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CC Out Of Court Settlement?
2008-05-12 16:58:00
Radio Info's Tom Taylor's turned off Nick-At-Nite since his earlier foray today into "The Naked City" Tee Vee land in describing today's showdown between Clear Channel Bain & Lee v the banks that got cold feet in the $19.5 bil CC TV spinoff. They literally walked into a Manhattan courtroom and asked for a stay until tomorrow morning - and David Faber at CNBC says the various sides are discussing a possible resolution of the lawsuit filed by Bain Capital and Thomas H. Lee Partners. Those two private equity firms are suing the banks who they claim are holding up the deal. The other thing to watch today is the movement of Clear Channel stock ("CCU") - which turned around and began gaining ground after traders caught Faber's report. More on the Radio-Info.com website, which also has the story about Cumulus and Merrill Lynch canceling their deal to take Cumulus private, and the Emmis quarterly report.
More About: Television , Citigroup , Court , Settlement

Glick Shtick Clicks
2008-05-12 15:33:00
Ding Dong Another Witch Is Dead! A chick sidekick of fired CBS "Early Show" psychoproducer Shelley Ross walks after a guy she hates was named EP. Laurye Blackford (what kind of name is "Laurye?") resigns over Zev Shalev's appointment. Shalom, CBS "Early Show" cowering posttraumatic stress syndrome grunts... JossipAlexis Glick (right far left) awarded more air time with the "Naked Cowboy" on the new, improved Fox Biz Network debuting today. NYTThat adorable NBC News political walking encyclopedia Chuck Todd profiled by WaPo's Howard Kurtz. NBC plucked the formerly obscure Hotline scribe and made him a household name. "Chuckie T" as they call him at NBC went to GWU in DC on a French horn scholarship. How cute is that? "All Quiet On The Network Upfront." Cute. Lisa de Moraes on the demise of the May Shrimp and Swinefest where networks put on the dog pimping new shows to hardened Tee Vee critics. LA Times Related: More advertisers going to cable NYP"This week, the television upfronts ...
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Plastic Fantastic Lover
2008-05-12 14:50:00
A Cleveland Tee Vee station pimps a May sweeps report on how guys are dumping real live women for "anatomically correct" latex dolls. On the high end, an eerie lifelike replica of actress Rose McGowan at six grand. On the low end, the AREA 51 Love Doll so popular it's out of stock. Sarah Jessica Parker and Lindsay Lohan dolls at Pipedream They're called "Dutch Wives" in Japan... Equal time for the John Holmes doll with a vibrating dick. Another lame TV station runs an embarrassing promo for "Sunny the Weather Dog" promising "no weather asses" after ejecting a donkey from the weathercasting couch. YouTubeSoup Cans looks up LA weatherbabe Jackie Johnson's creeping skirts. I'm not 100 percent in love with her girlish ruffled sleeve blouse. A cow takes a shit while a Sacramento TV reporter was doing a live shot. Down on his Luck. San Diego TV reporter Rod Luck arrested for decking his girlfriend. Some advice. Get an "anatomically correct" latex doll. A Jacksonville, NC TV news camer...
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Bush Bash
2008-05-12 13:58:00
Obligatory Jenna Bush wedding photo. NYP "On The Wedding Day A Veil Of Secrecy" Amy Argetsinger Wash Post NYDN NYT "Jenna's Wedding Album" NYPBush cried. Karl Rove danced... The black minister who married Jenna and Henry Hager is an Obama supporter... The collective media hands are wringing: "O what does this mean?"
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This Has Been One Of Them...
2008-05-12 13:14:00
"Judge Helen Freedman is known as a speedy and efficient trial judge: she?s been known to issue verdicts directly from the bench instead of waiting to ponder the case and writing up her opinion. Judge Freedman?s last famous case was the Broadway stagehands? strike last Thanksgiving. If you could offer this trial as a pay-per-view ? you?d make a fortune. The Wall Street hands (especially the arbitrageurs) have billions at stake." Tom Taylor's Radio Info in a dramatic headliner: "These Are Their Stories" as the Clear Channel legal clash heads to a NYC courtroom today where Bain, Lee, and Citigroup hash out the banks' reneging on the CC $19.5 bil buyout. "The Naked City" Museum of Broadcast Communications 1948 "The Naked City" movie shooting script. Stirling Silliphant MBC Nelson Riddle "The Naked City" theme
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Fallon Is The New Conan
2008-05-12 12:26:00
NBC confirms the buzz that Jimmy Fallon's copping Conan 's gig. Bill Carter NYTLet us pray Jimmy can stand still. Conan's Rain Man/Bill Gates rocking distracts me from his killer monologues. Conan's shifty nights are over behind the "Tonight" show desk...
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Takes A Lickin' And Keeps On Tickin'
2008-05-11 16:40:00
If Bill Clinton can survive impeachment, NY Congressman Vito Fossella thinks he can survive technical bigamy. NYP Vito's up for another term in November. He's running. Rivals are swarming like flies over Vito's carcass. NYDNTwo women may end up ending Vito's career: His wife, Mary Pat, and retired Air Force colonel Laura Fay - mother of his 3-year-old daughter. Laura's pissed because Vito told her he and Mary Pat were "separated." NYDNPoliticians getting caught with their dicks in women other than their wives is now seen as a sign of weakness. Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky changed the protective paradigm. "Politics is now about sex. Not just scandalous sex, not just who is having what kind of sex, but what we think about the sex each politician is having, or not having. Sex (sex, not gender) in politics is as significant a subtext as race. It has the power to alter elections, undermine parties, and, possibly, change history. Barack Obama is running for president today becaus...
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Burma Shave
2008-05-11 16:25:00
CNN reporter Dan Rivers shaved it close by eluding Burma thugs after him for his cyclone reports. CNNRivers sneaked into the country on Monday - he wouldn't say how - and for a day reported the story without saying his name or showing his face onscreen. CNN and Rivers then quickly agreed to drop the mask. "We decided it would have much more impact if I could communicate more directly, if I could look down the barrel of a camera and tell people precisely how bad it was," he said. "I think that type of personal reporting is much more effective than a voiceover on a picture." But it made him a marked man. A local contact told Rivers' crew the government was looking for him by contacting all hotels where foreigners stayed. David Bauder APSomehow the holes in Rivers's "Jason Bourne" exit strategy doesn't ring true... CNN and Rivers aren't telling the whole story. It's my guess he was spirited out of the country by U.S. intelligence...
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Rupe: "I'd Rather Switch Than Fight"
2008-05-11 16:11:00
Rupert Murdoch bags bid for Newsday. Wash Post NYT He's not competing with Cablevision's higher offer. Newsday grunts breathe sigh of relief...
More About: Newspapers , Fight , Fox News , Switch , News Corp

Pinch Clinch
2008-05-11 15:51:00
NYT's pub "Pinch" Sulzberger dumping his wife of 33 years. NYP Page Six Who's he pinching these days? NYDNPinch gave Mrs. Pinch the $3.2 mil NYC pad a couple of months ago. "In February when asked if Mr. Sulzberger and his wife are separating, said this was done for estate-planning purposes and wouldn't comment further." NYO Cryptome has aerial photos of Pinch's pricey pad as well as editor Bill Keller's abode. "During Thanksgiving break from college, on a trip to Topeka to visit his mother and her third husband, he met his future wife, Gail Gregg, literally the girl next door. The two married in 1975 and shortly thereafter moved to London, where they worked for competing wire services. She often beat him on stories." TIME Mag 2001
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Terrytoons
2008-05-11 15:20:00
Hillary delusional pimp Terry McAullife: "If Big Russ was looking down at us having a scotch, he'd say nothing's impossible, and so would Jack McAuliffe." Tim Russert : "Big Russ is still sitting in the Barcalounger." Superficial manic Terry's crawl up Tim's ass backfired. He had no idea Tim's father was still on the planet.... "Was Buffalo out of it when they were down 39 points?" McAuliffe bombed on "Meet The Press" recycling the same tedious Hillary's The One spin. Is he on drugs? I'd bet cocaine. Appealing to Tim's love of his Buffalo Bills: "Was Buffalo out of it when they were down 39 points?" Clinton: I'll Go All The Way" NYP "Hillary Clinton Is One Sorry Sight On Her Way To Defeat" NYDN "Spoiler Clintonites Ruining A Fun Party" Peggy Noonan NYP "Illegal $115 G For Her Run" NYP "Michelle Vetoes Hillary" Robert Novak Real Clear Politics "Is She A Trojan Rabbit?" Maureen Dowd NYT
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Locke Out
2008-05-11 00:32:00
A young kid Fox News grunt gets the heave-ho after telling John McCain "I voted for you. You're going to win." The Fox faux pas on smoking gun videotape. 24-year-old Jennifer Locke was on red carpet duty with a camera crew at TIME mag's Thursday night gala pimping "The 100 World's Most Influential" issue... Not "losing his bearings," a sharp McCain delivered the kiss of death: "You're not supposed to reveal that." Lemme get this straight... Cable Tee Vee talking heads such as MSNBC blowhard Chris Matthews can be unabashedly pro-Obama on the air and remain with impunity? "This young woman, who dreamed of stardom at Fox News, was on her way to realizing her dreams, but was summarily dismissed for articulating the sort of opinion that likely got her hired in the first place." News CorpseMSNBC's prissy Dan Abrams had a field day with the "Fair and Balanced Fox News." Watch the vid that did in the kid at Raw Story.It's all about the "O". Public journalistic orgasms over politician...

Taco Hell
2008-05-10 17:56:00
This photo begs for a caption. "I only eat white meat." "I've lost my bearings." "Is this White American food?" "It reminds me of a girl I once dated."Mine. Now yours...
More About: Barack Obama , Hell

Vito: Happy Motherf*****r's Day!
2008-05-10 17:01:00
"Things really aren't good right now." No s**t, Sherlock...NYP: "Scorned Mary Pat A Spouse Divided" "Cheato Vito Kin Helped Him Sin" NYP Andrea Peyser: "Motherlode Of Sleazebaggery"Right, Repub NY Congress man Vito Fossella's other family.
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Mousekeprofiteers
2008-05-10 14:43:00
Local vultures cashing in on Jenna Bush 's wedding today have sold out of the happy couple mousepads. Wash Post
More About: George Bush , Hype , Laura Bush , Vultures

Hillary: It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To...
2008-05-10 14:17:00
"Everything I hate about myself I see in Hillary." No, not me. The old me. Maybe. But this comes from former Wash Post gossip now Vanity Fair disher Judy Bachrach. Wow Owow "She's no damsel, and she causes distress." Peggy Noonan WSJ Hill's not even vice-presidential material. Ted Kennedy: She's not in tune with "the nobler aspirations of the American people." NYP "Bill Clinton has wrecked Hillary's campaign. He's like the creepy guy who graduated last year but still hangs around the high school cafeteria chatting up sophomores." Ann Coulter
More About: Party , Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton

Does He Or Doesn't He?
2008-05-10 14:03:00
Only his hairdresser knows for sure. John Edwards plays coy on Tee Vee. Does he heart Hillary or Obama? NYTDrapes match carpet? Edwards probably pays Beverly Hills bucks for that to be mowed, tinted, and styled...
More About: Barack Obama , Hillary Clinton , Dickheads

Chris Matthews Dye Job
2008-05-09 16:21:00
MSNBC blowhard Chris Matthews changed his hair color this week. Gone is the washed-out Lou Dobbs cornsilk yellow. The vainglorious one put some red in his head. Sort of caramel-y. Enquiring minds want to know if his carpet matches the drapes... Maybe he doesn't color his hair... just bellows away the yellow...

May Creeps: Baby, It's You
2008-05-09 14:48:00
Via NewsBlues: ABC 24 WPTY [Memphis] is teaming up with Medical Testing Resources to bring you the chance to win a free paternity test each weekday afternoon! Watch Maury weekdays at 4pm for the "Paternity Case Number of the Day", which will be displayed during one of the commercial breaks. Then watch Eyewitness News Everywhere at 5pm that same day, immediately following Maury, for the cue to call. Be the designated caller with the correct "Paternity Case Number of the Day" and win! It?s that EASY!!! "No purchase necessary." [From contest rules] My Eyewitness News! WPTY Ch. 24 Did you know a paternity test costs $590? "DNA Steve" appears to be the long-lost younger brother of Charles Manson...
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I Need To Wash My Hair...
2008-05-09 14:14:00
A majority of TIME mag's 100 World's Most Influential had better things to do than show up at the party in their honor. Keith J. Kelly NYP
More About: Politics , Business , Media , Entertainment , New York Post

Super Egos
2008-05-09 13:59:00
Don't invite David Gregory and Joe Scarborough to the same party. Jossip
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Vito Lay
2008-05-09 13:18:00
This is what happens when the wife stays in the congressional district tending the home fires. Repub NY Rep. Vito Fossella dicked around with another chick and got her pregnant. The kid's three now. These dalliances are well-known and protected by the political institution. NYDN "VThe wife was the last to know after Fossella was nabbed for drunk driving on his way to his mistress's Alexandria, Virginia abode. NYT "Pop Goes The Weasel" NYP The six-term congressman was REALLY drunk and blew a 0.17. Wash Post Nobody would be the wiser had retired Air Force officer Laura Fay not shown up to spring him from the slammer. The vulture media have dive-bombed her private life as a serial adultress in two previous marriages. "His Mistress Has History As Fay Lay NYPHouse leaders have given the family values guy until Monday to resign or fight. Ironically Miz Laura is a dead ringer for Vito's wife. Meanwhile the Senate Ethics Committee does nothing to Bible-thumping Repub Sen. David Vitter fo...
More About: Congress , Republicans , Hypocrisy , Prostitution , Adultery

Banal Sex
2008-05-09 12:54:00
NYP Adam Buckman "Sleazy Does It": "Swingtown." That's the name of a new series coming to CBS June 5 (Thursdays at 10 p.m.) that has already generated advance "buzz" (I hate that word) for its depiction of sexuality (including partial nudity, wife-swapping and sex with multiple partners) and casual drug use (pot, Quaaludes, cocaine) in 1976 suburbia. I watched the premiere episode on a DVD provided by CBS and came away thinking this has to be the sleaziest scripted show the network has ever come up with. It purports to be an examination of "the ever-shifting 'swing' of the pendulum that reflected the change in our country's collective value system - morally, politically, socially," according to a form letter to critics signed by executive producers Mike Kelley and Alan Poul. It seems, however, like an excuse for CBS to show some skin and shatter some taboos. It plays like old-school porn, with its male characters done up with mustaches and long hair in the manner of faded hairst...
More About: Drugs , Hypocrisy , Hype , Swingers , Schizo

Static
2008-05-09 12:32:00
After 13 years with WNBC 6 p.m. anchorbabe Lynda Bacquero is out of a gig as part of the new management shake-up. Richard Huff NYDNBabs Walters's on-air book pimp with Charlie Gibson failed to shake up "American Idol ." "Idol" netted 22 mil viewers while Babs got a mere 7 mil. NYT Babs is under the Fox News microscope where the TV icon's minute marriage to a shady movie producer with mob connections was unearthed in a cement freeway abutment. Lorimar picture prez Merv Adelson produced TV evening soap operas like "Dallas," "Knot's Landing," and "Falcon Crest." Fox's Roger Friedman observes that Babs's autobio conveniently glosses over the marriage. Adelman, co-owner of California's La Costa resort, sued "Penthouse magazine for libel in 1975 after the magazine published an article asserting that La Costa was a haven for criminals." Roger Friedman Fox News And built with Teamsters Union bucks. La Costa was a well-known mob hangout. Period. "The View " hostess Whoopi Goldberg front...
More About: Barbara Walters , C News

Can't Run. Can't Hide.
2008-05-09 12:00:00
NYP Page Six : Could Katie Couric be returning to NBC? That was the buzz yesterday morning after NBC boss Jeff Zucker was spotted climbing out of his black SUV on a visit to Couric, who left the "Today" show to anchor "CBS Evening News," at her East Side apartment. But don't hold your breath. A friend of Couric told Page Six, "Jeff and Katie have been friends for 20 years. He asked her to get a Mother's Day gift for his wife, Caryn, and picked it up on the way to his daughter's play." Relax, all you NBC grunts in Zuckers Skinner Box, with eternally programmed "conditioned response" to cower in your offices at the sound of clicking stilletos on shiny waxed floors...
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Ward Of The State
2008-05-09 11:46:00
After denying it and enlisting talk radio show listeners to support him, former SF KGO talk radio host and priest Bernie Ward faces five years in the pen for admitting kiddie porn. Ward's lawyer still insists he was merely "play-acting." Au contraire. SF's ABC7 finds Bernie's been a "predator" for years. SF Gate: Bernie Ward, the most prominent liberal voice on Bay Area talk radio for more than two decades, admitted Thursday to distribution of child pornography by e-mail in a plea deal that will send him to federal prison for at least five years. Ward, 57, a former Roman Catholic priest, was a fixture on KGO-AM 810 for three hours every weeknight, known in recent years for his fervent denunciations of President Bush and the war in Iraq during his news talk show. He also hosted "God Talk," a Sunday morning program on religion, and was a prolific fundraiser for the station's charity drives.Correct me if I'm wrong but I believe at one point Ward and/or his surrogates suggested Ge...
More About: George Bush , Hypocrisy , Catholics , Predators , State

Bang A Gong
2008-05-09 11:14:00
"The Gong Show" is reincarnated! Without Chuckie Baby! On Comedy Central . Variety Veteran game show impressario ("The Dating Game" "Newlywed Game") Chuck Barris ended up fronting the original "Gong show" which went on NBC in July 1976. Barris did double duty as producer and host after he gonged John Barbour. Dave Attell is the new host. But nobody can do it like Chuck "We'll be back right with more stuff!" And his cast of crazy characters: Jaye P. Morgan, Jamie Farr, The Unknown Comic, Milton DeLugg and his Band With A Thug, Gene Gene The Dancing Machine, Arte Johnson, Rex Reed, Rip Taylor. An unknown David Letterman was a judge and gonged some guy who turned to him and barked "Who are you?" Bawdy Jaye P. "Morgoni" as Barris referred to her was axed from the daytime version after she flashed her boobs on-air. "The Gong Show" still pounds the strings of my heart. In 1976 I was a Tee Vee news anchor doing the noon news. Every day after the news my boss - then executive producer Bob H...
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Hillary: Don't Stop Thinkin' About Tomorrow
2008-05-09 00:06:00
MSNBC talking heads scratch their heads: "What does she want?" Me: A) Hillary's waiting for Obama to step on his dick, B) She's covering her future ass, C) Bill Clinton's ego, D) Hoping Dem party brass buy her sping that Obama is unelectable, D) Blame Obama forMichigan and Florida.Hillary to USA Today: "Hard-working Americans" like me. Obama can't win. YouTube audioHard Americans are bagging sex for political drama. NYTHarry Smith CBS "Early Show": From this morning's Daily News, "It's his party," with a picture of Barack Obama . From the New York Post, "Over the Hill," you know what they're talking about there. From The Wall Street Journal, "Democrats Look to Life After Clinton." Terry McAuliffe, why is your candidate still in this race? Hillary campaign czar Terry McAuliffe: "Well, one reason I don't read the newspapers anymore". NewsBustersMeredith Viera "Today" show: "Is there any light at the end of the tunnel or is it a train that's headed your way? Which is it?"McAuli...
More About: Hillary Clinton , Cain , Good Morning America , Stop

Shields Brooke
2008-05-02 00:39:00
Until now... Memoir-pimping Barbara Walters is doling out her affairs with married men and sources one by one during May Sweeps after years of sweeping her rumored indiscretions under the rug. Oooh, A Black Senator. Long before Obama. The hot Edward Brooke. Long departed. A Republican from Massachusetts. Boston Herald TV NewserThe 77-year old "The View " hostess gets it all off her chest on Oprah .I don't give a rat's ass about a) black, b) senator. Tell all about Fidel, Babs.... and don't tell me you were "infatuated." Just tell me if he was any good. Barbara's epitaph: "She sleeps alone. At last."
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DC Madam Hangs Herself
2008-05-02 00:27:00
The DC Madam decides to end it all rather than go to prison. Reuters TIME Deborah Jeane Palfrey was convicted last month of prostitution charges. Wash PostWhen her escort service was cracked wide open ABC News crack investigative journo Brian Ross promised the world a blockbuster with big names but the piece was as flaccid as a limp dick. There were whispers that ABC brass forced Ross to excise the good stuff...What if she was strung up to make it look like a suicide to permanently shut her yap?
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