JIM ROSE REMEMBERS RADIO Issue #567
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October 10, 2008 [Friday]
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ROCKER GETS THE KNACK FOR CHEMO
Lead singer and guitarist for Rock group The Knack, Doug Fieger, tells Undercover News that his health is stable since 2006. Doug still undergoes chemo treatment but says he feels good and his condition remains unchanged since his cancer goes into remission. Fieger tells us fans Nothing is any different for me on the health front than it has been since 2006. In August 2006 doctors remove two brain tumors. Scans in 2007 indicate that the cancer is in remission. Doug tells Undercover News that he enters his final stages of the treatment that takes him into January 2009. He is well enough to visit Australia in 2007 to perform in the Countdown tour. The Knack's biggest hit record is My Sharona which lands at #1 in summer 1979. Fieger wants us fans to know that he is well and do not worry. Doug says that he is in the best shape he can be and he feels good.
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HANNITY SIGNS THROUGH 2012
The Daily News reports that Sean Hannity signs a new multiyear, multimillion-dollar contract with Fox News Channel that keeps him onboard FNC through the next presidential election. Sean hosts both Hannity & Colmes and Hannity's America. He says I'll be honest, I'm just glad to be on the air having an opportunity to get my voice out there. When I started my career, I never got into it for fame, fortune or money. My first professional job was for $19,000 a year. I stayed in it because I really loved it. FNC is the most watched cable news channel in America for more than six years and is available in more than 90 million homes. News Corporation owns FNC. In summer 2008, Sean signs a radio deal for $100 million that lasts over five years. Hannity hosts The Sean Hannity Show on ABC Radio Network. Its syndication runs to more than 500 radio stations in all of the top 50 markets with 13.5 million anxious fans.
TRIVIA QUESTION: What are the names of the two female singers in the Rock band Heart? The answer appears below.
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
•HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Clint Wright on Monday, October 13, 2008. •GOLDMAN SACHS projects all sectors of the media including newspapers & local TV suffer slumps in local advertising from weakened economy of 2008 & 2009. •ACADEMY AWARDS OSCARCAST for first time runs movie ads during its 81st ceremony due to a vote by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences board of governors who lift its movie ad ban. •AMC marks The Sting's 35th anniversary plus the recent passing of Paul Newman on Monday, October 13, 2008 at 7 & 9:30 pm. During October 2008 AMC airs Paul's The Hustler that also stars Jackie Gleason.
ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES
•1955 EARL SCRUGGS suffers a fractured hip in an early-morning car accident on October 3rd 15 miles east of Knoxville, TN. •1962 ROBIN GUTHRIE guitar/keyboards Scottish alternative Rock band Cocteau Twins born on January 4th. •1977 DOLLY PARTON's Here You Come Again releases on RCA records on October 6th. •1985 RIE FU Japanese pop & folk rock singer/songwriter born on January 11th. •1990 GARTH BROOKS joins the Grand Ole Opry on October 6th - Alan Jackson makes 1st appearance on the show. •2005 NELL RANKIN American mezzo-soprano opera singer dies at 81 on January 13th.
EMAILS YES WE HAVE EMAIL
JOYCE WEBSTER (Mena, AR) Jim, I want to ask you how things are going as far as the recovery down that way. Other things have kept most news coverage nationally off of the damage down that way. Someone sent me some horrific photos of the Galveston area thru the internet. My older kids used to go there pretty regularly with their dad. I never spent much time in that area at all. I did have a wonderful short vacation once at Padre Island after a business meeting that took place in Houston. I don't know if I've heard anything about Padre...just thought about it this morning. I'm assuming that life in Houston is getting pretty much back to normal for most people.
JENNIFER BROOKINS-VIHARO (Atlantic City-Pittsgrove, NJ) Jim, Hi kiddo – I’m so happy to see this. There is no reason why you couldn’t start charging for subscriptions? Have you thought of this? Anyway – I ‘ve been away for quite some time and your good news greeted me. Your friend, Jen…and hey! Love to my best gal Tejas
WHERE DO YOU READ JRRR? Tell us how far away from Houston, TX that you read JRRR.
LIZ PATRANELLA (Austin, TX) Subject: DJ Reunion Lunch - Nov 5. It's time once again for all us old, former, retired and some still active San Antonio Broadcasters to get together to renew old friendships and share old memories. Make your plans now to attend! And, please bring all those old photos and any memorabilia you have with you! We all want to see and share the memories! SAN ANTONIO DJ REUNION LUNCH Wednesday, November 5, 2008; 11:30 am Sea Island Restaurant; I-10 North at Amerisuites Drive between Wurzbach and Huebner (on north side of I-10) San Antonio (210) 558-8989. Please remember -- Our agreement for use of the private room is that attendees purchase a meal. Please be considerate of our hosts and order as you arrive. R.S.V.P. A.S.A.P. Reservations are required. If you can't come, but would like a short message read to the group, please email the message to me and I'll read it at the luncheon. Our thanks again to Don Couser for making arrangements with Sea Island for our gatherings. And special thanks to Don "Skinny" Green for his continuing efforts to maintain our "Roster". I look forward to seeing all my old friends again...and hopefully some who haven't been able to join us before. I await your email replies! Liz Houston Patranella KBAT 1966; KQXT 1968; KTSA 1968-69
TRIVIA ANSWER: The two female singers in the Seattle, WA Rock band Heart are singer Ann Wilson and her sister Nancy on the guitar and keyboards. It's a family affair because brothers Roger and Mike Fisher are guitarists in the group.
BOBBY REYES (San Antonio, TX) Hey there Jim...your articles are most interesting to read and I truly appreciate your work on this...don't know if you were aware of the huge renovation performed many years ago at the 222 building...where as woai was facing Spencer Lane, 'oai is in the n.e. corner and facing IH-10, which is cool so you can see what's goin' on outside in the real world...kaja is down the hall on the n.w. corner of the building...in between is kmmx (mix 96.1 ), a few offices for kaja, mix 96, a couple more offices for p.d. types, the main studio for 'oai and the talk show segments are within viewing distance...as you walk back down the hall is another studio for news people types to do news segments...keep on going down the hallway is the talk studio for ktkr, ticket 760, then the main control room for the ticket (remember the photo I sent you of MOI sittin' on the bar stool?)...after that is the office for our p.d. ('oai and the ticket )...Peter Bolger is his name...then there is the space for the total traffic network with about four or five work stations for people who do traffic for the stations...turn the corner there is the main control room for krpt (92.5, the outlaw...Texas flavored country music)...where we also do some high school football broadcasts and Texas Tech...keep going down the hall is a production studio, Phil Lowry's production room (Phil's alter ego is Hank T. Moon and he is the primary voice on the outlaw as the entire station is automated)...down the hall are more production studios, going back up the hall in the opposite side of the building (west side) is another production studio and THEN our new tenant, KZEP (formally the old kexl) our classic rock station...b-t-w, the kzep studio used to be KSJL...but that station is history...KQXT (Q101.9) is next up the hall, a small office and then kaja's studio...all stations are hooked into a system where you dial it up and you can get everything that's wired up in the building, it's also where we dial up satellite receivers, isdn, comrex hotline and zephyr telephone lines and a whole bunch of inputs too numerous to mention... there are more areas in between all of this for the news department and another space for what we call producers row...office cubicles for people who work for the different stations...the first floor is sales people, g.m., promotions department, traffic (building program logs and stuff) and other goodies like the Sprint lounge where we have a small and intimate stage for music artists to come in and perform for selected listeners and for the building staff...it's really neat! and most innovating for us to have this feature...there is so much more in the building it's hard to relate...but the BIG rumor is that clear channel wants to move everything to their corporate office area in the Stone Oak area on Loop 1604 and highway 281...yuk, I am NOT going to like having to deal with the long and crazy drive up there! ...as it is, right now I am only less that 10 minutes away from the 222 building...eeek, looks like I might retire some day...that's it for now Jim, I'm gettin' fatigued working on this but again I really enjoy the service you provide for all us radio types and hope you can continue this neat feature you have...all the best and I'll touch base w/you again! Bobby R.
DANIEL DEFOE (April 26, 1660-1731) It is better to have a lion at the head of an army of sheep, than a sheep at the head of an army of lions.
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