JIM ROSE REMEMBERS RADIO Issue #594
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December 12, 2008 [Friday]
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NPR SHAFTS STAFF
The stressful economy strikes all media companies in both the for profit and even non-profit organizations. National Public Radio slashes 64 (7%) of its artisans plus another 21 spots remain empty. NPR has a current staff of 889. On Tuesday, December 9, 2008 Wired's Jeff Howe, while at the mediabistro.com panel on how social networking is good business, says he is bullish on non-profit journalism: The NPR model is working. NPR's press release tries to explain the cuts: Tough Economy Forces NPR To Address Unexpected Shortfall In Revenue. Steep Decline in Corporate Underwriting Leads to Budget Reductions, Despite Growing Audiences. NPR claims that 26.4 million people listen to its programs each week and 8 million visit NPR.org each month. NPR expects staff and expense reductions in reporting, editorial, production, station services, digital media, research, communications and administrative support. Travel and discretionary expenses are also cut. Wonder if our government issues NPR a bail-out plan, too? Before long we all bail-out.
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OASIS SEEKS POSITIVE WOMEN
In early 2007, Mark Follett founds Sovereign City Communications, LLC. He assembles a team of radio and media professionals who have a passion for life and a belief in the healing power of music. Joe Giganti, President/COO of Sovereign City Communications' Oasis Adult Contemporary music format hires vet Mike Tanner of WLS-890 Chicago, KMPC-710, AC KMGG FM (Magic 106) Los Angeles fame for the 3-7pm spot. Joe brags: Without a doubt, Mike Tanner is one of the most respected and well-known voices in our industry. His positive outlook on life, love of radio, passion for excellence and his immense talent is a wonderful addition to our growing on-air team. After conducting a national search, we are delighted to find a show host of his caliber and we welcome him to the Oasis family. The Oasis radio lineup includes Great Day with Jim and Debbie mornings, Robin Marshall middays, Mike Tanner afternoons, Wendy in Your Oasis evenings and Jeff Elliot overnights. Sovereign City’s target audience is women age 35-54 with positive music, positive lyrics, positive personalities that lead to positively adult contemporary. JRRR believes that's postively devine.
TRIVIA QUESTION: Eric Clapton releases his Rock classic tune Layla under what band name? The answer appears below.
MOVERS AND SHAKERS
•LARRY KING receives the 2009 R&R News/Talk/Sports Career Excellence Award in L.A. on March 14, 2008. •RYAN SEACREST's morning show On Air with Ryan Seacrest on Clear Channel KIIS FM L.A. re-broadcasts from 10am-1pm M-F on sister Z100 NYC. •MARK CHERNOFF VP/CBS Radio Sports Programming and OM for Sports WFAN-660 NYC moves on up to VP/Programming of the NYC cluster. •VIRGIN MEDIA U.K. cable giant cuts 2,200 jobs to save an estimated £120 million ($183.6 million) a year. •KEN BRUCE Radio 2 presenter hosts the PRS Radio Academy Hall of Fame Lunch to discover he also is an inductee.
ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES
•1956 BERNARD SUMMER guitar/vocals on Techno-Dance group New Order (Regret #28-1993) from Manchester, England born on January 4th. •1967 GARY ALLAN (Her Man #7-1996) born Gary Herzberg on December 5th in Montebello, CA. •1979 VAN MCCOY singer/producer (The Hustle #1-1975) dies of a heart attack on July 6th. •1983 KENNY ROGERS & DOLLY PARTON receive a Platinum single for Islands In The Stream on December 7th. •1999 ROB GRETTON manager Techno-Dance group New Order/Joy Division dies on May 15th. •2007 LEANN RIMES & JOSS STONE perform Nothin' Better To Do on CMT Crossroads on December 7th.
EMAILS YES WE HAVE EMAIL
SIMON P. WALMSLEY (Tucson, AZ) Subject: Perry Damone. I realise that you said he had disappeared but is there any update? In 1950 I saw a film in England with his mother; Pier Angeli; Domani è troppo tardi (1950) .... Mirella ... aka Tomorrow Is Too Late (USA) Ever since I moved to the US I have sought a copy of it to no avail so I thought that he or his father might be able to say if it is available. It is a beautiful story of young innocent love. Thank you for any assistance you could provide, Simon P Walmsley
GARY ALLYN (San Diego-Fallbrook,CA) Just read Tom Ellis' email, followed by Lee Baby's. I had the pleasure of working with both-how fortunate am I, eh? I was around many fine new people in my career, but Tom Ellis, to me, was right at the top of my list of favorites. Tom was/is what news delivery and content is all about. Tom, as did most of the KONO news staff in the sixties, re-write each newscast every hour, every day. No "rip 'n readers" there. Tom's professionalism and writing/gathering ability was without peer. His clear,concise and authoritative delivery added to our sound hour immensely. Tom's popularity matched that of any of our air talent. I remember Tom was the "Center" on our KONO charity basketball team, and before, after & during the game he was usually "swooned" over by the numerous females in the crowd. The lines for his autograph were long-like those for a Rock Star. I keep writing this as if Tom is no longer with us, my apologies Tom. It's not a eulogy,It's merely a memory of a true professional newsman who did his job well. Tom, your absence from the scene will certainly be broadcastings' loss. Now, more than ever, we need your kind on our airwaves. You, like Lee Baby Simms, had the "knack" for audience connectivity. One listen is all it took to hear real greatness. Glad I had the opportunity to know and admire you both. gary allyn-KONO: 1963,'64-1966,'68 (www.garyallyn.com) / (http://garyallynsradiopinion.blogspot.com/)
WHERE DO YOU READ JRRR? Tell us how far away from Houston, TX that you read JRRR. Send your full name, city and state of residence to
JOHN VANVLECK (Austin, TX) Do you know how to contact Jay Thomas former DJ in Houston'67 on KFMK? thanks JVV.
GEORGE LESTER (Palestine-Elkhart, TX) I am passing this on to you because it definitely worked for me today, and we all could probably use more calm in our lives! Some doctor on the TV this morning said that the way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you have started. So I looked around my house to see things I’d started and hadn’t finished and, before leaving the house this morning, I finished off a bottle of Merlot, a bottle of shhhardonay, a bodle of Baileys, abutle of vocka, a pockage of Pringlies, tha mainder of a boti Prozic and Valumscriptins, the res of the Chesescke an a box a chocolets. Yu haf no idr who gud I fel. Peas sen dis orn to anyy yu fee ar in ned ov mr pece.
RAY WHITWORTH (D/FW-Arlington, TX) Hi Jim: Please tell Dan McCurdy the election is OVER! Another thing, nowhere did the Fairness Doctrine ever censor conservative views. If it did you would have never had Fulton Lewis the third, Paul Harvey, Joe Pyne, Allan Dale (WOAI in the 60's), Dan Smoot, Or "Liberty Lobby". All it is is for both sides to heard equally, fairly, NO censorship on either side and gosh actually allow the listener to choose and make up their own mind. What a concept!! Ray
DAN MCCURDY (Sherman, TX) Hey, Jim...I remember playing "Cast Your Fate to the Wind" by the Vince Guaraldi Trio in 1962 and for years afterwards...Guaraldi is probably more celebrated for his famous "Lucy and Linus" theme for the numerous 'Charlie Brown' Peanuts TV cartoon series. Guaraldi died of a heart attack at age 47 in between jazz sets in Menlo Park, CA in 1976...a real shocker...so talented and so young...but his great music lives on...a legacy that becomes a sort of immortality for him... Bestooya, Jim... Dan McCurdy, Texas Radio Hall of Fame inductee 2004, KLIF, KBOX-Dallas, WMEX-Boston
TRIVIA ANSWER: Derek & The Dominoes is the name of the Rock band that Eric Clapton releases his classic tune Layla which lands on Billboard on March 27, 1971. The tune makes a return engagement on Billboard on May 13, 1972 and zooms to #10.
BOB GRANT [Robert Hanger] (Houston-Jersey Village, TX) Far as I know Soupy & Trudy Sales still reside...NYC. He was born in Franklinton, NC (near Raleigh) on Jan 8, 1926. He appeared in a wheel-chair at dedication of his STAR on Hollywood Walk of Fame at age 79. Got his address from a most reliable source, but never visited him there, altho I wrote him 3 or 4 years ago, but got no reply. He did grad from HHS, Huntington, WVA in 1943. (I grad there in 1951) As you are well aware, it was the Col's decision not to book Elvis on shows outside of U.S. for his own personal reason. I had met Col. Parker several times in Nashville (as I did Elvis twice there at DJ Conv., 1954 & '55) & tried to book him into Univ.Hall, Charlottesville, VA where I booked so many top shows, but the Col. turned me down twice "'cause the venue wasn't big enough." Instead Elvis appeared several times in Richmond, Norfolk & Roanoke, VA. When I first met Col. Parker, his ofc was in Madison, TN., long before the move west. He had been Mgr of Eddy Arnold & then Hank Snow when I first knew him & later became Mgr of "The Hillbilly Cat" after securing him from Elvis's first Mgr, Bob Neal in Memphis. I knew Bob well from DJ days in Memphis, then to his talent-booking & Mngt Agcy in Nashville. I go way back to the golden era of rock and country, & could write a book indeed. BOB & Sonny Lee.
BILL CLINTON [42nd US President 1993-2001] (1946-p) When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.
Jim Rose and Tejas
Houston, Texas - En Dieu nous croyons
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