Citadel Broadcasting owns 224 radio stations across the U.S. — three in Texas, all in Dallas-Fort Worth. They’re not unfamiliar brand names: the historic WBAP-AM (News/Talk 820) and KSCS-FM (96.3), which, for a good long while in the 1990s, was the top station in the DFW and, like, WBAP, remains…
Bumped into Ticket program director Jeff Catlin last night, and maybe it was the spiked eggnog and rolled mistletoe talking, but somehow I ended up hosting a post-Cowboys-post-game holiday musical spectacular-spectacular that should commence at half past midnightish on 1310 AM tonight. I imagine it’ll be a cross between my…
I know what you’re thinking: The year is almost over, and I need more Schutze! More Schutze you say? Me too, which is why I took a look back at his columns from ’09 and picked my 10 faves for your reconsideration and, well, appreciation. For those who don’t remember…
But a month after Bill Minutaglio and W. Michael Smith’s book about the late, great Molly Ivins hit stores comes word of a stage production based on the Dallas Times Herald columnist’s life: Red Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins, scheduled to debut March 19 on the Philadelphia…
Question: Can you get divorced if you’re not married? Answer: Yes, according to Pugs & Kelly. Yes you can. Unless there’s a last-minute reconciliation ongoing as we speak, Pugs will go on the air today at 1 on 1360 AM without long-time sidekick Kelly. Why? Because, in short, they had a…
Says this top-rated eBay-er, the photo above comes from The Dallas Morning News newsroom — dunno who it is, dunno when it was taken. I’ve asked Schutze, who started at the rival Dallas Times Herald ’round the time this appears to have been snapped, but he can’t say for sure…
Last I looked, Steve Mauldin’s still listed on the KTVT-Channel 11 Web site as president and general manager of that station — and its KTXA-Channel 21 sibling too. But not according to Variety: Says the Hollywood trade in a just-posted piece, Maudlin’s off to Los Angeles to take over KCBS…
Much obliged to Tim Rogers and Uncle Barky for the reminder: Earlier this week WFAA-Channel 8 yanked A Charlie Brown Christmas to run Good Morning Texas After Dark, which, as Ed describes it, is “basically is a collection of mini-infomercials sharing space with actual non-paid program content.” Which isn’t the…
The Dallas Morning News’s circulation is way down — by 30 percent since 2007 — which is just what A.H. Belo higher-ups expected when they decided to start upping the price of the paper. In a “special report,” Editor & Publisher details just how the News came up with the…
If you’re one of those who doesn’t believe in the theory of “credit where credit is due”, and who thinks principles like “ownership” and “theft” are antiquated ideals better left behind in a kinder, gentler, softer era, please stop reading. Now. If you have a tendency to respond with “Dudn’t matter!” or “Who cares?”,…
Several Friends of Unfair Park have e-mailed this morning wondering what a Ticket-Dallas Morning News content-sharing deal, announced this morning, actually means. After all, Jean-Jacques Taylor, Rick Gosselin, Todd Archer, Evan Grant and other sportswriters already appear on the station regularly. What’s new about this particular arrangement? I’ve e-mailed Jeff…
KTVT-Channel 11 investigative reporter Bennett Cunningham has myriad awards to his name — including, most recently, a National Headliners Award for his ride aboard Dallas Area Rapid Transit’s “Gravy Train,” and three Lone Star Emmys, including one for Best Investigative Reporter (his second in as many years). He’s also part…
Late this evening, Dallas Morning News publisher and chief executive officer Jim Moroney called to discuss editor Bob Mong’s memo concerning the paper’s new “business/news integration,” which has some of the paper’s section editors reporting directly to newly assigned advertising-side higher-ups. Moroney said he’d been on the phone all afternoon…
Late this morning, Dallas Morning News editor Bob Mong called Unfair Park to discuss, at great length, Wednesday’s memo in which Mong formalized what he refers to in the missive as “business/news integration,” which involves some section editors reporting directly to advertising-side general managers. He says this arrangement has been…
After the jump, you will find a memo Dallas Morning News editor Bob Mong and senior vice president of sales Cyndy Carr sent to everyone at A.H. Belo Corp. Wednesday afternoon outlining what they call a “business/news integration.” Which means? As of yesterday, some section editors at all of the…
This morning, Lori Conrad at KTVT-Channel 11 sent word: “KTVT is Number One in Late News for the First Time Ever in a Major ‘Sweeps’ Period.” The press release then went on to say that based on Nielsen numbers for November, the CBS affiliate’s 10 p.m. weekday newscast won the…
From Baron James’s autobiography on the KDFW-Channel 4 site: “I look forward to years of public service here in the Lone Star State and at FOX 4 to bring you the news stories that matter most to you — especially good news!” But Uncle Barky comes bearing only bad and…
The latest news about The News should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone who’s listened to the paper’s publisher and CEO, Jim Moroney, since at least February, when he told Unfair Park that, yes, sooner or later A.H. Belo would “experiment” with finding out how much online readers were…
No Roky Erickson freak-outs this Friday; no KNUS odds, sods or seeds and stems for you, dear Friends. Instead, George Gimarc offers something even more lost from the Dallas radio lost-and-found. As in? Well, let’s let the rock and roll alternative explain:Once upon a time there was a program called…
KXAS-Channel 5 was supposed to go off the air at 11 this morning — there’s still much repair work to be done after last night’s electrical fire that knocked the 10 p.m. newscast off the air. But staffers are still awaiting the outage, which is forthcoming … any … second…
We wrap our broadcast week with yet more from the KNUS vaults currently in the possession of one George Gimarc. What you’ll find below are few minutes of what aired on Gordon McLendon’s FM freak-out on August 22, 1970 — some of the sounds and some of the smells, dig?…
Only a few days ago, Tom Merriman was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame — the great Ron Chapman’s introduction of the local-radio icon can be heard here. Says Chapman of Gordon McLendon’s former music director, who came to Dallas in 1952, Merriman “shaped the sound of thousands…
