The latest news about The News should come as absolutely no surprise to anyone who’s listened to the paper’s publisher and CEO, Jim Moroney, since at least February, when he told Unfair Park that, yes, sooner or later A.H. Belo would “experiment” with finding out how much online readers were…
No Roky Erickson freak-outs this Friday; no KNUS odds, sods or seeds and stems for you, dear Friends. Instead, George Gimarc offers something even more lost from the Dallas radio lost-and-found. As in? Well, let’s let the rock and roll alternative explain:Once upon a time there was a program called…
KXAS-Channel 5 was supposed to go off the air at 11 this morning — there’s still much repair work to be done after last night’s electrical fire that knocked the 10 p.m. newscast off the air. But staffers are still awaiting the outage, which is forthcoming … any … second…
We wrap our broadcast week with yet more from the KNUS vaults currently in the possession of one George Gimarc. What you’ll find below are few minutes of what aired on Gordon McLendon’s FM freak-out on August 22, 1970 — some of the sounds and some of the smells, dig?…
Only a few days ago, Tom Merriman was inducted into the Texas Radio Hall of Fame — the great Ron Chapman’s introduction of the local-radio icon can be heard here. Says Chapman of Gordon McLendon’s former music director, who came to Dallas in 1952, Merriman “shaped the sound of thousands…
[jump] If imitation is indeed the most sincere form of flattery, The Ticket should be feel complimented because ESPN is basically The Ticket West. The station had a run with Williams, with Dale Hansen and now employs assistant program director Mark Friedman, Scott and B&S. On Dallas Mavericks game nights – like…
A Friend of Unfair Park asked if I wouldn’t mind mentioning Bill Minutaglio’s appearance at Legacy Books in Plano this Saturday, when the ex-DMN’er heads up north to sign copies of Molly Ivins: A Rebel Life, which he co-wrote with W. Michael Smith. Sure; happy to. Which reminds me: The…
OK, so KERA’s musical youth been on the air for, what, 60 minutes? First song played: Santana’s “She’s Not There” (probably a little too classic-rock for a new-station kick-off, you ask me), followed by Monsters of Folk, Ingrid Michaelson, Telegraph Canyon and … well, look, the playlist is here, so…
So, yes, this is a weekly feature now — your Friday acid flashback, courtesy the copious collection of one George Gimarc, with whom we’re awfully proud to partner. A brief recap so far: KNUS news tuned up with sitar, followed by A Very Roky Halloween. Now, it gets even better…
*Dale Hansen on The Ticket: Coulda swore I heard him Monday morning filling in for Craig Miller on 1310 AM. But don’t get used to it. Apparently it was a one-off, with Dale returning to his old chair just long enough to fill in for Miller, who spent last weekend…
On Tuesday morning, Belo Corp. released its third-quarter financials (“total revenue decreased 17.7 percent”), then followed up its press release with a conference call with analysts. During the chat, Michael Meltz of J.P. Morgan asked Dunia Shive, the president and CEO of WFAA-Channel 8’s parent company, if there was “any…
When A.H. Belo Corporation released its third-quarter financials on Friday, included high in the press release was this note: “As part of the Company’s ongoing efforts to realign its business and reduce expenses, The Dallas Morning News will close the packaging facility as it consolidates production operations into a single…
Say what you will about former ESPN analyst and 105.3 The Fan host Sean Salisbury – and Deadspin says a lot – the guy has followed through on his promise to take on a blogdom giant in an attempt to clear his name and clean his reputation. According to the…
We’ve already told you when KERA-FM’s all-music offshoot, KXT, launches — November 9 at 7 a.m. But the question remains: Who’s gonna do the talkin’ while the station gets to rockin’? This morning, we have some idea: Jeff Ramirez, veep of radio, sends word that former Ticket traffic reporter Gini…
The great George Gimarc bestows upon the Friends of Unfair Park quite the neat treat this Friday eve: a few minutes of a newscast from the late, great KNUS-FM (98.7). George, who could find a needle in a thousand haystacks in the pitch black whilst wearing a blindfold, just picked…
Good friend of the show Jack E. Jett sends word: This weekend he’s debuting a new”experiment” on Rational Radio (1360 on Your AM Dial) that’s quite the throwback — two hours’ worth of punk rock, nothing but. Here’s how he puts it in his missive to Unfair Park:After a brief…
Dunno how we missed this — well, actually, I do, since nobody ’round here watches the 5 o’clock news. Anyway, thanks to WFAA-Channel 8 for posting to YouTube this afternoon a clip of Dale Hansen with yesterday’s special guest anchor, one Oprah Winfrey, with whom Dale took issue for introducing…
Meet Keith Garvin. Or maybe you already know his work from, oh, Good Morning America and ABC World News Now. At this moment, he’s an anchor and reporter for the NBC affiliate in Washington, D.C., but before that he spent a good long while reporting and back-up anchoring for ABC…
Coming – ESPN/Dallas. Familiar names from Dallas’ Only Daily like Tim MacMahon and Richard Durrett are now corporate bloggers. Going – Inside Corner. Franchise founder Evan Grant is leaving to return to the Morning News. Staying – Sportatorium. Est. 2006…
The Match.com profile to which Golf.com links this morning has been removed — so much for the “goodguy_in_Texas” looking for women 32-42 living within 50 miles of Lewisville, always a plus. Besides, says David Feherty, that’s not him, swear — no matter what the picture with the profile says with…
In late July, Emily Ramshaw sent word that after six years she was leaving The Dallas Morning News, for whom she covered City Hall before moving to Austin, for the online news venture Texas Tribune, of which Evan Smith will be CEO. Today, the folks over at Poynter want to…
It’s been close to a year since Chesapeake Energy tossed its Shale.tv start-up down an deep, dark shaft — and, along with it, former KTVT-Channel 11 anchor Tracy Rowlett, who left the CBS affiliate in the summer of ’08 to work for the online news service that wasn’t. On Monday,…
