Norm Hitzges, probably the second most famous grad from Canisius College So, we just gave KTCK-AM (1310) 10 a.m.-noon host Norm Hitzges one our prestigious, delicious and lightly smoked Best of Dallas® awards — “Best Local Sports Radio Show,” natch. Which means nothing, no doubt, compared to the latest honor…
We’ve been told to run more pictures of Zac Efron, Hannah Montana and the Jonas Brothers to attract that hard-to-lure ‘tweener audience, so here goes nothing. When High School Musical 2 debuted in August on the Disney Channel, it shattered all kinds of cable-TV ratings records: Some 17.2 million people…
If you were too exhausted and/or exhilarated and/or inebriated after last night’s Cowboys comeback to stay up for ESPN’s on-field post-game analysis, shame on you. Because, in his own incredibly awkward way, expert Emmitt Smith was almost as entertaining as the game. As usual, there were a million hiccups and…
The NFL Network is now Jerry Jones’ problem. NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell has tapped the Dallas Cowboys owner and GM to head up the league’s NFL Network committee, which is trying to get the net into more and more homes — as well as on your cell phone, iPod, satellite…
Maybe tonight’s Dallas Cowboys win and first 5-0 start in almost 25 years will ease the sting, but there’s a local sports celeb absolutely making a fool of himself on TV these days. No, not Mark Cuban. It’s another Dancing With the Stars contestant, third-season winner Emmitt Smith. If you…
I’m currently assembling a package of madd props to send over to Startlgram writer Alex Branch, because his/her story about the Fort Worth deaf guy who got hit in the head with a crowbar for not talking to a cashier made the Fark news feed today under the “Dumbass” banner…
So, how does Wall Street like Belo’s decision to separate its newspaper and television divisions? A lot, looks like: Belo Corp.’s stock is up 18 percent today, having jumped $3.12 to $20.48 as of moments ago. And if you’ve been looking at this thing all morning, those numbers are rising…
“It’s a great time to be in gay publishing,” says this Editor & Publisher story from today about the profitability of papers targeting the GLBT audience. And among the examples cited is the Dallas Voice, which bills itself as “The Community Newspaper for Gay & Lesbian Dallas.” The paper’s ad…
The guy on the right is former Dallas Cowboy Alan Veingrad. No, wait — on the left. No, right. Pretty sure. Alan Veingrad’s trek from schmo to Shlomo is interesting, even fascinating. But I mean, really, even the truest, bluest Cowboys fan would be hard-pressed to recite any specifics of…
A Friend of Unfair Park sends us a fascinating story involving a Seattle-based law firm specializing in international affairs, a Japanese-based maker of printing presses, The Dallas Morning News, the illegal sale of printing presses, and a $19-million dollar settlement last month in a malpractice suit. Fascinated? I am –…
Late-breaking news about, um, late-breaking news: KTVT-Channel 11 and KTXA-Channel 21 just announced that news director Regent Ducas is out and Scott Diener is in — immediately. Diener’s been with the CBS affiliate, and its UHF counterpart, since June 2006, when he arrived from a Belo-owned station in Phoenix. And…
Now we know the answer to: “What do Eva Longoria, John Legend and Lupe Valdez have in common?” Carlos Watson has been around your TV dial for the last few years, popping up as a chat-show host on such outlets as CNBC, CNN and BET. Now, it appears he has…
Reuben Armstrong and Bill Cosby, who is clearly a good friend Reuben Armstrong is a local talk-show host — his program’s on the Web, from the looks of it — and this week, he says he was supposed to publish a book called Snakes in the Pulpit. In it, he…
At last, a reason to get XM Satellite Radio. Beginning one week from today, former Dallas Cowboys head coach Barry Switzer — who, apparently, was some kind of college coach? — will join XM Sports Nation This Morning as an analyst and predictor man every weekday from 5:30 to 7…
Tonight at 9, Dateline NBC airs an hour-long episode devoted entirely to … Sandra Camille Bridewell, better known ’round these parts as the Black Widow. “A lot of it is based on the Observer articles,” says producer Esther Zucker. “We basically report on what people are whispering about.” Correspondent Dennis…
No doubt the great George Gimarc has this interview somewhere amongst his Charles Foster Kane-like collection of all things Dallas radio. But yesterday someone posted to U2 Interview Archive a 1983 sitdown featuring Gimarc and U2 frontman Bono — and Mike Peters of The Alarm, who wisely bows out once…
The tizzy over Rupert Murdoch’s buying The Wall Street Journal and the constant hand-wringing about the death of the newspaper business are doing one of those déjà vu things for me. It’s also doing one of those I-told-you-so things. I remember getting not just derisive laughter but outright hostility in…
Hannah Storm, so we’ve been told, is available for interviews concerning CBS’s The Early Show making a Dallas pit stop on Friday. And, yeah, we could ask her about her pops, the former American Basketball Association commissioner. Or we could talk to her about her early-career stint in Houston, where…
I had no idea till yesterday that the infamous Merry Miller of ABC News is this Merry Miller. Says her Learning Annex bio: “The former Miss Dallas, who grew up in tiny Mesquite, Texas, has a list of contacts that’s the envy of networking professionals all over town.” We also…
In the wake of yesterday’s announcement that the Bancroft family had indeed agreed to sell Dow Jones & Co. for $5 billion to Rupert Murdoch, this morning the Los Angeles Times wonders whether newspaper dynasties aren’t quickly becoming a dying breed. Of course, it need look no further than George…
Look, Los Angeles Times, we read you. Why don’t you read us? From today’s paper, in a story headlined, “Romancing the source: When journalists become involved with newsmakers, it doesn’t necessarily mean they’ve written their professional obituaries”: • In Dallas, television reporter Sarah Dodd and Police Chief David Kunkle married…
Ginger Allen isn’t the only journalist boasting about a dubious journalism prize. On its Web site, USA Radio Networks still lists the nine Katie Awards the station received from 2004 through 2006 — even though the Dallas Press Club, which hosted the contest, now acknowledges that its former president, Elizabeth…
