dcrtv.com - washington dc/baltimore area radio/tv/media http://www.dcrtv.com Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:46:26 GMT Feed43 Proxy/1.0 (www.feed43.com) 360 db2b2fdc2a70b69380ab0c20e12d427e - 9/2 - It's back through Labor Day! Get DCRTV Plus for just $29 for two years. The regular rate is $39 for one year. The special is for new subscribers, plus renewals and extensions for existing subcribers. DCRTV Plus is loaded with DC and Baltimore radio and TV memories, tribute pages, tech specs, audio/video clips, classic jingles, station histories, and more. Check out a button featuring DC TV legend Milt Grant (right), who once hosted a dance party show on Channel 5, in DCRTV Plus Photo Gallery 32.....

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]]> 84af3109ceeb8f05a56cd2838ec3b38d - 9/2 - NBC's "Meet The Press" took the top spot last week in the battle of the Sunday DC-based talkers. CBS's "Face The Nation" placed second among total viewers nationwide, with ABC's "This Week" third, and Fox's "Fox News Sunday" fourth.....

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]]> e060875d27ef181aebfaa578fbbd3446 - 9/2 - A top Metro Traffic official downplays the loss of Bonneville all-newser WTOP, which DCRTV reported yesterday is ending its traffic and weather news deal with the Westwood One-owned firm come February. John Frawley, Metro's executive VP of broadcast operations, stresses that, while WTOP is a major client, his company has many other local and regional clients and will not need to perform any layoffs or cuts due to the loss of WTOP. In fact, we're told that a number of area radio stations have expressed an interest in acquiring morning traffic diva Lisa Baden (right), a Metro Traffic employee who is currently heard on WTOP. Frawley tells DCRTV that his firm survived the loss of about 1,000 radio stations a few years ago when Clear Channel switched to its own in-house traffic service, and it will survive the loss of WTOP, too.....

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]]> d4cc0e3a1acf6147dfea23831e3e0a61 - 9/2 - Richard Miniter, the former Washington Times editorial page editor who filed a discrimination complaint last November against the paper saying he was coerced into attending Unification Church mass wedding, has settled his suit. The terms of the settlement were not disclosed, but Miniter said in a statement: "I am very, very happy with the equitable and just result." According to the Politico, the paper's current owner, Preston Moon, has had to get his financial ducks in a row - including dealing with pending lawsuits - as part of the newspaper's sale process, which began last week.....

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]]> 79ae19b6a9dcc9d10479c4f01473e514 - 9/2 - "Breakfast In Washington," a new local documentary from WETA, premieres October 4 on WETA-TV and WETA-HD. The one-hour production offers "a scrumptious look at nearly two dozen favorite area restaurants and eateries that embrace the morning meal and reveals the best places to start your day in Greater Washington," according to a station release.....

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]]> 3f03f6e5a676ea56439385381f9a3679 - 9/2 - Beth Reinhard becomes chief political correspondent at the National Journal. She comes from the Miami Herald, where she was top political writer and contributed to its Naked Politics blog.....

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]]> 5d411686f3faeb5dbce71d6cd631a109 - 9/2 - Comcast SportsNet unveils its 78-game schedule of 2010 regional and national college football coverage, featuring the country's top conferences, including the CAA, ACC, Big 12, Pac-10, and SEC. The Bethesda-based network will also provide weekly encore presentations throughout the season featuring the most recent games from the region's ACC teams - Maryland, Virginia, and Virginia Tech. CSN opens its 2010 college football schedule tonight at 8 with Northern Illinois at Iowa State. CSN's NCAA football schedule also features eight games from the CAA, including JMU and Richmond, which are produced by CSN. An additional 11 CAA games will air on the sister Comcast Network.....

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]]> b8f3e90dbe7c3dd3cedae33017d3a5fe - 9/2 - Rob Dibble gone from the DC Nats and Baltimore-based MASN. Ravens preseason TV ratings up. New sports TV show for 45's Jen Gilbert. And more Charm City sports news in this week's sports media column from your friendly webmaster at PressBoxOnline.com.....

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]]> 6fda1c186344ecca9b60e16f69645379 - 9/2 - Yesterday, during the gunman incident at Discovery Communications, the Washington Post provided live video coverage on its website using a feed from Allbritton's TBD.com, which operates TBD-TV, formerly NewsChannel 8. There are are complaints that the Post obscured the rival TBD branding on the feed, which was co-branded with the NC8 logo. More at thenextweb.com.....

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]]> e6d2062208fd241f6b5f2cbf1e1a3c14 - 9/2 - Eric Meyrowitz leaves his gig as vice president and general manager of Tribune's Channel 50/WDCW to take on the same title at Tribune's NYC station, Channel 11/WPIX. Both are CW affiliates. Meyrowitz is a native of New York and has served as head of WDCW since 2004. Meyrowitz joined the local sales department of WDCW (then WBDC) in 2000, and served as general sales manager at the station from 2002 to 2004. Prior to DC50, Meyrowitz served as national sales manager for Channel 11/WBAL in Baltimore from 1997 to 2000. Lisa de Moraes will report this news in tomorrow's Washington Post.....

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]]> ba365047f0082c03903c0735b6ac5fc8 - 9/2 - The news of a gunman at the Discovery Channel's headquarters in Silver Spring traveled fast on Wednesday, but none of it came through radio, TV, or newspaper websites, at least not at first. The story unfolded first in "hiccupping fits and starts" on Twitter. So reports the DC Post. Also, the slain gunman had a grudge against Discovery. He believed that the world would be better off without people and that the Discovery Channel was part of the problem. Also in the Post.....

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]]> a3e44aae067215389a6010f2721837bc - 9/2 - Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise, who is just starting a one month suspension from his rag because he made some fake news postings via Twitter on his WJFK, 106.7 The Fan radio show earlier this week, is also banned from Comcast SportsNet. SportsBusinessDaily.com reports that Wise won't be seen on CSN's 5 PM "Washington Post Live" sports show while he is on suspension from the Post.....

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]]> 7fc50bef05bef86c9b1b69242e50dff8 - 9/2 - More on the news that DCRTV broke yesterday that all-news WTOP plans to expand its news operation to include traffic and sports and drop Metro Traffic's service come February. From DCRTV's 9/2 Mailbag: "A number of people will lose their jobs over this. Particularly part-time weekend staff. This will likely signal the end of their 24 hour operations at the (Metro) DC 'hub.' Most days there seemed to be only one or two people there on the weekends anyway. On the other hand, anyone that is hired by Bonneville for WTOP traffic, will likely see a significant pay raise over the pittance that Metro is paying them now thanks to their union negotiated pay reductions".....

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]]> 2aa358b12688bdb470ada7d51ff0dad2 - 9/1 - Citadel news talker WMAL (630 AM) has not been known lately for interrupting its piped-in afternoon righties - Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity - to cover breaking local news. Well, things are changing. Newly-installed Assistant Program Director Bill Hess tells DCRTV that, with today's gunman and hostage crisis at the Discovery Communications HQ in Silver Spring, WMAL dropped the last hour of Rush (who was away on vacation, anyway) and all three hours of Hannity and "offered live and local coverage for four hours as events unfolded." Adds Hess: "Anchored by (late morning host) Chris Plante and (News Director) John Matthews, our coverage featured live updates from the scene and analysis from hostage negotiators and others." ABC Radio carried WMAL coverage on its national Special Events channel. And notorious conservative Plante even "unveiled the suspect's manifesto in the 3 PM hour," Hess says.....

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]]> b982c333b6627683138c02778109c97b - 9/1 - AP is reporting that the Washington Nationals say Rob Dibble (right) will no longer work as a TV analyst for the team's games, a split that comes after the former reliever made comments critical of rookie pitcher Stephen Strasburg. Dibble lashed out at Strasburg last week for not pitching through pain. Dibble said on Sirius XM Radio that "you can't have the cavalry come in and save your butt every time you feel a little stiff shoulder, sore elbow." Strasburg has since been diagnosed with a torn elbow ligament and will have surgery Friday. He will be sidelined 12 to 18 months. Two days after making those comments, Dibble was absent from the broadcast both on MASN, the network that televises the games. At the time, MASN said Dibble had requested "a few days off." The DC Post has more.....

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]]> ae105f7a031cf49fdf0f434ca86d5f50 - 9/1 - First here! DCRTV hears that Bonneville's top-rated all-news WTOP radio plans to expand its news department by taking "in-house" all traffic and sports news reporting. Currently, like many DC area radio stations, WTOP uses Westwood One's Metro Traffic, based in Silver Spring, for many traffic and sports news reports. Right now, WTOP does its own in-house traffic only during afternoon drive, with veteran traffic reporter Bob Marbourg. A source tells DCRTV that WTOP will end its contract with Metro, which employs morning traffic diva Lisa Baden, in February 2011. WTOP is in the process of staffing a 24-hour traffic center in its Idaho Avenue newsroom, and is planning to "invest heavily in people and resources to make sure we have the best possible sports and traffic products," according to an internal memo from station head Joel Oxley obtained by DCRTV. Oxley adds that he has nothing but praise for the quality of Metro's traffic and sports reports, and that the decision to take the services "in-house" is a matter of "economics." More soon.....

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]]> 1c4cd87d5ab86581b9eddd2d3d902d3a - 9/1 - Police in Maryland say a gunman entered Discovery Communications headquarters in Silver Spring at 1 PM Wednesday and had taken several people hostage. The man also had something strapped to his chest. Shots were reportedly fired in the building's lobby. The gunman, who has been identified as James Lee, had a manifesto posted at savetheplanetprotest.com. He'd been charged with disorderly conduct in 2008 after an environmentally-related protest at the Discovery building. In a 6 PM press conference, police said they shot and killed Lee, 43, and released all hostages, who are said to be safe. Police continued combing the building for explosive devices. More at washingtonpost.com and wtopnews.com. By mid-afternoon, all local DC TV newsers - 4, 5, 7, 8, and 9 - and WTOP radio were wall-to-wall with the story, along with CNN, MSNBC, and Fox News.....

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]]> ae86a10c7c636a7f19647b08c7025c82 - 9/1 - No, it's not a rerun of an old show. Erica Hilary is back on Jack Diamond's morning show on Citadel's Mix 107.3, WRQX. Doing traffic and news reports for "a couple of days," we're told. She's still under contract to the station until November, we hear. So no word, yet, on a new local gig for her. Stay tuned.....

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]]> 8579bdfb07722ec76336f95e517bd4bf - 9/1 - WTOP is looking for a director of traffic operations. WRNR in Annapolis wants an account executive. And, MainLine Broadcasting in Hagerstown is looking for a radio sales manager. Those are the latest DCRTV Classified Ads. For just $25 you can reach many thousands of movers and shakers via the DC and Baltimore area's top source of media news, gossip, and commentary.....

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]]> cf2d2f17ec58cf6a2b819ed87f887899 - 9/1 - DCRTV hears the DC rock radio legend Cerphe Colwell (left) was seen this morning at the offices and studios of Citadel's 105.9 The Edge, WVRX. Does Operations Manager Kenny King have Cerphe in mind for the currently vacant afternoon slot at the classic rocker? Cerphe's last DC radio gig was at CBS's 94.7, then WARW/WTGB, which dropped classic rock to become Fresh FM in April 2009. Cerphe's a vet of the old progressive rock WHFS, as well as WAVA when it was a rocker, plus DC101 and the eclectic WBMW, before it became talker WJFK.....

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]]> ee8e80bf737dd1ec7b39dff07b71d7a2 - 9/1 - The Washington Post plans on rolling out its iPad app "in the coming weeks," following major papers like the New York Times and Wall Street Journal in creating a product for the Apple device. Ken Babby, the Post's chief revenue officer and general manager for Washington Post Digital, announced via an internal memo the formation of a mobile leadership team and its plans to launch the "highly anticipated" iPad app. The Upshot at yahoo.com has more.....

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]]> b9e2e22671d42c6ea85da6e329bf0aaa - 9/1 - Radio One denies that it fired Anwar "Big G" Glover because he's supporting DC Mayor Adrian Fenty in the upcoming primary, so says today's Urban First newsletter at Radio-Info.com. WKYS (93.9 FM) Program Director Neke Howse also denies that the urban contemporary/hip-hop station's owner, Radio One, was feeling pressure from DC Council Chairman Vincent Gray - a fellow Democrat who is challenging Fenty for the top DC gig - to do something about Big G. But, Glover is off the air until after the September 14 Democratic primary. He's an actor who appeared in HBO's "The Wire," and he did a TV spot and personal appearances on behalf of Fenty. Earlier this week, the Washington Post reported that WKYS fired Glover. More in DCRTV's 8/30 newsblurb.....

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]]> 517164c4cdd6e55755ad2ed125d0c575 - 8/31 - FanHouse.com tells us that Washington Post sports columnist Mike Wise (left) has received a one-month suspension from the Washington Post for fabricating a story on Monday in an attempt, he said, to demonstrate the declining standards and credibility of the sports media. In the end he damaged his own credibility. "My bosses at the Post feel I need a month to think about the severity of my actions," Wise said at the beginning of his WJFK, 106.7 The Fan radio show on Tuesday. Wise explained on the radio that by posting inaccurate information - a false claim that he had been told the NFL would suspend Ben Roethlisberger for five games, he thought he was demonstrating how easily other outlets will pick up and pass along inaccurate information. "I tried to showcase the absurdity of bad journalism," Wise said. "I could give you 10 reasons why I did this and what went wrong in the execution. I made a horrendous mistake, using my Twitter account that identifies me as a Washington Post columnist. Wise said he hopes he hasn't damaged the Post's credibility - or his own. "Our worst moments should not define us," said Wise, a columnist who often delights in ripping others for their worst moments. "I'm paying the price I should for careless, dumb behavior." The Post's internal memo about Wise's suspension is featured in DCRTV's 8/31 Mailbag. Post media critic Howard Kurtz has more at washingtonpost.com. Post ombudsman Andy Alexander has more at washingtonpost.com.....

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]]> 6cd18fb0f5434171a3447428e656de86 - 8/31 - Julie Donaldson joins Comcast SportsNet Mid-Atlantic as an anchor and reporter for "SportsNite." She comes from Boston's WHDH-TV and NYC's SportsNet New York. Also, CSN anchor and reporter Jill Sorenson becomes CSN's Capitals reporter, replacing Lisa Hillary, who, as DCRTV has reported, relocates to CSN Philadelphia to serve as Flyers reporter. Hillary assumes the role previously held by John Boruk, who becomes an anchor and reporter for CSN Philly. Sorenson returns to the role of Capitals reporter after serving as an anchor and reporter for CSN for five years. She worked at Channel 4/WRC from 2000 to 2004. Hillary joined CSN in 2007 following gigs as a reporter and anchor with several TV outlets in Canada. More from the DC Examiner.....

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]]> 27a49dfb3bc5938bedc7516204c31b0a - 8/31 - The Reverend Sun Myung Moon is regaining control of the Washington Times after allies of the South Korean spiritual leader agreed to acquire the paper for just $1 and assumption of most if its debts, according to an internal memo. The memo contradicts rumors that a feud among the Moon's sons over control of the Washington Times prompted the father to buy it back for tens of millions of dollars. The deal is financially similar to the one the Washington Post cut in selling its money-losing Newsweek to businessman Sidney Harmon. More from Paul Bedard at usnews.com.....

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]]> f182f72f38ba0cee23eeba3b0490b3b9 - 8/31 - Washington Post sports media columnist Len Shapiro asks whether TV color commentator Rob Dibble's comments were a firing offense and wonders what decision the "Nationals brain trust will make." At washingtonpost.com. Dibble "made a huge mistake going on his Sirius satellite radio show last week and saying that (phenom pitcher Stephen) Strasburg ought to 'suck it up,' implying that the kid ought to play hurt the way players of Dibble's generation often did," Shapiro writes. Since then, Strasburg will be out more than a year for major arm surgery and Dibble's been off MASN's broadcasts, taking "vacation" time. So far, no word from MASN about a suspension or firing regarding Dibble.....

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]]> 309d8258e6caa00ce35142d2ab0c34c2 - 8/31 - The Baltimore radio ratings for the third week of August, full-week, age 12+: 1) WWIN-FM and WLIF, 3) WERQ, 4) WPOC, 5) WZFT, 6) WIYY, 7) WWMX, 8) WRBS-FM, 9) WBAL-AM, 10) WQSR and WJZ-FM, 12) WCBM, 13) WZBA, 14) WYPR. More: 16) WCAO, 24) WBJC, 27) WEAA, 33) WTMD, 35) WJZ-AM and WRNR-FM, 39) WTTR, 41) WOLB and WWIN-AM, 43) WVIE, 46) WRBS-AM and WNST....

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]]> 6df52ef318fed8616e4db49c3837c6a8 - 8/31 - "Bigger, better. Just you and the music. Bigger than ever." The new jockless classic hits/rock WBIG, 100.3 FM, and a redesigned website at TheBigDC.com. No DJs. Just smarty pre-recorded liners in between the songs, a la the "Jack" format heard via Clear Channel's sister classic hits WQSR, 102.7 FM, in Baltimore. Yesterday, DCRTV told you that WBIG canned its last living human personality, morning man Jon Ballard.....

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]]> 465273a58816d4641fd5f66c39a6bf63 - 8/31 - Maryland's SFMSports.net will run more than 52 regional high school football games in 2010. In Baltimore, the sports network will feature a game of the week, including several WCAC and MIAA match-ups. The games will be broadcast Fridays at 6:40 PM on Fox 1370, WVIE, as well as at SFMSports.net. Plus, the "City Versus Poly" rivalry at M&T Bank Stadium on November 6. On the Eastern Shore, SFMSports.net will cover the Stephen Decatur Seahawks on Ocean City's WQMR for the fourth year. Also, it will air 10 Easton Warriors games via Easton's WEMD, and 10 Indian River Indians games via Ocean View's WZEB.....

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]]> 82b717fa9852a077501815560cbd7964 - 8/31 - Washington Post TV critic Hank Stuever watched Glenn Beck (right) "bathe in his own afterglow" on his Monday Fox News Channel show, which offered a rosy, religious recap of Beck's Saturday rally in DC. Writes Stuever: "Beck was happy and yet he was sad. He seems to have come away from Saturday's rally more convinced of end times, or something close: 'I believe we're approaching a last call, all aboard,' he said. 'I had nightmares last night, because I felt maybe I wasn't clear enough. The message I feel I'm supposed to give you is get behind the shield of God.' In this mode, the purpose-driven Beck gave in to a sense of being exhausted, weary of having to do the Lord's work and explain himself over and over to the lamestream media who simply refuse to accurately spread his message. That you still are not clear on what the message is is not Glenn Beck's fault. It's everyone else's".....

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]]> daf823720aa69910aa1f2724ac8245f0 - 8/31 - Tom Taylor in his Tuesday TRI On Radio-Info newsletter has more on the canning of Jon Ballard yesterday: "Fired 'Big 100.3' Washington DC morning man Jon Ballard gets a friendly reception when he calls DC101 - until the mic is shut off. It's 'phonecall-interruptus,' I guess. DC101 wakeup personality Elliot Segal had a nice on-air conversation going with Ballard about how he'd just been laid off at Clear Channel sister station classic hits WBIG-FM (100.3). Then out of nowhere, the chat was replaced by a Foo Fighters song, says DCRTV.com. Sounds like management didn’t approve. It's one thing to call a rival station after you've been blown out, but it's more delicate when you call somebody else in the same cluster. There's no indication Ballard was blasting the company that just fired him. They were talking about how much stuff he had to clean out of his work space at Big 100.3. Also apparently gone from the Big morning show - newsman Bill Stabler".....

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]]> 2ae6eaae9136bfb51bc97ba893819b83 - 8/31 - More on the Ravens' new deal with Comcast SportsNet, and more Baltimore sports media news in this week's sports media column from your friendly DCRTV webmaster at PressBoxOnline.com.....

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]]> b8c08acc02a95b6e6156160b42ceec31 - 8/30 - The New Republic looks at Glenn Beck's DC radio days in the 1980s at WPGC as preparation for his Saturday "Restoring Honor" rally. "It was there that Beck met another young DJ named Bruce Kelly, who became his first mentor in the art of publicity. For the next two decades, Beck labored in the fiercely competitive world of zoo-style 'top 40' morning radio, where DJs fought dirty for attention - from local media coverage to top billing at charity events".....

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]]> 047c75dd7c65d6824aaffb28015f9fe0 - 8/30 - "Maryland's most trusted news source," WBAL radio, unveils its iPhone app. You'll be able to listen to Baltimore's 1090 AM while viewing news headlines, then tap the headline to read the full story. Also with the app, you'll be able to send comments to show hosts and get a look at your commute via traffic cameras. Download it at itunes.apple.com.....

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]]> 29b760c2237d99b4706e6a0e2c52fa8c - 8/30 - DC all-newser WTOP hires Paula Wolfson-Stevenson, who comes from the Voice Of America where she was a White House correspondent. She is a freelancer training to write, report, edit, and anchor. Also, Max Smith joins WTOP as a freelance writer and reporter. He comes form CBS Radio in NYC. And, Ben Giles joins WTOP as freelancer training in operations and as an assistant editor.....

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]]> e621e6c224b704200e4aa247020db277 - 8/30 - Lisa Hillary, who spent a lot of time covering the Washington Capitals, leaves the DC version of Comcast SportsNet for the Philadelphia version of Comcast SportsNet. OnFrozenBlog has more.....

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]]> 8ddc6e12d08832733ede93226b4c21a9 - 8/30 - Washington Post sports columnist and WJFK radio show host Mike Wise decided to play a little joke - with Twitter messages about made up stuff that he couldn't know anything about. Like: "Donovan McNabb will start Sept. 12, I'm told." So reports Mike Prada at SBNation.com. Wise later apologized in a Tweet: "I tried to test the accuracy of social media reporting. Probably not the best way to go about experiment." More from Dan Steinberg at washingtonpost.com.....

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]]> 284295cac28c74d9f20d9d0ef7bf086a - 8/30 - Michael Hirsh joins the National Journal as a chief correspondent covering economics and foreign policy. He comes from Newsweek, where he also covered economics and was the magazine's Washington website editor.....

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]]> 9019e811521998a5def74979342a5a6b - 8/30 - DCRTV hears that Clear Channel also axed WBIG morning newsman Bill Stabler at the end of his shift today. Along with morning personality Jon Ballard (see newsblurb below). Stabler did newscasts on WBIG for five years, working through three format changes and four program directors. He replaced longtime WBIG news anchor Ira Melman, who was dumped by Clear Channel in September 2005. Prior to working for WBIG, Stabler anchored news for NBC, WMAL, and WTOP.....

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]]> 2c3b459a18d6c62383c8f0504f236e9c - 8/30 - DCRTV hears that Jon Ballard (right) has been cut loose from Clear Channel's classic hits WBIG (100.3 FM), where he did morning drive. A DCRTVer tells us that at 9:10 this morning, Ballard called into morning man Elliot Segal's show at Clear Channel sister rocker DC101 (101.1 FM) to say that he had been canned from WBIG. "As they began discussing how much stuff Jon had to clean up from his office, Elliot went into a Foo Fighters song mid-conversation. Music continued there after," we're told. More at Elliot show website EITMFans. Ballard spent nearly 12 years at Clear Channel's DC radio complex in Rockville, originally doing afternoons at DC101 for eight years, and then moving down the hall to WBIG. "I'm gonna take some time to catch up on my sleep, but am ready for any and all opportunities - anywhere," he tells radio trade pub All Access. DCRTV wonders: WBIG rival, Citadel classic rocker 105.9 The Edge, WVRX, is looking for a new afternoon man. Might Ballard head there? That station recently moved afternoon man Kirk McEwen to mornings to be paired with DC radio veteran Mike O'Meara. Stay tuned.....

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]]> 0af997c136eee92fdddd0a7e60d09265 - 8/30 - The DC market radio ratings for the third week of August, full-week, age 12+: 1) WTOP [1st in all dayparts], 2) WHUR [Harvey 4th, Baisden 2nd], 3) WIHT [Kane 7th], 4) WAMU, 5) WMMJ [Joyner 3rd], 6) WETA-FM, 7) WASH [L&L 5th], 8) WMZQ, 9) WMAL [GG 8th, Rush 7th, Hannity 8th], 10) WIAD, 11) WWDC [Elliot 12th], 12) WLZL [Biagi 19th] and WRQX [Diamond 10th], 14) WPRS and WBIG [Ballard 13th], 16) WKYS [Parr 13th], 17) WPGC [BT 18th], 18) WJFK [Junks 11th, Wise 15th, Arrington 14th], 19) WVRX [K&M 21st], 20) WGTS and WTEM [M&M 17th, Korny 19th, Czaban 18th], 22) WAVA-FM, 23) WBQB, 24) WINC-FM and WPFW and WFRE.....

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]]> b0f4de7bdbd23fc251d63c1ac63dff53 - 8/30 - The Washington Post reports that DC Mayor Adrian Fenty continued his efforts to reach out to the city's go-go community by coming to the defense of singer Anwan "Big G" Glover, who said he lost his job Friday as a radio personality on WKYS (93.9 FM) for refusing to curtail his vocal support of the mayor. Glover, an actor who has appeared in HBO's "The Wire" and "Treme," said the urban station's Radio One management gave him an "ultimatum" because he was featured in a Fenty campaign radio ad. At a news conference, Glover and Fenty said the station had violated his First Amendment rights. Glover and Fenty suggested that Vincent Gray, Fenty's opponent, was behind his ouster, but Gray said he does not know Glover.....

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]]> 86891522ac5c82d29d4951e342f8dedd - 8/30 - Washington Post Company Chairman Donald Graham recently abandoned his hands-off approach to the company's cash cow, making several trips to Capitol Hill to lobby against proposed regulations that threaten earnings at Post Company's Kaplan for-profit college business. The WSJ has more.....

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]]> 40b7801340e99c559b81f33ea1a763dd - 8/30 - WETA is expanding its Forum Network, part of the public TVer's ongoing collaboration with the national Forum organization, a consortium of online educational content. WETA Forum Network features a wide range of Washington lectures and conversations online via weta.org/forum. And, WETA's new partnership with the Smithsonian Associates, a division of the Smithsonian Institution, permits the public TV station to record and video stream exclusive Smithsonian lectures. These lectures increase the depth of lecture videos available through WETA Forum Network, a free public service of WETA.....

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]]> b071ee2f65271160fc5133fb56aff842 - 8/30 - Nationals color commentator Rob Dibble wasn't in the MASN broadcast booth over the weekend. He's apparently taking some more time off after making a controversial comment about injured phenom pitcher Stephen Strasburg early last week. MASN still denies that Dibble's been suspended or fired, but many sports columnists say he probably won't be back. Like Steven Biel at bleacherreport.com.....

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]]> 7591737eff93846fb0ac010f6d293f40 - 8/30 - Fred Barbash joins CQ/Roll Call to be deputy managing editor of CQ Weekly. He comes from the Politico, where he was a senior editor. Before that, he worked at the Washington Post.....

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]]> 9bae0eceb04c91f309343a93dca31013 - 8/30 - Another week and there's more speculation about the future of the Washington Times. The Politico reports: "If the proposed sale of the Washington Times goes through, it will represent the return of the paper's old guard, ousted by the current owner last autumn in a bitter family dispute. Tens of millions of dollars in subsidies from the other businesses of its founder, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon - money that has propped up the paper from since the start - will likely come back, too. But whether the sale would also return the Times staff to its former size or bring back its much-missed sports section is less clear".....

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]]> 91a86236dea532c38b27592b97644f89 - 8/30 - Dana Milbank, who has been writing the "Washington Sketch" feature for nearly six years, is moving to the Washington Post's editorial page, where he will be free to opine at will. But Milbank says his writing will still be rooted in "reporting and observation." The Post has more.....

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]]> edb718d563c901194768637c95a1e4db - 8/30 - Radio/TV Martí director Pedro Roig resigned Friday after more than seven years at the head of the often controversial US government stations that broadcast to Cuba. The twin stations have spent an estimated $500 million over the years broadcasting news and entertainment to Cuba, but they have been dogged by complaints of meager audiences, biased politics and journalism, and cronyism. Roig's resignation letter was addressed to Walter Isaacson, chairman of the DC-based Broadcasting Board Of Governors, the government agency that supervises US international broadcasters such as Voice Of America. The Miami Herald has more.....

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]]> 60334754d89fb950e3b50d6110ab1d59 - 8/30 - "The brand of American history taught by Glenn Beck Saturday at his rally would not pass muster in a mediocre middle school. And in terms of what came across on TV, there were no moments of great emotional resonance or release until perhaps the finale of bagpipes playing Amazing Grace' and a closing prayer," pens Baltimore Sun media critic David Zurawik. "And yet, beyond the huge crowd that attended the event in Washington, something important and even profound was taking place at Beck's 'Restoring Honor' rally: The Fox News host was attempting to sieze a mantle of moral authority earned and ultimately paid for with his life by the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King. And, sadly, I think in the eyes of some viewers, Beck might have succeeded".....

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]]> 83c01a2592ce9543ba7e9160a1f3b626 - 8/30 - Baltimore natives get their share of Emmys at last night's award ceremony. More from David Zurawik at baltimoresun.com.....

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]]> 9f8ffaacdb961474bd161bbc9174b13c - 8/29 - I went over to my sister's place yesterday. Her Reston apartment complex was having a end-of-the-season pool party catered by Famous Dave's - great food - and there was a Comcast booth there. I kind of felt sorry for the Comcast guys, who pretty much talked among themselves most of the time. Ah, not far away, a DirecTV truck was in the parking lot, with a crew installing a dish for someone. And there were some Verizon Fios trucks parked nearby, too. Their crews have been wiring the complex and plan to start offering service in early fall. And then, of course, there's a whole slew of new TV services popping up on the internet every day, with loads of cool new ways to watch them. Way beyond the traditional TV set or any one company's control. You know, if Comcast wants to buy NBC, let 'em have it. NBC and broadcast network TV is already outdated. It's the past, baby. And, in couple of years, it won't even be here. At least not the way it is now. Ditto with "cable TV." CDs are already gone, with DVDs soon to follow. When we get cheap internet access to our cars, you can say goodbye to most traditional corporate-owned radio stations, too. Ah, competition and technology - strange and wonderous! As John Lennon sang back in the early 1970s: "Power To The People." Right on! So, hang on, the future's coming even faster than anyone can realize. More Rants.....

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]]> 785e8a61abf4f08a3d121286306d3199 - 8/29 - Jayne Brumley Ikard, a political journalist who served as one of Newsweek magazine's first female bureau chiefs and went on to become a prominent Washington hostess after her marriage to US Representative Frank Ikard of Texas, died August 27 at the Georgetown Retirement Residence in Washington. She was 83 and had chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. The Washington Post has more.....

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]]> 19b8f3ec4c79e1b9e8d4697a49c07c48 - 8/29 - Lots of small, "copy" errors continue rearing their ugly heads in the Washington Post, so says ombudsman Andy Alexander at wapo.com. No mention of the recent Post TV listings that had the two Redskins preseason games erroneously listed for Channel 5/WTTG - with no correction after either mistaken incident.....

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]]> 3ec030d01e24b95f70ed1e45d58ed31f - 8/29 - Washington Post political columnist Dana Milbank on the new "owner" of the civil rights movement - Fox News personality Glenn Beck. At wapo.com.....

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]]> 519ab6f1d766792d5c4c093f2913a9d9 - 8/28 - In Saturday's DC Post, Paul Farhi looks at how the cable news networks have been handling preliminary coverage of Fox News personality Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" political rally, which takes place today on the Washington mall. More: TVNewser has details about the cable news networks' actual coverage of the rally.....

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]]> 31ec546a3c5ad7e8e024817dc73f1c06 - 8/28 - DCRTV thanks Mike O'Meara for renewing his top banner display ad through the end of the year. Download his daily podcast at MikeOmearaShow.com. Ditto with Diploma Plaque Laminators, which offers laminated wooden hand-made diploma and certificate wall plaques. More at DiplomaPlaqueLaminators.com. Also, don't forget to check out Social Media Creators at SocialMediaCreators.com, the Vinyl District at TheVinylDistrict.com, plus Tom Robinson and Fairfax Home Values at FairfaxHomeValues.net, and get this week's free home values report. And, don't forget, DCRTV's got some great rates for right column ads. Interested? E-mail us at dcrtv@dcrtv.com and put "DISPLAY AD" on the subject line.....

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]]> 22a21d20f108e121d56044762f96c756 - 8/27 - Channel 4/WRC's newscasts again dominated DC TV in August with total viewers. At 4:30 AM: 1) WRC (up 69% year-to-year), 2) WUSA, 3) WTTG, 4) WJLA. At 5 AM: 1) WRC (up 21% year-to-year), 2) WJLA, 3) WTTG, 4) WUSA. At 6 AM: 1) WRC (up 16% year-to-year), 2) WJLA, 3) WTTG, 4) WUSA. At 4 PM: 1) WRC (up 14% year-to-year), 2) WJLA/"Oprah," 3) WTTG/"Judge Judy," 4) WUSA/"Doctors." At 5 PM: 1) WRC (71% advantage over WJLA, up 18% year-to-year), 2) WJLA, 3) WTTG, 4) WUSA. At 6 PM: 1) WRC (63% advantage over WJLA, up 18% year-to-year), 2) WJLA, 3) WUSA, 4) WTTG. At 11 PM: 1) WRC (15% advantage over WTTG's 10 PM news, 57% advantage over WUSA at 11 PM), 2) WUSA, 3) WJLA, 4) WTTG.....

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]]> 35996294973a3476d61a07034e5283f0 - 8/27 - Rebecca Sheir, WAMU's special features reporter, will be the new host of the American University station's "Metro Connection." She replaces David Furst, who has hosted and produced the program since 1999. Sheir has been with WAMU, 88.5 FM, since 2009, covering news. Before moving to Washington, she reported for KTOO in Juneau, Alaska, where she hosted and produced the "AK" show on for Alaska Public Radio. Furst has been with WAMU since 1997, working as a reporter and on local segments for "Morning Edition," as well as with "Metro Connection".....

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]]> 2d141d02e8edbf57c4ca6fae2b57d134 - 8/27 - DCRTV hears that Nationals color commentator Rob Dibble (right) is taking a few days off after a comment that he made earlier this week got him into a bit of trouble. Dibble ranted on his Sirius XM afternoon show that phenom Stephen Strasburg should "suck it up" regarding a sore arm, equating the young pitcher to being a crybaby. Dibble didn't know that, come today, Strasburg would be out for more than a year because of some serious surgery needed on that arm. A source denies that Dibble was suspended. DCRTV is told that Dibble will be back at work in the MASN booth this weekend. More from mlb.fanhouse.com.....

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]]> 0c35793a446e1d1ccffe018f2afe13aa - 8/27 - DCRTV hears that Ron Bennington, co-host of the "Ron And Fez" show heard on Sirius XM and long long ago on WJFK, recently had an attack of appendicitis, and is back at work after docs ripped out the ruptured organ.....

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]]> 1c47d91b267e6999f8c523af74287490 - 8/27 - From DCRTV's 8/27 Mailbag: "On WTEM's 'Sports Fix' yesterday, Kevin Sheehan announced that Redskins quarterback Donovan McNabb will have his own show for 45 minutes every Tuesday during football season. I assume the format will be similar to last year's Jim Zorn show with Sheehan and Thom Loverro being the actual hosts asking questions".....

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]]> 40c987aa8ef3d2ca2113d25929f3a1c4 - 8/27 - Mark Tapscott at the Washington Examiner editorializes on the Washington Post's Thursday "Story Lab" piece on the spate of rumors earlier this week about the alleged demise of the Washington Times. Whoops. Tapscott says the piece was penned by venerable media critic Howard Kurtz when it was actually the product of journalistic hitman Ian Shapira.....

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]]> 0ea04d8d30534884b2c1676fbf13b3df - 8/27 - McLean-based USA Today, the nation's second largest newspaper, is making the most dramatic overhaul of its staff in its 28-year history as it de-emphasizes its print edition and ramps up its effort to reach more readers and advertisers on mobile devices. The makeover outlined Thursday will result in about 130 layoffs this fall, USA Today Publisher Dave Hunke told the Associated Press. That translates into a 9 percent reduction in USA Today's work force of 1,500 employees. Hunke didn't specify which departments would be hardest hit. The management shake-up affects both the newspaper's business operations and newsroom. Like most newspapers, Gannett's USA Today has been cutting back in recent years to offset a steep drop in advertising that is depleting its main source of income. To compound the problem, fewer readers are paying for newspapers as free news proliferates on the web, AP adds.....

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]]> 801fc60791a9bab5b2599a075534f2a6 - 8/27 - After dominating the home video rental business for more than a decade and struggling to survive in recent years against upstarts Netflix and Redbox, Blockbuster is preparing to file for bankruptcy next month, according to the LA Times.....

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]]> b51003165d5da77730da87cd379b48d7 - 8/27 - Rant. The largest section in Friday's print Washington Post? The "E" Classified section, which is 44 pages, of which a staggering 43 pages are housing foreclosure notices. By comparison, the main "A" news section is just 22 pages. Makes you wonder just how "recession proof" the DC area really is. Hmmm. More Rants.....

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]]> 5908a726840ee410d3b2a47280d2d162 - 8/27 - Fox News personality Glenn Beck's "Restoring Honor" political rally on the Washington mall will air live on Sirius XM's Patriot Channel Saturday starting at 10 AM. Patriot carries Beck's weekday national radio show, which is heard locally on CBS talker WHFS (1580 AM). The event will also be carried on CSPAN.....

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]]> cbb04ccb5814013d4a9c8c961988cb33 - 8/27 - Months after three local DC TV newsers debuted 4:30 AM newscasts, Channel 7/WJLA is joining the early news party. The DC Post reports that "Good Morning Washington" will start at 4:30 AM beginning Monday, with "GMW" newscaster Alison Starling in the anchor seat.....

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]]> 1b32766ef3a2697b7f9d8dea101cbb29 - 8/26 - Michael Shear, a White House reporter for the Washington Post, is joining the New York Times. Shear leaves the Post after 18 years with the paper. At the Times, he's expected to write primarily online as the lead voice for the paper's politics blog, the Caucus. More at yahoo.com.....

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]]> 3b96a143d8451b75f0f109a8e19ae573 - 8/26 - Today's NTS Media Online radio news biz newsletter reports that Bonneville all-newser WTOP's logo is now seen on signs and banners installed on portable toilets in local parks throughout Montgomery County, as a sponsor that has allowed the Parks Department to retain the facilities in the wake of severe budget shortages. "We haven't seen any other news organization in town 'get off the pot' like WTOP has," says WTOP VP/News-Programming Jim Farley. "We're helping a cash-starved park system that was leaving people with literally no place to go! And who better to do this than the radio station that 'gets people going' in the morning? It's our 'TOP POT' and we're encouraging other news organizations - Hey! NPR - to also 'get off the pot' and help out the parks and people in need!" The portable potties were slated to be removed from more than 80 parks in the county until WTOP and other sponsors came to the rescue.....

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]]> 72c6de0139a5509932f90c7e9e133ae6 - 8/26 - DCRTV is a player, along with the Washington Post, the Washington City Paper, the Huffington Post, the Washington Examiner, the Politico, and DCist, in a washingtonpost.com "Story Lab" piece on the latest batch of rumors earlier this week about the ongoing soap opera at the struggling Washington Times, which is either near closing or about to be re-bought by its founder, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon.....

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]]> 1f7aecb27e6bf43c29928887de72ee7b - 8/26 - DCRTV welcomes two new display advertisers! First, there's DJ Knight and his "60 Min De Rock" Spanish and English rock music show on WDCN, La Nueva 87.7. Listen each weekday at 7 PM for the latest Latin rock and classic Anglo rock. More at LaNueva877.com. Also, the folks at Annapolis progressive rocker WRNR, 103.1 FM, are looking for a new account executive. For more details, check out wrnr.com. Please support DCRTV's advertisers because they support DCRTV.....

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]]> 33e5801cf9dae266e51cc435935485f0 - 8/26 - Mark Miller, Newsweek's editorial director, is the latest to leave the Washington Post Company's just-sold newsweekly. More at wwd.com.....

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]]> 64c7dd6ca2224c75b1572fbedd85292e - 8/26 - Once again, NBC's "Meet The Press" topped the Sunday morning DC-based political talkers last week. CBS's "Face The Nation" placed 2nd in total viewers, while ABC's "This Week" was 2nd witih adults aged 25-54. Fox's "Fox News Sunday" was 4th.....

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]]> d77730769993a5d16911ec9b2a0529a3 - 8/26 - Former Walt Disney Company Chief Executive Michael Eisner is in discussions that could lead to his return to the media spotlight - as chairman of now-bankrupt Tribune Company. The Chicago-based media company's largest creditors are having preliminary conversations with prospective candidates who could operate Tribune once it emerges from bankruptcy. The Chicago Tribune has more. Locally, Tribune owns the Baltimore Sun and Channel 50/WDCW.....

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]]> 72a6d75c65542a462d77bed8b9aab445 - 8/26 - Public radio news talker WAMU (88.5 FM) announces that transcripts of "The Diane Rehm Show," "The Kojo Nnamdi Show," "Metro Connection," and "The Animal House" will be available to listeners at no cost at wamu.org. Previously, transcripts were available only by order and for a fee. The transcripts, through Aegis, will also be searchable through a number of research portals, including Lexis-Nexis and Factiva. They are available for programs airing on or after August 25.....

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]]> ce9efa714fa3165b1e27605d915fb46f - 8/26 - NBC-owned Channel 4/WRC debuts its new "chief meteoroligist" Doug Kammerer (left) this week. His new gig at 4 was announced in June. Kammerer grew up in Herndon and attended Herndon High School (same as your friendly webmaster). He has earned the Certified Broadcast Meteorologist seal from the American Meteorological Society, and he holds a degree in meteorology from the University Of Northern Colorado. Kammerer's latest TV gigs were in Philadelphia, where he worked at Channel 3/KYW and Channel 10/WCAU. He replaces Bob Ryan, who bolted in the spring for a late news weather gig at Channel 7/WJLA after almost three decades at WRC......

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]]> d7531388fdb4131abb678d0d0e5d9c44 - 8/26 - The DC Post has more on the big DC political rally this weekend by Fox News personality Glenn Beck.....

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]]> 8d0ae710737e82e967db8f1713fb8721 - 8/26 - Howard Kurtz has more on yesterday's bombshell that White House correspondent Major Garrett is leaving Fox News. In the DC Post.....

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]]> 51ef8620916b5276c28414449ef0ec89 - 8/26 - Lisa De Moraes tells us that TLC, a network owned by Silver Spring-based Discovery Commmunications, is planning yet another exploitative reality show about a family with a whole lot of little kids. In the DC Post.....

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]]> e00d399cf86ba4575a6283043a70b163 - 8/25 - Channel 4/WRC sportscaster Lindsay Czarniak's no longer wearing Redskins owner Dan Snyder's shirts. That's what Dave McKenna tells us at washingtoncitypaper.com.....

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]]> d501693751467a88f862f8bb971e8a8d - 8/25 - The Washington Redskins announced today that the team's television ratings for the two preseason games against the Buffalo Bills and the Baltimore Ravens have reached an all-time high. Combined ratings for Comcast SportsNet and Channel 4/WRC, which both carried the games, produced an average 14.925 rating and a 30 share in the DC market. More at footballnewsnow.com.....

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]]> 709164eab6ac876bb5c75d49e3e2de9f - 8/25 - Major Garrett jumps from Fox News to the National Journal to be its Congressional correspondent, reporting and providing analysis across all of National Journal Group's publications. He's been chief White House correspondent for Fox, where he spent eight years. Garrett will join Sue Davis, recently hired from the Wall Street Journal, to lead National Journal's Congressional coverage. White House correspondents Wendell Goler and Mike Emanuel will assume joint coverage of the White House beat for Fox News. The Politico has more.....

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]]> 11cc8c8ee33a6191b4705b9724e1ace3 - 8/25 - Cox announces the addition of the NFL Network's Red Zone channel, which provides game day live coverage of all pro football game touchdown action. Cox cable subscribers in Fairfax County and Fredericksburg can add the high-def channel for $39.95 per season if they already subscribe to the "Sports And Information Pak." It'll start airing on Cox come September 12 on channels 264 and 600, and in HD on 773. Area cable giant Comcast started carrying NFL Red Zone last season. It's part of Comcast's "Sports And Entertainment" package, which costs an extra $9-ish a month.....

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]]> 80bc18bbe80a4ff3ec0a8fa63b8566b3 - 8/25 - Got $1.2 million? You can buy Brunswick MD's WTRI (1520 AM). "Don't think they'll get that much," says a local radio guru. New ground system and five acres of real estate at transmitter site are included in the sale, according to radiotvdeals.com. The station, which is owned by a group headed by former DC101 and 98 Rock personality Buddy Rizer, has most recently been relaying Thurmont MD talker WTHU. Over the years, WTRI, which is halfway between Leesburg and Frederick, has been airing classic country, big band/nostalgic standards, and brokered Spanish.....

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]]> cfbdc237dc4b4115d071eba5fb33303f - 8/25 - DCRTV has already told you that Hagerstown's Channel 25/WHAG is expanding its news operations into Northern Virginia, including Loudoun County. Now, there's more at the station's website - your4state.com.....

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]]> 41117de7b741581e15b62553899e6b9c - 8/25 - DCRTV told you yesterday that Nikki Landry is out as afternooner at CBS's 94.7 Fresh FM, WIAD. Now, we're hearing that Maria Dennis, who does middays at CBS's Baltimore sister Mix 106.5, WWMX, will fill-in on Landry's old shift at 94.7. Meanwhile, Landry has started her own biz, Nikki Landry Productions, which handles voicetracking, voiceovers, and imaging, at NikkiLandryProductions.com.....

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]]> 934d53829740849d249c40a0bee01c56 - 8/25 - The Washington Post reports Wednesday that just four years after giving the Washington Times to his eldest son, the Unification Church's leader, the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, is considering paying millions of dollars to buy back the conservative newspaper he founded in 1982. Moon wants to buy the Times back from his son Preston Moon, who has threatened to shut down the foundering broadsheet altogether, said Charles Sutherland, the Times's former director of development and promotions, who was laid off in May. The Post mentions "an unsourced story on the media news and gossip website DCRTV.com Monday said that the site 'hears that the Washington Times is close to closing,' but Unification Church and Times sources said the paper's future is far from clear." Still, the Post's Ian Shapira piece adds that some former staffers who remain close to key Times executives said reports of an imminent shutdown last week were at least partly true. "I heard that they were moving to shut it down, but those reports could have also been disinformation coming out as a negotiating stance," said a former Times staffer. "No money's being spent on anything. Everything's frozen." The Post also reports that the Times' circulation has dropped from 80,000 to 40,000 since the Times' layoffs in late 2009, along with the elimination of home delivery, the newsstand price hike to $1, and the end of the weekend edition. The Politico has more, including the report of a preliminary sale agreement.....

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]]> 329eff6b5a0c76ffd6677ba33d3dd441 - 8/25 - Emily Miller will no longer be a contributor to the Washington Times. Instead, we hear that she'll be senior editor for the conservative news site Human Events, where she'll cover political investigations.....

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]]> 2ea24d6b246f2471e7f65ca98cc838c8 - 8/25 - G4, the Comcast-owned cable network that works tirelessly to attract young geeky guys, has purchased 10 episodes of "Bomb Patrol: Afghanistan," which is produced by Big Fish Entertainment, the same Bethesda-based production company that brings us TLC's "DC Cupcakes." The DC Post has more.....

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]]> ef6a87a5b5c78b43fabf9a8edfdbc838 - 8/25 - Howard University is the latest school to join "ABC NewsOn Campus" program, which creates bureaus at universities around the country, staffed with journalism students who work with ABC News producers to report local stories. Candace Smith, a senior broadcast journalism major, has been named Howard University's bureau chief. Smith interned with ABC's "Good Morning America" in NYC and Channel 5/WTTG. So reports the DC Post.....

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]]> e08f9217c956e66925f49bdc49366560 - 8/24 - The Baltimore Sun is bringing back its Sunday magazine come September 12. More from baltimorebrew.com.....

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]]> 237976931e997afd999ffba50b55889b - 8/24 - DCRTV hears that Nikki Landry (right) is gone from her afternoon gig at CBS chick rocker 94.7 Fresh FM, WIAD. Contract not renewed, we're told.....

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]]> 03a2c128fbcdf9b9053d1151c59b3291 - 8/24 - The Federal Communications Commission hits Nassau classic hits WWEG (106.9 FM) with a $4,000 fine for a contest rule violation. The Hagerstown station known as "The Eagle" ran a Father's Day contest in 2008 which was announced to be open until June 13. But a listener who attempted to enter that day was told by a station employee that the winner had been picked the day before. The FCC says that the contest was not "substantially" as advertised.....

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]]> 2d31f3250ffd8cc650ec4be95c564857 - 8/24 - DCRTV hears that David Schuster was seen meeting with biggies at Allbritton's Politico today. Will the DCer, who's been on "temporary leave" from MSNBC since his flirtation with CNN a while back, soon be working in Rosslyn? Stay tuned.....

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]]> 5e76a71d38ddcd802479aeca45b96022 - 8/24 - Radio-Info.com tells us that Joe Scarborough announced on Twitter: "We are going to be on WABC radio airwaves soon. Mika and I are very excited! More details to come." Citadel-owned WABC-AM in NYC was the flagship station for Scarborough's radio show with Mika Brzezinski. The show unexpectedly went on hiatus in April, as Citadel released a statement on April 26 saying the show would return, and would be expanded to three hours. Citadel's DC talk sister, WMAL, carried a tape-delayed evening version of the late morning show. Joe and Mika continue to do their politics-heavy morning TV show for MSNBC. More: Mediaite is reporting that the new show could be on Saturday mornings.....

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]]> 40045639a637b214982e0ebe772c2847 - 8/24 - Radio One's Magic 95.9, WWIN-FM, tops the Baltimore radio ratings for the second week of August, full-week, age 12+: 1) WWIN-FM, 2) WLIF, 3) WPOC, 4) WERQ, 5) WRBS-FM, 6) WWMX, 7) WZFT and WIYY, 9) WBAL-AM, 10) WQSR, 11) WJZ-FM, 12) WZBA, 13) WCBM, 14) WYPR. More: 21) WBJC and WCAO, 27) WEAA, 31) WTMD, 35) WJZ-AM and WRNR-FM, 38) WOLB and WWIN-AM, 41) WTTR, 44) WLIF STREAM and WVBV, 49) WNST.....

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]]> 94e842120b55ab4eb0a6694ed55c865e - 8/24 - The Washington Examiner reports that Channel 5/ WTTG reporter Roby Chavez married Chris Roe on Saturday evening at the Woodrow Wilson House. The gay couple has been dating for five years.....

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]]> 5e86c5b82cfd0755e79d634276e22c57 - 8/24 - All Access tells us that Clear Channel wants to hold on to a 105.5 FM low-power translator in the Frederick area, despite the still-planned sale of its Frederick radio duo - news talker WFMD (930 AM) and country WFRE (99.9 FM). Clear Channel's AMFM Radio is removing the W288AB facility, which relays WFRE, from the Aloha Station Trust "because WFRE was set to be spun off, but ownership of the translator does not violate ownership caps," so reports All Access. Stations that Clear Channel plans to eventually unload got placed in the Aloha (Hawaiian for goodbye) trust.....

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]]> 5049e8cd863293fa2335054286edf378 - 8/24 - Media critic David Zurawik at baltimoresun.com gives us his take on the Maryland gubernatorial media war between Democrat Martin O'Malley and Republican Bob Ehrlich. Including this: "Every Saturday when Ehrlich was still on radio station WBAL, it seemed as if a caller or a businessperson was brought on to say how bad O'Malley was for small business and how they allegedly had or were about to move to Pennsylvania or Florida because of O'Malley. The Ehrlichs couldn't play that broken record often enough".....

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]]> 1ba883ab81bc8a39ff8425653501bd66 - 8/24 - The Washington Examiner reports DCRTV's story of yesterday that the Washington Times may be close to publishing its final edition if an offer from a last minute buyer isn't approved. The Examiner adds that the paper has downsized considerably because of economic difficulties. In December, the Times laid off several top editors, along with its entire sports section and several other reporters. It also stopped publishing the Sunday edition, and reduced the number of copies it prints. The Examiner says that several calls and an e-mail to the Times' publicist were not returned.....

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]]> 7344c4cbeb525e313661f576b01e9886 - 8/24 - The Style section does what it does best - profiling celebrity journalists. Today it's CNN's Candy Crowley. At washingtonpost.com.....

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]]> 36a00a8d7f3744ade6430491647662c3 - 8/24 - Matthew Cooper joins the National Journal Group as a managing editor. He has served as White House correspondent for US News, deputy Washington Bureau chief for Newsweek, and deputy Washington Bureau chief and White House correspondent for Time. He's also worked for Washington Monthly, the New Republic, Conde Naste Portfolio, TheAtlantic.com, and TPM.com.....

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]]> 487ae82cc3598f9a2b73f25db3dd1142 - 8/24 - Radio One's urban adult contemporary WKJS tops the Richmond radio ratings. More from Radio-Info.com.....

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]]> fdddb16fc9aa5f1cab90d53fc7174a46 - 8/23 - Channel 50/WDCW tells us that the Sunday morning airing of "NewsPlus With Mark Segraves" was the top-rated program in the DC TV market among men aged 25-54 in its time period. The 10 AM edition of "NewsPlus" on August 22 generated higher numbers in the target demo than "Chris Matthews," "Meet The Press," "This Week," and "Face The Nation," WDCW claims.....

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]]> 6dacde20fb6ecf10ac03b0daeed4ac3c - 8/23 - The latest donations to the Smithsonian's National Museum Of American History will include puppets created by the late Jim Henson, including the original Kermit The Frog. Jane Henson, co-founder of the Muppets and founder of the Jim Henson Legacy, will be joined by "Today Show" weatherman Willard Scott at the museum Wednesday morning to make the donations. More at bizjournals.com.....

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]]> e5ac65a6bd7ab7892295dda41346bfee - 8/23 - Another DCRTV exclusive. DCRTV hears that the Washington Times is close to closing. A source tells us that Reverend Moon's son, Preston, was prepared to close the Times as recently as last Friday. A press release was reportedly ready for distribution when an apparent last minute and revised offer to buy the paper was submitted, we hear. Sources say that the younger Moon and another board member of TWT are "finished" with the paper and that they couldn't care less about any amount of money that is offered. "It is now about showing Daddy Moon who has the bigger cajones," a source tells DCRTV. " If this offer - and it is a reasonable one - is rejected, the paper could close its doors this week, just shy of 30 years in the Nation's Capital." According to a source with knowledge of the situation: "The paper has large debt load but there is a buyer. Normally, this would be a good thing for a seller. In the zany world of the Moon family, and the son's disregard for the family's wishes, it looks like the final edition is imminent." More soon.....

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]]> 19a9016905c71a91e9e3c739fba1b8d1 - 8/23 - DC-based CSPAN is mourning the death of Maura Clancey, 50, the public affairs network's first research director. Recently, she worked for Statistical Research and Knowledge Networks.....

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]]> 7d79cdf56934817853e445dac3929086 - 8/23 - The DC market radio ratings for the second week of August, full-week, age 12+: 1) WTOP [1st in both drivetimes], 2) WHUR [Harvey 3rd, Baisden 3rd], 3) WIHT [Kane 5th], 4) WAMU, 5) WASH [L&L 6th] and WMMJ [Joyner 3rd], 7) WETA-FM, 8) WMAL [GG 9th, Rush 6th, Hannity 10th] and WMZQ, 10) WRQX [Diamond 7th], 11) WPRS, 12) WLZL [Biagi 18th] and WBIG, 14) WWDC [Elliot 10th], 15) WKYS [Parr 15th], 16) WPGC [BT 16th], 17) WIAD, 18) WVRX [K&M 21st], 19) WTEM [M&M 13th, Korny 16th, Czaban 17th] and WJFK [Junks 16th, Wise 18th, Arrington 20th], 21) WGTS, 22) WINC-FM, 23) WPFW, 24) WBQB and WFLS and WAVA-FM, 27) WFRE and WERQ, 29) WTNT and WWUZ and WFED and WDCN.....

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]]> a59149940e60e31ef505047fe8e6506a - 8/23 - Michael Falcone leaves Huffington Post for ABC News' DC bureau, where he'll be deputy political director and political reporter. He will also author ABC's "The Note" political blog. Before joining Huffington Post, Falcone covered national politics for the Politico and the New York Times before that.....

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]]> d2517b846ff9f6728adfc839acd1ed8e - 8/23 - Jared Allen, who has covered Congress for the Hill, joins PR firm FD, where he'll be assistant vice president.....

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]]> 4a33c88431a9cb68eda3afae3529a030 - 8/23 - DC media guruette Carol Joynt gives us a behind-the-scenes look at the Saturday taping of PBS's "Antiques Roadshow" at the Washington Convention Center. At nysocialdiary.com.....

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]]> f846d2b51782292af8455e4694d0d2b6 - 8/23 - DC radio veteran KT Harris is filling in, again, during the midday slot on classic rocker 105.9 The Edge. Via the miracle of voicetracking. That's normally the territory of Suzie Ansilio. The Citadel station is looking for a new afternoon personality.....

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]]> 0c2fe4cf4379f57d16884ac19352f0fb - 8/23 - DCRTV has more on the news we reported yesterday that Sinclair's Channel 45/WBFF in planning to launch its national weekly one-hour sports show, "The Real Score," on September 12. In DC and other markets where Sinclair doesn't own stations, the Sunday morning program will air on stations owned by News Corporation/Fox, including Channel 20/WDCA. It'll be hosted by Fox 45 news anchor Jennifer Gilbert.....

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]]> df9a827b0f2926023fbfbcf23077b3fd - 8/23 - Rant. Breaking news from Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik: "I only had time to watch the first half Saturday night of the Baltimore Ravens preseason game with the Washington Redskins, but I enjoyed the broadcast team of Gerry Sandusky, Stan White, and Qadry Ismail." Hey, at least Zurawik isn't penning yet another update on Kate Gosselin or shilling for a cable TV show that he gets free preview discs for. More Rants.....

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]]> 2ddf991e5c28fa944a7d1582bcd3040a - 8/23 - Hot 99.5 morning man Kane has a new daughter. Mrs. Kane (aka Natasha) gave birth to Sophie on Thursday.....

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]]> ea9420f98329d777c36e22845e766b7c - 8/23 - Tom Taylor in his Monday TRI radio biz newsletter tells us that CEO Farid Suleman is quite well taken care of by Citadel - both while he's working and in retirement. For example, the company's 2010 Equity Incentive Program awards Suleman with $43 million - 1.9 million shares of stock - if he stays through the vesting of all his shares, until June 3, 2012. Pens Taylor: "He drove a hard bargain to get Citadel through Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and he's been equally effective in lobbying for himself." Locally, Citadel owns WMAL, WRQX, and WVRX.....

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]]> 3ddaccc620af8203954b7b6f0e42b885 - 8/32 - Sonya Ross is the Associated Press's new "Race/Ethnicity And Demographics" editor. She has been the AP DC bureau's urban affairs reporter and a member of the White House reporting team.....

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]]> 875b221d8dac1765b6bb736ed739d4f9 - 8/22 - A few months ago, DCRTV told you that Sinclair's Channel 45/WBFF was planning a national weekly one-hour sports show hosted by news anchor Jennifer Gilbert. Now, we hear that it will launch on September 12 and be carried on WBFF, Fox 45, at 10:30 AM Sundays. "The Real Score" show will also be carried in most major markets, including via many of Sinclair's other 60-ish TVers.....

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]]> f75f53dca3f8d786622f915631b92510 - 8/22 - Ted Leonsis, the man who owns the Capitals, Wizards, Mystics, and the Verizon Center, has owning his own sports TV network on his mind. "No one single sports owner in the region and few in the country have more entertainment content, so it really is only a matter of time before he and his likely partner Comcast are working on something new," reports Jim Williams at washingtonexaminer.com.....

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]]> ae8dde1b031ce2b0a7ff68763e100889 - 8/22 - PBS's "Antiques Roadshow" pulled into the Washington Convention Center Saturday. More in the DC Post.....

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]]> 6181a37f0ea97f0c518b2510d2f077f5 - 8/22 - Ombudsman Andy Alexander shills praise on the Washington Post's policy of disclosing the parent Washington Post Company's holdings when the newspaper's own operations make the news. At washingtonpost.com. DCRTV wonders: How about Mr. Alexander looking at potential conflicts when the Post does (or doesn't) cover news involving its large advertisers, including communications firms that could impact its parent company's cable TV holdings? Hmmm.....

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]]> 7674bf969c2c4443732a10d45ee2246d - 8/21 - Jim Williams at washingtonexaminer.com has more details about the news DCRTV reported yesterday - the deal reached between the Baltimore Ravens and Comcast SportsNet to carry five Ravens TV shows on the regional sports network. Both sides are exploring a long range deal, Williams tells DCRTV.....

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]]> fe4d4f83768b668b447cdddd154b18f9 - 8/21 - MSNBC Films is planning a special that will reexamine the 2002 Washington DC sniper killings. Called "I Married The Beltway Sniper," the film will feature an interview with "Mildred," the ex-wife of sniper John Allen Muhammed. TVNewser has more.....

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]]> 26267b03acc6c6dc1eae09273c773727 - 8/21 - Rant. I like John Henrehan. He's not only one of the best reporters at Fox 5, WTTG, but one of the best on DC TV. Period. And I'm glad he's getting proper recognition from the rival news folks over at Channel 7/WJLA. Because the Allbritton TV station's new news website, TBD, is linking to Henrehan's myfoxdc.com story on Metro stranding some passengers in Greenbelt. So what? WJLA is incompetent and didn't send a reporter to cover the situation that it felt warranted top placement on its TBD website? WJLA is lazy and simply didn't bother covering it? Or that WJLA really thinks that WTTG is a superior news operation? Whatever. Allbritton's "honesty" about the lackings of its own WJLA local news operation is somewhat "refreshing." Let's see it it pays off with deservedly slumping news ratings for ABC 7. Ponderous, man, ponderous. More Rants.....

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]]> d23b4ef2f3954374ff391f6cc9a09532 - 8/21 - OK, fans of DCRTV, if you haven't yet "friended" us on Facebook, now is the time to do so. You pushed us over the 2,000 level yesterday, now it's onward to 3,000! Please go to facebook.com/dcrtv. Thanks.....

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]]> 277f9bbc9722738ad75678a5fe83571c - 8/20 - The Baltimore Ravens today announced that their seasonal television shows, produced internally by Rave TV, will be seen throughout the Mid-Atlantic region via Bethesda-based Comcast SportsNet. The Ravens ended their TV deal with the Baltimore-based Mid-Atlantic Sports Network in early August. The weekly shows, including "1 Winning Drive," "The John Harbaugh Show," "Game Plan Wednesday," "Ravens Report Thursday," and "Purple Passion Friday" will air on CSN at 4:30 PM and midnight most weekdays. As we've previously reported, the shows will also air on Channel 11/WBAL's WBAL Plus channel at 7:30 PM and midnight each weekday, starting September 8. In addition, all five shows will also air on CSN periodically during primetime, when the network does not have a live event scheduled.....

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]]> 67afefd13929b13abdaa76911f1a4817 - 8/20 - Heather Smith is the new producer of WMAL's morning show, "The Grandy Group." She replaces Ann Wog, who recently left for a producer gig at Boston talker WTKK. Smith has produced nationally syndicated talk shows with Laura Ingraham, G. Gordon Liddy, and, most recently, Lars Larson. She also worked with the late Tony Snow at Fox News Channel and handled other assignments at FNC.....

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]]> 1b62e072f7ae24f57f74824130212e25 - 8/20 - Redskins TV and Ravens TV will go head-to-head during Saturday night's preseason game between Baltimore and Washington. Redskins fans can watch the game on Channel 4/WRC and Comcast SportsNet, while Ravens fans can catch the game on Channel 11/WBAL and Channel 50/WDCW. More from Jim Williams at washingtonexaminer.com.....

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]]> 13ddc7ce53f15d68e08f0d80a12174ff - 8/20 - Hey, it's been bought and paid for on Capitol Hill, right? NewsBlues has learned that top executives at Comcast and NBC Universal are so confident that their proposed merger will be approved by the Feds, they have already started circulating the new benefits package to NBC's owned TV stations, a la DC's Channel 4/WRC, for review. Comcast is the largest cable TV company in the country, and the dominant cable TV and internet provider in the DC-Baltimore area.....

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]]> 539e78fb8cc18306ee985dd9c7c4bb93 - 8/20 - Alfred Liggins, head of Lanham-based Radio One, comments in favor of the Comcast-NBC merger. His firm's TV One African American programming network is carried by Comcast and is partly owned by Comcast. More in the DC Post.....

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]]> 11cb63da8229aa65c52385d2e56d39b7 - 8/20 - NTS Media Online talks to WTOP news reporter Neal Augenstein, who now does almost all of his field production on his iPhone, instead of using his "big kit" or laptop.....

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]]> e5d345d0c214b137db93913db22e9472 - 8/20 - Tim Alberta jumps to the National Journal Group to become the editor of Hotline's "Last Call." He's been an assistant editor and web producer at the Politico.....

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]]> aba8e82985bb455acd421c368a56241a - 8/19 - CBS DC sports talker 106.7 The Fan, WJFK, has dropped sister Baltimore sports talker 105.7 The Fan, WJZ-FM, from among the three out-of-market CBS sports talkers it carries among its digital HD Radio subchannels. The WJZ-FM signal has been replaced with KRLD-FM, 105.3 The Fan, from Dallas. "It's football season, so we shuffled our HD 'Fan Sports Network' to cover each city in the NFC East - Washington, Dallas, NYC, and Philly," says JFK Program Director Chris Kinard. WJFK continues its relays of Philadelphia's WIP and NYC's WFAN.....

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]]> baca4983e374a8d9571ee9e27f2b2b5d - 8/19 - Last week, Allbritton, which owns Channel 7/WJLA and TBD/NewsChannel 8, submitted a filing to the Federal Communications Commission requesting that it impose conditions on the proposed Comcast acquisition of NBC Universal, which owns WJLA's local TV rival, Channel 4/WRC. Comcast has responded to the Allbritton filing. According to a copy of the document obtained by TVNewser, Comcast tells the FCC that the Allbritton filing is "without merit" and says it violated the FCC's established procedures for submitting documents that take issue with the proposed deal: "Allbritton improperly seeks to use this proceeding to extract concessions from Comcast while refusing to engage in reasonable negotiations, as the parties have in the past. In support of this transparently opportunistic purpose, Allbritton concocts a theory of harm that is belied by several important details about the parties' business relationship and discussions that Allbritton failed to disclose. The Commission should reject this misuse of the transaction-review process".....

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]]> 1db092fba9b6f2829a6faf708006b721 - 8/19 - Scott Lindy, who programmed Clear Channel's country WPOC and was operations manager for the firm's Baltimore cluster from 1997 to 2002, is out at Clear Channel's Atlanta cluster, where he was operations manager and programmed country WUBL and talker WGST since he rejoined the firm in 2009. In between the Clear Channel gigs, he worked at Sirius Satellite Radio.....

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]]> b288b6168b800e44fff41a12bd4622ad - 8/19 - Baltimore NPR affiliate WYPR (88.1 FM) is going to be the production home for national education coverage provided by correspondent Amy Scott on public radio's "Marketplace." More at baltimoresun.com.....

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]]> 948670874faffb7c940c45c3ef12d4a9 - 8/19 - We're hearing rumblings that a format change or tweak may soon be coming to Nassau's adult contemporary Key 103, WAFY, in Frederick. This year, the station celebrates its 20th anniversary and the birthday bash could signify a change to a "hotter" adult contemporary sound, possibly to better compete with CBS DC's ratings-rising 94.7 Fresh FM, WIAD, for more female pairs of ears, we're told. As "New Key 103"? Stay tuned.....

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]]> 4cae3568047bb7b2f06e842729ac0a62 - 8/19 - NBC's "Meet The Press" continued its 1st place position last Sunday. CBS's "Face The Nation" was 2nd in total viewers, while ABC's "This Week" was 2nd in adults age 25-54. Fox's "Fox News Sunday" was 4th among both groups.....

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]]> 557695b090885f4ba304b2eaa4c150ee - 8/19 - Jeff Webber, the publisher of McLean-based USA Today's USAToday.com, will retire in November. He's been with the Gannett news organization for 25 years, overseeing the website for the past decade. AP has more.....

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]]> b549ddc2ffc2815d5ea0bc7428646ed2 - 8/19 - More news about McLean-based Gannett. The firm is bringing its HighSchoolSports.net to its Gannett Digital Network and will create 100 hyperlocal local sports sites that will be co-branded with its community newspapers. More from paidContent.com.....

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]]> bb8494fbd2c93994767358d7a4d83295 - 8/19 - NewsBlues updates us on a story yesterday that Channel 45/WBFF sports anchor Kristen Berset (right), a former Miss Florida beauty queen, was turned down for a sports gig by a Philadelphia TV station because its news director didn't think sexy pictures of her on the web were appropriate for a news personality. The sad fact of the matter is Berset has given up wearing those slinky bikinis. In 2009, four months after she started work at WBFF, she was diagnosed with breast cancer. She was just 27. "Even then, I didn't expect the doctor to tell me I had cancer. It was definitely a tough day, so much information and so many emotions came rushing in at once," Berset told NewsBlues. "But I quickly realized that there was no reason to wallow in self pity." She underwent a bilateral mastectomy with immediate reconstruction, a procedure that dramatically reduced the chance of the cancer recurring. "It was the best decision," she now says. "I bounced back rather quickly. In fact, I was back to work 10 days after my surgery." Last October, she had her final reconstructive surgery. "This experience has been life changing in a positive way. I learned a lot about myself. I am a stronger person than I realized. A couple of months ago, something inside me clicked. I realized I am still alive and healthy again. I have an amazing job that I truly enjoy".....

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]]> de95ace4dd08a198c289c3fda30358dd - 8/19 - Tom Taylor via his TRI radio biz newsletter tells us that Lanham-based urban radio giant Radio One's stock its closed to its 52-week low. It's fallen from $5.28 a share in early May to 81-cents. This week, Radio One disclosed that it extended its forbearance period with lenders until September 10 and is having serious talks with bondholders. It really needs to persuade the owners of its 2011 and 2013 bonds to swap their debt for a new issue. We also learned this week that senior lenders issued a payment block on an August 15 interest payment. That's bad - more pressure on Radio One. Management expresses confidence that things will work out and that it's "viable." But if the stock keeps trading below a buck, Radio One's back in front of NASDAQ with de-listing issues. It's pressure Radio One head Alfred Liggins doesn't need. The firm owns WKYS, WMMJ, WERQ, WWIN, WPRS, WOL, WOLB, and WYCB. Graphic (right) from TRI.....

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]]> 37f5c1c70b133cb4c9e0f8037a5a7ed2 - 8/18 - DCRTV welcomes back area voice man Pat Garrett for taking out a right column ad through October. Pat launches into the fall book with a new website at PatGarrettCreative.com and some new clients, including WMIL Milwaukee, WDAI Myrtle Beach, WARF-AM Akron, WMAN Mansfield OH, and re-ups with WTOP Washington and WJZ-TV Baltimore. Contact Garrett at Patg343@aol.com or 410-507-2227. Also, we welcome Sky Television for renewing their right column ad for the upcoming year. For almost 20 years, Sky Television has been the market leader in Washington DC and Northern Virginia installing DirecTV systems - from basic tenant space to entire buildings or facilities. From HDTV to IPTV and beyond. If you can dream it, they can design, engineer, and install.....

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]]> ad9e7d631c1e21aafbc0aa7fa4de7931 - 8/18 - While the Ravens have a deal with WBAL Plus to carry the Ravens' shows in the Baltimore market, they're still talking with other area outlets to carry some of the team's seasonal shows to the Mid-Atlantic region, especially Coach John Harbaugh's show, now that the relationship with MASN has ended. More on that and other Baltimore sports media stories in this week's online column from your friendly webmaster at PressBoxOnline.com.....

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]]> e7db297a7b5b015b9bd26947f099373d - 8/18 - Jim Glassman's new "Ideas In Action," a Sunday public affairs show for public television gets some local affiliates. Come September 5th, the program will be seen on Channel 32/WHUT at 9:30 AM and via Maryland Public Television at 8:30 AM. In the past, Glassman hosted "TechnoPolitics" for PBS, "MoneyPolitics" for Channel 7/WJLA, and "Capital Gang Sunday" for CNN. He was a weekly columnist for the Washington Post from 1993 to 2004, a former publisher of the New Republic, a former president of rhe Atlantic Monthly, and a former co-owner and editor of Roll Call. The show tapes at DC's Newseum.....

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]]> 8da1cbd057b979cae37b57b774eb317c - 8/18 - Despite her claims, Dr. Laura is no "media victim." Baltimore media critic David Zurawik pens a not-so-fond farewell to the radio personality who was once heard on his city's WCBM. At baltimoresun.com.....

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]]> 35b0cfa064e712f3c83f433f548aa99b - 8/18 - Rich Van Slyke adds five new voiceover clients, including Clear Channel's classic hits WBIG (100.3 FM).....

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]]> aeee88ec7a06eb3fffe7435686af8b21 - 8/18 - Newsmax plans to add about a half dozen staffers in its Washington DC bureau. The conservative media outlet's revenues last year were in the $34 million range and are expected to hit $50 million this year. The NY Post has more.....

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]]> ffab1ddaf03d2dcce66d0873ed03e259 - 8/18 - AOL's Patch names Baltimore's Tim Windsor as editorial director of its south region, as it cements a senior management team for the hundreds of its planned local news websites. AOL plans about a dozen community websites in the DC-Baltimore area. Windsor has been director of digital strategy at Johns Hopkins University. Before that, he was vice president and general manager of Baltimore Sun Interactive.....

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]]> 88d3067c2a6a17930257cb989d84eae4 - 8/18 - Dr. Laura Schlessinger, who isn't heard on any major radio stations in the DC-Baltimore area, says she's leaving radio. Last week, she got slammed for saying the "n-word" on the air. More from eonline.com.....

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]]> 3dee301d4bfc0d0bea9cfb7a95989616 - 8/18 - From NewsBlues: Luscious former Miss Florida, Kristen Berset, who has anchored weekend sports at Sinclair flagship WBFF-45-Fox in Baltimore for the past 18 months, auditioned for the weekend sports vacancy at CBS-owned KYW-3 in Philadelphia and, according to Philly.com gossip gal Marnie Hall, the tryout went well. Until News Director Susan Schiller "Googled" Berset and found a treasure trove of slinky bathing suit photos (a la right) that Schiller felt were inappropriate for a 'legitimate' journalist. Anyway. After due consideration, Schiller gave the coveted sports gig to Lesley Van Arsdall, who anchors the Sunday morning news on KYW-TV and had some football sideline experience on Philadelphia Eagles' pregame broadcasts on KYW-AM. According to insiders, Schiller told Van Arsdall, "The job is yours. Just don't screw it up." Guess what? Van Arsdall says she's leaving on maternity leave in the middle of football season.....

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]]> cc7c4a1313fd54d1c38d839d9fd21f6b - 8/18 - It's no secret that some WMALers would love to get on FM, a la the Citadel talker's sister 105.9, currently a classic rocker. Still, it appears that some top honchos at Citadel are willing to give 105.9 The Edge, with its new morning team of Kirk McEwen and Mike O'Meara, more of a chance to build ratings. That station, which turns one-year-old this month, hasn't shown much traction in the overall age 12+ numbers, but it has scored well with some key male demos, often even placing above DC's two sports talkers with men in some dayparts. Put there's pressure on Citadel to relay WMAL on FM. Just this week, Atlanta's longtime AM news talker WSB started an FM relay. While it ranks 3rd with an AM-only signal, it's hoping to "pull a WTOP" and jump to 1st with an FM signal, too. You'll recall that DC all-newser WTOP, which always got good ratings, jumped into the stellar ratings category with its move to FM. At first, it ran its signal on FM and via its old 1500 AM outlet. But eventually, it became FM only. And now it's got a huge first place lead in the DC radio market. WMAL, which usually places between 10th and 15th in the DC radio ratings, could become a solid "top 10" player if it added an FM signal, some say. Public radio news talker WAMU, which has always been on FM, is always among the top DC radio stations, and usually way ahead of WMAL. "I do acknowledge that DC is a FM dominant market," a top WMALer tells DCRTV. But it appears that he needs to sell that argument to his bosses at Citadel.....

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