Last week came word that KTVT-Channel 11 had gone to the Federal Communications Commission to get a new frequency following the digital transition. And why was such an emergency petition necessary? Because, according to KTVT docs on file with the FCC, the local CBS affiliate “has received thousands of complaints…
A year ago at this time I was pegging the Dallas Cowboys for the “Super Bowl.” Last time we saw them however – 44-6 losers in Philly on Dec. 28 – it was “or bust.” Coming off 2008’s 9-7 disaster, the Cowboys have shedded from their roster the leading receiver (Terrell Owens),…
Check out more photos in our slide show.It took talent and intensity just to make it past Saturday’s first round of auditions for the 2009-’10 Mavericks Dancers squad, but for Sunday afternoon’s finals, they’d have less than a minute to perform, competing with four other dancers for the judges’ attention.Even…
I just found on YouTube a few clips in which Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s talking health care reform with members of the Dallas Tea Party. As it turns out, the senator met with several of their representatives Saturday morning at her Dallas offices; the Tea Party’s report from the get-together…
When Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm briefed the city council on proposed budget cuts in May, she all but left the 311 Customer Service Center untouched: $1,398,060 was proposed in order to fund 92 full-time employees who answer those pesky non-emergency service requests. Noted the May briefing, “The City is…
For Ira Glass, the 50-year-old host of Chicago Public Radio’s This American Life, doing radio is like talking on the phone to somebody late at night. “There’s an intimacy to just hearing someone’s voice,” said Glass, Saturday’s keynote speaker during the University of North Texas’s fifth annual Mayborn Literary Nonfiction…
As I told you back in June, Dale Hansen is a tip-toeing toward burnout these days. As of today, his work load is a little lighter. A radio industry source told me over the weekend that the iconic voice of Dallas sports will not sign a new contract at 103.3 FM ESPN…
Two media matters this morning, beginning with A.H. Belo releasing its second-quarter numbers: “Advertising revenue, including print and Internet revenue, was down 30.2 percent, due to declines in retail, general and classified revenues in all AHC markets.” The press release has all the stats concerning The Dallas Morning News’s parent…
No, literally. It would appear the Trinity River Audubon Center wasn’t good enough for Mayor Tom Leppert. That’s where the Dallas city council met last year for its annual retreat, a much closer-to-home and, at around $2,700, slightly less expensive alternative to ’07’s choice: the Garrett Creek Ranch Conference Center…
And the consolation prize is … Drew Gooden. To which I say, not bad. Not bad at all. He’s no Marcin Gortat or Carlos Boozer or Emeka Okafor, but the 6-foot-10, 250-pound 27-year old journeyman can be a nice fit on a nice team. Gooden seemingly has the size and…
On Saturday afternoon, around 100 people gathered at Dealey Plaza to protest the Iranian government and show support for pro-democracy demonstrators in that country, where the regime has been retaliating against widespread protests since the June 12 election. Saturday’s demonstration, one of several locally in recent weeks, was part of…
Jeff Liles called early this morning with the astonishing, sad news: Brian Barnaud, photographer and longtime Deep Ellum fixture, died suddenly and unexpectedly yesterday at the age of 46. Teresa Gubbins has the details: “According to a family friend, Barnaud hadn’t been feeling well and collapsed after taking a shower;…
Dallas City Manager Mary Suhm informed city council members in a missive today that projected property tax values increased by approximately $9 million after certified tax rolls from Dallas and Denton counties and updates of tax roll data from Collin and Rockwall counties showed a 3.5 percent decline compared to…
After the jump you’ll find a lawsuit filed earlier this week in Dallas federal court in which three Dallas Area Rapid Transit cops are suing the agency over overtime pay they claim they’re owed. But Derek Johnson, Ronald Lindsay and Tracy Vice (one of the best cop names ever) aren’t…
Yesterday, in an Oak Cliff Justice of the Peace courtroom, two tenants celebrated a victory in their quest for decent living conditions. Judge Juan Jasso ruled in favor of Ramona Robles and Rigoberto Gutierrez, who, after filing complaints with the city about unbearable temperatures at their Lancaster Avenue apartment building,…
This is probably a way-too-early heads-up, but I just opened the afternoon mail to find a copy of Tinsel: A Search for America’s Christmas Present, due on bookshelves ’round November 12 — just in time for all your gift-giving needs. And, trust me, those living up in Collin and Denton…
Had no idea till receiving the press release moments ago that Paul Budnitz’s Kidrobot was opening an outpost in Mockingbird Station on Thursday. The Melrose Avenue joint in Los Angeles is quite the kidult nerdboy hang; during a handful of visits there over the years, I don’t think I’ve ever…
Bud Gillett is still at KTVT-Channel 11 — says so right on the station’s Web site, where he’s hailed as the most veteran reporter at CBS 11 News with 33 years in major market television news, the last 26 years working the streets of Dallas/Fort Worth.” But, as Ed Bark…
This morning at Dallas Area Rapid Transit HQ, president Gary Thomas lauded the rail expansion as “on time and under budget,” and presented a new study by professors at the University of North Texas’s Center for Economic Development and Research on the expansion’s economic impact on the city. Said Thomas:…
Went back to Lone Star Auctions this morning to check on how my horse bidding was going, and I noticed quite the steal — once again courtesy the Dallas Independent School District, which is in the habit of offloading its surplus for The Nice Price and then some. All told,…
Dunno how this went unnoticed, but yesterday Dallas city council member Angela Hunt posted to her Web site a few paragraphs about how, look, she really doesn’t care that Mayor Tom Leppert didn’t make her a chair or vice-chair of one of the city council’s standing committees. Far as she’s…
The second full day of testimony from affordable housing developer Brian Potashnik strengthened the prosecution’s case against former city plan commissioner D’Angelo Lee in the City Hall corruption case, but federal prosecutor Marcus Busch concluded his direct examination of Potashnik Thursday without directly linking former Mayor Pro Tem Don Hill…
