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Farewell & Thank You, Sacramento
2008-05-01 09:02:00 “This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.” -Sir Winston Churchill I’ve known since about January that this post was coming, and I’ve have four months to prepare myself on the exact way I wanted to present it. ... More About: Personal , Life , Blogroll , Sacramento , Farewell
CBS Axes Montel Williams After Fox News Controversy
2008-04-30 09:27:00 Daytime Emmy Award winner Montel Williams has been shown the door by CBS, wrapping up seventeen years in nationwide talk syndication broadcasting. CBS Television Distribution decided in January not to renew the talk show after a controversial appearance on Fox News by Williams in which he criticized the lack of media exposure on the ... More About: Media , California , Fox News
Music Video Monday: I Will Possess Your Heart
2008-04-28 12:17:00 The absolute best thing I love in the world music-wise are live tracks of studio-released songs. The second-best thing I love would have to be really long studio-released songs. The above video represents the latter. It’s Death Cab For Cutie’s latest single “I Will Possess Your Heart ” from their upcoming album Narrow Stairs. ... More About: Video , Music , Music Video , Online
FLASH: Hill Jordan Fired From 100.5 The Zone
2008-04-26 08:41:00 RadioMatthew.com - First To Report: Hill Jordan , host of KZZO’s The Breakfast Club morning program, announced she was fired from the station Friday afternoon. In a statement released on her MySpace blog, Jordan announced that she was relieved to be shown the door at The Zone after her brief stint with the station. “Working ... More About: Radio , Flash , Online , Sacramento
Al Wilson No Longer Showin? Or Tellin? (1939-2008)
2008-04-25 19:38:00 Al Wilson , the soul singer who brought to life Johnny Mathis’ song Show And Tell in 1973, died Tuesday from kidney failure in Fontana, California . Wilson was 68. Wilson was born in Meridian, Massachusetts on June 19th, 1939. By age twelve, he had formed his own spiritual quartet. In his adult life, he ... More About: Music , Al Wilson , Online
Drunk TV General Manager Gets Arrested At Airport
2008-04-25 13:18:00 The general manager for a news station in Boston is undergoing medical treatment after being arrested for disorderly conduct while drunk at Logan International Airport Sunday evening. Forty-year-old Randi Goldklank, who works for WHDH-TV Channel 7, has been placed on administrative leave at the request of station owner Sunbeam Television , who also operates Boston’s ... More About: Media , Arrested , General
Teen Robbed During Seizure At Dallas Bus Station
2008-04-24 16:33:00 A man is behind bars after robbing a teenager who was having a seizure at a Dallas bus station. Both the crime and the arrest were captured on the bus station’s security cameras. Frank White, a 33-year-old Dallas resident, took a wallet belonging to 18-year-old Mississippi State University ROTC student Andrew Bow Wednesday evening as ... More About: Online , Station , Special Interest , Robbed
Anna Nicole?s Mother Sues TMZ?s Managing Editor
2008-04-24 11:08:00 The mother of now-deceased Anna Nicole Smith is suing her daughter’s former lawyer as well as a number of celebrity websites for defamation of character. Reuters reports Virgil Arthur filed papers in Texas court Monday, claiming that Smith’s love interest and lawyer Howard K. Stern, as well as the TMZ celebrity expose website, spread false rumors ... More About: Media , Technology , Computers , Online
China Ties United States In Number Of Online Citizens
2008-04-24 10:53:00 New statistics released this morning show that China has tied the United States in Internet users. The Xinhua News Agency, citing data from the Chinese government, claim that China boasts 221 million online users?a 61 percent jump over the 137 million online users China reported at the start of 2007. According to Nielsen ratings, the ... More About: Technology , Computers
BART Ditches Wood, Uses Recycled Plastic Rail Ties
2008-04-22 19:14:00 Every time you recycle a bottle, you’re helping mass transit. In San Francisco, the Bay Area Rapid Transit system is using plastic rail ties made of compacted grocery bags and plastic bottles to replace old, worn wooden ties. The plastic beams are said to last three times longer than wooden beams?the newer “green” beams, which ... More About: Technology , California , Wood , Plastic
Survey: Voters Would Rather Elect By Text Than Poll
2008-04-22 13:54:00 More than six out of ten people able to vote said they would do so this year via a text message if the feature was offered. A new survey in Business Wire also shows eight in ten teenagers said they’d also elect to vote for their President of choice by text message rather than ... More About: Politics , Technology , Computers , Survey , Poll
Music Video Monday: Seal Is Still ?Amazing?
2008-04-21 09:35:00 British soul sensation Seal released his album System last December and already his first-released track “Amazing ” is topping the dance charts. “Amazing” comes in two versions on Seal’s latest album?the regular album version and a special remix from Thin White Duke. Both are available for purchase at the iTunes Music Store. More About: Video , Music Video
AOL To Drop XM Radio In Favor Of CBS Radio Streams
2008-04-18 06:44:00 XM Satellite Radio and AOL Radio have announced they will mutually terminate their two-year relationship with each other by April 30th of this year. XM Radio has streamed ten AOL Radio stations via its own online service, while AOL provided access to all of XM Radio’s streams (except talk stations). Originally, only AOL content ... More About: Music , Technology , Computers , Online
?The Sims? Sells 100 Million Copies Worldwide
2008-04-18 00:14:00 The world’s best-selling computer game sold it’s 100 millionth copy Wednesday. “The Sims ,” a game that requires players to create and run their own homes and businesses, has been published in over 60 countries in 22 languages. There are over 100,000 fan videos uploaded to YouTube containing Sims characters. The game has ... More About: Technology , Computers , Online , Worldwide
Geek Proposes To Girlfriend Over Video Game
2008-04-16 21:20:00 Usually, men pop the question by hiding a ring in a bouquet of flowers, or by placing a message on the jumbo screen during a baseball game. For one New Jersey man, that just wasn’t enough. Bernie Peng knew his girlfriend, Tammy Li, loved to play the video game “Bejeweled,” so when he was ready ... More About: Video , Technology , Computers , Girlfriend , Geek
?The Zone? Changes Contest Rules, Deceives Listeners
2008-04-16 20:02:00 KZZO-FM, known on-air as “100.5 The Zone” has been running a contest for close to a week now in which an unknown “Outlaw” allegedly stole $25,000 in cash out of a remote broadcast van. The station promised a reward of $25,000 to any individual who asked the correct person a specific question. Sounds like a ... More About: Radio , Contest , Online , Rules , Sacramento
The Zone?s ?$25,000 Outlaw? Could Be Unmasked Friday
2008-04-16 07:21:00 KZZO-FM, known on-air as “100.5 The Zone” has been running a contest for close to a week now in which an unknown “Outlaw” allegedly stole $25,000 in cash out of a remote broadcast van. The station promised a reward of $25,000 to any individual who asked the correct person a specific question. Sounds like a ... More About: Radio , California , Online , Friday , Sacramento
CBS Radio Websites Go Dark In Parts Of Norcal
2008-04-15 22:37:00 Got AT&T DSL? Looks like you’re being kept from your favorite CBS Radio stations if you live in Northern California. Visitors trying to view sites like RadioAlice.com for KLLC 97.3FM in San Francisco or RadioZone.com for KZZO 100.5FM in Sacramento are being prevented from viewing sites operated by CBS Radio. However, people I’ve spoken ... More About: Websites , Dark , Parts
Survey: Parents Prefer Violence Over Sex In Videogames
2008-04-15 18:45:00 Gamer website WhatTheyPlay.com recently asked their users in a Question of the Day poll what they found to be most offensive in a videogame targeted toward children?a severed head, the use of a certain expletive, same-sex kissing or intercourse between a man and a woman. The non-scientific poll found that parents found sex overall ... More About: Technology , Computers , Survey , Online , Violence
Australia Says: ?Laser Pointers Are Dangerous Weapons?
2008-04-15 10:49:00 Let’s list some dangerous weapons: Guns, knives, swords. Oh, and add “laser pointers” if you live in Western Australia . The government there found laser pointers to be so extremely dangerous that the use of the objects warranted the Aussies to call a special meeting in Canberra. State and federal officials gathered to discuss ... More About: Technology , Laser , Online , Weapons
Texas Girl Lies About Assault By Latino Classmates
2008-04-14 10:28:00 Last week, a middle school student from eastern Texas was assaulted by a group of her Latino classmates after siding against illegal immigration in a class history project. Melanie Bowers said 21 Latino students threatened to rape and kill her after she constructed a sign for her project that read: “If you love this ... More About: Assault , Girl , Online
Music Video Monday: To The Moon And Back
2008-04-14 09:30:00 Let’s take a trip back to the 1990s. A decade when Pogs and Tamagotchis ruled the playground. A decade when America was fascinated by a President who wasn’t afraid to get freaky in the Oval Office. A decade when the world was captivated by a band whose lyrics occasionally included a reference ... More About: Video , Music , Moon , Music Video , Online
Disposable Cell Phones Coming To Europe
2008-04-14 01:36:00 Cell phones are going the way of cameras?at least in Europe . Cell phone manufacturer Hop-On, based in the United States, has developed a disposable phone that has no LCD screen and sports a Texas Instruments technology chip operating in the 900MHz band, used by many cell phone carriers. After a certain allotment of ... More About: Technology , Cell Phones , Phones , Cell
Clearing The Air: The Zone?s ?$25,000 Robbery?
2008-04-11 14:36:00 I’ve received so many e-mails about this topic, most of which ask the same questions, that I feel the need to clear the air once and for all. For those of you who don’t know, an alleged “robbery” took place involving the station I formerly interned for, 100.5 The Zone . I’m not too keen on ... More About: Radio , Personal , Media , Sacramento
Popular Mechanics: Sac Levees Must Be Fixed Now
2008-04-09 02:41:00 The magazine Popular Mechanics published a list of 10 infrastructures in the United States that are in dangerous need of repair in its May 2008 issue. According to the magazine, of the 122 levees the federal government declared in need of repair, “19 were on California ’s Sacramento River.” The magazine goes on to say, “to ... More About: Technology , Online
KTXL Borrows Story From RadioMatthew.com
2008-04-08 08:01:00 Catch the Fox 40 News at 10PM? Fox 40 borrowed a story from this blog on the “Free Can of Dr. Pepper” campaign launched between Dr. Pepper and Axl Rose. “But Matthew, how would you know that Fox 40 borrowed the story from you?” Simple: I checked Google News and other news search ... More About: Personal , Story , Sacramento , Special Interest
XETV, KSWB Battle For Fox Affiliation In San Diego
2008-04-08 02:17:00 Tribune Broadcasting is causing a shakeup in the television industry. Here in Sacramento, Tribune appointed Bob Ramsey as General Manager to KTXL one week after Audrey Farrington resigned from the position. Bob Ramsey comes from San Diego ’s KSWB-TV, where the shake-up is more violent than what we’re feeling in Sacramento. KSWB-TV Channel 69, which ... More About: Television , Media , California , Online
A Free Dr. Pepper Could Be Comin? Your Way
2008-04-07 20:26:00 Dr. Pepper supports Axl Rose. No, I mean, Dr. Pepper really, really supports Axl Rose. The beverage manufacturer, whose signature drink is a cola made with 23 flavors, says if Guns N’ Roses frontman Axl Rose releases his seventeen-years-in-the-making album Chinese Democracy anytime in the year 2008, the company will give everyone in America a ... More About: Music , Free , Online , Special Interest
Music Video Monday: Thrash Unreal
2008-04-07 19:41:00 The band Against Me! came out with their wildly successful track “Thrash Unreal” just last year, though it has all of vibe of a mid-1990s alternative track (think of anything by The Offspring). Though the words never appear in the song itself, the title “Thrash Unreal” came from the band’s producer Bruce Vig, who also plays ... More About: Video , Music , Music Video , Online , Monday
Study: Smoking Bans Increase Drunk Driving Accidents
More articles from this author:2008-04-07 09:16:00 A new study, to be released by the Journal of Public Economics, shows an increase in fatal accidents involving alcohol after a public smoking ban is implemented in cities as opposed to those towns without a ban. The study, authored by Chad Cotti of the University of South Carolina and Scott Adams of the University of ... More About: Study , Driving , Accidents , Smoking , Drunk 1, 2, 3, 4 |
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