TOM ELLIS (Boston-East Sandwich-Newton, MA) Greetings, Jim, Nice to see a former classmate of mine at U-T, Jeff Thomson, show up in your column. Feel free to advance my email address to him. TomEllis1@comcast.net. Thanks, Tom

JEFF THOMPSON (Winston-Salem, NC) Thanks, Jim. I appreciate your help...and while this week I am currently vacationing down in unusually cold Florida this week. I will be getting back to Tom by this next weekend. Glad he wants to get in touch, too. Maybe we can locate some other UT Broadcasting grads when we put our thoughts together. Muchas gracias, Jeff Thompson

ATTILA HONEY (NYC, NY) Don’t forget the new show this Sunday on WGGRN.COM at same time (7Central) It is through the roof funny. Watch for Sister Mona I Gotta-No-Moni Boloni and hold onto your seat for a funny ride! And "As Salt through the Hour Glass, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue" – also the two Socialist Squirrels sing a duet with Uncle Honey. I’m so proud of our cast members and musicians – as our show just won the Golden Microphone Award for comedy. Yoo Hoo! (http://issuu.com/theodoremediallc/docs/temeritymagazinevoume1issue7/39) Happy New Year again! Attila

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GRADY MCALLISTER (Houston, TX) Subject: Galveston's KGBC Leased Out to China Media Conglomerate. Galveston County Daily News, January 5, 2010: "GALVESTON — Unable to dial in enough financial support from advertisers, owners of KGBC radio have leased all the station’s airtime to one of China’s state-owned media companies, ending a yearlong effort at local programming. "The sudden format switch killed local shows and surprised and disappointed loyal listeners and a few advertisers. "People who tuned into 1540 AM on Jan. 1 expecting classic rock and local talk instead got Asian music and political forums, along with an array of unfamiliar programming. (http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=63a7f81b3dff5243) I used to listen to Paul Harvey on KGBC when it was a true Galveston station. I would usually keep listening through all the local news. This China programming will be aimed at all of the Houston area, not just Galveston. That is what always happens when an outlying station adopts a highly specialized format. I can think of two other local Galveston stations that are now long gone, KILE and KUFO. KGBC will be remembered as the last Galveston station to program to a diverse local audience. I don't normally get involved with current radio issues, but this one is unavoidable. R. Grady McAllister (http://vasthead.com/Highplace/rohn.html) / Twitter: http://twitter.com/VASTHEAD / (http://vasthead.com/Radio/blurb.html) / (http://houstonretro.com) / (http://galvestonlight.com) / (http://newsfronts.com) / (http://vasthead.com/Thomson)

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JIMMY RABBITT (Grand Junction, CO) The next "Back On The Beach" with Jimmy Rabbitt is Saturday, January 9th. 3pm-6pm PDT 6pm-9pm EDT on 101.5 KOCI FM Newport Beach, California. streaming on: http://KOCIRadio.com. twittering at: http://twitter.com/elconejo09

TRIVIA ANSWER: Peter Cetera's If You Leave Me Now is Chicago's biggest selling single but it doesn't help his affaire d'amour because she leaves him anyway.

DAN MCCURDY (Sherman-Denison, TX) Jimbo...The article you forwarded reminded me of a salient quote of Churchill's, "I contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle." - Winston Churchill. Additionally, I received a note from a recently re-met friend who lamented that she was not in Dallas during the 60's in order to be able to hear KLIF's 'Radio for Real' Texas-style. I offered the following: "Guess what? You can! One of my favorite Charlie & Harrigan' KLIF on-air shticks can be found at 'Reel Radio' www.reelradio.com/se/index.html This aircheck is in the 'Steve Eberhart Collection'; simply scroll down to the Charlie & Harrigan entry for 'Groundhog Day 1965,' kick your shoes off, close your eyes and travel back with me and Ron Chapman to the days when radio was THE REAL DEAL...not the homogeneous 'same ole same ole' sound from one station to the other; back when 'personality, creativity and show preparation' ruled the airwaves instead of the hard-drive, ho-hum, 'punch a button, lip a liner and forget it' stuff that radio listeners have to tolerate nowadays. I think you'll enjoy it...I know Ron and I did when we performed it more than 40 years ago! Yeah, like I told you, this was during the period we scored a '54 share' of total audience, compared to the 6's and 7's the Major Market top stations go 'ga-ga' over today." BTW, the 'Reel Radio' website www.reelradio.com/ has hundreds of demos and airchecks from the 'Remember Radio' halcyon broadcast days for all to enjoy. Dan McCurdy: KLIF, KBOX-Dallas; WMEX-Boston; 2004 Texas Radio Hall of Fame Inductee; retired Fortune 500 ad/PR exec; freelance writer/voice talent

THOMAS EDISON (1847-1931) The radio craze ... will soon fade.

Jim Rose and Lacy
Houston, Texas - En Dieu nous croyons

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