The Portable People Meter is listening to everything you listen to. So, like, beware? For years, this is how Arbitron measured radio ratings rather crudely, but also quite simply: Participants, selected at random, would fill out diaries in which they listed what they were listening to and when for a…
Because it’s brilliant. Not that No. 81’s whining. Because he never whines, especially not after losses to NFC East rivals during which his number was called a little too often. Never ever. And Keyshawn Johnson will never get tired of being called “Sheshawn” after today. A smackdown in two parts…
Lara Solt, a Dallas Morning News staff photographer, just won an online-photography award from the Military Reporters & Editors Association for a collection of images that chronicled a U.S. Marine’s recovery after a bridge exploded beneath him in Iraq. Corporal Eric Morante lost a leg, underwent extensive surgeries and endured…
As Uncle Barky’s site has remained relatively mum since news of his “procedure” last week — save for his Paul Newman obit on Saturday — several Friends of Unfair Park have asked about Ed’s health status. So, this brief update, as the Dean of TV Criticism isn’t one for hogging…
Charged with misdemeanors. But not indicted with a felony. Got it? Acting on an educated hunch, I made a call this afternoon to Tarrant County Assistant District Attorney David Hagerman. Sure enough, he confirms that a grand jury on Thursday returned a three-count, Class A misdemeanor complaint against Live 105.3…
Yesterday, Ed Bark had big news for those who continue to wonder what in the hell KXAS-Channel 5 was thinking when the NBC affiliate opted not to renew meteorologist Rebecca Miller’s contract back in March: She’s going to sub on KDAF-Channel 33’s 9 p.m. newscasts Thursdays and Fridays, beginning tonight…
Everyone’s getting a big giggle out of 143-year-old New York Post Page Six columnist Cindy Adams’ reference today to Preston Hollow as “a town outside Dallas” known for its “horse stables, lake views, mountain views, golf club views.” Notes a Post comment, “Cindy Adams has perhaps sampled the manure addiction”;…
The “B” in The Ticket’s BaD Radio show Deadspin’s been decidedly Dallas-centric in recent days, but never more so than moments ago, when it posted a photo of KTCK-AM’s Bob Sturm, who kinda says that, yeah, ESPN’s ripping off his 7-year-old concept that involves power-ranking NFL franchises throughout the league’s…
Back on the air. Back to his old self? Radio is a changin’. Arbitron recently awoke to the digital age and began more accurately deducting ratings via new electronic portable people meters. So instead of humans flippantly filling out diaries with No. 2 pencils, we’ll now get a much more…
As you’re no doubt aware, Jeff Pearlman’s tell-most Boys Will Be Boys: The Glory Days and Party Nights of the Dallas Cowboys Dynasty is in stores. And this morning, The New York Times features a lengthy Q&A with the author, in which he picks Michael Irvin as the most “indispensable”…
For the last little while, the great Frank Luksa — who’s written for every single local daily in the history of ink, danged near — has been contributing to ESPN.com. For instance, a couple of months back, he offered up tales from Dallas Cowboys’ training camps past. This morning, as…
Nice photo of Tracy Rowlett in this morning’s New York Times, in a story about Chesapeake Energy Corporation’s Shale.tv, due to launch sometime this month. As you no doubt recall, the former KTVT-Channel 11 anchor doesn’t take kindly to folks who dismiss the site as an online informercial for the…
Sarah McDaniel For those who like to do their Sunday-morning reading on a Thursday, two local items of note in The New York Times’ sportsy supplement Play. One’s a lengthy, engrossing Mimi Swartz-penned piece on the selling of Parker’s Nastia Liukin — whose name is misspelled throughout much of the…
I know — this is very last-minute. But, if nothing else, you will have a second chance to catch KERA-TV’s second installment of Nowhere But Texas if you miss tonight’s airing, which begins at 7 p.m. on Channel 13, natch. There’s a Saturday-morning rebroadcast at 11:30, and it’s worth a…
Speaking of Mayor Tom, as we were below, turns out you can speak to the man himself in a couple of hours. He’ll be appearing on KERA-FM (90.1) at 1 p.m., as the guest on Krys Boyd’s Think. As for the subject: “What does the future hold for Dallas and…
Probably should have mentioned this, like, oh, I dunno, Friday maybe? But, yes, I did host a late-night music show on KTCK-AM (1310, The Ticket) on Saturday night that lasted till the wee small hours of Sunday morning. It’s called Till 2, as in: Nothing good ever happens after 2…
Note to anyone paying attention and/or still left over at 508 Young Street: Please, in the name of Sweet Baby Jesus, call Tom Maurstad and tell him he can stop Twittering from the Toronto International Film Festival. Hurry, before it’s too late. Oh … no … oh, God … too…
Apparently, it’s Video Friday — easier than reading, at least. But for the first time, Pepsi’s partnered with the National Football League to sell … soft drinks, I think, but also MP3s, maybe? And the star of the new ad is the quarterback of Your Dallas Cowboys, who’s now tall…
Missed this Sunday morning — really need to remember to turn around and Face the Nation more often. Anyway, from the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Fort Worth native Bob Schieffer had plenty to say — and sing — about being from “the Fort Worth-Dallas area.” And for those…
So, back to the Texas Horse Park, Inc. and its funds, or lack thereof, for just a moment before this long holiday weekend. Willis Winters, assistant director of the Dallas Park and Recreation Department, tells Unfair Park he does not know the amount that THPI has raised and says it…
Morrey Taylor Hammer and his hankie I know Richie mentioned it yesterday, but the official media release just arrived in our in-box, and no better time than now to share it: “Greg Williams to Join 103.3 ESPN.” He starts September 8 and will hold down the 7-10 p.m. slot with…
The press release from ESPN Radio, hot off the presses: Arlington, TX – High profile Dallas / Ft. Worth sports-radio personality Greg Williams will join RJ Choppy to co-host 103.3 ESPN Radio’s new evening (7 p.m.-10 p.m.) show beginning September 8. Williams has spent more than two decades on Dallas’…
