This Week Could Be The Beginning Of The End For CBS Radio

If StreetTalk is correct, this week could see the start of CBS Radio's divestiture of stations in some markets.  CBS Radio currently owns and operates 117 stations in 26 major markets.

The talk has been getting more intense in the last few weeks that CBS Radio President Andre Fernandez has working out details to station sales to other radio broadcasters.  Hubbard Radio, Cumulus, Alpha Media and Entercom are are among the most-frequently mentioned candidates likely to acquire CBS stations.

CBS CEO President Les Moonves brought in Fernandez in April 2015 when the much respected Dan Mason departed as Radio CEO. Mason background included experience in programming

It's been speculated that no CBS station is immune, although CBS Radio may retain profitable stations in high-profile markets, where it also owns and operates TV.  Those markets may include, but not limited to NYC, Philly, Chicago and L-A.

CBS Radio has been cutting expenses during the month months, esecially when it comes to high-earning radio personalities.  Off The Air: Ross Brittain at WOGL in Philly, Shotgun Tom Kelly, Charlie Tuna and Christina Kelly off KRTH in in LA., Harry Donahue at KYW in Philly, and Don Carpenter at WYCD in Detroit. There have been other reductions in force including production, sales and office workers.

There have been major cutbacks at CBS All-News Stations and no one would be surprised if the ill-fated WNEW-FM is shutdown and converted to a cheaper music format.

Cutbacks have also affected CBS stations in Seattle, St. Louis, Dallas and Sacramento.

Media General To Acquire Meredith TV Stations

(Reuters) -- Media General Inc Tuesday said it would buy diversified media company Meredith Corp for about $2.34 billion to create the third-largest local TV station owner in the United States.

The cash and stock offer of $51.53 per share is a premium of about 12 percent to Meredith's Friday close.

The combined company, to be named Meredith Media General, will initially have 88 TV stations that reach 30 percent of U.S. TV households, the companies said on Tuesday.

Media General shareholders will receive one share of the new company for each share held. Meredith shareholders will receive $34.57 in cash and 1.5214 shares of the new company for each share held.

Media General shareholders will own about 65 percent of the new company after the transaction closes, with Meredith shareholders holding the rest.

Including debt, the deal is valued at about $3.1 billion.

Media General operates and services about 71 TV stations. The companies said they would divest or swap TV stations in six markets to get regulatory approval for the deal.

The acquisition is Media General's second major deal in less than a year. The Richmond, Virginia-based company bought LIN Media for $1.6 billion in December.

Publisher OUT At The Los Angeles Times

Austin Beutner

Austin Beutner was fired Monday as publisher and CEO of the Los Angeles Times and San Diego Union-Tribune, according to The Chicago Tribune.

Beutner, who had been heading up the largest newspaper in the Chicago-based Tribune Publishing chain, was let go for what sources said was lagging financial performance and a series of expensive executive hires seen by some as a prelude to a potential political run for the city's former deputy mayor.

No successor has been named, according to sources, leaving the California News Group in limbo as Tribune Publishing looks to realign those operations with its broader portfolio, where the Chicago Tribune and other properties have outperformed it financially.

Beutner was named to his post in August 2014, one week after Tribune Publishing spun off from Tribune Media as a standalone newspaper company under CEO Jack Griffin.

In May, Tribune Publishing, which owns 11 daily newspapers, acquired the San Diego Union-Tribune for $85 million and put both operations under Beutner. Sources said Monday that Tribune Publishing was unhappy with financial performance of the two brands, specifically the Los Angeles Times, which represents a third of the company's revenue.

Report: Traditional Media Continues To Lag In Ad Growth

Dollars are increasingly flowing from traditional ads to digital, as strong growth in mobile, video, and social spending continue to change the face of the US media market.

Over the next five years, marketers will especially embrace mobile. Mobile will drive up spending on video, search, display, and social, and propel the migration of ad dollars away from traditional media, including newspapers and magazines.

In a new report, BI Intelligence forecasts spending trends for the major digital ad formats — including search, display, and video — and mobile vs. desktop. B-I also examines trajectories for social ad spending and programmatic ad buying, which cut across digital formats. Finally, the report looks at how spending on traditional media formats will grow or contract over the next five years, as digital, and particularly mobile, rises.

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Here are some of the key takeaways from the report:

• Mobile will be the fastest-growing advertising channel and buoy spending on each of the digital formats. US mobile ad revenue will rise by a 26.5% CAGR through of 2020.
• Digital video ad spending is rising faster than search and display. US digital video ad revenue will rise by a CAGR of 21.9% through 2020. 
• Mobile search will overtake desktop search ad revenue by 2019. Mobile search ad spend will rise by a 25.2% CAGR, while desktop search ad revenue will decline during the same period.
• Mobile display ads, including banners, rich media, and sponsorships, will overtake desktop display-related spending even earlier, in 2017. 
• Social media ads, which cut across display and video, are seeing fast adoption. US social media ad revenue, which includes video and display ads, will grow by a CAGR of 14.9% through 2020.
• The rapid embrace of programmatic ad-buying tools is fueling a dramatic uptick in the share of digital ad spending coming through programmatic channels. Programmatic transactions will be a majority of total US digital ad spend this year. 
• Unlike digital, traditional ad revenue will remain flat overall through 2020. Total traditional ad revenue will rise by a CAGR of just 0.4% between 2015 and 2020.

Big Newspaper Chains Exploring Joint Ad Sales

Five of the nation’s largest — and battered — newspaper chains are in hush-hush talks about banding together to form a new company to sell ads to national advertisers in 30 major metro markets.

The NY Post reports Gannett, Newhouse-owned Advance Publications, the family-owned Hearst Corp., McClatchy Newspapers and Tribune Co. are the companies huddling.

“It is still early stages,” said one source familiar with the talks. “Nobody has committed yet.”

The new company, if formed, would likely result in major downsizings of staffs at the five papers as companies would be able to eliminate the redundancy of paying competing national sales staffs, currently estimated to employ 150 to 200 people across all five companies.

The new company would probably employ no more than 50 people, one industry source estimated.

Tribune, which owns the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and Baltimore Sun, is said to be the driving force behind the effort.

The proposed new company, which is going by the code name “Next Gen,” would involve forming a whole new for-profit company funded by the five titans of the newspaper world.

Newspaper publishers have seen their once-dominant positions eroded by advertisers moving money to digital outlets such as Craigslist, Google and Facebook.

From 2000 to 2013, US newspapers lost $40 billion in ad revenue, dropping to $23 billion.

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Donald Trump Is Ratings Gold For CableTV News

CNN's Anderson Cooper and Donald Trump

Based on The first GOP Presidential debate on the Fox News Channel (which was viewed by 24M peopely), the Sept. 16 GOP debate with Trump and his competitors at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation and Library in Simi Valley is expected to be the most watched event ever on CNN. And the network is cashing in on the anticipation.

The LA Times reports CNN is not disclosing its ratings projections or ad prices, but competitors are hearing that advertisers are being asked to pay in the range of $150,000 for a 30-second spot, a figure more in line with a hit prime time entertainment show.

"It's a lot more than we'd get if Trump weren't in it," said one CNN executive not authorized to discuss the figure.

Trump's ability to bring in viewers to news programs is so powerful he even has a de facto set for his performances.

Atrium at Trump Tower

Networks are acquiescing to his demand that all on-camera sit-downs take place in the marble-walled atrium of the 58-story Trump Tower on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, where his corporate office is located.

All of the major TV news outlets have studios a few blocks away. But candidate Trump takes an elevator from his office down to the front section of a bar that bears his name. In fact, most of the businesses in the atrium, where tourists shop and take photos of one another, bear the Trump moniker.

"That's his TV area, and if you want to get him, that's where he'll do it," according to one of several news producers and executives who described the arrangement to the Los Angeles Times. "You can say no and not get him."

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Donald Tump Rides The Free Media Wave

The only other candidate in history who has used free media as effectively as Donald Trump was Ross Perot, the Texas business entrepreneur who ran as a third-party candidate for president in 1992, according toKathleen Hall Jamieson, a professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, who has written several books on political communication.

Perot became a popular network news booking, once spending two hours sparring with Katie Couric on NBC's "Today," and taking calls from viewers live on the air.

Perot held audiences, and it was the reason he continued to get free media access," Jamieson said. "He was interesting. He was different. Part of what is refreshing about Perot is what's refreshing about Trump. He says things other people do not say."

The LA Times reports TV producer Jeff Gaspin, who as an NBC executive worked with Trump on "The Apprentice," compared the candidate's ridiculing of his Republican competitors to former "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell's pronouncements on terrible singing performances. Trump described Jeb Bush as dull and "low-energy," questioned the intelligence of Rick Perry and called Sen. Lindsey Graham "a stiff."

"Why was 'American Idol' so successful? Because Simon said 'that's the worst thing I've ever heard' and made 16-year-olds cry," Gaspin said. "You weren't allowed to do that. When were you allowed in a political campaign to make fun of your opponents? Trump has got that unfiltered honesty. He's the Simon Cowell of politics."

How long can Trump ride this free media wave?

TV news producers say it's like any other hit TV show. Once the ratings for Trump's appearances start to subside, programs will turn to him less. His campaign will have to decide at that point whether to pursue a TV ad strategy in the early primary states where his well-funded opponents are likely to run negative commercials against him.

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The Herd Starts Today On FOX

Colin Cowherd’s new sports talk program THE HERD premieres today, airing simultaneously on FS1 and the FOX Sports Radio Network, including KLAC 570 AM in LA, weekdays from 12:00 to 3:00 PM ET.

The program also has a dedicated iHeartRadio station, THE HERD, available live throughout the day. THE HERD launches big with a succession of high-profile guests, including a pair of Pro Football Hall of Famers - lead FOX NFL game analyst Troy Aikman and veteran FOX NFL SUNDAY analyst Howie Long; Rob Lowe, star of new FOX primetime show THE GRINDER (premieres Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 8:30 PM ET/PT); and FOX NFL SUNDAY’s original comedic prognosticator Jimmy Kimmel, host of ABC’s late night talk show, Jimmy Kimmel Live.

THE HERD has also announced the newest member of the cast - Kristine Leahy.

The current co-host on NBC's American Ninja Warrior, Leahy has a vast sports resume. She worked as a reporter and host for Boston all sports radio station WEEI 93.7 FM before moving on to Boston Celtics where she spent two years as a host and in-house team reporter at the TD Garden and Celtics.com. After the Celtics, Leahy spent a year as the lead sports anchor for FOX25 in Boston. In 2012, she moved to Los Angeles and spent two and a half years working across various platforms in the CBS and Turner Sports families, including sideline reporting during March Madness and CBS Sports Network's college football and basketball coverage. She has also filled in as a host on the CBS Sports Network show Lead Off, contributed to KCAL's Dodgers pre-game show Think Blue, anchored CBSLA's Sports Central and covered the playoffs for all four major sports.

She even made a bit of history, becoming the first woman to ever call a horse race in California. Leahy has a bachelor of science in journalism from Boston University, where she was part of the team that created BUTV's first sports talk show, which she co-anchored for three years.

FOX Sports Radio is produced and distributed under a long-term agreement between FOX Sports and Premiere Networks, a subsidiary of iHeartMedia, the leading media company in America with a greater reach in the U.S. than any radio or television outlet. FSRN programming is also available on www.FOXSportsRadio.com, FOXSports.com, as well as iHeartRadio.com and the iHeartRadio mobile app, iHeartMedia’s digital radio platform.

CBS Extends Debut of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert”

The opening night telecast of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” on tonight has been extended by nine minutes.

The airtime will be 11:35 p.m. to 12:44 a.m. ET, and the first set of guests will be Oscar winner George Clooney, Republican presidential candidate and former Governor of Florida Jeb Bush, and a musical performance by “The Late Show’s” bandleader Jon Batiste with his band Stay Human.

Lead-out “The Late Late Show with James Corden” will air from 12:44-1:44 a.m., and will feature guests Bradley Cooper, actor Jake McDorman, actor Andrew Garfield, and a musical performance by Wiz Khalifa featuring Fall Out Boy.

Reuters reports Colbert's degree of success will ultimately decide whether he ushers in a ratings realignment of the late-night TV scene - either by overtaking his NBC counterpart Jimmy Fallon and the decades-long dominance of "The Tonight Show," or falling to No. 3 behind ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live!"

Colbert outside the window of his office, which overlooks a new marquee at the Ed Sullivan Theater. Credit Damon Winter/The New York Times

Steering the "Late Show" franchise to No. 1 in the Nielsen rankings will not be easy.

Colbert, 51, is certainly younger than Letterman, his CBS predecessor, who was 68 when he retired in May. Colbert's 8 million-plus Twitter following dwarfs Letterman's and the median age of his "Colbert Report" audience was far below that of "Late Show."

But Fallon, 40, already has expanded the ratings of his predecessor, Jay Leno, both in overall viewers and among the key demographic of young adults, while establishing a robust following of his own on Twitter and YouTube.

Critics also question whether the real Colbert will prove as amusing as the egocentric, ultra-patriotic political commentator he inhabited for so long, or whether viewers will find his personal brand of humor to be too snarky.

KC Radio: Mike Kennedy Steps Away From Mornings On KBEQ

Steel City Media/Kansas City has announced that veteran programmer Mike Kennedy has  taken himself off-air at Country KBEQ 104.3 FM.

Kennedy has been a fixture for the past 14-uyear son the Q104 morning show.  He'll continue his PD duties.

Kennedy commented in his  FaceBook , "After almost 14 years of being a part of the morning drive on Q104 and on the air for nearly 38 years, I have decided to hang up the headphones. I might fill in every now and then, but the 4 am wakeup call needed to come to an end."

"I'm excited to turn the reins over to Zeke and Jillian and the continuation of the morning drive with the addition of TJ! You'll be in good hands. I will continue to work behind the scenes at Q104. We have had an absolute blast on the show. And my wife wanted me to make it clear that we are not leaving! Y'all can't be that lucky in one day. Many thanks to you all that made the mornings fun for me! I'd be writing a book here if I started recounting all the great moments on the air!"

KBEQ 104.3 FM (100 Kw) Red=60dBu Local Coverage Area

KBEQ's TJ McEntire will move from afternoons to mornings to fill the position alongside current morning team Zeke and Jillian. At this moment, there is no word on a replacement for McEntire in afternoons.

 He was inducted to the Country Radio Hall Of Fame last June.

Springfield IL: Brian & Kellie Return On Country 92.7 FM

Brian & Kellie

Midwest Family Broadcasting/Springfield IL has announced the launching of a new Classic Country station at 92.7 FM.  The new station is expected to use the call letters WUSW-FM and is made possible by relocating WQLZ and its Rock format to 97.7 FM.  The former WLCE 97.7 FM Alternative format is now heard via the internet-only.

The new 92.7 FM is launching Tuesday and is bringing Brian Pierce and Kellie Michaels back to the market.

"Brian and Kellie" morning show on WNNS 98.7 FM. After 17 years on the air in the Springfield market, they moved in 2007 to Country KFDI-FM in Wichita, Kansas. They recently return to Springfield for family reasons.

Brian and Kellie had great success in Wichita and were even honored as the Country Music Association "Radio Personalities of the Year" in 2011.

The husband and wife team are back home in Springfield to launch the all new "U-S 92.7". WUSW-FM will feature a mix of today's country of the past 20 years.

WUSW 92.7 FM (11.5 Kw) Red=60dBu Local Coverage Area

Mark Birch, General Manager at Midwest Family Broadcasting stated, "We are pleased to welcome home two of the best morning show hosts in the country to launch our new station."

WQLZ 97.7 FM (6 Kw) Red=60dBu Local Coverage Area

Corpus Christi Radio: New KPUS AM Show, KKBA Flips

Classic Rock KPUS 104.5 FM today launches a new morning show with program director Kevin McCoy and former midday personality Victoria Mireles.

"The Classic Rock Morning Show with Kevin & Victoria" promisesgreat classic rock music but will add lots of local flavor, news, weather and more fun.

KPUS 104.5 FM (14 Kw) Red=60dBu Local Coverage Area

The morning show will be live and local and feature a lot of outside appearances. Classic Rock 104.5 is owned by Convergent Broadcasting, which also owns JAKE 107.3 and the PLANET 102.3 in Corpus Christi.

Meanwhile, KKBA 92.7 FM has dropped RhythmicAC for Rock.  It's the second format change in a week for the station owned by Malkan Interactive Communications.

KKBA “Rock 92.7“ us positioning  as “Everything That Rocks” and puts the station in direct competition with iHeartMedia’s Active Rock KNCN 101.3 FM .

KKBA 92.7 FM (13 Kw) Red=60dBu Local Coverage Area

Mornings, KKBA is airing the syndicated Billy Madison Show based out of Cox Media's KISS 99.5 FM in San Antonio.

TX Radio: GM Returns Four Stations To Local Ownership

KSTV 93.1 FM General Manager Boots Elliott has purchased the radio station and three others from Cherry Creek Radio in Colorado, bringing them back under local ownership for the first time since 2004.

Elliott says he is purchasing all four stations back from Cherry Creek, including Country KSTV 93.1 FM and Hispanic KSTV 1510 AM in Stephenville and Classic Rock KYOX 94.3 FM and Talk KCOM 1550 AM  in Comanche.  The market is located West-SW of Fort Worth.

He further says he plans to offer current employees the opportunity to stay onboard.

KYOX 94.3 FM (32 Kw) Red=60dBu Local Coverage Area 

“They approached me about a year ago and said they were interested in moving some of their small-market stations and asked if I would be interested in buying them back,” said Elliott of the four stations – two in Stephenville, two in Comanche – he and fellow local businessman Bob Hashke once owned together. “I told them I was interested and we spent a few months negotiating a price and getting the attorneys to finalize everything, then we got the licensing done through the FCC. It should all be official in mid-to-late October.”

“Administratively, not being corporately owned by people trying to make decisions to govern all their stations will make things easier on me and my staff. Now there will be one person to answer to, so the decision-making process can be streamlined,” Elliott said. “And there are some changes I can make that I wasn’t allowed to being under corporate ownership.”

KSTV 93.1 FM (6 Kw) Red=60dBu Local Coverage Area

Elliott says the focus of all four stations will remain local.

TV Cord Cutting: It Is About The Money

Digital streaming services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video are not the main reason broadband users are ditching pay-TV packages, according to Ericsson ConsumerLab's annual TV & Media report.

According to B-I Intelligence, the report reveals that almost half of broadband household users globally are cutting the cord because they are fed up with shelling out high prices for pay-TV packages. The report highlights what cord cutters value when paying for subscriptions and reaffirms the ways cable companies can draw TV defectors back in.

Here are some key takeaways from the report:

• Viewers find traditional TV packages too expensive. 47% of global respondents got rid of their pay-TV packages because they needed to save money. And 33% of respondents said they did not watch enough TV to justify the cost of a package. 
• Viewers want to choose what they want to watch, when they want to watch. 16% of respondents said that they were frustrated they couldn't customize their pay-TV packages to pay only for programming they actively watch. 
• A surprisingly small number of viewers ditched pay-TV packages because they subscribed to a video streaming service. Only 11% of respondents said they cut the cord because they were already paying for internet streaming services like Netflix and Amazon, suggesting that lower prices or à la carte programming options would likely keep many viewers paying for traditional TV packages.

Iconic Merle Haggard On Bro Country: It's Crap

Merle Haggard

Merle Haggard may be 78, but you don't want to get on the fightin' side of the legendary singer.

In Fargo for a concert Sunday, Haggard told Inforum, "I can't tell what they're doing," says The Hag. "They're talking about screwing on a pickup tailgate and things of that nature. I don't find no substance. I don't find anything you can whistle and nobody even attempts to write a melody. It's more of that kids stuff. It's hot right now, but I'll tell you what, it's cooling off."

If anyone can credibly comment on authenticity in country music, it's Haggard. Born in a boxcar that was his parents' home, he's lived the life others can only try to sing about. His early run-ins with the law ended up with Haggard serving time in jail and inspiring the 1968 country classic "Mama Tried."

After seeing Johnny Cash perform in San Quentin prison, Haggard was more resolved to go straight and make a life in music after being paroled in early 1960. He started working regular jobs and playing around, getting a reputation as a front man. In 1964, he released his first top 10 hit, "(My Friends Are Gonna Be) Strangers," and Sunday also marked the 50th anniversary of his first album, "Strangers," hitting stores.

Since then, he's scored 38 No. 1 songs, been inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and received the Kennedy Center Honors at the White House in 2010.

SF Radio: Brady's Dad Calls KGO To Defend Son

KGO's Chip Franklin

Tom Brady Sr. called in to Chip Franklin on KGO 810 AM in San Francisco to defend his son after the host criticized the Patriots quarterback.

WHDH-TV reports Brady Sr. called into the show after the host asked whether fans would want Brady or Tim Tebow on their team. The quarterback's father called the question "stupid" and took offense with the host calling his son a liar.

"When you say Brady is a liar, you'd better be careful, fella. Because you don't know what the heck you're talking about," said Brady Sr.

Brady Sr. accused the NFL and ESPN of spreading "propaganda" about the underinflated footballs at the center of deflategate. He also slammed NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, insisting he was the one being dishonest.

"The only person who has testified under oath in this is Tom Brady. We know Goodell has lied," said Brady Sr. "He lied in the Ray Rice case, he lied in this case, he has lied in the [Adrian] Peterson case. How many times do you need to know that this guy is a flaming liar?"

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Tom Brady has not yet commented on his father's rant.

September 8 Radio History

In 1930...WBEN signed on in Buffalo, NY.  However, its history dates to the 1920s. WBEN initially used the facility built by the Norton Laboratories organization from Boston, as part of an experiment to send voice transmissions between Niagara Falls, New York, and Cambridge, Massachusetts, as WMAK.

When WMAK was launched in 1922 it operated initially from Lockport, New York at 833 kHz. The station later moved its transmitter to North Tonawanda, New York (broadcasting at 1130 kHz there) and then landing on 900 kHz, with 1000 watts of power, as a result of General Order 40, which realigned American AM radio allocations in 1927–28. In the late 1920s WMAK was acquired by the Buffalo Broadcasting Company, based at Buffalo's Rand Building, which also controlled WGR and WKBW in Buffalo. WMAK was a charter member of the CBS Radio Network, being one of the 16 stations that aired the first CBS network program on September 18, 1927.

WMAK was closed in the spring of 1930 as federal regulators began probing concentration of media ownership in the nation's largest radio markets. Buffalo Broadcasting Company chose to retain WGR and WKBW while shutting down WMAK and another daytime-only station, WKEN in suburban Kenmore, New York.

At the same time, the Buffalo Evening News was granted a broadcast license of its own, purchased the decommissioned transmitting facility of WMAK on Shawnee Road in Martinsville (North Tonawanda, New York) and re-licensed it as WBEN.

A new studio complex was built at the Statler-Hilton Hotel in downtown Buffalo (chosen primarily for access to the live orchestra there), and served WBEN, its sister FM station and sister television station (which opened in the spring of 1948) for more than 25 years.

In 1941, the station moved to its current position on the dial, at 930 kHz, as a result of the North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement (NARBA).

The station also relocated its transmitter to Grand Island at during this time, increasing full-time power to its current 5,000 watts. The Grand Island transmitter and two towers are still in use today.

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The Hoboken Four with Major Bowes

In 1935...A singing group called the Hoboken Four, one of whose members is named Frankie Sinatra, makes their first national appearance, performing on WOR's radio show Major Bowes Amateur Hour.

The Hoboken Four won the contest that night. Bowes said: “They walked right into the hearts of their audience.” The prize was a 6-month contract to perform on stage and on radio and they were earning a lot more than before.



In 1954...Alan Freed left Cleveland, Ohio to go to New York City and 1010 WINS radio.



The station eventually became an around-the-clock Top 40 rock and roll radio station, and would remain so until April 19, 1965—long after Freed left and three months after he had died— when it became an all-news outlet. While in New York, Life magazine credited Freed as the originator of the rock 'n roll craze


In 1957...Pope Pius XII sent a letter to all Roman Catholic bishops throughout the world on motion pictures, radio and TV.

In 1979..."My Sharona" by the Knack took on all challengers with a third straight week at #1.  Chic could not get there with "Good Times".  Earth, Wind & Fire was up to 3 with "After the Love Has Gone" while ELO was up to position #4 with "Don't Bring Me Down".  The rest of an excellent Top 10:  The Charlie Daniels Band with their memorable "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", Maxine Nightingale edged up with "Lead Me On", Robert John had his biggest hit since his Top 10 remake of "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in 1972 with "Sad Eyes", Barbra Streisand was on her way down with "The Main Event/Fight", Dionne Warwick had the #9 song--'I'll Never Love This Way Again" and the Little River Band had their third straight Top 10 song with "Lonesome Loser".

In 1984...Comeback queen Tina Turner made it two weeks at #1--"What's Love Got to Do with It". John Waite, former lead singer of the Babys, remained at #2 with "Missing You" while newcomer Cyndi Lauper had #3 with "She Bop".  Ray Parker Jr.'s former #1 "Ghostbusters" was at #4.  The rest of the Top 10:  Lionel Richie with "Stuck on You", Prince came in at #6 with "Let's Go Crazy", Huey Lewis & the News had another winner from the album Sports--"If This is It", Scandal came charging in with "The Warrior", Corey Hart was at #9 with "Sunglasses at Night" and the Cars rolled in with their 11th hit--"Drive".

In 1992...the Howard Stern radio show began broadcasting on KGEL-FM in Dallas