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Tuesday, January 9, 2007
1/10: Howard Stern one year later
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Today, I’m off to Los Angeles for the Television Critics Association shindig, where the broadcast and cable networks (and PBS) highlight their programming for the upcoming few months. So my radio posts for the time being may be a bit more canned than normal and I apologize. I’ll still try to keep up, even from 3,000 miles away. And I’ll be back in Atlanta January 21.
Since I’m in flight for much of today, here’s a story to bide your time from the New York Times about Howard Stern, one year after he left terrestial radio for Sirius.. You’ll need to register for free to access the story.
Although Stern no longer has 12 million listeners a week and no longer needs to rail against the FCC and fight their restrictioins, he seems happy enough. He can do whatever he wants and believe me, from what I hear when I listen to Sirius, he does plenty of sex-related and scatalogical stuff that I can’t write about at all here.
At the end of the story, he says he has no intention to go back to FM radio.
“I swear to you on a stack of Bibles,” he said. “Load me with truth serum. I would never go back to terrestrial radio. This is it for me. This is where I will end my broadcast career.”
So for Atlanta radio listeners who get Sirius. what do you think of Stern uncensored?
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1/9: Fish 10K run, Sounds of Faith update
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Kevin Avery, the morning host of 104.7/The Fish, is trying to encourage listeners to stay fit by running 10K every morning this month on a treadmill in the studio from 5:30 a.m. til about 6:30 a.m. He has been running regularly the past three or four years and with a better diet, he has gotten his waist down from 38 inches to 32. Impressive!
I also met today with Clay Hunnicutt, the new operations manager of Clear Channel Atlanta, a post formerly held by Mike Wheeler and Tim Dukes before that. He’s also the new program director of 94.9’/The Bull while keeping his post as vice president of country programming for the entire Clear Channel chain. He also bought a house here in Atlanta, a clear sign that he plans to be around awhile despite the revolving door of execs that have tried to fix Clear Channel Atlanta in recent years.
While keeping most of the conversation in pleasant vagaries, he did say Sounds of Faith should be coming back soon, with some programming modifications, on the 94.9 signal, where it ran on Sunday mornings for 34 years.
He also said there’s a new PD for both 105.3/El Patron and Viva 105.7, who started this week. El Patron will have new on-air staff soon.
And over at the Bull, he hopes to have some on-air staff within the next 30 to 60 days but didn’t provide any clue what he was looking for. He also defended the name the Bull, saying the station (which will be female skewing, 25-54) will be defined by its personality, a station he hopes will be fun and have energy.
Plus, the new 96.7/Lite station, which is on a weak south-skewing signal, will remain jockless for the time being but there is one sales person assigned to Lite and a couple more might be added by midyear.
