dcrtv.com - washington dc/baltimore area radio/tv/media http://www.dcrtv.com Fri, 09 May 2008 11:34:13 GMT Feed43 Proxy/1.0 (www.feed43.com) 360 - 5/9 - Round 22. This week, we pit WTOP investigative reporter Mark Segraves (right) against WTOP "sprawl and crawl" reporter Adam Tuss (left) in our Battle Of The Media Hotties. Cast your vote here. Only one vote per e-mail address. Voting ends at midnight Friday. As of early Friday, with about 800 votes cast, Segraves had about 52 percent of the vote, to about 48 percent for Tuss.....

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]]> - 5/8 - DCRTV hears that the DC and Baltimore editions of the Examiner freebie tabloid newspaper will stop 6-day home delivery come mid-July. Then, it will begin 2-day home delivery, on Thursdays and Sundays only. The paper will still be printed and distributed in newspaper vending boxes each day.....

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]]> - 5/8 - DCRTV is hearing rumblings that Marc Steiner, who recently got the boot from his gig at Baltimore public radio outlet WYPR (88.1 FM), may soon be heard on another Baltimore public radio outlet - WEAA (88.9 FM). More soon.....

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]]> - 5/8 - The NY Post on the Washington Post: The Beltway buzz now is that longtime Executive Editor Len Downie will be taking the latest round of buyouts. Among those thought to be in the running are veteran editor and columnist David Ignatius, who served for several years as executive editor at the International Herald Tribune when it was owned jointly by the Washington Post and the New York Times, and Jon Meacham, wunderkind editor of the Washington Post's sister publication, Newsweek.....

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]]> - 5/8 - Lanham-based urban radio giant Radio One reported more losses Thursday - a net loss in the first quarter of $18.3 million. Revenue in the latest period decreased 2 percent to $72.5 million versus the year-ago quarter. Radio One execs cited the decline in national radio advertising for the decline. More from bizjournals.com.....

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]]> - 5/8 - UPDATED: From WRQX's Wikipedia entry on Thursday morning: "Mix 107.3 is... home of the 'Jack Diamond Morning Show.' Citadel Broadcasting has announced that Jack Diamond (right), who has been the morning host for the last 18 years, will be let go due to budget reasons. His final show will be on May 30, 2008. The syndicated 'Scott And Todd' show from sister station WPLJ in New York will replace Diamond." No confirmation from WRQX. And we're hearing that Citadel is denying the report. By the way, that Wikipedia paragraph mysteriously disappeared by midday Thursday. DCRTV has reported rumors that WRQX owner Citadel wants the highly-paid DC radio veteran gone. We've also reported rumblings that he's been involved in contract negotiations. Stay tuned.....

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]]> - 5/8 - "When you read it, you can't figure out what they concluded." So said Rush Limbaugh on his radio show today about the Washington Post, and other "mainstream" media outlets, reporting that the righty talk titan had "called off" his "Operation Chaos" campaign, which commanded Republicans to cast primary votes for Democrat Hillary Clinton. And reports that he'd "thrown his support to Obama," her party rival. Neither of which has occurred, Limbaugh alleged via WMAL and WCBM.....

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]]> - 5/8 - Citadel, which owns WRQX, WJZW, and WMAL, reported that its first-quarter revenue dropped 5 percent. Citadel's bottom line swung to a loss of $8.3 million, following the acquisition of ABC's radio stations last year. More from Radio Ink.....

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]]> - 5/8 - Big loss for the Boston Globe: Charlie Savage, who won a 2007 Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the Bush administration's sweeping expansion of executive power, is headed to the New York Times. He'll start there later this month. More from thephoenix.com.....

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]]> - 5/8 - Geoff Moore has been picked by Fredericksburg country outlet WFLS (93.3 FM) to co-host mornings with Jessica Cash. He replaces 31-year FLS veteran Brian Strobel, who retired in late 2007. Moore comes from a hot adult contemporary station in Tampa. He starts on 5/12.....

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]]> - 5/8 - A memorial service for longtime DC radio personality Bill Hamlin (right) will be held on 6/16, 7:30 PM, in the Aaron And Cecile Goldman Theater at the DC Jewish Community Center, 1529 16th Street NW. This is the home of Theater J, where Hamlin performed many times. Hamlin, an award-winning actor and radio personality on 94.7 FM - as WJMD, WLTT, and WARW - died on 2/21 from lung cancer at the age of 64. More in DCRTV's 5/8 Mailbag.....

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]]> - 5/8 - Rhea Feiken "loses it" during a Maryland Public Television pledge break. With Stu Kerr. Via DCRTVideo at the bottom of the right column on this page.....

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]]> - 5/8 - The Federal Communications Commission plans to pull the plug on analog TV signals in Wilmington NC in September - five months ahead of the national February 2009 digital-only broadcast TV deadline - in order to work out "kinks" in the procedure. Viewers who rely on over-the-air reception will need to either purchase new digital TV sets or digital converter boxes for their old analog sets, and maybe even install new antenna systems. More in the DC Post.....

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]]> - 5/8 - Thursday's Washington Post puts righty radio talk titan Rush Limbaugh on the front page and asks if his "Operation Chaos" campaign gave Hillary Clinton the edge in Indiana on Tuesday, thereby prolonging the Democratic Party's presidential primary content.....

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]]> - 5/8 - A pair of powerful legislators want to know whether news networks bear any culpability related to a Department Of Defense program to recruit ex-military officers to talk up Iraq and other policies on TV, online, and elsewhere. Broadcasting And Cable has more.....

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]]> - 5/8 - A Washington Times article uncritically quoted an Indiana man saying of Barack Obama, "I can't stand him.... He's a Muslim. He's not even pro-American as far as I'm concerned." So reports Media Matters.....

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]]> - 5/7 - Two new Classified Ads. A web account manager for WJLA and NewsChannel 8. And a satellite coordinator for WJLA and NewsChannel 8.....

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]]> - 5/7 - Righty talk radio titan Rush Limbaugh (left), between crowing about the success and attention of his "Operation Chaos," switched sides in the Democratic primary today. "I now urge the Democratic superdelegates to go publicly make your mind up for Obama," he said on his show, heard locally on WMAL and WCBM. Earlier, he said, "I'm now tempted to tell superdelegates to pick Obama because I now believe he would be the weakest nominee." Limbaugh had been urging his listeners to support Hillary as the only chance for Republican victory in November, and to extend the Democratic primary. Exit polls and anecdotes suggest that many did. More from the Politico.....

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]]> - 5/7 - National gay news magazine the Advocate features Baltimore native and former CNN Headline News anchor Thomas Roberts as its cover guy (right). Roberts was outed by a blog when he was an anchor at CNN in 2006, but has since openly discussed his sexuality. "If people don't like that I'm gay or that I talk about being gay, I'm sorry. Because that's not my problem." Roberts made the news a few years ago when he revealed that he, as a youth, was molested by a priest while attending a Baltimore Catholic school.....

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]]> - 5/7 - Comcast SportsNet will air five Washington Mystics games this season, including four games in high-definition. The CSN games of the pro basketball female team will be featured during July. In addition, the Mystics will be featured four times on national television, making their 2008 national debut on 5/31, when the team hosts the Los Angeles Sparks on ABC.....

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