Donald Trump, the billionaire businessman turned Republican presidential frontrunner, is scheduled to meet next week with Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes and other senior executives at the cable news network to discuss their on-again-off-again feud, the network announced Thursday.
The announcement comes one day after Trump said he is boycotting appearing on Fox News because the network has treated him "unfairly."
"Fox News Chairman & CEO Roger Ailes and Donald Trump spoke this morning and plan to have a meeting next week to discuss their differences of opinion regarding Fox's coverage of Mr. Trump's presidential campaign," a Fox News spokesperson said in a statement.
"Ailes will be joined by senior Fox editorial executives," the statement continued. "Mr. Trump believes he has been treated unfairly in certain instances. Fox News has held every candidate in this race to the highest journalistic standards throughout our coverage. We believe a candid meeting about our differences is required and that any misunderstandings can be handled without compromising those standards."
Trump has complained repeatedly throughout his campaign that Fox News has been unfair to him. Along the way, the real estate mogul and former Atlantic City casino magnate worked out a pair of truces with Ailes.
.@FoxNews has been treating me very unfairly & I have therefore decided that I won't be doing any more Fox shows for the foreseeable future.
FNC’s statement comes on day after the network called Trump’s announcement he would no longer appear on the network and his attacks on Kelly and The O’Reilly Factor “stale and tiresome.” Trump “doesn’t seem to grasp that candidates telling journalists what to ask is not how the media works in this country,” FNC said Wednesday after the network canceled Trump’s scheduled appearance on The O’Reilly Factor that had been set for tonight. That had resulted in Trump’s announcement he was boycotting FNC.
WNSH NASH FM 94.7 has announced another “NASH BASH” at Manhattan’s Beacon Theater on October 26 at 7:30 p.m. featuring Country star Lee Brice as the headliner and performances by Rodney Atkins, Mo Pitney and Dylan Scott.
The concert celebrates New York’s Country Station listeners across the tri-state area. As NASH’s flagship station, NASH FM 94.7 draws nearly 1.4 million listeners a week. Country fans can listen live for chances to win tickets to the stellar concert event beginning soon.
Lee Brice is an award-winning Country music singer, songwriter and producer. Brice recently received the 2015 Academy of Country Music Award for “Single Record Of The Year,” which recognized the success of his 2014 album I Don’t Dance. Brice is currently on a national tour seeking to become the first Country artist to perform in all 50 U.S. states in 2015.
Tickets to the event are available through Ticketmaster.com and range from $30 to $50.
SiriusXM announced today that Jenna Wolfe will host a live, limited-run, one-hour weekly series on SiriusXM's exclusive channel TODAY Show Radio starting today.
In her new series, Jenna-Really Speaking with Jenna Wolfe, Wolfe will discuss some of her favorite topics, including fitness, nutrition and emotional well-being. Wolfe will share personal stories and her experiences as a working mother, take questions and offer encouragement and advice to SiriusXM listeners and speak with some of her favorite athletes, celebrities and medical professional guests.
"I'm absolutely ready for this. I've been practicing 10-minute radio segments in the shower every day for 45 years. I'm only 41, so you know how impressive that is. I couldn't be more excited to talk fitness and nutrition and balancing a nutty life with people going through the same exact thing," said Jenna Wolfe.
Jenna-Really Speaking with Jenna Wolfe will air Fridays starting September 25 at 2:00 pm ET on SiriusXM's TODAY Show Radio, channel 108.
Hoda Kotb, the co-host of the fourth hour of "TODAY," also hosts a weekly live show, The Hoda Show, on TODAY Show Radio.
Jenna Wolfe serves as The TODAY Show's Lifestyle and Fitness Correspondent and as an NBC News National Correspondent. Wolfe spent 12 years as a sportscaster before joining the Today Show in 2007.
SiriusXM launched TODAY Show Radio in June 2014, making the NBC morning program available to radio listeners for the first time ever. The satellite radio channel offers SiriusXM listeners across the country access to live audio feeds of TODAY from both coasts, including replays. SiriusXM is the exclusive audio home of TODAY. In addition to the live audio feeds, SiriusXM's TODAY Show Radio features exclusive content, including news reports from NBC News correspondents, backstage interviews with TODAY hosts and conversations with fans from around the world on the Rockefeller Plaza.
Tim "JR" Hayes has been added as the new MD/Afternoon personality for Brazos Valley Communications Country KORA 98.3 FM in Bryan-College Station, TX. Most recently, he arrives from KLLL 96.3 Lubbock, where was production director and afternoon host. He prevsiously was PD, MD and on -air at WAAC in Valdosta, GA and KDCD inSan Angelo, TX.
“JR brings a passion and appreciation for local radio and its role in bringing communities, organizations, and people together,” said GM John Seigler. “JR has a tremendous appreciation and understanding of Country music, both Nashville and Texas Country.”
KORA PD Carly Evans said, We couldn’t be more thrilled to have JR joining our talented group of radio professionals here at 98.3 KORA. His Texas Country and radio background are extremely strong, and he will make an amazing asset to the company and station.”
I'm truly excited to be offered the position with KORA, a great Texas Country radio station," commented Hayes. "I've been very involved in the Texas Country scene for a long time and to have the opportunity to join KORA and build on its legacy of opening doors for Texas artists is wonderful.”
Jeff Thompson, familiar long-time voice on Fayetteville radio stations, is calling it quits after 52 years.
Thompson, most recently with WIDU 1600 AM, said he plans to retire on Oct. 31.
"This is probably the quickest way to let my friends and followers know that after 52 years, I have decided to retire from radio," the release said.
Thompson began his radio career in September 1963 after he completed his enlistment and was discharged from the Army at Fort Bragg. He said he decided to stay in Fayetteville.
"I married a local girl and raised three children," Thompson said. "I've considered Fayetteville our home all these years and am proud to have had the privilege of chronicling this community's news events day to day."
The fayobserver.com reports Thompson previously worked at WFNC 640 AM. He was a regular on "Fayetteville's Morning News" starting in 1976. The station's original news show was called "Top of the Morning."
He worked with a number of popular local anchors and reporters like Wendy Riddle, Terry Jordan and Gilbert Baez.
Thompson said he plans to stay in Fayetteville and has no plans of slowing down. "I'm not going anywhere," Thompson said, "just putting aside the microphone. I hope to remain involved in civic affairs as all concerned citizens should."
Rare Country, the newly-launched country music and lifestyle website, has tapped talent and production executive Laurissa Phillips as its Chief Creative Officer and General Manager. Dually-based in Atlanta and Nashville, Phillips is responsible for the daily, creative and strategic oversight of the website dedicated to serving the country music fan. Rare Country is a subsidiary of Cox Media Group’sRare.us.
Leon Levitt, vice president at Cox Media Group and publisher of Rare, stated: “Rare Country has experienced phenomenal growth over the past six months and now under Laurissa’s leadership, we expect that growth to accelerate. Her energy, strong industry relationships and deep understanding of the business make Laurissa the perfect person to lead what has become the fastest-growing, country music website today.”
Phillips stated: “Rare Country takes pride in catering to passionate country music fans using both original editorial and artist driven social content. Our ability to share our content across Rare’s vast social media and digital properties is a giant opportunity for the country music industry to reach an even wider audience, and I’m excited to be a part of the Rare Country team.”
Rare Country already has an impressive audience. Its content is shared with 14 million people on Facebook every month, driving 5 million site visits and 7 million page views. Key to the site’s distribution model is its ability to share its content with Rare.us both on its website and via social media, exponentially amplifying Rare Country’s reach. Billed as “America’s News Feed,” Rare.us averages over 40 million visits per month.
Pacifica Radio’s KPFK 90.7 FM is on the brink of extinction, and longtime staffers are seeing their hours – and their paychecks – cut in half.
“It’s a disaster,” says Sonali Kolhatkar, a longtime KPFK staffer who hosts the daily show “Uprising.” “Morale has been horribly low. We went from this amazingly buoyant place to this horribly depressing place.”
The Pasadena Weekly reports staffers attribute the in morale is due to poor management and a board of directors who are more interested in lining their pockets and pushing radical political and social agendas than they are in creating great radio or raising funds for the station.
Pacifica Radio is a network of five independently operated, listener-supported radio stations known for their liberal views, including Los Angeles-based KPFK, Berkeley’s KPFA, and New York’s WBAI. It was founded in 1946 by conscientious objectors from World War II, but over the last few years the democratic and open-minded principles on which the station was founded have been turned on their head, and sinking ratings, internal disputes, loss of grant money, constant fund drives, and financial missteps have brought a once beloved resource to the breaking point.
Sonali Kalhatkar
Kolhatkar and her colleague Ian Masters, host of the show “Background Briefing,” say that the root of Pacifica’s problems begins and ends with the board of directors and with General Manager Leslie Radford. When Kolhatkar heard that Radford was coming in to replace the previous general manager, she says, “I knew this was the beginning of the end because I had seen how she operated. She has no radio experience. I knew things were going to get real bad.”
Kolhatkar says that when Radford announced the pay cuts and layoffs last month, employees were also told that they could apply for California’s Work Sharing Unemployment Insurance program, which allows for the payment of benefits to employees whose hours and wages have been reduced. In order for that to happen, KPFK needed to submit the required paperwork, which didn’t happen in time.
Baseball broadcasting HOFer Vin Scully has been officially recognized by Guinnes World Records for having the Longest career as a sports broadcaster for a single team, having been behind the mic for an incredible 65 years 5 months and 22 days (as of 23 September).
Known for his distinctive lyrical yet simple play-by-play descriptions, the legend has been announcing the Los Angeles Dodgers games since 1 April 1950 when the team were based in New York as the Brooklyn Dodgers.
Before Wednesday’s game between the Dodgers and the Arizona Diamondbacks kicked off, Guinness World Records adjudicator Alex Angert entered the stadium and presented the long-serving broadcaster with a certificate.
Angert said: “I’m honored to be able to present legendary broadcaster Vin Scully with his official certificate. Vin is a national treasure and it’s unbelievable to think that his career as the Dodgers’ broadcaster predates Guinness World Records, which just celebrated its 60th anniversary in August.
“His voice has called some of baseball’s most timeless record-breaking moments and the world has been lucky to have him behind the microphone for the last seven decades. Vin’s career has been ‘Officially Amazing’ and we are glad to welcome him into the Guinness World Records family.”
Vin Scully’s career was only just beginning when 62 years ago he became the Youngest sports broadcaster to broadcast a World Series game (baseball). Aged 25, he voiced the broadcast of the 1953 World Series game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the New York Yankees.
In 1933...Tom Mix was heard for the first time on NBC Radio. His show ran until June,1950.
Here's the Tom Mix tie-in to the call sign of Hubbard Radio's WTMX Chicago.
WKBI AM in St. Marys PA went on in
1950. This was the first of a group of stations that would become
the Allegheny Mountain Radio Network headed up by Cary Simpson. In
1966, WKBI-FM went on the air Licensed to Ridgeway, Elk County PA's
County seat.
In the 70's WKBI-FM changed formats
from Top 40 to Country and at that time changed call letters to WTMX
in honor of one of Hollywoods early famous cowboys of the silver
screen, Tom Mix. Mix was born in Southern Elk county.
WTMX would become WKBI-FM again in
1983.
In Chicago, WCLR changed it's call sign
to WTMX in 1989.
(H/T: Jim Linn Jacksonville.)
In 1967...Bob Hall, Host of Music Til Dawn on WCBS 880 AM passed away. "Music Till Dawn" premiered on April 13, 1953. WCBS announcer Bob Hall was the model for hosts on that program around the nation.
In 1975...While performing "Lonely Teardrops" onstage at the Latin Casino in Cherry Hill, NJ during a Dick Clark oldies revue, Jackie Wilson collapses from a heart attack, bashing his head on the stage and lapsing into a come from which he will remain until his death in 1983.
Video features Wilson on the TV Show Shindig with Billy Preston on the keyboards.
In 1976...Frampton Comes Alive! by Peter Frampton stood alone at the top of the album chart for the eighth week. Silk Degrees from Boz Scaggs was a strong second with Linda Ronstadt's Hasten Down the Wind close behind.
The self-titled Fleetwood Mac was now moving back up after 61 weeks of release.
The rest of the Top 10: Wild Cherry, War with their Greatest Hits package, Spirit from John Denver at #7, Spitfire by Jefferson Starship, All Things in Time by Lou Rawls at #9 and Chicago X.
In 1978…Radio actor (The Shadow, The First Nighter Program, Heartbeat Theater) Bret Morrison died following a heart attack at the age of 66.
In 1989...Jacor launched "Power 93: the Power Pig" in Tampa.
A year earlier, Jacor Broadcasting bought WFLA-FM 93.3 and its sister station, WFLA-AM 970, and switched the FM’s format and calls to oldies WFLZ “Z93.” The format lasted only about a year.
After a weekend of stunting, including an hour of an urban contemporary micro-format, WFLZ would flip to Top 40 on September 25, 1989 at 8:15 AM to compete against local CHR Q105 (the first song under the new format was "Cold Hearted" by Paula Abdul). The station became "Power 93" or "The Power Pig", and aggressively targeted Q105 with promotions such as handing out "Screw The Q" t-shirts at various on the street events.
The station took over first place in 72 days and became one of the most legendary radio stations of all time.
Power Pig WFLZ #1
The first full-time Power Pig on-air lineup in October 1989 included Dr. Don Carpenter and the “Three Little Pigs” – Jack Harris, BJ Harris, and PD Marc Chase – on the morning show. In middays was long-time Tampa radio vet Dave Mann; afternoons were led by former Q105'er Jon 'Rock N Roll' Anthony, and nights were hosted by Tim and Tom. The original Beaver Stevens held down 10pm-2am, and Russell ‘The Love Muscle’ handled overnights from 2am-6am. The Pig continued its double-entendres on the weekends, too, with Hot "Dickie" Damn, Booger, Hardin Long, Jason (Mason's illegitimate son) Dixon, Jomama Johnson, Boner, and Brian Christopher.
Ratings for “The Power Pig” took off with listeners 12+ and 18-34 who bought specially-designed T-shirts imprinted with “Screw the Q” on them from the station’s pink-colored mobile unit dubbed “The Pig Van.” Lawsuits ensued and, in the end, Q105 took quite a beating and switched to country in 1993. In 1995 WFLZ dropped its aggressive approach and re-imaged itself more mainstream Top 40 as “93.3 FLZ The New Music Revolution” and, in 2000, “The #1 Hit Music Channel”.
In 2001…XM Satellite Radio began fulltime operations. It was set to officially launch on September 12, but due to the September 11 attacks, the kickoff was postponed to the 25th.
In 2003...Bob Murphy broadcast his last MLB NY Mets radio broadcast
In 2005…Longtime radio favorite in Seattle (KOL, KJR) and Chicago (WLS, WCFL), Jerry Kay died at the age of 67.
In 2010…Radio-TV show announcer (Amos 'n Andy, The Adventures of Frank Race, Dr. Christian, The Sears Radio Theater, Stars over Hollywood, The Golden Days of Radio, The World Tomorrow, The Red Skelton Show, Highway Patrol, The George Gobel Show, Mackenzie's Raiders) Art Gilmore died at age 98.
In 2013…News correspondent (CBS, NPR, CNN) Lee Thornton, the first African American woman to cover a regular White House beat for one of the big three broadcast networks, died of pancreatic cancer at 71.
(Reuters) -- President Vladimir Putin phoned Elton John on Thursday to say he would be ready to meet up for a chat after the British singer requested a meeting to discuss his concerns about gay rights in Russia.
Putin's call came just a week after a pair of Russian comedians tricked John, 68, into thinking he was talking to Putin on the phone in a stunt that the entertainer laughed off, while saying he hoped it would highlight discrimination against gay people.
This time, Dmitry Peskov, Putin's spokesman, said the Russian leader really had phoned John, who has used his status as one of the world's most famous gay celebrities to push for equal rights for homosexuals around the world.
"Putin phoned him," Peskov told reporters. "He said: 'I know some guys played a trick on you on the phone, but don't get offended. They are harmless people, though that of course does not justify what they did.'"
Putin told John that since he was a popular performer he would be ready to meet him and discuss any subject which interested him, if their schedules coincided, Peskov said.
Western states and human rights activists have criticised Russia for its treatment of gay people, and John has previously spoken out against a 2013 law banning the dissemination of "gay propaganda" among young people.
Putin has said he is not prejudiced against gay people, but has made comments which activists have criticised as being ambiguous and insulting towards homosexuals.
John, who plays to vast audiences in Russia when he tours, could not immediately be reached for comment.
Jorge & Jen, hosted by ESPN Radio current host Jorge Sedano and newcomer Jen Lada, will be broadcast weekday evenings from 9 – 11 p.m. ET beginning Monday, Sept. 28.
“ESPN Radio’s revamped lineup is incredibly compelling, filled with dynamic, energetic hosts with distinct voices and from a wide variety of backgrounds,” said Traug Keller, senior vice president, ESPN business divisions. “Listeners will find opinions, news and humor across all our Audio platforms.”
Sedano, with more than 15 years of radio broadcast experience, hosted Sedano & Stink alongside Mark Schlereth when he joined ESPN in 2013 until March 2015. Since then, he has hosted The Sedano Show (7-9 p.m.). Prior to joining ESPN, he served as program director and afternoon host at Sports Radio WQAM in Miami. Sedano also served as studio host for Fox’s Sun Sports telecasts of the Miami Heat in 2012-13.
Since joining ESPN earlier this year, Lada has made guest host appearances on a variety of ESPN Radio and television shows. A Chicago native with more than a decade of broadcasting experience, Lada was an anchor and reporter in the Chicago area for Comcast SportsNet, covering professional Chicago sports. She also worked as a reporter and anchor for WITI-TV in Milwaukee and WREX-TV in Rockford, Ill.
The program will be available nationally on ESPN Radio, espnradio.com, the ESPN app, SiriusXM, Apple iTunes, Slacker Radio and TuneIn.
ESPN Radio’s Weekday Schedule:
6 a.m.Mike & Mike
10 a.m.The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
1 p.m.Russillo & Kanell
4 p.m.The Right Time with Bomani Jones
7 p.m.Jalen & Jacoby
9 p.m.Jorge & Jen
11 p.m.The Freddie Coleman Show
2 a.m.SportsCenter All Night with Jay Reynolds
Once kindred spirits of the more vocal precincts of the Republican party, Trump and Fox News have been on the outs ever since the first Republican debate, in which he took issue with the questions and tone of the moderators. One of those moderators was Megyn Kelly, among the most popular and visible of the Fox News personalities, with whom Trump publicly feuded.
Fox News, for its part, issued a dry statement in response.
