Just last October, KXAS-Channel 5 was congratulating anchor Mike Snyder for 25 years of service: “Mike has changed very little over the years, and is still dedicated and committed to his journalistic craft.” But last night, Ed Bark noted that Snyder may be on his way out of the 10…
Tried to listen to The Ticket’s “Great Game” last night, but … no, unh-unh. (Though it sure did sound like a great game — from 16-1 to 20-20, awesome.) But, fortunately, Patrick Michels did stop by Frisco’s Dr Pepper Ballpark just long enough to grab yet another installment of Awkward…
I’ve heard of the 20-20 feat in baseball. But never the 20-20 final score. I was at a premiere party/fundraiser last night and unable to attend The Ticket’s second annual “Great Game” at Frisco’s Dr Pepper Ballpark, but from what I’m gathering it was – as expected – a unique, memorable…
Looks like Mavs fans didn’t waste all their creative venom on Kenyon Martin’s mom last night…
Three years ago, The Dallas Morning News took the city of Dallas to court over e-mails reporters Dave Levinthal and Reese Dunklin had wanted from then-Mayor Laura Miller’s BlackBerry. The city contended that Miller’s BlackBerry was her own, not paid for by taxpayers, and, therefore, not subject to state open…
As I mentioned a couple of weeks back, KERA’s working on an enormo Trinity River project with pieces for radio, TV and Internets. Today, we got a sneak peek at a major slice of the pie, which includes everything from an interactive timeline to video testimony, as KERA’s Meg Fullwood…
Don’t have this 100-percent confirmed, but all signs are pointing to Greg Williams being out at 103.3 FM ESPN Radio. Last week I alerted you that Williams sounded incoherent on last Tuesday night’s Choppy & Greggo show. He blamed it on a change in anti-depressant medication. But over the weekend,…
David Simon, sitting to the left of Dallas Morning News publisher Jim Moroney at today’s Senate subcommittee hearing on “The Future of Journalism,” edited his prepared testimony. The creator of The Wire left out the part about how, when a newspaper exec complains about how technology is the sole reason…
Let me start off by stating that I only heard the opening minutes of 103.3 FM ESPN’s Choppy & Greggo last night. But just in that smidge, Greg Williams sounded, well, incoherent. First he said something about “ChoppyGreggo” and then some garble and then some mumbling and then something about “6…
Oooooh, can’t wait: We’re about 15 minutes away from the Senate Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet “Future of Journalism” hearing, where, as we noted yesterday, Dallas Morning News publisher and CEO Jim Moroney will testify alongside The Wire creator David Simon and Arianna Huffington. C-SPAN 3 will carry…
Dallas Morning News publisher and CEO Jim Moroney will be in D.C. tomorrow for a hearing on “The Future of Journalism,” scheduled to kick off at 1:30 p.m. C.S.T. in front of the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee’s Subcommittee on Communications, Technology, and the Internet, whew. And he’ll be…
Weeks after completing its latest round of penny-saving layoffs, which were preceded by pay cuts and benefits trims, A.H. Belo this morning reported its first-quarter ’09 results — and they are significant. The publisher of The Dallas Morning News reports a first quarter net loss of $103.1 million, some of…
By now, perhaps you’ve heard that earlier this week, Addison-based American Community Newspapers –publisher of the Plano Star Courier, the McKinney Courier-Gazette and the Frisco Enterprise among dozens of papers scattered across four states — filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company said there would be “no change in…
Two follow-ups in this particular radio round-up. First, I exchanged a few messages with Alan Ayo via Facebook, and the long and short of it is, he’s not at all upset that Clear Channel gave him his walking papers yesterday. Writes the former midday host and music director at KDGE-FM:I’m…
Back in January, Clear Channel laid off 1,800 employees, several of whom were good Friends of Unfair Park and most of whom worked in ad sales. Today comes news that the San Antonio-based conglomerate has laid off more folks in a second round of budget-cutting — and gone even deeper…
Jeff Catlin, operations manager for Cumulus Radio Dallas, says it took all of “five, six weeks, maybe” for station management to decide to drop The Bone and rechristen its classic-rock outlet as “FM93.3 Quality Rock.” Says Catlin, The Bone “had needed a face lift for some time” — because, well,…
This morning, The Dallas Morning News released its circulation stats covering the last six months, and, as to be expected, they’re down: “Daily circulation in the same period was 331,907 and 474,923 for Sunday, representing a reduction of 9.9% and 8.7% respectively, compared with the six-month period ended March 31,…
George Gimarc called yesterday — and, look, if you would have told me when I was 13 that one day I’d grow up and be friends with the voice behind The Rock and Roll Alternative … well, anyway. He told me about something he’s been planning for months now: a…
If nothing else, the paper version of Unfair Park has a most devoted reader in one George Rodrigue, the Dallas Morning News managing editor who, yet again, tears himself from the ads in the back of the Dallas Observer just long enough to read Schutze. As Jim’s out of the…
Silly me, somehow thinking that the sports content of a sports talk radio station mattered. In the midst of America’s most recognizable sports brand taking its product to a new radio station, a lot of Sportatorium readers clamored merely for monthly ratings. I aim to please. Did it for January and…
Richie’s just returned from Jerry Jones’s EnormoDome out in some place called “Arlington,” and he brings news: Your Dallas Cowboys have a new radio home. (Which, sure, is very old news to anyone who reads Sportatorium, as Richie will remind you.) He’s got all the details, but this note seemed…
True story: Back in 2004 I was preparing to go to the Summer Olympics in Greece as a reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. In preparation for what was potentially a hostile, dangerous, terroristy, post-9/11 environment, all Knight-Ridder newspaper chain employees headed overseas were required to undergo special security training. CPR…
