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Thursday, July 5, 2007
7/6: Survivor radio
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I wrote a blog entry a couple months back about 920/WGKA’s Hub Radio Show, which features local citizens gabbing about politics and other topics and listeners voting people off if they don’t think they can hack it. It airs on Saturdays at 6 and Sundays at 7. Here’s a story that ran in the Friday’s print edition..
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7/6: ABC says Cavemen back in ATL
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
The producers for ABC’s upcoming sitcom “Cavemen” based on the Geico spokesmen have changed their minds again.
Pilots are often changed before airtime and a spokeswoman for the production company Thursday emailed me after seeing my item a couple of days ago about this topic and wrote, “It’s actually back in Atlanta.” I called her and she said she had no clue about why there was a change in the first place. I’ve requested to talk to a producer about this.
Originally set in Atlanta, according to the original press accounts, the show’s original pilot sent to TV writers had the show based in seaside Norfolk, Va. The opening scene in the pilot shows a newscast referencing a robbery on Dominion Ave. and the caveman weather forecaster doing a report for Norfolk. Plus, the promo photo above shows the cast standing by a bunch of yachts that are clearly in some sort of harbor. That same background is also apparent briefly about six minutes into the pilot as the three main characters walk toward their station wagon.
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7/6: Analog Comcast customers lose CMT, Hallmark
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Comcast Atlanta, which is in 800,000 households in metro Atlanta, has been pushing folks to move to digital cable for years now and the cable company just gave another incentive to do so by recently dropping Hallmark and CMT from the analog basic cable lineup.
Hallmark, once on Channel 77, is now at Channel 137 for digital cable customers. CMT used to be on Channel 78 and is now at Channel 168. Basic analog customers now get nothing on 77 and 78.
Comcast spokesman David Williams said about 1/3 of its customers remain on analog but he has seen an “uptick” in transfers to the digital side since the change a month ago. He said Comcast made this move to clear up bandwidth for HD channels.
Tthe pricing is the same for basic analog cable ($49.99) and basic digital cable so there is really no excuse not to switch over. Basic digital cable now provides Hallmark, CMT and the following that analog does not get:
C-Span2, MoviePlex, NBC Weather Plus, Azteca America, Telefutura, Daystar, Atlanta Interfaith Broadcasters, 47 digital music channels, Comcast On Demand and an On Screen Programming Guide.
For folks who use rabbit ears, the FCC is going to make analog transmission obsolete on February 17, 2009 and will force people with older TVs to buy digital converters or new TVs that take digital signals only. According to the FCC site, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), a part of the Department of Commerce, can provide up to two coupons per household worth $40 each toward the purchase of digital-to-analog set-top converter boxes for analog TVs.
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7/5: 27 stations helping March of Dimes
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
In an unprecedented charity event for March of Dimes, virtually every radio station in Atlanta will be helping out March of Dimes on July 24 in an event dubbed “Breakfast for Babies.” The current total is 27.
The following Atlanta radio stations are participating:
WZGC - 92.9 FM , WSTR - 94.1 FM , WUBL - 94.9 FM , WBTS - 95.5 FM , WKLS - 96.1 FM , WLTM - 96.7, WSRV - 97.1 FM , WPZE - 97.5 FM , WSB - 98.5 FM, WNNX - 99.7 FM, WWWQ - 100.5 FM , WKHX - 101.5 FM, WAMJ- 102.5 FM, WVEE - 103.3 FM, WALR- 104.1 FM, WFSH - 104.7 FM, WBZY - 105.3 FM, WWVA - 105.7 FM, WYAY - 106.7 FM, WJZZ - 107.5 FM, WHTA - 107.9 FM, WDWD - 590 AM, WGST - 640 AM, WSB - 750 AM, WQXI - 790 AM, WGKA- 920 AM, WAOK- 1380 AM, WGKA-920AM, WAOK-1380AM
Many stations are currently finding breakfast spots to place their morning personalities. Star 94’s Tom Sullivan, for instance, will be at the White House restaurant that day collecting money.
“I think all of us put our individual agendas aside for the greater cause of the March of Dimes,” said Rick Caffey, general manager of V-103, WAOK-AM and Dave FM.
It appears all the major FM stations are included. David Dickey, preident and GM for 680/The Fan, said he needs to get more details before he commits to the event but he expects the station will participate. Atlanta radio has worked with March of Dimes for years holding an annual charity event called the AIR Awards in December.
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Georgia Radio Hall of Fame
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