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THE GOSPEL TAKES A HIT IN HOUSTON, TX Radio One does an about-face from Gospel music on KROI FM (92.1) in The Bayou City to an all-News format on November 14, 2011. Leading the charge in Morning Drive is 27-year Houston radio duo and Texas Radio Hall of Fame honorees J.P. Pritchard and Lana Hughes. J.P. is a top notch radio news bull dog. He arrives here in Houston in 1979 when both of us are on KULF-790. There's quite a lineup of local Houston radio and TV personalities who fill the bill on the new FM talk radio station: Mike Barajas, Scott Braddock, Carolyn Campbell, Kevin Charles, Brent Clanton, Lanny Griffith, Laurie Kendrick, Martha Martinez, Bonnie Petrie, Matt Sampsell, Pattie Shieh, Meteorologist Dr. Joe Sobel, Craig Roberts and Jorge Vargas. Veteran journalist Denise Bishop is News Director. Houston-based Shane Media founder and president Ed Shane is the one who brings it all together as project manager. Shane brags: We’re going to give people the facts without the biased opinions that dominate so-called news stations. We’ve assembled an A-list of broadcast journalists whose mission is to report the news and let people make up their own minds.

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CLEAR CHANNEL SLASHES RADIO Even after it ditches over 200 radio stations, Clear Channel Radio is still America's most gargantuan radio group with 850 stations clinging to its vine. CCR's recent meeting in Chicago, IL brings out another couple of bright ideas. The first brilliant brainstorm is to nationalize all of the programming of its small and medium markets. We all know what that means. CCR eliminates its local Program & Music Directors. This makes Bernie Madoff look like Snow White. CCR's second scheme is to immediately subterfuge other employee positions in its Herculean cost-slashing maneuver. On Wednesday & Thursday hundreds of CCR employees all across America bite the dust. In Chicago alone these cost cuts eliminate two Clear Channel employee positions. After four years of service, Metro Traffic reporter Allen Green is gone. Just two weeks ago, Dan Hammill, Metro Traffic sales, receives a promotion along with a new title. Next comes a pale pink slip that includes directions to the back door.

LARRY KING DOESN'T FEEL HIS AGE Radio and TV legend and CNN icon Larry King tells Bill Moran of PodJockey.com that he doesn’t feel his age and he has no intention of retiring anytime in the near future. Larry reveals this while on camera during the recent Los Angeles Regional Talkers Forum breakfast on October 20, 2011 just a few moments before he delivers its opening speech. King says that in addition to the four TV specials per year for three years that is in his  CNN contract, he is about to return to doing a Los Angeles-based national radio show plus the launch of yet another TV project within several days or weeks. 

TRIVIA QUESTION: When does Hawaii Five-O premiere on CBS TV? The answer appears below.

MOVERS AND SHAKERS

•WRHS FM Ridgewood High School O&O (Jack 89.7) Chicago, IL jumps ship to all-Halloween music until November 1, 2011. •WSFR FM Cox Classic Rock (107.7) Louisville, KY zigzags to Classic Hits (107.7 The Eagle). Currently WSFR FM has no DJs. On November 7, 2011 Future Bob returns to mornings, Ric Owen afternoons with MJ Stevens in middays. •CBS RADIO Detroit, MI ceases simulcast of Sports Talk WXYT FM (97.1) on Monday, September 12, 2011 as WXYT-1270 catapults to News/Talk. •PAULA DEEN Food Network culinary star receives the Hottest Female TV Chef award from Maxim men's magazine.

ENTERTAINMENT AND NEWS MILESTONES

•1954 KREM TV CBS/ABC CH 2 in Spokane, WA begins broadcasting on October 31st. •1964 DARRYL WORLEY (Have You Forgotten? certified Gold #1 for 7 weeks - 2003) born on October 31st in Savannah, TN. •1975 BOB GELDOF's 1st appearance with Boomtown Rats is on October 31st. •1985 THE JUDDS' album Rockin' With The Rhythm releases on RCA records on October 30th. •1993 RIVER PHOENIX actor (Stand By Me - 1986) dies of drug overdose at 23 on October 31st in front of The Viper Room at 8852 Sunset Boulevard. •2000 JAMIE O'NEAL's debut album Shiver releases on Mercury records on October 31st.

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FRANK HALEY (Albuquerque, NM) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1042) October 28, 2011 [Friday] Jim, I'm sure you saw the Clear Channel 200 employee cut yesterday, the Morning team on the Big I country station in Albq  was cut ....  Albq Journal has the details.. if I can find it, I'll send it to you... have a good one and stop fall down, ok?? No more injuries for you, after all you have a little doggie who depends on you. now go have a good day...

BOBBY COPELAND [author of B-Western Boot Hill plus 19 other books] (Knoxville-Oak Ridge, TN) Subject: Roy (Rogers). www.rfdtv.com/news/music/rfd-tv_special_tribute_to_roy_rogers_100th_birthday_043/

DUANE ALLEN [Lead singer The Oak Ridge Boys] (Hendersonville, TN) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1041) October 24, 2011 [Monday] WOW!!!! I LOVE THAT HEADLINE. THANKS JIM...DUANE (www.oakridgeboys.com/)

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JOAN PATE-DAY (Cedar Creek Lake, TX) Subject: Oak Ridge Boys. Doesn't matter how or where ORB got the song Elvira, main thing is they got it. Song loved by all regardless of age. Made one feel good when hearing it. No one else could have made such a hit out of it unless maybe the Statlers. Have to think about that. They made money on it and I spent money on it. Not as much as they made. Put Elvira on and I could clean house by the time it had played ten times. I moved fast to the beat. Might get off of this thing now and play it again.

GARY DELAUNE (San Antonio, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1042) October 28, 2011 [Friday] hey Jim; do not say where you heard this but I have a good friend whose wife is a Cox exec and the whole Lysle and Hahn thing was a payroll cut, what else. They were simply making too much money...a guy from Tulsa will be one of the replacements and he is supposedly a real hot shot in the AM...Have we heard that before...supposedly he took his station’s ratings from an 8 to a 28...who do you believe these days..Take care and keep us informed...the sick world of today’s radio.  GD (www.garydnews.com)

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KIRK & KELLIE MITCHELL (San Antonio-Spring Branch, TX) Subject: Passing of Isaac "Newton" Mitchell 10/25/2011. Good morning, I am Newton's oldest son of three. I have gone through my dad's email address book to obtain your email address for sending out this notice. My dad had various heart issues starting around the beginning of the year. He received a pacemaker this past March and went through physical therapy which made a huge improvement. He then battled a staph infection in his leg, while at home. He was admitted to Christus Santa Rosa Hospital in New Braunfels on September 2nd per the advice of a home health nurse. He was transferred to Hill Country Specialty Hospital, also in New Braunfels. On 10/13 he went into cardiac arrest at approximately 4:15 AM. He was revived and transferred back to Christus Santa Rosa where he was in ICU. He passed away around 5:30 AM on 10/25. An obituary will be posted in the Sunday editions of the New Braunfels Herald and San Antonio Express News. Following is a link to the funeral home web site which also has the obituary available. www.funeralnetessentials.com/site/luxfhcares/content_obits.php Thank you, Kirk I. Mitchell

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JIM GOUGH [Mr. Texas-actor-voice actor] (Austin-Liberty Hill, TX) Subject: Jim Rose Remembers Radio (#1038) October 14, 2011 [Friday] Good to see my old friend Jay West show up in your newsletter. I cut a many a spot in his studio in West Houston in years gone by Jay is another one of those great voices from Houston's past. All the best, Jim Gough

TRIVIA ANSWER: Hawaii Five-O premieres on CBS TV on September 26, 1968 and runs through April 26, 1980. It is the longest continuously running police show in TV history.

JERRY HEILMAN (Nacogdoches, TX) Subject: JRRR. Jim After three weeks without my JRRR, I am in withdrawals. Since I had to get a new email addr, do I have to resubmit my subscription with the new email?

MAYA LIN (October 5, 1959 - p) I went through withdrawal when I got out of graduate school.

Jim Rose and Lacy
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