The Media Drop

Yesterday, I was tipped off to the story about how Bill Nguyen of LaLa had apparently come in to save what is now WOXY.com. In case you’re not familiar, that is what was left of the WOXY that previously broadcast on 97.7FM out of Cincinnati, Ohio.
That does appear to be the case, according to […]

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In case you were wondering, commenting on my site is still down. I’m basically getting absolutely nailed by comment spam, and it’s a bit out of control, ever since I upped to the newer version of MT, blacklist or not.
We’re working on a solution - my host and I - and as soon as we […]

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While Don Imus was speaking with MSNBC morning news anchor Amy Robach this morning about his need for Frizz-Ease, producer Bernard McGuirk said, from the booth, “Where’s Andrew Cunanan when you need him?”
Wow.

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From the stupid captions department, we find this example of a description of a fight breaking out in the middle of the Washington Capitals and Philadelphia Flyers game on Tuesday. It’s great that we now know that the Caps’ Alexander Ovechkin is “from Russia” when describing him. How fantastic is that.
Stupid. Oh, and Richards is […]

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News.com’s Media blog has an item by Harry Fuller on Monday referencing stats that AdAge had pulled together regarding Howard Stern’s current ad value on SIRIUS as opposed to when he was on terrestrial radio. While Fuller is spot on to say that the ads are obviously costing less for the advertiser, the audience is […]

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This, of course, was not overheard in a Viacom chatroom and should be taken as humorously as possible:

ViacomBoardGuy: Like, did you notice that Sumner Redstone is making a lot of money?
ViacomBoardroomDude: No, really? Shocker.
ViacomBoardGuy: Why you gotta be such a hater? I say we give him a pay cut, I mean there’s no reason someone […]

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On Friday, some key news came out about how Tribune Co. is going to handle its own business, but what’s most important here isn’t that the company is trying to be more productive, but the fact that the company is now up for sale, if you really read between the giant lines that have now […]

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Yesterday, I had caught more wind of this story about how Howard Stern was “thinking” about moving back to terrestrial radio from satellite. Of course, this should be completely dismissed unless all satellites happen to be hit with a giant meteor and knocked out or orbit, leaving us all incommunicado. It wouldn’t at all surprise […]

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Facing financial issues, most likely, the San Diego Union-Tribune announced today that it would bring in, or as it is referred to, “consolidate” in the operations of Today’s Local News, a free paper in north San Diego. That is to say, that The Copley Press Inc., the parent of both publications, saw a need to […]

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The Baltimore Sun has named Rondra Matthews, who currently publishes the Daily Press from Newport News, Virginia, publisher, reports that paper’s Andrea Walker.

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