The mainstream media is under fire for alleged false reporting throughout the Kyle Rittenhouse murder trial and defense lawyer Mark Richards confirmed with NewsNation Now that coverage from some outlets was just plain wrong, reportsFox News.
"Much of the coverage at the beginning was wrong," he told "Banfield" host Ashleigh Banfield, who previously worked for CNN, Sunday. "The trial proved that."
Richards mentioned outlets like CNN and MSNBC who blatantly spread misinformation, such as MSNBC host Joe Scarborough detailing that Rittenhouse shot his firearm 60 times.
Another false claim fueled by the media was that Rittenhouse's firearm possession was illegal, while multiple media outlets also inaccurately reported that Rittenhouse illegally crossed state lines with his rifle. In reality, the AR-15 he used during the riot was already at a friend's house in Kenosha.
"That’s wrong," he said. "When I hear some guest host on Joy Reid say my client drove four hours to go to a riot with his AR, that’s wrong. It’s false."
"And it makes me angry that they can’t take the time to at least get the generic, basic facts correct because it didn’t fit in the story they wanted to tell."
Richards explained that he would not normally give guidance as a criminal lawyer for Rittenhouse to take civil action in suing networks for defamation, even though the 18-year-old has been advised by other professionals to do so. No actions were filed by Rittenhouse while represented by Richards.
Rittenhouse was found not guilty on all counts Friday after an intense trial sparked from last summer’s violent protests. Jurors deliberated for a total of 26 hours and freed Rittenhouse from five counts including first-degree reckless homicide, two counts of first-degree intentional homicide and two counts of first-degree reckless endangerment.
The former owners of WBOK 1230 AM, New Orleans' oldest African American-focused talk radio station, are suing the consortium that bought it two years ago for debt and unpaid rent that they allege is long overdue, reports nola.com.
Bakewell Media of Louisiana, owned by developer and Los Angeles newspaper owner Danny Bakewell Sr. and his son, allege in the lawsuit filed in Orleans Parish Civil District Court Wednesday that Equity Media still owes it more than $100,000 for the purchase of the radio station and accumulated rent.
Equity Media is owned by New Orleans businessman and former mayoral candidate Troy Henry, who partnered in 2019 with actor Wendell Pierce, media executive Jeff Thomas, and public relations entrepreneur Cleveland Spears to buy WBOK, a storied local media outlet that first broadcast on Jan 1, 1951.
The lawsuit said the four partners had agreed to close the deal on Jan. 1, 2020, paying a total of $550,000 for WBOK and agreeing to pay $3,000 a month rent for the studio.
The new owners paid $400,000 cash and agreed to pay the balance with interest on Apr 1, 2021. The lawsuit says they only paid half the balance when it came due and asked for a six-month extension to pay the rest, but failed to pay when it was due on Oct 1.
It also alleges that the partners paid less than a third of the total of $30,000 rent that was due on the Gentilly studio by the time WBOK moved to its new studio at Xavier University in May 2021.
The lawsuit also claims the Gentilly studio "was left in disarray," when they departed, with discarded furniture and equipment that the partners had purchased as well as trash left on the premises.
Bakewell's lawyer, Bernard Charbonnet, said the lawsuit was a last resort. "He's at the end of his forbearance and he's tried everything short of a lawsuit. So here we are in court," Charbonnet said.
Wendell Pierce and Jeff Thomas said the lawsuit is much ado about very little.
"We just need to get a bunch of guys in a room and we'll sort it out in short order," said Thomas, who added that part of the reason for the delay in settling the balance is a dispute about the value of the assets at the time of purchase. "He's claiming we owe him things we don't."
According to data from Leichtman Research Group, the largest pay-TV providers in the U.S. lost about 650,000 net video subscribers in Q3 2021. That number includes cable, satellite, and live TV streaming services. Without the gains from live TV streamers, the data shows that cable and satellite lost 1.33 million customers for the quarter, reports Cord Cutters News.
Leichtman says that the top pay-TV providers now have around 77 million customers, with 7.5 million of those coming from live TV streaming services.
Here are the customer losses from cable and other traditional TV providers for the quarter.
Comcast -407,000
Charter -121,000
Cox -70,000
Altice -67,500
Madiacom -21,000
Atlantic Broadband -6,000
Cable One -8,000
DIRECTV -412,000
DISH -130,000
Verizon FIOS -68,000
Frontier -23,000
Meanwhile, live TV streaming services saw an increase in subscribers for the quarter.
Hulu with Live TV +300,000
Sling TV +117,000
fuboTV +262,884
“While Pay-TV net losses in the quarter increased from last year’s third quarter, annual net losses were relatively similar to a year ago,” said Bruce Leichtman, president and principal analyst for Leichtman Research Group, Inc. “Over the past year, top pay-TV providers had a net loss of about 5,100,000 subscribers, compared to a loss of about 4,820,000 over the prior year.”
Following the release of Adele's album “30” on Friday, Spotify removed its default shuffle setting at her urging and will now automatically play tracks in the order they appear on the album.
“Anything for you,” Spotify tweeted in response.
Premium users will still be able to access the shuffle function while a song is playing or listen to tracks across an artist’s discography at random, but the button has been removed from individual album pages.
“As Adele mentioned, we are excited to share that we have begun rolling out a new Premium feature that has been long requested by both users and artists to make ‘play’ the default button on all albums,” a representative for Spotify told Variety in a statement. “For those users still wishing to shuffle an album, they can go to the Now Playing View and select the ‘shuffle’ toggle. As always, we will continue to iterate our products and features to create the best experiences for both artists and their fans.”
While Spotify’s default setting has long been controversial among listeners and artists, few have the sway Adele carries: Her comeback single, “Easy On Me,” broke the platform’s record for most streams in a single day, with 24 million streams in 24 hours.
The new album, her first in six years, is a carefully curated journey through a particularly tumultuous period in her life. It chronicles her divorce from her ex-husband, Simon Konecki, and her journey to finding inner peace and healing, so it’s easy to see why the singer wants the album to unfold in a certain order.
The financee of the Washington Post journalist who was murdered by a Saudi hit squad urged singer Justin Bieber to pull out of the F1 concert in Saudi Arabia next month in an op-ed published in the newspaper on Saturday, according toThe Hill.
“Cancel your Dec. 5 performance in Saudi Arabia. This is a unique opportunity to send a powerful message to the world that your name and talent will not be used to restore the reputation of a regime that kills its critics,” wrote Hatice Cengiz, the fiancee of the slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi.
“I know that you are dedicated to your fans and are traveling to Saudi Arabia on their behalf. However, there are hundreds of Saudis, of all ages, backgrounds and religious beliefs, languishing in prison, punished for merely expressing their opposition to the merciless Saudi dictatorship of MBS,” Cengiz added, using the acronym associated with the Saudi crown prince.
Human Rights Watch has also been vocal in calling the pop star to forgo performing in Saudi Arabia.
We have long documented ongoing abusive practices by Saudi authorities against peaceful dissidents & activists.
We also have been urging those who are courted for events by the Saudi government to speak out or when reputation laundering is the primary purpose not participate.
In October 2018, Khashoggi, a known critic of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, went to the Saudi consulate in Istanbul to retrieve some documents in order to get his marriage license, but he was killed by a Saudi hit squad before he left.
Earlier this year, the Biden administration said that a “capture or kill” operation against Khashoggi had been approved by the crown prince.
As the United States approaches its second holiday season in the pandemic and its first since COVID-19 vaccines have been available, Americans are doing their best to get back to normal. Four in 10 (42%) plan to travel between Thanksgiving and mid-January, taking an average of two trips, according to the “2021 Deloitte Holiday Travel Survey.” Yet the pandemic remains a significant factor in travel-related decision-making, affecting consumers’ choices about whether to take a trip and, if they do, where to visit, how to get there, and what to do at the destination.
The survey polled 6,512 U.S. consumers. Among those, 2,759 qualified as travelers, and 1,501 of the travelers noted they would stay in paid lodging during the holiday season. The findings uncover plenty of reason to hope for leisure travel’s robust rebound, but due to ongoing health and financial concerns, some consumers plan to celebrate the holidays at home. Older Americans, in particular, may be more cautious about the season; 36% of those over 55 years old plan to travel, compared with 45% of 18- to 34-year-olds. For consumers not traveling, concern about the health of loved ones and desire to wait for the pandemic to end are the top reasons to stay home, beating out financial concerns.
Over the course of the holiday travel season, two-thirds of travelers will fly or stay in paid lodging, according to the survey. More than half (58%) say they expect to spend about the same on travel as they did in 2019, and one in five will spend significantly more. High-income households in particular are expected to spend more, with 85% planning to match or exceed their 2019 budgets. Half expect to spend more than $5,000 on their longest holiday trip, while half of lower-income travelers will spend less than $1,000.
Despite news stories of unruly passengers refusing to wear masks, most respondents indicate they embrace measures to mitigate COVID-19 transmission while traveling. Two-thirds of travelers say they are more likely to fly if masking is required, while 10% say they are less likely. A slightly smaller share, 58%, say they would embrace proof of vaccination to fly; that figure is even higher for high-income and frequent travelers.
Overall, the health and financial effects of COVID-19 continue to challenge holiday travel aspirations, but many Americans are ready to return to the roads and skies. Travel companies can focus on providing a positive customer experience that is mindful of travelers’ safety concerns. Consumers, meanwhile, should seek to solidify their plans early to ensure they are comfortable with providers’ options and COVID-19 policies. If the survey findings are any indication, the travel industry comeback has only just begun.
Audacy's KWFF 99.5 The Wolf in Portland has helped eradicate over $3.5 in medical debt for those in need in Oregon and Washington through “Nick and Kristen’s Medical Debt Payoff.” The event, in partnership with RIP Medical Debt, was hosted by 99.5 The Wolf morning show hosts Nick and Kristen on November 15-18.
“Medical debt affects millions of Americans each year and we’re honored to have united with RIP Medical Debt – a leading advocate for medical debt relief – and our community to use our platform to help those in need,” said Kim Martinez, Senior Vice President and Market Manager, Audacy Portland. “We’re equally as proud of selfless listeners who rose to the occasion to help us achieve our goal.”
“We are beyond humbled by the generosity of the Pacific Northwest,” said Nick and Kristen. “This $3.5 million will help so many people who have been struggling for so long. No one should have to worry about paying their medical debt or gifts for their children. We are thrilled to help ease that burden for them.”
RIP Medical Debt was founded in 2014 by two former debt collections executives, Craig Antico and Jerry Ashton. Over the course of decades in the debt-buying industry, Antico and Ashton met with thousands of Americans saddled with unpaid and un-payable medical debt and realized they were uniquely qualified to help these people in need. They used their expertise and compassion to create a unique way to relieve medical debt: they would use donations to buy large bundles of medical debt and then relieve that debt with no tax consequences to donors or recipients.
From this idea came RIP Medical Debt, a New York based 501(C)(3). Over 5.3 billion in medical debts has been eradicated so far, providing financial relief for over three million individuals and families.
At least five people were killed and more than 40 injured yesterday when an SUV plowed through barricades and sped through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin. Among those hit by the SUV was a group of young dancers and a "Dancing Grannies" club. Police Chief Dan Thompson said a "person of interest" was in custody, but gave no details about the person or about a possible motivate. A police officer fired his gun to try to stop the vehicle, but Thompson said he didn't know of the driver was hit. No bystanders were injured by the gunfire.
CHILLING VIDEO: These images show the moment a driver in an SUV plowed through the Waukesha Christmas Parade this afternoon. At least 20 people have been injured. We're waiting on more updates. Here's what we know: https://t.co/4tVqtt7Uyapic.twitter.com/EAjT1HYfUC
Wisconsin Attorney General Josh Kaul tweeted, "What took place in Waukesha today is sickening, and I have every confidence that those responsible will be brought to justice." The parade, which is held annually on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, was returning after being canceled last year due to the pandemic.
➤TWO OF 17 KIDNAPPED MISSIONARIES FREED IN HAITI: Ohio-based Christian Aid Ministries said yesterday that two of 17 members of its missionary group who were kidnapped in Haiti more than a month ago had been freed. The church organization, which said the two are "in good spirits," said they couldn't give information about why they were released. The 17 people, five of whom were children and 16 American with one Canadian, were kidnapped by the 400 Mawozo gang on October 16th, along with their Haitian driver. Authorities have said the gang was demanding $1 million per person, and that the leader was threatening to kill the hostages if the demands weren't met. The FBI, which is helping Haitian authorities recover the captives, declined to comment.
➤CLOSING ARGUMENTS TODAY IN ARBERY MURDER TRIAL: Closing arguments are scheduled for today in the Georgia murder trial of three white men charged in the killing of a Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man who they saw running in their neighborhood. Greg McMichael and his son Travis McMichael grabbed guns and began chasing Arbery in their pickup truck, and were joined by a neighbor, William "Roddie" Bryan, who followed in his pickup and recorded Travis McMichael fatally shooting Arbery as the cornered man threw punches and grabbed for McMichael's shotgun. McMichael claimed self-defense during testimony last week. The men claim they suspected Arbery had burglarized a house under construction, however there's no evidence he committed any crimes.
➤ABOUT 80 PEOPLE RANSACK NORDSTROM NEAR SAN FRANCISCO: Some 80 people ransacked a Nordstrom's department store in Walnut Creek, California, Saturday night, stealing merchandise and assaulting two employees before escaping in a large number of cars that were waiting outside that they'd arrived in. Some of those involved in the San Francisco Bay-area incident, which police called "clearly a planned event," were wearing ski masks and carrying crowbars. Most got away, with just three people arrested. Police said in a statement Sunday that they are reviewing surveillance footage to try to identify other suspects.
#Breaking About 25 cars just blocked the street and rushed into the Walnut Creek Nordstrom making off with goods before getting in cars snd speeding away. At least two people arrested at gunpoint. pic.twitter.com/AG3R94M9L3
➤BIDEN, JAIDES SAYING HE'S RUNNING IN 2024: President Biden just turned 79 on Saturday, meaning his 82nd birthday will be just a couple of weeks after the 2024 election, but he's apparently not letting his age get in the way of eyeing a second term, with the Washington Post reporting this weekend that Biden and his aides are telling allies that he plans to run for reelection in three years. The reassurance is aimed in part at beating back the assumption among many Democrats that Biden might not run again because of his age and fallen poll numbers. The Post said it also effectively freezes the field for Vice President Kamala Harris and other potential 2024 Democratic presidential candidates. However, the report also states that despite that, many Democratic strategists and officials still aren't sure how firm Biden's commitment to run again is. There are concerns among them that if he doesn't run, there could be an open and "potentially bruising" primary with no clear frontrunner, as Harris, who as VP is a potential successor, has stumbled since the start of the administration, in the opinion of many Democrats.
➤MARIJUANA USE IN PREGNANCY CAN LEAD TO ANXIETY, BEHAVIORAL PROBLEMS IN CHILDREN: A new study found that the use of marijuana by pregnant women can increase the risk of having children who are anixious or have behavioral problems. The study from the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and the City University of New York found that children of women who use cannabis before or soon after pregnancy are twice as likely to be anxious, aggressive or hyperactive. The study looked at women who used marijuana not just recreationally, but as a morning sickness remedy, which is a growing trend. However, while the study found the connection, it doesn't prove that marijuana caused the behavior in children.
👑QUEEN ELIZABETH ATTENDS JOINT CHRISTENING OF TWO GREAT-GRANDCHILDREN: Queen Elizabeth attended the joint christening of two of her new great-grandchildren on Sunday, four days after the 95-year-old British monarch made her first public appearance since a hospital stay last month. The private christening was for the son of Prince Andrew's daughter Princess Eugenie, and the son of Princess Anne's daughter Zara Tindall. Doctors had advised the queen to cancel most of her engagements for a while after her hospital stay, which was for what was called "preliminary investigations" for an unspecified reason.
🤟STUDY..GRANDMAS REALLY DO FEEL MORE AFFECTION TOWARD THEIR GRANDKIDS THAN THEIR ADULT CHILDREN: Science now proves that the bond between grandmothers and their grandkids is a special one. Emory University researchers scanned the brains of grandmothers as they looked at photos of their grandchildren, and as they looked at photos of their own adult children. They found the grandma's brains showed more cognitive empathy– trying to understand what someone is thinking and why– when viewing photos of their grandchildren, compared to when viewing photos of their adult children. The researchers say the “cute factor” of young kids likely plays a role in the results, which ultimately showed a stronger emotional response to grandchildren. Lead author James Rilling says, “What really jumps out in the data is the activation in areas of the brain associated with emotional empathy. That suggests that grandmothers are geared toward feeling what their grandchildren are feeling when they interact with them.”
➤WHY DO SO MANY YOUNG AMERICANS HATE SPORTS?: Sports used to really capture the attention of Americans, but it seems younger people are losing interest. A new study shows just 23 percent of Generation Z (people born between 1992 and 2007), consider themselves “avid” sports fans. That’s 19 percent lower than Millennials (42%), and about a third of Gen Xers and Baby Boomers say they identify as “avid” sports fans– about ten percentage points higher than Gen Z. In fact, 27 percent of Gen Z respondents say they “actively dislike” sports (compared to a rate between five and seven percent for Millennials, Gen Xers, and Boomers). In November 2020, Rich Luker, a social psychologist, told the Washington Post that he’s observed sports fandom drop among young people for the past decade and a half, and he’s warned major sports leagues that a reckoning is on the horizon. In 2019, Nielsen noted that members of Gen Z “have higher expectations for entertainment experience than their elders, and new ways to discover and consume content.” Study co-author of the most recent findings, Mike Lewis, notes the relative lack of sports enthusiasm in young people is “a consequence of the culture we exist in.”
🏈NFL SCORES -- WEEK 11:
Indianapolis Colts 41, Buffalo Bills 15
Baltimore Ravens 16, Chicago Bears 13
Cleveland Browns 13, Detroit Lions 10
Houston Texans 22, Tennessee Titans 13
Minnesota Vikings 34, Green Bay Packers 31
Miami Dolphins 24, New York Jets 17
Philadelphia Eagles 40, New Orleans Saints 29
Washington Football Team 27, Carolina Panthers 21
San Francisco 49ers 30, Jacksonville Jaguars 10
Cincinnati Bengals 32, Las Vegas Raiders 13
Kansas City Chiefs 19, Dallas Cowboys 9
Arizona Cardinals 23, Seattle Seahawks 13
Los Angeles Chargers 41, Pittsburgh Steelers 37
Monday Night Football on ESPN: New York Giants at Tampa Bay Buccaneers (8:15 p.m. ET)
Vikings, Kirk Cousins outduel Packers, Aaron Rodgers in NFC North showdownhttps://t.co/yRvt49yKSE
🏈CHARGERS HOLD OFF STEELERS' FOURTH-QUARTER COMEBACK ATTEMPT, WIN 41-37: The Los Angeles Chargers held off the Pittsburgh Steelers' fourth-quarter comeback attempt last night, pulling out a 41-37 win on Justin Herbert's 53-yard touchdown pass to Mike Williams with 2:17 left to play. The Chargers had gone into the fourth quarter with a 27-10 lead, but the Steelers rallied to take a 37-34 lead with 3:24 left. Los Angeles then went up on the Williams touchdown and made it stick for the win. Herbert passed for 382 yards and rushed for 90, becoming just the fifth quarterback in NFL history to throw for at least 300 yards passing and have at least 90 yards rushing in the same game.
🏀LEBRON EJECTED AFTER HITTING PISTONS' STEWART IN FACE: Lakers star LeBron James was ejected from L.A.'s 121-116 win over Detroit yesterday for hitting the Pistons' Isaiah Stewart in the face while jostling for rebounding position in the third quarter. Stewart was also ejected after he, with blood streaming down his face, tried several times to confront James. Referee crew chief Scott Foster said after the game that James was penalized for, quote, "unnecessary and excessive contact above the shoulder." It was just the second time in his 19-year career that LeBron had been ejected from a game.
🎾OLYMPIC OFFICIALS SAY MISSING CHINESE TENNIS STAR TOLD THEM SHE'S SAFE: The International Olympic Committee said Sunday that missing Chinese tennis star Peng Shuai told Olympic officials in a video call from Beijing that she was safe and well. That came after Peng reemerged in public at a youth tournament, according to photos released by the organizer. There has been growing concern over Peng's well-being after she disappeared from view on November 2nd following her accusation on Chinese social media that a former leading Communist Party official sexually assaulted her. The IOC's statement said, "She explained that she is safe and well, living at her home in Beijing, but would like to have her privacy respected at this time. That is why she prefers to spend her time with friends and family right now." The Women's Tennis Association has threatened to pull events out of China unless the safety of Peng, the former Number 1 doubles player, was assured.
🏀SUNS WIN 12TH STRAIGHT 126-97 OVER NUGGETS: The Phoenix Suns won their 12th game in a row last night (November 21st), rolling over the Denver Nuggets 126-97. Cam Johnson scored a career-high 22 points for the Suns, and Deandre Ayton added 21. The Nuggets were playing for second straight game without star forward Nikola Jokic, who is out with a sprained right wrist.
🏀NBA'S KINGS FIRE HEAD COACH WALTON: The Sacramento Kings fired head coach Luke Walton on Sunday (November 21st), installing associate head coach Alvin Gentry to the position on a interim basis. The move came as Kings have lost seven of their last eight games and their record dropped to 6-11. Walton was 68-93 in more than two seasons as Kings coach.
Kyle Rittenhouse says said that his case was not about the contentious issue of race — and that, in fact, he supports Black Lives Matter, reports The NYPost.
“This case . . . had nothing to do with race, had to do with the right to self-defense,” Rittenhouse (inset), 18, told Fox News host Tucker Carlson in an interview set to air Monday.
“I’m not a racist person. I support the BLM movement and peacefully demonstrating.”
A jury cleared Rittenhouse of charges of homicide, attempted homicide and reckless endangerment on Friday in the deaths of Joseph Rosenbaum, 36, and Anthony Huber, 26, and the wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz, 27, on Aug. 25, 2020.
He was 17 when he brought a semiautomatic rifle and a medical kit to Kenosha in what he said was an effort to protect businesses as riots broke out over the police shooting of Jacob Blake, a black man who was left paralyzed from the waist down, on Aug. 23.
His attorneys argued that the teenager acted in self-defense when he opened fire.
Kyle Rittenhouse: "This case has nothing to do with race."
Rittenhouse insisted under cross-examination that he had no other choice than to defend himself and claimed the protesters were a threat to his life.
“I tell everybody there what happened. I said I had to do it,” he said. “I was just attacked. I was dizzy, I was vomiting, I couldn’t breathe.”
The high-profile case created debate over whether Rittenhouse used his legal right to use weapons during the violence in Kenosha or whether he was a dangerous vigilante who escalated the tension.
“I believe they came to the correct verdict and I’m glad that everything went well,” he said.
“It’s been a rough journey but we made it through it. We made it through the hard part.”
The jury deliberated for close to 3¹/₂ days before reaching a verdict.
Rittenhouse railed against his prosecution but said he believes his treatment was not unusual.
“I believe there needs to be change. I believe there’s a lot of prosecutorial misconduct, not just in my case but in other cases,” he said.
“It’s just amazing to see how much a prosecutor can take advantage of someone.”
Legal experts told The Post that prosecutors in the trial presented an overly complex case and might have had better success if they had sought lesser charges.
A Fox News executive said Saturday the network did not pay Kyle Rittenhouse’s family for any special access during Rittenhouse’s murder trial or after his acquittal, after it was announced that he would speak to Tucker Carlson for an interview to air on Monday.
The Associated Press reports the comment came after Rittenhouse’s trial attorney, Mark Richards, said that a Fox documentary crew was embedded with Rittenhouse’s team against his wishes. Richards told The Associated Press on Saturday that he didn’t think the filming was appropriate and that he had tossed the crew out of meetings several times.
“It was not approved by me, but I’m not always in control,” he told the AP. “I think it detracted from what we were trying to do, and that was obviously to get Kyle found not guilty.”
Richards, to the AP and in similar remarks to CNN on Friday night, said it was arranged by those who were raising money for Rittenhouse, though he did not say that Fox paid Rittenhouse.
Carlson, on his show Friday, showed portions of what his film crew had recorded, including Rittenhouse’s first public comments after being acquitted of murder charges in a trial that sparked a national debate on guns and self-defense.
Justin Wells, senior executive producer of “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” said no payment was made for access, footage rights, legal fees or any other purpose to Rittenhouse or his family.
It’s considered unethical for a news organization to pay for an interview. Broadcasters have found workarounds for much-sought interview subjects, including paying for old photos, or flying an interview subject to different locations and putting them up in hotels.
David Hancock, a spokesman for the Rittenhouse family, said any potential payment by Fox “was never offered and it was never asked for and it was never discussed.”
The trailer for Tucker Carlson’s special about the Jan. 6 mob at the Capitol landed online on Oct. 27, and that night Jonah Goldberg sent a text to his business partner, Stephen Hayes: “I’m tempted just to quit Fox over this.”
“I’m game,” Mr. Hayes replied. “Totally outrageous. It will lead to violence. Not sure how we can stay.”
The full special, “Patriot Purge,” appeared on Fox’s online subscription streaming service days later. And last week, the two men, both paid Fox News contributors, finalized their resignations from the network.
The NYTimes reports their departures also mark the end of a lingering hope among some at Fox News — strange as this is for outsiders to understand — that the channel would at some point return to a pre-Trump reality that was also often hyperpartisan, but that kept some distance from Republican officials. Fox’s chairman, Rupert Murdoch, recently deplored Trumpism while acting as though — as Bloomberg’s Tim O’Brien noted — he didn’t run the company.
Goldberg said that he and Hayes stayed on at Fox News as long they did because of a sense from conversations at Fox that, after Mr. Trump’s defeat, the network would try to recover some of its independence and, as he put it, “right the ship.”
They now find themselves in a group of Americans who think the threat that Trump poses to America’s democratic system outweighs many other political differences. Hayes said that he was particularly concerned about Fox lending support to the idea “that there’s a domestic war on terror and it’s coming for half of the country,” he said. “That’s not true.” Particularly disturbing in “Patriot Purge,” he added, “was the imagery of waterboarding and suggestions that half the country is going to be subject to this kind of treatment, that’s the same kind of treatment that the federal government used when it went after Al Qaeda.”
BTS had a huge night at Sunday's American Music Awards, maybe even a miracle night.
USAToday reports the boy band from South Korea ended the show performing their AMA-winning hit "Butter" and won every award for which they were nominated — favorite pop duo or group (for the third time in a row); favorite pop song ("Butter") and the coveted artist of the year award (for the first time).
Accepting the best artist award, 27-year-old RM nervously said from stage, "This whole thing is a miracle. Seriously, we will never take this for granted."
"Four years ago, we had given this first-time-ever TV live performance at this AMAs stage for 'DNA.' We were so excited and nervous at the time," RM said. "It's been a long and amazing ride since then, but nobody could have ever bet on the odds of us standing here receiving this award. Except for the ARMY. Seven boys from Korea, united by a love for music, met the love and support from all the ARMY all over the world."
Ahead of the televised show, taking place at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, a slew of awards were announced earlier in the day. Taylor Swift broke her own record when she won favorite female pop artist for the seventh time and topped her previous record for most AMA wins of all time. Swift also won for best pop album "evermore" during the show and now has 34 AMA trophies.
Olivia Rodrigo, who had the most AMA nominations of the night with seven, won new artist of the year.
Also winning three awards each were Doja Cat and Megan Thee Stallion. Ed Sheeran won favorite male pop artist while Drake and Megan Thee Stallion won favorite male and female hip-hop artists.
A day after the San Diego chapter of the NAACP criticized a segment on the KUSI “Good Morning San Diego Show” about “Famous Baby Daddies” as racist, a KUSI executive said the station no longer will provide a platform to the “DSC Show.”
The segment aired Monday on KUSI’s morning show as part of a collaboration with the “DSC Show” on iHeartMedia's KGB 101.5 FM, reports The L-A Times.
The segment involved hosts guessing which of two named and pictured celebrity fathers had the most children with the most partners. Of the 18 celebrity fathers named in the segment, nine were Black.
Black celebrity fathers were overrepresented in the segment, San Diego NAACP President Francine Maxwell said in a statement Tuesday.
“If we learned anything from the #MeToo movement, it is that powerful men of all races and walks of life sometimes use their power to obtain sexual favors,” Maxwell said. “By focusing on African American men, this content was obviously intended to denigrate them and feed into the lie that Black men are somehow more sexual than their white counterparts.”
Maxwell added that this stereotype has proved deadly for some Black men.
“This trope continued in the Jim Crow era, when Black men were regularly lynched on the excuse of sexual advances toward white women, often invented or imagined. Unspeakable things were done to Black men, while white men, women and even children watched with glee,” she said.
Maxwell called for KUSI to conduct an internal investigation to understand how the station came to air the segment and to include “a place for representatives of the community so damaged.”
Steve Cohen, news director for KUSI-TV, said Wednesday the station has asked the “DSC Show” to apologize to KUSI viewers for the segment’s racial insensitivity.
“KUSI believes that it is our goal to always present content that does not demean or appear insensitive to any minority, racial or ethnic group,” Cohen said in a statement. “This past Monday, a feature segment aired that did not meet that standard. The segment created by the 101.5 KGB radio program, The DSC Show, was inappropriate and an affront to our African/ American community and our viewers.”
Officials with the “DSC Show” did not respond to requests for comment.
After a few months where streaming video's share of television viewing was on the march, it took a back-to-school pause - and now broadcast is the one making up ground in TV's traditional fall season.
Streaming's share has been at 28% for a few months, but broadcast television inched up 2 percentage points in September and another 2 in October to tie it at 28%, according to The Gauge from Nielsen, its monthly macro look at TV delivery platforms.
It attributes the gain to two fall phenomena: the new fall TV lineup (particularly general drama) and live sports (up 22% from September). Those two genres accounted for 35% of the time viewers spent watching broadcast programming in October, reports Seeking Alpha citing Nielsen data.
Broadcast took its gains from Cable and Other, which fell to 37% and 6% share respectively. ("Other" TV use includes such uses as watching video discs and gaming.)
In Nielsen's weekly streaming ratings, meanwhile, Netflix continued to make hay, sweeping the entire top 10 in overall programs - but fresh off a new season, You ousted Squid Game as the No. 1 program, streaming 2.682 billion minutes to Squid Game's 1.682 billion.
They were followed on the overall chart by Netflix's Maid (865 million minutes), Shameless (851 million), CoComelon (748 million), Locke & Key (637 million), In the Dark (608 million), Seinfeld (595 million), The Blacklist (586 million) and NCIS (540 million).
As usual, Netflix also swept the acquired-series sub-chart, led by Shameless, CoComelon, In the Dark and Seinfeld. And it took the top five spots on the originals chart, though Hulu broke through there at No. 6 with Only Murders in the Building (386 million), and Apple TV+ at No. 9 with Ted Lasso (291 million).
Spanish Broadcasting System wants the FCC to reject a petition filed by Cox Media Group seeking an additional year to find buyers for stations in Tampa and Orlando, reports Inside Radio.
Cox has said the deal market collapsed during COVID, making it nearly impossible to strike a deal without a “rush fire sale.” But SBS says it has put an offer on the table for CHR WPYO Power 95.3 Orlando and an extension is “unwarranted and should not be granted.” And SBS says the failure to sell the station during the past two years has nothing to do with the pandemic or market conditions, but rather “inaction” by Cox that it argues “stands in contrast to the public interest in eliminating the violation of the local radio ownership limits.”
Cox asked the FCC for a one-year extension of the Dec. 17 deadline to sell WPYO and alternative “97X” WSUN Tampa. The stations were both placed in an Elliot Evers-run trust in 2019 after Cox Media Group was swallowed by private equity funds managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management as part of a pair of deals totaling $3.6 million, giving the firm 56 radio stations across 11 markets.
As part of its approval of the deals, the FCC gave Evers two years to sell The FMs.
Inside Radio reports Cox said the economic conditions tied to the pandemic have made selling the FMs difficult. The company said it did receive offers for the stations during the pandemic, but they were at prices “far below” what the marketplace had been at the time the trust was created – and below what the stations will likely be able to sell for as the radio business and the economy recovers overall.
SBS redacted from its filing with the FCC how much it offered for WPYO, but said all three were “viable offers” for the station, and each was “successively more generous” than the one before it.
“SBS’s serious attempts to purchase WPYO have made it clear that Cox has had no serious intention of selling the station before the trust’s FCC-mandated December 17, 2021 deadline, and for months has been banking on Commission approval to extend the deadline under the guise that the pandemic is precluding viable offers,” the filing said.
Billy Hinsche, singer in the Sixties boy band Dino, Desi and Billy and longtime member of the Beach Boys’ touring unit, has died at the age of 70, reports Rolling Stone.
Lucie Arnaz — the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz and whose brother Desi Arnaz Jr. was a member of Dino, Desi and Billy, along with Hinsche and Dean Martin’s son Dean Paul Martin — confirmed Hinsche’s death Saturday, revealing the cause as giant cell carcinoma.
Billy Hinsche
“Only diagnosed a couple weeks ago,” Lucie Arnaz wrote on Instagram. “It ravaged him like an out of control train.” Coincidentally, Hinsche died on the same day as his 95-year-old mother Celia.
Born in the Philippines, Hinsche and his family moved during his childhood to Beverly Hills, where he became school friends with the sons of Arnaz and Martin. The three teenagers formed a trio in the early Sixties and, thanks to their connections, quickly secured a record contract.
While Dino, Desi and Billy had a few hits in 1965 — including “I’m a Fool” and “Not the Lovin’ Kind” — it was serving as opening act for the Beach Boys during this period that had a more lasting impact on Hinsche’s career; Hinsche and Brian Wilson also co-wrote Dino, Desi and Billy’s final single, “Lady Love.”
After completing his schooling in the late Sixties, Hinsche joined the Beach Boys as a member of their touring unit and session musician. The multi-instrumentalist’s first tenure with the group ran from 1971 to 1977 — with Hinsche appearing on all albums from that era, from 1972’s Carl and the Passions – “So Tough” to 1980’s Keepin’ the Summer Alive — and then again from 1982 to 1996. In addition to playing keyboards and rhythm guitar, Hinsche was tasked with singing their hit “Sail On, Sailor” on tour in place of the song’s original vocalist Blondie Chaplin:
We lost a great friend, family member, and forever member of The Beach Boys band on Saturday. We’ll miss him greatly, especially his family members will feel his loss most deeply. pic.twitter.com/yR6OF2ber4
“All of us who had the pleasure of knowing him will miss his jovial nature and immense talent and sense of humor. Billy was a loving son to his mother Celia who incredibly passed Saturday as well.”
➦In 1899…Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America registered in New Jersey
➦In 1904...Actor Roland Winters was born in Boston. He was the longtime radio announcer for John J Anthony’s Goodwill Hour. In TV he had recurring roles on the series Mama, Door With No Name & Green Acres, as well as dozens of guest spots. He died Oct. 22 1989 after a stroke, at age 84.
➦In 1906...Actor & announcer Howard Petrie was born in Beverly Mass. He had many bigtime radio announcing assignments with Garry Moore, Jimmy Durante & Judy Canova, frequently taking part in the skits himself. In TV he had recurring acting assignments on Bat Masterson & The Edge of Night, plus scores of guest roles. Howard died March 24 1968 at just 61.
➦In 1934...“Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town” was aired on radio for the first time, on NBC’s Eddie Cantor Show.
➦In 1955...RCA paid the unheard of sum of $25,000 to Sam Phillips of Memphis for the rights to the music of a truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi: Elvis Presley. Thanks to negotiations with Elvis’ manager, Colonel Tom Parker, RCA tossed in a $5,000 bonus as well — for a pink Cadillac for Elvis’ mother.
➦In 1963…Most U-S Radio stations suspended regular programming following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The Number One song that week was 'Sugar Shack' by Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs.
More than three hours of KLIF 1190 AM audio from November 22, 1963, the day of President Kennedy's assassination.
Coverage begins at 11:30 AM (Dallas time) on 11/22/63, with Joe Long of Dallas radio station KLIF reporting live from Love Field Airport as President Kennedy arrives in "Big D".
Today 1190 AM is the home of Talk KFXR.
Kennedy coverage as heard on WBAP 820 AM Fort Worth:
And From The Big One, WLW 700 AM Cincinnati (then an NBC Affiliate):
Here is the initial bulletin heard on the NBC Radio Network about the shooting of President Kennedy in Dallas. Robert MacNeil reports live from a telephone located inside the Texas School Book Depository Building, which is where the gunshots came from.
This is the line feed from the ABC Radio Network News in the initial moments of the coverage of the JFK Assassination. Included is the ABC Log Book notes on what they were airing. Someone in ABC Master Control had to log literally everything that was broadcast each day. Also included UPI and AP wire copy which you can see the network anchors are relying on for information.
➦1963…The Parlophone label released the Beatles' second album in the U-K, "With the Beatles," and the single, "Roll Over Beethoven." Capitol Records in Canada issued the album as "Beatlemania! With the Beatles," which has the distinction of being the first Beatles album ever released in North America. Most of the songs from the album were not released in the United States until January 20, 1964 when Capitol Records issued "Meet the Beatles!"
➦In 1980...actress Mae West died at her Hollywood home at age 87 following a stroke.
Famous for her double-entendres she had a sensational if brief radio career, appearing in two risque sketches on the Charlie McCarthy Show on a Sunday in Dec. 1937. The listening audience was so shocked that West did not appear again on radio for another 31 years.
➦In 2002...actor Parley Baer died at age 88 after a stroke. He was active in bigtime radio, playing Chester on Gunsmoke, and dozens of supporting roles on The Lux Radio Theater, Escape and Suspense.
Parley Baer
Baer in the 1930s served on radio as director of special events for KSL. His first network show was The Whistler, which was soon followed by appearances on Escape (notably narrating "Wild Jack Rhett" and as the title patriot in an adaptation of Stephen Vincent Benet's "A Tooth for Paul Revere"), Suspense, Tales of the Texas Rangers (as various local sheriffs), Dragnet, The CBS Radio Workshop, Lux Radio Theater, The Six Shooter, and Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar, to name a few.
In 1952, he began playing Chester, the trusty jailhouse assistant to Marshal Matt Dillon on Gunsmoke, eventually ad-libbing the character's full name, "Chester Wesley Proudfoot" (later changed to "Chester Goode" in the televised version of the series, which featured Dennis Weaver in the role of Chester). Baer's portrayal of Chester was generally considered his finest and most memorable role, and as he often said, the one he found most fulfilling. Baer also worked as a voice actor on several other radio shows produced by Norman MacDonnell, performing as Pete the Marshal on the situation comedy The Harold Peary Show, as Doc Clemens on Rogers of the Gazette, and as additional characters on Fort Laramie and The Adventures of Philip Marlowe.
Other recurring roles included Eb the farm hand on Granby's Green Acres (the radio predecessor to television's Green Acres), Gramps on The Truitts, and Rene the manservant on the radio version of The Count of Monte Cristo. His later radio work included playing Reginald Duffield and Uncle Joe Finneman on the Focus on the Family series Adventures in Odyssey in the 1980s and 1990s.
Radio playwright and director Norman Corwin cast Baer as Simon Legree in the 1969 KCET television reading of his 1938 radio play The Plot to Overthrow Christmas.
On TV he was seen in everything from The Andy Griffith Show to Star Trek: Voyager. Six decades of character roles in broadcasting.
Gunsmoke "The Stage Holdup" CBS 1/2/54 Oldtime Radio Drama Western...Matt Dillon: William Conrad...Kitty: Georgia Ellis...Chester Proudfoot: Parley Baer
➦In 2011…Lead anchor for 25 years at CNN Radio Stan Case was killed in a traffic accident in Birmingham AL, as he was driving to Oklahoma for Thanksgiving. He was 59.
➦In 2015…Charlie Boone, the WCCO Radio host who was the voice of mornings in Minnesota for nearly 40 years, died at age 88.
Charlie Boone, Roger Erickson
“Boone and Erickson,” Boone’s 37-year collaboration with Roger Erickson, was one of the most popular shows on radio from the 1960s to the 1990s. The partnership ended in 1998 when Erickson retired, but Boone continued to host a Saturday morning show until 2010.
Born in Newfoundland, he started at WCCO in 1959 and was the station’s first disc jockey.
His show at WCCO, “Boone in the Afternoon,” followed Roger Erickson’s program each day, and the two struck up a friendship.
The weekday morning show started in 1961 and would last 37 years. Boone was more of the straight man and Erickson got most of the gags. The two were famous for their skits and voices. Boone could impersonate a bellicose Southern senator or a New York cop. Erickson, a Minnesota native, handled the Scandinavian accents.
Boone and Erickson poked fun at politicians, lampooned current events and parodied old radio shows. One of their most popular bits was “Minnesota Hospital,” billed as “the best place to get sick in.”
Boone liked to say that he and Erickson treated their relationship like a marriage.
Right before he arrived in Minneapolis, Boone was scheduled to emcee a show by Buddy Holly and Richie Valens in Moorhead, Minn., and was waiting at the airport when he learned the rock star had been killed in a plane crash. Needing a replacement act, he scrambled to enlist a local band called The Shadows, headed by 15-year-old Robert Velline, who later became known as Bobby Vee.
Jamie Lee Curtis is 63
🎂HAPPY BIRTHDAY:
Actor Michael Callan is 86.
Comedian-director Terry Gilliam (Monty Python) is 81.
Actor Tom Conti is 80.
Singer Jesse Colin Young (The Youngbloods) is 80.
Guitarist-actor Little Steven (The E Street Band, “The Sopranos”) is 71.
Scarlet Johannson is 37
Bassist Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads is 71.
Actor Lin Tucci (“Orange Is The New Black”) is 70.
Singer Lawrence Gowan of Styx is 65.
Actor Richard Kind (“Spin City,” ″Mad About You”) is 65.
Actor Jamie Lee Curtis is 63.
Singer “Farmer Jason” Ringenberg (Jason and the Scorchers) is 63.
Actor Mariel Hemingway is 60.
Actor-producer Brian Robbins (“Head of the Class”) is 58.
Actor Stephen Geoffreys is 57.
Actor Nicholas Rowe (“The Crown”) is 55.
Actor Michael Kenneth Williams (“12 Years a Slave,” ″Boardwalk Empire”) is 55.
Actor Mark Ruffalo is 54.
Actor Sidse Babett Knudsen (“Westworld”) is 53.
Drummer Chris Fryar of Zac Brown Band is 51.
Actor Tyler Hilton (“One Tree Hill”) is 38.
Actor Scarlett Johannson is 37.
Actor Jamie Campbell Bower (“Twilight” movies) is 33.
Actor Alden Ehrenreich (“Solo: A Star Wars Story,” “Hail, Caesar”) is 32.
➦In 1877…Thomas Edison unveiled his new "talking machine," later called the phonograph. The first thing recorded on Edison's new invention was the song "Mary Had a Little Lamb." Recording made by Thomas A. Edison on August 12, 1927, at the Golden Jubilee of the Phonograph ceremony. In this recording Edison demonstrates how in 1877 he made the first record on his tinfoil phonograph. The original 1877 recording was not saved and no longer exists. Edison received a patent three months later.
➦In 1944…"The Roy Rogers Show" aired for the first time featuring the Whippoorwills and the Sons of the Pioneers, was broadcast by the Mutual Broadcasting System. It began as a western music and variety show and evolved into an action-drama series during its 10-year run.
Roy's radio show lasted 11 seasons and the Roy Rogers Show On TV stayed on the air for 6 seasons. Roy also made a ton of movies and appeared on numerous other radio and TV shows as a guest star! In addition, Roy had a successful recording career for several years with songs that made it to the top of the charts! Most people probably remember him and Dale Evans singing "Happy Trails to You" at the end of each show!
➦In 1963…U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, arrived in San Antonio, Texas. They were starting a two-day visit to Texas that would end in Dallas.
John B Gambling
➦In 1974...New York radio personality John B. Gambling died at age 77. He was the first of three Gamblings to host the WOR 710 AM ‘Rambling With Gambling’ morning show over a span of 88 years.
He was a member of the The Gambling family, 3 generations of whom - John B., John A. and John R. were hosts of WOR Radio's morning show Rambling with Gambling (now known as The John Gambling Show).
John B. was the host from 1925 to 1959, when he retired in favor of his son, John A. Gambling. With his Musical Clock, his all-in-fun setting-up exercises, cheerio music, wheezy gags, weather information and news scraps, John B. Gambling was a WOR fixture. At one time he had a in-studio tp provide music band and he aired the March of the Seven Dwarfs every morning at 7 am sharp.
➦In 1979…Personality Harry Harrison aired his last morning show on WABC 770 AM, New York.
➦In 1981...radio & TV announcer Harry Von Zell died of cancer at age 75. Best known as the announcer on the George Burns/Gracie Allen Show both radio & TV, he also made his mark as actor in several TV guest spots, and screenwriter on a number of series such as Wagon Train.
➦In 1983…Movie theaters premiered Michael Jackson's 14-minute "Thriller" video. The Guinness Book of World Records eventually named it the "most successful music video" of all time, selling more than 9 million copies.
➦In 1993…Radio newscaster Jim McLaughlin died in Buffalo, NY at age 59.
In the early 1960s, he worked as a deejay for KNBA in Vallejo, California taking the air name "Lucky Jim" because he didn't have to study and always knew instinctively what to say. He began delivering the news at KFOG-FM in San Francisco. In 1963, he became the news director at WRVM in Rochester in 1964. McLaughlin continued his career working in Buffalo as the news director of WYSL in the late 1960s, WKBW from 1970 to 1978 and then at WBEN until he was forced to retire due to health issues in 1987.
He was the first news director to hire a full-time street reporter, a female news staff member, to use co-anchors and to use short wave radio to cover international stories. In 1979, he won the New York State Associated Press Award for WBEN's "Newsday," being the best radio news program. Jim was also the only radio reporter allowed to cover the 1971 Attica Prison riot from inside the prison.
Goldie Hawn is 76
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Actor Laurence Luckinbill is 87.
Actor Marlo Thomas is 84.
Actor Juliet Mills (“Passions,” ″Nanny and the Professor”) is 80.
Actor Goldie Hawn is 76.
Carly Rae Jepsen is 36
Keyboardist Lonnie Jordan of War is 73.
Singer Livingston Taylor is 71.
Actor-singer Lorna Luft is 69.
Actor Cherry Jones (“The Horse Whisperer”) is 65.
Bassist Brian Ritchie of Violent Femmes is 61.
Christian singer Steven Curtis Chapman is 59.
Actor Nicollette Sheridan is 58.
Singer Bjork is 56.
Singer Chauncey Hannibal of BLACKstreet is 53.
Bassist Alex James of Blur is 53.
TV personality Rib Hillis (“Extreme Makeover: Home Edition”) is 51.
Rapper Pretty Lou of Lost Boyz is 50.
Football player-turned-TV host Michael Strahan (“Good Morning America,” ″Live With Kelly and Michael”) is 50.
Actor Marina de Tavira (“Roma”) is 48.
Country singer Kelsi Osborn of SHeDAISY is 47.
Actor Jimmi Simpson (“Westworld,” ″It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia”) is 46.
Actor Lindsey Haun (“Broken Bridges”) is 37.
Actor Jena Malone (“Saved,” ″Life As a House”) is 37.
