Monday, October 15, 2007 by SDRadio.

SignOn Radio Launches Live Streaming Radio

First in the nation to offer full time audio-casts

Sign On San Diego did a soft launch of SignOn Radio today.

The lineup for today:

8:00 - 9:00 a.m. - Dave Mason’s AM
9:00 - 11:00 a.m. - Charlie & Harrigan
11:00 - 1:00 p.m. - Clark & Copper
1:00 - 1:30 p.m. - Maynard’s Garage: Mark Maynard
1:30 - 2:00 p.m. - Shelf Life: Arthur Salm
2:00 - 3:00 p.m. - Fill in the Blank with George Varga
3:30 - 5:30 p.m. - Charlie & Harrigan
5:30 - 7:30 p.m. - Clark & Copper

The station manager is Dave Mason, the former host of Kool 99.3, and the KOGO morning show. Radio voices include: Charlie & Harrigan are Jack Woods and Paul Menard, famous for their pairing in San Diego radio history. Clark Anthony and Ken Copper take to the air at 11 a.m. Also in the works is Happy Hare Martin.

Ron James writes at the web site: “No other radio station, public or otherwise, can come close to the kind of local coverage SignOn Radio can provide. Our studios are located just a few yards from the newsroom of The San Diego Union-Tribune. What other station can boast a half-dozen veteran radio personalities and nearly three hundred seasoned journalists?

“The combination of entertainment, information and news is unparalleled in the radio industry. Our goal is to inform and entertain - bringing you not only the news makers but the keen analysis of the journalists who cover them. And when we’re not talking, we’re playing the best from San Diego musicians.

Visit SignOnSanDiego.com/SignOnRadio for more information.

Stay Digitally Tuned.

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Monday, October 15, 2007 by SDRadio.

Welcome to SDRadio for monday, october 15, 2007

In ((Stereo)) Where Available))

The World Famous GelderHead Thought Of The Day: It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. ~ Claude M. Bristol

Drop the talk: 1360 KLSD will drop current programming of Air America, Stacy Taylor, Ed Schultz at the end of the month. Starting the next day, the station is expected to be Xtra Sports 1360 bringing back to the airwaves a San Diego icon.

Expect Lee Hacksaw Hamilton to be one of the lead shows in the afternoon on the sports station with the Best 15-minutes of Radio. Also joining the line up will be Chris Ello (pictured).

Last week, Ello’s former employer announced that he would have the night time program at XX Sports Radio. With a multi-year contract under his belt, Chris will be one of the key locally based shows in the market. XX Sports 1090 announced Chris’ show without firming up a contract with the multi-talented San Diego based host.

There is a very strong leaning to having Dave Palet and Jeff Dotseth on board the station. While there is no indication when they will be on, it could be somewhere in the morning drive. Also named are Union-Tribune columnists as possible show hosts during the day part.

Also, don’t be surprised if Premiere Radio’s Jim Rome finds his home at the sports station, and the possibility that Dan Patrick (pictured) could join the line up. Both programs are distributed by Premiere Radio nationwide to stations. Dan’s show, just weeks old, is primarily on Clear Channel stations across the U.S. XX Sports Radio relay of Dan’s show is eight hours old and sports fans know that news is breaking fast. Noted: Dan’s show can be heard from LA, live, on KLAC, 570 AM from 6 to 9 a.m. The AM station has a decent signal in San Diego county.

Meanwhile as current programing on 1360 KLSD winds down, it is unknown where or if, Stacy Taylor will end up. There has been trail balloons floated by station insiders suggesting that the current line up, sans Stacy, will end up on an HDRadio multicast station on the FM dial. That means potential listeners would have to buy an HDRadio, then hope that reception in their area is adequate enough to receive. It is doubtful that the multicast station could be listened in a moving car outside of the core broadcast area of about ten to fifteen miles from the transmitter. Station officials were not available for comment. (Pictured is NOT a high managlement Clear Channel Texas spokeshole.)

While I have strong hope for, Dave Palet and Jeff Dotseth to be heard local and live, they have been on LA’s ESPN 710. The former hosts of KFMB, XESPN, and Free FM are free agents for the time being. In this reporter’s ears, nothing sounds better than to hear Dave and Jeff finer in the mo-or-or-ing ….

Noted that this move has been in place since August, the time lag has been entirely too long and a disservice to listeners and advertisers to KLSD>

Stay Tuned

For the past several years Jeff Gelder has put together a fine holiday album that benefits children in San Diego hospitals. Jeff needs your help: “The finest and most generous voice actors and singers! GelderHead Productions is now accepting submissions for the fifth edition CD of “Holiday Magic 2007, A Gift for Children of all Ages.” A holiday recording to brighten the holidays of the children and their siblings at Children’s Hospitals. CDs will be distributed in December.

Please submit a song, story, riddle or rhyme, anything that welcomes Holiday time! Make it less than four minutes, and please send it on CD. Character voices are encouraged. All entries must be complete and fully recorded for use.

The top 15-20 will be selected based on creativity, generosity and theme and will receive artist exposure, be included on the CD with acknowledgments, receive a copy of the CD and receive the:

~GelderHead Award of Excellence for Creativity and Generosity~

Holiday Magic 2006 was a huge success with great talent and 1500 copies going to the Children’s Hospitals in San Diego, Orange County, Milwaukee, and Albuquerque for the children spending their holidays in the hospital, and their siblings.

Deadline for submissions is Friday November 8th, 2007. Questions, send e-mail to: Jeff @GelderHead.com (preferred) or call 619-795-1740 . SUBMIT TO: GelderHead Productions, P.O. Box 3386, San Diego, CA 92163-3386

Thank you in advance for your generous contributions! And if you were on one of the last four CDs we hope you’ll consider sending something again this year.

For updated information and to view last years CD artwork, visit HolidayMagicCD.com.

Jeff is a voice over artist in San Diego and emails his daily thoughts of the day world-wide and is featured in SDRadio.

XX Sports fall line up: ) XX Sports Radio CEO John Lynch announced last Thursday, a new fall lineup that includes radio legend Dan Patrick. The new lineup begins today. The lineup as announced:

5 – 9am Scott and BR
9am – Noon Jim Rome
Noon – 2pm “Coach” John Kentera and Joe Tutino
2 – 4pm Dan Patrick
4 – 8pm Too Much Show with “Philly” Billy Werndl and Darren Smith
8 – Midnight The World of Sports According to Chris Ello

“We already have the strongest lineup in sports radio and adding Dan Patrick’s show to the midday just makes us more dominant. With Scott and BR in the morning we have the best local sports morning show in the business. Jim Rome has no equal and he’s one of our own from day one. The Coach John Kentera is part of the fabric of San Diego sports. Darren Smith and Bill Werndl are always on top of the biggest stories in the city and are THE place news breaks.”

As announced last week, Chris Ello was part of the evening line up. However last week he signed a multi-year contract with Clear Channel Communications and is expected not to be in the line up prior to his start on Nov. 1 at another station (see the top story).

“It’s an exciting time for this station and a very good time to be with XX Sports Radio,” said XX Sports Radio Program Director Joe Tutino.

XX Sports Radio 1090AM and 105.7FM is programmed and operated by the Broadcast Company of the Americas and is the home of the San Diego Padres.

BCA is a San Diego LLC and was formed in 2003 to purchase the U.S. marketing and programming rights of 1090 AM; 105.7 FM. Also part of the family is 1700AM, home of conservative talk featuring Mark Larson.

We’ve all heard “you are what you eat.” But what about “your grandchildren might be what you eat…or drink….. or smoke.” A new cutting-edge study of something called epigenetics.

World-famous Neil Ross will voice the next NOVA. It will be on KPBS-TV and KPBS-DT this week. The program airs on Tuesday: “Scientists are uncovering a network of chemical switches that sit on our DNA, turning genes off and on. Called collectively the epigenome, the switches appear to play a major role in everything from how our cells differentiate to whether we contract dread diseases. Might our experiences, by changing our epigenomes, also change the fate of generations of our offspring?”

Neil Ross is a San Diego radio icon, and while he doesn’t like being called that, he is known to hang with Gary Alyn in extreme North County San Diego.

San Diego’s newest talker is at the high end of the AM dial — and it may be considered at the right end of the spectrum as well. Mark Larson programs the station and started the realigning in August. Added were local host New York Myke Shelby, and locally based Ray Lucia. Sprinkle in Dennis Miller, Michael Reagan, and Neil Boortz, plus other programming, AM 1700 is carving a mark in talk radio.

Mark is the program director for the station, and as a locally based PD for a locally base company, he has the decision process … locally based. Mark writes: “San Diego 1700’s Mark Larson has made it official: He’s really NOT running for Congress. He announced the decision while broadcasting his show from Washington, D.C. In case there’s a question re: where his support will go in the 52nd disctrict, he spent an afternoon visiting wounded warriors at Walter Reed Medical Center… in the company of Rep. Duncan Hunter. His son will be running for Dad’s spot on Capitol Hill.

Congratulations on the dad front … in this case grand-dad front: Mark’s son Brandon and wife Tiffany gave birth fo their first child … and Mark and Mrs. Larson’s first grandchild. Mark writes that “Everyone’s doing well, and for a while there was drama about the child’s name.” Mark toyed with the idea of trying to sell naming rights (”El Cajon Ford Larson”, etc) but was surprised with the new parents choice … which they sprung on Mark after the show: Mark Daniel Larson. The bouncing boy weighed in at 8 lbs 12 oz and SDRadio hears it was an emotional time for all.

Also: New York Myke Shelby expands his live, local noon hour show….. he’ll still be on Monday through Friday from 12 to 1, but adds the 1-2PM hour on Tuesdays and Thursdays.

In case you missed it: AM 1700 carries local high school football on Friday nights, USD football on weekends, and NFL Sunday Night Football with exclusive Southern California coverage.

The land slide at La Jolla was a significant event no matter where in the county (or pocket book) the disaster took place. In sampling of the tragedy, the surprise is that KNX, a radio station licensed to Los Angeles, provided the BEST COVERAGE than San Diego stations. Noting that KOGO and KFMB provided updates and necessary evacuation information, KNX coverage was on the air, on the ground and tapped knowledgeable experts for on the air coverage. Geologist, and hydro experts were on tap and earthquake specialists were heard on 1070 AM. San Diego stations, while providing basic coverage, failed in the explanation on why it happened. Kudos to KNX for coverage far and above their normal broadcast area on the movement of earth in La Jolla. KNX is a CBS owned and operated station from Los Angeles.

Tony and Kris: US 95.7 are the home for Tony and Kris in the morning drive. Last week, the morning duo were at the local DMV causing havoc to correct their sociable un-correct California DMV photo. They took over the Clairmont Mesa DMV office offering to “fix” the DMV photo.

The team had Leeland from Hairspray Salon on location offering a free and quick make-over service. The US 95.7 promotion team was on hand for games and prizes ….

The story of radio stations KCBQ, KGB, KDEO, and XEAK as the Top 40 format prevailed over AM radio from 1955 to 1982. Aircheck offers a general history of San Diego radio stations, detailed histories of the four key Top 40 stations, short biographies and photos of each DJ, images of studios, weekly surveys, memorabilia, coverage charts, a glossary of terms, and a full name index. Aircheck deftly covers the degree of competition that occured between stations and among staff to reach and retain top ratings. This soft cover, 8 1/2 X 11 perfect bound book with 112 pages. Order information is at David’s on-line website.

Don Imus, the former host on WFAN is returning to the airwaves. He’ll be on WABC in New York and is expected to be syndicated to other markets in the Citadel radio chain, including KABC in Los Angeles. There is also a suggestion that the I-man will be on a financial talk cable TV station. Part of his old team is expected to join him on Dec. 3 as he “quack-quack” opens the mic again.

Thank you for making SDRadio part of your internet travels today. Just a passing thought: no promos for the potentially failing Frank TV included on the web site.

More news as it happens right here and in ((stereo where available)). See YOU on the radio today and here for the latest breaking news. Thank you for reading and make it a better day than yesterday!

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