As Barry Horn mentioned about an hour ago, as of this afternoon Ben and Skin are no longer your drive-time hosts at 105.3 The Fan. After almost a year of station name changes and philosophical tweaks, in the end their unconventional show – heavy on basketball and hip-hop and unique guests…
If you were surprised by Greg Williams’ cameo on with Richard Hunter yesterday afternoon, you haven’t been paying attention. The Hammer, sacked by ESPN Radio in May partly because of a couple of wacky nights he blamed on a change in depression medication, will sit in with Big Dick the next…
To close out a month in which ESPN blowhard Chris Berman somehow received his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, guess who’s mad at sports announcers? Would you believe … a sports announcer? I love me some Steve Dennis. I mean, other than the times he puts on…
Actually, once you read the piece — which appears in the issue hitting newsstands this week but which you can read right now — it seems rather unlikely that the Prairie Home Companionist actually came to Dallas for the State Fair, as his is more of an essay about the…
So guess who I bumped into Saturday afternoon? Hmm. Perhaps I gave away a tad too much in the headline? The former Live 105.3 FM shock jock is alive. I’ll let you decide if he’s well. Martin – who gets the Dallas Observer cover treatment in our July 16 issue – took…
Saturday afternoon, friend of the show Danny Hurley sent word that they were offering quite the Father’s Day gift out at Addison Airport — flights on a B-24 Liberator, where everyone calls shotgun. (Pretty cool too, as only two Liberators are still flying). Danny wanted to go out and shoot…
News today that 105.3 The Fan has said goodbye to weekday 9 a.m.-Noon hosts Kevin Scott and Greg Hill. More changes could be in the offing. Developing …..
*May’s PPM radio ratings show The Ticket maintaining its dynasty as the No. 1 station among Men 25-54. ESPN Radio and The Fan treaded water, placing 9th and 20th respectively. Status quo. *You could read about the Mavs and ESPN Radio reaching a four-year extension here on June 17, or you could’ve read…
The Richards Group gets a shout-out in The New York Times this morning for its Hoagiefest promotion, which takes a big ol’ bite outta the Yellow Submarine in order to sell sandwiches to folks living up north. Turns out, Richards is just ridin’ the peace train with the rest of…
Back in April we brought word of the KDGE-FM 20th anniversary shindig that George Gimarc’s been putting together at the Lakewood Theater without a cent from Clear Channel, which ain’t got many pennies left. Well, George called this afternoon to remind us that, yes, the thing’s still on and, according…
A Friend of Unfair Park directs our attention to Uncle Barky’s nice YouTube discovery: WFAA-Channel 8’s analog adios on Friday, a brief retrospective of the ABC affiliate that offers a far fancier farewell than KXAS-Channel 5’s anti-climactic fade-to-static. It’s worth a look-see, especially for longtime locals for whom Pete Delkus’s…
I just got off the phone with Deborah Johnson, the senior veep of marketing at KERA, who was more than happy to answer any and all questions concerning its just-announced, fall-debuting music-only radio station, 91.7 on your FM dial. And, yes, that’s the very same frequency currently occupied by The…
Just received a press release from KERA-FM concerning its latest acquisition: 91.7 on your FM dial. So many questions, which we’ll get to shortly, but I wanted to offer the announcement in the meantime. The takeaway?KERA has yet to select a name for the new station. The programming on 91.7…
Apparently, 482 Friends of Unfair Park (not to mention our old pal, noted author Zac Crain) keep up with Mark Cuban’s tweets, as earlier this morning he announced an “AMAZING” new HD scoreboard “coming this season” to an American Airlines Center near you, after which the Unfair Park inbox was…
When I heard Channel 8 sports anchor Dale Hansen was taking off the entire month of June, I was jealous. Then a little concerned. We all know Dale plays golf and poker and hookie with the best of them – seems like he was off all of April, too -…
The Friends of Unfair Park concerned with the state — and fate — of the newspaper business are no doubt aware that in a Chicago suburb yesterday, bigwigs, honchos and major-domos from most of the country’s biggest news-gathering organizations huddled together to chat about monetizing online content. There’s been much…
A personal aside this Memorial Day, if you’ll pardon the indulgence. I was at the folks’ house last night and noticed that Mom just added to her estimable collection of family photos this montage featuring family members who’d served in the military, among them her father (at the bottom left)…
So many different ways to look at radio ratings. But from any view – as usual – The Ticket remains the Metroplex’s sports talk dynasty. Since it gets a little lot repetitive to keep probing the same statistics from the same angle, let’s take a different view than we have the…
Every so often someone will still post a comment to the imc2 item from way back in December ’07 — only 123 till we break the 1,000 mark, so let’s go team! Which is why it’s just a little surprising that this little news nugget hasn’t made its way into…
If you liked Live 105.3 FM, chances are your affection is growing for Rational Radio KMNY 1360 AM. No, Russ Martin isn’t resurfacing just yet. Awaiting his July trial, he’s wisely biting his lip and cashing his checks. But just a month after Live-ex Richard Hunter debuted on 1360 AM comes…
Just last Thursday, Dallas Morning News City Hall co-reporter Dave Levinthal said his official adios: Sooner than later, he wrote, he’d be leaving Dallas for Washington, D.C., where his fiancée is taking a position at the National Institute of Health. “No good-byes, thank-yous or anything of the sort now,” Dave…
I get that Gary Catwright believes his generation of sportswriters is the best that ever was. Believe me, I get it. I even agree. I grew up reading Blackie Sherrod’s transcendant scattershootings in the Dallas Times Herald and while at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram I penned praise pieces on Dan…
