Newsiest interview in a busy Sundy night Every once in a while I like to get greedy. I’ll make a third trip through the buffet line or, sometimes, I’ll watch all four of our local TV Sunday night sports shows. My own little version of checks and balances, if you…
Noticed that Harvard U.’s fancypants glossy 02138 has a new owner as of immediately. Also noticed the current issue’s cover: an interesting portrait of Tommy Lee Jones, who, as you no doubt know, was borned in Midland and edumicated at St. Mark’s School of Texas, where he’s been on the…
In a 2004 Rolling Stone profile of Bill O’Reilly, his former WFAA-TV colleague Byron Harris described the Fox-y one as “particularly dishonest, obnoxious, self-centered.” Really? No idea. Certainly can’t tell from this NSFW Inside Edition clip, making the Interwebs rounds this a.m. And I’ve seen this before — on an…
Think his new, all-time favorite baseball moment is being driven in by Mike Rhyner? While a lot of you wasted your Thursday evening on Red Wings 4, Stars 1, I trudged out to Frisco for some baseball. At least, I think it was baseball. It was KTCK 1310 AM The…
Hal Samples is on the list of people to whom TVT Records owes quite a bit of money. If I may direct your attention to our other blogs … Over on The Sportatorium, Richie brings news that Your Texas Rangers have indeed begun talking to other folks who might be…
Sports radio war? Eh, sorta. In response to this item, I’ve received several inquiries asking for a detailed tale-of-the-tape between The Ticket and ESPN Radio. Ask and you shall receive. At least this time. Among the coveted and targeted demographic of men 25-54, The Ticket has roughly twice as many…
Mike and Corby, remaining rigid. Just got my grubby little hands on the Arbitron radio ratings Winter ’08 book and, you know what, I can’t make heads or tails of it. The details, that is. Numbers schnumbers. But this much I can tell you: *KTCK 1310 AM The Ticket is…
Alex Gordon, who’s very touchy I was gonna pass along this Kansas City Star story to KTCK-AM (The Ticket, 1310) afternoon-show co-host Corby Davidson. But when I talked to Davidson earlier today, he said he’d already had it e-mailed to him, like, “75 times, at least.” Problem is, today’s story…
Hey, lookie, I got an e-mail from Dallas Morning News City Hall reporter Dave Levinthal! Alas, nothing too sexy — just a note that “today, The Dallas Morning News launched a blog focused on Dallas City Hall and area political issues.” And it’s blessed with the catchiest of monikers: Dallas…
For those who weren’t here way back when, Charlie Rose actually started his chat-show career at KXAS-Channel 5, where his first gabfest ran from 1979 till ’81, when it was picked up for syndication after Rose moved to D.C. It’s that long-ago and admittedly tenuous link to Dallas that allows…
Robert Decherd This line from A.H. Belo Corp. bossman Big Bob Decherd’s Monday-morning missive to stockholders is attracting quite a bit of attention today: The Dallas Morning News’ recently spun-off mother company’s “1st quarter financial performance will be substantially below our expectations.” Which explains why shares of A.H. Belo stock…
Jamey Newberg, the Texas Rangers’ official blogger The New York Times this morning weighs in not only on Mark Cuban’s recent flipping and flopping over allowing bloggers access to the Dallas Mavericks’ locker room, but on the larger issue of how pro sports franchises are limiting media access in order…
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,…
