Anatomy of a Tim Cuprisin Smear
See how he puts those tags right next to each other? It's the oldest trick in the book. The childish work of a petty, mean, vindictive person.
See how he puts those tags right next to each other? It's the oldest trick in the book. The childish work of a petty, mean, vindictive person.
01/20/2011 in Radio | Permalink | Comments (22)
Tags: AHole, asshat, conceited, creep, dork, idiot, jealous, jerk, sneaky, SOB, Tim Cuprisin
It’s odd that a man who talks about lesbians, sodomy and bodily excretions can stain his own career simply by talking, but that’s what’s happening on the days Stern is heard live via satellite. Being King must have its perks, since in addition to taking every Friday off Stern’s current vacation schedule would make Carson blush.
The modern version of “The Howard Stern Show” reveals a performer far more concerned with navel gazing than skewering sacred cows. When Stern savages a subject now, it’s more often because he or she dared to cross his path. Today’s Stern seems disinterested in lampooning the powerful. Yes, he still swats Oprah Winfrey whenever the chance appears, but he barely lays a glove on a vulnerable president or the stars in his expanding inner circle.
The young Stern gained our trust because he was one of us, a workaday father and husband who understood what it’s like to sit in traffic, deal with inept co-workers and field complaints from an irate spouse. The modern Stern is part of the media power structure, and he knows it. That air of entitlement seeps into every monologue, distancing himself from us in ways that can’t be mended.
11/28/2010 in Radio | Permalink | Comments (1)
From The Motley Fool:
What's so special about 2.0? Well, Sirius XM isn't saying much beyond promising broader content and greater functionality. However, a patent XM filed two summers ago clearly hints at what consumers may be getting.
The patent details a method for subscribers to generate playlists culled from content across several channels. A "thumbs up" and "thumbs down" button lets listeners cherry-pick the content they like and dismiss what they don't. This sounds a lot like TiVo (Nasdaq: TIVO), doesn't it? Relying on a bank of data points to dish out recommendations is also a play out of the Netflix (Nasdaq: NFLX) playbook.
So Sirius XM wants to be the TiVo -- and the Netflix -- of premium radio. But the patent isn't just about music. If it were, Sirius XM would just become a more expensive Pandora clone without the smartphone buffering. No, the patent method also applies to news, sports, comedy, and talk shows.
Get it? Imagine a playlist where your favorite songs are mixed in with news that's relevant to you, along with scores from your teams and standup routines from your favorite comedians.
10/07/2010 in Radio | Permalink | Comments (2)
The Home Front: A Really Terrific World War II Radio Documentary
From AudioBookVault:
The stirring drama of the war years, told through voice and song by people who lived it. The Home Front is an audio program prepared for radio broadcast. It is a composite of songs, music, newscasts and commentary that presents a view of the years 1938-1945. It even includes pauses for commercials, “We’ll be right back. . . .”
Three veteran broadcast journalists share the narration. The recordings of famous people’s voices, from Princess Elizabeth speaking to the children evacuated from the London Blitz to Humphrey Bogart delivering lines from Casablanca, are the highlights of the series. The script of historical events is blended with original soundtracks of movies, Broadway shows and news broadcasts. 1985 radio documentary.
This would be great to listen to on a long drive. While not available on CD, you can find the used cassette version on Amazon.
08/29/2010 in Radio, WorldWar2 | Permalink | Comments (12)
I bet you have 5 different groups on your list, eh?
05/31/2010 in Music, Radio | Permalink | Comments (17)
Cracking The Pallophotophone Code
An excerpt from GE Reports:
It’s the stuff of a flea market find, or a hidden treasure in the attic. A pile of dusty film canisters in the basement of the Schenectady Museum & Suits-Bueche Planetarium has yielded some of the world’s oldest surviving radio broadcasts. The 20 shows were first heard on Schenectady radio station WGY between 1929 and 1931. One features a talk by GE founder Thomas Edison in a broadcast celebrating the 50th anniversary of the incandescent light bulb. Another is a portion of a high school basketball game that’s believed to be the second oldest surviving sports broadcast. They were recorded on a long forgotten machine that GE developed in 1922 called a pallophotophone — after the Greek words for “shaking light sound” — in one of the earliest attempts to record sound on film. But there was only one catch with the great find: There weren’t any known pallophotophones in existence to play back the lost pieces of history. Enter the museum’s curator, Chris Hunter, and GE’s engineers, who together cracked the pallophotophone code.
They got the parts from eBay.
05/27/2010 in Radio | Permalink | Comments (1)
Charlie Sykes Becomes A Grandpa!
You don't want to look like a tourist do you? All the French wear these, it's the national hat fella.
12/28/2009 in Radio | Permalink | Comments (0)
The Blurb:
The NPR Radio by Livio was recently cited by Time as one of 20 new techie gadgets not to be missed! Now you can listen to Morning Edition whenever your morning starts - the programming you want, when you want it. The NPR Radio by Livio is a stand alone internet radio that connects you to over 16,000 internet radio stations. What sets this radio apart from other internet radios in the market is the exclusive NPR menu, allowing users to easily find, search and bookmark NPR stations, podcasts, and content, by topic or by program. If classical music is your vice, this radio allows you to listen to classical programming from NPR member stations around the country. Accessing your favorite NPR stations is as easy as touching a button with 'My NPR'.All you need is a wireless Internet connection and you can receive all of this plus your local HD streams. It will even serve as an alarm clock with sleep timer, connect to other devices such as MP3 players and can be heard through its own speaker or a stereo system of choice. It really has it all!
At $200 it's priced perfectly for all you upscale NPR listeners. Here's the detailed look at the special NPR buttons:
11/24/2009 in GiftIdeas, Radio | Permalink | Comments (0)
Two Ways To Improve AM Radio Reception: The Terk Advantage or the Select-A-Tenna
Click on the photo to read Jay Allen's terrific comparison of the two. It seems you can find the Terk on eBay for around $40, whereas the Select-A-Tenna will only set you back about $20.
11/13/2009 in GiftIdeas, Radio | Permalink | Comments (1)
I invited her up to my apartment and she said OK and when we got there she took a look around and said it needed a woman's touch so I handed her a broom and she hit me with it and left . . .
09/07/2009 in Radio | Permalink | Comments (1)