Did Michael Jackson get himself an egg and beat it?

Did "Weird Al" Yankovic ever think of doing a third parody of Jackson's song?

Why does Jackson Drive sound so close to Jackson Five?

Two radio stations in San Diego share in the Jackson name. JACK 100.7 and KSON 97.3. If they merged, would it become JACK-KSON 100.7/97.3?

If Al Franken ran for president in 2016 with Ben Stein as his runningmate, would the ticket be called the Franken Stein ticket?

If Roger Hedgecock launched a Straight Pride parade, would women dressed as straight men and vice versa be allowed to march?

Casey Kasem's Final Countdown (July 3, 2009)

This weekend, some remaining affilliates will be airing the series finale of Casey Kasem's countdown shows: American Top 20 with Casey Kasem, and American Top 10 with Casey Kasem. Affilliates chose which version to air.

Casey is retiring from his countdown shows to focus on other projects.

Some radio affilliates, plus Sirius XM radio, air Casey Kasem's first two decades of his American Top 40 countdown shows from the past. Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 70s, and Casey Kasem's American Top 40: The 80s. These two are replays of AT40 shows from the respective decades.

Since his first edition of his countdown show, American Top 40 first syndicated through Watermark Inc with the July 4, 1970 Billboard survey, Kasem has become a legend along the likes of Wolfman Jack, Dick Clark, and Alan Freed, as well as an inspiration to future countdown hosts like Rick Dees and Ryan Seacrest.

Througout the years, Kasem has shown enthusiasm in the world of popular music, as he not only counts them down, he finds interesting things to do with the trivia about the people behind the music, the artists, the past chart performances, artists with the most #1 or #2 without hitting #1 on the pop singles charts, one-hit wonders, background about the songs, and more including long distance dedications, playing the past #1 songs from the Top 40 Archives from a decade, and recapping the top three songs of the previous week. In a way, since I discovered his show on 1360 KGB back in April 1977 by accident, he has somehow made listening to top 40 music interesting instead of just being played without learning anything beyond the name of the artist and the song.

The first affilliate of the AT40 franchise happened to be in El Cajon. The now defunct KDEO 910 was the closest AT40 affilliate to Los Angeles, which didn't have a station to air the show until later on.

Kasem hosted AT40 from 1970 until 1988. From January 1989 until March 1998, he was host of Casey's Top 40, Casey's Hot 20, and Casey's Countdown, syndicated by the Westwodo One Radio Networks.

In March 28, 1998, Casey got the AT40 name back from ABC and hosted the show syndicated by AMFM Radio syndication until January 3, 2004. He retired from that show because he was tired of competeting against his other two countdown shows. Seacrest succeeded him with the January 10 show.

In August 2006, XM Satellite Radio, now merged with Sirius Satellite Radio, began airing newly restored versions of the original American Top 40 radio show from the 1970s and 1980s. Premiere Radio Networks also started airing reruns of AT40 (dating from 1970 to 1978 & 1980-1988) in January 2007.

Before Casey's AT40 show. Dick Clark hosted a short-lived syndicated top 40 countdown show in 1963, but lasted less than a year. In 1981, he created The Dick Clark National Music Survey for the Mutual Broadcasting System, which counted down the Top 30 contemporary hits of the week, in direct competition with American Top 40. After he left Mutual in 1986, he turned over National Music Survey duties to Charlie Tuna, and took over hosting duties of another show, Countdown America, whose previous host John Leader had left to create yet another similar program, Countdown USA. By the 1990s, Clark hosted U.S. Music Survey, which he hosted up until his 2004 stroke.

Other countdown shows that came along include the long lasting Rick Dees Weekly Top 40, which included comedy segments. For a long time, Dees, Clark, and Kasem were competeting head to head against each other for countdown show supremacy.

When Casey left AT40 after the August 6, 1988 edition, he later surfaced on Casey's Top 40 on January 21, 1989. AT40 continued on with Shadoe Stevens with the August 13, 1988 edition, and that lasted until AT40 signed off in January 28, 1995. For six years, there were four countdown shows competeting against each other with Stevens, Kasem, Dees, and Clark, with Tuna's show possibly lasting into the 90s, making it five countdown shows for radio stations to choose from. Many stations dropped the AT40 show in favor of either Kasem's or Dees's countdown shows.

These pop music countdown surveys gave the listeners a reason why some songs get played more often while some others disappearred from the airwaves after a few weeks. The surveys showed how well they performed on the chart or how poorly they did. Obviously, the musicians want the songs to be in the top 10, and even number one, in order to be among the songs that keep on getting airplay for many months or years to come.

AT40 gave the listener an education about popular music, something that the public schools fail to do. With AT40, listeners got stories behind the music, who the people in the bands were, what songs from the recent past are still relevant, which current songs at the time were covers of earlier songs, music industry news of some degree, and what kinds of sounds of pop music were hot at which years. By listening to the successive countdown shows going from 1970 through 2009, you get an idea what phases in music came and went such as mellow, soul, glam rock, disco, new wave, urban country, synth rock, freestyle, new jack swing, grunge, hip hop, modern rock, electronica, and more based on what the overall top 40 charts actually sounded like. You get an overall feeling of what the mood of the music was at the time when you listen to a past top 40 survey of a given date.

While Kasem is hanging up his radio microphone, he leaves behind a 39 year legacy that was originally inspired by other radio countdown shows before him, except that Kasem added his own ten percent to make it a survey that's often imitated but never duplicated.

The Wires (July 3, 2009)

TV Tech: Over the Air Mobile DTV Launched

TV Tech: More Stragglers Make the Transition. The total number of DTV-less homes now stands at 1.7 million, or 1.5 percent of U.S. homes.

MyTV13 Now in DTV (July 2, 2009)

Kurt Hanson: President Obama signed the Webcaster Settlement Act of 2009 into law yesterday. The legislation legalizes any royalty rate agreement negotiated between webcasters and SoundExchange. Those settlements must be reached within the next 30 days. The previous Webcaster Settlement Act of 2008 set a deadline of February 15, but SoundExchange did not reach agreements with some groups of webcasters by that date.

CNN: CNN Poll: Americans worry Obama health care plan will increase costs.

WSJ: Wal-Mart Backs Drive to Make Companies Pay for Health Coverage.

NY Times: Insured, but Bankrupted by Health Crises.

The Los Angeles Board reports a significant, but expected, call letter change for 97.1. Gone are the KLSX call letters that used to mean classic rock (and Howard Stern) and more recently all-talk. Now to complement the new CHR “Amp 97.1” format, CBS files for new calls of KAMP.

CHR KLSX (97.1 Amp Radio)/Los Angeles is changing its call letters to KAMP. The station has had the KLSX call letters since 1986.

TV Newsday: The cloudy outlook for VHF-DTV.

Inside Music Media: The spin doctors at Clear Channel who first bragged of 100,000 fans at the B93 Concert Bash quickly revised that number downward to 80,000. Funny about that -- can you imagine a radio station changing an attendance figure so that it winds up being lower for a popular annual event? Their current estimate has been downgraded again like a hurricane to a tropical storm – except now their official attendance figure is 60,000. Maybe they can't count. Maybe they don't want to count. If you want to know why a spectacular event feels compelled to keep downgrading the attendance – kind of the opposite of what you’d expected – it’s because Clear Channel is in a heap of trouble .

Hear 2.0: One of the biggest mistakes the radio industry makes is to embrace and encourage "feel-good" statistics from Nielsen, Arbitron, and others that look for and find the good news. There's nothing wrong with good news, of course. But the world knows when you're not telling the whole story and it damages the credibility of the story-teller and our industry, both .

Radio Ink: San Antonio Paper: Is 'Bell Tolling' For Clear Channel?. The San Antonio Express News, in Clear Channel's hometown, says Clear Channel's lenders "evidently want to steer the company into bankruptcy." The paper's David Hendricks writes that "no one sees a way out" for the broadcast and outdoor giant.

Randy Dotinga: Jackson-o-rama isn't radio norm.

Commentary...Clear Channel, Sell Your San Diego Cluster! (July 1, 2009)

Clear Channel can start by selling its entire San Diego cluster at once. Pronto. No excuses. Sell it as a whole, or piece by piece.

Clear Channel and its predecessor Jacor Communications turned San Diego radio totally upside down since 1998. First, Jacor sold two FM stations to a Spanish language broadcaster so they can acquire two more stations in 1998. Later, to reduce their excess station count when a merger made the FCC count KFI Los Angeles as a Clear Channel San Diego station, the company sold KSDO 1130 to Chase Radio Partners solely because one of the CEOs had a seat on Chase's board. When Chase sold KSDO, they sold it to a Spanish language broadcaster. Later, when the FCC said that Mexican JSAs or LMAs count towards the total station count in San Diego, they moved the oldies to a Mexican station on 99.3, flipped it to Spanish, then sold its LMA to a Spanish language broadcaster. Clear Channel apparently hates music that's good such as nostalgia and oldies because they replaced KPOP with Air America and moved Fabulous pop standards from KLAC to XTRA 690, which they were getting rid of, and a Spanish language operator took its LMA. Clear Channel sold all except 91X, Z90, and Magic to Spanish language broadcasters to reduce their station count and to minimize their potential new competetion.

Not only has Clear Channel ruined CHR radio beyond repair, its voicetracking the shifts, outsourcing the local news to its cluster in Los Angeles, KGB and Rock are uninspiring, Star isn't the kind Midwest Television once ran a decade ago, Country is a flop, Sports is a flop, KOGO's news is basically a skeleton of its former self, and it's the only radio news operation of any kind in San Diego.

Stale playlists that insult the intelligence of anybody with a Masters degree are the norm for Clear Channel. CHR is for teenage girls. Hot A/C is for women. Country is leaning towards women. Classic rock is for people who don't know that Sirius XM channels 49 and 46 can bring it to you without commercials and wider music selection, and Rock is for headbanging young men who are comfortable with mostly noise. Right wing wackos are the norm for KOGO. XTRA isn't adding anything that's a must listen either.

Worse of all, they exploit the death of Danielle Van Damm in 2002 to its extreme. It's so bad that nobody can parody the amount of overcoverage Clear Channel, local TV, and KFMB has done. Good thing that I got MP3 downloads in my car in 2002 so that I don't have to listen to all of the repetetive bullshit during that year.

In short, Clear Channel is failing San Diego, and they need to vacate that building on Granite Ridge as soon as possible. They're not doing anything for San Diego if there's nothing in it for them.

Anyone from Free Radio San Diego wanna take a stab at Rock 105.3? How about bringing back Ugly Bob in the mornings on KGB-FM? Best of all, Ryan Seacrest and voicetracking will be gone from the local airwaves, replaced with live onair personalities that are in touch with what we want to hear.

Billy Mays Died (July 1, 2009)

The FCC has slapped ATERET ISRAEL and NETAN ELI HEBREW ACADEMY with notices to cease unlicensed operation of a radio station on 92.1 FM in LOS ANGELES. The notice, filed JUNE 5th for a violation observed MAY 28th, says that agents confirmed the operation by direction finding techniques and ordered the school to cease broadcasting immediately. The unlicensed operation aired on the first adjacent channel to Urban AC KHHT on 92.3 FM.

Bruce Springsteen 4th Celebration (July 1, 2009)

E Street Radio's extensive 4th of July programming will also include a performance by fellow Jersey-shore rocker Southside Johnny from the legendary Stone Pony in Asbury Park, New Jersey. The performance will be recorded live on Thursday, July 2 and will air on Friday, July 3 at 8:00 pm ET.

E Street Radio listeners will also hear archived Bruce Springsteen July 4th concerts from the past, including the July 4, 1985 concert at Wembley Stadium, England, the July 4, 1992 concert in Barcelona, Spain and specially selected songs from a performance in 2008 in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Lastly, to celebrate the 4th of July, E Street Radio will feature the best loved live "party songs" from the band's storied live performances, selected from various Springsteen concerts over the years.

E Street Radio, SIRIUS channel 10 and XM channel 58, gives SIRIUS XM listeners unprecedented access to the music of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, including concert broadcasts, rare archival recordings as well as insider reports and breaking news. For more information, please visit www.sirius.com/estreetradio or www.xmradio.com/estreetradio.

For up-to-date news and information on Bruce Springsteen, please visit www.brucespringsteen.net.

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On Friday, July 10, Los Angeles station KSWD (100.3 The Sound) will be presenting an all-day tribute to KMET, which was Dr. Demento's flagship station from 1972 to 1987.

Dr. Demento will be featured live on the air between 7 and 8 PM Pacific time. Dementites can also stream the broadcast online at this time at www.thesoundla.com.

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Mad Music Comedy Zone Special: Michael Jackson Remembered (June 30, 2009)

Kurt Hanson: Autonet, a provider of in-car Wi-Fi Internet service, has begun selling its services directly to consumers. The company previously relied on car makers and dealers to sell their Wi-Fi product, but has "cut out the middle man" in the face of sinking new car sales. Autonet's target: car owners looking to upgrade their current set of wheels.

Inside Music Media: Michael Jackson is still dead and radio is still voice tracking. Back to reality this morning. Late last week when Michael Jackson died suddenly at his Los Angeles home, the radio industry was caught with its pants down and voice tracking up. This is not to say that some stations did not respond -- the ones programmed by real live individuals and/or those who actually had control of their company's voice tracking did the right thing for their listeners. For too many, radio was caught sleeping while new media was feeding the need of the public to know, mourn publicly and appreciate the talents of this great iconic performer. TMZ broke the news and owned the story from start to finish. That's TMZ like in gossip website -- no matter that it is owned by Time Warner

Ron Jacobs: I first heard Michael Jackson on the radio in the early 60s in San Francisco and later in Los Angeles. He was erudite, sophisticated and verbally skilled. Not unusual for one born in the United Kingdom. But what made this Brit unusual was that he was a first generation "talk radio" host . Jackson began broadcasting when Rush Limbaugh was barely out of diapers

Michael Jackson Talk Radio: A strange day, for me. My 'phones haven't stopped; mostly calls from family and friends, in several parts of the world, calling and writing to confirm that the news reports of Michael Jackson's death, were referring to the singing, dancing, mega-star. A 50 year life that might well have been enchanted, but turned from super-talent to a self-imposed complexity and tragedy. What a pained life. The little boy from Neverland, who would rather to have never grown up (read more - www.MichaelJacksonTalkRadio.com)

FMQB: Will Clear Channel Sell More Stations? Could San Diego be on the list?

Radio Ink: FCC OK's AM Rebroadcasts On FM Translators. The FCC has changed its rules to allow AM stations to use currently authorized FM translators to retransmit within their coverage areas, to "better serve their local communities and thus promote the commission's bedrock goals of localism, competition, and diversity in the broadcast media." Daytime-only AMs will be allowed to originate programming over translators in hours when they'd otherwise be off the air.

10 Years Ago on Dave's Radio Waves (May 28, 2009)

Jun 25, 1999: "Baby" Delivered, And Now...The Rest of the Album, Correction on the Viejas Indian TV Deal, Progressive Rock and Roll You Asked?, Weird Al Debut Delayed on Dr. Demento, Area HBC Websites, CTN Has a New Website, Groove Music Web Links, Hear World Music on Web Radio, Lollipop Radio

Join the San Diego Radio Wiki Project (June 22, 2009)

sandiegoradio is a new non-profit project designed to be a one-stop reference place for all things San Diego Radio related.

We need to have a comprehensive directory of what is what in the world of San Diego radio.

Examples of what we need include the history of radio stations, programming, personalities, bloggers, companies, and marketing contests in San Diego radio history. More to be added as time allows and membership grows.

I intend initially to limit editing to only approved users until we get enough users that vandalism could be easily taken care of.

Yes, if you are a San Diego radio personality, writer, historian, etc.... you can make a page for yourself (in fact, I encourage it), just try to make a best effort to keep the tone neutral.

I guess the first place to start is to add in the SDN page here: http://sandiegoradio.wikispaces.com/sandiegoradionews

Haier Portable DTV (June 11, 2009)

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Freedom of speech. It is our most cherished privilege as Americans, guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution since 1791. But at the dawn of a new presidential administration, an epic battle is looming -- a battle for our airwaves that could sharply curtail or silence altogether the freedom of expression that distinguishes America from the average dictatorship. The target of this battle is conservative talk radio.

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