“Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution,” the reality series in which the famed British chef attempts to spark change in the West Virginia city that the Centers for Disease Control named the unhealthiest in America, will air on Sunday, March 21 in the 10 p.m. slot followed by repeats and new episodes every Friday. The show mirrors his attempt to revamp the British school food program. This time, it chronicles the chef’s attempt to “plant the seed” of change in Huntington, W.V., the same town that scorned his help and drove him to the brink of tears. Here’s just a taste of the town’s reaction to his offer to help. I’m shocked that the guy in this clip was spitting hamburger crumbs at Jamie as he refused to eat “lettuce”.
Since your station’s likely playing everything from music to commercials off of computer, there’s never a bad time to ask your engineer if everything’s backed up.
The theft of an estimated $10,000 in equipment included the hard drive that contained all the Perry Broadcasting station’s music, says KSWO. KJMZ jock Joe Biggs says “I actually had to hook up my laptop and played some music off of there.” GM Joy Chapman says it’s been a trying year, starting off with the loss of the tower during an ice storm. The burglary at the East Lee Boulevard studios happened early Friday morning, and the culprits made away with computers, monitors, TVs, webcams and two transmitter tubes – tubes the station was using to get back up to full power. The police are offering a cash reward through the “Crimestoppers” program. More at Radio-Info.
Here’s a guy who’ll never land a job in commercial radio. In Austin, Texas, police say a volunteer at a community radio station set fire to the station because he was upset that his song selections for an overnight Internet broadcast were changed. Paul Webster Feinstein has been charged with second-degree felony arson for the fire that caused $300,000 damage to the studios of 91.7 FM KOOP. Feinstein told investigators that he was “very unhappy” about the changes to his playlist.
A Detroit radio station has apologized after a disk jockey advertised a contest to determine when Britney Spears would commit suicide. “When will Britney end it?” listeners were asked on the Web and the Tuesday night radio show hosted by DJ Big Boy on Channel 955, according to a story in the Detroit News. “If you can guess the exact day that Britney dies, whether it’s from drugs or however she dies, if you’re right, we’ll give you a thousand bucks,” the News quoted DJ Big Boy as saying. More from FoxNews.com.
From Fort Wayne, Indiana: A WJFX-FM 107.9 radio station employee was handing out bumper stickers Wednesday when a man believed to be carrying a gun demandedMcDonald’s coupons, police said. According to a Fort Wayne police report, the radio station employee had parked her work vehicle at the BP gas station at South Calhoun Street and East Rudisill Boulevard shortly before 10:15 a.m. when a man approached her and asked for coupons to McDonald’s. The radio station employee told police she handed the man a Hot 107.9 bumper sticker and told him she was not handing out coupons at that time, police said. The man lifted his shirt and showed the woman what she thought was a handgun in the waistband of his pants, police said. The man then told her, “I want McDonald’s coupons,” police said. The radio station employee told police that she was not sure whether the man had a gun or some other kind of weapon but that she was scared and told the robber that she would see what she could find in her vehicle, police said. Police said the woman was able to find a coupon for a free McDonald’s cheeseburger inside her vehicle and handed it to the man. Theman took the coupon, threw the bumper sticker back to the radio station employee and took off on a dark gray or black bicycle.
Jay Sokolow can fill out 100 online contest entry forms in an hour with the click of his auto-saved name and e-mail address.
He leaves the radio on at work, holding a phone to each ear duringbreaks, speed-dialing stations during giveaways. He won so many times on one show that its producers instituted a once-a-month win limit: They call it the “Jay Sokolow law.”
Other husbands might spend their free time golfing or gambling. To hiswife’s aggravation, Sokolow enters contests. Grocery store drawings, sweepstakes, trivia games, raffles, he enters them every day, except on the Sabbath — Friday night through Saturday.
A Pennsylvania teacher resigned after winning a date with a porn tar during a satellite radio contest. The school board voted to accept Jaison Biagini’s resignation on Tuesday. While listening to the “Bubba the Love Sponge” radio show on Sirius satellite radio, Biagini won the trip last month to St. Petersburg, Florida, to meet with porn star Akira. Biagini, who uses a wheelchair, was interviewed on the radio show after returning home, and told a local newspaper that he was ridiculed for his disability and offended by how he was portrayed on the show. He also expressed concerns about his teaching job.
In the late 1940s, Stratovision was hailed as a way to bring TV and FM radio to a wider audience. It worked, but the plan fizzled out. Read the story of Stratovision.
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