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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

Coka-Lani Exits WMIB

(Miami, FL -- December 22, 2006) ... Coka-Lani Kimbrough has exited (or "has been restructured out of" per one source) her slot at Clear Channel urban "The Beat" WMIB 103.5. She had joined WMIB in 2004.

On 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!

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NPR Complains About Wireless FM Modulators

Over-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.

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Proof That Consolidation
Is Killing Radio

Corey Deitz has proof of how consolidation is killing radio... as if there wasn't enough anecdotal evidence. Look at the advetised openings!

"If the backbone of an industry is its workforce, what does it say about an industry whose workforce has been cut by 50%, 60% or more?" asks Corey Deitz, guru of http://radio.about.com.

Read more in More Nails in the Consolidation Coffin -- Today Radio has less identity AND jobs.

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Cavanaugh and Campbell Missing From WPB Radio

"Two on-air Radioland old-timers got the hook recently" said Jose Lambiet in his November 22 Palm Beach Post column.

WRMF traffic reporter Paul Cavanaugh and WJNO newsman Gerrard Campbell are missing from our local air.

"Popular WRMF-FM 97.9 traffic reporter Paul Cavanaugh was fired Friday after what he described as a friendly meeting with Program Director Bob Neumann.'He said I didn't fit in their plans,' said Cavanaugh, 52. He did fit at the station for 29 years, however." Lambiet explains that Paul took that job after Jennifer Ross got airsick in the chopper!

Read the details in Jose's 11/22 column, at the subhead As the radio world turns.

Then Emily J. Minor wrote about Paul Cavenaugh in the 12/21 Palm Beach Post: Television's eye in the sky has seen it all.

You noticed? Paul's name was spelled two different ways in the same newspaper. If they can't even figure it out, I'm not going to worry about it. Jose Lambiet says "WRMF's own site used to spell it Cavanaugh." They should know.

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Conservative Talk WKAT
Announces Flip To Christian Talk

(Miami, FL -- December 18, 2006) ... After 23 months, Salem Communications Corporation is throwing in the towel on conservative talk in this "blue" county, on January 1, 2007. On January 31, 2005, Salem's WKAT had been hatched and south Florida lost its only classical music station to get another talk station.

Salem's "News/Talk 1360" WKAT is now announcing on air frequently that it will flip to Christian talk as of January 1. Salem owns three groups of stations, which they describe as Christian Teaching and Talk, Contemporary Christian Music, and News Talk.

Dr. James Dobson, D. James Kennedy, , 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.

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Castro Apologist Heard Daily
on Brokered Miami Airwaves

(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.


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NEW YEARS 2007: SECTION 2 of 6 ⇒ Metropolitan Opera · Reader Poll
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Metropolitan Opera
Radio Season Begins

(New York, NY -- December 18, 2006) ... The Metropolitan Opera inaugurated its 76th radio broadcast season on December 9 with Mozart's Idomeneo, conducted by Music Director James Levine.
South Florida stations carrying the Metropolitan Opera's Saturday broadcasts:

Miami Market and Keys

Palm Beach Market

  • WDJA-AM 1420
  • WJBW-AM 1000
  • WXEL-FM 90.7 (Barry University)
Operas are boardcast Saturday afternoons over the Toll Brothers-Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network.

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.

Radio News
Reader Poll

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
added every month!

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
BACK ISSUES OF
SOUTH FLORIDA RADIO NEWS


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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NPR's Presents All-Night Live Jazz
on Toast of the Nation December 31

NPR Affiliates in southeast Florida:

WLRN 91.3
WXEL 90.7
WQCS 88.9

(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. 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, Ellis Marsalis, Peter Martin, Don Vappie, Reginald Veal, and Herlin Riley conjure Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton, 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, 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].

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.
Guitarist Trucks' band plays progressive roots music, featuring flute, organ, African percussion, and vocalist Mike Mattison -- unforgettable on the anthem "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free." USA Today says, "Still shy of 30, Trucks just might be this generation's greatest rock guitarist."

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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2006 A Radio Year
To Forget

2006 is a year many local radio fans would like to forget, partly because of dumb cost-cutting moves by station management.

2006 has been a year of unwelcome station flips and firings.

Nostalgia station WJNA became WMEN for "hip young men" and popular long-time deejays Kenny Walker and Eric Brandon were abruptly fired from "Y-100" WHYI and "Majic 102.7" WMXJ respectively. Y-100's Footy retired and then Majic's Rick Shaw announced his upcoming retirement. Naturally, Y-100's long-time popular morning show has been replaced after its principals left -- replaced by a show out of another Clear Channel station, Z-100 in New York City.

And then, last week, WKAT announced yet another disappointment, its upcoming flip from conservative political talk to Christian talk on January 1.

Will 2007 be a better year for listeners? Probably not.


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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.

The One Cent Solution:
A Health Care Plan to Free Americans

(Coral Springs, FL -- December 26, 2006) ... When congress convenes next month, one of the things they will probably work on is reviving Hillary's failed health care plan from 2003.

It's still kind of scary to think of such a corrupt bunch of earmark-loving, self-serving, know-it-all political hacks and crooks making our health care choices for us. But they're sure to try again.

Thirteen years ago, at the height of that controversy, Adam's World host Adam Clatsoff (heard on WWNN) had an alternate plan. Adam, president of AdCahb Life Group (Blue Cross), wrote a book about the problem and detailing his own solution: One Cent Solution: A Health Care Plan to Free Americans.

The book is still available, used and new, on Amazon.com and elsewhere. Get your own copy and see what the fuss is all about!

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress.
But I repeat myself." ... Mark Twain

Florida TV Weatherman Encounters Cockroach

(December 20, 2006) ... This could happen only in Florida, courtesy of YouTube! It was probably the state bug, the palmetto bug.

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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

FAU Jewish Music
Archive Online

(Boca Raton, FL -- December 21, 2006) ... When searching for information about Art Raymond (who had a Jewish music program on WAXY before it flipped to sports), I discovered a new historic resource.

Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton has an online Jewish Music Archive, some of which was donated by Art Raymond.

Listen to Jewish Music Archive's Chanukah Program

Canada Calling is Back

(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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Is Air America Going Away?

(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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19,000 At WPBZ's 11th Annual Buzz Bake Sale

(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.

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City Link Awards

(Fort Lauderdale, FL -- November, 2006) ... Among City Link's dozens of annual "Best Of" awards for 2006, there were two relating to radio:

  • Best Sports-Talk Host -- Dan Le Batard of WAXY 790
  • Best Radio DJ -- Prince Markie Dee of WMIB 103.5

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!

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WJNA's Jammin Jon Sommers, Live

(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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Todd Schnitt and Cindy Sheehan

(Tampa, FL -- December 11, 2006) ...
At the beginning of his daily talk show today, Clear Channel's Todd Schnitt announced, laughing, that Cindy Sheehan was scheduled to appear at the Tampa Bay Veterans for Peace Holiday Banquet at a restaurant called The Crazy Buffet today, in the Tampa area. He called it "a joke that writes itself!"

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.)

NEW YEARS 2007: SECTION 6 of 6 ⇒ 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

  • We're honored to have a return performance by the great Jazz vocalist, Allan Harris. His band comprises some of the finest South Florida musicians performing compositions from Allan's forthcoming CD, Nat King Cole: Long Live the King, recorded live at The Kennedy Center. CNN's Showbiz Tonight said Harris is "one of the three best male Jazz vocalists in the country."
    The Miami Herald said "Harris' voice and demeanor project the warmth of Tony Bennett, the bite and rhythmic sense of Sinatra and the sly elegance of Nat King Cole."
    Please tune in for a rare, unique Jazz radio performance from our studios in Miami. This show is generously underwritten by Pollo Tropical.

Friday, January 12th

  • SFAB celebrates the 30th anniversary of Art Deco Weekend (January 12-14) with special guests and loads of information to help you enjoy all the festivities from the parade to the exhibits and seminars and much more.
  • Our new contributor Judith Bishop covers the Miami City Ballet.
  • More dance coverage is featured in a conversation with Freddick Bratcher.
  • Our entertainment calendar and humorist Buzz Fleischman with The Radio Buzz wrap up the show.

Friday, January 19th

Friday, January 26th

  • Dr. Dorothy Fields and Elizabeth Williams from The Black Archives talk about South Florida's African-American history and "Miami's Little Broadway."
  • Contributor 0Richard Pachter reviews a new book about southern rock guitar legend, Duane Allman.
  • Our events calendar and The Radio Buzz conclude the program.

Coming to SFAB in 2007!

  • Future guests and segments include Jazz pianist Jean-Michel Pilc, Bill "The Sauce Boss" Wharton performs for the Hollywood Mardi Gras, George Neary, South Beach Wine & Food Festival, Dan Hudak's Oscar preview and much, much more.

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