‘Radio stuff’ Archives
Oversight week?
It's been a week of people going in front of Congressional representatives and getting chewed out for various things... the oil companies had to go in front of a committee and defend the fact that they make money, Ben Bernanke had to appear on capitol hill and discuss the fact that people may be making less money for a while. Now Wired is [...]
Wally Phillips
There was some very sad news out of Chicago today, Wally Phillips has died at age 82: The WGN mainstay hosted the morning show from 1965 through 1986. During that time, he ruled the roost in morning drive, at times attracting half of the market's listening audience. "Wally's voice was the first millions of Chicagoans heard every morning from [...]
Recovering the satellites
(I'll give one of my five remaining Early Spin Slot Machines to the first person who can tell me where I got that title from... you're on the honor system, but no googling) While I'm on the subject of a local radio giant like Wally Phillps, I think this also gives a pretty decent opportunity to respond what David said earlier this week about [...]
what hath we wrought?
so its official....XM and Sirius are merging uh oh...as if sattelite radio didnt already spell the inevitable end of terrestrial radio we now have the 2 giants of the industry coming together to form the voltron of mega super conglomerate's to send all us poor radio stations to our deaths....but dont think that we didnt see it coming, in fact [...]
Lets get the Introductions out of the way, shall we?
Thank you for that glorious introduction Keith. Hello all and thank you for allowing me this opportunity to express my opinions thru the glorious web institution that is Prod Ninja. Allow me to give you a small history of myself as well as what im doing today. I was born a poor black child. No just playing, but i've always wanted to start a [...]
Blogroll update
In case you missed it my former Early Spin co-hort Dan Deibert, now heard on WGN Radio quite often, has shut down the Still Spinnin' Blog and moved it over to his own website with a new name... The D Spot. The Blogroll has been updated accordingly.
Justice for Conrad, justice for all?
Thanks to some server issues today I ended up getting scooped by Deibert, amazingly I didn't hear anything about this from the FCC, I found out about it when my boss read it in a trade and brought it to my attention. WNOV in Milwaukee has been fined $4,000 for playing my voicemail greeting on the air without my permission. Here's what Inside [...]
