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RADIO NEWS: JANUARY 2007
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"When is the last time the government negotiated for anything and the prices went down?" ... Herman Cain, substituting for Neal Boortz, regarding government negotiating Medicare drug prices, 1/15/07. SECTION 1 of 5 / Station Ownership Poll, Snow in Miami, Classical WRGP, Radio Lollipop, WNEW-FM, Bob Gordon, Can Radio Wipe Out Cancer?, WEXY Dog Park SECTION 2 of 5 / Annual Radio Station Awards SECTION 3 of 5 / Win Tickets To SuperBowl XLI, Pro-Terrorist Hate Radio Invades Tampa, Greg Budell SECTION 4 of 5 / Herman Cain on MLK Legacy, Bubba the Love Sponge, Radio Station Owner Found Dead, Steve Kane, New Boortz Book SECTION 5 of 5 / New Music On WDNA, Larry King, Jon Sommers, Clint O'Neil Tribute, James Crystal Sued

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JANUARY 2007: SECTION 1 of 5 ⇒ Station Ownership Poll · Snow in Miami Classical WRGP · Radio Lollipop · WNEW-FM Bob Gordon · Can Radio Wipe Out Cancer? · WEXY Dog Park
Jan. 2007 Radio News - SECTION 1 2 3 4 5 || New Year | December Radio News | Main Page
Snow in Miami -- January 19, 1977 (January 19, 2007) ... Thirty years ago today, we had snow in Miami and all over south Florida. I remember I was driving up to Boca Raton on the Florida Turnpike early that morning... and probably listening to WFTL 1400 because I didn't have a FM car radio. Do you remember where you were that day and what stations you might have been listening to when this symptom of global warming appeared in our midst 30 years ago? Join the discussion in Yahoo's Florida Radio TV Group, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/flradiotv/.
Classical Music Returns To Miami Radio -- Somewhat (Miami, FL -- January 4, 2007) ... There are now two more places to hear a little bit of classical music on Miami radio: Classical Returns to FM 7 days a week on FIU's college radio station, WRGP 95.3. "Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninov, tune in to 95.3 FM every morning at 7 AM for three hours of fine music. You've missed it and now it's back!" WLRN 91.3 will be featuring three programs by the Cleveland Symphony. Of course, WLRN also programs classical 24/7 on its HD-2 channel, which can be heard on its web site. WNEW-FM in the Palm Beaches (New York, NY -- January 3, 2007) ... Historic radio station WNEW-FM has changed its call letters and format (to Fresh 102.7, WWFS). "The WNEW letters will stay in the family, moving to a CBS station in West Palm Beach" says David Hinckley in the New York Daily News. Why? For homesick New Yorkers? Read Hinckley's article, Out with the 'NEW, as station tries 'Fresh' start. Vote Now In The New Station Ownership Poll Three years ago, we asked in a poll in these pages about multi-station ownership. Now that the 110th congress may take up this issue, we'll poll readers again. Vote in the 2007 station ownership poll! Q. Now that many radio stations in the South Florida Market are owned by so few companies, there are fewer choices for listeners. Since the broadcast spectrum is limited, what type of restrictions should be placed on multiple radio station ownership? Following were the results from the 2003 poll. Answer Percent One radio station per market. 28% One AM station and one FM station per market. 38% Three radio stations per market. 9% Four radio stations per market. 7% No limits as long as there is no duplication of programming. 13% No limits as long as Microsoft doesn't get into the business. 4% Other 1% Vote in the 2007 poll! Radio Volunteering Opportunities... Helping Kids With Radio Lollipop (Miami, FL -- January 18, 2007) ... Have you ever thought about getting involved in radio as a volunteer? If so, they need you at Miami Children's Hospital. They always need volunteers. Read about and listen to Radio Lollipop Miami Children's Hospital is the home of Radio Lollipop, one of only three such hospital-based radio stations in the USA. At Radio Lollipop, a fully-equipped in-house radio station, a team of volunteers involve the patients in recreational activities linked to radio programs that are child-focused, and filled with mentally stimulating fun and games. Radio Lollipop is heard in Miami Children's Hospital on Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays from 6:30 'til 8:30 PM. Many radio and entertainment pros are involved, too. "DJ Laz from Power POWER 96 is our biggest supporter," says Program Manager Nuria Claramunt at Miami Children's Hospital. "Latin Artist Pitbull, Majic 102.7 and El Zol 95, Joe and Enrique." Ryan Seacrest is a Radio Lollipop spokesman and helped launch California Radio Lollipop in the Children's Hospital at Orange County. For more info about Radio Lollipop and getting involved, please go to Volunteer At Miami Children’s Hospital. And if you do call or volunteer, please tell them you read about Radio Lollipop in South Florida Radio News!	Bob Gordon's Next Book Bob Gordon is finishing off his second book. Not reading. Writing it! When it's ready, you'll read about it here first. Three anecdotes (about WINZ, WFUN, and WFTL) from his first book, ... are featured in South Florida Radio History. It was one of the most recent files to be updated and moved. Wayne Newton and WINZ's Rex Rand are among the famous people mentioned in Invisible Tears: Miami Radio, Through The Eyes & Ears Of DJ Bob Gordon. Of course, there are links to Amazon on the page. So if you want to buy the book, please buy it through these links! WEXY 1520 Transmitter Site Going To Dogs (Oakland Park, FL -- September 16, 2006) ... Dogs in other cities like Coral Springs and Hollywood may have their own parks, but how many dog parks have their own radio station? The city of Oakland Park opened just such a park, poetically named The Oakland Bark Park, in September for canines to frolic around the towers of religious/brokered station WEXY 1520, which is actually located in and licensed to nearby city of Wilton Manors. The city of Oakland Park has a lease agreement with MultiCultural Radio Broadcasting to operate two radio towers in the park, The Oakland Bark Park is located at 971 NW 38th St, just west of Powerline Road and I-95 and a block east of Easterlin Park, a large county park. Can Radio Wipe Out Cancer? A Sanibel retiree who owned television stations in Pennsylvania and Ohio has a concept that could revolutionize the treatment of cancer using radio waves. John Kanzius' process involves inserting a targeting agent into bad cells, which then collects heat from a transmitter, destroying the cancer. Kanzius said animal-test results, which show great promise, will be released this winter and human testing could begin out of the country in as little as 18 months" reports Joel Moroney in the News-Press. Maybe there's still some hope for radio. iPods and web radio can't fight cancer! Read Moroney's entire story, Sanibel man touts radio waves as cancer cure in the News-Press.

JANUARY 2007: SECTION 2 of 5 ⇒ Annual Radio Station Awards
Jan. 2007 Radio News - SECTION 1 2 3 4 5 || New Year | December Radio News | Main Page
2006 Radio Awards (January 15, 2007) ... Since 2006 wasn't nearly as exciting in local radio as some years, we considered forgetting the awards altogether. But, looking at an old Radio News, it was apparent that some still apply, marked [REPEAT WINNER!].
Best News For Local Radio: Local talk may be making a comeback, with Joyce Kaufman (WFTL) and Jim Defede (WINZ) moving from Saturday to weekday talk shows. Maybe the big companies CAN learn from their mistakes... somewhat. Best Radio Story: The owners of WMKL "The Call" are tracking down and prosecuting pirate who interfere with their signal on 91.7. See WMKL "The Call" Tracks Down Pirate Radio Stations. Strangest Format Change: Adult music station WJNA flips to WMEN for supposedly hip young men. Abandoning money-spending consumers who are apparently too old (in management's opinion) to have a radio station in favor of titillating young "hip" male listeners (who probably wouldn't admit to being AM listeners if they were half as hip as James Crystal thinks). Slogan: "The only radio station that doesn't suck." No, not even close! See "Unforgettable" WJNA Flips To Become "ManTalk 640" WMEN. Biggest Surprise: Footy's Retirement from Y-100. See Footy "Retires" From Y-100 After 32 Years in May 2006 Radio News. The Wife Swap Song The Wife Swap Song Biggest Foul-Up: What ABC-TV's Wife Swap did to Eric Brandon. He's nothing like the ogre he was portrayed as on TV. If ABC's entertainment programs are so manipulative and dishonest, why should we trust what ABC reports as news? See Eric Brandon on Wife Swap: What Happened? in October 2006 Radio News. Best Comeback: Dave McBride, now heard Saturday mornings from 6 'til 9 AM on WJNO. (Someday I may get up early enough for the whole show!) Best Comeback, Runner Up: Caribbean station "Mystik 1400" WFLL suddenly appeared from the ashes of a failed ESPN affiliate, to go after the former audience of the old "Mystik 1580" WSRF, with similar programming. See Former ESPN Now Caribbean Mystik 1400 in July 2006 Radio News. Biggest Cheapskates: Big corporate station owners who fire popular personalities to cut the payroll. Awarded to them as a group. You know who you are. No, you don't get a certificate, cheapskates! Best Zero-Budget Promotion: Dil Ki Awaz intern Jasmine Baboolal's project to collected some items like school supplies and girls' accessories for shelters and orphanages in Trinidad and Tobago. See WHSR Radio Intern Starts Charitable Project (right after the Footy article) in May 2006 Radio News Best Web Site for People Who Can't Read: The site for of CBS's "B-106.3" WNEW-FM is mostly pictures of personalities, but nary a paragraph of useful information. (Exactly as the B-106.3 site has been all along as WJBW-FM.) Biggest Disappointment: Nonexistent local election night coverage on all but one of our local news/talk stations. See Local News/Talk Stations Show Shallow Commitment To Real News in November 2006 Radio News.	And of course, there are some awards of the past that hardly need to be rewritten to be recycled: MY Most Obnoxious Use of Sound Effects: [REPEAT WINNER!] Clear Channel's talker Todd Schnitt, again. Most Annoying Web Sites: [REPEAT WINNER!] The Clear Channel Stations and their cookie-cutter sites, which have much more info than James Crystal's, but also much more BS to wade through to get to the info. Most Useless Web Sites: [REPEAT WINNER!]The James Crystal stations won it before for their convoluted connected sites, with minimal info, bad links, last month's events, empty pages, and no schedules, listing a few featured programs if any. In 2006, there are different stations, same problem as before. Until almost three months after flipping, WMEN's site was a one page schedule with links to empty pages. (I wrote "Unforgettable" WJNA Flips To Become "ManTalk 640" WMEN with info about all their programs in one day.) Stupidest Program Change: [REPEAT WINNER!] Two years ago, James Crystal's WFLL (1400), dropped local and syndicated talk early in a presidential election year (really irresponsible timing for an entity that's supposed to serve the public) to become a sports station, the redundant third sports station in the Miami market. Now, in 2006, about a month before the election, they dropped Neal Boortz, their only talker who wasn't either a left-wing extremist or a right-wing extremist. Thanks for remembering Public Interest, Convenience, and Necessity, JC! Maybe the trophy should be permanently retired and given to the folks at James Crystal to keep in a place of honor at the fancy James Crystal Palace. BACK ISSUES OF SOUTH FLORIDA RADIO NEWS

JANUARY 2007: SECTION 3 of 5 ⇒ Win Tickets To SuperBowl XLI Pro-Terrorist Hate Radio Invades Tampa · Greg Budell
Jan. 2007 Radio News - SECTION 1 2 3 4 5 || New Year | December Radio News | Main Page
Greg Budell's O-Bitchuary (Montgomery, AL -- January 15, 2007) ... I hope the headline didn't scare you. Greg Budell is alive and well ... in Alabama. What's this? Good ol' Greg has contributed a new story, published last year in Parkland Life, that he wrote last year in anticipation of scary back surgery. Enjoy reading Greg Budell's O-Bitchuary, the latest addition to South Florida Radio History. Beware: Some of the people Budell has worked with are mentioned therein. There are vintage pictures, too. SuperBowl XLI On The Air! ... And Tickets Are Being Won, Too! Superbowl #41 will take place in Greater Miami, at that proud stadium formerly known as Joe Robbie Stadium, named after a great man, the team owner who paid for it ... about four decades ago. (This was long before greedy zillionaire team owners started bitching & whining and blackmailing local governments to have stadiums built for them at the expense of everyone else in town.) WAXY is the "Official Sports Radio Partner of the Super Bowl XLI Host Committee" and will be broadcasting the game on Sunday February 4th. Everyone seems to be having contests for SuperBowl XLI tickets. WQAM is having a web site contest to give away tickets to "FOOTBALL BIGGEST GAME" (sic). WFLC is having a talent contests at remotes to win tickets. WMEN's contest is to give away an XTerra SUV, with tickets inside! But if you don't win SuperBowl XLI Tickets and haven't bought them yet, get them here: SUPER BOWL (& other related events) tickets	Pro-Terrorist Hate Radio Invades Tampa For all those folks on the left who decry Bill O'Reilly as hate radio (and I'm not disagreeing with that description too strenuously), sit down and take a deeeeep breath. Because that bloody bloviator ain't nuthin' compared to the garbage heard on WMNF. REAL Hate Radio, promoting and publicizing the Islamic terrorists targeting western civilization, is amazingly broadcast every other Friday in Tampa, on so-called "community station" WMNF. "Hate radio is alive and well in Tampa Bay, Florida. The station is 88.5 WMNF" explains Joe Kaufman, chairman of Americans Against Hate, in Front Page Magazine. "The show is ‘True Talk’ with Ahmed Bedier and Samar Jarrah, two supporters of and apologists for radical Islam. The themes of the show usually center around denouncement of American foreign and domestic policy, with regard to the issue of terrorism. The last show, airing Friday, December 22, 2006, featured the CEO of a Palestinian propaganda organization and a pro-Iranian blogger. The target of both guests was the state of Israel." I'd like to quote the whole article here, but that would be way beyond the bounds of fair use. So please read Hamas and Holocaust Talk to read the scary story of how our educational establishment and community radio stations are unwittingly supporting the enemies of this country, and ultimately the enemies of western civilization. "Through all the hateful and fictitious statements being spewed forth on this show, an uninformed listener could easily get confused and think that America and Israel are the enemy. The Holocaust proved that such talk could have grave consequences" concludes Kaufman. A sobering read for the complacent. And especially for the people who never heard of Neville Chamberlain and don't even acknowledge the threat. Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against The West DVD

JANUARY 2007: SECTION 4 of 5 ⇒ Herman Cain on MLK Legacy Bubba the Love Sponge · Radio Station Owner Found Dead Steve Kane · New Boortz Book
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Bubba The Love Sponge Is Getting Married! (January 12, 2006) ... Fired in 2004 by Clear Channel after a record FCC fine, eccentric shock jock Bubba The Love Sponge is now in the news for something more conventional than his losing campaign to be elected Sheriff. He's getting married. Read the heartwarming story, A love match for the Love Sponge in the St. Petersburg Times. Tampa Radio Station Owner Found Dead (Spring Hill, FL -- December 23, 2006) ... Carl Marcocci, owner of four Tampa area radio stations, died from an apparent heart attack after an office Christmas party Thursday December 21. This was shortly after handing out Christmas bonuses and treating station staff to a steak dinner. Marcocci, who started as a deejay in Pittsburgh, was the CEO and controlling owner of the company that runs FM stations WXOF, WJQB, and WXCV, and AM station WINV. For more info, see Radio station owner found dead in the St. Pete Times. Latest Boortz Book Due March 1 May The Boortz Be With You ... shirts, mugs, caps, buttons, and stuff Libertarian talker Neal Boortz's latest book, Somebody's Gotta Say It, will be published March 1. You can pre-order now by clicking the link above. Other books by Boortz	"Our system is not perfect, but its still the best system in the world." ... Herman Cain Herman Cain Discusses MLK Legacy (January 15, 2007) ... Herman Cain subsitituted for Neal Boortz on MLK Day. He discussed the four forgotten points of Dr. Martin Luther King's famous I Have A Dream speech. "I am a homeguy, as Royal and I would say" says Cain, who was raised in Atlanta and went to Morehouse College. "I feel a special connection with Dr. King because he's also a Morehouse graduate." Cain often substitutes for Boortz on holidays or vacations. Of all the talkers I've heard who have regular substitute hosts, I think Cain is the only one who is just as good as his boss. Read more about him at HermanCain.com. Cain is the author of They Think You're Stupid: Why Democrats Lost Your Vote and What Republicans Must Do to Keep It. (Please buy from this link and save money!) The Neal Boortz Show can be heard locally on WLVJ 1040, from 9 PM 'til midnight. Steve Kane Show on AOL-TV (Coral Springs, FL -- January 4, 2007) ... The Steve Kane Show (cable TV version) can now be seen on AOL-TV, at The Steve Kane TV Show.

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JANUARY 2007: SECTION 5 of 5 ⇒ New Music On WDNA · Larry King Jon Sommers · Clint O'Neil Tribute · James Crystal Sued
Jan. 2007 Radio News - SECTION 1 2 3 4 5 || New Year | December Radio News | Main Page
New Music Featured On WDNA's Straight, No Chaser (Miami, FL -- January 11, 2007) ... The newest of new music will be heard in the new year with the arrival of the latest original programming from 88.9 FM Serious Jazz. WDNA's Mel Lipton, Maggie Pelleya, and Mark Hayes at the Miami International Book Fair in November 2006. Debuting on Saturday, January 13th at 8 AM, Straight, No Chaser will feature two critics, Edward Blanco and Mark Hayes, playing and discussing their picks from the most recent jazz releases from around the world. “Straight, No Chaser” can be heard every other Saturday on 88.9 FM in South Florida and online at seriousjazz.org. Straight, No Chaser will more often than not aim beyond familar names and major label releases to find the best up and coming artists from small and independent record companies and digital distributors. No town is too small, no country is too distant to attract the attentive ears of critics like Ed and Mark. Read more about the show and Mark and Ed on the WDNA web site.
Larry King On Air 50 Years CNN's Larry King recalled his Miami beginnings in a recent Miami Herald article. Read Glenn Garvin's article, King of CNN: Rags, riches, Miami roots. Clint O'Neil Tribute Web Page Fans of the late Clint O'Neil, the long-time WLRN personality who helped popularize reggae in south Florida, will enjoy this web site: Clint O'Neil - The Godfather of Reggae Radio 1944 - 2004. If not for listening to Clint-O on WLRN after midnight, I may have never gotten to be a reggae fan. Various Artists: Reggae Party Explosion: The Best in Classic Reggae Various Artists: Reggae Party Explosion: The Best in Classic Reggae. Buy from the official Sony Entertainment Products store. This CD is in the category Music Pop Reggae V/A Compilations and is listed on Sony's webstore at $11.99 ... UPC: 01509565632 Product ID: CMPI6563.2 Release Date: 10/17/2006	James Crystal Sued For Using "Man Talk" (January 12, 2006) ... RadioInk reports that broadcaster William Bege has filed a lawsuit against James Crystal, claiming trademark infringement over use of the name “Man Talk.” Allegedly James Crystal requested permission to use the name, but didn't get it. See James Crystal Broadcasting Sued For Infringement Of “Man Talk” Brand. How Jon Sommers Brought The Oldies Back To WJNA After Hurricane Wilma "Jammin'" Jon tells a nostalgic story about the now-defunct WJNA in How Jon Sommers Brought The Oldies back To WJNA After Hurricane Wilma. It's the newest article in South Florida Radio History.

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