A Good Year for the Outlaw

I stumbled upon an area radio station’s website the other day, as I sometimes do, just checking around to see what everybody else is doing. Our own radio station’s websites are scheduled for a relaunch with brand new graphics and styles within the next month, so I’m well aware how ugly ours currently are.
But I [...]

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It’s Thursday night, May 28, 9pm, and I’m driving home. I whip the dial to the sportstalk station in Chicago to hear what might be going on.
Keep in mind, I already know, and I’m wondering which of these topical stories they might be talking about. Could it be…
1. The Blackhawks were just eliminated from [...]

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Eric “Mancow” Muller is being tortured this morning on WLS. They have a marine in the studio to waterboard him. He doesn’t currently think it’s torture, but he’s about to find out otherwise, according to the ex-marine in the studio with him.
Updates to come.
It’s actually pretty compelling radio, and I sit here and wait [...]

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EXILE [eg-zahyl, ek-sahyl]
–noun 1. expulsion from one’s native land by authoritative decree.
2. the fact or state of such expulsion: to live in exile.
3. a person banished from his or her native land.
4. prolonged separation from one’s country or home, as by force of circumstances: wartime exile.
Since the election, Sean Hannity has repeatedly said [...]

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Regent Broadcasting (owners of clusters of stations in both Peoria and Bloomington eliminated their news department at their Evansville cluster last Friday.
This shouldn’t affect the Peoria stations at all…because they don’t even have a news department to begin with. But Regent owns WJBC in Bloomington, that city’s only radio news department. Could it affect [...]

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In the months since Mr. Obama became President Obama, I have been pooh-poohing a certain Peoria-area blogger’s (whose site I no longer visit, Billy) constant whining and fear mongering about what he thought was a return of the Fairness Doctrine, all because one or two politicians made off-the-cuff remarks wondering if it needed to be [...]

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Two morons in Minnesota (my gosh, there are suddenly lots of morons in my home state) think that Magic Johnson has “faked AIDS”.
Sadly, these two morons, or as our friend Reno/PostSim says “douchenozzles” have a radio talk show. Unbelievable.

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Diane called me this morning to say she heard Kid Rock’s “All Summer Long” (a VERY clever riff on both “Werewolves of London” and “Sweet Home Alabama”, btw) on a country station in the Quad Cities this morning, and they edited out the word “smokin’” from the line “we were smokin’ funny things…”.
Are you [...]

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In the past few days, every time…EVERY time…I’ve turned on a sportstalk radio station, be it in Chicago, Peoria, the Quad Cities, or New York or Minneapolis via internet for that matter, the discussion is the same.
Are they talking Spring Training baseball, a very exciting time for all teams? Nope.
Are the talking about the stretch [...]

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Our football coverage this fall on CD 107.9 ended with Metamora’s thrilling victory over Morris in the IHSA 5A finals. Congrats to Coach Ryan and the kids, and the whole town for that matter, on the title. I’ve heard good things about our championship coverage, which included Dave Murphy and Rich Draeger in the booth [...]

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Same two teams still in it, same station still on it!
1pm Saturday – Marion at Metamora on CD 107.9 and www.cd1079.com
5pm Saturday – Galena at North Fulton on CD 107.9 and www.cd1079.com

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The local clubs are getting whittled down. We’ll have two games on this Saturday, both on CD 107.9 and www.cd1079.com:
At 1pm – 5A – Metamora at Pontiac, Dave Murphy and Rob Paullin on PBP.
At 6pm – 1A – North Fulton at Stark County, Leon Groover and Bob Wagner on PBP.
Hope everybody gets a chance to [...]

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Our stations will be at three different games Saturday:
On CD 107.9 and www.cd1079.com:
1pm – 4A Game – Decatur St. Teresa (7-3) at Dunlap (9-1). Dave Murphy and Rich Draeger on PBP.
7pm – 1A Game – Lewistown (10-0) at North Fulton (8-2). Leon Groover and Bob Wagner on PBP.
On AM 1560, WBYS and www.wbysradio.com:
7pm – 2A [...]

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I know, I know, don’t blog about work. But I’m so excited about this weekend, I’ve got to print our radio stations’ schedule:
Friday night on CD107.9 and cd1079.com:
 7pm – Mt. Zion (6-3) at Dunlap (8-1), 4A. Dave Murphy and either Rob Paullin or Rich Draeger on PBP. Live reports from North Fulton (7-2) at Lexington [...]

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I saw this ad at pjstar.com tonight:
Professional/Technical
WPEO Christian Radio Assistant to the Manager/Community Relations Director
As some may know, I’m in the business of radio, so I always read these kinds of ads to see what other stations are looking for, and sometimes if I’ve got a buddy looking for work I can direct them [...]

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A recent discussion at The Blogfather’s Site  centered on an idiotic plan by some Democrats to invoke the “Fairness Doctrine” in an effort to stifle guys like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Air America, the failed, for all intents and purposes, left leaning radio network, was mentioned in the discussion.
As a guy who’s been in [...]

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Everybody and their brother and their other brother have already commented on Don Imus.
Here’s mine:
First of all, the WORST thing uttered on Imus’ broadcast was the word “jigaboo” by the producer. Where is the outrage over that? THAT was the comment, to me, that was thoroughly unacceptable. None of the discussion was real smart, [...]

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I’m driving home from Bloomington last night, punching around the AM dial (nothing better than late night AM radio…STILL). I pick up Nashville, Cincinnati, Detroit, Dallas, Minneapolis, Louisville, Pittsburgh, Atlanta…I’m having a blast! And then I pick up a talk show on out of Denver.
The host on that station is upset that Muslim cabbies in [...]

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