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SUPPORT DCRTV'S ADVERTISERS /\ \/ Contents - Contact Us - News Tips - News Archive - Mailbag - Rant - Support DCRTV Station List - Classified Ads - Advertise On DCRTV - RSS - NYC - Boston - DCRTV Plus ESPN 980 Goes Missing - 9/7 - DCRTV hears that the main signal of Redskins owner Dan Snyder's ESPN 980, WTEM, has been off the air since Saturday. We're guessing that tropical storm Hannah did something to cut power to the AM 980 station's Hyattsville transmitter site. ESPN 980's two far-suburban FM transmitters on 92.7 and 94.3 are still working. 980's signal was restored at about noon on Sunday. DCRTV has reported that Snyder's DC radio organization lacks a chief engineer. More soon..... Simpson: Radio Is "Magic" - 9/7 - "Magic." DC radio legend Donnie Simpson (right) in a word-association response to the word "radio." During a "The Inner Loop" interview on Channel 50/WDCW on Sunday morning. No, Donnie doesn't work for Magic 102.3, he works for rival urban outlet WPGC-FM, 95.5. He added that he never seriously thought about doing a nationally-syndicated radio show, preferring to make his top-rated local morning show the best that it can be..... Local RTV Museum Makes Post Tour - 9/7 - Bowie's Radio And Television Museum earns a stop on the Washington Post's "RoadTrip" local tour feature in Sunday's rag. The DC-to-Baltimore "aquatic adventures" jaunt is featured on page N6 of the print edition. Bottlenose dolphin "Flipper" was on NBC-TV in the 1960s, and you can learn more about TV at the Bowie museum. Whatever..... More: Local Music Shops Sink - 9/7 - Another piece on the decline of DC area music (CD and vinyl) retail stores. In Sunday's DC Post..... DCRTV@11: Live, Local, Late-Breaking - 9/7 - DCRTV started in September 1997. And in September 2008 we hit our big 11th birthday. Independent DCRTV is a one-man site - and it's 100 percent local. Sure, we're opinionated. But local radio listeners and TV viewers have a "voice" with DCRTV, too. Ads pay only part of our expenses. Send us some bucks via PayPal or mail a check. Click here. Make it $39 and get a full year's access to DCRTV Plus. Just added in September: The 45th and 46th Photo Galleries. With memories from WBAL, WTOP, WMAL, WWDC, WTTG, WGAY, WRC, WEAM, WINX, and much more. Today's Flashback: A 1954 memory of a planned WGMS-TV for DC's channel 20 (left). See the hi-rez complete article plus many more local radio and TV memories at DCRTV Plus..... NPR's "Wait Wait" To Get CBS TV Tryout - 9/6 - DC-based National Public Radio has reached an agreement with CBS Entertainment to create a television pilot based on weekend quiz show "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!" The Chicago-based news trivia program, which features legendary DC radio newsman Carl Kasell, is aired on 450 stations, including DC's WAMU, and is heard by nearly 2.7 million weekly listeners nationwide..... Another Smooth Jazz Death - 9/6 - Both DC and Baltimore have lost their smooth jazz stations this year. And now it's Philadelphia's turn. At DCRTV's Phily radio news page..... More: FCC DTV Test In NC - 9/6 - The DC Post looks at the Federal Communication Commission's digital TV test in Wilmington NC, where, come Monday, all analog signals are due to be shut down. Five months before the national all-digital TV deadline..... Downie's Last Day As Top Editor - 9/6 - Friday was Washington Post Executive Editor Len Downie's last day in that position. FishbowlDC tells us that the Ohio State fight song, to honor the Ohio State alum, was played over the paper's public address system. Downie will continue to do various projects for the Post. Marcus Brauchli assumes the top editor gig..... Novak Pens Column On Brain Tumor - 9/5 - Robert Novak: "The main reason I am writing this column is that many people have asked me how I first realized I was suffering from a brain tumor and what I have done about it." More at creators.com..... Cuts At Metro? - 9/5 - DCRTV hears rumblings that Westwood One-owned Metro Networks may be making some serious employee cuts nationwide. And, possibly, merging some operations of its DC and Baltimore facilities. Metro provides traffic and news services for area radio and TV stations. More soon..... 4 Adds Universal Sports - 9/5 - Channel 4/WRC has started a second standard-def digital subchannel. Universal Sports, on "4.3," will run old Olympics events plus upcoming Tour De Germany cycling coverage. NBC/Universal-owned WRC already carries NBC Weather Plus among its digital offerings..... More Rumblings: BIG For Sale - 9/5 - Clear Channel's focus remains with rocker DC101 and adult contemporary WASH, the two top billing stations in the CCDC radio cluster. "Everybody else has been left to fend for themselves as far as support from 'on high' in the company," a CC source tells DCRTV. Classic hits WBIG "has always been viewed as the lowest priority station in the building," especially with the sale of the AMers to Redskins owner Dan Snyder. "Despite (WBIG) having a really strong signal, the company sees no value in it... and I'm not sure that the strength of the signal even factors into the company's decision of whether or not to sell"..... C-SPAN Co-Founder Honored - 9/5 - John Evans, co-founder of DC-based C-SPAN, was honored for his work fighting AIDS. The Institute Of Human Virology at the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine awarded Evans a lifetime-achievement award for public service. More from Broadcasting And Cable..... DC TVers Target Teens Via Web - 9/5 - DC TVers are trying to attract more young viewers by developing teen-oriented websites. A la 4's DC Scene. And 9's Metromix. More from the DC City Paper..... Fox Scoops Post On Postie's Book - 9/5 - Fox News ignores the media embargo on Washington Postie Bob Woodward's new book and scoops the Post. Gawker has more..... Sportser 1370 Reveals Sked - 9/5 - In Friday's Baltimore Sun, Ray Frager takes a look at Baltimore's news sports talker, WVIE (1370 AM), which launches Monday. The weekday line-up: 6 AM Steve Czaban, 9 AM Craig Shemon and James Washington, noon Jim Rome, 3 PM Jerry Coleman, 6 PM local show to be announced, 7 PM Fox Sports Radio programming..... Rant - 9/5 - We've heard that there's been a very nice response to the new nostalgic adult contemporary tunes being played by Potomac MD's WCTN (950 AM). There have actually been senior citizens from Montgomery County's Leisure World who've shown up at the station's Rockville studios to praise the format, we're told. But, we also hear rumblings that a brokered deal is in the works to put Korean religious programming on the signal later this month. Clearly, there's a radio audience in the DC area for Perry Como, Pat Boone, and Frank Sinatra. Might another area AMer pick up the format? What about Bonneville's 1050 AM in Silver Spring, soon to be without Federal News Radio, which is moving to the more powerful 1500 AM? You mean that one smallish AM station out of about 50 stations in a major market like DC can't program to seniors? That says something really sad about the radio biz. More Rants..... Hume's Last Confab - 9/5 - Howie Kurtz profiles Fox News DCer Brit Hume, who anchors his last political convention. In the DC Post..... Righty Radioers Go Ga-Ga For Palin - 9/5 - Howie Kurtz looks at the army of righty radio talkers who have fallen in love with GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin. In the DC Post..... Comcast Fires Back At FCC - 9/5 - Area media giant Comcast has asked a federal appeals court to overturn an Federal Communications Commission ruling that the company is improperly managing customers' online traffic. More in the DC Post. And FCC head Kevin Martin returns fire at Comcast. From Broadcasting And Cable..... FCC To Examine PPMs - 9/5 - The FCC has set 9/24 as the deadline for comments on the emergency petition filed by a PPM Coalition claiming the new electronic ratings system could hurt minority broadcasters and defeat the FCC's diversity goals. More from Radio Online..... CC's Salisbury Bloodbath - 9/4 - DCRTV hears that Clear Channel performed a mass execution at its Salisbury MD radio station cluster today. Market manager, head of ad sales, many more suits - all gone. We're told that Chuck Peterson has been brought in from CC's Winchester VA cluster to run things in the interim. More soon..... NAB To Honor HUR For World - 9/4 - The DC-based National Association Of Broadcasters will honor Howard University's adult urban WHUR (96.3 FM) for its digital HD2 channel, "WHUR World." Which "has successfully combined non-traditional music, news, community involvement, and information into a fresh new variety format that creates a new identity for HD radio," says NAB bigwig John David. WHUR will receive the NAB's Radio Multicast Award on 9/19 at the organization's Radio Show in Austin. Oh, radio trade site All Access calls WHUR a "non-com." Wrong. It's got a commercial license..... New Classified Ad - 9/4 - The new Fox 1370 Sports Radio in Baltimore is looking for an account executive. In DCRTV's Classified Ads. Reach many thousands of local media movers and shakers for just $25..... 56 Signs Off - 9/4 - As expected, as of 9/1, Northern Virginia public television outlet Channel 56/WNVC has permanently shut down its analog signal. Along with its digital signal on channel 57, while it makes equipment upgrades. The Falls Church station's MHz Networks signal is still available via digital broadcast on co-owned WNVT, which operates a digital-only signal on channel 30. Four of MHz's digital foreign network relays also remain available via channel 30. Most local cable TV systems, including Comcast and Cox, are continuing to carry WNVC's and WNVT's digital video streams uninterrupted via landline. WNVC will resume its digital broadcasts in February on channel 24. More at mhznetworks.org..... Hurricanes Could Derail FCC's NC DTV Test - 9/4 - The Federal Communications Commission hopes that Hurricanes Hannah, Ike, and Josephine cooperate with plans to do a September test of all-digital broadcast TV in Wilmington NC, ahead of the nationwide switch-over in February. Broadcasting And Cable has more..... Post Wrong, Skins Not Back To BIG - 9/4 - Originally, Redskins owner Dan Snyder said he was planning to put his team on the six radio signals he now owns in the DC area: the three of ESPN 980 (980 AM, 92.7 FM, 94.3 FM), plus Spanish sports talker WXTR (730 AM), and talkers WTNT (570 AM) and WWRC (1260 AM). However, according to the Thursday Washington Post listing of radio stations carrying tonight's season debut, Clear Channel's classic hits WBIG (100.3 FM) will again be part of the team's radio line-up. Not so, says Bruce Gilbert, head of Snyder's Red Zebra broadcasting division. And, no, the Skins won't be on Clear Channel Frederick country outlet WFRE (99.9 FM), as the Post also listed. Also in the Post: NBC is hoping that tonight's 7 PM Redskins game doesn't run past 10 PM and pre-empt John McCain's speech at the GOP convention..... Confirmed: Billick Buys Into NST - 9/4 - DCRTV broke the news earlier. And now we get confirmation that former Baltimore Ravens Coach Brian Billick will become an investor in Nestor Aparacio's sports talk WNST (1570 AM). As DCRTV already reported, Billick will host a weekly show on the Towson-based station. The Baltimore Sun has more..... B'ville Looking To Buy 101.9 & 100.3 - 9/4 - DCRTV hears that Bonneville is lusting after CBS's 101.9 FM in Baltimore. And maybe even Clear Channel's 100.3 FM in DC. CBS is reportedly selling all five radio stations in its Baltimore cluster, including adult contemporary WLIF. And Clear Channel has been rumored to have put classic hits WBIG on the market. Bonneville owns top-rated DC all-newser WTOP. Stay tuned..... Paul Harvey Turns 90 - 9/4 - Righty radio commentator Paul Harvey, heard locally on WMAL, turns 90 today. More from the Chicago Tribune..... Rant - 9/4 - Interesting to hear Fred Grandy and Bryan Nehman talking up last night's heavily-hyped Sarah Palin speech on Citadel righty talker WMAL this morning. They did a fine job, but they sounded like they were reading the 'Prompter. Nice words of praise - but no fire in their bellies. Perhaps it's because neither is a true conservative. Where's real righty Andy Parks when you need him? On vacation?!?! On vacation the same week Citadel big boss Farid Suleman visits his DC subjects? Hmmm. More Rants..... Matthews Denies Olbermann Feud - 9/4 - DC-based Chris "Hardball" Matthews actually doesn't hate fellow MSNBCer Keith Olbermann. TVNewser has more..... HFS Dumping K&M? - 9/3 - A source tells DCRTV that CBS Radio suits in Baltimore are conducting a series of "closed-door meetings" to discuss the future of the Kirk and Mark - Kirk McEwen, Mark Ondayko, and producer Jeff Shamrock (right). The morning show at talker WHFS, 105.7 FM. K&M are taking an "unscheduled vaction" this week, we're told. Might K&M be soon gone from HFS? We're told that they've been unable to gain ratings after leaving Hearst's 98 Rock in late 2006. And a budget-cutting CBS may see their contract renewal as simply too expensive. K&M jumped to WHFS in early 2007, replacing the Junkies, who were relayed from CBS talker WJFK-FM in the DC area. Which makes us wonder: Might the Junkies get returned to Baltimore? A CBS DCer shoots down any rumors of that. More soon..... Almost Confirmed: CBS Selling 5 Baltimore Radioers - 9/3 - Speaking of CBS Baltimore, DCRTV hears that management has informed the key staff of all five Charm City radio stations that they're definitely for sale. Over the summer, DCRTV had reported that CBS Radio is selling its stations in middle and small markets, including Baltimore. Including FMers WHFS, WLIF, WWMX, and WQSR, and WJFK-AM. We're told that the stations "will be sold once a suitable buyer is found." However, one longtime CBS Baltimorer tells us that he hasn't heard anything specific about a sale. Stay tuned...... Robin Breedon Gone From Praise 104.1 - 9/3 - DCRTV hears that Robin Breedon, formerly with CBS's formerly gospel WPGC-AM, Heaven 1580, is now apparently also formerly with Radio One's gospel Praise 104.1, WPRS. We're told that she is no longer doing the 4 PM to 8 PM shift on the FMer and has been erased from WPRS's website. More soon..... Czaban To Be Heard On New Balto Sportser - 9/3 - We heard rumblings that Steve Czaban (right) was going to be heard on new Baltimore sports talker WVIE, 1370 AM, which is due to flip away from political talk on Monday. But we were sworn to secrecy. Not so with Dan Steinberg at washingtonpost.com, who confirms that WTEM veteran Czaban and Scott Linn's "First Team On Fox" morning show should be available locally via the WCBM sister's new format. WVIE, which can be heard throughout the DC area during the daytime hours, will be a Fox Sports affiliate. Czaban, of course, continues to co-host the "Sports Reporters" during afternoons on WTEM, now dubbed ESPN 980, "but anyone who wants to hear him on the air in the morning will now have to tune in to a rival station from a rival city featuring a rival national network," according to Steinberg..... Bob & Tom To ZBA - 9/3 - DCRTV hears that Baltimore classic rocker WZBA, 100.7 FM, the Bay, is going with the syndicated "Bob And Tom" morning show, which is based in Indianapolis. Starting Monday, 9/8. WZBA discharged Baltimore radio vet Chris Emry from his morning slot over the summer. Emry is now doing evenings on DC classic rocker WTGB, the Globe, 94.7 FM..... Righty Talkers Trash Post's Quinn - 9/3 - "She's a real mother, not a Georgetown mother." WMAL's Chris Plante this morning on GOP VP candidate Sarah Palin. His "Georgetown mother" label is directed at Washington Post veteran Sally Quinn "who married the boss," is a "hypocrite" and a "fraud," and who recently penned a column claiming that "Palin's Not Ready." Following in the footsteps of Plante's morning show, national midday talk titan Rush Limbaugh, also heard on MAL, also liberally trashed "old babe" Quinn and her anti-Palin column..... Tantum Rides The Zebra - 9/3 - Former Washington Post Radio and 3WT program director Greg Tantum (left) has been named program director of low-rated talkers WTNT (570 AM) and WWRC (1260 AM). Redskins owner Dan Snyder's Red Zebra recently bought WTNT and WWRC from Clear Channel. "Not sure why they need a PD to get 0.2 shares, but there you go... wasting more money at Red Zebra," says a local radio guru. Bonneville talkers WPR and 3WT are both defunct, due to low ratings. Before coming to DC, Tantum worked at San Francisco news talker KGO..... Former 5er Lands New Boston Gig - 9/3 - Sara Underwood, who once was a reporter at DC's Fox5, WTTG, jumps to the Boston Fox station, WFXT-TV, to do anchoring work. She'd most-recently been working at Boston's CBS station, WBZ-TV..... Cox Adds 3 Indian Nets - 9/3 - Cox adds three Indian (as in India) channels in Northern Virginia: Star India Plus on 275, Star One on 274, and Star India Gold on 276. Northern Virginia has one of the largest South Asian populations in the country. Cox serves Fairfax County and Fredericksburg. More from Multichannel News..... Allbritton Makes VF List - 9/3 - Channel 7/WJLA and Politico owner Robert Allbritton makes a Vanity Fair list of "The Next Establishment, 2008"..... DC Man Gets Examiner To Stop Delivery - 9/3 - From the DC City Paper: "There are plenty of people in the Washington area who've cursed out the Examiner for its penchant to throw papers willy-nilly on lawns and stoops. Yet Shepherd Park resident Don Squires came up with perhaps the most original protest. At an advisory neighborhood commission meeting earlier this year that addressed the unwanted deliveries, Squires showed up with a bag of Examiners that'd landed on his front lawn. He proceeded to dump them in the meeting room, provoking a commissioner to declare him out of order. Squires responded that he was just making a point: No one wants a pile of trash in their space. Watching all of this was Examiner Publisher Michael Phelps"..... Under Armour Does Deal With UMD - 9/3 - The Baltimore Sun tells us that Baltimore-based Under Armour will be the official outfitter for University Of Maryland athletics. The five-year, $17.5 million deal means all Terps programs - including the basketballs teams, which were affiliated with Nike - will be outfitted by Under Armour starting in January. Also in the Sun, more on the news DCRTV broke yesterday about Baltimore talker WVIE (1370 AM) going sports talk next Monday..... 11er Has Baby - 9/3 - Congrats to Channel 11/WBAL reporter Melissa Carlson on the birth of her baby. Liam Daniel was born on 8/28 at Sibley Hospital in DC..... As DCRTV Predicted, Kapugi To Tribune - 9/2 - Back in early August, DCRTV told you that Chicago-based Tribune would be the likely landing pad for former Clear Channel DC operations manager and Hot 99.5 program director Jeff Kapugi, a Chicago native. And, guess what, DCRTV was right (again). We learn today that Kapugi has joined Tribune Interactive as vice president of content for Tribune's Chicago operations..... Baltimore's 1370 To Go Sports Next Monday - 9/2 - DCRTV tipped you last week. Now, we get confirmation that Baltimore talker 1370 AM, WVIE, will go all-sports on Monday, 9/8, with a Fox Sports affiliation. Area sports radio veteran Jerry Coleman, previously with WTEM, 98 Rock, and WBAL radio, will be sports director and host a daily show from 3 PM to 6 PM. Syndicated Jim Rome will be carried by "Fox 1370 Sports Radio." More line-up announcements to come. The WCBM sister talker recently upgraded its daytime signal to 50,000-watts. It'll be Baltimore's third sports talker, joining CBS's ESPN 1300, WJFK-AM, and Nestor Aparacio's WNST, 1570 AM..... Billick & NST Join Forces - 9/2 - On 8/21, DCRTV first reported a rumbling that former Baltimore Ravens Coach Brian Billick might be taking an ownership interest in Baltimore sports talker WNST (1570 AM). Now, we hear that Billick is slated to make a "major announcement" during a joint press conference with WNST owner Nestor Aparacio on Wednesday evening at DellaRose's Tavern in Baltimore. We do get confirmation that Billick will host "Billick Live" on the first Wednesday of each month on WNST and via the sports talker's website. Billick, who still lives in the Baltimore area after leaving the Ravens in 2007, will be doing NFL games for Fox TV this season. Also, DCRTV hears that Aparicio will introduce a "WNST Sports Media" platform and online initiative during the press conference..... All-Stones Today On 94.7's HD2 - 9/2 - It appears that CBS's classic rock 94.7, the Globe, has transformed its digital HD2 classic rock stream into an all-Rolling Stones channel. That's just for today, we hear. A WTGB suit tells us that the station will be featuring the music of one classic rock band each day "for the near term".... Ike Pappas Dies - 9/2 - From AP: Ike Pappas (right), a longtime CBS newsman who reported the shooting death of presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald on the radio as it was happening, has died at age 75. Pappas died Sunday in a hospital in Arlington of complications of heart disease, his family said. Pappas was among the reporters at the Dallas police station waiting for Oswald to be moved two days after President Kennedy was assassinated. Pappas had just asked him, "You have anything to say in your defense?" when a shot rang out. "Oswald has been shot!" Pappas said on the air, adding, "Mass confusion here, all the doors have been locked. Holy mackerel!" Pappas, who lived in McLean, was among more than 200 CBS News employees laid off by the company in 1987. More in the DC Post..... Ed Buterbaugh Dies - 9/2 - Ed Buterbaugh, who was chief engineer of legendary DC area "top 40" outlet WEAM (1390 AM) in the 1960s and early 1970s, died of complications from bladder cancer over the weekend. For many years, Buterbaugh worked at radio stations in the Detroit area, including news talk WJR and another legendary "top 40" outlet, CKLW, in nearby Windsor, Ontario, where he lived. More from Michiguide.com..... Suleman's In Town - 9/2 - DCRTV hears that Citadel head Farid Suleman is in town today touring his new acquisitions - talker WMAL, hot adult WRQX, and oldies WJZW. Might we be seeing more duties for WMAL General Manager Chris Berry, who's been seen smiling a lot lately around the Jenifer Street broadcast complex? Stay tuned..... CE Gone From RZ - 9/2 - DCRTV hears that Dan Snyder's Red Zebra broadcasting arm is heading into a Redskin season with no chief engineer on-board. We're told that the new CE it just signed is gone. Snyder plans to carry the Skins on his six DC area signals, including the three of ESPN 980..... McCleskey To Replace Redlin In 88.5 Mornings - 9/2 - WAMU morning host Bill Redlin, the local voice of NPR's "Morning Edition" since 1985, will move to middays come 9/3. In addition to his duties as 88.5's midday host, Redlin will assume a mentorship role for the station's young reporters. Matt McCleskey, who's often subbed for Redlin, will assume morning host duties on WAMU..... Amy Goodman Arrested At GOP Confab - 9/2 - Pacifica Radio's "Democracy Now" host Amy Goodman, heard locally on WPFW (89.3 FM), plus two show producers were were arrested in demonstrations at the Republican convention in St. Paul on Monday. Goodman was charged with obstruction and interference with a police officer, while the producers were charged with suspicion of rioting. They were released late Monday. The three are complaining that police manhandled them during the arrests..... Spanish Sports Debut On 730 - 9/2 - As DCRTV predicted, Redskins owner Dan Snyder flipped his WXTR (730 AM) to ESPN Deportes, Spanish language sports talk, on Monday. Spanish broadcasts of the Redskins will be featured on the station. The Mount Vernon area AMer had been relaying Snyder's English language ESPN 980, which will continue on 980 AM, 92.7 FM, and 94.3 FM..... Voiceover Great Don LaFontaine Dies - 9/2 - Don LaFontaine died in LA on 9/1 of complications form a collapsed lung. He was 68. Over the past 25 years, LaFontaine cemented his position as the "King Of Voiceovers." Aside from being the preeminent voice in the movie trailer industry, he also worked as the voice of "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider," as well as for CBS, NBC, ABC, Fox, and UPN, in addition to TNT, TBS, and the Cartoon Network. He voiced hundreds of thousands of television and radio spots, including commercials for Chevrolet, Pontiac, Ford, Budweiser, McDonalds, and Coke. His latest work was for Geico. More from etonline.com..... Notable Quotable - 9/2 - "This just in - we've just learned that she's an illegal immigrant and a man." WMAL's Fred Grandy jesting this morning on the steady stream of continuing news revelations about Sarah Palin and her family. She's John McCain's pick for vice president..... Male Politicoer Lusts After Cooper - 9/2 - FishbowlDC twitters this from the GOP convention in St. Paul: "What male Politico reporter confessed to wanting to have sex with (CNN's) Anderson Cooper?" Hmmm..... Barbara Tufty Dies - 9/2 - Barbara Tufty, 84, an author, environmentalist, and science journalist who in books and countless articles sought to give voice to nature, died after a heart attack on 7/30 at Sibley Memorial Hospital. She was a Washington resident. The author of five books, including a guide to local wildflowers, Tufty had a decades-long association with the Science Newsletter, a Scripps Howard News Service publication that supplied science stories to daily newspapers. For more than a decade, she also was conservation editor for the Audubon Naturalist Society and an editor and writer with the National Science Foundation and the National Academy of Sciences. More in the DC Post..... "WCR" Gone From 94.7 - 9/1 - As DCRTV had predicted, CBS has yanked the "World Class Rock" moniker from the Globe, 94.7 FM. After a year-and-a-half dabbling with some alternative rock tunes, the former classic rocker is again an all-classic rocker. Now being IDed simply as "Classic Rock 94.7." As we've reported, the station's music director and middayer, Schelby Sweeney, is gone, being replaced by Marci Wiser, from CBS's NYC alt rock WXRK, come next Monday..... DCRTVideo - 9/1 - GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin during her sports anchor days (as "Sarah Heath") at Anchorage's KTUU-TV in the 1980s. At DCRTVideo at the bottom of the right column of this page..... A "More Defined" Korny On "MNF" - 8/31 - ESPN's "Monday Night Football" kicks off on 9/8 and Tony Kornheiser tells Jim Williams in the Examiner that he's having fun doing commentary for the show. Look for a "more defined" role for the Washington Post sports columnist on "MNF" this season..... More Sports Talk For Charm City - 8/31 - DCRTV hears reliable rumblings that Baltimore could soon see another sports talker on the AM radio dial. In addition to WJFK-AM (1300) and WNST (1570 AM). Could it be news talker WCBM's sister talker WVIE (1370 AM)? More soon..... Copy Editor Cuts At Post - 8/31 - Due to budget cuts, will fewer copy editors mean most mistakes in print and online? So wonders Washington Post ombudsman Deborah Howell at washingtonpost.com..... Coaching NPRers To Sound Natural - 8/31 - The DC Post profiles radio voice "coach" David Candow, the man who makes talkers on National Public Radio sound natural..... Chris Core Debuts On 50 - 8/30 - Channel 50/WDCW today premieres "Weekend News With Chris Core," which will air Saturdays at 6 PM and Sundays at 9:30 AM. The veteran DC radio host promises this "will not be another Sunday morning talking-heads show" but one that focuses on local as well as national issues and analysis. Today's topic: the Democratic National Convention and Mark Warner's US Senate race in Virginia..... Dave Marash To China - 8/30 - After leaving his job as a DC-based anchor for Al Jazeera's English language network last March, Dave Marash tells TVNewser that he's heading to China this fall, to teach journalism for a semester at Shantou University. In January, Marash, who once anchored for Channel 4/WRC, and later reported for ABC, will move to the University Of Hong Kong, where he'll teach for the spring semester..... Jesse Thompkins Dies - 8/30 - Jesse Thompkins, 26, a DC-based film industry worker and actor who'd appeared in "Homicide: Life On The Street" and several commercials, was fatally struck by an SUV in NYC on 8/3. So reports the DC Post..... WBIG For Sale? - 8/29 - DCRTV hears that Clear Channel might just sell classic hits WBIG (100.3 FM) if the upcoming electronic Portable People Meter radio ratings, debuting in DC in September, don't show a serious surge for the station. In other markets, the PPMs have been good for rock-ish outlets. CC just sold its three DC area AMers to Redskins owner Dan Snyder, who, along with WTOP-owner Bonneville, would be the most-likely candidates to pick up WBIG. There are rumblings that CC almost sold WBIG to Snyder earlier this year, when he bought sports talk WTEM and talkers WTNT and WWRC. By the way, CC almost flipped WBIG to a Spanish format a few years ago, back when Bennett Zier ran the cluster. But that plan got nixxed by Zier's successor, Dave Pugh, we're told..... P-Stew Gone From From KYS, RO Cuts 7 More Here, Lots Elsewhere - 8/29 - DCRTV hears that P-Stew has been released from his duties as music director and creative services director of Radio One urban outlet WKYS (93.9 FM). We're told that he was among eight employees just budget-cut at Radio One's Lanham broadcast complex, which also powers WMMJ, WOL, WYCB, and WPRS. P-Stew has been with KYS for more than 13 years, begining with the "Live Squad," and eventually moving up to the music director and assistant program director gigs. He's also hosted the "One Nation Hip Hop Show" on Saturday nights. P-Stew is currently nominated by trade pub Radio And Records as "Urban Music Director Of The Year." No word yet if the "One Nation Hip Hop Show" will still be heard on KYS with a new host. DCRTV also hears that locally-based Radio One, which is facing slumping revenue numbers and record low stock prices, made employee cuts in other markets, including canning 20 at its Atlanta cluster. Plus more cuts in Cleveland, Cincinnati, and Philadelphia..... John Doyle Leaves RNR-AM - 8/29 - After 19 years on the air, today's the last day John Doyle will co-host "Eastern Panhandle Talk," the morning show heard on Martinsburg WV's news talk WRNR (740 AM). Doyle, a West Virginia state delegate who represents portions of the Eastern Panhandle, is stepping down to work on other projects that will take him around the country, we hear..... Phelps Does "Entourage" - 8/29 - Capitalizing on Michael Phelps's Olympic momentum, HBO will feature the Baltimore native and world-class swimmer in a cameo on the upcoming season of "Entourage" (right)..... Baltimore Ranks 6th In Olympics Ratings - 8/29 - Baltimore, buoyed by watching native son Michael Phelps, finished tied for sixth for highest Olympics ratings in US markets. Channel 11/WBAL averaged 21.1 percent of the Baltimore audience across the 17 nights of prime-time coverage. More from Ray Frager in the Baltimore Sun..... Baltimore TV Market Drops - 8/29 - Baltimore drops two spots, from 24th to 26th, among ratings firm Nielsen's top TV markets for the 2008-2009 season. DC remains 9th..... Mutual Reunion Planned - 8/29 - Former staffers of the Mutual Broadcasting System are gathering for a reunion on 9/13 at the Crystal City Hyatt, not far from Mutual's last headquarters in Arlington. The highlight of the evening is expected to be DC-based talk show great Jim Bohannon, who'll be sharing the same mic as XM star Bob Edwards. To sign up or get more info contact mutualreunion@yahoo.com..... Older news goes to DCRTV's News Archive. Copyright Dave Hughes/DCRTV.....

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