It’s that time of the year again, for the most special of retrospections… year-in-review lists.
Google’s top trending searches of 2019 show that globally cricket, soccer and the newest iPhone were atop our minds this year, while in the US newly-launched streaming service Disney Plus was a hot topic.
Unlike in years past, two cricket matchups made it into the top 5 trending searches, with India vs South Africa topping the list and Bangladesh vs India coming in at #4. Searches for the ICC Cricket World Cup ranked 10th.
Unfortunately, untimely passings often make these lists, and this year was no different, as the death of Disney star Cameron Boyce was the #2 global trending search.
Also in the global top 5 were Copa America (#3) and the iPhone 11 (#5) which brings consumer tech back onto the list after being absent last year.
[Note: Top trending searches do not refer to searches with the most volume, but rather those with the highest amount of traffic over a sustained period in comparison to 2018.]
Retailers have long known music can influence shopper behavior and help brands create an emotional connection with their customers.
According to CNN, stores have different ways of choosing which songs to play on their speakers.
Some, including Lululemon (LULU), let store managers decide. Walmart (WMT) plays its own radio station, Walmart Radio, and DJs select songs. Other companies, including Neighborhood Goods, work with third parties such as Mood Media or Soundtrack Your Brand. Some stores like Costco (COST) don't play music at all.
Danny Turner
Danny Turner creates playlists for some of the world's top retailers and brands to play in stores, restaurants and hotels as the global senior vice president of creative programming at Mood Media.
The company bought Muzak, known for its elevator music, from bankruptcy in 2011. It reaches 150 million consumers every day, including customers at Target, Claire's and jewelry brand Kendra Scott.
It's Turner's job to help set the mood for shoppers in stores — and to find songs that won't drive workers crazy.
Turner said there are some do's and don'ts when deciding what tunes to pick.
He and his team of sound designers look for songs with a "mid-tempo, kind of upbeat, kind of pop thing. We joke about artists that almost seem like they music-design for bopping down the produce aisle at Wegmans."
"Instrumentation should be bright and clear" and avoid minor keys. "We look at tonal qualities of sounds and make sure there's not any sort of bizarre instrumentation or an irritating, repetitive structure," he said. "We don't want to send the associates screaming in the aisles."
Turner said music does have an impact on the in-store experience. He pointed to surveys the company conducted that found that 83% of American shoppers say they like in-store music, including 91% of customers between the ages of 18 and 24.
Consumers say they're more likely to stay in stores for longer if there is music and return to visit, according to Mood Media data. And they will even recommend a friend visit a store if they have a positive experience with the music.
A study conducted by Canadian music licensing company Entandem this year backs this up. The company found that one-third of Canadians say they stay longer in stores because of the music being played.
This year brands closely scrutinized their holiday music. Many radio stations have pulled "Baby, It's Cold Outside" because of sexist lyrics. Mood Media also removed it from its catalog.
This year, Mood Media is pulling "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" from its holiday playlists because the song includes a lyric about guns: "A pair of hop-a-long boots and a pistol that shoots."
"What you don't play can't hurt you," Turner said.
Radio One Cleveland has announced new morning shows and line-ups for WENZ 107.9 FM and WZAK 93.1 FM, including the successor for popular radio host Tom Joyner.
Joyner retired this month after 25 years of hosting America’s top syndicated radio show, which reached more than 8 million listeners in more than 105 markets, according to CBS.
Starting January 6, his slot on 93.1 WZAK-FM will be filled with “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show," the country’s top hip-hop show. Host Rickey Smiley also appears on “Dish One,” and had his own sitcom and reality TV show.
Take a look at the rest of the new line-up for WZAK-FM and WENZ-FM:
WZAK-FM
12 p.m. - The Sam Sylk Show w/Bijou Star - live Jan. 2
3 p.m. - The D.L. Hughley Show
7 p.m. - Love and R&B with Al B. Sure.
WENZ-FM
6 a.m. - The Morning Hustle - debuts Jan. 6
10 a.m. - The Break Room with DJ Angel Baby
3 p.m - The Day Party with Ro Digga and DJ Ryan Wolf
7 p.m. - Posted on the Corner with Incognito, DJ Steph Floss and DJ KY
Cumulus Atlanta radio stations WWWQ Q997 and New Country WKHX 101 FIVE raised a total of $218,437 for Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta in the 5th annual Making Miracles Radiothon and the New Country 101 FIVE Making Miracles concert.
The 13-hour Radiothon was held on Thursday, December 12th and culminated on Saturday, December 14th with the New Country 101FIVE Making Miracles concert featuring 2019’s break-out Country artist Blanco Brown. Cumulus Atlanta has raised a total of over $1 million over the five years the stations have held the Radiothon.
Sacramento radio show host and financial adviser Keith Springer, whose show “Smart Money” airs weekends on iHeartMedia's KFBK 1530 AM / 93.1 FM, says that allegations of fraud filed against him by the Securities and Exchange Commission in federal court are “absolutely false.”
Keith Springer
“It’s really David versus Goliath here,” Springer said in an interview with The Sacramento Bee. “I’m just an easy headline for them.”
The SEC filed civil charges against Springer, 55, owner of Sacramento-based Springer Financial Advisors, alleging Springer and his business “have engaged in a pattern of deceptive conduct specifically targeted at retirees and near-retirees,” the complaint said.
The 18-page complaint alleges that Springer misrepresented his financial expertise, concealed his disciplinary history with the New York Stock Exchange and SEC from clients, and received millions of dollars of undisclosed compensation for recommending investments without disclosing a conflict of interest.
Advertisements for his company allegedly misinformed potential clients by falsely claiming Springer wasn’t paid to promote particular investment opportunities, according to the SEC.
Springer adamantly denies the allegations, saying he had been working with the SEC for years to correct “technical bookkeeping type things,” and disclosed his disciplinary history to all his new clients.
Since 1985, Springer has worked as a registered investment representative for a number of broker-dealer firms, but in 1999, the New York Stock Exchange barred him from membership and disallowed him to work for any member organization for four years, according to the SEC.
The SEC alleged that many of the victims were drawn to Springer through his radio show on KFBK, which Springer said he was chosen for because of his years of industry knowledge. In the complaint, the SEC alleges Springer paid to get on the air.
The voice of CKLW AM800 News in the morning has signed off for the last time.
Rob Shervill delivered his final newscast of his award-winning career last week, as he heads into retirement.
Shervill, who joined AM800 in January 1991, also served as news director and assistant news director along with his duties as morning news anchor.
The London, Ont. native was honoured on multiple occasions by the Radio and Television News Directors Association for both his excellence in newscasting and his news commentaries.
Windsor Mayor Drew Dilkens recognized Shervill on behalf of the city for his years of service, highlighting his level of integrity, commitment to excellence in journalism and trusted voice in the morning, calling him 'the Peter Jennings of Windsor.'
Peter Langille
Also retiring is Peter Langille, who has worked as a reporter and fill-in newscaster for more than two decades at AM800, officially retired as of Friday, December 20, but he missed his final few days at work.
Unfortunately, Langille missed a step going down the stairs at home last week, landing on his left leg, shattering his ankle and damaging his knee.
He required surgery on Thursday and had seven screws put into his ankle.
Langille has worked at the radio station for 22 years and many listeners would be surprised to learn he commuted every day from his home near Sarnia, ON to Windsor.
He says he has worn out four to five vehicles during his long commutes and his current vehicle has more than 500,000km on it.
Phil Spector has been pictured sporting a goatee, a bald head and hearing aids as he grins for his latest mugshot after spending ten years behind bars and wearing a selection of wigs during his murder trial.
The 79-year-old fallen music legend was sentenced to 19-years to life in 2009 over the 2003 slaying of actress Lana Clarkson, 40, in his California mansion's foyer.
He was known for parading around in a selection of wigs and elaborate hairstyles during the murder trial that landed him in jail.
Now a new picture of the famed Wall of Sound producer – taken at the California Health Care Facility in Stockton on November 19 and exclusively obtained by DailyMail.com – shows him sporting a new look.
Spector looks to be in good spirits ahead of turning 79 today. He is still wearing the hearing aid which appeared in his previous jailhouse picture from 2017.
Edward Aschoff, an ESPN college football reporter known for his lively blog posts and thoughtfully reported features, died on Tuesday after a brief illness, The NY Times reported. It was his 34th birthday.
Edward Aschoff
Aschoff had contracted pneumonia about a month ago, according to his social media posts. “I had a virus for two weeks. Fever and cough and the doctors think it turned into this multifocal pneumonia recently,” he tweeted on Dec. 5, noting that he rarely gets sick and had been taking antibiotics.
In a statement, ESPN said the network was “very sorry to have to share the devastating news of the tragic passing of friend and ESPN colleague Edward Aschoff.”
In middle school, Mr. Aschoff was inspired to become a sports journalist by the prominent “SportsCenter” anchor Stuart Scott, who died in 2015.
He graduated from the University of Florida in 2008 with a bachelor’s degree in journalism and covered University of Florida football, basketball and baseball for The Gainesville Sun from 2007 to 2011, according to the university.
Aschoff joined ESPN in 2011, according to the network. In addition to writing stories, he would appear on television and radio for the network and earned a reputation for being the “most dapperly dressed person,” ESPN reported.
Songwriter Allee Willis, one of the music industry’s most colorful figures, whose eclectic credits as a writer and co-writer included Earth, Wind & Fire’s “September” and the “Friends” theme song, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Los Angeles.
Allee Willis
She was 72 according to the NY Times and the cause was cardiac arrest, acording to her publicist, Ellyn Solis.
The animator and producer Prudence Fenton, Ms. Willis’s partner of 27 years, posted a photo on Instagram with the caption: “Rest in Boogie Wonderland,” referring to the Earth, Wind & Fire disco hit that Ms. Willis wrote with Bob Lind.
Willis, who grew up in Detroit, never learned to play music. But she was drawn to Motown as a child, and said she learned how to become a songwriter by sitting on the lawn outside the record company’s studios and listening to the rhythms seeping through the building’s walls.
She attributed her career to her love of Motown.
“I’m so insanely attached to Motown and all the music that was coming out of Detroit, and it gave me a love for that kind of music,” she told The Detroit Free Press last year. “There’s no question: Had I grown up anywhere else, I would not ever have been a songwriter. Because I certainly don’t have the skills to be it.”
➦In 1921...Stephen Valentine Patrick William Allen was born (Died – October 30, 2000). He was was a radio, TV personality, musician, composer, actor, comedian and writer. In 1954, he achieved national fame as the co-creator and first host of The Tonight Show, which was the first late night television talk show.
Though he got his start in radio, Allen is best known for his extensive network television career. He gained national attention as a guest host on Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts. After he hosted The Tonight Show, he went on to host numerous game and variety shows, including his own The Steve Allen Show, I've Got a Secret, and The New Steve Allen Show. He was a regular panel member on CBS's What's My Line?, and from 1977 until 1981 wrote, produced, and hosted the award-winning public broadcasting show Meeting of Minds, a series of historical dramas presented in a talk format.
Allen was a pianist and a prolific composer. By his own estimate, he wrote more than 8,500 songs, some of which were recorded by numerous leading singers. Working as a lyricist, Allen won the 1964 Grammy Award for Best Original Jazz Composition. He also wrote more than 50 books, including novels, children's books, and books of opinions, including his final book, Vulgarians at the Gate: Trash TV and Raunch Radio (2001).
Allen was an announcer for radio KFAC in Los Angeles, then moved to the Mutual Broadcasting System in 1946, talking the station into airing his five-nights-a-week comedy show Smile Time, co-starring Wendell Noble. After Allen moved to CBS Radio's KNX in Los Angeles, his music-and-talk half-hour format gradually changed to include more talk in an hour-long late-night format, boosting his popularity and creating standing-room-only studio audiences.
During a show's segment, Allen went into the audience with a microphone to ad lib on-air for the first time. It became a commonplace part of his studio performances for many years. His program attracted a huge local following, and as the host of a 1950 summer replacement show for the popular comedy Our Miss Brooks, he was exposed to a national audience for the first time.
Allen died at age 78 on October 30th, 2000 after a minor traffic accident caused a blood vessel in his heart wall to rupture.
➦In 1926...WSM, the “WSM Barn Dance” began regular Saturday night broadcasts. Within two years it was renamed the “Grand Ole Opry.” ➦In 1950...The Gillette Safety Razor Company & Mutual radio signed agreements for the radio rights for the next six years to baseball’s World Series and All-Star games. The price tag: a comparatively paltry $6 million dollars.
➦In 1953...The soap opera “Big Sister” was heard for the last time on CBS radio. The 15-minute melodrama had been on the air daily for 16 years. “Big Sister” was the ongoing story of Sue Evans Miller and her relationship with her big sister, Ruth Evans.
➦In 1954...Original "The Shadow" radio programs lurked around the airwaves for the final time. It originated in 1930 with vigilante crime-fighter Lamont Cranston battling greed and corruption on a weekly basis. “Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows….”
➦In 1963...Capitol Records rushed released its first single by The Beatles. “I Want to Hold Your Hand”, backed with “I Saw Her Standing There”, was released after DJ Carroll James on WWDC in Washington, DC had begun airing an imported copy. "Hand" reached #1 on February 1, 1964. The flood of music by John, Paul, George and Ringo had started the British Invasion, changing contemporary music forever.
➦In 1965...Beatle Paul McCartney was interviewed on pirate radio station “Radio Caroline” while spending Christmas at his father’s home in Cheshire, England. Later Paul crashed from the moped he was riding and suffered a five-inch cut to his mouth.
➦In 1974...one of the true titans of both big-time radio & TV, Jack Benny died of pancreatic cancer at age 80.
His weekly radio show was consistently top rated over a 23 year run ending in 1955. He appeared regularly on CBS-TV from 1950-65. He is credited with developing a broadcast format for comedy that is still being widely followed today.
Benny had been a minor vaudeville performer before becoming a national figure with The Jack Benny Program, a weekly radio show that ran from 1932 to 1948 on NBC and from 1949 to 1955 on CBS. It was among the most highly rated programs during its run.
Benny's long radio career began on April 6, 1932, when the NBC Commercial Program Department auditioned him for the N.W. Ayer agency and their client, Canada Dry, after which Bertha Brainard, head of the division, said, "We think Mr. Benny is excellent for radio and, while the audition was unassisted as far as orchestra was concerned, we believe he would make a great bet for an air program." Recalling the experience in 1956, Benny stated that Ed Sullivan had invited him to guest on his program (1932), and "the agency for Canada Dry ginger ale heard me and offered me a job."
With Canada Dry ginger ale as a sponsor, Benny came to radio on The Canada Dry Program, on May 2, 1932, on the NBC Blue Network and continuing for six months until October 26, moving to CBS on October 30. With Ted Weems leading the band, Benny stayed on CBS until January 26, 1933.
Arriving at NBC on March 17, Benny did The Chevrolet Program until April 1, 1934. He continued with sponsor General Tire through the end of the season. In October, 1934, General Foods, the makers of Jell-O and Grape-Nuts, became the sponsor strongly identified with Benny for ten years. American Tobacco's Lucky Strike was his longest-lasting radio sponsor, from October, 1944, through to the end of his original radio series.
The show switched networks to CBS on January 2, 1949, as part of CBS president William S. Paley's notorious "raid" of NBC talent in 1948–49. It stayed there for the remainder of its radio run, ending on May 22, 1955. CBS aired repeat episodes from 1956 to 1958 as The Best of Benny.
➦In 1992...NYC's WPAT 93.1 FM changed from beautiful music to down tempo AC. For decades, both the FM and AM stations simulcast a mostly-instrumental beautiful music format under the slogan "Easy 93". (By coincidence, WPAT-FM was at 93.1 and the AM was at 930, making "Easy 93" a reference for both stations.) While both stations enjoyed good ratings and profits, the beautiful music format had begun to lose popularity.
Today, WPAT-FM – branded "93.1 Amor" – is a radio station that programs a mix of Bachata, Reggaeton and Tropical music. Licensed to Paterson, New Jersey the station is owned by the Spanish Broadcasting System and serves the New York metropolitan area.
➦In 2004...Northeast Iowa broadcaster Dick Petrik died at age 76. He spent his 41-year career at KOEL in Oelwein. He was the station's first news director in April 1952. He retired in 1992 but remained at the station for another year as a part-time employee
Petrik was the recipient of the Jack Shelley Award, the highest honor given by the Iowa Broadcast News Association. The organization later created the Dick Petrik Outstanding Student Award, which is given annually to a college student whose work shows potential for a career in electronic media.
➦In 1931...Lawrence Tibbett was the featured vocalist as radio came to the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. The first opera broadcast was “Hansel und Gretel”, heard on the NBC network of stations. In between acts of the opera, moderator Olin Downes would conduct an opera quiz, asking celebrity guests opera-related questions.
The program’s host and announcer was Milton Cross, who stayed with the weekly broadcasts for 43 years.
➦In 1937...Arturo Toscanini conducted the first broadcast of “Symphony of the Air” over NBC radio.
➦In 1945...Gary Lee Sandy born. Sandy played program director Andy Travis on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati.
➦In 1948...92.3 FM NYC frequency signed-on as WMCA-FM. (Today the station is WNYL 92.3 FM and is owned by Entercom Communications, branding as ALT 92.3 FM.)
For the next year, it operated daily from 3p-9p, simulcasting WMCA, 570 AM.
In December 1949, Nathan Straus, president of WMCA, announced he was closing down the station because he was losing $4000 a month.
He had said several times that baseball games were cut short on the FM, deliberately to elicit response from listeners and he had received only 2 letters in regard to this practice during all of the summer of 1949.
Straus cited several reasons for the failure of FM: drifting of receivers, difficulty in tuning them, the union rule that announcers who were simulcast on FM and AM be paid double in New York and he said people could already hear WMCA on AM.
Further, Straus said that he had twice tried to give WMCA-FM away and couldn't.
This announcement drew sharp criticism from Major Edwin Armstrong, the inventor of the FM system of broadcasting, who said that Straus was not giving FM a fair chance.
Straus announced that WMCA-FM would quit permanently on December 31, 1949, but the day before, a group of businessmen and people associated with WIBG in Philadelphia announced their intention of buying WMCA-FM for $7500.
So, WMCA-FM continued its 3p-9p schedule throughout 1950, however the negotiations with the WIBG group fell through.
In late 1950, WHOM 1480 AM, announced that it would purchase WMCA-FM. An agreement was reached and 92.3 became WHOM-FM on February 26, 1951.
By 1975, the station had evolved into a Pop/Rock leaning AC format, with calls of WKTU.
On July 24, 1978, WKTU abruptly switched to an "All Disco" format as "Disco 92", which eventually evolved into more of a Rhythmic CHR by the Fall of 1979.
In the summer of 1984, WKTU became a mainstream CHR.
Then, in July of 1985, after airing the Live Aid concert, the station switched to a mainstream AOR format, featuring new and classic rock as WXRK "K-Rock".
In September 1985, Howard Stern (who had been fired from WNBC earlier that year) joined the station, initially for afternoons and in early 1986 switched to mornings.
In 1987, WXRK had instituted a classic rock format and on January 5, 1996, evolved into an alternative/active rock format.
On April 4, 2005, WXRK debuted a mainstream rock format, encompassing music from the 60's to today.
On December 16, 2005, Howard Stern broadcast his last show on the station, before his anticipated move to Sirius Satellite Radio on January 9, 2006.
On January 3, 2006, 92.3 became an "all-talk" station (with the exception of weekends when it features a rock format) using the "Free FM" slogan and featuring David Lee Roth in mornings. Calls were officially changed to WFNY on January 1. In April 2006, David Lee Roth was replaced with Opie & Anthony.
On May 24, 2007 at 5pm, "K-Rock" returned to 92.3. Calls were changed back to WXRK on May 31, 2007.
On March 11, 2009, 92.3 switched to a CHR format as "92.3 Now FM", with the "K-Rock" format moving to 92.3's HD2 channel.
92.3 changed calls to WNOW on November 8, 2012.
On May 22, 2014 at 2pm, 92.3 re-branded themselves as "92.3 AMP."
Calls changed to WBMP on June 23, 2014. In 2017, the station was sold by CBS Radio to Entercom. The format was flipped to Alternative upon the deal closing and calls were changed once again to WNYL.
➦In 1964...In New York, "Murray The K's Big Holiday Show" featured the Zombies, the Nashville Teens, and the Hullabaloos.
➦In 1995...legendary singer/crooner, actor, comedian, and Rat-Pack member Dean Martin died of respiratory failure at age 78.
➦In 2006...the “hardest working man in show business,” urban star James Brown died of pneumonia at an Atlanta hospital. He was 73.
The one-time radio station owner was nicknamed the "Godfather of Soul", died. ➦In 2008... actress & chanteuse Eartha Kitt, best known for her hit songs C’est Si Bon & Santa Baby, who was the 2nd Catwoman on the 1960’s Batman TV series, succumbed to colon cancer at age 81.
Over the weekend Entercom Commications was subjected to another cyberattack.
According to blogger Jerry Del Colliano it happened Sunday morning. It's believed the hack was directed at Entercom all-news stations, includng KYW 1060 Philadelphia.
According to Del Colliano's paywall blog, KYW in Philadelphia was forced to air recorded segments from the overnight hours. The station reportedly identified the affected hours as pre-recorded.
The system hacked merges scripts, wires and news audio during airing.
The hacking affected all markets to varying degrees. Entercom owns 235 radio stations nationwide.
On Monday, Entercom confirmed the disruption to its IT systems adding the issues were largely resolved by Monday morning.
What has been reported as a cyber-attack came just three months after a major breach in September that cost the company millions of dollars in costs, lost revenues and new security systems.
The Federal Communications Commission has reinstated media ownership rules affecting Newspaper/Broadcast Cross-Ownership Rule, Radio/Television Cross-Ownership Rule, Local Television Ownership Rule, Local Radio Ownership Rule and Television Joint Sales Agreement Attribution Rules.
The reinstatement follows a November 29 ruling Third Circuit Court mandate which formalized a decision that rejected a request for the entire panel of circuit judges to review a decision issued in September by a three-judge panel.
The Republican-led FCC in 2017 voted to eliminate the 42-year-old ban on cross-ownership of a newspaper and TV station in a major market. It also voted to make it easier for media companies to buy additional TV stations in the same market, and for local stations to jointly sell advertising time and for companies to buy additional radio stations in some markets.
The court in a 2-1 decision in September 2019 told the FCC to take up the issue again, saying the regulator “did not adequately consider the effect its sweeping rule changes will have on ownership of broadcast media by women and racial minorities.”
At the time, FCC Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel, a Democrat, said “over my objection, the FCC has been busy dismantling the values embedded in its ownership policies.” She said the “court rightly sent the FCC’s handiwork back to the agency because the FCC’s analysis was so ‘insubstantial.’”
The FCC Monday also repealed the eligible entity standard and its application to regulatory measures as set forth in the Second Report and Order. Additionally, the regulatory measures adopted in the Incubator Order are similarly repealed and unavailable to applicants.
The FCC's Media Bureau finds that notice and comment are unnecessary for these rule amendments, because this ministerial order merely implements the mandate of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the Commission lacks discretion to depart from this mandate.
Kay stood over Francesa in the Nielsen Audio Ratings that both stations use to sell radio advertising. Kay finished at a 7.4 share among men ages 25-54, while Francesa was at 5.5.
Give Francesa his .6 streaming boost and he is still being towered over by Kay, 7.4-6.1.
Kay was No. 1 overall in the entire market, while Francesa was second or third, depending how you look at streaming.
For Kay and his team, beating Francesa is, in a way, old news, even though this one was indisputable because it was an utter destruction. What is new is the perch that Kay sits on with his sidekicks, Don La Greca and Peter Rosenberg.
They are the No. 1 afternoon show in New York, sports or otherwise. They are the new champs, atop the city for the first time for any ESPN New York show since its inception 16 years ago.
In Francesa’s final afternoon book, the Kay Show knocked Francesa out. It barraged him in each of the three months, leaving Francesa on the floor searching for his mouthpiece as he headed for the exit.
“It has been great to see the continued growth of The Michael Kay Show and 98.7 ESPN,” said Ryan Hurley, program director of 98.7FM ESPN New York. “The show has consistently given listeners an inclusive and unique brand of sports and entertainment. We are very proud of what the guys are doing and look forward to what’s next.”
Kay and ESPN New York were able to throw Francesa’s years of trash talk back in his face. Francesa has repeatedly said he would never be beaten in the ratings. He said ESPN needed to bring “more than pea shooters.”
He once told a crowd of his fans that “no one cares” about Kay. Kay handily beat Francesa in his final book.
