Subject: Broadcast Media

• TV Ratings, Courtesy of Houstoned Guest Commentator Conchita Maria Guadalupe Maria Hortencia Juanita Maria Garcia Gomez Gonzalez de Smith

  November 30, 2007

• This TV Will Eat Your Baby

  December 14, 2007

• Rap-a-Lot’s J. Prince Sues Apple, BET

  December 19, 2007

• These Things Don't Fit

  August 5, 2008

• Back To Normal Programming

  August 5, 2008

• Obama Ads On The Air In Houston?

  October 13, 2008

• GOP Party -- Not So Much

  November 4, 2008

• Houston Radio's Sports-Talk Battle Goes On

  The latest ratings are out, and there's a bit of a surprise in Houston sports-talk radio -- the fledgling outsider, KGOW, has made a bit of a name for itself.As we wrote about a year and a half ago, Houston is -- very oddly -- the home of four sports-talk radio stations. It's odd because even when you add up the ratings for all those stations, they don't come close to what the biggest station in Dallas gets all on its own.At the time we wrote, KGOW ("The Game") was not yet on the air, but it was

  January 6, 2009

• Houston Radio's Sports-Talk Battle Goes On

  The latest ratings are out, and there's a bit of a surprise in Houston sports-talk radio -- the fledgling outsider, KGOW, has made a bit of a name for itself.As we wrote about a year and a half ago, Houston is -- very oddly -- the home of four sports-talk radio stations. It's odd because even when you add up the ratings for all those stations, they don't come close to what the biggest station in Dallas gets all on its own.At the time we wrote, KGOW ("The Game") was not yet on the air, but it was

  January 6, 2009

• Layoffs At Clear Channel

  Sneakily timing things to get overshadowed by the Inauguration, media giant Clear Channel is implementing what are expected to be big layoffs at its many radio stations across the country.A tipster tells us the ax has started falling in Houston, where 15 people have reportedly been let go, and there's talk of guards escorting them out of the building.We don't know if that includes any big names; we'll let you know if we find out.Update: The cuts have hit hard in the sales department locally, we

  January 20, 2009

• Fight for Your Right

  June 4, 2009

• Station Break

  February 8, 1996

• Can't Get It Out of My Head: David Allan Coe's "Whips and Things" (NSFW)

  That lovable scamp Mojo Nixon just played this song on his Sirius XM Outlaw Country shift, and now only God knows when Rocks Off is going to be able to scrub his mind clean of "Pussy-Eatin' Pamela," "Suck-'em Silly Shirley" and a few others he can't bring himself to type. And, in case you are denser than plutonium, yes, this is extremely NSFW. Allow Rocks Off to repeat: N. S. F. W. But it's a scream.  Look at it this way: Rocks Off could have posted Coe's "Masturbation Blues"...

  February 3, 2009

• Played Out

  April 23, 1998

• The Great American Soccer Boom: Not Gonna Happen

  Photo by faeryboots Last week, I wrote a post about the Rockets lowering ticket prices, and I made a comment about the Dynamo playing in a minor league. And that is a comment that I stand by, though several of you got upset. And the responses that I got were the same as I always get: soccer is the most popular sport in the world and that the sport and the MLS are growing inside of the United States. And I'm really sick of hearing these responses. Because I've been hearing this crap since I

  March 10, 2009

• The Great American Soccer Boom: Not Gonna Happen

  Photo by faeryboots Last week, I wrote a post about the Rockets lowering ticket prices, and I made a comment about the Dynamo playing in a minor league. And that is a comment that I stand by, though several of you got upset. And the responses that I got were the same as I always get: soccer is the most popular sport in the world and that the sport and the MLS are growing inside of the United States. And I'm really sick of hearing these responses. Because I've been hearing this crap since I

  March 10, 2009

• Houston Radio's Sports-Talk Battle Goes On

  The latest ratings are out, and there's a bit of a surprise in Houston sports-talk radio -- the fledgling outsider, KGOW, has made a bit of a name for itself.As we wrote about a year and a half ago, Houston is -- very oddly -- the home of four sports-talk radio stations. It's odd because even when you add up the ratings for all those stations, they don't come close to what the biggest station in Dallas gets all on its own.At the time we wrote, KGOW ("The Game") was not yet on the air, but it was

  January 6, 2009

• New Found Glory: Not Without a Fight

  April 2, 2009

• Design Haters and Soccer lovers

  March 19, 2009

• Pirate Radio USA

  February 19, 2009

• Streamlining the Hit-Making Process

  Clear Channel wants to cut the indies out of the deal

  November 8, 2001

• Clinton Jackson

  August 28, 2008

• Free Kick Masters 2008

  It’s a soccer showdown worth $1.5 million

  July 3, 2008

• Gary Stewart

  Friday, November 29

  November 28, 2002

• The White Stripes

  Get Behind Me Satan

  June 9, 2005

• Her Prince Will Come

  Catch a rising star with a purple legend

  March 2, 2006

• Softy Supergroup

  August 10, 2006

• Sports talk radio stations fight for listeners in Houston

  Jock Talk

  June 28, 2007

• Rogue Waves

  A new report cuts through the static on the radio industry

  January 11, 2007

• Blocked Signals

  City, county officials silence a proposed radio station inside the Dome

  September 15, 2005

• How Long, Oh, Lord, How Long

  Another outpost of crap plops onto the Houston dial, as this open letter reveals

  September 30, 2004

• Best Weathercaster

  Frank Billingsley

  September 25, 2003

• Waves of Fascination

  Shortwave radio: Where the lunatic fringe lives, breathes and flourishes

  June 19, 2003

• The Shannon Brothers Family Christmas

  Thursday, December 19 through Sunday, December 23

  December 19, 2002

• Best Traffic Reports

  Susie Loucks The KIKK Chick, KIKK/95.7 FM

  September 26, 2002

• After M*A*S*H

  Larry Gelbart is one of TV's last great writers. So why can't he stay tuned?

  July 18, 2002

• Flunk You

  If Fox expels Undeclared, blame everyone but Judd Apatow

  February 21, 2002

• Net Loss

  The government killed TV, and Hollywood's begging it to revive the corpse

  February 14, 2002

• Racket

  Clear Channel keeps the air free of insensitive songs

  September 27, 2001

• School's Out

  When Fox-TV canceled American High, the network hit a new low

  September 7, 2000

• Platinum Dreams

  Local Latium Records rides pop Latin wave to success

  January 6, 2000

• Pump Up the Volume

  December 2, 1999

• Mix Master

  Who do we have to thank for Rod Stewart every hour on the hour? This guy, Guy Zapoleon.

  November 18, 1999

• Howard's End

  Dallas ran Howard Stern out of town. Could Houston be any more hospitable?

  August 19, 1999

• Cloaked in Ambition

  Houston's Drapes have more on their minds than simply getting by

  September 10, 1998

• Earl of Blues

  May 21, 1998

• DCI 2009: The Countdown

  May 7, 2009

• KCOH Up For Sale, But Staying Put

  One of the more interesting bits of music-related legislation to come up recently is the bill known as the Performance Rights Act. Drafted as House Resolution 848, sponsored by House Judiciary Committee chairman Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) and co-sponsored by a host of legislators including Houston Democrat Sheila Jackson Lee, H.R. 848 would require broadcasters to pay a fee to performers for using their material. On May 13, the House Judiciary Committee approved H.R. 848 21-9; it now faces a heari

  May 27, 2009

• Another Perspective on the Performance Rights Act

  Wednesday, Rocks Off spoke with KCOH general manager Mike Petrizzo, who voiced his concerns about the financial hardships the proposed Performance Rights Act - which would compensate performers when their songs are broadcast on terrestrial radio the same way songwriters and publishers are - could potentially impose on his and similarly sized radio stations. Well, as they say in the movies, there's two sides to every story, so this afternoon we spoke with Lovie Smith-Wright, president of the Hous

  May 28, 2009

• This Week In Beyonce: Did Kelly Clarkson Bite "Halo"?

  (Listen to "Halo" here) Texas' two biggest pop divas are currently embroiled in a feud only the media could love. It seems Kelly Clarkson's latest single from her album All I Ever Wanted, "Already Gone," sounds a lot like Beyonce's recent Top 5 smash, "Halo." Turns out there's a good reason for this - both songs share a backing track. It's a pretty important track too... as in the melody. Clarkson told the Canadian Broadcasting Company that she didn't know her "Already" co-writer, OneRepublic f

  July 28, 2009