, recently laid-off chef of WMXJ-FM's lunchtime oldies show, just shy of twenty years. As widely reported in the media, Majic 102.7's new owners were just cutting costs. Eric Brandon, Food Network's chef Emeril Lagasse, and Eric's lovely wife, Jessica. at the 2006 South Beach Food and Wine Festival in Miami Beach. What about Chef Eric Brandon's daily four-ingredient recipes? Donna Davis, co-host with Rick Shaw on Majic's morning show, was given one of the four ingredient cookbooks in the series. "She said 'I can't use this on the morning show'" recalls Eric. So she gave it to him and he turned it into a very popular and long-running lunchtime feature of his midday show. Chef Eric Brandon, with one of the cookbooks he made famous. Click the picture above for more info about the cookbooks. "When Footy did his goodbye show, that's the way to do it" says Eric. There was a highly publicized send-off for Footy, as reported in May Radio News. But there was no closure for Chef Eric Brandon. Not even a buh-bye to listeners on the air! This unexpected unemployment has been an experience. "I've never been unemployed in 30 years of radio" says Eric. He had previously been a deejay at Miami's "A1A radio" WAIA but switched to sales when they changed to hard rock WGTR. Then, twenty years ago, the brand-new Majic 102.7 appeared on the scene (successor to WCKO-FM "K-102") and was interested in hiring him for a sales job. He answered "I'd really rather be on the air." The rest is history. "It's been a fun run" says Chef Eric "I really miss that connection with my audience." And they miss him, too. I get a lot of "Where is Eric Brandon?" e-mail. Fans and prospective employers can contact Eric Brandon at eb1027 at aol.com. A resident of Miami Lakes, Eric Brandon is actively seeking his next 20-year job, whether TV or radio. He has set up a new web site, EricBrandonTalent.com, which should be active by the time you read this. It will include his audio and video... airchecks, demos, and more. Meanwhile he has done infomercials and even a pilot tv show: Cruising The Sunshine State was recently filmed at The Tower Shops. He's also doing auditions and sending out airchecks nonstop. "Our family had been filmed for ABC-TV's Wife Swap" says Eric "and it was scheduled as the season finale." But it was pre-empted by President Bush's speech about Iraq. "Ever since that show wrapped, we've had nothing but bad luck." The good news is that it will be ABC's first Wife Swap show of the fall season, in September. The Wife Swap folks may have overused their creative license, calling our calm and esteemed lunchtime chef/deejay a "shock jock" -- but that's showbiz. It may even help our Eric land his next gig. See the follow-up story about the Brandons on Wife Swap in October Radio News! Just Like The Miami Heat Did -- Big 105.9's Paul & Young Ron (& Fans) Destroy The Maverick (Miami, FL -- June 21, 2006) ... While the Miami Heat basketball team were clobbering the Mavericks, Miami Heat fans did their part, clobbering a vintage 1977 Ford Maverick, with a little help from WBGG-FM, its listeners, and AM drive deejays Paul Castronovo & Young Ron Brewer of The Paul & Young Ron Show. Paul and Young Ron's soon-to-be-defeated 1972 Ford Maverick, photographed while the PAUL & YOUNG RON MORNINGS inscription on it was still legible. First, Big 105.9 listeners paid $5 a hit, for charity, to wield a sledgehammer to the blue Maverick (pictured at right) that says PAUL AND YOUNG RON MORNINGS on the hood. Then, Paul & Young Ron dropped the Maverick 105.9 feet from a crane. Now that the Mavericks team is squashed, they plan to have the 35-year-old car crushed into a block of scrap metal, and shipped to Mavs owner Mark Cuban. I wonder if they know how much it would cost to FedEx something that weighs as much as a compact car. See the WFOR story (including video clip), Heat Fans Beat, Drop And Now Sign The Maverick. Follow-Up (July 7, 2006) ... The Maverick is still in town. "The plans to ship the Maverick were immediately cancelled due to the fact that the city of Miami and the Miami Heat invited the car to be in the NBA Championship parade!" said The Paul & Young Ron Show's Robert Jenners (generally referred to on the show as just "Jenners." "We were the ONLY non-Heat entity in the parade... no politicians, no radio or TV stations, just the Heat and us. It was incredible. Our plans to ship the car were awesome, but having the car in the parade was far greater." The mangled Maverick wreck is now at Sea Spray, the company that had painted it for the event. Thank you to Jenners for the photo!

JULY 2006 RADIO NEWS: SECTION 2 of 4 ⇒ Rick Shaw, Jon Sommers, Mark Levin, DJ Khaled, Wink Martindale, Mystik 1400

Rick Shaw Celebrates 50th Anniversary on Radio (Miami, FL -- June 16, 2006) ... Today Rick Shaw celebrated the 50th anniversary of his first day on the air, as a 17-year-old subsittute newsreader in East St. Louis. No, he didn't take a day off; he was at Majic 102.7 as usual, bright and early. In honor of the occasion, the Miami Herald's article online even included a few MP3s of rick: an eight-minute 1963 aircheck and a 34-minute interview from WLRN. Read the article at Mr. Radio's career passes half a century. The best part is, it includes two MP3s: A WLRN interview and a WQAM Aircheck. In the interview he talks about how Ringo wanted to buy his RS ring, ratings, and much more. Also see Rick's 2001 article from South Florida Radio History, Rick Shaw Remembers The Good Old DFays at WQAM Tiger Radio. Rick Shaw and Donna Davis are heard weekdays on WMXJ 102.7, from 5:30 'til 10 AM. The South Florida Radio Pages need your support! Please click the button above to donate via PayPal. Thank you! Wink Martindale Joins WJNA (July 4, 2006) ...Wink Martindale and his syndicated Music of Your Life join the WJNA lineup today. I can't be sure when, because WJNA is playing some promos saying 10 AM and some saying noon! But Wink's own web site does say his show runs from noon 'til 3. (WJNA's site is way out of date, still listing Alan Diskin when checked today.) Wink is the author of... That Was Elvis to Me and the autobiographical Winking At Life. Welcome, Wink! New CD From WEDR's DJ Khaled (Hollywood, FL -- June 6, 2006) ... WEDR "99 Jamz" evening deejay DJ Khaled has a new CD out, DJ Khaled: Listennn...The Album!. It's labeled explicit lyrics. With one track called "Future of Dade" and another called "MIA" (plus 15 more tracks), it definitely has a kind of local flavor.

Jammin' Jon emceed the Doo Wop Graffiti show at Coral Springs Center in March. The white hair in the foreground belongs to an unidentified fan. Golden Oldies Still Heard Evenings On WJNA (Fort Lauderdale, FL -- July 1, 2006) ... If you're still trying to find oldies on the FM radio band, maybe you haven't heard about Jammin' Jon Sommers and his All-Request Oldies Show, heard from 7 'til midnight weeknights on WJNA 640 ... on AM. "I'm one of the few people still doing personality radio" says Sommers. Every night on his show he points out that requests are played immediately. So if you miss hearing Beechwood 4-5789 or Hey Paula or Tell Laura I Love Her on those other limited-playlist stations that don't even use the word "oldies" any more... well, keep in mind that I heard them all (and more) while writing these three short paragraphs. "From the day I went on it was a hit" says Sommers, whose WJNA show started on Thanksgiving 2004. It replaced WJNA's short-lived music for lovers program that never caught on. "I want to give people what they want that they can't get anywhere else." He reports that a lot of teenagers call to make requests, having learned about the music from their baby boomer parents.   Web RadioPages.net Mark Levin Joins WIOD (New York, NY -- June 27, 2006) ... ABC Radio Networks today announced that The Mark Levin Show has added seven major new affiliates, making it the fastest growing syndicated Talk show currently on the air. Tampa. The Levin show has been picked up in 40 markets in just four months. Levin is taking Florida by storm and will soon to be heard on Clear Channel's WIOD 610 and WFLA 970 in Tampa. Levin is author of Men In Black: How the Supreme Court Is Destroying America. “The growth of the Mark Levin Show has simply been amazing,” said John Rosso, Senior Vice President of Affiliate Relations and Business Administration for ABC Radio Networks. “He has a natural connection with listeners and affiliates which is reflected in the amazing growth of the show. We’re adding major affiliates almost every week. Like Sean Hannity before him, Mark Levin is reshaping the Talk radio landscape.” Now that The Phil Hendrie Show has officially ended, Levin is heard on WIOD 610 from 9 'til 11 PM, right after Sean Hannity. Former ESPN Now Caribbean MYSTIK 1400 ESPN on 1400 is no more. Instead, a new Caribbean station, "Mystik 1400," is going after the audience of the old WSRF "Mystik 1580" which switched to Kreyol (Haitian) programming earlier this year. They finally figured out that the Miami market doesn't need and can't support three sports stations! Mystik 1400 doesn't have quite so much of a Caribbean sound as Mystik 1580 did. In a few days of listening here and there, I've heard a lot of non-Caribbean programming: music that could be described variously as religious, urban, oldies, smooth jazz, rap, motown, and of course reggae. Then I noticed and ID referring to them as "Caribbean-American." Aha! I'm disappointed, because if I wanted to listen to rap or smooth jazz, I'd go to a station featuring that. But it's still a great station. The important thing is that it's another choice for listeners. And that's definitely a good thing. Coming Up In August Radio News August Radio News will feature WTPS's Eddy Edwards and Ken English, new books by talkers, radio tribute sites, WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat, Chill on Love94, Greg Budell, and much more.

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JULY 2006 RADIO NEWS: SECTION 3 of 4 ⇒ Mo Foster, Deena Lang, Chris Rathaus, Stephanie Miller, Jim DeFede, WEDR Conference, & Dance Music

BACK ISSUES OF SOUTH FLORIDA RADIO NEWS Deena Lang Leaves Coast FM (Hollywood, FL -- June 30, 2006) ... Deena Lang has left Those Two Girls In The Morning on Cox's WFLC-FM. Now, only Julie Guy's picture is shown under the Two Girls title on the web site of Coast FM 97.3. But the site does say that Coast's two girls (or maybe just one) will be hosting the 8th Annual Make A Wish Bachelor/Bachelorette Auction on Friday July 28th in the Gryphon Nightclub at Seminole Paradise. New & Updated Files Check out these files, just updated and moved from our old site: May 2006 Radio News Hurricane Info on South Florida Radio ZNS Radio Bahamas South Florida Radio History: WTPS & WVCG WSWN Rick Shaw Remembers Stations Changing Frequencies Happy 30th Birthday WTMI Guest Deejay on WFUN Jim DeFede To Get Another Radio Show? (Miami, FL -- July 5, 2006) ... In her July 5 column, Miami Herald columnist Joan Fleischman reported that former Herald reporter Jim DeFede, who has had a Saturday morning show on Clear Channel's WIOD since February, is close to signing with sister station WINZ for a daily show. In a market overwhelmed by syndicated talk radio on four stations (WIOD, WFTL, WINZ, and WKAT) , it'll be nice to have a local, non-brokered talker -- especially an interesting guy like DeFede. Jim DeFede is now heard from 9 'til 11:30 Saturdays on WIOD 610. Read Read Radio Days (in Fleischman's column). ATM BANK Dance Music Returning To Miami? (Miami, FL -- July 6, 2006) ... Is it a pirate or LPFM or what? Jean Carey's story in this week's New Times doesn't say much more than the frequency (107.1 MHz) and leaves many questions unanswered, in addition to printing misinformation, like calling it a "low-frequency station." (I think they meant low power.) You may want to check it out before the FCC reads the article, Ghost Repeater. 234xx

WOLL-FM's Mo Foster Named Man of the Year (West Palm Beach, FL -- June 5, 2006) ... After a tough campaign, KOOL 105.5 (WOLL-FM) listeners raised over $45,000 to help one of their morning deejays win the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's prestigious “Man of The Year” title. Nominees compete to see who can raise the most donations. "I ask that you join me by making a contribution to my fundraising campaign" said Mo, who co-hosts WOLL's morning show with Sally Sevareid. "Each dollar I raise counts as one vote and the candidate who gets the most donations is named our local Man or Woman of the Year." Mo and his wife Sally held several events around the Palm Beaches for their listeners to help raise donations. Events included a comedy show at the Atlantic theater in Jupiter, a bartending night at Spoto’s in Palm Beach Gardens, and an extravagant gala at the West Palm Beach Marriott. WOLL's midday host Mike Perry donated his services as master of ceremonies at the final event on Friday. For more info, see the article on Mo & Sally's section of the WOLL web site: Mo Wins Man of the Year! Stephanie Miller Joins WINZ Talk (Miramar, FL -- June 5, 2006) ... The daughter of a Republican candidate for Vice President can now be heard on liberal talk radio in southeast Florida. Stephanie Miller mousepad Stephanie Miller bag Stephanie Miller, daughter of Barry Goldwater's 1964 running mate Bill Miller, has been picked up by Clear Channel's WINZ to replace the morning show of Jerry Springer, that guy who also had a crazy TV show. (It's too bad. His radio show was intelligent -- the opposite of his TV show. Maybe the most intelligent show on WINZ.) In a way, Miller is like a mirror image of the conservative Laura Ingram. Both have shows that are fun to listen to. They're full of fluff and making fun of the opposition, ad nauseam. Both are easy to get tired of quickly... overdosing on silliness. Stephanie Miller even has her own product line of "swag" -- like shirts, mugs, caps, clocks, teddy bears, mugs, and jackets, in the Stephanie Miller Store. (Please use these links to visit the store.) Miller can be heard weekdays from 9 'til noon on progressive WINZ (940), a Air America Radio affiliate. Sirius' Chris Rathaus, Formerly of WRMF, WJNO, & WQAM, Dies of Cancer (May 20, 2006 -- NY, NY) ... Sirius Satellite Radio's Chris Rathaus, 63, died of cancer in Hospice in New York this week. Rathaus is rumored to have started the legendary "Paul McCartney is dead" rumor, which he passed along to Roby Yonge at WABC/New York. Rathaus later moved to Beasley's WQAM/Miami, and Clear Channel's WRMF-WJNO/West Palm Beach. For lots more info, see the Radio Ink article, Rathaus Succumbs To Cancer. WEDR Marketing Conference (Miami, FL -- March, 2006) ... In February, WEDR "99 Jamz" presented a Black Consumer Marketing Conference in downtown Miami. CEOs, elected officials, professors, and other professionals made presentations. Featured speakers included ethnic marketing specialist and author Pepper Miller and Wharton School of Business professor Dr. Bernard Anderson. “We can change things by spending more of our money among our own businesses, building them up, creating new jobs and controlling a larger piece of the overall economy,” said Miami-Dade County Commissioner Dorrin Rolle. “Spending power is real power in a free economy and Black businesses need to know how to best take advantage of this power in their communities.” For more info about the conference, see the Black Digital Network's on-demand video, WEDR Conference. It's Doc Reno! ...heard afternoons on WBGG "Big 105.9" WHAT IS WTPS? shirt

JULY 2006 RADIO NEWS: SECTION 4 of 4 ⇒ Ed Bell's South Florida Arts Beat

Ed Bell's South Florida Arts Beat: July 2006 Schedule Coming up on WLRN’s South Florida Arts Beat (SFAB), Fridays at 1 PM on 91.3 FM. Friday, July 7th... LegalArt supports local artists with grants, exhibitions and promotion. Carolina Garcia tells us more. Dr. Richard Campbell travels the world in search of exotic fruit for Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden. Check out his latest finds at their annual International Mango Festival. Our Classical contributor Charles Greenfield speaks with Sony Label recording artist, Jubilant Sykes, who will perform at The Coral Gables Congregational Church next Thursday night. Deborah Margol features Miami-Dade events on our entertainment calendar and humorist Buzz Fleischman returns with The Radio Buzz. Friday, July 14th... Our monthly conversation with Miami Performing Arts Center (MPAC) staff members features Deanna Costa, Producer of Education and Outreach Programs. Find out what MPAC has planned for South Florida. John Hammond, Sr. discovered some of the most talented musicians of the last century, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Bob Dylan, and Bruce Springsteen, among others. Our contributor Richard Pachter reviews the latest biography on the life of this A&R genius, The Producer: John Hammond and the Soul of American Music. Chris De Angelis reviews Nora Jones’ latest CD, The Little Willies. Our entertainment calendar is featured at the end of the show. Friday, July, 21st... The Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive presents their 5th Rewind/Fast Forward Film & Video Festival, July 28th – 30th at The Colony Theater on Miami Beach. We’ll learn more from Barron Sherer, Lou Ellen Kramer and documentary filmmaker Marlon Johnson. Our film reviewer Dan Hudak provides a festival preview. Our event calendar and humorist Buzz Fleischman returns. Friday, July 28th... Our monthly live performance series presents Nestor Torres and his Band. His latest CD, Dances, Prayers and Meditations for Peace, was inspired by the tragic events of 9/11/01 and a Florida visit from the Dalai Lama. Torres has now taken on the role of artist as an agent for change. Tune in and hear his inspirational music performed live from our Miami studios. This special presentation is co-sponsored in part by Pollo Tropical, a tropical dining experience and Fiji Natural Artesian Water, bottled at the source in the Fiji Islands. Future Guests on South Florida Arts Beat... Future guests and segments include; Classical guitarist Christopher Parkening, Nomi’s Museum of Contemporary Art/ Optic Nerve Film Series, Naomi Wilzig’s World Erotic Art Museum, South Florida author and illustrator Brad Meltzer, Miami Children’s Museum, Jazz vocalist Kurt Elling and FIU’s Frost Museum of Art.

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