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Take a number, pal. First of all – duh – I have zero control of when the story gets posted online. Generally, cover stories are posted at our home site on Wednesday afternoons. But I’m a lowly sportswriter, not an IT geek. Secondly, there are a couple more people in…

Behind the break-up. T-Minus 24 hours. I’m sure the Sportatorium blogdom is all atwitter about my opinions on Angels 9, Rangers 6. Okay, let me label rookie catcher Max Ramirez’ miraculous effort as baseball’s “Double Play of the Year”. But, really, who am I kidding? If I own a McDonald’s…

So, just maybe The Dallas Morning News won’t be able to deliver, heh, on its promise to litter rich folks’ front yards with those unwanted single-section papers called Briefing, blech. The latest adventure in CueCatting is due to touch your more manicured lawns come August 27 — but today Editor…

Curtain pulled back in T-Minus 2 days. Local author Jim Dent penned award-winning stories while living a nefarious night life. Channel 8 sports anchor Dale Hansen has been known to have a drink between the 6 and 10 p.m. newscasts. Mavericks’ owner Mark Cuban has admitted to smoking pot in…

Merritt Martin Above, one of Merritt’s photos from the Fair Park Fourth — a review of which is available here, where, um, “Pdiddy” deems the event’s debut a success but also “a mixed bag.” Some of us opted for a less stressful in-and-out: the intersection of Mockingbird Lane and Preston…

Murphy Martin Everything you need to know about former WFAA-TV and ABC News anchor Murphy Martin, my late grandfather’s favorite local newsman and the gent known to most as The Voice of Texas Stadium from 1975 through ’98, you’ll find in Charlie Van Dyke’s introduction of Murphy recorded for his…

Later this summer, Zenescope Entertainment will debut a comic book titled Beyond Wonderland, featuring cover art by J. Scott Campbell, a fave among the fanboys who dig his drawings of the rather busty danger girls. This morning, Zenoscope sent us a completed cover, and it looked a tad like one…

Don’t mince words, Sam, how do you really feel about Mayor Tom? –Robert Wilonsky…

KTYS program director Vic Thomas Vic Thomas, midday host and program director at the relaunched KTYS-FM (96.7), which went from new country to old pop yesterday, called Unfair Park with further details concerning the change — which, turns out, stems from Citadel Broadcasting Corp. bossman Farid Suleman’s love affair with…

Josh Venable, still a member of The Edge’s Adventure Club Josh Venable, who called yesterday with some news he wanted to share, needs to put down his cellphone for a second. He’s out in Los Angeles and on the air, working the day shift at KYSR-FM (98.7) — among Southern…

Ron Chapman Well, today was the big day that KTYS-FM (96.7) — the so-called “Texas Twister” in Citadel Broadcasting Corp.’s inventory — switched formats, ditching its new-country format for … music my mom will love, love, love. (At least, she loved this stuff back when it was known as KVIL’s…

William Dean Singleton Journalists love to gossip — so much easier than picking up a phone. And word around the anxious Fort Worth Star-Telegram newsroom is that the budget-slashing McClatchy Company is making such deep cuts over there — 130 staffers are losing their jobs, 50 of those from the…

Lisa Garza, chatting up idol Martha Stewart on the Food Network last night. As it’s been a day full of actual news, it’s been difficult getting to the fluff — as in, Suze’s Lisa Garza and her vying to become The Next Food Network Star. Once more, we had a…

An addendum to the downsizing at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram: According to several sources, 17 staffers in the newsroom were let go this morning, among them managing editor Gary Hardee, science writer Carolyn Poirot, arts writer Todd Camp, Lifestyles columnist Mary Rogers, travel editor Judy Wiley and three librarians. Writers…

As mentioned below, The McClatchy Company this morning announced it’s laying off and buying out some 1,400 employees amongst the dozens of papers that make up the newspaper chain. Moments ago, the McClatchy-owned Fort Worth Star-Telegram announced precisely how many of its employees will be excised during the coming days:…

This morning, The McClatchy Company announced it is going to “reduce its workforce by about 10 percent,” or 1,400 jobs, ASAP — and, yes, that will likely include some cuts at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, where several Friends tell us the mood is one of apropos doom and gloom. It’ll…

Hell of a thing. This morning, before posting the T. Boone Pickens item below, I came across an interview the Dallas billionaire gave to Charlie Rose last year. Turns out, on that same episode was Meet the Press host and NBC’s Washington bureau chief Tim Russert — who died today…

One’s talking. One’s making noise about talking again. Sat down with Mike Rhyner a while back for my upcoming (no, really, I swear it is) piece on former partner Greg Williams and stuff. As most of you know, he’s the world’s most stubborn 57-year-old curmudgeon. But when our confab turned…

Sheldon Drobny’s the mastermind behind Air America Radio, which departed the DFW airwaves in October ’06. But Drobny and his missus actually had little to do with the expansion and eventual contraction of the liberal-talk syndicate. Turns out, they started their own competitor: Nova M Radio, which broadcasts the likes…

Yesterday’s news that The News would be delivering a bare-bones version of its daily product to the front lawns of rich folks who really don’t want it has landed Dallas’ Only Daily on Gawker, with the headline: “Unwanted Free Papers Delivered To Uninterested Rich Readers.” Which, yes, more or less…

For those who read The Dallas Morning News’ announcement of its latest print product — Briefing, a “quick-read” freebie aimed at “time-crunched families” — the press release outlining the August 27 debut left out a few things. Which is why you should also read the Editor & Publisher piece, which…