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Radio station WVAZ-V103 shook off its past and never looked back
Tribune reporterTwo decades ago, Barry Mayo reconfigured America's radio landscape when he introduced the adult urban contemporary format to the dial. He took WBMX-FM 102.7 and transformed it into WVAZ-V103. The rest, as they say, is history. On the recent occasion...Tags: Alicia Keys, Adults, James Brown, Mary J Blige, Minority Groups
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Eddie and Jobo will be sleeping in, and still getting paid
Ed Volkman and Joe Bohannon were leaving Prudential Plaza on Friday, the on-air team of 20 years having been told by management they had done their last "Eddie and Jobo" morning show for CBS Radio's WBBM-FM 96.3. As Volkman tells it, they were stopped...Tags: Arbitron Incorporated, CBS Corp., Demographics, Folklore and Mythology, Radio Industry
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Donald P. Russo: Obama never apologized for being a liberal
For 20 years, we have been bombarded by the rants of right-wing radio talk show hosts Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Michael Savage and Bill O'Reilly. These characters can trace their genesis back to the 1980s, when Ronald Reagan supported the repeal of...Tags: Barack Obama, Sean Hannity, Sarah Palin, Keith Olbermann, Florida
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Natasha Bedingfield performs for local music students
Blond British pop singer Natasha Bedingfield brought a pocketful of sunshine to a roomful of young music students in Allentown today. Bedingfield, who opens tonight for New Kids on The Block at The Spectrum in Philadelphia, made a swing to Allentown to...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Barack Obama, Natasha Bedingfield, Acoustic, Academic Progress
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Substitute teacher is music to their ears
Of The Morning CallBlond British pop singer Natasha Bedingfield brought a pocketful of sunshine to a roomful of young music students in Allentown on Wednesday. Bedingfield, who Wednesday night opened for New Kids on The Block at The Spectrum in Philadelphia, made a swing...Tags: Philadelphia (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), Natasha Bedingfield, Barack Obama, Music, Charity
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City billboards to post crime, traffic messages
Three billboards in the Baltimore area will display public safety alerts and messages - including traffic and weather warnings as well as details about fugitives - from the local FBI office and the city, state and Baltimore County police departments....Tags: Law Enforcement, Harbor, Police, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Weather Warnings
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Arbitron puts out people meter data
Chicago Tribune reporterTwo days ahead of schedule and before court action could prevent it, Arbitron on Monday hustled out its official radio ratings for the quarter ending last month in Chicago and seven other U.S. markets, the first such results culled through eavesdropping...Tags: Barack Obama, Arbitron Incorporated, Baseball, Major League Baseball, CBS Corp.
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Meter running on past radio ratings
So the question for the radio business is: Were your audience figures wrong then, or are they wrong now? Was WGCI-FM 107.5 truly the second-most-popular station in the Chicago market, with a 6 percent share of the audience, as Arbitron reported in its...Tags: Barack Obama, Spanish Broadcasting System Incorporated, Arbitron Incorporated, General Motors Corp., Movies
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L.A. under visual assault by digital billboards
POINTS WESTThank you, L.A. City Atty. Rocky Delgadillo, for being such a pal to the billboard industry. The new gigantic digital ads in my neighborhood, with white-hot flashing pitches for Coke and Sean John, are a swell addition to otherwise quaint Silver Lake...Tags: Los Angeles, Advertising, Justice System, Environmental Pollution, CBS Corp.
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Landmark status ruling due for Mechanic Theatre
The shell of Baltimore's long-dormant Morris A. Mechanic Theatre would be partially preserved as part of a mixed-use complex containing a 30-story residential and hotel tower and commercial space, if its owners can obtain city approval and financing to...Tags: Theater, Hippodrome Theatre, Architecture, Morris A. Mechanic Theatre
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Esquire chief hardly bound by past
When David Granger took over as editor in chief of Esquire magazine 11 years ago, beautifully bound copies of past issues sat on a shelf behind his desk. The volumes dating to the mid-1930s, filled with contributions from virtually every major writer...Tags: Private Health Care, CBS Corp., Chicago Sun-Times, Periodicals, Magazines
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