The Friends of Unfair Park concerned with the state — and fate — of the newspaper business are no doubt aware that in a Chicago suburb yesterday, bigwigs, honchos and major-domos from most of the country’s biggest news-gathering organizations huddled together to chat about monetizing online content. There’s been much…
A personal aside this Memorial Day, if you’ll pardon the indulgence. I was at the folks’ house last night and noticed that Mom just added to her estimable collection of family photos this montage featuring family members who’d served in the military, among them her father (at the bottom left)…
So many different ways to look at radio ratings. But from any view – as usual – The Ticket remains the Metroplex’s sports talk dynasty. Since it gets a little lot repetitive to keep probing the same statistics from the same angle, let’s take a different view than we have the…
Every so often someone will still post a comment to the imc2 item from way back in December ’07 — only 123 till we break the 1,000 mark, so let’s go team! Which is why it’s just a little surprising that this little news nugget hasn’t made its way into…
If you liked Live 105.3 FM, chances are your affection is growing for Rational Radio KMNY 1360 AM. No, Russ Martin isn’t resurfacing just yet. Awaiting his July trial, he’s wisely biting his lip and cashing his checks. But just a month after Live-ex Richard Hunter debuted on 1360 AM comes…
Just last Thursday, Dallas Morning News City Hall co-reporter Dave Levinthal said his official adios: Sooner than later, he wrote, he’d be leaving Dallas for Washington, D.C., where his fiancée is taking a position at the National Institute of Health. “No good-byes, thank-yous or anything of the sort now,” Dave…
I get that Gary Catwright believes his generation of sportswriters is the best that ever was. Believe me, I get it. I even agree. I grew up reading Blackie Sherrod’s transcendant scattershootings in the Dallas Times Herald and while at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram I penned praise pieces on Dan…
Just last October, KXAS-Channel 5 was congratulating anchor Mike Snyder for 25 years of service: “Mike has changed very little over the years, and is still dedicated and committed to his journalistic craft.” But last night, Ed Bark noted that Snyder may be on his way out of the 10…
Tried to listen to The Ticket’s “Great Game” last night, but … no, unh-unh. (Though it sure did sound like a great game — from 16-1 to 20-20, awesome.) But, fortunately, Patrick Michels did stop by Frisco’s Dr Pepper Ballpark just long enough to grab yet another installment of Awkward…
I’ve heard of the 20-20 feat in baseball. But never the 20-20 final score. I was at a premiere party/fundraiser last night and unable to attend The Ticket’s second annual “Great Game” at Frisco’s Dr Pepper Ballpark, but from what I’m gathering it was – as expected – a unique, memorable…
Looks like Mavs fans didn’t waste all their creative venom on Kenyon Martin’s mom last night…
Three years ago, The Dallas Morning News took the city of Dallas to court over e-mails reporters Dave Levinthal and Reese Dunklin had wanted from then-Mayor Laura Miller’s BlackBerry. The city contended that Miller’s BlackBerry was her own, not paid for by taxpayers, and, therefore, not subject to state open…
As I mentioned a couple of weeks back, KERA’s working on an enormo Trinity River project with pieces for radio, TV and Internets. Today, we got a sneak peek at a major slice of the pie, which includes everything from an interactive timeline to video testimony, as KERA’s Meg Fullwood…
Don’t have this 100-percent confirmed, but all signs are pointing to Greg Williams being out at 103.3 FM ESPN Radio. Last week I alerted you that Williams sounded incoherent on last Tuesday night’s Choppy & Greggo show. He blamed it on a change in anti-depressant medication. But over the weekend,…
David Simon, sitting to the left of Dallas Morning News publisher Jim Moroney at today’s Senate subcommittee hearing on “The Future of Journalism,” edited his prepared testimony. The creator of The Wire left out the part about how, when a newspaper exec complains about how technology is the sole reason…
Let me start off by stating that I only heard the opening minutes of 103.3 FM ESPN’s Choppy & Greggo last night. But just in that smidge, Greg Williams sounded, well, incoherent. First he said something about “ChoppyGreggo” and then some garble and then some mumbling and then something about “6…
Oooooh, can’t wait: We’re about 15 minutes away from the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet “Future of Journalism” hearing, where, as we noted yesterday, Dallas Morning News publisher and CEO Jim Moroney will testify alongside The Wire creator David Simon and Arianna Huffington. C-SPAN 3 will carry…
Dallas Morning News publisher and CEO Jim Moroney will be in D.C. tomorrow for a hearing on “The Future of Journalism,” scheduled to kick off at 1:30 p.m. C.S.T. in front of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, whew. And he’ll be…
Weeks after completing its latest round of penny-saving layoffs, which were preceded by pay cuts and benefits trims, A.H. Belo this morning reported its first-quarter ’09 results — and they are significant. The publisher of The Dallas Morning News reports a first quarter net loss of $103.1 million, some of…
By now, perhaps you’ve heard that earlier this week, Addison-based American Community Newspapers –publisher of the Plano Star Courier, the McKinney Courier-Gazette and the Frisco Enterprise among dozens of papers scattered across four states — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company said there would be “no change in…
Two follow-ups in this particular radio round-up. First, I exchanged a few messages with Alan Ayo via Facebook, and the long and short of it is, he’s not at all upset that Clear Channel gave him his walking papers yesterday. Writes the former midday host and music director at KDGE-FM:I’m…
Back in January, Clear Channel laid off 1,800 employees, several of whom were good Friends of Unfair Park and most of whom worked in ad sales. Today comes news that the San Antonio-based conglomerate has laid off more folks in a second round of budget-cutting — and gone even deeper…
