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13 Mar, 2008 12:28 pm
... asking whether something really works. If this were a world in which early adopters got to choose, we'd all be using CB radios and quadraphonic stereos. Don't laugh.
Dad had a CB radio in his yellow Cadillac ... His management's questioning value is a good thing. Gets me to refocus on the benefits,
efficiencies, and cost savings of blogs, RSS, and newsreaders to large law firms. Dad was obviously wrong on CB radios (I think he thought they were pretty silly anyway).
Hoping he's wrong as to his views ...
30 Apr 8:04 am
Twitter Mania Has Got to Stop - Columns by PC Magazine. I still remember my first CB Radio. It was very cool to be going down the
highway, saying "Breaker 19" every minute or so ... off the damn band, so they could do real work. What a hoot. Well, CB was popular for a while, and then it got old. Too many
dilettantes wasting time on planet earth. Is Twitter a new CB paradigm? It can be used for really useful things, like professional contact building, and emergency communication.
However, all of the ...
21 Apr 12:20 am
... reports: Aldav LLC has filed suit against Clear Channel, Cumulus, Citadel, CBS Radio, Entercom,
Saga, Cox Radio, Univision, Regent, Gap, Radio One, and the Aloha Station Trust, claiming that, by
replacing ... by a radio station; identifying, following the step of receiving, a marker associated with the content that is indicative of a
change in the type of the content of the radio broadcast from a first content type to a second content type; replacing, following the step of
identifying and when the ...
12 Apr, 2007 5:52 am
... outburst - he has if anything displayed an eager recidivism when it comes to being offensive, but it's just plain weird that CBS
Radio feels it needs to continue to "monitor the situation" before it decides whether to make its two week suspension permanent. And wait for
what, exactly? To figure out how much sponsor money it will lose if it doesn't fire Imus, obviously. The issue for CBS Radio isn't principle - it seems pretty clear now it has none - and it isn't the ...
2 Feb, 2008 9:39 am
... tenacy over it any day. Expect I'm not the only one who's found their reading habits have significantly changed. Interesting. But I have been wondering if the blog will turn out in
retrospect to be like CB radio-huge flash in the pan, followed by precipitious decline. Other models might be ham radio-I suspect there are still people out there and saying blah blah blah blah, do you read me? Or community access cable- ...
9 Apr, 2007 5:24 pm
... President Steve Capus released this statement late Monday: "Beginning Monday, April 16, MSNBC will suspend simulcasting the syndicated 'Imus in the Morning' radio program for two weeks. This comes after careful consideration in the days since his racist, abhorrent comments were made. Don Imus has ... Our future
relationship with Imus is contingent on his ability to live up to his word." What do you think? Is that enough punishment? What should CBS do?
Update: CBS has also suspended him for two weeks.
7 Apr 5:10 am
In case you didn't hear my few seconds of fame on your local CBS affiliate radio show (the bit was
broadcast nationally), you can have a listen here: taxgirl on CBS (mp3 file)Similar Posts: The BlogHer Countdown taxgirl on Good Day
Philadelphia taxgirl is on Vacation! Lights, Camera, Taxes! Ask the taxgirl: What would taxgirl do?
Listen Now:
4 Dec, 2008 3:43 pm
... , as both AOL and Yahoo have turned their operations over to CBS. This seems to emphatically demonstrate that the economics of Internet
radio operations, whether stand-alone or as part of portals, simply do not justify the ... successful operation of small independent
webcasters, undercuts the very purpose of the statutory license for the use of music by Internet radio stations. The statutory license
administered by the Copyright Royalty Board was established to minimize transactional costs and make ...
20 Oct 1:49 pm
... fabulous (and fabulously talented) Jan Crawford Greenburg is leaving ABC News for CBS News. Greenburg, author of the excellent and
bestselling Supreme Conflict (2007), will become ... email to her colleagues at ABC, plus the press release announcing her hire at CBS, after
the jump. JAN CRAWFORD GREENBURG -- ABC NEWS -- FAREWELL EMAIL As many ... SHOW and FACE THE NATION, as well as CBS Radio News and CBSNews.com. Greenburg had been a regular contributor to CBS News in 2005 to 2006. "Jan is an
enormously ...
17 Jul, 2008 5:40 am
... in the past, it has never been as easy, seamless, ubiquitous and as promoted as with the new iPhone. The CBS radio stations on AOL Radio, Pandora and Soma FM are all available, as are add-on applications that open the door to
... of the wireless experience, one must wonder whether that experience is in fact more valuable than the experience of listening to Internet radio when sitting in front of your computer. Certainly, the wireless service reaches people where they have not been reached before, ...
23 Jan, 2008 12:17 pm
... 2003, a local Connecticut radio station, Hot 93.7 (WZMX) fired its prominent DJ - Wendell (JD) Houston. Five years later, a federal court
trial ... attorneys wrote in a federal racial discrimination lawsuit that heads to trial Tuesday in Hartford. CBS Radio, which owns the station, says Houston has no direct evidence ... suggest first reviewing the papers submitted to the court on a motion for summary
judgment. Infinity Radio's Motion for Summary Judgment is here, Houston's brief opposing it is here, ...
10 Apr, 2007 6:07 am
... tossed out in a volley of male camaraderie by a group of amused, middle-aged white men. The "joke" - as delivered and later recanted - by the radio and television personality Don Imus failed one big test: it was not funny. The serial apologies of Mr. Imus, who was suspended yesterday by both NBC
News and CBS Radio for his remarks, have failed another test. The sincerity seems forced and suspect
because he's done some version of this several ...
9 Apr, 2007 1:52 am
... U.S. regulatory and royalty rules. Webcasters considering a move to Canada will find that the legal framework for Internet radio trades
costs for complexity. There are two main areas of concern from a Canadian perspective - broadcast regulation and copyright fees. Those expecting strict broadcast regulation from the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission will be pleasantly surprised to learn that webcasters operate outside of
conventional broadcast ...
12 Apr, 2007 3:01 pm
I am seeing this announced on TV. Reporting by AP. More in a moment. AP: CBS announced Thursday that it has fired Don Imus from his
radio program, following a week of uproar over the radio host's racist comments about the Rutgers
women's basketball team. "There has ... has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society," CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said in announcing the decision. "That consideration has ...
19 Nov, 2007 6:14 pm
CBS news writers may be the next to strike. Today, they authorized the Writers Guild to call a strike on their behalf. CBS news writers, graphic artists and other staffers who work for the network's television and radio news operations
voted by a wide margin to authorize a strike against their employer, the Writers Guild of America announced today. Of the 300 employees who cast ballots in last week's special ...
13 May 4:15 am
... How have we come to this pass in America where the assassination of top government officials is fodder for snide jokes on national radio?
Davis (who is obviously a glib horse's ass) did this stunt very emphatically at a news break at ... there that the Dallas magazine story was evidently picked up by liberal Web sites and
disseminated, pressuring CBS to denounce Feherty, who made a public apology. The gravity of this case was unfortunately overshadowed by feisty
comedian Wanda Sykes' clumsy jibes ...
2 Sep 8:45 am
... Press has reported that a group representing Canadian songwriters and music publishers is suing the company that operates XM Radio in
Federal Court. The group, CSI, is a joint venture between CMRRA and SODRAC. CSI seeks an injunction preventing ... on July 31. Some previous reports on the Copyright Board tariff have
suggested that the tariff was something of a win for satellite radio. The tariff was set at 6.2% of revenues for the use of music, starting in
2010. This rate is lower than the total ...
14 Mar, 2008 5:19 am
Internet radio firms say royalties limiting choices - pdf Cedergren's story is the nightmare scenario painted by many Internet radio companies who have claimed that the royalty hike would kill online broadcasting in its cradle. In fact, Internet radio is ... They warn of an online music industry dominated by the same giant media companies that presently dominate traditional radio broadcasting. And they point to CBS Broadcasting Inc.'s recent takeover of the Internet radio operations of Time Warner ...
22 Apr, 2008 6:52 pm
... help invent a cure for cancer? CBS' 60 Minutes profiled John Kanzius this past Sunday. As improbable as it sounds, Kanzius and his
radio wave machine is now ... bigger and stronger version of the machine with hopes of zapping a tumor with a focused beam of radio waves without destroying the surrounding cells. Kanzius has developed the machine and ... cancer treatment before his death from cancer in October 2005.
So far this radio wave "cooking" of cancer cells has worked in rat testing. In another several ...
12 Apr, 2007 2:04 pm
CBS has fired Don Imus, the radio show host who used a racial slur in referring to the Rutgers'
women's basketball team last week. The firing comes on the heels of MSNBC's decision to drop simulcasts of Mr. Imus' show,...
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