Cincy Talker Deters Lands New Gig

Well, that didn’t take long.   Eric “the Bulldog” Deters has landed on his feet with a new gig: AM drive on non-com ClassXRadio in the Cincy market.  Deters is expected to start by Oct. 1 and describes the new show as  “mostly talk, with some rock.”

Deters says ClassX manager  Bill Spry also agreed to  build “a studio in my Cincinnati law office where we have room. The studio will be bigger and better than what we had at Realtalk 1160. There will be more room for guests…. (and) we are going back to video casts and the podcasts.”

According to John Kiesewetter at Cincinnati.com, Deters resigned last week from WQRT  Real Talk 1160 AM in protest over management’s decision to place him under an inexperienced program director.

ClassXRadio (classxradio.com) operates three stations and Deter's show will  air  over all three FM signals: WMWX 88.9 FM Cincy/IndianaWKCX 89.1 FM Northern Kentucky and WYNS 89.3 FM Warren County

ClassX Radio has been voted the #1 Rock Station in the Tri-State by NKY Scene and Best Radio Station in Cincinnati by City Beat Magazine. Their slogan: “The New Breed Of Rock”.

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FC: Big DJs Often Make $25,000 An Hour

Behind them is a man like Arash Shirazi of The Bullitt Agency

Arash Shirazi is the CEO of The Bullitt Agency, which manages international DJs, including the Grammy Award-winning DJ Dubfire, along with Better Lost Than Stupid, Davide Squillace, and Satoshi Tomiie. 

As dance and electronic music surges in popularity--Rolling Stone magazine recently featured the producer-DJ Deadmau5 on its cover—Fast Company caught up with Shirazi to find out more about the business behind the music.

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Penn State Bans "Sweet Caroline"

The atmosphere at Penn State University  is so sensitive that Beaver Stadium's traditional sing-along of Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" is going to be a thing of the past because of its touchy lyrics.

According to the Altoona Mirror, Penn State is eliminating Neil Diamond’s "Sweet Caroline" from its

playlist for football games this season because the song features the lyric "touching me, touching you."

University officials are uneasy about the prospect of a stadium packed with 100,000-plus spectators singing the lyrics as the school tries to move forward from the Jerry Sandusky sex scandal.

MSNBC's Matthews' On-Air Meltdown

Chris Matthews went ballistic with Reince Priebus on MSNBC's ratings-challenged "Morning Joe" with Joe Scarborough on Monday lambasting the Republican National Committee chairman and accusing his party of "playing the race card."

"The usually insulting and boisterous Matthews is allowed to shout and scream at guests -- usually guests who are conservatives. But this wasn't his show and you could tell the host Joe Scarborough wasn't comfortable losing control of the dialogue," said political strategist Michael Baker.

Journey To Play Mitt Romney Fundraiser

Journey will receive a whopping $500,00 to play a private fundraiser for Mitt Romney this week in Florida, according to TMZ.

The band will reportedly play a 90-minute set on Thursday night  in Tampa at a party separate from the official convention.

According to sources close to Journey, "the group don't feel they are making a political statement either way by performing at the event, and plan on treating the show like it's just another gig."

Katie Blasts CBS

Katie Couric has launched a bitter attack on her former employers at CBS and claimed that she felt ‘liberated’ after leaving the TV network, according to a story at dailymail.co.uk.

In an interview for the September issue of Good Housekeeping, Couric said that bosses made her five years working for the company a misery because they were ‘projecting their own issues onto me’.

She said that anchoring CBS Evening News left her feel ‘constrained’ and that only by biting her tongue and just getting on with it could she deal with the poisonous atmosphere.

CBS Evening News under Couric was critically acclaimed and won a string of awards including four Emmys, two Edward R Murrow Awards for Best Newscast, the George Polk Award and the Walter Cronkite Award.

Couric said that since leaving she has been far more relaxed and that not having to put on makeup every day is a ‘Godsend’.

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Also: Katie visits Twitter's new HQs.

Talker Deters Walks At Real Talk 1160.

Controversial Northern Kentucky attorney Eric Deters says he resigned Friday in a chain-of-command dispute with managers of  WQRT Real Talk 1160, and says his offer to rescind the resignation was ignored.

According to John Kiesewetter at  Cincinnati.com, the high-profile attorney also says he expects to sign a TV  deal soon with  producers with national TV series experience, and he is talking about a new radio deal..

Deters says he quit because he was told by Station Manager Bob Herrion  that he must report to Operations Manager/Program Director Rob Williams, whom he does not respect. He had been reporting to Herrion, and Herrion’s predecessor who hired him.

Former AM Host at WARM98 Dean Miuccio is the new permanent morning host on Real Talk 1160, says owner Jon Yinger.

In May 2011, Deterswas dropped from WLW-AM’s weekend lineup after posting a video blog on  Facebook saying: “If you want to conquer an African nation, send white women and pot.” Deters removed the video quickly, calling it “an embarrassing thing… Sometimes you say things you wish you didn’t say… and this is one of them.”

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News Coverage of Candidates Highly Negative

Neither Obama Nor Romney Has An Edge

On the eve of the conventions, the portrayal in the news media of the character and records of the two presidential contenders in 2012 has been as negative as any campaign in recent times, and neither candidate has enjoyed an advantage over the other, according to a new Pew Research study of mainstream media coverage of the race for president.

More of what the public hears about candidates also now comes from the campaigns themselves and less from journalists acting as independent reporters or interpreters of who the candidates are.

An examination of the dominant or master narratives in the press about the character and record of presidential contenders finds that 72% of this coverage has been negative for Barack Obama and 71% has been negative for Mitt Romney. The study, conducted by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism, examined the personal portrayal of the candidate in 50 major news outlets over a 10-week period.

 Among the findings of the study:

 In cable television, Fox and MSNBC's coverage of the candidates' character themes are mirror images of each other. Fox has offered a mixed view of Romney, but its assessments of Obama's record and character have run negative by a ratio of six to one. The numbers are almost identical, in reverse, for MSNBC. Meanwhile, CNN has offered less about the campaign in general, but what is has, to a greater degree than its cable rivals, resembles what audiences would find in the rest of the media.

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CC Tampa Puts Up The "We're Hiring" Sign

CHR WFLZ posted the good news on their website.

Wait, let me check the calendar, this isn't April 1st is it?

No....actually 93.3 FLZ says  they have openings for sales and marketing types.  And supposedly, FLZ listeners who apply have the inside track for a position, because the website promises AMer Kane and PMer Scott Davis will "personally" put the applicants' resume "in front of hiring managers".

Yea, right.  But should look pretty in the Public File.

THR: Utah Station Will Not Air NBC's "New Normal"

Ryan Murphy and Ali Adler's new comedy, which tells the story of a single mother who becomes a surrogate for a same-sex couple, was deemed “inappropriate” by Utah station KSL-TV.

 "Same-sex families are a beloved part of American television thanks to shows like Modern Family, Glee and Grey’s Anatomy," GLAAD President Herndon Graddick said in a statement according to The HollywoodReporter.

 "While audiences, critics and advertisers have all supported LGBT stories, KSL is demonstrating how deeply out of touch it is with the rest of the country."

Jeff Simpson, CEO of KSL parent company Bonneville International, revealed Friday the station planned not to air New Normal, citing crude language and offensive characterizations.

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HOFer Vin Scully To Return For 64th Season

Baseball Hall of Fame broadcaster Vin Scully, one of the most revered figures in Los Angeles sports history, will return to the broadcast booth for an unprecedented 64th season in 2013, according to the LA Dodgers.  Scully will again call all Dodger home and road games in California and Arizona.

“The new ownership of the Dodgers has revitalized the city, the team, the fans and myself,” Scully said. “I am so convinced of their great purpose and leadership that I eagerly look forward to joining them in pursuit of the next Dodgers championship.”

Widely regarded as the finest sportscaster of all time, Scully’s 63 years of service mark the longest tenure in his field. While he calls all nine innings of the team's television broadcasts on PRIME TICKET and KCAL 9, the first three innings of each of his games are also simulcast on AM 570 Fox Sports LA.

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Illinois Cluster Looks To Sell Transmitter Land

A Champaign, Ill. Radio cluster is looking to sell-off land around it’s transmitter because “it serves no real business purpose”.

The land surrounding the WDWS/WHMS/WUIL radio studios is up for sale, but the studios themselves are expected to remain, according to a story  in the Champaign News-Gazette.

The 10.33-acre property, at the northwest corner of Neil Street and Windsor Road in Champaign, is listed with Sperry Van Ness/Ramshaw Real Estate, according to John Foreman, president of The News-Gazette Inc., which owns the radio stations.

The asking price is $3.5 million.

Foreman said WDWS doesn't need the land around it any more, though it did when it moved there in 1948.

"The land costs us money," Foreman said. "We pay taxes on the land, we maintain it as a lawn. It's expensive to maintain when it serves no real business purpose."

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