Few weeks back we mentioned that The Dallas Morning News and Star-Telegram would be doing some story-sharing in an effort to pinch a few pennies. Earlier this week, ex-News-er Jerome Weeks cited a few examples of how the papers had already started sharing copy — though all the pieces mentioned…
From Gawker, this news for regular listeners of National Public Radio via its local outlet, KERA-FM (90.1): NPR today has axed two shows, Day to Day and News & Notes, both of which air in Dallas. As a result, some 64 people are being laid off — though the shows…
Back to my real job (sports) after some quick tinkering with my hobby (radio). As I heard on Monday, management at Live 105.3 105.3 The Fan has not only fired controversial/comment-creating (350? You shittin’ me?) Russ Martin but also agreed to pay him through 2011 just to keep his ass off another…
In the latest issue of The Weekly Standard, former Dallas Morning News columnist William Murchison reviews Judith Garrett Segura’s Belo: From Newspapers to New Media, published in September by the University of Texas Press. (Segura worked at the paper from 1981 till 2004, and she was, among other things, Belo’s…
All day, whatever’s left of Live 105.3 has been broadcasting college fight songs — which, right, has to be better than what’s usually on the FM station. (Just kidding, because, to be honest, I haven’t heard more than 14 seconds of the station in the last, oh, ever.) Which means…
If you’re a fan of Ben & Skin and you, like me, are wondering WTF?, I’ve got some clues about Live 105.3 FM going all college fight song this afternoon. Apparently it’s called “stunting”, a traditional radio ploy used by stations in advance of a major programming change. In other words,…
The fine folks at IGN.com still watch The Simpsons so you don’t have to — good thing too, at least this week, as last night’s episode featured Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, who’s awfully … animated? The entire episode’s after the jump, for those who didn’t realize that, I’ll be…
MediaBistro’s TVNewser is reporting this morning that NBC Universal is set to lay off some 500 employees — including folks who work in NBC News’ Dallas bureau. The network’s been shuttering bureaus since the summer; Paris was the first to go, back in August. And in September, word was NBC…
Uncle Barky breaks the bad news: The great Brad Hawkins, long a favorite of ours, is leaving WFAA-Channel 8 on Christmas Eve. Why come? He’s taking a public relations gig at Southwest Airlines. Really? Really: “I’m at a crossroads in terms of opening myself to new challenges and new skills,”…
A couple of months back, D ran David Feherty’s riveting account of his collision with a pickup on Park Lane; figured his being able to live and write about his smash-up was what the Sporting News was referring to today when it ran the piece headlined “A week when David…
Okay, not really. But we can dream, right? Because if Pacman Jones did get his own show with The Ticket’s informative and entertaining Bob Sturm and Dan McDowell, the corrupt Cowboy returning to practice at Valley Ranch today would mysteriously fall on hard times and slink quietly…
Wyatt Cenac as Barack Obama Tina Brown’s Daily Beast reports that four contenders are in the running to oust Fred Armisen as Saturday Night Live’s Barack Obama — and two of them, heyheyhey, happen to be Dallas private schools graduates. One we introduced back in June, when Jesuit College Preparatory…
Brett Shipp In October 2006, Benny and Martha Cryer of Wylie were killed when natural gas, leaking beneath their home, ignited and exploded, trapping them beneath fiery debris. One year later, WFAA-Channel 8’s Brett Shipp revisited the story to find out why no one had been held responsible for the…
All this? Because of one game a year in our zip code? Seems a tad much. Okay, we get it. Dallas’ Only Daily is hitching its downsized wagon to the Texas Longhorns. Again. I often accuse Dallas of being not a sports town, but a winners town. I have to…
… Fox! So, last week it was The Dallas Morning News and Star-Telegram trying to figure out how to share a sleeping bag. Today, it’s Fox and NBC — not the networks themselves (not yet), but the local affiliates owned and operated by the networks, which would indeed include KDFW-Channel…
A bump in the road? Or the beginning of the end? Couple months back I forecasted a significant change in the way the radio ratings wind would blow around these parts in the fall. Wow. I had no idea. With Arbitron finally awaking to the digital age and replacing its…
Cavalier as ever. Live 105.3 talk-show host Russ Martin is so convinced the charges stemming from his July 18 arrest won’t stick that this week he turned down a slap-on-the-wrist plea bargain from Tarrant County prosecutors. According to a jurisprudence source, Martin snubbed an offer of a reduced charge –…
Kudos to The Star-Telegram for yesterday addressing the fairly startling revelation on Friday that the Fort Worth paper and its longtime rival The Dallas Morning News are considering some kind of collaboration. The piece, by Mitchell Schnurman, even refers to the news as a “stunning local example” of how papers…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends along this story out of Fort Worth concerning the Star-Telegram’s likely collaboration with rival The Dallas Morning News. Says Startlegram exec editor Jim Witt: “There is absolutely no intention of diluting the powerful individual brands of these two papers. We just want to find…
As I mentioned Tuesday night, T.D. Jakes, of The Potter’s House, was all over MSNBC during its Election Night coverage — up until he was bumped at the moment Ohio was called for Barack Obama. Jakes is about to get his own TV show courtesy Dr. Phil, and Broadcasting &…
The letter Lincoln may or may not have written to a woman who may or may not have lost her sons in the Civil War Last night, KXAS-Channel 5 ran a short piece about the Dallas Historical Society’s big find in its archives at Fair Park: a condolence letter from…
Our neighborhood was trashed overnight as dozens of A.H. Belo’s Briefings were dumped along the curbs and into the streets like it was some kind of prank. As you can see in the photo, I sorta, kinda got two of the freebies intended for non-Dallas Morning News subscribers — even…
