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Is a 1380 Sale Imminent?
There is word that there has been a complete hiring freeze at Simmons owned stations (thats 1380AM and 1490AM here in St. Louis) because of a possible up coming sale of all properties in Texas and Missouri.
Its no secret 1380 is in serious trouble after the recent firings that left only one person on the business side for the entire station, but we aren’t sure about the heresy of a full station sale.
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Hey Look KSDK Has a Mogulus Account!
That is apparently channel 5, ksdk’s Mogulus account. What is Mogulus? Its a service for streaming live video to the web.
Anyone have any idea what they are doing with this? There’s lots of great things they could do with a Mogulus account [Ed Note: I’m being serious.] but their track record says they aren’t using it to the fullest, or at all.
Rock of Love Bus in St. Louis: God I Hate These Bitches
For those with lives that missed VH1’s Rock of Love Bus this week, the skank mobile parked in St. Louis where Brett took the girls to the Hustler Club (shocking right?) and Uncle Joe’s Flamingo Bowl on Washington. Great for Joe! Bad for everyone that watched it, especially for those that live in Missouri because we got to watch the dumbest skanks VH1 could find have an exchange about where exactly St.
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Fox 2 General Manager Can’t Go Number 2 With the Rest of You People
STLMedia.net is saying that Fox 2’s general manager has not only being pushing the construction union’s limits by trying to get the workers at the KPLR studios to work through their breaks, but also has spent $60,000 on a private bathroom for his office all while more layoff rumors swirl around the new “siamese stations.”
Apparently the troops at 2 and 11 know about the expensive crapper and are less than pleased.
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More Media Layoffs: KMOV Cuts 10 Jobs
KMOV has cut 10 jobs, the majority of which are salespeople we hear. The only “name” we’ve heard being cut is Tim Tialdo from our favorite show “Great Day St. Louis”
Anyone else have any word on this or know the others that were let go?
Brian McKenna Jumping to 1380?
…and the St. Louis sports talk orgy continues…
We have just received word that Brian McKenna, formally of KFNS 590 is jumping from one sinking ship to another as he will be starting as cohost of the Bernie Miklasz Show (2p-6p) as soon as tomorrow (Feb 9th).
We know that Bernie has had his share of cohosts since Randy Karraker was let go due to budget constraints (and later landed with the new 101 ESPN).
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Did You Know About Terry Crouppen’s St. Louis?!
Somehow I’ve managed to missed the insane bad TV brilliance of Great Day St. Louis until recently, and now I’ve been nothing but obsessed with watching clip after clip of a show that I keep waiting to end with “Gotcha!” or Will Ferrell announcing “the weather man is dead! I killed the weather man!”
Take this little segment for example:
Apparently this segment, and I use that term loosely, is so that everyone’s favorite ambulance chaser tells us about some lawsuit and we are all supposed to pretend this isn’t an advertisement.
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St. Louis Comments on Celine Dion
Celine Dion played in St. Louis last night, and yesterday Kevin Johnson of STLToday blogged about a set list she has used earlier in the tour to give fans a heads up. The comments on that post are awesome.
Here are the best ones:
Side Note: I hate how STLToday.com displays comments.
One Crazy Slow News Day: USA Today Reports Trains are On Time.
USA Today reported yesterday that Amtrak is reporting that their trains going between St. Louis and Kansas City are 96% on time. Seriously.
This is a fucking joke right? Who could possible give a shit about this?! Maybe the article will tell me…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Amtrak trains traveling between Kansas City and St. Louis turned in a stellar on-time rate for January. The Missouri Department of Transportation said Tuesday that the trains were on schedule 96% of the time.
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