Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Weekly Media Roundup

WCCO TV reporter, Ben Tracy, is heading for the "Early Show" on CBS TV in Los Angeles, according to WCCO TV's own website.

KMZT FM, a commercial classical music radio station in Los Angeles, has decided to switch over to a talk radio formant early this month, according to the Inland Valley Daily Newspaper.

Radio DJ, Tom Bernard on KQRS FM in Minneapolis, is under fire for making comments about Native Americans on his own morning show, according to Minnesota Public Radio.

In a report by the Saint Paul Pioneer Press
, MPR radio host and comedian Garrison Keillor had been stalked by a woman from Georgia during a recent tour of "A Prairie Home Companion”

Jeff Zucker of NBC Universal Studios told a breakfast lecture at Syracuse University in New York State that Apple Computers is allowing the destruction of the music industry with it's iTunes software, which allows computer users to download music content off the internet or from CD disks for free or personal use, Wired magazine reports.

The Washington Post reports
that more than half of Americans are opposed to the idea of further regulation of the media through the F.C.C.

The Boston Red Sox baseball team won not only the World Series, but the TV ratings war, according to the Internet Movie Database.

At least 25 worst TV Shows have been picked, according to the Chicago Tribune.



Saturday, October 6, 2007

weekly media roundup

After months of speculation, WQXR FM (96.3) in New York City is now heard over the internet with iTunes software through a default setting within the Radio icon section.

The Saint Paul Pioneer Press reports that Macintosh computers are becoming a growing trend among college campuses across the Twin Cities area.

The popular ABC TV show, "Desperate Housewives," has come under fire by the Philippine government and Filipino americans, regarding a racial comment about Filipino medical doctors by one of the shows characters that was supposed to be funny.

WCCO TV, a CBS affiliated station in Minneapolis, is now number one in the local news ratings, according to a report by the Minneapolis Star-Tribune.

U.S. conservative talk radio host, Rush Limbaugh, has become under intense criticism by Democratic party leaders in Washington D.C. and media critics for making a insensitive remark about U.S. Solders in Iraq, who were protesting the Bush's Administration military policy in Iraq, in which he describe them as "phony solders," reported by Media Matters for America.

A civil grand jury in Duluth, Minnesota, had prosecuted a thirty year old woman from Brainard to pay $220,000 in damages to the Recording Industry of America for uploading copyrighted music onto her computer; the case however is considered on the grounds of appeal, according to the Duluth-News Tribune.

Several NOAA Weather radio receivers from Oregon Scientific are recalled by the U.S. Consumer and Products safety commission over possible fire hazards.

Andrew Zimmerman, a Minneapolis-based chef, is quitting his programming stint on FM 107.1, according to the Saint Paul Pioneer Press.