media bytes monday june 18 2007

Sunday, June 17, 2007 by SDRadio.

Welcome to SDRadio for Monday, June 18

The world-famous GelderHead Thought Of The Day: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. - Kurt Vonnegut

Long time San Diego vixen, Robin Roth is making noise at Rock 105.3 in the evenings.”Every Friday night I host The 11th Hour on Rock 105.3. I’ve been doing it since the beginning of February and due to popular demand, the show has been expanded to two hours. Starting Friday, June 1st, it’s on from 10pm to midnight. Thanks for all your input over the past few months. I really appreciate it.

“The 11th Hour is devoted to the industrial and goth music scene. Tune in to hear KMFDM, Bauhaus, Rammstein, Project Pitchfork, Killing Joke, Skinny Puppy, Ministry and more. You can make your requests via robin@rock1053.com and then tune in to my show every Friday night from 10pm to midnight.”

Call that a night cap!

Where’s the hook?: More consumers have heard of the upcoming Apple iPhone and know something about the product than HDRadio. Radio is misstepping on the new technology and in July, more consumers will be using the iPhone than listening to HDRadio receivers. Apple has 2-million units ready to roll out and most likely will be snapped up before the end of the year. HDRadio will be gathering dust in the warehouses as the hook of having an improved reception is lost in the sea of consumer confusion. Stay digitally tuned.

San Diego’s Smooth Jazz and ratings leader writes: “We are bringing Jazz at the Beach back to the Oceanside Pier Ampitheatre on Sunday, July 15th from 4:30pm ’til Sunset. The show stars Brian Culbertson, reunited with Steve Cole, plus special guest Down to the Bone featuring Shilts!

Tickets are on sale NOW through our website, or by calling 877-77-CLICK.” Tickets are expected to sell out.

Life After Larson: KOGO is expected to announce their new lineup today. Mark Larson decided to opt out of his evening show. Mark writes at his blog: “It was no secret that I disliked the 6-8PM slot, though I gave it my best. The local KOGO/Clear Channel people have been great but the out of town “experts” made decisions that didn’t make sense to me. There’s a point where you have to say, “Hey, I didn’t just fall off a turnip truck and get into radio”. Well, I know a thing or two about the media biz, and it was clear that I could have stuck in with my new contract for another one and two-thirds years and been miserable, working under the whims of VP’s in the company. I’m a big believer in local radio, local control…. and that’s changing along with much of the industry.

“So it is what it is. I needed to make a dramatic change to be true to myself, and get my health and family time (and other business interests) back in line.” More info on Mark at LarsonBlog. Also expected: an announcement soon on Mark’s plans for the next election. Stay Tuned.

KOGO’s Roger Hedgecock will fill in for Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday and Thursday this week. Roger will do double-duty: National show on the EIB Network from 9 to noon; and then locally from 3 to 6 p.m. I’m sure Jimmy Valentine will have enough hooch and smokes for the entire broadcast.

Soap Box: Republican Trent Lott was quoted in the New York Times: “Talk radio is running America. We have to deal with that problem.” What a nice problem that is. In a time that political officials claim that they do not receive any position from their district or state, the same politicians are having their ear turned by political action committees, and registered lobbyists, the elected officials cringe when their offices are over flooded with upset voters. Locally, Roger Hedgecock at KOGO and John Kobylt and Ken Chiampou of KFI are doing more than holding their feet to the fire. They are going on a full frontal assault by having listeners raise the rackles in Washington, D.C., and in Sacramento.

As one who is tired of special interest groups, PACs, and lobbyists having the upper hand in the capitals, Talk Radio is indeed, holding more than their feet to the fire — it’s democracy in action.

KFI’s Captain Dale Dye is taking a yearlong leave of absence from the station to work on an HBO companion piece to “Band of Brothers.”

The ten-part film is being shot in Australia with Captain Dye working as a unit director shooting the Marines’ major battles in the Pacific including Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa.

Captain Dye, retired from the USMC, has been used as a technical director and unit director on many films. His Sunday show on KFI was popular, especially with the Camp Pendleton military members.

Semper Fi.

Thank you for making SDRadio part of your internet travels. More news later in the broadcast week. See YOU on the radio!

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