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It's World Radio Day. La-Di-Freakin'-Da.

Normally, Rocks Off gets all giddy when we get to put together a playlist to celebrate an obscure holiday. However, today is World Radio Day, as declared by last year by the United Nations (the best source of obscure holidays), and it's put us in a foul mood. The reason is that recent automotive mi ... More >>

App of the Week: Pandora vs. iHeartRadio

If you haven't been paying attention, a very tiny little war has been brewing over access to the ears of people who like to listen to radio online or on their smart phones. I say it's a tiny war because, at the moment, it is. While many of us who love music and like to listen to it a lot will do wha ... More >>

The Former KTRU Being Added to iHeartRadio App

According to a report on Billboard.com, iHeartRadio, an online streaming service with a companion smart phone app owned by Clear Channel communications, Rice Radio (formerly KTRU) is one of 14 college radio station being added to the streaming platform in an effort to broaden the company's radio off ... More >>

Where's the Rock?

106.9 The Zone misses The Point.

Cougars Not Getting Respect From ESPN -- Or Their Own Flagship Station (Updated)

Is this where they got their UH-UTEP announcers from?​I've got an idea for the Houston Cougars. Instead of wasting time going after beat writers for trying to find out health information on players, maybe they should instead use that valuable time for more important things. Like making sure the TV ... More >>

The Opening Day Street Festival Is in Full Swing

Photo by Marco Torres​It's not just a nice day out -- it's a nice Opening Day. And the street festival in front of Minute Maid Park is already in full swing.A ton of Clear Channel radio stations are on hand, there are interactive games, Junction Jack is walking around, and later this afterno ... More >>

"The Sports Animal" Does Some Shedding

Is one of the myriad sports-talk radio stations in town beginning to blink in their eyeball-to-eyeball-to-eyeball-to-eyeball battle?Clear Channel, the communications giant, swung the layoff ax across the country today, and it hit notably in Houston.The biggest names: Brad Davies and Craig Rober ... More >>

Defending The Buzz: Does 94.5 FM Really Suck That Bad?

What with Creed reuniting, BuzzFest coming up in a couple of weeks and, hell, maybe even the swine-flu scare - As in: What's worse than coming down with swine flu? A Houston radio that only tunes in 94.5 FM - Rocks Off sure has been thinking a lot about The Buzz lately. Probably too much. I mean, it ... More >>

The Last Place You Look

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 ... More >>

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 y ... More >>

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 y ... More >>

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 y ... More >>

Songs Not To Play At Intercontinental Airport's New Karaoke Booth

So now there's a karaoke booth at Intercontinental Airport. According to the Houston Chronicle, travelers can choose from "hundreds of titles."We got to wondering this morning about what's in their song selections there and more to the point -- what isn't.We imagine that the management of IAH's kara ... More >>

HISD Gets A New Media Guru

Holy Crap: "Chinese Democracy" is Real

KTRH's Joe Pags -- Gone, But Not Far

Clear Channel Has The Balls CBS Doesn't, When It Comes To Semi-Controversial Billboards

Houston Radio Stations on the Selling Block

Toadies, Lions

Straight Talk with World Net Daily

Sports talk radio stations fight for listeners in Houston

Jock Talk

Haunts

They'll scare the crap out of you

Not That We Don't Love the Classics...

Reach for the Stars

Astra Heights returns from L.A. with a major-label deal in hand

Rock Radio (and Rock Romano) Redux

Bo knows good rock when he sees it. Do Houston radio programmers?

Radio Daze

One man, one jambox and four walls. For 24 hours.

Trend-Spotting

In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote

Trend-Spotting

In a scandal-ridden election year, the year's top ten music stories were all about winning the popular vote

Adios, KLOL

For the first time in Houston, Clear Channel makes a refreshing change

Blizzard of Oz

Dubya, Ashlee and Bill O'Reilly have spun Racket's mind into the twilight zone; also, two local retro-cool institutions bite the dust

Horrific Haikus

Death-metal band names make for fun magnetic poetry

Cruel Summer

Are we hearing the death rattle of the sheds?

What He Said

Houston's new top cop may bring his own language barrier

Drat!

Racket proposes a rock radio revolution. Clear Channel beats him to the punch.

Bash-ing the Bigwigs

Come Super Bowl week, you can still party downtown, even if you're not very important

Letters

Static on the Dial

Shady ethics and racism behind the scenes at Clear Channel radio? That's what ex-employee June Garcia Sherman is claiming in a lawsuit

Billboard Blues

Peace signs in Houston get shot at, a group says. What's safe?

Best Traffic Reports

Susie Loucks The KIKK Chick, KIKK/95.7 FM

A Rave Mistake

Apparently the U.S. Senate has little better to do than hassle the pacifier-and-glow-stick set

Damming the Streams

The major labels want the Internet to be as arid as the airwaves

Bringing Out the Dead

A Titanic tribute to all the people who died, died

Streamlining the Hit-Making Process

Clear Channel wants to cut the indies out of the deal

Running on Empty

Local political campaigns struggle to get news coverage

Racket

Clear Channel keeps the air free of insensitive songs

Right-Wing Revolt

Local conservative talk radio lives to rant again

2001: A Bell Mayoral Odyssey?

Councilman Chris tests the waters against Brown

Be Positive and Nice

"Marvelous" test scores