Robert Decherd In advance of A. H. Belo Corporation’s first-quarter financials conference call next week, chairman of the board, president and all-’round CEO Robert Decherd has sent a good news-bad news missive to stockholders today. Writes Decherd concerning the state and fate of The Dallas Morning News’ parent company: “Looking…
Jennifer Lopez, your new KXAS meteorologist This morning, Uncle Barky and KXAS-Channel 5 revealed the NBC affiliate’s replacement for ousted meteorologist Rebecca Miller: The Weather Channel’s Jennifer Lopez, an eight-year vet of the channel only watched in hotel rooms. Funny coincidence, though: On the same day we learned of the…
J.D. Freeman, the ever-vigilant and always informative Dallas-Fort Worth market manager for Clear Channel Radio, delivers some breaking news — well, broken news, if you want to get technical about it. Because almost one year to the day since Clear Channel announced that KZPS-FM (92.5) was going commercial-free under the…
It’s a great day to be a Dallas sports fan. And an even better day to be Randy Galloway. In light of Thursday night’s cumulative success, the media icon can do lots of talkin’ as he celebrates his 5,000th radio show on ESPN 103.3 FM starting at 2. He can…
The great Bob Phillips This bleary-eyed, storm-clean-up a.m., a Friend of Unfair Park does us the most solid of solids and sends along our first story of the day: this New York Times profile of Bob Phillips, better known as the Texas Country Reporter — a fixture of our childhood,…
A few days ago, I spoke with 103.3 FM ESPN Radio’s program director to gauge the station’s interest in hiring … what’s his name? … Greg Williams. And, sure enough, says Tom Lee: “Greg’s on our radar for sure. He’s been so successful in this market for so long ……
Dallas Morning News publisher and CEO Jim “Tre” Moroney delivered the keynote address today at the ninth annual International Symposium on Online Journalism on the University of Texas at Austin campus. Alas, we couldn’t make it, but someone caught a little of speech on video and posted it to the…
The 67th Annual Peabody Awards were announced by the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism, and, today at least, WFAA-Channel 8 has something in common with 30 Rock, The Colbert Report and Project Runway. From the media release: In a strong year for local television news, Dallas’ WFAA-TV was…
Robert Riggs, among those laid off at KTVT-Channel 11 In recent days Ed Bark has brought plenty of news concerning layoffs and cutbacks at KTVT-Channel 11 — including Robert Riggs, the ace investigator; anchor and reporter Maria Arita; sports reporter Chuck Fisher; producer John Sparks and reporter Kaushal Patel, among…
The Boys on the Bus is a great book, but Thompson’s did have the better cover. It remains the greatest book ever written about covering a presidential campaign — Timothy Crouse’s 1973 The Boys on the Bus, which began as a series of articles written for Rolling Stone. Of course,…
So much to say about the new-look Dallas Morning News, which has apparently been redesigned for old people (bigger type!) and 7-year-olds (“We’ve added color”!). But not to leave out the big-screen owner, in the, ah, “reader’s guide” found on Page 10A of the paper there’s this note concerning the…
The Pacman cometh, if only to co-host a radio show. Adam “Pacman” Jones is coming to Dallas. Not to the Cowboys — not yet, anyway. But he will be on our radio airwaves, like, pretty pronto. Insider know-it-alls are telling me this morning that Jones will be in town tonight…
For those who can’t get enough Schutze talk — and by that, I mean Schutze — may we direct your browser elsewhere, if only for a moment? Swell. Because over on FrontBurner, I’ve discovered the name of my first novel: “Somebody was deep throating Jim Schutze.” Meanwhile, over on The…
Deadspin wonders this morning: “Will Cuban Ban The Almighty ESPN?” And it asks only because ESPN’s True Hoop’er Henry Abbott is coming to town tonight, to cover Mavs-Lakers, and he’s spoiling for a fight with Mark Cuban, who decided last week to ban bloggers from the Mavericks’ locker room. Writes…
So, do we want to carry KTVT-Channel 11’s news, weather, sports and so forth on Unfair Park? Because, see, the CBS affiliate is offering to do all the heavy lifting — it’s one of only four nationally to do so, with more markets forthcoming in coming weeks. It’s part of…
It’s been almost a couple of months since Unfair Park provided a wrap-up of the first installment of the mayor’s Trinity River Corridor Project Summit, where the big news was that Mayor Leppert is gonna shave off a year from the competition date for the Trinity Turnpike. All the peeps…
Looks like The Hammer’s almost ready to emerge from the toolbox. According to two local radio industry sources, Greg “The Hammer” Williams is deep into negotiations for a permanent gig at ESPN 103.3 FM — negotiations that are so serious, in fact, that sources say Williams will be at the…
Brian Harkin This is one of the photos Brian’s selling tonight — consider yourself sneak-peek’d. Brian Harkin has provided Unfair Park with many frameable memories in recent months — see here and here and here, for starters. So here’s a treat for the Friends who are fans: Tonight you can…
The ironic insanity of Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban banning bloggers from his team’s locker room reminds me of this: While Cuban is a thousand times smarter than me, he’s also a billion times times more sensitive. It’s rare you’ll hear me getting empathetic toward Dallas’ Only Daily, but for…
Uncle Barky got an e-mail from ousted KXAS-Channel 5 meterologist Rebecca Miller. He runs the thing in its entirety, and it’s worth a read. Just a highlight: I sincerely apologize for not getting to you until now. Yesterday, I found out the station had decided not to renew my contract…
Rebecca Aguilar, no longer part of the Fox4 team For those wondering whatever became of reporter Rebecca Aguilar, suspended in October over her interview with James Walton, Uncle Barky brings the news: KDFW-Channel 4 has fired her, via the U.S. Mail. She tells Ed Bark: “I just think it’s really…
Jim Romenesko has posted to his media inside-baseball Poynter Institute site a memo just sent from Dallas Morning News managing editor George Rodrigue to the rest of the staff concerning their participation, or not, in Tuesday’s caucuses. In short, they can vote, sure, but with this addendum: “It’s OK for…
