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 Next STLMedia Monthly Meeting: Friday, June 27, 9:30AM ... ...at Reynold's Roadhouse, 11488 Dorsett Road, Maryland Heights MO. Maps here (halfway between Lindbergh & I-270 on Dorsett -- look for the US flag and the sign on the building; parking in back). Good time and place to network or seek and find a mentor. It'll be our 8th Anniversary Breakfast Birthday Party! Saturday 05-10-08: Very strange delivery ... Friday afternoon when I was somewhat indisposed, the doorbell rang. By the time I got there, there was no one, just a case of Stater Bros. water left on my porch. Never heard of the brand and I've never seen it in any grocery store. No, I won't be drinking it and yes, I'll probably turn it over to the police. Am I paranoid? You publish a website like this one and let me know if you have a suspicion or two when something like this happens. Saturday 05-10-08: Weekend listening ... Bill Cosby's 1967 Little Ol' Man. Hard to believe this was a major East Coast hit 41 years ago... Saturday 05-10-08: Conflict of interest ... My experience with newspapers over the years has been that editorially they are not invested with any particular devotion to or interest in a Higher Being. So I find it entertaining, to say the least, that this website has popped up recently: This site is devoted to the simple premise. Our business is in trouble and with it are a lot of our friends, our brothers and sisters and their families. We are just asking that anyone who cares about their fellow journalists devote part of their prayer time to "Pray for Papers". I guess any business that would allow a cretin like Randy Michaels to assume a CEO position would eventually resort to praying to their "imaginary friend," as they have so often described Him, to help set things right. I think the word sanctimonious sums it up. Of course, asshats is also a good word. Comment here. Saturday 05-10-08: Movin' to sports? The many rumors regarding BIC/STL's 101.1 freq are starting to coalesce. I'd bet your house and car on the station taking a sports position, grabbing the Rams as available and making a play for the Cardinals, maybe going so far as to buy a chunk of KTRS in order to get the games on the newly ginormous-sized FM. We're hearing the holdup is the availability of certain syndicated shows considered important to the format. A Memorial Day changeover looks less likely but still possible if the syndicators get their collective acts in gear. And look for a not-entirely-sports oriented morning show. Comment here. Saturday 05-10-08: This is the way ... you want your station to be memorialized. CBSRadio has launched an incredible multimedia website that covers the history of their WBBM/AM780 news radio station, from the station's format entry in 1968 to the present. Comment here. Saturday 05-10-08: National Sportscasters & Sportswriters Association awards... John Covington of KLPW/Washington won the Missouri Sportscaster of the Year award from the NSSA. Jay Murry of KWRE/Warrenton and Mike Kelly of the Missouri Tigers Radio Network were the other two finalists. Bill Battle of the Washington Missourian won the Missouri Sportswriter of the Year award. Murry is a finalist for the MBA's "Best Play-By-Play: Small Market" award. It would be Murry's second straight win. Friday 05-09-08: Weekend video ... KETC Producer Jim Kirchherr visits with Kay Morton and talks about her experience in STL radio during the 1930's. Rock group Fear's TV ad for KSHE95 from the mid-eighties... Friday 05-09-08: Annual Scarborough report ... Scarborough Research released its annual Newspaper Audience Ratings Report, a comprehensive compendium of the weekly print, weekly website and Integrated Newspaper Audience (combined print and online) ratings for 161 newspapers in 81 Top-Tier markets. "The report is a valuable desktop reference tool on newspaper ratings for those involved in the planning, buying or selling of local media."  
  Tom Taylor quotes Cox CEO Bob Neil as saying that “the proliferation of ad units, regardless of the media”, is a core problem. No disrespect to radio wizards like Neil but isn't that kind of a given? That whole Dark Side of the Hour thing, playing 12 or 15 songs in a row from :57 around to, what :34 or :36, followed by three heavily-laden spot sets and just one or two songs never made much sense to me. Comment here. Friday 05-09-08: Bad week for Classic Country ... Last Monday, 5 May, we lost Jerry Wallace at the age of 79. Wallace's career spanned three decades, with hits including Primrose Lane, Shutters And Boards and If You Leave Me Tonight I'll Cry, which was featured in a classic 1972 Night Gallery episode called The Tune In Dan's Cafe. Yesterday, 8 May, Eddy Arnold, passed away a week short of his 90th birthday. Arnold had dozens of pop and country hits, including 67 consecutive top 10 hits between 1945 and 1956 with career record sales past 85 million copies. Arnold's wife Sally died in March after 66 years of marriage. Friday 05-09-08: I'm convinced Citadel CEO Farid Suleman is the Antichrist ... After at least one round of gutting the once tall-standing ABC/Disney stations, resulting in the layoff of 2% of its workforce, Suleman says "This is going to be an ongoing process." Dandy. The next focus is on back-office operations. Great. Pillage your office and sales staff and see the improvement! Suleman also says every air shift must also be "justified." How the hell does this idiot, who learned radio management at the feet of Mel Karmazin, who cares less about content and programming than any radio manager who ever lived, justify dropping local morning shows and adding the resurrection of Imus to replace them? Citadel revenues were down 5% in first quarter, dragged lower by a 12% drop at the big-market former ABC Radio stations. There's a big surprise. Thank God Citadel is not a player in the STL market. Comment here. Thursday 05-08-08: Former NFL cheerleader gets KMOV/CBS4 show ... Stephanie Soviar, who will be known here as Stephanie Simmons, has been tapped as the hostette of the new KMOV show Great Day St. Louis, which will debut in September. Until then, see young Steph's antics here: Comment here.
Is there a new "Sound" coming to 101.1 FM this Memorial Day Weekend?  Lotsa white space. Make your own jokes. View the new test site here. UPDATE: The new site went live just after we published the Test Site link. Comment here.
Like everyone, my email, Bulk and Trash inboxes are flooded with spam for various products, including meds for what is euphemistically referred to as ED. Here's the best Subject Line ever, for Cialis: The Quicker Pecker Upper. Comment here.  Pretty unusual for a major website like that to pull maintenance on a weekday night, don't ya think? What's coming next? A redesign? Or at the very least a vastly improved search engine? I've thought all along that the P-D website is one of the best newspaper sites going (as of last evening it was still very much a Pulitzer project); it would be easy to overthink it with small-market ideas and screw it up. Guess we'll see in a few hours. Comment here. Tuesday 05-06-08: STLMedia Email newsletter ceases publication ... After a year and a half of Gmailing the several-times-weekly STLMedia email newsletter to a huge number of industry subscribers I've made the Executive Decision to drop it from my list of things-to-do. Commercial support has been weak, but that was never a big part of the project anyway. Subscriptions rolls have grown way beyond what I expected, and for that I'm grateful and sorry now to disappoint. It's just that it's taking up way too much time, time that I'd rather be spending on other projects, professional and personal. Sorry to say it, but the last STLMedia Newsletter you received was the last STLMedia Newsletter. Of course, you'll always be able to catch the latest local news, rumors, gossip and such at STLMedia.net. Make sure you bookmark the site in your browser. This site is NOT going away, as much as many media managers would like it to. Thanks so much for your online patronage over the years. Please remember that any purchase from any sponsors shown on this page add a little loot to the STLMedia.net coffers when you click thru to the links. Tuesday 05-06-08: I'm a dog guy, but this is seriously funny ... The lede in the latest issue of TheFilesFiles is this: CHILD STARTING TO THINK FAMILY DOG ISN’T REALLY VISITING A FARM The story brings to mind a real-life incident, in which a friend of mine, who named his all-black Retriever Spot, lost the pup to a virus while the dog was away being trained for hunting. He kept up the false-front for years, telling the kids that the dog was still at school. Yes, you would know my friend's name. Tuesday 05-06-08: I don't drive much ... but radio sales execs do and always have. Now, with gas at six million dollars a gallon, it's a real issue. Add that ad sales are way off and an Inside Radio survey finds the average AE has seen their gas costs double this year, to an average of $525 a month. I can't imagine spending that kind of money on local travel. Telecommuting's an option, but sales are best made when done face-to-face. What are you doing to save gas? Comment here.  The growth of online listening is based solely on wired listening. Here's the Edison Research Report via InsideRadio: The number of employed Americans that listen often over the Internet has grown from 12% last year to 20% this year, while at the same time the number who listens via a regular radio has dropped from 88% to 80%. Online listening is even higher among more-educated demos. Here's a promotional thought you might want to consider: If internet listening has grown this much among employed web users, how much has it grown among unemployed web users, who have more time and access? And who also get Arbitron diaries. Paper the windshields of cars in parking lots near employment and state job agencies with ads for your station (never on State property). Run one or two free help-wanted ads an hour. Create a weekend dead-time show that allows employers to call in with job openings. Got more ideas? Comment here. Monday 05-05-08: Perry Michael Simon ...writes a great weekly column at AllAccess; to read it you have to subscribe there. If you haven't already, shame on you. Go do it now and then come back here. Perry recently brought up a point those of in the hinterlands have been making for a long time: why are there no longer any radio minor leagues where a potential star can get his or her training for The Big Show? Voice-tracking, best-of's and syndication, of course, are the chief culprits. Infomercials also chew up a lot of the time that used to be available to baby DJ's and TJ's. Here's Perry's idea: What I'd like to see radio stations try, in every market, no matter how big or small, is this: Take a few hours out of your weekends, a couple of hours on the fringes that your sales staff can't broker, maybe the hours when you stick a "best of" on the air to save money and trouble. Use that time as a training ground. You find someone who's rough around the edges but who might be able to talk on the radio? Try 'em out. A local celebrity or dignitary suggests that perhaps radio would be a good next career act? Try 'em out. A couple of amateur hours won't hurt. Who's gonna be the first to try it? Once upon a time in St. Louis we had a guy like Chuck Norman who gave a start at his WGNU to a lot of TalkRadio types who moved on to other, larger stations and more important positions....myself included. Who are the Chuck Norman's of the 21st Century? Who will help develop the next generations of air talent? Why not you? Comment here.  Here's a photo from December 1992 of my Israeli family (as of then), taken in Upper Nazareth. It includes, from left to right, my Brother Rick's kids, their spouses and children (as of then; there are many more now), Pat and Rick and, at the far right (where else?) me, left holding the dog, Bambi. Sixteen years ago my hair was darker and more plentiful, I'll tell ya what. Apparently, so was my brother's. Sunday 05-04-08: I laugh all over myself ... reading this crap thru the Secret Squirrel© mail service: (1) So, you're aware of the Kramer news, yet just like the mainstream media, you choose NOT to report the news that doesn't fit your agenda or preference. You've had a naked obsession with Kramer for over a year, but now you won't report the positive news that he has landed a job. You're a real pro! Actually, you're an embarassment, but deep down, you know that, don't you? Kramer burned through what, a half-dozen local jobs? And managed to alienate every online entity with whom he associated himself? At this point, anything he does is non-news. Don't care anymore. (2) Where's the announcement about Kramer with D.C.? I thought your site was about media news and happenings. C'mon put it up on the front page accompanied with one of your typical unfunny insults. Step lively, asshat! Way to motivate me. Kramer's the guy who faked his suicide on the Bubba SatRad show and DC's the guy who used to work with Steve Shannon in all those mini-markets, the guy who's married to the ex-stripper. Jeez, they belong together. Don't care much about either of 'em. They have nothing to do with STLMedia any longer. Done with both. Sunday 05-04-08: Saw Jersey Boys last Sunday at The Fox ... ...as I told ya, and while I've been updating this past week I've been listening to The Very Best of Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons and The Jersey Boys CD's in the office...over and over and over.  It'll get installed in the Lincoln this week. But the big news is that there's a USB hookup thru which I can listen to music from my iPod or from a thumb drive (imagine how much music you can load onto a $60 16gig flash drive). No HD Radio or SatRad. Neither are needed, thank you. I still depend on TerRad for emergency info. Sunday 05-04-08: Randy Raley = Dr. House ... OldDog Raley is on the long-term mend from extensive, painful and otherwise annoying rotator cuff surgery. Reminds me of my leg surgery aftermath in '06. The good news is that Randy will be feeling better and off the meds much faster than House. The bad news is that no one will write a TV show about Randy's adventures in pain management. Read and comment here. Saturday 05-03-08: Weekend STLMedia video ... Here's a homemade video from STL's best known one-hit musical wonder, Bob Kuban. The lead singer of The Cheater, Walter Scott, was the victim in one of STL's weirdest and most brazen murder cases. And, yes, it involved cheating. Irony is everything. Saturday 05-03-08: Angel joins the angels ... Lynne "Angel" Harvey, wife of Paul Harvey, passed away this morning following a year-long illness. Larry Shannon's Radio Daily News carried this portion of the release from the Harvey office: Lynne Harvey died at her River Forest (IL) home early Saturday morning after a yearlong battle with leukemia. Lynne, whom husband Paul called "Angel," recognized throughout her industry as "The First Lady of Radio," was one of the great broadcasting figures of the past century and the first producer ever inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame. A director, writer and editor, she was the creative and administrative heartbeat behind the number-one-rated Paul Harvey News and Comment, which reaches tens of millions of listeners. Her guidance and ingenuity helped shape many radio and television formats widely used today, such as the concept of news features within hard-news broadcasts and the humorous "kicker," which became a Paul Harvey trademark. She is survived by her husband Paul Harvey and their son Paul Jr., who has become an integral part of their broadcasts. Read more here, here, here and here. Mrs. Harvey met her future husband at KXOK/AM630/STL in 1939 and they were married in 1940. Comment here. Saturday 05-03-08: Rudy Ruzicka passes ... The long-time KMOX engineer passed away last Wednesday after a long illness. Rudy was 84. Comment here. Saturday 05-03-08: Dodie Rahlman out at KLOU ... Seems like Dodie's been playin' the hits on 103.3 forever. Over the years he made himself the "go-to-guy" for problems of every sort and handled airshifts no one else wanted to do. The memo from the Highlands Honcho was just a bit, shall we say, cold, after Dodie's nearly-fifteen years of service to the call letters...
From: Lamme, Dennis Effective immediately Dodie Rahlman is no longer with KLOU and Clear Channel STL.
Dennis W. Lamme
I'm confident that almost anyone who's worked with Rahlman for any time at all would be happy to recommend him highly for his next gig; I know I certainly would. Kevin McCarthy tips us that STLRadio OldDog Paul Arca is once again going through treatment for a chronic back problem that dates back years. Arca, currently with Clear Channel, is arguably among the Top 5 production guys who have ever worked in the STL radio market. And he's a helluva jock, too; Arca does PMDrive on Oldies KLOU. You may remember a couple years back when Paul was in a KLOU van that moved through a thunderstorm with its antenna raised and hit a power line, landing him in the hospital with a long recovery at home. He came out of that like a champ, and he'll come out of this better than ever, God willing. Your prayers and good wishes are, of course, welcome. Kevin and I have known and worked with Paul for a lot of years; we know him well and we love him like a brother. We'll keep ya posted on the progress of Arca's recovery. Friday 05-02-08: Maybe big storms coming ... this afternoon. Keep an eye out for yourself and your safety and post as you can your observations of how the broadcast and online media handled it. Comment here. Friday 05-02-08: Whoa, man, it's the acid dude ... Albert Hofmann, the father of the mind-altering drug LSD whose medical discovery inspired -- and arguably corrupted -- millions in the 1960s hippie generation, has died. He was 102. Hofmann died Tuesday at his home in ... Sorry, I lost it for a bit. Saw ponies flying by and something very, very red surrounded by Blue Meanies... Friday 05-02-08: Predictable: Slaten sues KFNS ... From STLToday: Controversial sports radio personality Kevin Slaten sued KFNS, his former station, in the wake of his termination last month over an on-air confrontation with Cardinals pitching coach Dave Duncan. Slaten is expected to seek at least $300,000 for what he terms wrongful termination. Slaten got his last paycheck April 15. His health benefits expired Wednesday, and the termination letter says he can’t be on the local airwaves for six months. Question 1: How can BLB expect a non-compete to hold up in court when there is no compensation? Question 2: How can Slaten expect to ever get another radio gig once he's shown the full nature of his litigiousness? Prediction: BLB will settle this out of court because it's cheaper to pay Slaten than the legal firm assigned to the case; Slaten will have to renew his bar card and handle DUI's in order to make a living. Who in hell would hire him for a radio show now? Oh, wait...there's always the Tim Dorsey backwash. Comment here. Friday 05-02-08: Please, God, get me outa here ... That's how I've heard former Bonneville/STL Promo Guy Sammy Simpson felt about his time here. Guess Sammy was too cool for our little Flyover room. From Frank Absher's blog via All Access: BONNEVILLE INTERNATIONAL is moving SAMMY SIMPSON, its veteran national promotion and marketing director, from its ST. LOUIS cluster, to LOS ANGELES, where he will focus more of his efforts on the company’s new station there, KRBV (THE SOUND 100.3 FM), beginning MAY 5th. BIC has shuffled just about everybody of consequence at Movin' out of the market or they've been allowed to move on, if you'll forgive the expression. Something gonna happen at 101? Soon? Comment here. Friday 05-02-08: The blind leading the blind ... From InsideRadio: Two House Democrats with oversight of the FCC are giving HD Radio a backhanded push thanks to the XM-Sirius merger. In a letter to FCC chair Kevin Martin, Reps. John Dingell (D-MI) and Ed Markey (D-MA) say the FCC should require a merged XM-Sirius to include HD Radio technology on any new satellite receiver. They say it would "spur technological innovation" and promote competition. And as they say in that beer ad...BRILLIANT! Yeah, right...that'll work. Combine two marginal and unneeded technologies into one overly expensive package. Crutchfield is licking their chops waiting for the orders. Comment here. Friday 05-02-08: Thanks for trying to kill online stations, asshats ... From InsideRadio: A federal court sides with the songwriters, composers and music publishers ruling AOL, Yahoo and RealNetworks must pay a higher royalty rate totaling 2.5% of their music-related revenues. The ruling dates back to 2001 and could cost the three companies as much as $100 million in retroactive fees. I'm the biggest believer in the universe when it comes to appropriate and just royalty payments. But ASCAP, BMI, SESAC and the RIAA are all standing in a circle and firing their .38 Specials at eachother on this issue. The goose has not yet laid the golden egg when it comes to online music play and, if these idiots keep this legal wrangling up, it never will. Comment here. Friday 05-02-08: Bricks of history ... From Larry Shannon's RadioDailyNews: 'Radio's Best Friend', Art Vuolo Jr., has acquired a pallet of historic bricks from the home of the world's first radio station, KDKA. They come from Building K, at the Westinghouse East Pittsburgh Works, where the first commercial radio broadcast took place on November 2, 1920. Vuolo says that he obtained the bricks following the demolition of the structure late last year "specifically for people who have a passion for radio history." Each brick will be accompanied with a 'Certificate of Authenticity' signed by several legendary KDKA personalities and staff. Art says that there is a 'limited quantity' of bricks, and for ordering information, go to www.radiosbestfriend.com or www.vuolovideo.com. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the new, soon to open, Museum of Broadcast Communications in Chicago. Thursday 05-01-08: Winter Arbitron published Wednesday ... and so did the PD memoes: From KFTK's' Jeff Allen: Subj: Congrats all The Winter Book was released today and KFTK continues it's climb. Good strong numbers most places, big growth in AM drive and Dave keeps up his stellar performance for us. I will have the SHOW break out's in a couple days but here are a few DAYPART breakout's… All numbers are Fall 07 / Winter 08 12+: 3.2 # 13 to 3.7 # 10 Cume: 145 to 173 Persons 25-54: Monday - Sunday: 3.8 # 8 to 4.0 # 9 Monday-Friday: 4.2 #8 to 4.5 # 8 AM Drive: 2.7 # 12 to 4.6 # 8 ( .1 share behind KMOX!) Mid-Days: 3.1 # 11 to 4.1 # 8 PM Drive: 7.2 # 1 to 5.9 # 3 (BEATING KMOX at a 4.0 # 9 and KTRS at 4.8 # 7!!!!!) MEN 25-54: Monday - Sunday: 5.4 # 4 to 5.1 # 5 (.1 behind KMOX) Monday - Friday: 5.9 # 4 to 5.7 # 2 (yes that says #2-KMOX # 4) AM Show: 3.7 # 6 to 5.7 # 3 (BEATING KMOX at a 4.6!!!) Mid - Days: 4.4 # 5 to 5.3 # 5 PM Drive: 9.9 # 1 to 7.7 # 2 (BEATING KMOX at a 4.2!!!! And KTRS @ 6.9) From KMOX' Steve Moore: Winter ratings arrived today. I just wanted to congratulate everyone on a very successful book. We retained the 12+ overall ranking with a 7.7 share. We enjoyed growth 25 - 54 up from a 3.6 in the Fall to a 4.5 (ranked 7th) in the Winter. Our 35 - 64 numbers grew from a 6.3 share in the fall to a 6.8 share (ranked 2nd). The ratings never stop and neither do we. Congratulations again! Steve 12+ numbers are below. Note that KMOX retained the #1 12+ crown for the 67, 459th consecutive rating period. Looks like removing the Christmas music from KEZK lessened the threat, huh? WIL unaccountably down almost a point and a half, but only slips from #3 to #4. Bonneville's Arch is flat, Y98 rebounds nicely, and WFUN, WHHL and KATZ jump a bit...a good Urban book. More later.  I missed the debut of the latest Hollywood insult to the Heartland, Farmer Wants A Wife. If you saw it, let us know how Episode 1 went. Comment here. 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