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KURT HANSON
Legendary air
personality Larry Lujack returned to the Chicago airwaves
this morning for the first of four Thursday morning co-host gigs
(via ISDN line from his home in New Mexico)
on WUBT/Chicago -- and last-minute arrangements allowed former
Lujack fans around the world to listen to the show live via the
Internet.
And thanks to an alert from WUBT morning show co-host and RAIN
reader Doug James, subscrbers to RAIN's e-mail reminders
service (see form immediately below) got an early-morning "News
Flash" via e-mail allowing them to catch most of the program.
Mr. Lujack has not committed to continuing after the initial
four-show run, but the station is playing up hopes that he will
do so. ("We intend to work very hard to develop this into a
long-term relationship," WUBT EVP/GM Kathy Stinehour
has announced.) Lujack is also being used as the station voice and
for a twice-daily music feature, the "Lujack Double Flashback,"
put together by station PD Jay Beau Jones.
The last-minute webcast was
put together with the help of former major-market PD (WBMX/Chicago,
KMEL/San
Francisco, WBLS/New York City, and others) and current ISP
owner/operator and RAIN reader Lee Michaels, whose
firm, CompuOne.Net,
arranged the entire production with mere hours' notice.
CompuOne.Net
has also arranged for Microsoft to link to an archived broadcast,
which will appear in the 'premier top' position in its Media Guide
on Friday.
"We had been notified about the station wanting to do this
at about 12:30 today (Thursday)," Michaels tells RAIN.
"We not only agreed to take it on, we decided that two speeds
for the broadcast and archive were better than one. We also got
the info to Microsoft for promotion/premier feature placement --
without even being in our office. (He noted, "We'd like to
see any other company pull this off within such a short span of
time.")
Chicago
Sun-Times
columnist Richard
Roeper (who also has a local morning TV gig on a
two-hour Fox show co-hosted by former  Lujack
stablemate Bob Sirott) wrote a recent column describing the
appeal of Lujack's act (and wondering if it will hold up today),
which you can read here...
(Pictured at right: late-'70s era WCFL/Chicago logo.)
See original story here.
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"Bill
Gates is a socialist..."
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Kurt:
You probably know this, but the RealPlayer software usually keeps
a tray icon (bottom right corner) up  unless
you "deselect" it. Anything that is sitting in that tray is effectively
running and won't release unless you right click and eliminate it.
On the odd chance you didn't check for that I figured I'd let you
know. It's a good idea to lose all of the tray icons you don't really
need, as they can eat up memory really fast.
That said, RealNetworks is famous for trying to own individuals
PC's. Remember when they (oops!) "mistakenly" built in a gumshoe
that followed you around as you surfed so that they could re-sell
that info?
Bill Gates is a socialist compared to Rob Glaser!
--
Bob Bellin, MP3Player.com
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"I
never thought I'd say this..."
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Resource hog? Understatement. Plus, all their products place items
in the Win 98 start tray, constantly draining system resources.
Best advice is to immediately disable the "Start center"
(click on the Real logo at lower right -- there are two when you load
RP8, one for RealPlayer and one for RealJukebox) so you'll unload
it from the start tray and free up some resources.
I never thought I'd say this, but I much prefer the new Windows Media
Player!
--
Mark
Edwards, PD, Jammin' Gold 95.7/Philadelphia
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| May
22-26 |
Real
[Networks] Conference 2000, San Jose |
| June
12-14 |
Streaming
Media East 2000, New York City |
| June
14-17 |
R&R
Convention 2000, Los Angeles |
| June
14-17 |
PROMAX
& BDA, New Orleans |
| July
13-16 |
Upper
Midwest Conclave, Minneapolis |
| August
3-5 |
Morning
Show Bootcamp, New Orelans |
| September
20-23 |
NAB
Radio Show, San Francisco |
| October
5-7 |
Billboard/Airplay
Monitor Seminar, New York |
| November
5-7 |
NAB
European Radio Conference, Berlin
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| Nov.
28-Dec. 1 |
Radio
Ink Internet Conference, Santa Clara, CA |
From a company press release: "DiscJockey.com,
a leading internet entertainment site, announced today that
four experienced managers recently joined the firm on a full-time
basis: Fredda Cole, David Giunta, Lynne Carter
Smith, and George Taylor Morris.
"'We are pleased that these talented executives have agreed
to join our staff...' said John Martino, CEO of DiscJockey.com.
The new appointments bring DiscJockey.com full-time internal staff
to a total of 19...
"DiscJockey.com [was] incorporated in 1999 and [is] headquartered
in Salem, Massachusetts... In April, DiscJockey.com streamed over
100 million minutes to listeners who accessed 130 channels of music
and information, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week."
Read the full press release here.
(Watch RAIN for an analysis in the near future of how 100
million minutes translates into an AQH audience size.)
If you're hiring for a position that's radio- and Internet-related
this week, we'll post it -- free!  Simply
e-mail the job description here.
If
you're looking for new opportunities that involve
the Internet, you can take a look at the first three
available positions here.
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On Wednesday
(here),
I promised that I'd write an analysis of the latest Arbitron
InfoStream webcast ratings this week... Coming
soon!
New
and improved!
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