Reach Media has announced that The Quick Silva Show with Dominique Da Diva will officially move to Reach Media for distribution and syndication. The show will now be heard in the following markets; WPHI-FM Philadelphia, PA; WKYS-FM Washington, DC; WERQ-FM Baltimore, MD; WCKX-FM Columbus, OH; and WIZF Cincinnati, OH, weekdays from 3pm to 7pm EST.
The Quick Silva Show is a high energy show that is reflective of the hip hop lifestyle and culture. Quick Silva and Dominique Da Diva bring their listeners a show that is entertaining yet informative complete with compelling interviews with some of the hottest entertainers, strong listener interaction with contesting and conversation topics, and engagement with high-profile community activists bringing awareness to issues affecting the African American community.
Quick Silva has been on the radio for over 20 years in various dayparts and has been ranked one of the top 10 most powerful Radio DJs in the country by Source Magazine 3 years in a row. From the moment he received his first set of turntables at age 10, the deejay internationally recognized as “The Party Kingpin,” Quick Silva was born.
David Kantor, Reach Media and Radio One CEO, stated, “I’ve had the opportunity to see this show grow tremendously. Quick Silva and Dominque Da Diva are two very strong radio talents who have an authentic connection to their audience and I am confident that the show will continue to be a huge draw for the listening audience. The beauty of this is that this show is one of few syndicated shows in the afternoon.”
While broadcast radio stations and their advertising clients face tough economic headwinds as we approach the 2020 holiday shopping season, a new study released by Jacobs Media finds opportunities for the medium to be a key resource for local businesses.
“Radio's 2020 Holiday Road Map” surveyed over 27,000 core radio listeners from 355 commercial radio stations across the US and Canada from September 29-October 1. The study reveals this holiday season will be like no other. It was conducted in partnership with the Radio Advertising Bureau.
“The holiday season usually has a typical rhythm that families, businesses, and radio stations plan around,” observes Jacobs Media’s President Fred Jacobs. “But it’s clear that in order to be successful, radio stations and their national and local clients will need to explore new approaches in 2020. Consumer patterns and perceptions about shopping have changed. The good news is radio remains a powerful partner to local business.”
This new study reveals that unlike past years, this holiday season is not likely to feature a huge retail spike on Black Friday. In fact, early holiday shopping has already begun, creating the necessity for businesses to begin their ad spending early, and ramping it up after the Thanksgiving holiday:
Radio holds a unique position in its ability to drive audiences to local businesses. While the survey finds four in ten (42%) plan to spend less money this holiday season than last, eight in ten (79%) agree or strongly agree with the statement: “For my holiday shopping this year in particular, I feel I should support local/small businesses in my area.”
“Radio salespeople are going to have to work harder and more creatively than ever this holiday season,” remarks Paul Jacobs, Vice President/General Manager of Jacobs Media. “But this study provides a playbook, not only for them, but also for local businesses. This is a collaborative moment. Armed with this data, salespeople will be well-positioned to not only share their audience information, but also help clients find the best ways of being successful this holiday season.”
“Radio has traditionally closed out the last quarter of the year with strong revenues and we want to help broadcasters ensure similar results even in a different looking holiday shopping season,” said Erica Farber, President and CEO, RAB. “This very timely listener insights study, reflecting the current consumer mindset, will help enable broadcasters to provide local clients with incredible insights into their customers' intended holiday spend, while providing strategies for their holiday advertising plans.”
NEP and Edison Research will expand in-person early voting interviews and implement Covid-19-related protocols to maintain health and safety.
With record numbers of Americans expected to vote before Election Day, the exit poll of record, conducted by Edison Research on behalf of ABC News, CBS News, CNN and NBC News, will begin interviewing voters at early voting locations around the country on October 13.
“More Americans are expected to vote before Election Day this year than any other election in history, and the member networks of the National Election Pool (NEP) and Edison Research have developed innovative new techniques to account for that in our long-standing exit poll,” said Joe Lenski, co-founder and Executive Vice President of Edison Research.
The NEP’s exit poll is the only survey that will be released on election night that represents the views and opinions of actual voters interviewed as they cast their ballots all across the country.
As it has since 2004, the NEP exit poll will also include extensive telephone surveys of those planning to vote by mail to ensure that all voters are represented in Election Night coverage across the pool’s member networks and subscribers. This year, those polls will reach more than 25,000 voters casting ballots before Election Day.
For the first time in 2018, NEP’s exit poll included in-person interviews with those voting at early voting locations. The technique proved highly accurate in Nevada and Tennessee, the two states in which it was used that year, and was successfully expanded in this year’s presidential primaries in North Carolina and Texas. For the presidential election this fall, early voters will be interviewed in person in eight critical states.
“In 2018, Edison and the NEP pioneered the technique of conducting interviews at in-person early voting sites, and today, we’re using that valuable experience to expand those efforts for 2020,” said Lenski. “It’s simply a matter of taking our time-tested models and applying them to the ways people vote today.”
The 2018 exit poll also incorporated methodological improvements to better reflect the educational and age makeup of the electorate in the NEP’s results. Those improvements will be carried through to 2020. In order to make reliable, direct comparisons to the 2016 exit polls for the size of subgroups including age, education and income, the NEP members and subscribers will be using trend-adjusted results that apply the techniques added to our standard methodology in 2018 to the results from 2016.
In addition to adapting to the changing ways that voters cast their ballots, the NEP is taking precautions to ensure that voters participating in our in-person exit polls remain safe.
The NEP tasked Edison Research to conduct tests to determine best practices for safe and secure exit polls even in the midst of a major public health crisis. Exit polls will be conducted by interviewers wearing masks, who will remain six feet away from respondents and will have new, single-use pencils available for each voter filling out the exit poll questionnaire. Hand sanitizer and sanitizing wipes will be available for voters to use before and after completing their exit polls.
In addition to the exit poll, the NEP and Edison Research will be tabulating the vote from all counties in the U.S. for statewide and congressional races as it has done in previous elections.
As of Monday, the South Korean boy band BTS has made Billboard history by landing at both No. 1 and No. 2 on the Hot 100, reports The L-A Times.
With “Savage Love” beating out “Dynamite” for the top spot, BTS is the first group to achieve such a feat since the Black Eyed Peas dominated the Hot 100 with “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling” for four weeks in the summer of 2009.
Jason Derulo, Jawsh 685 and BTS dropped their “Savage Love (Laxed — Siren Beat)” remix earlier this month, while the K-pop sensation‘s hit single “Dynamite” arrived at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in September. The latter — which also happened to be members RM, Jin, Suga, J-Hope, Jimin, V and Jungkook’s first No. 1 track (if you can believe it) — previously held the top position for three nonconsecutive weeks.
“Savage Love” also marks Derulo’s second No. 1 — 11 years after 2009’s “Whatcha Say” — and Jawsh 685’s first.
According to Billboard, “‘Savage Love’ drew 16 million U.S. streams (up 32%) and sold 76,000 downloads (up 814%) in the week ending Oct. 8. It also tallied 70.6 million radio airplay audience impressions in the week ending Oct. 11.”
Other than BTS and the Black Eyed Peas, only three other groups — OutKast, the Bee Gees and the Beatles — have clinched both first and second place on the Hot 100 in the same week.
More than three dozen employees at the WNET Group, the parent company of New York’s public television stations, have called for the resignation of the longtime chief executive, Neal Shapiro, saying he had not done enough to improve working conditions for employees, especially those of color, The NYTimes reports.
In an email to the staff on Friday, the Inclusion and Diversity Council, a WNET employee organization formed in 2015, said Mr. Shapiro did not have the “skills or the judgment to lead the company through this pivotal moment in history.”
The council said that 41 current WNET employees and 34 former employees have signed the letter, which was posted on the council’s website. It did not publish the names of those who had signed. (WNET has a work force of 380 people.)
Shapiro, a former president of NBC News who has led WNET since 2007, replied to the letter on Friday in an email to the staff, saying that “much of what has been written is inaccurate, misleading or out of context.”
“I understand some anonymous signatories are upset that we aren’t moving forward in the exact way they want,” he wrote. “But make no mistake. The WNET Group is spending real resources, making real changes and building a path forward with accountability, transparency and civility.”
Edgar Wachenheim III, an investment banker who has been the chairman of WNET’s board of trustees since 2017, said in a statement that Mr. Shapiro had the board’s support.
Tensions started at WNET, the parent company of New York’s Channel 13 and WLIW Channel 21, as civil rights protests were spreading across the country after the police killing of George Floyd in May. Employees questioned why the company had not issued a statement in support of the Black Lives Matter movement.
On June 1, six days after Floyd’s death, Shapiro released a statement on WNET.org. “Racism is a cancer in the soul of this nation,” he wrote. “This has been an agonizing and painful week. Our hearts go out to so many, especially so for our African-American colleagues. At the same time, it is also a reminder of what drew many of us to public media — to help build a more informed country with equal justice for everyone based on understanding and mutual respect.”
In a June 9 letter, the Inclusion and Diversity Council objected to Mr. Shapiro’s likening racism to a cancer. “It is our view that this represents your profound misunderstanding of our nation’s history and its current reality,” the council wrote. “Racism is not an anomaly separate from us, rather, it is woven into the fabric of this country and, in fact, our own institution.”
In the wake of the George Floyd death, more and more school districts are adding critical race theory – which teaches that America and whites are inherently racist – to their course requirements for graduation, reports CBN.
California schools almost introduced a curriculum – it passed the state legislature but was vetoed by the governor – that would have required students to critique "empire and its relationship to white supremacy, racism, patriarchy, capitalism and other forms of power and oppression at the intersections of our society."
But the most well-known and controversial school curriculum on race is the New York Times' 1619 Project, which says America's founding, economy, and government are all based on slavery and white supremacy, and that America didn't begin in 1776 but in 1619 when the first African slaves arrived in Virginia.
The New York Times has brushed aside claims by several historians that the 1619 Project has major factual errors, basically saying that American history is open to interpretation.
But after a barrage of criticism for its historical inaccuracy, references to 1619 as America's true founding have been quietly removed from the 1619 website.
And now a group of 21 scholars is calling for the Pulitzer Prize Board to strip Nikole Hannah-Jones of her 2020 award for her essay on the 1619 Project, saying it is "disfigured by unfounded conjectures and patently false assertions."
Dr. Carol Swain, who grew up in the Jim Crow south in a shack without running water and went on to teach at Princeton and Vanderbilt, calls the 1619 Project agenda-driven and a false narrative.
"If the curriculum was balanced, it would have to tell the positive side of America," Swain said, "America has been a success story and it's because whites and blacks worked together. And so, as a descendant of slaves, I feel blessed to be an American. Slavery is what it was. It was not unique to America. And what is true of America was that there were always whites who fought against the institution of slavery,"
Swain other black scholars have put forward a historically accurate alternative to the 1619 Project called 1776 Unites.
The security guard agency that was said to have contracted a private guard who fatally shot someone in Denver over the weekend issued a statement for the first time, saying the guard was not in its employ.
“We take loss of life in any situation very seriously and are our hearts go out to those impacted by this situation. As it relates to the incident in Denver on October 10, the agent in question is not a Pinkerton employee but rather a contractor agent from a long standing industry vendor,” Pinkerton said in an emailed statement to The Epoch Times on Monday.
Pinkerton did not say what vendor employed Dolloff. The agency was started in the 1800s and describes itself on its website “as guardians and protectors of organizations around the world.”
NBC affiliate 9News said it hired Matthew Dolloff, 30, as a security guard for protection at competing rallies on Saturday, one held by a conservative group and another that featured Black Lives Matter and Antifa members.
Dolloff drew his weapon and shot dead Lee Keltner, whose son said was protesting in support of the police, as Keltner sprayed mace at Dolloff, photographs showed.
The graphic pictures showed Dolloff fire his weapon, Keltner fall to the ground, and Dolloff look around before kneeling on the ground as police officers in riot gear rushed over and took him into custody.
9News, which has not responded to requests for comment, has only given details about its relationship with Dolloff in its own news reports.
“Dolloff was contracted through Pinkerton by 9NEWS. It has been the practice of 9NEWS for a number of months to contract private security to accompany staff at protests,” the broadcaster said in one of its stories.
9NEWS’ General Manager Mark Cornetta added in a statement: “9NEWS is deeply saddened by this loss of life. We have and will continue to cooperate fully with law enforcement.”
Joe Morgan, the MLB Hall of Fame second baseman who became the sparkplug of dominant Cincinnati teams in the mid-1970s and the prototype for baseball’s artificial turf era, has died.
He died at his home Sunday in Danville, California, family spokesman James Davis said in statement Monday. Morgan was suffering from a nerve condition, a form of polyneuropathy.
“Joe Morgan was quite simply the best baseball player I played against or saw,” Reds Hall of Fame catcher Johnny Bench texted to The Associated Press.
Morgan’s death marked the latest among major league greats this year: Whitey Ford, Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Tom Seaver and Al Kaline.
“All champions. This hurts the most,” Bench said.
Morgan was a two-time NL Most Valuable Player, a 10-time All-Star and won five Gold Gloves. A dynamo known for flapping his left elbow at the plate, Little Joe could hit a home run, steal a base and disrupt any game with his daring.
Health issues had slowed down Morgan in recent years. Knee surgery forced him to use a cane when he went onto the field at Great American Ball Park before the 2015 All-Star Game and he later needed a bone marrow transplant for an illness.
Miller and Morgan
Morgan hit .327 with 17 homers, 94 RBIs and 67 stolen bases in 1975, then followed with a .320 average, 27 homers, 111 RBIs and 60 steals the next year. He was only the fifth second baseman in the NL to drive in more than 100 runs and also led the league in both on-base percentage and slugging percentage in 1976.
After his playing career, he spent years as an announcer for the Reds, Giants and A’s, along with ESPN, NBC, ABC and CBS. He was analyst for ESPN’s Sunday night telecasts from 1990-2010 and won two Sports Emmy Awards as an Event Analyst — ESPN’s first two wins in the category, in 1998 and 2005.
San Francisco Giants broadcaster Jon Miller, Morgan's former ESPN booth partner stated, “Joe is rightfully remembered as a great player and Hall of Famer — and in my opinion is the greatest second baseman there ever was — but his pioneering efforts are not always as appreciated. He was the first Black or African-American game baseball analyst in prime time on national television and he did that for 21 seasons. He was the pioneering trailblazer among commentators. ... He was also someone whose opinion the commissioner valued and that he sought counsel from. Joe had an influence over the game way beyond what we all saw.”
➦In 1935...Bruce Morrow (born Bruce Meyerowitz) known to many listeners as Cousin Brucie was born.
Morrow's first stint in radio was in Bermuda at ZBM-AM, where he was known as "The Hammer."
Morrow began his stateside career at New York Top 40 station WINS in 1959. In 1960, he moved to Miami for a brief stint before returning to the New York airwaves the following year on powerhouse 77WABC. Morrow's returned to New York City came at the precise moment that rock and roll music was exploding across the Baby Boom demographic and Morrow found himself on the most powerful radio station on the East Coast at the onset of the British Invasion.
"Cousin Brucie" quickly became a success on WABC's teen-oriented evening shift in the 6:15 p.m. to 10:30 p.m. slot. Morrow became a commercial radio powerhouse and household name through his ability to maintain a rapport with his listeners while smoothly mixing the diverse musical genres of the time (Motown soul, pop, hard rock, surf music, novelty records), and then seamlessly segueing into commercials for youth-oriented sponsors like Thom McAn shoes, local clothing outlets in the New York and New Jersey areas, and events such as concerts and drag-strip races.
He served at WABC for 13 years and 4,014 broadcasts until August 1974, when he jumped to rival station WNBC 660 AM; after three years there, he left the airwaves to team with entrepreneur Robert F.X. Sillerman to become the owner of the Sillerman Morrow group of stations, which included WALL; WKGL, now WRRV, in Middletown, New York; WJJB, later WCZX, in Poughkeepsie, New York; WHMP in Northampton, Massachusetts; WOCB in West Yarmouth, Massachusetts; WRAN (now dark) New Jersey 1510 in Randolph, New Jersey; and television station WATL Atlanta. The group later purchased WPLR in New Haven, Connecticut.
In 1982, Morrow returned to the DJ role with New York's WCBS 101.1 FM. Initially, he filled in for Jack Spector every third Saturday evening for the Saturday Night Sock Hop program. Following Spector's resignation in 1985, Morrow took over the show and renamed it the Saturday Night Dance Party. The station also added his nationally syndicated show Cruisin' America. In 1986, he took on the Wednesday evening slot, where he hosted The Top 15 Yesterday and Today Countdown. In 1991, the Wednesday show became The Yearbook, focusing on music from a year between 1955 and 1979. Cousin Brucie was also the "breakfast presenter" on Atlantic 252 from 1992 to 1996.
When Cruisin' America ended its run in December 1992, Morrow continued hosting a WCBS show called Cruising with the Cuz Monday evenings until the end of 1993. After that show ended, he hosted the Saturday night and Wednesday night shows there until the station's change to the adult hits format called Jack FM on June 3, 2005. Shortly thereafter, he signed a multi-year deal to host oldies programming and a weekly talk show on Sirius Satellite Radio.
Morrow recently hosted programs for Sirius XM satellite radio, on the '60s on 6 channel. Today Cousin Brucie is hosting a Saturday evening oldies show on former Musicradio 77WABC in NYC.
➦In 1963...the term 'Beatlemania' was coined, as The Beatles made their first major TV appearance from the London Palladium. The BBC had an audience of 15 million tuned in. Thousands of delirious fans jammed the streets outside the theater to voice their support of the Fab Four. A few months later, Beatlemania would sweep the U.S. as well.
➦In 1967...CBS Radio Network canceled "House Party". Art Linkletter discusses his years in radio.
Sponsored by General Electric, the 25-minute House Party premiered on CBS Radio on January 15, 1945, and ran weekdays at 4 p.m., three days a week, through January 10, 1947. Following a break, it then ran weekdays at 3:30 p.m. from December 1, 1947 to December 31, 1948. It continued to be sponsored by General Electric even as it switched to ABC Radio, where it ran for 30 minutes in the same timeslot from January 3 to July 1, 1949. ABC then aired it as a 25-minute sustained-advertising program weekdays at noon from September 19 to December 30, 1949.
The show returned to CBS Radio only days later, making its longest continued run from January 2, 1950 to October 13, 1967 as a 30-minute show running weekdays at various times. Sponsors included Pillsbury from 1950 to 1952, and Lever Brothers from 1952 to 1956. During its first season, the soundtrack from the TV show was run immediately on radio following the telecast.
➦In 1974...Ed Sullivan died from esophagal cancer at the age of 73 (Born September 28, 1901). He was a TV personality, impresario, sports and entertainment reporter, and syndicated columnist for the New York Daily News and the Chicago Tribune New York News Syndicate. He is principally remembered as the creator and host of the television variety program The Toast of the Town, later popularly—and, eventually, officially—renamed The Ed Sullivan Show. Broadcast for 23 years from 1948 to 1971, it set a record as the longest-running variety show in US broadcast history. "It was, by almost any measure, the last great TV show," said television critic David Hinckley. "It's one of our fondest, dearest pop culture memories."
His column, "Little Old New York" for the New York Daily News, concentrated on Broadway shows and gossip. Sullivan soon became a powerful starmaker in the entertainment world himself, becoming one of Walter Winchell's main rivals. Sullivan continued writing for The News throughout his broadcasting career.
Throughout his career as a columnist, Sullivan had dabbled in entertainment—producing vaudeville shows with which he appeared as master of ceremonies in the 1920s and 1930s, directing a radio program over the original WABC (now WCBS) and organizing benefit reviews for various causes.
In 1941, Sullivan was host of the Summer Silver Theater, a variety program on CBS, with Will Bradley as bandleader and a guest star featured each week
He introduced numerous acts to audiences and the show featuring the Beatles on February 9, 1964 is one of the milestones in popular culture, viewed by 73 million people.
Douglas Edwards
➦In 1990...News anchor Douglas Edwards died of cancer at the age of 73. He anchored CBS's first network nightly television news broadcast from 1946–1962, which was later to be titled CBS Evening News.
A native of Oklahoma, Edwards grew up in Birmingham, Alabama. Edwards joined CBS Radio in 1942, eventually becoming anchor for the regular evening newscast The World Today as well as World News Today on Sunday afternoons. Edwards came to CBS, after stints as a newscaster and announcer at WSB in Atlanta, Georgia and WXYZ in Detroit, Michigan.
In the mid-1940s, Edwards was host of the radio program Behind the Scenes at CBS Radio.
In 1946, Edwards was chosen to present regular CBS television news programs and to host CBS's television coverage of the 1948 Democratic and Republican conventions. The term "anchor" would not be used until 1952, when CBS News chief Sig Mikelson would use it to describe Walter Cronkite's role in the network's political convention coverage.
At first, Edwards would be eclipsed by John Cameron Swayze of NBC News's Camel News Caravan, but he would eventually regain his ratings lead. By the mid-1950s, the nightly 15-minute newscast Douglas Edwards with the News was watched by nearly 30 million viewers.
Edwards' last newscast on the evening news was on April 13, 1962. On April 16, 1962, Edwards was replaced by Walter Cronkite, and the program became Walter Cronkite with the News. On September 2, 1963, the program was retitled CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite and became the first half-hour weeknight news broadcast of network television and was moved to 6:30 p.m. .
For several years, both during his time as network anchor and after leaving the CBS anchor chair, Edwards anchored the local late news team on WCBS-TV, channel 2, the network's flagship television station in New York City.
Edwards subsequently moved back to CBS Radio, where he delivered the network's flagship evening newscasts The World Tonight for many years. Until his retirement on April 1, 1988, he maintained a daily midday role within CBS television news, anchoring a five-minute newsbreak known successively as CBS Afternoon News with Douglas Edwards (April 1962-Feb. 1968), The CBS Midday News with Douglas Edwards (Feb. 1968-April 20, 1979) at 11:55am Eastern time and The CBS Mid-Morning News with Douglas Edwards (April 23, 1979 – May 30, 1980) at 10:55am Eastern.[4] He also served, for a time, as a co-anchor of the CBS Morning News. His last radio newscast included a report of the death of singer Andy Gibb.[5]
Beginning June 2, 1980, Douglas Edwards anchored a daily one-minute-fourteen-second edition of Newsbreak at 11:57 a.m. Eastern Time.
➦In 1992...Hughes Rudd died at age 71 (Born September 14, 1921). He was a television journalist and CBS News and ABC News correspondent. Rudd was known for his folksy style, gravelly voice, and unimposing sense of humor, often ending his newscasts with human interest stories that sometimes made him break into a chuckle on camera.
➦In 2002, former Los Angeles morning man Al Lohman, who teamed for years with the late Roger Barkley to dominate the wake-up radio ratings at KFWB and later KFI, died of bladder cancer at age 69
Jerry Marshall
➦In 2010…New York City radio personality Jerry Marshall died at age 91. During more than 30 years on the air, Marshall hosted hit shows like “Music Hall” and “The Make-Believe Ballroom” on WNEW and “Record Room” on WMGM, as well as shows on WINS, WNBC and WCBS. His “Jerry Marshall Show” was eventually syndicated in cities along the East Coast.
In 1948, while hosting “Music Hall,” Mr. Marshall gave a major boost to the career of Nat King Cole when he was the first D.J. to play Cole’s version of “Nature Boy,” with its eerie minor melody about a “strange enchanted boy” whose wandering led him to conclude that “the greatest thing you’ll ever learn/Is just to love and be loved in return.” The song was an overnight sensation.
➦In 2012…Washington DC Radio talk show host Bernie McCain died of renal failure at 75. McCain had worked in radio for more than 15 years when WOL 1450 AM hired him away from the Washington AM station WRC in 1981. Today, WOL is owned by Radio One, a media company that serves a largely African American and urban market.
He quickly became one of the station’s flagship personalities and a daily presence known to listeners of his call-in show as “Uncle Bernie.” In an interview, Radio One founder Cathy Hughes described him as “a black version of Mister Rogers.”
➦In 2013…Veteran radio personality Bob Sanders, half of the husband-and-wife broadcast duo Bob & Betty Sanders, died at the age of 89.
Although the couple worked in other markets, they were best known in Chicago, where Bob and Betty Sanders' show aired on WBBM-AM 1972 through 1983. The midday show mixed news and information with interviews with visiting actors, authors and other celebrities.
Robert W. Sanders grew up in Tuscumbia, Ala. His studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa were interrupted in 1942 when he was drafted into the Army. He became ill with pleurisy while serving in Europe and was sent to a hospital in Louisiana to recover. A buddy there suggested that because he liked to talk so much, he should go into radio.
He began his radio career with a small station in Florence, Ala. He also worked at stations in Birmingham, Ala.; Kansas City, Mo.; St. Louis; and Wichita, Kan., before coming to Chicago. It was in St. Louis that he met a young actress named Betty Kwitzky, who was working in commercials. The two married in 1954.
By 1972, Mr. Sanders and his wife were working together at WBBM-AM in Chicago. Their show ran weekdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and included news, entertainment and interviews. Later, they moved to another Chicago station, then WCFL-AM, now WMVP.
"You felt good after listening to Bob and Betty," said Steve Dale, the producer of the show after it moved to WCFL.
"You were informed, you were entertained, but you felt like you were sitting with them having a chat," said Dale, now the host of the weekly "Steve Dale's Pet World" on WGN-AM, a station owned by Tribune Co.
In late 1985, the couple began a two-year stint at WMCA in New York, doing a morning show that blended talk, news, weather and interviews.
When the station was sold, they returned to the Midwest, where Mr. Sanders began working at WISN in Milwaukee. His wife later joined him on air there. He retired in the late 1980s.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
Gospel singer Shirley Caesar is 83.
Actor Melinda Dillon (“A Christmas Story”) is 81.
Musician Paul Simon is 79.
Actor Pamela Tiffin is 78.
Keyboardist Robert Lamm of Chicago is 76.
Country singer Lacy J. Dalton is 74.
Actor Demond Wilson (“Sanford and Son”) is 74.
Singer Sammy Hagar is 73.
Singer John Ford Coley of England Dan and John Ford Coley is 72.
Marie Osmond is 61
Actor John Lone (“Rush Hour 2″) is 68.
Model Beverly Johnson is 68.
“The X-Files” creator Chris Carter is 64.
Singer Cherrelle is 61.
Singer-actor-talk show host Marie Osmond is 61.
Singer Joey Belladonna of Anthrax is 60.
Actor T’Keyah Crystal Keymah (“That’s So Raven”) is 58.
Country singer John Wiggins is 58.
Actor Christopher Judge (TV’s “Stargate SG-1”) is 56.
Actor Matt Walsh (“Veep”) is 56.
Actor Reginald Ballard (“Martin,” ″The Bernie Mac Show”) is 55.
Actor Kate Walsh (“Private Practice,” ″Grey’s Anatomy”) is 53.
Musician Jeff Allen of Mint Condition is 52.
Actor Tisha Campbell-Martin (“My Wife and Kids,” ″Martin”) is 52.
Singer Carlos Marin of Il Divo is 52.
Country singer Rhett Akins is 51.
TV personality Billy Bush is 49.
Actor Sacha Baron Cohen (“Borat,” ″Da Ali G Show”) is 49.
Guitarist Jan Van Sichem Jr. of K’s Choice is 48.
Singers Brandon and Brian Casey of Jagged Edge are 45.
Actor Kiele Sanchez (“Lost”) is 44.
Singer Ashanti is 40.
Singer-rapper Lumidee is 40.
Contemporary Christian singer Jon Micah Sumrall of Kutless is 40.
iHeartMedia’s NewsRadio WFLA announced today the debut of “The Buck Sexton Show,” effective Monday. The popular program will broadcast weekdays from 9 p.m. to 12 a.m. ET on 970 AM, 94.5 FM, 105.9 FM, 99.1 FM and 97.9 HD-2.
As host of The Buck Sexton Show, the former CIA officer and NYPD counter-terrorism expert shares his intelligent and fresh take on the latest news stories and headlines, while welcoming a variety of guests and experts. Sexton brings his real-life experience and expertise as he discusses everything from business and politics to entertainment and social issues. Nationally syndicated by Premiere Networks, the three-hour weekday radio show is available on 160 affiliates nationwide, in addition to iHeartRadio and a simulcast on Pluto TV’s The First channel.
Sexton previously served as a CIA officer in the Counterterrorism Center (CTC) and the Office of Iraq Analysis. He completed tours of duty as an intelligence officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as other hotspots around the globe, and led intelligence briefings for senior U.S. officials, including the President. Sexton also served in the New York Police Department (NYPD) Intelligence Division working on counterterrorism issues. He appears frequently on Fox News Channel and other outlets as a political commentator and national security analyst. For more information, please visit www.BuckSexton.com.
“I’m honored to have my show join the WFLA-AM family, among the greatest heritage stations in the country,” said Sexton. “I can’t wait to begin speaking every night to listeners in the Tampa Bay area, one of the best talk radio audiences there is.”
“We are excited to have Buck Sexton join our on-air lineup of strong local and national personalities,” said Tommy Chuck, Sr. VP/Programming for iHeartMedia Tampa/Sarasota. “His life experience gives him unique perspective that our audience will be very interested to hear.”
Sexton replaces a replay airing of The Todd Schnitt Show. Schnitt recently moved to crosstown rival WRBQ-FM to revive his MJ IN the Morning personality morning show.
iHeartMedia's WHNZ 1250 AM welcomes “The Dave Ramsey Show” to the afternoon program lineup. The popular syndicated show will make its move to the Tampa airwaves and broadcast weekdays from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Ramsey’s top-rated show draws from his many lessons on rebuilding his wealth after problems with debt in his own life left him broke. In his show, he gives his audience what he calls “tough love and straight talk” to help them become debt-free and achieve financial security, or as he refers to it, “financial peace.” He believes his show is about life and how life revolves around money.
In 1992, Ramsey began his radio career by co-hosting “The Money Game with Roy Matlock of Primerica in Nashville. Today, he is the host of “The Dave Ramsey Show,” the third-largest syndicated talk show in the nation with more than 600 affiliates and 9.5 million listeners each week on terrestrial radio alone. Ramsey is a member of the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame, the National Radio Hall of Fame, and has eight national best-selling books, including three number one bestsellers.
“We’re excited to add The Dave Ramsey Show to our line-up on 1250WHNZ,” said Chris Soechtig, Market President of iHeartMedia Tampa/Sarasota, FL. “The Dave Ramsey Show brings a new group of listeners to 1250 WHNZ who pay attention to what’s coming out of their speakers and applying what they hear.”
Ramsey replaces a live-airing of The Todd Schnitt Show. Schnitt recently moved to crosstown rival WRBQ-FM to revive his MJ IN the Morning personality morning show.
James Murdoch quit the board of News Corp because of disagreements over how decisions were made, arguing that great news organisations should “not sow doubt, to obscure fact”.
In an interview with the New York Times, Murdoch expanded on the statement he gave when he left his father Rupert Murdoch’s company earlier this year, expressing his discomfort with the toxicity of Fox News and other media outlets owned by the company.
In July he said he was leaving “due to disagreements over certain editorial content published by the Company’s news outlets and certain other strategic decisions”.
Murdoch said: “I reached the conclusion that you can venerate a contest of ideas, if you will, and we all do, and that’s important. But it shouldn’t be in a way that hides agendas.
“A contest of ideas shouldn’t be used to legitimise disinformation. And I think it’s often taken advantage of. And I think at great news organisations, the mission really should be to introduce fact to disperse doubt — not to sow doubt, to obscure fact, if you will.”
Yahoo! News reports Murdoch explained that he felt increasingly uncomfortable with his position on the board and that it was “not that hard a decision to remove myself and have a kind of cleaner slate”.
Both Murdoch and his wife, Kathryn, have in the past expressed frustration over News Corp titles’s coverage of the Trump administration and climate change.
President Trump is returning to the campaign trail today with a rally in Florida, with others planned for later in the week in Pennsylvania and Iowa, claiming yesterday that he can no longer infect others with the coronavirus and is now immune to it. However, it's at this point not able to be known if someone has immunity to the virus or how long any immunity lasts. Trump's physician, Dr. Sean Conley, released a memo Saturday night in which he said Trump met the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention criteria for ending isolation after his illness with the virus and was no longer considered at risk for transmitting it by, quote, "currently recognized standards." The memo didn't say if Trump, who was released from the hospital one week ago, has tested negative for the virus.
➤BARRETT'S SUPREME COURT CONFIRMATION HEARINGS BEGIN TODAY: The confirmation hearings for President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, federal appeal court Judge Amy Coney Barrett, will begin today before the Senate Judiciary Committee. In her prepared opening remarks, Barrett lays out her intention to follow the "originalist" views of her mentor, late Justice Antonin Scalia, and, quote, "apply the law as written," stating, "Courts are not designed to solve every problem or right every wrong in our public life." Barrett was nominated after Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's death last month. No Supreme Court justice has ever been confirmed so close to a presidential election, and Democrats have insisted that the election winner should fill Ginsburg's seat. They cite Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in 2016 refusing to allow a vote on then-President Barack Obama's nominee to fill Scalia's seat after he died in February, with McConnell saying that with the election nine months away, the winner should fill the seat, something he has now reversed on with Trump in office.
🏀LAKERS WIN NBA CHAMPIONSHIP WITH 106-93 GAME SIX WIN OVER HEAT: The L.A. Lakers won the NBA championship for the 17th time in franchise history last night with a 106-93 win over the Miami Heat in Game Six to take the NBA Finals four games to two. The game was anything but a nail-biter, with the Heat never leading and down 28 points at halftime, the second-biggest halftime deficit in NBA Finals history. LeBron James, who was named the Finals MVP for the fourth time in his career, had a triple-double, getting 28 points, 14 rebounds and 10 assists as he led the Lakers to their first title in a decade. It was the fourth title for James, who did it with his third franchise, after winning the NBA championship twice with the Heat and once with the Cleveland Cavaliers. L.A.'s title brings to an end a season that was disrupted by the coronavirus for four-and-a-months before resuming in a Walt Disney World bubble, and in which the Lakers suffered the devastating loss of retired Laker great Kobe Bryant in the January helicopter crash that also killed his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven others.
⚾RAYS TOP ASTROS 2-1 IN GAME 1 OF ALCS: The Tampa Bay Rays topped the Houston Astros 2-1 in Game 1 of the American League Championship Series last night. The only run the Rays allowed was a Jose Altuve homer in the first inning, and Randy Arozarena hit a homer for Tampa Bay in the fourth inning. Game 2 is this afternoon.
NFL SCORES -- WEEK 5: Here are the results of this weekend's NFL games:
Carolina Panthers 23, Atlanta Falcons 16
Las Vegas Raiders 40, Kansas City Chiefs 32
Arizona Cardinals 30, New York Jets 10
Pittsburgh Steelers 38, Philadelphia Eagles 29
Los Angeles Rams 30, Washington Football Team 10
Baltimore Ravens 27, Cincinnati Bengals 3
Houston Texans 30, Jacksonville Jaguars 14
Miami Dolphins 43, San Francisco 49ers 17
Cleveland Browns 32, Indianapolis Colts 23
Dallas Cowboys 37, New York Giants 34
Seattle Seahawks 27, Minnesota Vikings 26
Tonight's Monday Night Football game on ESPN:
L.A. Chargers at New Orleans Saints (8:15 p.m. ET)
NINE NFL TEAMS AFFECTED BY RESCHEDULING DUE TO CORONAVIRUS OUTBREAKS ON TITANS, PATRIOTS: The NFL has had to reschedule games due to coronavirus outbreaks on the Tennessee Titans and New England Patriots that are affecting nine teams, some over weeks through November 22nd. Among the nearest changes: the Denver Broncos game at New England, originally scheduled for Sunday and then moved to Monday night, was moved again, and will now be played next Sunday and the Kansas City Chiefs game at the Buffalo Bills, which was supposed to be played Thursday night, has been moved to next Monday.
FALCONS FIRE COACH QUINN, GM DIMITROFF: The Atlanta Falcons fired head coach Dan Quinn and general manager Thomas Dimitroff yesterday after the day's loss to the Carolina Panthers sent the team to a 0-5 start for the first time since 1997. Quinn was in his sixth season with the Falcons, and Dimitroff had been with the team since 2008. An interim head coach is expected to be announced today, and team president Rich McKay will take over day-to-day oversight of football operations.
🎾NADAL, SWIATEK WIN FRENCH OPEN: Second-seeded Rafael Nadal of Spain defeated top-seed Novak Djokovic to win the French Open Sunday (October 11th) in straight sets, 6-0, 6-2, 7-5, tying Roger Federer's record of Grand Slam wins for men with his 20th. It was also the 13th French Open championship for Nadal, and his fourth straight. On Saturday, unseeded, 54th-ranked Iga Swiatek [shvee-ON’-tek] of Poland won the women's French Open title with a 6-4, 6-1 win over fourth-seeded American Sofia Kenin. The 19-year-old is the first Polish tennis player to win a major singles trophy.
🏌KIM WINS WOMEN'S PGA CHAMPIONSHIP: South Korea's Sei Young Kim won the KPMG Women's PGA championship on Sunday (October 11th) at Aronimink Golf Club in Pennsylvania for her first major title. Kim finished at 14-under 266, five strokes ahead of runner-up Inbee Park.
One person was shot and killed, and a local tv news station's private security guard was in custody Saturday evening after protests between opposing groups turned violent in Denver's Civic Center Park, city police said.
The man who was shot was part of a pro-police "Patriot Rally," according to FOX News.
"Further investigation has determined the suspect is a private security guard with no affiliation with Antifa," the Denver Police Department wrote in a Twitter message.
KUSA-TV, a local Denver news station also known as 9NEWS, reported that a suspect in police custody was a private security guard hired by the station.
"The private security guard was contracted through Pinkerton by 9NEWS," the news outlet wrote. "It has been the practice of 9NEWS for a number of months to hire private security to accompany staff at protests."
Video of the incident shows one shot being fired. Denver police then quickly cordon off the scene, giving medical aid to the victim and arresting a suspect.
"There was a verbal altercation that transpired. A firearm was discharged," Joe Montoya, Denver Police chief of investigations said. "An individual was shot and later pronounced deceased. There were two guns recovered at the scene."
The shooting victim had participated in a pro-police rally, the Denver Post reported.
"The incident occurred after a man participating in what was billed a 'Patriot Rally' sprayed mace at another man. That man then shot the other individual with a handgun near the courtyard outside the Denver Art Museum," the newspaper reported.
Denver police said they had one suspect in custody and were investigating the incident as a homicide.
Hip-hop CFXJ FLOW 93-5 is bringing back a local morning show after a brief fling with The Breakfast Club.
The station originally decided to program the wildly popular New York-based morning show to boost ratings back in March. When coronavirus lockdown measures hit, execs pushed the debut to May. But Toronto listeners haven’t warmed to the change.
Local hosts Blake Carter and Peter Kash, who were bumped to the drive-home time slot, will now return to mornings starting on October 14.
Steve Parsons, general manager of FLOW’s parent company Stingray, says the programming change happened at “the exact wrong time.”
The pandemic, the police killing of George Floyd and the U.S. election saw The Breakfast Club shift from pop culture and entertainment to focus more heavily on American politics.
“It didn’t match up with the culture of Toronto so we decided to make the change,” Parsons explains. “A couple days ago they were talking for 40 minutes about how to vote in Florida as an ex-felon. It’s not relevant to Toronto.”
“The show itself is still a killer show,” he adds. “All three hosts are unbelievable class acts and incredible entertainers – for the U.S.”
Parsons expected a dip in ratings, as is normal when a station swaps morning shows. But the audience didn’t bounce back, he says.
Fans and industry voices alike criticized FLOW for the programming change back in the spring, arguing Toronto should have a morning show that is plugged into the city’s hip-hop culture.
While Parsons says FLOW listeners are passionate, the station is struggling to boost listenership.
Between May 25 and August 30, FLOW had a 0.7 per cent Toronto market share in the A12+ demographic, according to data released on September 10 by broadcast measurement service Numeris.
The top station in Toronto, CBC Radio One, had a 16.7 per cent market share in the same category.
Television host Tom Kennedy, who is remembered for his hosting duties on game shows like Split Second, Name That Tune, and You Don’t Say, reports Forbes.
Born James Edward Narz in Louisville, Kentucky on February 26, 1927 and educated at the University of Missouri, Kennedy followed in the footsteps of his brother, Jack Narz, and headed to Hollywood in 1947 to purse a career in broadcasting. He got an early start as a game show host in short-lived daytime network entries The Big Game in 1958 and Dr. I.Q. in the 1958-59 season. You Don’t Say!, which was his first hit, was broadcast for six seasons (from 1963 to 1969) on NBC and in a revival on ABC in 1975. The object of the game was to convey the name of a famous person by giving clues, leading to words that sounded like part of the person's name.
Kennedy’s longest run as a game show host was the syndicated revival of Name That Tune, which tested the contestants’ knowledge of songs and aired once per week (expanded to twice a week for its final season) from 1974 to 81.
His other hosting credits included Break the Bank and 50 Grand Slam, both in 1976; To Say the Least from 1977-78; Whew! from 1979-80; Body Language from 1984 to 1986; a syndicated nighttime version of The Price Is Right from 1985-86; and Worldplay from 1986-87. Kennedy also hosted Password Plus from 1980 to 1982 following the illness (and later death) or Allen Ludden.
Kennedy shifted to the category of talk in The Real Tom Kennedy Show in 1970, and appeared as a panelist in To Tell the Truth.
As an occasional actor, Kennedy made guest appearances on sitcoms That Girl and The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, and dramas Cannon and Hardcastle and McCormick, among other series. Earlier in his career he was the announcer on Betty White comedy Date With the Angels from 1957 to 1958.
Tom’s wife of 59 years died in 2011. Together they had children Linda Ann Narz, son James Narz Jr., daughter Julia Kathleen Narz (deceased, 2015), and daughter Courtney Ellen Narz.
➦In 1937...'Mr. Keen, Tracer of Lost Persons' debuted on the NBC Blue Network. It was one of radio's longest running shows, airing to April 19, 1955, continuing well into the television era. It was produced by Frank and Anne Hummert, who based it upon Robert W. Chambers' 1906 novel The Tracer of Lost Persons. The sponsors included Whitehall Pharmacal (as in Anacin, Kolynos Toothpaste, BiSoDol antacid mints, Hill's cold tablets and Heet liniment), Dentyne, Aerowax, RCA Victor and Chesterfield cigarettes. It aired on the NBC Blue network until 1947, when it switched to CBS.
➦In 1944...What would come to be known as the "Columbus Day Riot" took place in New York City, when 35,000 hysterical teenage girls crowded into the Paramount Theatre for a chance to see the return of Frank Sinatra. The crowd of teen "bobbysoxer" girls stopped traffic in Times Square and refused to leave between shows.
➦In 1950…The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, sometimes called The Burns and Allen Show, made it debut on TV. The is a half-hour series broadcast from 1950 to 1958 on CBS.
Burns and Allen were headliners in vaudeville in the 1920s, and radio stars in the 1930s and 1940s.
Their show was initially staged live and broadcast every other Thursday at 8 pm ET. In fall 1952, it became a weekly series filmed on the West Coast. From March 1953 through September 1958, The Burns and Allen Show aired Mondays at 8 pm ET.
The show was an immediate success.
➦In 1955...Chrysler introduces the world's first sound system for it cars. The system consisted of -- record player mounted under the dashboard.
➦In 1969...Pop Culture's "Paul is Dead" hoax began when Tom Zarski, a student at Eastern Michigan University, called WKNR in Detroit and informed DJ Russ Gibb on air of the rumor that Paul McCartney died in a car crash, perhaps as long ago as 1966. Zarski told Gibb that by playing a section of the band's "Revolution 9" backwards, a clue emerges: the phrase "Turn me on, dead man." Gibb proceeds to do just that. Many listeners were stunned.
Two days after the WKNR broadcast, The Michigan Daily published a satirical review of Abbey Road by University of Michigan student Fred LaBour under the headline "McCartney Dead; New Evidence Brought to Light". It identified various "clues" to McCartney's death on Beatles album covers, including new clues from the just-released Abbey Road LP. As LaBour had invented many of the clues, he was astonished when the story was picked up by newspapers across the United States. WKNR-FM further fuelled the rumor with a special two-hour program on the subject, "The Beatle Plot", which aired October 19, 1969.
In the early morning hours of October 21, 1969, Roby Yonge, a disc jockey at New York radio station 77WABC, discussed the rumor on the air for over an hour before being pulled off the air for breaking format. At that time of night, WABC's signal covered a wide listening area and could be heard in 38 states and at times, other countries.
Later that day, the Beatles' press office issued statements denying the rumour which were widely reported by national and international media.
Various 'clues' were used to suggest the following story: three years previously on November 9, 1966. The rumored story was that McCartney, after an argument during a Beatles' recording session, had angrily driven off in his car. He had crashed it and died as a result. To spare the public from grief, the Beatles replaced him with "William Campbell", the winner of a McCartney look-alike contest. ➦In 1997...Henry John Deutschendorf Jr. died in a light plane accident (Born December 31, 1943). He was known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer-songwriter, record producer, actor, activist, and humanitarian, whose greatest commercial success was as a solo singer.
John Denver - 1974
After traveling and living in numerous locations while growing up in his military family, Denver began his music career with folk music groups during the late 1960s. Starting in the 1970s, he was one of the most popular acoustic artists of the decade and one of its best-selling artists. By 1974, he was one of America's best-selling performers, and AllMusic has described Denver as "among the most beloved entertainers of his era".
Denver recorded and released approximately 300 songs, about 200 of which he composed, with total sales of over 33 million records worldwide. He recorded and performed primarily with an acoustic guitar and sang about his joy in nature, his disdain for city life, his enthusiasm for music, and his relationship trials. Denver's music appeared on a variety of charts, including country music, the Billboard Hot 100, and adult contemporary, in all earning 12 gold and four platinum albums with his signature songs "Take Me Home, Country Roads", "Annie's Song", "Rocky Mountain High", "Calypso", "Thank God I'm a Country Boy", and "Sunshine on My Shoulders".
Denver appeared in several films and television specials during the 1970s and 1980s. He continued to record in the 1990s, also focusing on environmental issues by lending vocal support to space exploration and testifying in front of Congress in protest against censorship in music. He lived in Aspen for much of his life where he was known for his love of Colorado. In 1974, Denver was named poet laureate of the state. The Colorado state legislature also adopted "Rocky Mountain High" as one of its two state songs in 2007.
An avid pilot, Denver died at the age of 53 in a single-fatality crash while piloting his recently purchased light plane.
➦In 2012... Radio personality Russ 'Weird Beard' Knight died at age 80. He was a DJ who first joined KLIF in Dallas in the early 60's, where he was the self-proclaimed “savior of Dallas radio”.
Later on he joined KILT in Houston and eventually moved onto different radio stations across America.
In 2003 he was selected to the Texas Radio Hall of Fame.
In the 60's after John F. Kennedy died, FBI investigators interviewed Russ Knight because of his relationship with Jack Ruby, who assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald, the prime suspect in Kennedy's assassination. Agents found Knight's personal phone numbers in Ruby's possession.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
Singer Sam Moore of Sam and Dave is 85.
“Fox News Sunday” host Chris Wallace is 73.
Martie Maguire is 51
Actor-singer Susan Anton is 70.
Musician Jane Siberry is 65.
Actor Hiroyuki Sanada (“Extant,” ″Mr. Holmes”) is 60.
Actor Carlos Bernard (“24”) is 58.
Jazz musician Chris Botti is 58.
Singer Claude McKnight of Take 6 is 58.
Actor Hugh Jackman (“The X-Men”) is 52.
Actor Adam Rich (“Eight Is Enough”) is 52.
Singer Garfield Bright of Shai is 51.
Fiddler Martie Maguire of The Chicks is 51.
Actor Kirk Cameron is 50.
Singer Jordan Pundik of New Found Glory is 41.
Actor Brian J. Smith (“SGU: Stargate Universe”) is 39.
Actor Tyler Blackburn (“Pretty Little Liars”) is 34.
