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Sorry, Twitter, if You're in the Media Business, You're a Media Company

​Given how Silicon Valley moguls flee from the term "media company," you'd almost think it was as bad as "child-porn merchant." But whether they like it or not, companies like Google, Facebook, and Twitter are media companies. They don't have precisely the same business models as News Corp., Disne ... More >>

49ers Game to Air On All Six Cumulus Stations

The only thing you won't find on Cumulus. ​Even you hipsters out there who are completely ambivalent about all things football, who got your ass kicked by the jocks in high school, who would only wear a 49ers sweatshirt to a theme party, and, like our vice president, are apt to confuse the 49ers w ... More >>

MySpace Says It's Bringing TV to the Web -- But It Isn't

​Specific Media, now the owners of MySpace, took Justin Timberlake on stage with them Monday night at the Consumer Electronic Show, and with a lot of fanfare, they announced ... essentially nothing. The purported big news is that MySpace is revolutionizing television by bringing it to the Web an ... More >>

Commercial-Free Future

​Specific Media, now the owners of MySpace, took Justin Timberlake on stage with them Monday night at the Consumer Electronic Show, and with a lot of fanfare, they announced ... essentially nothing. The purported big news is that MySpace is revolutionizing television by bringing it to the Web an ... More >>

'Foodie Chap': Liam Mayclem Launching Chefs' Radio Segment, Website

CBS5Liam Mayclem's chef-interview radio segments (with companion website) launch Jan. 17 on KCBS.​Local TV host Liam Mayclem began his media career in the U.K. as a teenager working for BBC Radio. He's returning to his radio roots for "Foodie Chap," a new chef-oriented feature airing daily, sh ... More >>

Michael Savage Sues Talk Radio Network Over 'Indentured Servitude'

Michael Savage is an angry man. ​Conservative talk radio host Michael Savage is trying to dump Talk Radio Network, but claims in a federal lawsuit that the radio syndicate is not taking to the split nicely, threatening him with a $4 million lawsuit for breaking his contract. Meanwhile, Talk Radio ... More >>

KPFA Axes Its Morning Show, Drama Ensues

Time for more controversey at KPFA...​Any Berkeley journalist comes to dread two assignments: the school board and KPFA. It's difficult to cover any of the myriad twists and turns of KPFA and Pacifica Radio's salvos at one another without tumbling down the rabbit hole and tracing everything back t ... More >>

Broadcasters and the RIAA Want to Force FM Radio into Smartphones

​In today's news from Planet Too Dumb To Exist, Ars Technica and others are reporting that the broadcast radio industry and the Recording Industry Association of America are working on proposed national legislation that would, among other things, require that all portable electronics like smartpho ... More >>

Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper Grab Some Pine at Board of Supervisors Meeting

Kruk and Kuip win the pennant. Actually, it's an honorary resolution. ​Back when Mike Krukow and Duane Kuiper played for the Giants at Candlestick Park, fans brave -- or foolhardy -- enough to stick around for an extra-inning night game received a Croix de Candlestick pin. The duo -- the team's br ... More >>

Don't Expect Court Ruling to Lead to Loads of On-Air Cursing

​It appears that George Carlin's "Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television" still are the seven words you can never say on television. Despite a federal court ruling yesterday that fining broadcasters for uttering, say, "shit; piss, fuck; cunt; cocksucker; motherfucker; and tits" on TV or radio ... More >>

Does Jobs' No Mean Yes In The Case of Apple TV?

Apple TV, the final frontier.​ At AllThingsDigital conference in Los Angeles today, Apple CEO Steve Jobs seemingly put the kibosh on Apple's foray into the television market, stating, "The problem with innovation in the TV industry is the go-to-market strategy ... Ask TiVo, ask Roku, ask us... ask ... More >>

House of Representatives Helps Small Indie Radio Stations

Stefan Kühn​Yesterday the Local Community Radio Act passed in the House of Representatives. Now it's up to the Senate to see if this bill, which will "will open the airwaves for hundreds of new non-commercial stations across the country" according to the group Media Alliance, will follow suit and ... More >>

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Stefan Kühn​Yesterday the Local Community Radio Act passed in the House of Representatives. Now it's up to the Senate to see if this bill, which will "will open the airwaves for hundreds of new non-commercial stations across the country" according to the group Media Alliance, will follow suit and ... More >>

Davey-D Sides With Clear Channel in Performance Rights Dispute

EKAphotographyDavey-D (center), pictured with D'Wayne Wiggins and Tony ColemanBoy, this is an ironic world, ain't it? Former KMEL DJ Davey-D--fired by Clear Channel in 2001 after he broadcast interviews with Barbara Lee and Boots Riley which criticized the war in Iraq--has come out in support of the ... More >>

Border Crosser

EKAphotographyDavey-D (center), pictured with D'Wayne Wiggins and Tony ColemanBoy, this is an ironic world, ain't it? Former KMEL DJ Davey-D--fired by Clear Channel in 2001 after he broadcast interviews with Barbara Lee and Boots Riley which criticized the war in Iraq--has come out in support of the ... More >>

White No Lie

EKAphotographyDavey-D (center), pictured with D'Wayne Wiggins and Tony ColemanBoy, this is an ironic world, ain't it? Former KMEL DJ Davey-D--fired by Clear Channel in 2001 after he broadcast interviews with Barbara Lee and Boots Riley which criticized the war in Iraq--has come out in support of the ... More >>

Arbitron brings its Portable People Meters to Bay Area

EKAphotographyDavey-D (center), pictured with D'Wayne Wiggins and Tony ColemanBoy, this is an ironic world, ain't it? Former KMEL DJ Davey-D--fired by Clear Channel in 2001 after he broadcast interviews with Barbara Lee and Boots Riley which criticized the war in Iraq--has come out in support of the ... More >>

FCC Holding Public Hearing at Stanford this Week

EKAphotographyDavey-D (center), pictured with D'Wayne Wiggins and Tony ColemanBoy, this is an ironic world, ain't it? Former KMEL DJ Davey-D--fired by Clear Channel in 2001 after he broadcast interviews with Barbara Lee and Boots Riley which criticized the war in Iraq--has come out in support of the ... More >>

Stood up at Justin Herman Plaza

EKAphotographyDavey-D (center), pictured with D'Wayne Wiggins and Tony ColemanBoy, this is an ironic world, ain't it? Former KMEL DJ Davey-D--fired by Clear Channel in 2001 after he broadcast interviews with Barbara Lee and Boots Riley which criticized the war in Iraq--has come out in support of the ... More >>

SF Weekly Letters

EKAphotographyDavey-D (center), pictured with D'Wayne Wiggins and Tony ColemanBoy, this is an ironic world, ain't it? Former KMEL DJ Davey-D--fired by Clear Channel in 2001 after he broadcast interviews with Barbara Lee and Boots Riley which criticized the war in Iraq--has come out in support of the ... More >>

G2 = Guitar Quartet

EKAphotographyDavey-D (center), pictured with D'Wayne Wiggins and Tony ColemanBoy, this is an ironic world, ain't it? Former KMEL DJ Davey-D--fired by Clear Channel in 2001 after he broadcast interviews with Barbara Lee and Boots Riley which criticized the war in Iraq--has come out in support of the ... More >>

TiVo'd CSI Like Crack for the Ladies: New Nielsen TV Ratings

EKAphotographyDavey-D (center), pictured with D'Wayne Wiggins and Tony ColemanBoy, this is an ironic world, ain't it? Former KMEL DJ Davey-D--fired by Clear Channel in 2001 after he broadcast interviews with Barbara Lee and Boots Riley which criticized the war in Iraq--has come out in support of the ... More >>

Breaking News: Ward H. Bushee Replaces Embattled San Francisco Chronicle EIC Phil Bronstein

EKAphotographyDavey-D (center), pictured with D'Wayne Wiggins and Tony ColemanBoy, this is an ironic world, ain't it? Former KMEL DJ Davey-D--fired by Clear Channel in 2001 after he broadcast interviews with Barbara Lee and Boots Riley which criticized the war in Iraq--has come out in support of the ... More >>

For Sale - KRON-TV Channel 4, $800 Million, Fixer-Upper

EKAphotographyDavey-D (center), pictured with D'Wayne Wiggins and Tony ColemanBoy, this is an ironic world, ain't it? Former KMEL DJ Davey-D--fired by Clear Channel in 2001 after he broadcast interviews with Barbara Lee and Boots Riley which criticized the war in Iraq--has come out in support of the ... More >>

San Francisco's Free Wi-Fi Dreams Upstaged By New York City

EKAphotographyDavey-D (center), pictured with D'Wayne Wiggins and Tony ColemanBoy, this is an ironic world, ain't it? Former KMEL DJ Davey-D--fired by Clear Channel in 2001 after he broadcast interviews with Barbara Lee and Boots Riley which criticized the war in Iraq--has come out in support of the ... More >>

So Does That Mean Weeklies Were Ahead Of Their Time? Shit, They've Always Been Free

EKAphotographyDavey-D (center), pictured with D'Wayne Wiggins and Tony ColemanBoy, this is an ironic world, ain't it? Former KMEL DJ Davey-D--fired by Clear Channel in 2001 after he broadcast interviews with Barbara Lee and Boots Riley which criticized the war in Iraq--has come out in support of the ... More >>

Dark Lord Murdoch's Multi-Tentacled San Francisco Takeover

EKAphotographyDavey-D (center), pictured with D'Wayne Wiggins and Tony ColemanBoy, this is an ironic world, ain't it? Former KMEL DJ Davey-D--fired by Clear Channel in 2001 after he broadcast interviews with Barbara Lee and Boots Riley which criticized the war in Iraq--has come out in support of the ... More >>

Radio (NAB) To Record Industry (RIAA): You, Sir, Are the Ball-Licker!

EKAphotographyDavey-D (center), pictured with D'Wayne Wiggins and Tony ColemanBoy, this is an ironic world, ain't it? Former KMEL DJ Davey-D--fired by Clear Channel in 2001 after he broadcast interviews with Barbara Lee and Boots Riley which criticized the war in Iraq--has come out in support of the ... More >>

Digby and Hollywood Records: "Green" is the new "Green"

EKAphotographyDavey-D (center), pictured with D'Wayne Wiggins and Tony ColemanBoy, this is an ironic world, ain't it? Former KMEL DJ Davey-D--fired by Clear Channel in 2001 after he broadcast interviews with Barbara Lee and Boots Riley which criticized the war in Iraq--has come out in support of the ... More >>

Net Radio Royalty EXTRA -- UPDATES: David Byrne, Cover feature

EKAphotographyDavey-D (center), pictured with D'Wayne Wiggins and Tony ColemanBoy, this is an ironic world, ain't it? Former KMEL DJ Davey-D--fired by Clear Channel in 2001 after he broadcast interviews with Barbara Lee and Boots Riley which criticized the war in Iraq--has come out in support of the ... More >>

Dark Payola Emerges

“Direct licensing” is the new threat to Webcasting´s meritocracy of music

The Day the Music Dies

Internet radio stations like SomaFM have launched bands and influenced what mainstream DJs play. On July 15, they could be gone forever

Charting Hits

A year on the Public Enemy roller coaster

KRON's Last Gasp

How a once-proud San Francisco television station became ground zero in the nation's most controversial experiment in local TV news.

Because of Dixie Win

CSA envisions life today if the South had won the war

The New Media Monopoly

News & Reviews

Best Radio Show

Desert Island Jazz

Best Hip Hop Radio Show

Ghetto Gumbo

alt.war

Traditional media mislead the public about the war in Iraq as a media revolution makes traditional media increasingly irrelevant

Best New Radio Show

Working Assets Radio

Flunk You

If Fox expels Undeclared, blame everyone but Judd Apatow

Best Radio Station

KUSF-FM (90.3)

School's Out

When Fox-TV canceled American High, the network hit a new low

South to the Future

Fox to Air Presidential Pageant 2000

Might See TV

Joel Engardio picks his way through the political minefield around ITVS, the San Francisco group that Congress created to put the edge back in PBS

Boob Tube

No one's watching CNET's high-tech television shows, and for good reason

Death Ray From Outer Space

Satellite radio brings 100 stations and digital sound to San Francisco's car stereos. Can local broadcasting survive?

Buffy the Empire Slayer

Chronicle Publishing petitions the FCC -- but why?

Unspun

Chronicle Publishing petitions the FCC -- but why?