Newsweek takes a look at pop-culture and the influence a “post 9/11″ world has had on it.
Their piece on Television highlights what I’ve been saying for years.
Battlestar Galactica fraking rules!
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Thanks to teh madman for bringing this one to my attention…
Internet celebrities nerds come together in order to save Net Neutrality. Watch the video below and please help me figure out who the “boom-box” lady is…
I recognise the Tron Guy, the freaky Peter-Pan dude, the Back Street Asian Singers, the dancing baby and the spongmonkeys but what is up with that other chick?
The best thing about the “blogosphere”?
The ability to share your art…
Battlestar Galactica characters done Simpson’s style.
WRAX has been tanking ever since Dave Rossie (I think that’s how you spell his last name) left IMO.
The current PD and management tried to bring back some of the X’s past luster with a move to a mix of Alt Rock, AAA, and pop about 2 months ago. That change lasted all of about 2 weeks before Citadel’s upper management came down from on high to put the nix on that. According to my source, they basically said “You can’t do that, we didn’t say you could do that.” And who knows what the people of Birmingham want to hear better than the corporate dudes in Las Vegas, right?
Well, they’re bringing in a new PD Steve Robison formerly of KTBZ 94.5 “The Buzz” out of Houston. A quick glance at their Top 95 of 2005 shows that they play pretty much the same format that drove WRAX into statistical oblivion (something like a 1.5 share, meaning only 1.5 radios out of 100 were tuned to the X) during the last half of 05.
I honestly only listen to my iPod now. Beaner and Ken just don’t have the same luster they once did, thanks to a combination of the lack of any local content (since their home station is now in Syracuse, NY) and what has to be the worst engineer on the planet running their recorded/delayed show here in Birmingham (the Windows “ding” and Internet Explorer “click” noises can be heard constantly throughout the broadcast thanks to the engineer’s web surfing or something).
So, we’ll see what happens next.
I want to hug their advertising company