We’ve already told you when KERA-FM’s all-music offshoot, KXT, launches — November 9 at 7 a.m. But the question remains: Who’s gonna do the talkin’ while the station gets to rockin’? This morning, we have some idea: Jeff Ramirez, veep of radio, sends word that former Ticket traffic reporter Gini…
The great George Gimarc bestows upon the Friends of Unfair Park quite the neat treat this Friday eve: a few minutes of a newscast from the late, great KNUS-FM (98.7). George, who could find a needle in a thousand haystacks in the pitch black whilst wearing a blindfold, just picked…
Good friend of the show Jack E. Jett sends word: This weekend he’s debuting a new”experiment” on Rational Radio (1360 on Your AM Dial) that’s quite the throwback — two hours’ worth of punk rock, nothing but. Here’s how he puts it in his missive to Unfair Park:After a brief…
Dunno how we missed this — well, actually, I do, since nobody ’round here watches the 5 o’clock news. Anyway, thanks to WFAA-Channel 8 for posting to YouTube this afternoon a clip of Dale Hansen with yesterday’s special guest anchor, one Oprah Winfrey, with whom Dale took issue for introducing…
Meet Keith Garvin. Or maybe you already know his work from, oh, Good Morning America and ABC World News Now. At this moment, he’s an anchor and reporter for the NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C., but before that he spent a good long while reporting and back-up anchoring for ABC…
Coming – ESPN/Dallas. Familiar names from Dallas’ Only Daily like Tim MacMahon and Richard Durrett are now corporate bloggers. Going – Inside Corner. Franchise founder Evan Grant is leaving to return to the Morning News. Staying – Sportatorium. Est. 2006…
The Match.com profile to which Golf.com links this morning has been removed — so much for the “goodguy_in_Texas” looking for women 32-42 living within 50 miles of Lewisville, always a plus. Besides, says David Feherty, that’s not him, swear — no matter what the picture with the profile says with…
In late July, Emily Ramshaw sent word that after six years she was leaving The Dallas Morning News, for whom she covered City Hall before moving to Austin, for the online news venture Texas Tribune, of which Evan Smith will be CEO. Today, the folks over at Poynter want to…
It’s been close to a year since Chesapeake Energy tossed its Shale.tv start-up down an deep, dark shaft — and, along with it, former KTVT-Channel 11 anchor Tracy Rowlett, who left the CBS affiliate in the summer of ’08 to work for the online news service that wasn’t. On Monday,…
So, I was on SMU’s Web site looking for something entirely unrelated this morning when I came across this event: Jim Schutze, columnist for the Dallas Observer, will speak on “Inside Dallas: A Muckraker’s Paradise” on Tuesday, Oct. 13, at an event sponsored by SMU’s Retired Faculty Association.His talk will…
A Friend of Unfair Park, who I’m pretty sure works for North Texas Public Broadcasting, sends word: KXT-FM (91.7), the all-music sibling of KERA-FM (90.1) set to get its rocks off November 9, now has two tees up for grabs, each available for the pledge price of $60 if you…
Get out your rotten fruit and prepare those ridiculous “this station will be gone by sundown” barbs, because today – finally – I bring you 105.3 The Fan’s final roster. As you may have noticed, it wasn’t easy. I’ve been polluting the air waves more off than on since January and…
It’s been two months since Texas Monthly’s president, Evan Smith, announced he was leaving the magazine to go into the virtual newspaper business as CEO of Texas Tribune. In the October issue of the Monthly, Smith offers his adios: “What I’ve Learned.” And among those myriad lessons is this one:…
At last: KERA just sent word that its announced-in-June all-music radio station, now known as KKXT-FM (91.7), will officially makes its bow November 9 at 7 a.m. Also announced this morning were the nationally syndicated programs KXT, as it’ll be known, will air: Acoustic Café, American Routes, Mountain Stage, Putumayo…
I’m a big fan of illustrator Jack Unruh’s — you probably are too if you’ve seen his work in, oh, Entertainment Weekly, GQ, Sports Illustrated, Rolling Stone, Time or … look, you name it. The man ain’t in the Society of Illustrators’ Hall of Fame for nothing. He’s a good…
Just discovered my new favorite thing about Dallas Cowboys game: the Randy Galloway-Michael Irvin video that follows…
Been feeling awful nostalgic for KZEW in recent days — maybe it has to do with the latest eff-you over on 93.3; maybe it stemmed from catching a vintage clip last week on The Ticket, where someone had dug up Mike Rhyner talking media-league softball way back when. So, of…
Developing. UPDATE: From what I know there were numerous contributing factors, such as Sean’s schedule and, yes, personality conflicts between him and management. I’ve talked to all parties involved and – sorry Deadspin – “sexting” wasn’t involved…
Can’t say this was much of a surprise: 93.3 FM — now known as i93, yawn — just introduced itself as Your Home For Today’s Hit Music with a serving of Black Eyed Peas followed by Miley Cyrus. In other words, Pop 40 as predicted by a Friend of Unfair…
Late yesterday, a Friend of Unfair Park suggested that Cumulus Media’s going to rebrand 93.3 on Your FM Dial as a pop-40 station — as in, Justin Timberlake and the Black Eyed Peas. Maybe so. But this much is (almost) certain: Sooner than later, KDBN-FM will most likely be known…
Several Friends of Unfair Park — which is to say, the handful of people still listening to 93.3 Quality Rock — have e-mailed me this morning wondering what the what is going on on the left side of the FM dial. Because starting at midnight, the fledgling station began broadcasting…
This just in: Richie Whitt has landed a permanent gig as Newy Scruggs’ sidekick on 105.3 The Fan weekdays 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Never fear, he will enthusiastically, dutifully continue his full-time work at the Dallas Observer, blogging daily at this here Sportatorium and writing a weekly column and occasional cover story in…
