KROQ
(106.7 FM) morning team Kevin and Bean are raising money for the
Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund and Cedars-Senai NICU this year through the
now sold-out 10th annual “Kevin and Bean’s April Foolishness” show, a
charity event being held this year on Saturday, March 31st at the
Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles.
On
hand for the show will be Doug Benson, Adam Devine, Bryan Callen, Jeff
Garlin, Gabriel Iglesias, Mike Relm and Sarah Tiana. Over the past nine
years, the show has raised more that $1 million for charity.
The Intrepid Fallen Heroes Fund serves United States military personnel suffering the effects of a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Cedars-Sinai NICU is designed to address the needs of critically ill babies, premature newborns or infants requiring close observation.
Podcasting Growth
Over
the air radio is still king as far as listening entertainment goes, but
podcasting is on the move. A study from Edison Research and Triton
Digital reports that 44% of people aged 12 and over have listened to a
podcast and 22% say the car is the place they most often listen.
Podcasting
is akin to television’s digital video recorders, offering on-demand
entertainment. Radio digital recording can be accomplished on line as
well, using various programs. I wonder if or when an easy-to-use (per
haps portable) audio recorder will be developed for recording radio
stations on the fly. Or if there is a market considering what is
available on line.
Go
to most radio station websites and you can usually find recordings of
the station’s best bits form that day. Will podcasting replace radio?
Doubtful. Will it complement it? It already does.
Dismissed
A
2017 lawsuit filed against SiriusXM personality Howard Stern and the
United States government by Judith Barrigas has been dismissed by a U.
S. District Court.
The
suit stemmed from a phone call that aired on Stern’s show in which
Barrigas’ conversation with IRS agent Jimmy Forsyth -- she had called to
ask questions related to taxes -- was heard over the air on Stern’s
show when Forsyth’s own call to Stern got taken off hold and run live.
Forsyth
didn’t realize that he was off hold with Stern, Stern and co-host Robin
Quivers didn’t realize at first what was going on when they overheard
the conversation, and Barrigas had no knowledge anything was unusual
until someone called to tell her that her conversation that included her
telephone number was heard by Stern listeners nationwide.
In
the end, Judge Allison Burroughs ruled March 9th that Stern didn’t
intentionally air private information, and that the IRS agent’s
“inadvertent disclosure” was covered by an exemption shielding the
government from liability for actions by an employee.
Short Takes
As
I write this, a Monday midnight deadline to make a deal with creditors
had come and gone with no word on the fate of iHeart Media as it moves
toward bankruptcy. That’s too bad. I was hoping we would hear the good
news that giant corporate McRadio was over and local owners would
return.
Against
hope, an eviction notice was sent to the Ports O’ Call Restaurant in
San Pedro. The eviction includes the internet podcasting LA Radio Studio
next door that the restaurant’s owner has been supporting in the public
interest for the past few years. Negotiations continue, though so
perhaps all is not lost. A public meeting regarding the development will
take place March 20 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the Warner Grand Theater on
6th Street in downtown San Pedro.
K-Surf
now has an FM translator, so people in the area of coverage - Calabasis
to Reseda - can hear oldies on 98.3 FM. I’m not sure how the coverage
of the FM signal compares with the AM, which also carries a digital HD
stream that sounds phenomenal. The station can also be heard on line and
as a secondary HD channel on 105.1 HD2, if you own an HD radio.
No comments:
Post a Comment