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RADIO NEWS: APRIL 2009
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Miami Saxophone Quartet in Live Performance at WLRN (Miami, FL -- April 27, 2009) ... Miami Saxophone Quartet will perform live on WLRN on Ed Bell's South Florida Arts Beat, Friday, May 1 at 1 PM on WLRN 91.3 and on WLRN.org. Ed Bell Stellar Jazz musicians and educators, Gary Keller, Gary Lindsay, Ed Calle and Mike Brignola (augmented by bassist Jaime Ousley) will perform new arrangements and original compositions from their fourth recording, Fourtified Rich tonal colors and intricate harmonic lines complement improvised solos from this group of South Florida Jazz leaders, who have studied and performed the entire history of the genre for decades. Add to that their explorations into Pop, Latin, R&B and chamber music and you have a contemporary sound quite unique among sax quartets, as well as Jazz groups in general.

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R.I.P. Progressive WINZ... Replaced by Miami's 4th Sports Station: South Florida's Sports Animal Deja Vu (Miramar, FL -- April 2009)...Clear Channel has finally euthanized its failed "progressive" Air America talk format, and put it out of its misery. But, inexplicably, it has reverted to its previous failed format: sports. Only this time it isn't Fox Sports, it's "South Florida's Sports Animal!" Can they compete? Here's their sports radio competition, the FIVE other AM sports radio stations in south Florida: Miami Market WQAM 560 AM Miami, FL "Sports Radio" (Beasley) WAXY 790 AM South Miami, FL "790 The Ticket" (Lincoln Financial) WFLL 1400 AM Fort Lauderdale, FL (James Crystal) WPB Market WMEN 640 AM Royal Palm Beach, FL "Fox Sports" (James Crystal) WEFL 760 AM Tequesta, FL "ESPN 760" (Good Karma) WJCC "The Fan" 1700 and WRFX "Fox Sports" 940 couldn't hack as sports stations it with less sports competition, before james Crystal added two stations. Can WINZ? As Yogi Berra said, "It's deja vu all over again!" How long 'til Clear Channel Miami's next flip? They've already flipped two of their seven Miami market stations in 2009. (The other was Love94.) Who's next?

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Randi Rhodes Coming Back (April 27, 2009)... After problems with a few different companies that have carried her show (actually, I've lost track), Randi Rhodes cannot be heard anywhere in south Florida any more. But, like General McArthur and Arnold Schwartzenegger, she'll be back. Rhodes' slot on WJNO is now held by Sean Hannity and her old slot on WINZ is sports. That's poetic justice, because she replaced "G-Man" G. Gordon Liddy when she first came to WJNO more than a decade ago. It's nice to be able to listen to Sean Hannity on at his normal time on WJNO, rather the delayed time on WIOD. The good news for Rhodes fans is that Premiere Networks will be bringing her back on May 11th. Where will she go in south Florida? Replacing Schnitt or Hannity on WIOD? Only if WIOD wants to alienate its core audience. WQAM? She might make a good hookup for like-minded Neil Rogers. But complainers have three other Miami market sports stations to choose from, per the preceding article. In WPB, she'll probably displace Hannity in her old slot. Until then, Rhodes fans can read Randi Rhodes, Before She Was Famous, part of South Florida Radio History.

WFTL's Joyce Kaufman Motivates Listeners For Broward Tax Day Tea Party WFTL's Joyce Kaufman was one of the speakers and organizers at the Broward Tax Day Tea Party, in front of the Federal Building in downtown Fort Lauderdale April 15th. See Highlights of The Broward Tax Day Tea Party - 4/15/09. "Tea parties are just the beginning" said Joyce, six days after the tea party. "Patriots need to get activated and get up here on the wall with warriors. Join our ReIndependence Day Tea Party on July 4th. Warriors don't get holidays off, the battle rages on! See you there."

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The Winter Arbs (April 25, 2009) ... George Sheldon, recovering from ear surgery, is still opinionated about south Florida radio and who is doing what on the air and in the Arbs. "I have been out of Clear Channel for a couple of years and they still go through talent like diapers for a newborn and how they still end up with being #9 in the market is beyond me" opines George. Read George Sheldon's Commentary on Miami's Winter 2009 Rating Book [To be posted week of 5/4]. Post a Job! $10 for 30 days

WKRP Online If you miss watching WKRP In Cincinnati, take heart. WKRP can be seen on cable channel WGN from 7 'til 8 PM Sundays. If that's not convenient, you could buy DVDs at Amazon.com's WKRP Store. (A Date With Jennifer will be on at 7:30 May 3rd. That sounds like must-see TV.) In the final scene of tonight's episode about the return of Johnny Fever, Bailey is wearing a lowder-blue sweatshirt that says Thomas Schippers. Never heard of him. It turns out that he was a conductor for the Metropolitan Opera. What a great obscure bit of trivia. At right, another TV show about radio: NewsRadio.

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Maybe I Was Wrong About Local Radio (Editorial) (April 24, 2009) ... Whenever someone tells me how much he likes satellite radio, I always speak in defense of local radio, because I like local content. But maybe I have to reluctantly admit that mismanagement by the station's (mis)management is proving me wrong. You already know about the scourge of voice tracking. Most of the non-syndicated music programs you hear on the radio (purporting to be live and local) have been prerecorded by someone out of state (probably while he's doing another radio program or two). What you ultimately hear is prerecorded comments, with the music inserted by computer at the station. It takes maybe 45 minutes to record a four-hour show. But that's not the only problem. How long do you think WIOD devotes to local news? Maybe a couple of minutes, twice an hour? Is that enough time to report the important news? Barely. But maybe nothing important happened today. They couldn't even find enough news to fill the Mini-Me newscast. This morning, I was listening to a WIOD newscast during Glenn Beck, and in their tiny news hole, they deemed it important to tell listeners that NBC's Today Show will be broadcast from Key West one day next month with Jimmy Buffet as a guest. Big *** Deal! Wow, that's important news! Maybe nothing noteworthy has been done by the crooks in DC, Tallahassee, and the county courthouse, and nothing else of any importance has happened in the rest of Florida, the Caribbean, the middle east, the war zone, the left coast, the frozen north, or anyplace else on earth since Wednesday. Yes, I know that some stations leave time for a funny item at the end of an hour-long newscast, notably the 6 PM Special Report on Fox News. But this lame news item was neither timely (next month), humorous, newsworthy, or relevant (out of market). It was basically a promo for NBC-TV, disguised as news, because someone was too lazy to go beyond reading press releases to fill the news hole. It's advertising disguised as news, broadcast by people who don't know anything about news, to titillate other people who don't know anything about news. Maybe, contrary to their promos about timely news, they should read the Sun-Sentinel and Miami Herald to find out what's relevant in local news to fill the newscast. Or maybe even listen to Hannity, Beck, Schnitt, and Limbaugh on their own station. And especially listen to Joyce Kaufman on WFTL 850. She's local and knows a bit about what's important to listeners. Maybe this explains why the voters are so uninformed. They depend on radio and TV for their news. If you don't believe me, watch these post-election interviews. If you have a strong stomach, that is. (But it's funny, in a way.)

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