SF Radio Examiner

Art Leboe, little man, big voice of the Chicano nation

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:02:01 -0700

Here's a great LA Times profile of DJ Art Leboe, the West Coast's Cousin Brucie, an Armenian whose fans are mostl Chicano.

Read it here and cruise, baby, cruse.

Live 105 books stellar "Not So Silent Night" show: Muse, AFI, Vampire Weekend, more

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:38:10 -0700

Check this lineup alt-musicers. It's solid.

FInd out about tickets for the Dec 11 show here.

Crazy radio contests continue: DJ asks for naked pics of listeners

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:04:43 -0700

Here's a story, on the eve of a $16.5 million judgment against a radio station for a wild contest. A DJ asked for listeners to submit naked photos to win concert tickets. Now, he's under fire. Come on: isn't...

Hidden music phenom Jandek: Does anyone know more?

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:00:16 -0700

Who would have thought that in this day and age of media penetration and saturation, there could be a mysterious musician who travels the world and sells out shows, but whom no one in mainstream radio or media has covered? Check out the wiki e...

Michael Savage, fresh off fighting a boycott, calls for a boycott

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:49:42 -0700

The force here in San Francisco has never been stronger, now that the death star Michael Savage has been bumped from the airwaves. People are happier, the air is fresher, hatred has been cut. Well, maybe I exaggerate, but not much. I'm hap...

Wee for a Wii family gets $16.5 million

Fri, 30 Oct 2009 19:34:48 -0700

The family of the mother who died in 2007 trying to win a video game console for her kids received $16.5 million in a civil judgment. Read about the strange case of Jennifer Strange here. Entercom Communications fired 10 people involved ...

Don't blame the media for "balloon boy"

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 20:36:25 -0700

The giant hoax perpetrated on the world and the media by a greedy and stupid Colorado father is causing a firestorm of backlash against the media. It shouldn't. Colorado parents, Richard and Mayumi Heene, are being charged with conspiracy,...

The free market has spoken: NFL flushes Rush Limbaugh

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 09:34:49 -0700

down the drain I was shocked when I heard that right wing radio host Rush Limbaugh was dropped from the group that is trying to buy the St. Louis Cardinal football team. The NFL must be a lot more liberal than I ev...

Michael Jackson's new song tanking

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:13:35 -0700

Insert photo caption or credit hereRadio-info.com's Sean Ross reports that Michael Jackson's new single "This is It" isn't it on a lot of radio stations. The song, which I figured to be an international hit, based on the response to M...

Great Rush Limbaugh joke as told by radio hosts Bob and Tom

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 07:31:02 -0700

Here's the only drinking game approved by Alcoholics Anonymous: You take a shot every time Rush Limbaugh says something good about President Obama. Bob and Tom ought to tell that one every day, because it's the funniest thing I've hea...

Chris Jackson laid off from the FOX

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:02:44 -0700

This is not a personality move I ever saw coming. Clear Channel's 98.5, KUFX, dumped its most competent, sincere and genuinely nice guy on and off the air this weekend. Chris Jackson, who kept the Greg Kihn show running for 13 years, and before ...

NY Times' David Brooks column says propagandist radio hosts are dooming Republicans

Fri, 02 Oct 2009 18:18:04 -0700

Talk show host Joseph Goebbels Beck In this column, he makes his argument. While he has some facts to back his case, such as Obama's win, I think he's missing a scarier, bigger picture. They are winning right now in an argument that shoul...

Rush Limbaugh laughs at holocaust of Indians

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:57:44 -0700

If Rush Limbaugh billed himself as a comedian, an entertainer, I'd have no problem with anything he says. I'd ignore it as I do most clowns. But he's become a leading spokesman for a faceless, voiceless Republican party and legislators a...

If only U.S. media were free enough to air something like this: it's really funny

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 14:10:23 -0700

Land of the Free indeed. We are the land of the repressed. You want freedom? Head to Japan, Europe, Mexico, where the media aren't governed by fundamentalist religion. This video is a crack up and would never make it on an American En...

Questionable radio: Gene Burns on Horrorcore; Brian Copeland on Nepotism

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 13:46:54 -0700

A couple of KGO talk radio lows this week. Did you hear them? Gene Burns, who is as smart and glib off air as anyone you will ever meet, can be like your dowdy aunt on his show sometimes. Aunt Gene came out Wednesday night, as he ga...

The dark side of Dick Clark

Sat, 26 Sep 2009 15:03:54 -0700

Candye Kane, the former porn star who is now a blues singer, once told me that nothing in the porn world prepared her for the sleaziness of the music business. This article about Dick Clark is a perfect illustration of the way artists we...

Glenn Beck who told radio listeners that Obama "hates white culture" refuses to define it

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:45:54 -0700

e Kudos to Katie Couric for pressing Glenn Beck to back his statement that President Obama is a racist....but she comes off a little too polite. I wish she'd gotten tougher and given him some of his own medicine. Instead, she lets h...

Thin Rush Limbaugh with thin logic on Jay Leno

Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:40:25 -0700

Watch this. Rush Limbaugh really is wrong. Most people are happy with their health care, he says, so why change it? Are they? He compares GM to a buggy whip: it's not. It's still a vital car maker. Limbaugh claims Bush ...

Michael Savage: "Reason is a white man's thing"

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 23:04:28 -0700

I no longer listen to Michael Savage Weiner because, thank God, he's off the air in the Bay Area. Life is better without that sewage spew.But luckily, Examiner BIll Bowman devotes hours to listening to it, hoping to help clean the airwaves, like an E...

Forget Time: here's a deep profile of former cokehead Glenn Beck

Mon, 21 Sep 2009 08:45:50 -0700

Salon's profile of Glenn Beck: the lies, the hype, the cocaine.here's the Time one too.Favorite quote:But we can all agree that — no matter where it comes from — rubbing the sore has become a lucrative busine...