SF Radio Examiner

Men listen to more wimpy radio than they report?

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 14:00:06 -0700

This great New York Times article takes a look at the changes noted in the new radio ratings tool, the People Meter, which tracks exactly what people listen to. Radio is finally joining television and the Internet in an accurate ratings system...

Holiday in Gitmo: I wish Rush Limbaugh ditto-heads would take a look at this

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:36:26 -0700

The free online documentary "The Road to Guantanamo" is like a slap at the face for anyone who has ignored our version of a Siberian gulag in Cuba. I've heard Rush Limbaugh joke about it and sell hats and T-shirts. He claims that...

Your drinking water is poisonous, but you probably didn't hear about it on local radio

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 20:28:44 -0700

You better worry about what will happen when newspapers go away. Because if you have to depend on electronic media for your news...well, you will miss more than you will know. I'm shocked that even with a paint by numbers text like the New...

Talk radio host paid by FBI to make racist and antisemitic remarks....makes me wonder

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 15:39:33 -0700

Whose payroll Rush Limbaugh is on.

Read this shocking story about the FBI "spy" here.

Radio host busted for stealing $200 million

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 09:57:20 -0700

Nothing makes me more skeptical than these supposed radio money gurus. First, if they were so good at what they are doing, why would they be doing it on the radio? Second, I didn't hear one of them, not one, predict the current depression, nor...

Art Leboe, little man, big voice of the Chicano nation

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:02:01 -0700

Here's a great LA Times profile of DJ Art Leboe, the West Coast's Cousin Brucie, an Armenian whose fans are mostl Chicano.

Read it here and cruise, baby, cruse.

Live 105 books stellar "Not So Silent Night" show: Muse, AFI, Vampire Weekend, more

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:38:10 -0700

Check this lineup alt-musicers. It's solid.

FInd out about tickets for the Dec 11 show here.

Crazy radio contests continue: DJ asks for naked pics of listeners

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:04:43 -0700

Here's a story, on the eve of a $16.5 million judgment against a radio station for a wild contest. A DJ asked for listeners to submit naked photos to win concert tickets. Now, he's under fire. Come on: isn't...

Hidden music phenom Jandek: Does anyone know more?

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:00:16 -0700

Who would have thought that in this day and age of media penetration and saturation, there could be a mysterious musician who travels the world and sells out shows, but whom no one in mainstream radio or media has covered? Check out the wiki e...

Michael Savage, fresh off fighting a boycott, calls for a boycott

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:49:42 -0700

The force here in San Francisco has never been stronger, now that the death star Michael Savage has been bumped from the airwaves. People are happier, the air is fresher, hatred has been cut. Well, maybe I exaggerate, but not much. I'm hap...

Wee for a Wii family gets $16.5 million

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:34:48 -0700

The family of the mother who died in 2007 trying to win a video game console for her kids received $16.5 million in a civil judgment. Read about the strange case of Jennifer Strange here. Entercom Communications fired 10 people involved ...

Don't blame the media for "balloon boy"

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:36:25 -0700

The giant hoax perpetrated on the world and the media by a greedy and stupid Colorado father is causing a firestorm of backlash against the media. It shouldn't. Colorado parents, Richard and Mayumi Heene, are being charged with conspiracy,...

The free market has spoken: NFL flushes Rush Limbaugh

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:34:49 -0700

down the drain I was shocked when I heard that right wing radio host Rush Limbaugh was dropped from the group that is trying to buy the St. Louis Cardinal football team. The NFL must be a lot more liberal than I ev...

Michael Jackson's new song tanking

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:13:35 -0700

Insert photo caption or credit hereRadio-info.com's Sean Ross reports that Michael Jackson's new single "This is It" isn't it on a lot of radio stations. The song, which I figured to be an international hit, based on the response to M...

Great Rush Limbaugh joke as told by radio hosts Bob and Tom

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:31:02 -0700

Here's the only drinking game approved by Alcoholics Anonymous: You take a shot every time Rush Limbaugh says something good about President Obama. Bob and Tom ought to tell that one every day, because it's the funniest thing I've hea...

Chris Jackson laid off from the FOX

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:02:44 -0700

This is not a personality move I ever saw coming. Clear Channel's 98.5, KUFX, dumped its most competent, sincere and genuinely nice guy on and off the air this weekend. Chris Jackson, who kept the Greg Kihn show running for 13 years, and before ...

NY Times' David Brooks column says propagandist radio hosts are dooming Republicans

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:18:04 -0700

Talk show host Joseph Goebbels Beck In this column, he makes his argument. While he has some facts to back his case, such as Obama's win, I think he's missing a scarier, bigger picture. They are winning right now in an argument that shoul...

Rush Limbaugh laughs at holocaust of Indians

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:57:44 -0700

If Rush Limbaugh billed himself as a comedian, an entertainer, I'd have no problem with anything he says. I'd ignore it as I do most clowns. But he's become a leading spokesman for a faceless, voiceless Republican party and legislators a...

If only U.S. media were free enough to air something like this: it's really funny

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:10:23 -0700

Land of the Free indeed. We are the land of the repressed. You want freedom? Head to Japan, Europe, Mexico, where the media aren't governed by fundamentalist religion. This video is a crack up and would never make it on an American En...

Questionable radio: Gene Burns on Horrorcore; Brian Copeland on Nepotism

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:46:54 -0700

A couple of KGO talk radio lows this week. Did you hear them? Gene Burns, who is as smart and glib off air as anyone you will ever meet, can be like your dowdy aunt on his show sometimes. Aunt Gene came out Wednesday night, as he ga...