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radio stories: 93 news summaries

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 Where Glenn Beck Came From 

Talk-show host developed style from 26 years in radio

Sep 21, 09 6:24 PM CDT
(Newser) - One could be forgiven for thinking that Glenn Beck emerged, fully formed, from some radio talk-show host birthing chamber. But the Beck of today was once a pot-smoking teen from a broken home in Washington who considered suicide, a Salon profile reveals. Beck would later clash with Mormons at an... More »

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radio • talk radio • conservative • Fox News • Glenn Beck

 Maybe Obama's 'Half-White 
 Side' Is Racist: Limbaugh 

Also, president's media 'lust' is Castroesque

Sep 16, 09 12:08 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh yesterday capped off a free-wheeling show on the scourge of racism in America by suggesting that Obama’s white half is racist because he hasn’t thrown a bone to his Kenyan relatives, Media Matters reports. “I'm just going on Newsweek, that we're all born racists, and... More »

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Kenya • radio • Fidel Castro • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • Kanye West • Serena Williams • racism • homosexuality • talk show • President Obama • Rush Limbaugh racist quotes

 Imus Joins Fox Business 

Fox deal returns host to cable news after 2007 race controversy

Sep 3, 09 12:03 PM CDT
(Newser) - Don Imus has completed a deal to simulcast his radio show on Fox Business Network TV beginning Oct. 5, Mediabistro reports. Imus has gotten out of his simulcast deal with RFD-TV. On FBN, he'll add more business news, and Fox Business Morning hosts Jenna Lee, Connell McShane, and Ashley Webster... More »

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radio • Don Imus • Fox Business Network • Imus in the Morning • host • cable news • business news

OPINION

 Radio Was Gonna 
 Kill Newspapers, Too 


Aug 4, 09 11:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - As newspapers hemorrhage cash, the refrain is getting louder: the Web is sucking away their audiences and can never replicate the serious journalism they offer. The argument sounds familiar, Jack Shafer writes for Slate: It’s the one newspapers used against radio 80 years ago. Radio was then seen as... More »

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radio • Internet • newspaper • online news • media coverage • print journalism • Jack Shafer • newspaper industry

(Newser) - Michael Savage is on a roll: First the Brits take him off the "hate promoters" list that had him banned from the country, and now Kelefa Sanneh has an affectionate profile of the heretical conservative shock jock in the New Yorker. The toxic soundbites that emerge from Savage's show,... More »

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radio • shock jocks • Michael Savage • conservative media

Casey Kasem Hangs Up His Headphones

Legendary DJ, voice of Scooby-Doo counted down hits for 39 years

Jul 6, 09 6:41 PM CDT
(Newser) - Casey Kasem counted down the week's hit songs on his radio show this weekend, then quietly dropped a bomb: He's through, effective immediately. Kasem, 77, introduced the countdown format, peppering his shows—"American Top 40," now hosted by Ryan Seacrest, was his signature achievement—with factoids,... More »

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entertainment • radio • pop music • adult contemporary • Ryan Seacrest • Casey Kasem • Jeannie Kasem • American Top 40 • countdown

24/7 Online Artist Channels Point to Radio's Future

Eagles, Christina Aguilera, Weezer to be first 'DJs'

Jun 12, 09 11:21 AM CDT
(Newser) - Musicians want to connect with fans, and radio needs to survive in the Web 2.0 era: Enter artist personal experience (a.p.e.) radio. Clear Channel launches the 24/7 online channels, featuring artists’ personal radio shows, next month. “We feel that the old model of trying to... More »

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music • radio • Clear Channel • web radio • Eagles • Weezer • Christina Aguilera • Internet radio • Jay-ZTV • artist personal experience radio

(Newser) - Obama adviser David Axelrod took the bait and appeared for a taping last night of NPR’s quiz show, Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me!—with by turns earnest and hilarious results, Politico reports. When host Peter Sagal asked if he’d been in on the presidential pooch... More »

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entertainment • radio • Peter Sagal • David Axelrod • NPR • National Public Radio • Obama administration • Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! • quiz show

 Google's Radio Ad 
 Conquest Falls Flat 

Automated advertising plan not music to industry's ears

May 12, 09 12:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Google has hit a stumbling block in its quest for world domination: A bid to “conquer radio” with its advertising program didn’t go as planned, and the firm is dropping the effort at the end of the month, the Wall Street Journal reports. The Internet giant bet its... More »

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radio • Google • advertising • AdSense • radio advertising • advertisers • ads • Jay-ZTV

 Prejean: 
 'Satan Set 
 Gay Trap 
 for Me' 

She rejected devil and 'stood up for God' on gay marriage, Prejean tells Dobson

May 12, 09 4:07 AM CDT
(Newser) - Miss California has told a Christian radio program that "Satan tried to tempt me" with the gay marriage pageant question that rocketed her into controversy. "I wanted to sound politically correct" and win the Miss USA pageant, Carrie Prejean told evangelical leader James Dobson yesterday. "Then God... More »

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radio • gay marriage • James Dobson • God • Focus on the Family • Perez Hilton • Christian right • evangelicals • Satan • devil • Carrie Prejean • Miss California

 Rush: Obama Caused Swine Flu 

President's poisonous presence apparently started pandemic

Apr 28, 09 9:48 AM CDT
(Newser) - Newspapers failing? Blame it on Obama. CNN in trouble? Obama’s fault. Swine flu? Yep, the president caused that, too, Rush Limbaugh said yesterday on his radio show, the Huffington Post reports. “Everywhere Obama is spreading Obamaism, there is a deadly disease taking place, either in the TARP community... More »

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radio • Mexico • talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • CNN • earthquake • President Obama • newspaper industry • swine flu

 Pentagon Targets Taliban Radio 

Extremist websites, radio stations to be jammed as part of new strategy

Apr 18, 09 6:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Forcing Radio Taliban off the air is a key part of the Pentagon's new Afghanistan strategy, the Wall Street Journal reports. Military communications experts are working to jam the websites and unlicensed radio stations extremists in Afghanistan in Pakistan use to proclaim their power, intimidate residents, plan attacks, and broadcast... More »

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Afghanistan • radio • Taliban • Pakistan • propaganda • US military

(Newser) - Jamie Foxx has apologized for telling 16-year-old Miley Cyrus to “make a sex tape and grow up” and “get like Britney Spears and do some heroin” on his weekend satellite radio show, OK! reports. “You guys know that whatever I say, I don't mean any... More »

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entertainment • television • radio • Jay Leno • late night talk show • apology • Tonight Show • Jamie Foxx • Miley Cyrus

ANALYSIS

 Blago 'A Natural' 
 in Radio Gig

Ex-gov bashes his trial, his successor; jokes about hair and lack of progress on book

Mar 25, 09 10:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - Morning drive-time radio could be the future for Rod Blagojevich, if the impeached Illinois’ governor’s fill-in stint today on Chicago’s WLS-AM is anything to go by, Jimmy Orr writes in live-blogging the show for the Christian Science Monitor. Amid Elvis theme music and complaints about his successor’s... More »

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radio • Chicago • corruption • impeachment • Illinois • governor • Rod Blagojevich • political scandal • Pat Quinn • Howard Stern Grid



 Why Thieves 
 Don't Care 
 About Your 
 Car Stereo 

New devices can't be transferred between cars

Mar 24, 09 8:04 AM CDT
(Newser) - More than a million car stereos were stolen in 1994, but in the past 15 years, yearly thefts have plummeted by more than half, NPR reports. Why? Automakers now install good stereos from the start, and “there's no market for factory radios because they normally don't fit in any... More »

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radio • theft • cars • car theft • stereo

ABC Newsman Murdered in Brooklyn Home

Found dead in bed
with stab wounds
to chest, neck

Mar 23, 09 6:44 AM CDT
(Newser) - A longtime ABC radio newsman was found stabbed to death in his Brooklyn home yesterday, reports the New York Daily News. George Weber, 47, was dead in his bed with wounds in his chest and neck, police said. His apartment was ransacked, but there was no sign of forced entry.... More »

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radio • New York City • crime • ABC • murder • Brooklyn • stabbing

 Don Imus Diagnosed 
 With Prostate Cancer 

Radio host tells audience of diagnosis

Mar 16, 09 10:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Shock-jock Don Imus, best known for stirring near-universal ire with his "nappy-headed hos" comment, announced on-air this morning that he has stage 2 prostate cancer, WCBS-TV in New York reports. Imus, 68, voiced confidence that "his doctors will beat it," Fox News reports, and speculated that the... More »

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cancer • radio • CBS • prostate cancer • Don Imus • ABC • Rutgers University • broadcasting

(Newser) - This apparently isn't going away anytime soon. Rush Limbaugh today challenged Barack Obama to a debate on his radio show, Politico reports. “If these guys are so impressed with themselves, and if they are so sure of their correctness, why doesn't President Obama come on my show?" he asked.... More »

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radio • talk radio • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • debate • Bill Maher • right-wing media • President Obama • Bill Maher Grid

(AP) - Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation's most familiar voices, died today in Arizona at age 90. Known for his resonant voice and trademark delivery of "The Rest of the Story," Harvey had been heard nationally since 1951,... More »

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radio • obituary • broadcasting

(Newser) - Rush Limbaugh today complained on his radio show that Democrats have morphed into "liberal socialists" and "must be stopped." That was the routine part. But he then "pushed the envelope," writes Sam Stein in the Huffington Post, with a rant that linked liberal ideas to... More »

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radio • Rush Limbaugh • conservative • talk show • liberal

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