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RADIO NEWS: NEW YEARS 2007
Covering Broward, Miami-Dade, and Palm Beach Counties
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SECTION 1 of 6 / WKAT Flip To Christian Talk, Castro Apologist On Radio, Coka-Lani, NPR, Consolidation Is Killing Radio, Paul Cavanaugh & Gerrard Campbell SECTION 2 of 6 / Metropolitan Opera, Reader Poll SECTION 3 of 6 / NPR Toast of The Nation, Larry King SECTION 4 of 6 / Radio Marti, 2006: A Brief Review, Adam Clatsoff, Weatherman versus Cockroach SECTION 5 of 6 / FAU Jewish Music Archive, City Link Awards, Todd Schnitt & Cindy Sheehan, Buzz Bake Sale, Canada Calling, Air America, Jon Sommers SECTION 6 of 6 / South Florida Arts Beat |
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NEW YEARS 2007: SECTION 1 of 6 ⇒
WKAT Flip To Christian Talk · Castro Radio · NPR Consolidation Is Killing Radio · Coka-Lani · Paul Cavanaugh & Gerrard Campbell |
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Coka-Lani Exits WMIBOn a related theme, it's amazing how many web sites perpetuate the same misinformation, without checking. I've found three sites reporting this so far that have incorrectly referred to WMIB as 100.3. I guess responsible journalism is out and gossip and plagiarism are in! NPR Complains About Wireless FM ModulatorsOver-powered FM modulators, used to get a signal from iPods and other devices to the car radio, aren't going away. And since they operate at the low end of the band -- in NPR's turf, so to speak -- NPR is trying to persuade the FCC to remove non-compliant devices from the market. See NPR Says Part 15 Problem Is Unchecked in Radio World Online. and related story, You May Be Broadcasting Illegally -- And Not Even Know It, in July 2006 Radio News. For more NPR news, see NPR's Toast of the Nation. ![]() Proof That Consolidation |
Conservative Talk WKAT |
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Dr. James Dobson,
D. James Kennedy,
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and Jack Graham
will be among
the voices heard on "South Florida's Christian Talk" WKAT.
WKAT had flipped from classical to conservative talk in January 2005, as described in the February 2005 article WKAT is now Conservative Talk on this site. Like Classical WKAT before it, Salem's WKAT had been abandoning more and more regular programming in favor of brokering blocks of time... a sure sign that traditional advertising sales aren't keeping the station afloat.
Although WKAT is Salem's only southeast Florida station, Salem also
owns stations in three other Florida markets: WORL, WTLN, and WHIM in
the Orlando market ... WTWD, WTBN, WGUL, and WLSS in the Tampa market
... WJGR, WZNZ, WZAZ, and WBGB-FM in the Jacksonville market.
History: WKAT had been an excellent Miami-Beach based local
talk station in the 1960s and 1970s, featuring people like
Larry King
and Craig Worthing ... and even
Jean Shepherd
!
It was also a Spanish-language station for a while before it became classical, but had still kept the same call letters WKAT for a long time.
Where To Go: Of the programs now heard on WKAT, only
Laura Ingraham and
Michael Savage
can still be heard elsewhere in south Florida, on WFTL 850. Savage and Ingraham
are still heard evenings from 6 'til 9 PM and 9 'til midnight, respectively.
(Miami, FL -- December 15, 2006) ... Socialist and Castro fan
Francisco Aruca takes advantage of the first amendment and the free
enterprise system he disdains every day, when he broadcasts a brokered
pro-Castro program on Spanish-language station WOCN 1450 -- a station
that was Miami's "beautiful music" station, Ocean Radio, early in
Castro's regime.
"Aruca's legions of critics dismiss his show, Ayer en Miami (Yesterday in Miami), as a glorified infomercial for his business, Marazul Tours, which depends on good relations with the Cuban government and would benefit handsomely from the lifting of travel restrictions to Cuba, one of Aruca's many causes" says reporter Andy Newman.
But how many travel agencies would broadcast speeches by Fidel and Raul Castro, to suck up to a hostile and anti-American foreign government?
Aruca amazingly describes himself as a "Christian socialist, not a Marxist," a distinction that is meaningless if you are supporting a repressive dictator of a failed Communist regime.
Read Newman's entire story, A Cuban-American's controversial radio show in Miami in the International Herald Tribune. And also see the story about Radio Marti, elsewhere in this issue.
She's Only Rock & Roll -- shesonlyrocknroll.com |
| NEW YEARS 2007: SECTION 2 of 6 ⇒ Metropolitan Opera · Reader Poll | ||||||
Metropolitan Opera |
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South Florida stations carrying the Metropolitan Opera's Saturday broadcasts:
Miami Market and Keys Palm Beach Market
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Following is the broadcast schedule for the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network, followed by a list of the affiliated south Florida stations, based on info from The Met's site, operainfo.org.
Click on any of the operas in the schedule at
left to order a CD or DVD or any other item about that opera from
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When I was updating the South Florida Radio History page recently, I saw that there were still about FIFTY more files linked to from that page that remain to be revised and updated. It's gonna take a while.
Which files should be first? I don't know!!!
Therefore, I want you to vote on priority among these popular items from the twentieth century.
Then, in a future edition of Radio News, I'll ask you to vote on 21st century items in South Florida Radio History.
I'll use the vote as a guide to priorities. of course, new Radio History items are being
As always, your donations will be appreciated.
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| NEW YEARS 2007: SECTION 3 of 6 ⇒ Live Jazz on NPR's Toast of The Nation · Larry King | |||||||
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Larry King's Years on Miami Radio(December 16th, 2006) ... Since Larry King gained his fame in the last 20+ years on CNN, many of our younger readers may not be aware that he was previously on Miami radio stations WIOD 610 and "The Talk of Miami" WKAT 1360. WKAT was an all-local talk station back then. Today I found a short online biography of Larry King in the Jewish Virtual Library web site: Larry King -- by Aliza Davidovit. (I was glad to find it because King's absence has been a glaring hole in South Florida Radio History.) Watch for more about Larry King in a future edition of Radio News.
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(Newark, NJ -- December 18, 2006) ... NPR's annual tradition of live jazz on New Year's Eve, Toast of the Nation, rings in 2007 with great performances from coast to coast! Tune in for New Year's revelry and celebrate midnight in four different time zones!
Live headliners include Kendrick Oliver & The New Life Orchestra in Boston, Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra in NYC, Karrin Allyson in Kansas City, and the McCoy Tyner Trio with special guest Joe Lovano from Oakland, CA. Toast of the Nation is co-produced by NPR and Jazz 88 WBGO in Newark, NJ. WBGO's Rhonda Hamilton anchors the team of hosts.
This year, forget the silly ball-dropping on TV stations. With live radio, you can enjoy this new New year's tradition while participating in your choice of other activities, without gluing your eyes to the tube. (Yes, they DO stop the jazz for the countdown just before midnight, 1 AM, 2 AM, and 3 AM.)
NPR's Toast of the Nation began in 1979 as a showcase for NPR's interconnected satellite system, the first in the nation. WBGO became co-producer in 1984. Last year, Toast of the Nation was hosted live from New Orleans and marked the first live music broadcast from the city since Hurricane Katrina
The eight-hour special runs from 8 PM 'til 4 AM EST, according to the following schedule:
Click on any of the musicians in the schedule to get info about that
music from Amazon.com -- or to order a CD.
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8 PM EST -- Live From Boston -- Sing! Stomp! Shout! with tuba
player Kendrick Oliver and the
New Life Jazz Orchestra
at Berklee College of Music in Boston -- they
swing like a young Count Basie Band gone to church. Vocals by
Monica Lynk
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Produced by WGBH Radio, Boston, and hosted by WGBH's Eric Jackson.
9 PM EST - More information to come
10 PM EST -- Live From Chicago -- The Big River Concert for New Orleans, at the Chicago
Symphony Center with Branford Marsalis
as guest host.
Nicholas Payton
,
Jeremy Davenport
,
Victor Goines
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Ellis Marsalis
,
Peter Martin
,
Don Vappie
,
Reginald Veal
, and
Herlin Riley
conjure
Louis Armstrong
,
Jelly Roll Morton
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and Sidney Bechet
in this musical mix, described by the Chicago Tribune as "exuberant parade music and
raunchy blues tunes, rowdy street marches and sweet jazz nocturnes."
11 PM EST -- Live From NYC -- Steven Bernstein's Millennial Territory Orchestra
rings in midnight on the East Coast at Tonic in New York, The MTO
re-imagines 1920s Midwestern-style territory charts and giddily wails
into 2007. Their roots are in the movie
Kansas City
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directed by the late Robert Altman, for which Steven was a consultant. A recent
profile of Bernstein on Morning Edition sums it up: "There's magic in
mixing the strange and the familiar!" Produced by Jazz 88 WBGO [WBGO Anniversary CD
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12:15 AM EST -- Live From Kansas City -- The Karrin Allyson Quintet
at the Kansas City Repertory Theater shines her down-to-earth
Midwestern-ness on a pocketful of riches. Her CD, Footprints
-- with
new lyrics fit to her favorite melodies -- topped the jazz radio
charts at number one for seven weeks this past summer.
It's a command performance from this KC daughter and her band, with
champagne at midnight thanks to member station KCUR.
1:15 AM EST - The
Derek Trucks Band
plays the blues, then
Big Bad Voodoo Daddy
takes over for a rip-roarin' Mountain Time midnight.
2:15 AM EST -- Live From Oakland -- The
McCoy Tyner Trio
with Joe Lovano (sax) plays at Yoshi's
in Oakland, CA. The power trio includes Christian McBride on bass and
Jeff "Tain" Watts on drums. After just a few measures of McCoy, your
heart will dance all the way to midnight Pacific Time, thanks to KCSM
and host Bud Spangler.

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NEW YEARS 2007: SECTION 4 of 6 ⇒ Radio Marti
2006: A Brief Review · Adam Clatsoff · Weatherman versus Cockroach |
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Radio Marti Coming To Miami Radio(Miami, FL -- December 20, 2006) ... "Radio Mambi" WAQI 710 will soon be carrying programming from Radio Marti. "Taxpayer-funded TV and Radio Martí are spending $377,500 to air select programs on South Florida broadcast stations over the next six months, using loopholes in a law that prohibits the propaganda channels from distribution within the United States" says Miami Herald writer Christina Hoag in a December 19 article, Radio, TV Martí to be aired locally. Related story: Radio, TV Martí face a congressional probe.
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NEW YEARS 2007: SECTION 5 of 6 ⇒ Todd Schnitt & Cindy Sheehan
Air America · Buzz Bake Sale · FAU Jewish Music Archive City Link Awards · Jon Sommers · Canada Calling |
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(Toronto, Canada) ... Canada Calling is back in town for its 53rd year of reporting news of Canada for Canadians vacationing in Florida,
Canada Calling is heard locally on WBZT 1230 in the Palm Beaches, at 8:50 AM weekdays and 7 AM weekends. The 2006-2007 season runs through Sunday, April 8th.
Canada Calling is heard on more than a dozen stations in Florida, Arizona, Texas, and the Bahamas.
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(Miami, FL -- December 24, 2006) ... We've been hearing about Air America's bankruptcy and Al Franken quitting for months now. What does it all mean?
WINZ 940, Clear Channel's liberal talk station that presents Air America shows for most of the majority of their broadcast day, has posted a FAQ, Is Air America Going Away?, to answer listeners' questions.
It concludes "We figure Rush, Sean and Bill will be 'spinning' so we wanted to make sure you have the facts."
Now if they could only answer the question about when Randi Rhodes' long-overdue book will finally be published!
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(West Palm Beach, FL -- December 18, 2006) ... More than 19,000
people attend "The Buzz" WPBZ's 11th annual Buzz Bake Sale at Sound
Advice Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach, per writer Melissa Hoyos.
My Chemical Romance
was the featured group.
Read the Sun-Sentinel article, My Chemical Romance embraced with boy-band love at Bake Sale.
(Fort Lauderdale, FL -- November, 2006) ... Among City Link's dozens of annual "Best Of" awards for 2006, there were two relating to radio:
The awards were announced in the October 18 edition of the City Link tabloid (which is owned by the same company as the Sun-Sentinel and Jewish Journal and channel 39, just in case you thought it was some kind of alternative counterculture rag).
Congratulations, Dan and Markie!
We're hoping that in 2007 they add a category for Best Local Web Site!
(Plantation, FL -- December 8, 2006) ... Oldies deejay Jammin' Jon Sommers has made a clean break with the past and apparently isn't even looking back.
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"Since the sudden trashing of WJNA by the management of James Crystal I have been very busy putting together a new project that is keeping the oldies alive" says Sommers.
Sommers recently got a half column plug for his new show in New Times with nary a mention of his old home, WJNA.
His new live show, Jukebox Friday Nights is a free, live weekly event, which can be heard and seen in the best Western Plantation (formerly Holiday Inn), just south of the SW corner of University Drive and Sunrise Blvd., starting at 7:30 PM Fridays.
"People are coming from as far away as Melbourne, Naples and the Keys since they are starved for this music and they seem to like the way I present it" says Sommers enthusiastically. "It's kind of like my radio show only its live, up close and personal and the best part is NO COMMERCIALS!!!!"
I may even check it out some Friday night. As Fonzie would say, be there or be square!
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(Tampa, FL -- December 11, 2006) ...
Later it became apparent that she wasn't going to be able to make it, being tied up in court. Schnitt also mentioned that the owners of the restaurant were Canadians who were unaware of her notariety when taking the reservation.
Schnitt is heard afternoons from 3 'til 6 PM on WFLA 970 in Tampa, WIOD 610 in Miami, and on satellite.)
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Au-Rene Theater Broward Ctr 1/9-20/2007
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Ed Bell's South Florida Arts Beat:
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Coming up on WLRN's South Florida Arts Beat (SFAB), Fridays at 1 PM on 91.3 FM.
Friday, January 5th
Friday, January 12th
Friday, January 19th
Marc Hart (remember him from WTMI?) joins us with the
details.
Friday, January 26th
Coming to SFAB in 2007!
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