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Camping’s New Prediction: 'The End' Is Now October 21
Really!
The end is still near, radio preacher Harold Camping said in a broadcast Monday night, but the world will be around until Oct. 21, according to a story by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Camping, the 89-year-old East Bay preacher who gained international fame with his prediction that the rapture would come at 6 p.m. Saturday, said that he misinterpreted the Bible and that May 21 was not really the end of the world but the spiritual beginning of the physical end.
“Were not changing a date at all; we’re just learning that we have to be a little more spiritual about this,” he said in a rambling 90-minute radio broadcast that was part sermon, part press conference. “But on Oct. 21, the world will be destroyed. It won’t be five months of destruction. It will come at once.”
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The end is still near, radio preacher Harold Camping said in a broadcast Monday night, but the world will be around until Oct. 21, according to a story by the San Francisco Chronicle.
Camping, the 89-year-old East Bay preacher who gained international fame with his prediction that the rapture would come at 6 p.m. Saturday, said that he misinterpreted the Bible and that May 21 was not really the end of the world but the spiritual beginning of the physical end.
“Were not changing a date at all; we’re just learning that we have to be a little more spiritual about this,” he said in a rambling 90-minute radio broadcast that was part sermon, part press conference. “But on Oct. 21, the world will be destroyed. It won’t be five months of destruction. It will come at once.”
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TomzTake: Can you imagine followers who quit jobs and gave away all posessions because of this guy's false 'predictions'. He gives Christians and radio a bad name. He's a false prophet and religious radio's Glenn Beck.
Ex-Employee Sez Camping Spent 100M on Rapture
Matt Tuter, Family Radio’s international projects manager, said most of that money came not from donations, but from the sale of property – more specifically, KFTL television San francisco and an FM station.
"A lot of reporters have got it wrong," he told The Christian Post. "The largest portion of money did not come from donors."
All that money, nevertheless, was basically used "to make a fool of himself to the whole world," Tuter commented.
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Half of Bay Area Newspaper Jobs Gone In Last Decade
From Jeremy Adam Smith and Michael Stoll SFPublicPress.org
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State and federal labor statistics show that employment among Bay Area media workers fell 43 percent since 2001, a result of massive restructuring at local news outlets whose financial losses measured in the billions of dollars.
Newspapers were hit the hardest, shedding upwards of 4,000 employees. As dozens of papers merged in an effort to cut costs, reporters who used to compete for scoops found their jobs redundant.
While employment appears to have risen in the television and radio sector over all, journalists among them did not fare so well, state employment data suggest.
A detailed study of local journalist employment, released in April by the North Valley Job Training Consortium, or NOVA, found that both California and Bay Area newspapers fared worse than those in other regions of the country. Statistics from the state Employment Development Department and the federal Department of Labor show the region’s papers shed nearly half their employees. Nationally, 36 percent of newspaper jobs disappeared.
The two leading newspapers in the region are certainly much diminished. The combined newsroom staffs of the San Francisco Chronicle and San Jose Mercury News have shrunk to fewer than 300, after peaking in the year 2000 at more than 1,000 workers. Much of that was an inevitable result of advertisers and readers migrating online.
Newlywed Says Clear Channel-Philly Defamed Her
According to a story by Reuben Kramer at courthousenews.com, Hana Augins, whose husband is serving in Afghanistan, says the defendants caused her "entire life to be turned upside down" in February when Jonesy posted her picture, with the spurious assertion that she had had a sexual relationship with Ochocinco, who formerly was known as Chad Johnson. Ochocinco is not a party to the complaint.
Augins' ordeal began when a woman known as "Paige" called the "Jonesy in the Morning" show and "said during the on-air call to Jonesy that she is three months pregnant by Ochocinco, who is widely known to be engaged to be married to a different woman," according to the federal complaint.
Paige then sent a purported picture of herself to Jonesy (Tarsha Jones), according to the complaint.
"However, the photograph Paige sent to Jonesy was, in fact, a photograph of plaintiff," the complaint states.
"Without verifying the authenticity of the photograph ... Jonesy caused the misidentified photograph of plaintiff to be posted on the Power99 website under the heading: 'Chad Ochocinco's Baby Mama Revealed!!!!!'," according to the complaint.
That's when the story went viral, Augins says.
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Journal TV, CC Radio Face FL Contest Suit
Milwaukee-based Journal’s Fox network affiliate WFTX-TV in Fort Myers, Fla., co-sponsored the contest in 2007 along with Clear Channel radio stations and a real estate developer. The woman, Paula Hedberg, was awarded $150,000 in cash and the key to a new house with total winnings of $300,000, according to the Fort Myers News-Press.
Developer Copperhead LLC went out of business and Hedberg sued. The case is scheduled for mediation and if that is not successful could go to trial by August, the News-Press said.
A Clear Channel spokesman told the News-Press the prize was to be provided solely by Copperhead and the contest sponsors are not liable.
TWH To Combat Unfavorable OnLine Stories
"This week, Jesse Lee will move from the new media department into a role in the communications department as Director of Progressive Media & Online Response," read an internal memo from Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer, provided to The Huffington Post.
"For the last two years, Jesse has often worn two hats working in new media and serving as the White House's liaison with the progressive media and online community. Starting this week, Jesse will take on the second role full time working on outreach, strategy and response."
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TomzTake: Sounds like something the campign committee should be doing not TWH.
Hennen Booted From 'The Flag' During Show
On his syndicated show on 1100 AM The Flag (WZFG) on Monday afternoon, Hennen told listeners his final show on the radio station would be on Friday.
In the midst of making the on-air announcement, The Flag took him off air, pre-empting his show with past Hennen programs.
Breck Von Bank, the general sales manager for The Flag, said the station pulled Hennen’s show mid-broadcast because “all the terms of his departure had not been agreed upon.”
Von Bank said Hennen’s removal from 1100 AM is permanent. A replacement in the 2 to 5 p.m. time slot hasn’t yet been determined. In the interim, pre-recorded Hennen shows will air in the slot, she said.
After his announcement, which he’d invited local media to attend, Hennen, a political conservative, said his abrupt departure was “extremely unfortunate for the audience.”
Hennen said he had been notified by station management at The Flag on April 1 that they planned to end his show, which under his contract required a two-month notice.
Hennen founded 1100 AM in 2008 after leaving WDAY 970 AM, where he had been general manager for seven years. His investor group fired him from his position helming The Flag in September and axed his show. He returned to The Flag in November, under a syndication contract, switching from mid-morning to the afternoon time slot.
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Monday, May 23, 2011
Portland's KXL Moving Exclusively to 101.1 FM
In making the announcement to the staff this afternoon, Alpha Broadcasting President/COO Bob Proffitt said:
“Both our local and national research has shown us that News/Talk stations with strong brands and talent like KXL have performed very well on FM across the country. Since March 15th, we have been broadcasting NewsRadio on both 101.1 FM and 750 AM. We have been extremely happy with the response of our listeners on the migration from 750 to FM.
In fact, we remain the #1 News/Talk radio station in Portland, because of the great talent we have with our news team, Lars Larson, our partnership with KGW-TV and much, much more.” He continued, “Concurrently, that same research has shown that sports programming across America does better on AM. People grew up listening to their favorite sports team on AM, and with our superior 50,000 watt AM signal on 750, coupled with incredible talent in Chad Doing, John Lund, John Canzano, John Strong, and Jay Allen, and the play-by-play of our partners the Trail Blazers, University of Oregon Ducks, Seattle Seahawks and the Portland Timbers, we look forward to much sports success on AM 750.
Additionally, we plan to run many of our play-by-play on both 750 AM the Game, and NewsRadio 101.1.”
KXTG-AM and KXL-FM are owned and operated by Alpha Broadcasting, along with, KINK-FM, KUPL-FM, and KUFO-AM. Headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Alpha Broadcasting is the only locally owned radio group in the Portland metro area, reaching more than one million listeners a week with six stations covering rock, country, news, talk and sports.
Ace & T.J. Sign Off 'Kiss' Show In Charlotte.
Morning radio hosts leave 'Kiss' 95.1 after they're unable to reach contract terms.
Ace & T.J., whose Louisiana accents and down-home banter filled the air during Charlotte's morning drive for 13 years, abruptly left WNKS-FM ("Kiss" 95.1) Friday, according to a story by Mark Washburn at charlotteobserver.com.
They were unable to reach terms with the station's owner, CBS Radio, at the end of their five-year contract.
"We have been in negotiations with them and just couldn't come to an agreement," T.J. said Friday.
"We had a good run the past 13 years and look forward to making a major announcement regarding our new morning show," said John Reynolds, operations manager for "Kiss."
Both men are under contract for the rest of the month and had expected to work through next week, but were told by CBS management after Friday's show that the run had ended.
"We don't have any ill will toward them," T.J. said. "That was a great 13 years of our lives."
Their show is syndicated to 12 other stations and they will broadcast it from studio space leased from Clear Channel Radio off Billy Graham Parkway. Three of their affiliates are owned by Clear Channel. Their show is also streamed live on www.acetj.com.
Midday host Kelly Meyers will move to the "Kiss" morning show for the short term beginning Monday, Roberts said. She will be joined by Ace & T.J. sidekicks Yankee Pete Herrick and Guenn Peterson while the station looks for a new morning show.
Losing Ace & T.J. means that two CBS Radio stations in Charlotte are without a permanent morning show. Sister station WKQC-FM ("K" 104.7) has been seeking a morning personality since the departure of Jo Jo Morales in December.
Ace & T.J. consistently did well over the years in radio ratings in the highly competitive morning environment.
They were among leaders in the key 18-to-34 age demographic, though they have been getting pressure in recent ratings periods from "Woody and Wilcox" on rival WEND-FM ("End" 106.5).
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They were unable to reach terms with the station's owner, CBS Radio, at the end of their five-year contract.
"We have been in negotiations with them and just couldn't come to an agreement," T.J. said Friday.
"We had a good run the past 13 years and look forward to making a major announcement regarding our new morning show," said John Reynolds, operations manager for "Kiss."
Both men are under contract for the rest of the month and had expected to work through next week, but were told by CBS management after Friday's show that the run had ended.
"We don't have any ill will toward them," T.J. said. "That was a great 13 years of our lives."
Their show is syndicated to 12 other stations and they will broadcast it from studio space leased from Clear Channel Radio off Billy Graham Parkway. Three of their affiliates are owned by Clear Channel. Their show is also streamed live on www.acetj.com.
Midday host Kelly Meyers will move to the "Kiss" morning show for the short term beginning Monday, Roberts said. She will be joined by Ace & T.J. sidekicks Yankee Pete Herrick and Guenn Peterson while the station looks for a new morning show.
Losing Ace & T.J. means that two CBS Radio stations in Charlotte are without a permanent morning show. Sister station WKQC-FM ("K" 104.7) has been seeking a morning personality since the departure of Jo Jo Morales in December.
Ace & T.J. consistently did well over the years in radio ratings in the highly competitive morning environment.
They were among leaders in the key 18-to-34 age demographic, though they have been getting pressure in recent ratings periods from "Woody and Wilcox" on rival WEND-FM ("End" 106.5).
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iNet, Telco TV Eat Away At Cable TV Market Share
Cable TV subscriptions dropped from 72% in 2009 to 69% in 2010, and cable providers in North America and Western Europe saw the greatest subscriber losses.
Despite the customer losses, the overall pay-TV market continues to grow — there were 11.3 million new pay-TV subscribers in Q1 2011, and that the total number of subscribers is expected to exceed 759 million by the end of this year.
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According to new market data from ABI Research, 11.3 million pay-TV subscribers were added at the end of first quarter of 2011. “By the end of 2011, the total number of pay-TV subscriptions is expected to exceed 759 million,” says practice director Jason Blackwell of ABI Research.
Cable TV still maintains the largest market share; however, its relative share of subscriptions dropped from 72% in 2009 to 69% in 2010. Cable TV operators in Western Europe and North America in particular faced subscriber losses in 2010 as new television services such as telco TV and online TV replaced traditional cable TV services.
However in emerging markets such as Latin America, cable TV will continue its growth. As an example Brazil, a country with more than 59 million households, has only about 17% pay-TV penetration. Many parts of Brazil still have no access to cable TV services. In a plan recently released by the country’s telecom regulator, cable TV penetration is expected to reach 10% in 2011.
Analog switch-off is taking place across the world. The momentum of the process is especially high in Western Europe, with the UK and Italy expecting to complete analog switch-off in 2012. Asia-Pacific countries such as China and India have taken the first steps to switch off analog transmission, and the process is expected to be complete by 2015.
“The emergence of digital TV in different pay-TV platforms begins to offer more choices to consumers,” notes research analyst Khin Sandi Lynn. “Digital terrestrial TV (DTT) channels and high definition (HDTV) channels are gaining popularity in pay-TV markets. ABI Research expects that there will be more than 230 million high-definition TV subscriptions across different platforms at the end of 2011.”
ABI Research’s new Market Data product, “Pay-TV Subscriber Market Data” presents an overview of the pay-TV market across three key subscription video platforms: satellite, cable, and telco TV. Detailed market trends and market forecast information for key regions and countries around the world are provided where available.
The study is a part of the company’s TV and Video Research Service.
PA Newspapers Fight Legal Notices Proposal
According to a story by Darwyyn Devo at poconorecord.com, at issue is legislation, that would allow local governments to post their legal advertising — such as announcements of meetings, construction bids and other required public information — on websites instead of in local newspapers.
Martin Till, president and publisher of The Easton Express-Times, told the House Local Government Committee that the bill would cost 1,000 reporting jobs statewide due to the loss of advertising revenues.
"If that happens, the state unemployment compensation fund is going to be on the hook for over $1 million a month," said Till.
Elan Herr, assistant executive director of the Pennsylvania Association of Township Supervisors, argued that the newspapers' opposition to H.B. 633 was not rooted in concern over public transparency but in the potential for lost advertising revenue.
"(The Pennsylvania Newspaper Association) would have you believe that townships just want to hide critical information," said Herr. "Instead, they will tell you only daily or weekly newspapers of general circulation can be trusted to provide this critical service, printing legal notices near the back of the paper at exorbitant rates."
Herr argued that newspapers should provide legal advertising at "reasonable prices," potentially free of charge.
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The Man Who Discovered Oprah
But how did the Queen of Talk get started on her road to her lofty perch?
It all began, says the man who found her, in August of 1983.
Dennis Swanson, who's now president of station operations for Fox Television Stations, told "Early Show on Saturday Morning" co-anchor Rebecca Jarvis that on his first day as program director of WLS-TV in Chicago, "the fellow doing 'A.M. Chicago' came in and asked out of his contract. And so I let him out. We were not doing very well. We were up against Phil Donahue at the time in his home market. And getting clobbered.
"And so I said, 'Let's try and find an alternative. Rather than focus on males, let's focus on females."'
A woman who'd been in the WLS programming department only a week brought him a tape with Oprah on it. Winfrey was at that time co-host of WJZ's "People Are Talking."
But, Swanson told Jarvis, it was "hard to tell (about Oprah) from that tape, because it was a - she was a co-host of a show in Baltimore where the male was the dominant talent. So we set up to do an audition. We brought her in Labor Day weekend of '83, and I told the folks to make it a for-real 'A.M. Chicago' show, make it difficult.
"And I'm sitting in my office watching the audition unfold, and I'm thinking to myself, 'I've just solved the morning show problem. This woman is awesome!"'
Winfrey also provided an additional audition tape in which she said, "My name is Oprah Winfrey. Oprah spelled O-p-r-a-h, and if you noticed, it's Harpo spelled backwards.
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Profile: The Elephant in the Green Room
The circus Roger Ailes created at Fox News made his network $900 million last year. But it may have lost him something more important: the next election
By Gabriel Sherman. nymag.com
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Read More.[Roger] Ailes is the most successful executive in television by a wide margin, and he has been so for more than a decade. He is also, in a sense, the head of the Republican Party, having employed five prospective presidential candidates and done perhaps more than anyone to alter the balance of power in the national media in favor of the Republicans. “Because of his political work”—Ailes was a media strategist for Nixon, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush—“he understood there was an audience,” Ed Rollins, the veteran GOP consultant, told me. “He knew there were a couple million conservatives who were a potential audience, and he built Fox to reach them.”
photo-illustration by Darrow
For most of his tenure, the roles of network chief and GOP kingmaker have been in perfect synergy. Ailes’s network has dominated the cable news race for most of the past decade, and for much of that time, Fox News attracted more viewers than CNN and MSNBC combined. Throughout the George W. Bush years, the network’s patriotic cheerleading helped to marginalize the Democrats. And President Obama—he of the terrorist fist bump and uncertain ancestry and socialist leanings—turned out to be just as good for ratings, while galvanizing a conservative army that crushed the Democrats in the 2010 midterms.
This double-barreled success is a testament to Ailes’s ferocious competitive streak. “Roger just likes to win,” former McCain adviser and longtime Ailes friend Charlie Black told me. “He’s very competitive in any game he’s in.”
New Book: Hookers, Coke and Xmas Orgies at ESPN
From Susannah Cahalan, nypost.com:
Read More.Andy Brilliant was thrilled -- he had the sexiest secretary in the office.
She was drop-dead gorgeous, fun-loving, and propelled him to the top of an informal contest among his fellow executives over who had the hottest help, he recalled. That is, until she began arriving late, looking disheveled and -- worst of all -- sporting tacky sweatpants.
Her work suffered so much that he eventually let her go. Months later, she invited him out to lunch and finally admitted what was wrong. Her life was spiraling out of control because of cocaine.
"How the hell could you afford [cocaine] on your salary?" Brilliant asked her.
Turning tricks, she answered. To maintain her coke habit, she, along with several other secretaries, were being pimped out of the Manhattan office by the company's mailroom guys.
"The receptionist was a really good-looking girl, and she was b---ing FedEx guys in the bathroom after work hours," Brilliant said.
This sleazy story of workplace wantonness doesn't come from the halls of Playboy or the International Monetary Fund. It's from the Disney-owned ESPN, according to a new opus on the sports network titled "Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN."
The network's motto should be "The Worldwide Leader in Smut," instead of "Sports," according to interviews conducted by authors James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales, who penned a similarly dense tell-all about "Saturday Night Live."
The book, an oral history that tells how ESPN grew from a pipe dream to a multibillion-dollar conglomerate worth more than the NBA, MLB and NHL combined, contains 700-pages of frat-boy antics, sexcapades, back-stabbing and inflated egos that continue on to this day.
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