Islamic fundamentalists posted death threats against a Polish disk jockey soon after he published a song that he says was supposed to be a tribute to the Muslim culture. It started on Christmas Eve. Jakub Rene Kosik, a 27-year-old DJ from Poland excused himself from the dinner table and checked his Facebook. Word of his newest composition, Mekka, was out. And it was ill-received. “You messed with Islam,†the first message read. “We’ll never forgive what you did to our religion,†read another. “You played with us, now we’ll play with you.†“We’re everywhere. Forget your international career.†By morning...
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Remaining newspaper companies take note, especially The New York Times (NYT) . Going digital isn't enough. It won't work. That's the real reason behind the Bancroft capitulation that I have been saying since Day 1 had to happen. It's the economics of the Web. But first, let's accept that Dow Jones' (DJ) two-tiered structure created a tremendous disincentive by management to develop businesses away from the Journal. As someone who worked for Dow Jones from 1991 to 1995 I can tell you that the reservations to do anything remotely smart or clever away from the paper were so great that...
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NEW YORK -- Broadcaster Don Imus' wife will be his replacement Friday on his morning radio show. CBS fired Imus Thursday because of a racially charged remark he made last week about the Rutgers women's basketball team. Imus had a long history of inflammatory remarks. But his comments about the Rutgers team -- which includes a class valedictorian, a future lawyer and a musical prodigy -- generated a firestorm of controversy. A minister who arranged a meeting between Imus and the team said it was happening Thursday night at the governor's mansion in Princeton, N.J. Imus initially was suspended for...
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Dennis Johnson, the star NBA guard who was part of three championships and teamed with Larry Bird on one of the great postseason plays, died Thursday after collapsing at the end of his developmental team's practice. He was 52. Johnson, coach of the Austin Toros, was unconscious and in cardiac arrest when paramedics arrived at Austin Convention Center, said Warren Hassinger, spokesman for Austin-Travis County Emergency Medical Services. Paramedics tried to resuscitate him for 23 minutes before he was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead, Hassinger added. Mayra Freeman, a spokeswoman for the medical examiner's office, said there will...
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NEW YORK (AP) — A popular hip-hop disc jockey died Saturday after being shot at least 13 times earlier this month, police said. Carl Blaze, born Carlos Rivera, was shot outside an apartment building near Manhattan's Inwood section on Dec. 7, and his $20,000 diamond chain was stolen, police said. He was taken to Harlem Hospital Center, where he died Saturday. Blaze, 30, was a DJ for hip-hop and R&B radio station Power 105.1 FM for about three years. He had gained a large fan base by spinning records at clubs and on the air on Friday and Saturday nights....
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A California pet lover has founded an internet radio station designed to ease the lives of lonely dogs and cats around the world. Styled as "the radio station all pets prefer", DogCatRadio.com goes out live 17 hours each day from a van in the car park of a Los Angeles recording studio. DJs speak to pets directly, and ask "pet parents" to send in pictures. Founder Adrian Martinez, 34, says the station aims to keep pets company while their "parents" head out to work. DogCatRadio's daily play list ranges from the soothing sounds of wispy Irish singer Enya to Elvis...
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A good friend of mine from school is in the lead, running for newscaster on one of our city radio stations Sonic 102.9. Please FReep this poll (at the bottom of the page), and vote for Kory Read. He is a good guy, not a Pinko, and a great friend who I have never once heard bash America or Bush (and I'm living in Canada!!). If we can have a big enough impact on the results, I will try to convince him to throw a few UN-Bashing jabs on the air in Edmonton,AB, on behalf of FReeRepublic (I can't promise...
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SAN FRANCISCO - Dell Inc., the world's largest direct computer seller, on Tuesday launched a new flash-memory digital music player designed to compete with the iPod Shuffle. Dell billed its DJ Ditty as a better value than the Shuffle. Both devices are $99 and come equipped with 512 megabytes of memory, but because the Ditty uses an audio format that compresses digital music files more efficiently, Dell asserts the Ditty can hold up to 220 songs while the same-sized Shuffle stores about 120. The biggest difference between the devices is the Ditty's 1-inch LCD display screen, which helps users navigate...
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Famous DJ Cronauer now works to bring POWs home By EARL WATT Southwest Daily Times In 1979, Adrian Cronauer had an idea. "MASH" was the No. 1 television sitcom, and "WKRP" was extremely popular as well. Cronauer, an Armed Forces disc jockey during the Vietnam conflict, thought that combining the MASH and WKRP formats, and centering them around Vietnam, would be entertaining. "The problem was, in 1979, no one thought you could do a comedy about Vietnam," Cronauer said while visiting Liberal for the USO show, Command Performance," at the Mid-America Air Museum slated to begin at 7 tonight. His...
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WASHINGTON, July 6, 2005 – David Kelso's trip to Iraq started out as an experiment to figure out how to broadcast radio live from the Middle East. But it turned into much more after the Oklahoma City disk jockey was introduced to a group of Marines from his area. Among the Marines Kelso met was Lance Cpl. Aaron Mankin, a 23-year-old combat correspondent from Rogers, Ark., who enlisted in the Marines from Oklahoma. Kelso said he was impressed right away by Aaron's military bearing and by his striking blue eyes. "He was incredibly well spoken," said Kelso, a DJ for...
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Access Hollywood didn't report Clark's condition or where he had the stroke. Last April, Clark announced he had type 2 diabetes, formerly called adult-onset diabetes, since 1994, but kept it a secret from everyone except close friends and family. Clark is now a spokesman for the American Association of Diabetes Educators and the pharmaceutical maker Merck & Co. Clark, 75, was a Philadelphia radio disc jockey in the early 1950s, when he took over a local show, American Bandstand, on WFIL-TV. Clark's show was later syndicated nationally and he moved to Los Angeles as his entertainment empire expanded. In 1973,...
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MADISON, Wis.-a radio host apologized Monday for calling secretary of state nominee Condoleezza Rice "Aunt Jemima," but refused to back down from his criticism that she is a "black trophy" of the Bush administration.
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President Bush and French President Jacques Chirac may not be phone pals anymore, but that didn't stop Chirac from discussing Saddam Hussein, the war in Iraq, and other serious issues with another famous American: Jerry Lewis. Except it turns out that the man who had a five-minute phone conversation with Chirac last week wasn't Lewis, but rather a Los Angeles DJ impersonating the comedian. A source at KROQ 106.7 confirms that ''Kevin and Bean Show'' entertainment reporter Ralph Garman got through to Chirac by claiming to be France's most loved American funnyman -- a prank that has the real Lewis...
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PHOENIX (AP) - The disc jockey who made an on-air prank call to the widow of St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Darryl Kile was fired, the radio station announced Monday. KUPD-FM morning radio personality Beau Duran called Flynn Kile at her hotel and asked if she had a date to last Thursday's playoff game. The stunt outraged St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa and prompted an apology from the Arizona Diamondbacks. KUPD suspended Duran last week, but in a written statement Monday, general manager Chuck Artigue said Duran was fired. In the statement released by the station, Duran said, "I...
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<p>PHOENIX -- St. Louis Cardinals manager Tony La Russa was irate over a Phoenix-area disc jockey who called Darryl Kile's widow and asked if she had a date for Thursday's playoff game.</p><p>Flynn Kile hung up the phone after KUPD-FM radio's Beau Duran called her Phoenix hotel room, The Arizona Republic reported on its Web site Thursday night.</p>
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Station management at WTDY/AM 1670 has decided to clip the phrase "bitch slap" from its talk radio lexicon after the words drew furious reaction from domestic abuse prevention groups. Talk show host Chris Krok, who used the phrase Thursday and Friday mornings against state Rep. Terese Berceau, among others, said it had been part of the station's "street vernacular." "A bitch slapping is like a pillory or excoriating somebody. You know, verbally lashing them with your tongue," Krok said Friday. But Berceau, D-Madison, didn't see it that way. And neither did many members of violence prevention groups. Former mayoral candidate...
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