Scotty Cox and Cara Denis are co-hosts of “Scotty & Cara
in the Morning” on Zimmer Radio’s KCLR / Clear 99 in Columbia, MO. Chelsea
Bengier at columbiamissiourian.com writes it's prime time for listeners who
tune in to hear their lighthearted commentary.
As the veteran, Cox, 45, leads the way — and his droll humor
is a big reason why he continues to win both regional and national awards for
the radio broadcasts.
Last month, he was nominated for a Marconi Award as
"small market personality of the year." In 2011, he took home an
award from the Country Music Association, once again as "small market
personality of the year."
In March, he earned a "favorite radio personality/team
title" in Inside Columbia magazine’s Best of Columbia 2012 contest…
A little black cross hangs from a dark leather necklace
between the buttons of his shirt. He was raised as a Baptist, and both his
parents worked as Sunday school teachers. They were pillars of the church, he
said.
“I called my parents Baptist Bob and Betty because they were
like characters. They were so Baptist,” Cox says.
When his mother began teaching at a Catholic high school, a
new comedic force entered Cox’s life, in the form of Sister Joan.
“Sister Joan was hilarious. She could’ve done stand up,” Cox
said. “She nicknamed mom the ‘token Baptist’ and would yell stuff in the
hallways like, ‘Hey Cox, what’s it like to wake up every morning and know
you’re wrong?’”
Although he has been awarded a CMA, to Cox, the best award
is not a glass trophy with his name engraved on a little gold plaque or a
Marconi nomination. A simple autograph for a child would do.
“The first time I was ever asked for an autograph was by a
little 8-year-old boy. I looked up at his mom and asked ‘Why would you want my
autograph? It doesn’t mean anything.’ And she looked at me and replied, ‘It
means something to him,’” Cox said.
“That’s what it’s all about – that connection with people.”
UPDATE Tuesday 8:30a: Facebook now says that advertisements for Mike Gallagher’s latest book were denied “in
error” and are now live on the social networking site, though did not provide
details about why the ads were initially refused.
Original posting....
Conservative radio talker Mike Gallagher says Facebook
refused to sell advertising space for his new book because the title “50 Things
Liberals Love to Hate” contains the word “hate,” according to a storyat TheBlaze.com.
“I found out yesterday that Facebook rejected an ad for my
book,” Gallagher said on Fox News. “My publisher Simon & Schuster and I
were going to put banner ads on Facebook, and Facebook literally told the
publisher, ‘we won’t accept the ad because it has the word hate in the title.’”
Gallagher said his publisher asked the social media giant
whether having the word “hate” would disqualify any book for advertisement,
such as one titled, “I hate broccoli.”
“Then Facebook conceded, ‘well we’ve gotten some complaints
from people who don‘t like the title of Mike Gallagher’s new book,” Gallagher
said.
Referring to Facebook as a “machine,“ Gallagher said the
site ”allows pedophiles to troll the Internet“ and has ”defended perverts and
stalkers” He subsequently posted a link on his Facebook page to a New York Post
article from August about the site’s refusal to remove a “Pedophiles are people
too” page.
“Free speech?” Gallagher said on Fox. “I don’t think so. …
They don’t like a conservative buying time, they won’t take my money, it’s
unbelievable.”
WLS-AM co-host Don Wade, along with his wife Roma, of the 89
WLS morning show since August of 1989, will be off the air for at least four
weeks while he receives treatment for a growth on his brain.
The following statement was released by WLS Radio, Chicago:
"Don Wade had a seizure while traveling last week.
After a series of tests, doctors discovered a growth on his brain. He is having
surgery this week to remove the growth. Recovery from the surgery will keep Don
off the air for at least four weeks. Don and Roma remain positive and
optimistic. The Cumulus/WLS family sends our love and very best wishes to both
Don and Roma."
Always maintaining a positive attitude, Roma commented,
"It amazes me that Don can still be the smartest guy in the room with only
half his brain." Don, showing his trademark candor, responded, "I
think it's all the BS coming from the left that really gave me the seizure."
In the interim, Bruce Wolf and Dan Proft will continue to
fill in on the Don Wade and Roma program from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m., as have they
have whenever Don and Roma have had time off over the past year. Jake Hartford
and Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass will substitute for Bruce and Dan from
9 a.m.-11 a.m.
TV Critic Tom Shales has harsh words for what he considers
to be GMA's opportunistic handling of Roberts' battle with myelodysplastic
syndrome (MDS), or preleukemia, for which she recently underwent a bone marrow
transplant with her sister acting as donor.
"Now we come to Something That Must Be Said,"
Shales writes. "It may have been said elsewhere already, but just in case,
here goes: ABC has managed to turn the very serious illness of co-anchor
Roberts into a huge promotional opportunity for GMA."
"On every edition of GMA, there are shout-outs, warm
wishes and detailed reports pertaining to Roberts' condition," he says.
"She has been seen in remotes from the hospital, and the sympathetic
outpourings of viewers have been heavily documented."
"Roberts was seen in a recorded message thanking
viewers: 'I feel the love and I thank you for it.' ABC rushed out a press
release, this one headlined 'Robin Roberts' Message: I Feel the Love and I
Thank You For It' and including a disclaimer: 'News organizations using
material from this report should credit Good Morning, America. "
The ratings have been strong since Roberts' departure: GMA
has been Number One in the adults 25-54 demo since she began her medical leave
on Aug. 31, and have been steadily gaining total viewers.
Merlin Media, LLC, the owner of WLUP-FM and WIQI-FM, as well
as the operator of WKQX-LP, has done yet another round of mass layoffs.
Released Friday were almost all of the rest of the non-on-air staffers from the
former FM News 101.1 format, according to Chicagradioandmedia.com.
In mid-July, Merlin Media abruptly ended the FM News 101.1
format on WIQI-FM, "officially" releasing 27 staffers, although the
actual number of people who lost their jobs from Merlin Media's actions was
much higher. The news format was changed to a 90s music format, which was again
changed one month later. The company kept on its staff a few of the employees
who were not on-air personalities and worked behind the scenes, to allow them
to help with the company's other stations.
That changed Friday morning, as almost all of those
employees were informed they were no longer needed at Merlin Media.
According to inside sources, the following employees all
lost their jobs: Brad Robinson (former News & Sports
writer/reporter/anchor), Safa Eshmawy (former new writer/editor/producer),
Sarah Engel (former news writer/producer and an anchor for Merlin's
Philadelphia station, while based out of Chicago), James Edwards (former news
writer/producer/researcher), Michael Cronin (former new writer/producer/fill-in
editor), Megan Buckley (former news writer/editor, who had been working as
Merlin Media's music researcher since July), and Shannon Beverly (former news
writer/editor), now Shannon Ward, who was just married this month and coming
back from her honeymoon when she was given the news of her termination.
Of the many dozens of employees of FM News 101.1 FM that
have been hired since the station started when Merlin Media, LLC itself started
just over one year ago, only three former on-air staffers remain employed in
some capacity by Merlin Media: Rob Hart, Mary Ellen Giest, and John Czahor.
Only two non-on-air staffers remain: Christine Fiedler and Lindsey Reiser.
Between 25% and 50% of new American cars already give buyers
the option of having a digitally connected dashboard — and that number is expected
to top 80% by 2014, according to panelists speaking at the Radio Show
conference here on Friday.
According to a story by Carol Marie Cropper at netnewscheck.com,
Ford cars have already reached that percentage, according to Scott Burnell, a
mobile business development analyst with Ford Motor Co. About 80% of Ford cars
are designed to allow the dashboard to synch with a user’s smart phone so the
driver can use voice activation or touch screen icons to call up Pandora and
similar streaming music services or a local FM station, he said.
Other auto manufacturers have jumped aboard the digital
bandwagon, providing cars — especially high-end vehicles and those marketed to
young adults — that let drivers easily access their beloved apps on the road,
said John Rosso, president of market development at Triton Digital.
When iHeart Radio Music Festival organizers cut Green Day‘s
set short on Friday night (Sept. 21), frontman Billie Joe Armstrong was far
from happy about it. He went on an expletive-fueled rant onstage … and now he’s
entering rehab, according to a story at popcrush.com.
A rep for Green Day confirmed that Armstrong is entering
rehab for substance abuse (they didn’t specify which substance or substances
those are) and told TMZ, “Green Day wants to apologize to those they offended
at the iHeartRadio Festival in Las Vegas.”
Armstrong clearly felt disrespected by organizers for not
only cutting his band’s set short, but also for letting them be the last to
know about it. It appears he doesn’t quite believe a lot of the other acts have
paid their dues yet, and it really didn’t sit well with him.
The punk staples were set to perform for 45 minutes, but
were cut to 30 to accommodate sets by Usher (whose performance ran an extra 25
minutes) and Rihanna, who performed like she didn’t even want to be there.
What’s worse? No one told Armstrong until he was already performing and had one
minute left. He stopped performing during their classic ‘Basketcase’ and basically
flipped out.
Family Stations, Inc. Friday announced that it has reached
an agreement to purchase Greater Media Philadelphia’s station WPEN-AM, licensed
to Philadelphia, PA. WPEN-AM is a Class B station that transmits on 950 kHz
with daytime power of 43,000 watts and nighttime power of 21,000 watts.
Greater Media will retain the WPEN call letters for its FM
Sports station, 97.5 The Fanatic. The transaction is subject to customary
conditions, including regulatory and other approvals, and WPEN-AM will continue
to air its current line-up of sports programming while the closing is pending.
Media Venture Partners, LLC represented Family Stations in
the transaction. Rumored price $8.5M.
Homeland is the latest Emmy darling. The Showtime series
dominated the drama categories at Sunday night's Emmy Awards
-- scoring honors as Outstanding Drama Series, Lead Actor and Actress for
Damian Lewis and Claire Danes, as well as the award for Outstanding Writing.
Modern Family continued its reign in the comedy categories,
winning Outstanding Comedy Series for the third year in a row. Julie Bowen and
Eric Stonestreet were both repeat winners in the supporting categories while
Steve Levitan also scored an award for Outstanding Directing. However there was
a changing of the guard in the lead actor and actress categories, with Jon
Cryer and Julia Louis-Dreyfus scoring the big awards in their field
Another big winner was Louis C.K., who brought home two
awards; for writing both Louie and his standup special Live at the Beacon
Theatre.
In the Miniseries/Movie categories, Game Change emerged as the champion, winning Outstanding Miniseries or TV Movie and Outstanding Directing, while Julianne Moore scored the lead actress honor for her portrayal of Sarah Palin.
Elsewhere, Tom Bergeron won as outstanding reality host for Dancing With the Stars, while The Amazing Race won for outstanding reality competition series. Jon Stewart continued his dominance in the Variety category.
In Case You Missed It...Kimmel's Opening Skit
HIGHLIGHTS
Jimmy Kimmel staged one of his famous pranks: Tracy Morgan
laid down on the stage and he told the viewers to tweet or write on Facebook
that he had passed out.
Michael J. Fox got a standing ovation from the audience when
presenting the final award of the night, Best Comedy Series.
Ron Howard, who played Andy Griffith's son on The Andy
Griffith Show, honored his late TV father and presented the "In
Memoriam" package.
Ricky Gervais joked about whether the Emmys or Golden Globes
(which he hosted) were better. He also took a shot at Louis C.K. for winning so
many awards.
Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon tackled Jon Stewart as he
was going up on stage to accept his umpteenth award -- which he won over them.
There was a fake "Memoriam" to Jimmy Kimmel,
because he said that some people deserve to be honored while they're still
alive. Josh Groban sang "That's What Makes You Beautiful" as the
clips played.
A pre-taped sketch featured the actress who plays Lily on
Modern Family acting like a diva on set and annoying all of her older co-stars
with her attitude.
Melissa McCarthy was making sexual remarks about the
nominees in the category she was presenting.
Julia Louis-Dreyfus pretended to have switched speeches with
Amy Poehler when they hugged following her win for best actress.
The opening sketch featured Girls star Lena Dunham naked,
eating cake on a toilet when other nominees burst in on her.
Seth MacFarlane presented at the wrong microphone when he
came on stage. He was eventually informed and moved to the correct one, where
people could hear him.
Tom Hanks accepted the Outstanding TV Movie award for Game
Change -- sporting a mustache.
WINNER'S LIST
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series - Eric
Stonestreet, Modern Family
Outstanding Writer for a Comedy Series - Louis C.K., Louie
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Julie
Bowen, Modern Family
Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series - Steven Levitan,
Modern Family
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series - Jon Cryer, Two
and a Half Men
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series - Julia
Louis-Dreyfus, Veep
Outstanding Reality Competition Program - The Amazing Race
Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition
Program - Tom Bergeron, Dancing With the Stars
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series - Aaron Paul,
Breaking Bad
Outstanding Writing for a Drama Series - Alex Gansa, Howard
Gordon and Gideon Raff, Homeland
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series - Maggie
Smith, Downton Abbey
Outstanding Directing for a Drama Series - Tim Van Patten,
Boardwalk Empire
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series - Damian Lewis,
Homeland
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series - Claire Danes,
Homeland
Outstanding Writing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special -
Louis C.K., Live at the Beacon Theater
Outstanding Directing for a Variety, Music or Comedy Special
- Glenn Weiss, 65th Tony Awards
Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Series - The Daily Show
with Jon Stewart
Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie -
Jessica Lange, American Horror Story
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie -
Tom Berenger, Hatfields & McCoys
Outstanding Writing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic
Special - Danny Strong, Game Change
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie -
Julianne Moore, Game Change
Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or Dramatic
Special - Jay Roach, Game Change
Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie - Kevin
Costner, Hatfields & McCoys
Willing buyer, willing seller. Those four words would seem
innocuous, but in the world of Internet radio nothing is more contentious.
They are part of a federal judicial standard that is the
basis of how royalty rates are set for Internet radio services like Pandora
Media. For years, however, online services have complained that the standard is
unfair, and results in burdensome rates that are much higher than those paid by
satellite radio.
The battle flared up again on Friday with a new
Congressional bill, the Internet Radio Fairness Act. Introduced in the House by
Jason Chaffetz, Republican of Utah, and Jared Polis, Democrat of Colorado, the
bill would move so-called noninteractive online radio services like Pandora and
Clear Channel Communications’ iHeartRadio app from the “willing buyer, willing
seller” standard to the one used to determine rates for Sirius XM Radio.
Pandora pays a fraction of a cent each time a user listens
to a song, and the total must be a minimum of 25 percent of its annual revenue;
last year it paid about half its revenue to labels and performers. Sirius’s
current rate is 8 percent. (Both kinds of services also pay separate royalties
to songwriters and publishers.)
Tim Westergren, Pandora’s founder, took to his company’s
blog to say that the bill is long overdue. “The anti-Internet bias in federal
law is nothing short of absurd,” he wrote.
Bloomberg is reporting Apple’s potential entry into Internet
radio is poised to put online music pioneer Pandora Media on the takeover wish
lists of companies from Google and Amazon.com to Clear Channel Communications.
Pandora is projected to increase revenue by 214 percent in
the next two years, almost triple the median for U.S. Internet media companies
valued at more than $1 billion, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. With
the shares down 34 percent since their initial public offering, a buyer could
acquire a company trading for 21 percent less than the industry’s average
price-to-sales ratio using next year’s forecasts, the data show.
Pandora sank 17 percent on Sept. 7 amid speculation iPhone
maker Apple will introduce a rival service. Should Apple do so, that may compel
Google or Amazon to snap up Pandora’s 150 million registered users to offer the
service on mobile devices, Albert Fried & Co. and Needham & Co. said.
Radio-station owner Clear Channel may be interested as listeners and
advertisers shift to online media, according to Wedge Partners Corp. Needham
says Pandora could fetch $14 a share in a takeover, a 32 percent premium, while
Albert Fried sees the potential for a deal at about $20.
I just watched Ted Koppel on NBC with Brian Williams on NBC.
The theme of their show? Cable new anchors are biased and network news anchors
-- especially those of yesteryear -- are not or if they are, they don't show
it. Really? Network anchors are not biased? They don't show it? They are
delusional if they think that about themselves.
When broadcast networks present what they think is the all
that is important in the world in the 22 minutes of a half hour news program or
44 minutes of an hour program -- it starts with its bias. When you pick and
isolate what YOU think is news, you are making YOUR decision of WHAT is
important and HOW to present it the viewers. That is bias.
Bias is evident by the topics they pick, the video they
show, how long they show the video, the guests booked, the time given the
guests, the questions asked, the correspondents hired, the graphics on the
screen, the time spent on the segment, the cross promotion on other shows, how
the segments are stacked, ads, promotion of the anchors, music, teases for the
segments, the scripts etc. It all adds up to bias even if they have deluded
themselves into thinking it does not. (By the way, print journalism is likewise
biased even though they too deny it. You see it not only with the text of the
report but bias is evident by such things as where the news organizations
places the story (front page? above the fold?) and what picture might be
attached to it (subject sneering or smiling?).
Mel Karmazin’s soon-to-be bosses would like to keep him
around, but only at the right price, according to a story at forbes.com. And if they can’t? They’re not losing any
sleep over that possibility.
That’s what Liberty Media CEO Greg Maffei said at the
Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference Thursday morning. Liberty’s takeover of
Sirius XM is all but a fait accompli, with John Malone‘s company now owning
49.7% of the satellite broadcaster’s shares.
What that means for Karmazin, whose contract as Sirius’s
chief executive expires at the end of the year, is uncertain. Earlier this
year, Karmazin and Malone were regularly trading barbs, but more recently
they’ve sounded more conciliatory notes.
Maffei staked out a position somewhere in between.
“Is Mel valuable? Obviously,” he said. “Mel’s done a great
job. He deserves a lot of credit. Is Mel irreplaceable? What is it they say,
that the graves are full of irreplaceable people?”
