But I give props to Dan Mason and Scott Herman for giving this over three years, hiring good people and also smart people to run it. Competition is good, but I have to wonder: Will this be the last attempt to do all-news radio ever?!? I hope not but I can hear anybody pitching the idea getting shot down with 'CBS couldn't do it, what makes you think we could do it? Harris worked at the local cable news channel since it was launched in , hosting his evening sports talk show continuously since , with his last appearance on tonight's show at 9 PM.
That report was denied by the suits at the Silver Spring-based urban radio giant. Says Bohannon: "It's time for me to cut back the daily schedule a bit and focus my attention on the research, interviews, and calls for my weeknight show. December 11, Barry Schweid Dies Barry Schweid, the legendary Associated Press diplomatic correspondent who reported and analyzed events from around the world over a career spanning 56 years, died December 10 at age Schweid died at home from complications of a degenerative neurological condition.
Among his career highlights, he traveled with Henry Kissinger on the secretary of state's "shuttle diplomacy" flights and covered the difficult negotiations at Camp David that President Jimmy Carter brokered to reach a historic peace treaty in between Egypt's Anwar Sadat and Israel's Menachem Begin.
He was I'm writing this post to note the passing of a longtime family friend, Max Cacas, who suffered a heart attack yesterday. Max and I go back about 35 years. I first met him through my dad when they both were at National Public Radio. Max quickly became a frequent guest at our household, enjoying many of my mom's lasagna dinners. He, my dad, and I shared many times together, going in on a Washington Capitals partial plan during the Capital Center days of Langway and Gartner and Stevens, as well as taking in trips to Philly during the summer to catch some National League ball during DC's baseball exile.
And our interest in baseball carried on to the present day in our conversations on several Washington Nationals Facebook pages. We also shared a lot of ups and downs personally, whether it be his wedding day or my wedding day, or the passing of my mom, who treated Max like a son and whom Max served as a pallbearer.
I'm still processing this and just can't believe this happened. Many prayers for Max and for his dear wife, Lisa S. Rehm, 79, says she plans to end her show in late , after the presidential election in November. I've been doing that for 37 years. Maybe I'll get to sleep until 7 or AM, like other people do. She started working at WAMU in as a volunteer. Rehm began hosting what was then called the "Kaleidoscope" program in , which was renamed after her five years later.
Her program became nationally syndicated in Nnamdi writes on his thekojonnamdishow. Previously, Barr was national editor at the Post, and, before that, was deputy national editor, national security editor, and Middle East editor.
He had relocated to Bath, Maine, and had built a voiceover business. Kelly also worked at radio stations in Buffalo, Denver, and Hartford. He also served as the news network's assistant bureau chief in Washington. Later, he worked for Fox News, creating the Fox News Service, serving as Washington bureau chief as well as the director of affiliate relations.
He worked his way up through various positions at WTTG, as a writer, producer, and field producer thorough the s. The Baltimore market radio ratings for November. She used to be heard on the station when it subscribed to Total Traffic, but left to handle family matters when Cumulus switched to a different traffic service. He will continue his current roles as program director of WMAL and corporate program director of Cumulus's news talk stations.
November 21, Austin Kiplinger Dies Austin Kiplinger, a Washington publisher who sustained the growth of his family's media business, died November 20 at a hospice in Rockville. The cause was cancer.
Kiplinger Washington Editors, founded in by his father, Willard Kiplinger, included business and economics forecasting publications. Austin served as board chairman for several years. No cause of death has been publicly announced, although postings on his Facebook page suggest that it may have been cardiac-related.
Hill was based in Phoenix and had been heard on many talkers across the country doing fill-in work. The DC traffic veteran has been located in Florida, where he does his local reports from. We notified Jerry's employer, Radiate Traffic, several months ago. We sent Jerry a nice wine-and-cheese basket as a gift from all of us and wish him well in the warm weather of Sarasota, Florida, where he moved a few years ago. Smart phone map services, GPS devices in cars, and traffic apps provide specific, useful information that broadcast traffic reports cannot replicate.
We have a tech-savvy audience and we think they find better traffic information from these sources than from radio reports," he adds in his memo.
WAMU ended its midday and afternoon traffic reports last year and, Yore says, has received little response from listeners. Most recently, Washington was vice president of advertising sales for Radio One's Reach Media syndication division. We will sorely miss him," according to a company statement. The official re-launch happens on 16, with Jack Diamond right in mornings. He will be paired with Jimmy Alexander.
And they'll be joined by Erica Hilary. To have been able to build an amazing brand like Mix Yes, you can go home again and if you're lucky enough, you have a chance to make it even better the second time. As a big sports fan, I'll have the chance to report on some major stories down there as well. Also disappearing from the Cumulus station are midday host Melony Torres and afternoon host Marco. Before that, he worked in Portland, Oregon.
Some of the names we're hearing are Ari Ashe and John Meyer. Apparently, management is also not replacing vacant and posted fulltime jobs as well as some "behind the scenes" people, we're told. By late afternoon, we got forwarded a staff memo from WTOP head honcho Joel Oxley who writes, "Our financial situation continues to be very challenging. National, local agency and sports revenue are all down.
Many costs that we cannot control continue to rise. So we have had to make difficult expense decisions in all departments including these staff reductions as we head into In addition, several editorial positions that have recently been vacated won't be filled, including the WTOP reporter position left open by Andrew Mollenbeck's recent departure to Los Angeles news talker KFI and the digital position that Kerry Walter held.
Also, three open sales positions won't be filled. A DCRTV source adds: "I'm told WTOP, while likely to be the top biller in the country again, has had a crunch between increasing expenses and soft revenue resulting in double digit losses in free cash flow, which is what they deliver to Hubbard in profits. Still the biggest local radio newsroom in the country by far. According to a source, there was a staff meeting at which underwriting managers, who solicit donors to support the station's non-commercial programming, were informed that they will no longer be employees of WAMU and American University as of January.
They will work for a company based in Phoenix called Market Enginuity. In vacating the June MLB decision, the judge suggested that the Nationals and the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network settle the issue through an independent arbitrator or, if the concerns of impartiality are fixed, that they return to MLB's arbitration panel.
MASN broadcasts both the Nationals and Orioles games but the Orioles have a controlling stake in the network as part of a agreement brokered by baseball and then-commissioner Bud Selig to allow the relocation of the Montreal Expos to Washington. November 4, Pink Slips At Nat Geo The DC-based National Geographic Society will lay off about of its 2, employees in a cost-cutting move that follows the sale of its famous magazine and other assets to a company controlled by media baron Rupert Murdoch.
The reduction, the largest in the organization's year history, appears to affect almost every department of the nonprofit organization, including the magazine, which the society has published since just after its founding in The reduction also will affect people who work for the National Geographic Channel, the most profitable part of the organization. No price was announced. His late father, Arthur, owned the newspaper before him, along with one of the first all-news radio stations in the country, Arlington's WAVA, NVMS will continue to operate its other media properties in the region, which include six Northern Virginia weekly newspapers, the monthly Middleburg Life and Washington Family magazines, and local news website InsideNoVa.
November 2, Pat Clawson Dies Pat Clawson was known as "Cowboy" in his days as DC bureau chief with now defunct radio trade publication Radio And Records, because of the impossible-to-miss Western-style hat he habitually wore. He died October 29 at age Today's show was the last. Says WTEM Program Director Dan Zampillo, "Unfortunately we were not able to obtain the consistent level of ratings success needed in morning drive over the last seven months, and therefore felt the need to make this change.
The Baltimore market radio ratings for the month of October. The cause was respiratory failure. It was taped weeks earlier in Sibley Memorial Hospital, after Walker was diagnosed with cancer. Walker has been host of WAMU's longest-running program since It is there that Walker met Willard Scott.
A creative partnership sparked, and the two were a duo on Washington radio for 20 years, the mids through mids, calling themselves "The Joy Boys," which aired on the old WRC radio. Gibson, 59, had suffered a serious stroke in and recovered enough to do a rock, pop, and soul oldies radio show every week.
She's been freelance reporting in the Baltimore-DC area for about a year. Barely three months after taking the job in July. Since joining WRQX, Jeffries has been unable to boost the station's ratings, which are in a two-plus-year slump since the departure of longtime morning man Jack Diamond in the spring of Jeffries has left Cumulus, where he also served as a senior vice president of programming, after 18 years with company, which is flirting with bankruptcy.
It is "successfully transforming a traditional money-losing print publication into a leaner multimedia company with diverse revenue streams and a growing national audience," according to an announcement. No word on his future plans. Several dozen friends, current and former colleagues including Steve Buckhantz, Sue Palka, and Chick Hernandez showed up at Brickside in Bethesda Wednesday evening to share stories and give hugs and handshakes, we're told.
Most recently, he had been at iHeart Media in Savannah, Georgia. Since , Rogers has been vice president of national and corporate sales at Silver Spring-based Radio One. October 4, WaPo Circ Down To K Ever since the Washington Post got bought two years ago by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, it no longer runs news reports on its print circulation numbers, which, like many other print newspapers around the country, had been falling at a steady rate over the past decade. However, in Sunday's Post, the newspaper did give us a hint of its current circulation numbers by running a required ad statement of the latest figures.
It showed the current average daily, Monday through Sunday, paid print circulation during the past year to be , October 3, Ken Denlinger Dies Ken Denlinger, a longtime Washington Post sports columnist who also wrote books on college athletics, died October 3 at his home in Frederick. The cause was esophageal cancer.
Denlinger worked for the Post from to , initially as a sportswriter and later as a columnist. Second, Lisa Baden is a raging alcoholic. She sips vodka from her 22 oz coffee mug and for the most part keeps it in check. Sure she starts singing for no reason, has permanent bedhead, and probably wets herself every now and again, but she's functional; reads a mean traffic report and generally has a sunny disposition.
Unfortunately, Brian van de Graaff couldn't pull off the same. He tried to keep up with Lisa after hours, drinking once their AM shift ended. But Lisa is an old pro. So how does Delilah look in real life? I think the whole thing is a myth.
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