I started getting emails today about Ken Hoffman's radio show on 1560 The Game KGOW in Houston. Hoffman was saying his co-workers, David Nuno and Raheel Ramzanali (who he says he helped start their radio careers) left and started a show down the radio dial!
KOLD Channel 13 weather head Chuck George, is not your stereotypical science geek, yet his knowledge, combined with his relentless willingness to take his show to the street, has helped him become one of the most recognizable television-media personalities in the market. READ MORE
The John McCaa you don’t know is a self-described “art freak” and onetime R-rated standup comic who was raised in Spain, vacations annually in Italy, and likes nothing more than losing himself in the beat of his in-home drum set.
What’s more, he’s a man who “can listen to an opera and break out in tears.” But seriously, folks, he’s also a playful mimic known to imitate his bosses at work.
“I like to have a lot more fun than people think,” McCaa insists. “And maybe that’ll come out someday on the air. Maybe.” READ MORE
Walden tells it his way, one memory triggering another, not so much talking about his huge success as one of Hollywood's most in-demand television theme creators (thirtysomething, The Wonder Years, Roseanne, The West Wing, Friday Night Lights) as just relishing the small details of his distant Houston past, savoring memories of how he got from Lamar High School to Emmy awards and industry acclaim. READ THE REST
The new bakery-cafés are located at 10880 Louetta Road in Northwest Houston, 7811 S. Main Street near the Texas Medical Center, 10519 S. Post Oak in Southwest Houston and at 9821 Broadway Street in Pearland.
The stores are the newest of the Houston-based company’s 37 nationwide locations. READ MORE
3. The formats which rise (to the degree that formats rise) will be the ones catering specifically to audiences who are less tech savvy or the old dogs who don’t wish to be taught new tricks. Look for Spanish language radio to be the big winner here along with anything targeting aging Boomers.
9. Much of the non-music content on TV will be simulcast on radio, thus extending the distribution for TV content at a comparatively low cost and reframing many stations as distribution channels for TV - without pictures. CNN, FOX, MSNBC, E!....It will all be on a radio station near you. READ THE REST
CRAVE Cupcakes (no, we're not screaming, that's how they write it) should feel secure in their future despite the economic woes facing Houston.
Quite simply, CRAVE bakes the best cupcakes we've ever tasted - hands down. Better than Mom's. Better than Grandma's. READ MORE(Image courtesy of Houstonist)
Krumlr, a social bookmarking site with a Twitter twist, will bookmark and then tweet to Twitter in one click.
Bookmarking and tweeting about a page is as easy as clicking on the Krumlr link in your browser’s toolbar. There is no cutting or pasting.
Krumlr automatically creates a tiny URL of your page krum and appends it to your tweet.
Krumlr does this with a Twitter-like interface where you can follow or be followed by any number of like-minded people. The page krums (bookmarks) you save are automatically shared with your followers. Krums from those you follow are automatically shared with you. READ MOREThis site is on to something because it has a funny name like Flickr.
The malaprop-prone Maciborski looks as though he might be good for a few laughs. He also shows a willingness to laugh at his own brand of humor.
Salinas seemed mostly deferential for starters, but has a nice smile. It's early, though, and both anchors are still feeling their way through an hour-long newscast that still mostly measures up to one of the CW-affililated station's signature shows -- Smallville.
On Monday's newscast, departing reporter Norris Deajon's piece on "Finding work through Facebook" was the top-billed attraction. That's hardly surprising. Facebook stories have become ever-present on The 33, where the CW network's prime-time target audience is 18-to-34-year-olds.
That puts new University of North Texas grad Pelpina Trip near the top of the pecking order with her nightly Web-cruising "Pelpina's Picks" segments, during which she invariably touts a "Facebook application." Maciborski gamely teased Monday's dollop, but forgot a consonant in saying, "If you are ready to learn another language, you have a lot of option (sic) these days." READ THE REST
The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County has posted its routes on Google Transit’s online trip planning tool.
The free tool can generate an itinerary of maps, calculate walking distances and times for people using Metro transportation around Houston. READ MORE
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SnapStream Mini is a dual-channel TV search appliance that allows individuals or organizations to record 1000s of hours of television and then search within those television shows for whatever it is they might be looking for. A cross between a DVR and a search engine, the SnapStream Mini gives individuals and organizations the ability to record television, search within those recordings, create TV clips and then take those clips and email, store or burn them to DVD.
Political video blogger Jed Lewison, whose videos have logged more than 15 million views, uses SnapStream to find relevant TV content for his video blog posts. Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton’s Campaign team used SnapStream TV search to stay informed of campaign news and the media's reaction to her campaign's platform.
SnapStream Mini allows organizations to:
- Record 2 channels of traditional TV from regular cable, digital cable, or satellite
- Schedule recordings using a simple program guide
- Search by keyword within recordings
- Get email alerts notifying mentions of keywords on TV
- Create clips and download or email them
- Burn DVDs of full recordings or TV clips
The SnapStream Mini costs $2,000, includes 1 terabyte (TB) of storage (~1000 hours of recorded video) and is geared towards individuals and smaller organizations including bloggers, independent media, classrooms and small media monitoring companies. SnapStream expects to ship the first batch of Minis in the first quarter of 2009.
This interview is from 2002 and I also posted it last year, but if you like Willie Nelson, what do you care?
Ben Blank, who as graphics director for CBS and later ABC television news introduced the concept of using logolike images behind anchors as signatures for major news coverage, died on Feb. 3 at his home in Teaneck, N.J. He was 87. READ MORE
HTC has got a very smooth phone, which feels great on your hands and in your pants' pockets. While it's sightly thicker than the iPhone, the narrower, rounded body, and weight makes it feel the same size. For sure, a lot less bulky than the G1, which looks like a brick next to this. And as you have seen in the shots, the final HTC Magic is quite pretty. Have no doubt: This thing alone will make many consumers put up with the less-than-ideal software keyboard. READ MORE
The office itself feels like 2000 … but more adult. These guys are smarter than we were. They have only 28 employees, and the office has few decorations, save for two green ceramic deer in the corner and papier-mâché hanging from the ceiling that reads EVERY TWEET COUNTS. A spread of organic cereals is ready for the few people in the office at 10 a.m. There’s a vintage Atari game by the window (Tempest, from 1981), but you have to ask someone to turn it on. It looks as though certain concessions were made at Twitter to What a Web-Company Office Is Supposed to Look Like. Really, it’s like any other office, except there’s hardly anybody there. They’re all working at home. READ MORE
We've all seen the embarrassing Google Maps images flying around the Web and, well, there are just too many to deny.
In this Web 2.0 world, the cameras are always rolling and the net is always ready to advertise our absurdity. So in the spirit of open information -- we've compiled our Top 10 Moments Caught on Google Maps! SEE THEM
Fans of pop/R&B station KMVK/107.5 FM "Movin’ 107.5" may have been fiddling with their radio dials about 1 p.m. Tuesday, when the station abruptly cut off Madonna’s Vogue and, after a moment of silence, came back with Juanes’ Gotas de Agua Dolce, the very first song played on Spanish adult-contemporary "Mega 107.5 FM." READ MORE
You never know when you need to do this for a corporate event or to impress your 14-year-old step daughter.
Here is a tribute very close to my heart - fallen sodas. In face Will-E and I talk about Surge all the time. KPRC-AM Announces Chris Baker to Follow Joe 'Pags' Pagliarulo Starting March 2nd
Houston, Texas , February 17, 2009 –Beginning Monday, March 2nd, Houstonians will get an ever better cup of 9-5-0 Radio Mojo when Chris Baker returns to the airwaves on his hometown station KPRC-AM announced Eddie Martiny, President and Market Manager for Clear Channel Radio Houston. The Chris Baker show will air live from 3-5pm daily, while award winning Joe 'Pags' Pagliarulo will move to mornings to host "your Morning Cup of Joe" from 6-9am.
"Chris has a lot of fans in Houston, and he's incredibly talented. We are excited to bring him back to Houston, back to the same station and time slot in which he began on-air over eight years ago," said Michael Berry, Operations Director for Clear Channel Radio Houston's AM stations. "With Walton & Johnson moving up the dial to the Arrow, 93.7 FM, the morning show slot opened on The 9-5-0. 'Pags' was the perfect choice for the mornings. If 'Pags' can appear on Fox News Channel, CNN, Headline News, CNBC and fill in for Glen Beck, we know he will be the perfect cup-of morning Joe for Houston." added Berry.
Joe 'Pags has been honored with multiple AP and broadcast association awards of excellence, and has been ranked among the most influential talk show hosts in America. Chris Baker is a stand-up comic who has been making Houstonians laugh for years, but he also makes them think. Houston loves his brand of talk and humor, and Clear Channel is looking forward to his listeners responding to his message.
The new KPRC-AM 9-5-0 Radio Mojo line up will be:
Morning Cup of Joe with Joe 'Pags' Pagliarulo 6-9am
Michael Garfield 9a-11a
Outlaw Dave 11a-1p
Dave Ramsey Show 1p-3p
The Chris Baker Show 3-5pm
The Michael Savage Show 5-8pm
KPRC-AM is the first radio station in Texas, originally broadcasting in 1925. KPRC-AM's legendary TalkRadio format transitioned to "guytalk" in July of 2007. With the exciting move of 'Pags' to the mornings and the addition of Baker and the station will retain the popular Radio Mojo format.
Have you heard about "The Great Raise" Reality TV show that former "Amazing Race" $1-million winners Joyce and Uchenna Agu have produced? It's to run on Channel 11 KHOU Feb. 21 and 28. "Great Raise" competitors Wayne Dolezal and Anna Rocha currently are doing a Sun and Ski Sports Cycling Slimdown now to train for MS150. They both weighed in at 270 lbs. on Jan. 6 and plan to ride -- much thinner -- the 150 miles from Houston to Austin to raise money for MS April 19-20."
When I saw the Skynet Broadband Network on the logs of my blog, I got scared. Jamal and Rome is an online TV series, a dramatic comedy about two drug dealers. This show was filmed here in south and central Houston, Texas. It features a diverse cast of one of the most talented actors and actresses in the city of Houston. The first season of this show has 8 episodes which you can watch online.
Someone sent me the link to 93q.fm which is a great Houston 93Q and 79Q KKBQ tribute page. It links to some hilarious video of John Lander and the Q Morning Zoo folks. Remember the Tookie Bird? Lots of video and photos of him too. 
Many TV stations have followed what the government wants and are delaying the much hyped switched to digital television. Others are jumping in ahead of time (or on schedule depending on how you look at it).
The wife and I saw Joel McHale of The Soup perform at a packed Verizon Wireless Theater in Houston Sunday night. It was a great show. 
I've noticed that Steve Simon has not been sitting behind the anchor desk much lately on Houston's 39 News KIAH? Don't worry, he is still on the newscast as a reporter though. Our CancerDiva is dead. Terry Hayes, an administrative assistant in the Chronicle's sports department whose award-winning blog for Chron.com detailed a year in the life of a cancer survivor, died Sunday night at a Houston hospice. She was 42. Hayes spent five years as one of the newspaper's essential support staffers, handling unseen but critical behind-the-scenes tasks, deflecting and distributing calls and complaints, and encouraging — on occasion, demanding — that co-workers live up to her fierce sense of duty and hard work.
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n April 2006, she was diagnosed with terminal colon cancer and was told she had about two years to live. Ten months later, she began "blogging the adventure" as CancerDiva, a name that she said reflected the "mix of darkness and light" that accompanied her battle for survival.
For the next several months, CancerDiva offered readers her thoughts on topics ranging from European travel to the painful tedium of chemotherapy to thoughts about death to the adventures of her beloved cat, Sasha. She was cited as the state's best newspaper blogger in 2008 by the Texas Associated Press Managing Editors Association. READ MORE
KGTV San Diego backpack journalist Joe Little makes the best of whatever you want to call it with creative stand-ups. Yeah, actually better than two person crews in some cases.The February issue of C-47 Houston magazine has been distributed. Our cover is The Lone Star Emmy Winner, TV Host, and producer/filmmaker Ms. Nellie Gonzalez. We chatted with Filmmaker/Director Mr. Raymond Gayle, Producer/Actor Mr. Jon-Michael Foshee and Producer/Musician for TV/Film Mr. Scott Szabo. We, also, chatted with the beautiful and delightful Ms. Roxy Vandiver, our February LimeLight actress. Get it now!
KIAH 39 News is seeking 2 Multi-Media Journalists. Successful candidate must be able to work in a multi-platform environment. Will be responsible for shooting, editing, writing and voicing stories. Stories will be used both online and on-air. Applicants must be able to cover a diverse range of topics from local entertainment to environmental issues. Candidates must have at least one year of experience in a newsroom environment. A bachelor’s degree is preferred. Photography and non-linear editing skills needed. Previous website experience a plus.
Requirements
Applicants must be able to cover a diverse range of topics from local entertainment to environmental issues. Candidates must have at least one year of experience in a newsroom environment. A bachelor’s degree is preferred. Photography and non-linear editing skills needed. Previous website experience a plus. READ MORE
Most of us have no idea what's really going on inside our heads. Yet brain scientists have uncovered details every business leader, parent, and teacher should know--such as the brain's need for physical activity to work at its best.
How do we learn? What exactly do sleep and stress do to our brains? Why is multi-tasking a myth? Why is it so easy to forget--and so important to repeat new information? Is it true that men and women have different brains?
In Brain Rules, molecular biologist Dr. John Medina shares his lifelong interest in how the brain sciences might influence the way we teach our children and the way we work. In each chapter, he describes a brain rule--what scientists know for sure about how our brains work--and then offers transformative ideas for our daily lives. For more information go to http://www.brainrules.net /.
Dr. Medina spoke at Google's Mountain View, CA headquarters as part of the Authors@Google program. This talk took place on Tuesday, April 8, 2008.
I do not have to wear glasses yet, but I am sure that will change one day. The thought of glasses has made me wonder what LASIK surgery is like. Sure lots of people get it, but I've never understood the process. I was born in Houston and lived there until I was 18 years old. I agree that the people in Houston are nasty , rude, arrogant, and ignorant. I had to go to grade school with some of these people. I can't imagine how they are now as adults. I moved to Colorado after I graduated from college. I only visit Houston to see my family. I can only stay there for a week. Once I moved to another environment, I was able to look back and see how ugly the people were. I truely believe that many people who live in Houston develop a negative attitude early on in their lives. They tend to feed off of one another's rudness an stupidity. I am so happy that I don't live there anymore. I would suggest to anyone living in Houston for the jobs/housing; Save your money and move out of the city. I hear Austin is more civil. READ MORE
I was surprised to see MySpace founders Tom Anderson and Chris DeWolfe on Charlie Rose. In face I am surprised to see any mention of MySpace anywhere really.
We were awarded a construction permit on a 15,000 watt night signal in Katy shooting across Houston. Construction has commenced and will be complete in June. We will have the second strongest signal behind 740. SEE THE REST
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We just wanted to let you know that we've launched a new take on the Obamicon -- "Luvicon" -- just in time for Valentines. Login to http://webicon.me/ and let your special someones know you're thinking of them. But this isn't just limited to Valentines -- tell the world what else you love: that '68 Gibson guitar, the TV show Arrested Development, your iphone, your dog Skip, etc. SEE MORE
I have learned one thing, Jim Henson's Workshop recycled or moved various characters from Sesame Street and the Muppets to totally unrelated shows. 
Miami Fox affiliate WSVN is famous in TV news circles for being very over the top. You might even recognize the station's set as the inspiration for the old News2Houston KPRC set.
At age 39, he is two months removed from open heart surgery to repair a defect that could have struck him down in the middle of the newsroom or, for that matter, in the middle of Galveston Island during Hurricane Ike.
“I look back now and see things that should have been red flags, things that I wrote off at the time to the fact that I had a baby at home,” he said. “What this has taught me is to listen to my body and to see my doctor at least once a year.” READ MORE
If you haven't seen the video of David, 7, after a drugged up trip to the dentist, you must watch. Is he in the family mini-van or on the corner of Haight-Ashbury in 1969?
Just wanted to point out that The Soup host Joel McHale is putting on a comedy show this weekend in Houston at The Verizon Wireless Theater. Brady, who has three children with his wife, Dr. Wesley Brady, said he "did some serious navel-gazing last year" after doing a number of stories about "technology and entrepreneurial things, and people who are planting the flag and trying to make a go of it."
His new company will advise clients on developing new digital media content, he said. "I realize I don't need a hundred clients. I just need a handful who need help. I see me as coming in and kind of providing a coaching service." READ MORE
TwitterGadget is a clean, robust, web 2.0 style client for Twitter.com, designed to submit status updates to Twitter via your iGoogle homepage or Gmail Account.
I don't even know what to say about this. Eyewitness News 3 WFSB in Hartford, CT made a blooper on air. They put a hamster in a suspect name and frame (graphic with a photo in it). Too bad, because this is a serious story.KGOW (1560 AM) has added a series of evening shows. Raheel Ramzanali hosts Longhorn Nation at 6 p.m. Mondays, Brian Balboa hosts The Game Soccer Show at 7 p.m. Mondays, Ramzanali and David Nuno host No Layups at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Scott Atkinson and Brent Blackburn host the Academy Sports and Outdoors Golf Show at 6 p.m. Wednesdays, Nuno hosts the TexAgs.com Radio Show at 6 p.m. Thursdays and Kevin Joseph hosts Cougars Tonight at 6 p.m. Fridays. READ THE REST
When former Houston meteorologist Wes Hohenstein left KPRC it was big news on this blog. That's why I am now reporting that Hohenstein is on Twitter and appears to be doing well at NBC 17 WNCN in Raleigh, North Carolina. He has a weather blog too.Does what's on your desk reveal what's on your mind? Do those pictures on your walls tell true tales about you? And is your favorite outfit about to give you away? For the last ten years psychologist Sam Gosling has been studying how people project (and protect) their inner selves. By exploring our private worlds (desks, bedrooms, even our clothes and our cars), he shows not only how we showcase our personalities in unexpected-and unplanned-ways, but also how we create personality in the first place, communicate it others, and interpret the world around us. Gosling, one of the field's most innovative researchers, dispatches teams of scientific snoops to poke around dorm rooms and offices, to see what can be learned about people simply from looking at their stuff.
Sam Gosling is an associate professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin. He has spent the last decade conducting research on how personality is expressed and perceived in everyday contexts. He has been profiled by the New York Times, Psychology Today, and other publications, and he is featured in Malcolm Gladwell's Blink.
JL Watkins' little lost robot blog is a great read - if nothing else for his robot fetish. Watkins was the guy behind the KPRC Channel 2 news promotions that aired during the Super Bowl.
"A couple of ingest people drag and drop the content directly into the Dalet media library," said Comeau. "The loggers begin entering metadata for all this content and, at the same time, pick off the best images, which go into a shot list for the producers who walk in at 6 a.m. and start working on the stories."
According to Faust, National TeleConsultants integrated the Dalet system with an HP SAN, with 26 terabytes of online storage and 24 terabytes of archived storage, and an Omneon Spectrum media server system for ingest and play-out of the video feeds.
At 6:30 a.m., (creator/executive producer/on-air personality Harvey) Levin and the preditors (a contraction of producer-editor), who are ensconced in their cubicles, discuss the stories they're working on. That meeting is taped and forms the basis of each day's show. The preditors' reports introduce the video clips.)
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The show's preditors then begin putting the stories together with the Dalet system, and searching the archive for other relevant clips, which they can quickly retrieve in proxy resolution. "Within one system, they have access to years of Britney Spears," said Comeau.
Using Dalet's embedded newsroom computer system, each preditor writes the script, associating relevant clips. The resulting EDL (edit decision list) is then transferred to one of the 12 Apple Final Cut Pro workstations.
"By hitting one button, the EDL is sent to a Final Cut Pro editor and it'll be in the timeline," said Faust. The EDL links archived proxies to high-resolution versions in the background, invisible to the editor. READ THE REST
Twitter's initial stab at making money likely will come by April, although it won't be anything revolutionary, according to Evan Williams, the company's chief executive. More will be introduced over the course of the year. READ THE REST
Celebrities are always telling us to be more green and environmentally friendly. Then there is Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly and Adam McKay of Funny or Die. Their PSA takes environmentalism to a whole new level.
The Dynamo will go digital this season, announcing plans today to air 17 regular-season games plus ancillary programming on KHOU’s digital signal at 11.2 over the air and channel 310 on Comcast cable.
The Dynamo-Channel 11 alliance is believed to be one of the first of its kind in Major League Soccer and one of the few in major league sports as TV stations prepare for the move to digital transmission and work to promote their secondary digital channels. READ MORE
Remember those reports of Christian Bale losing it on the set of "Terminator Salvation"? There's an audio tape ... and it ain't pretty.
The "Dark Knight" star launched into a lengthy, expletive-laced tirade against Shane Hurlbut, "Terminator's" director of cinematography, after he allegedly walked into the actor's shot.
"I want you off the f---ing set, you p---k!" Bale screamed as Hurlbut can be heard quietly apologizing. "Don't just be sorry - think for one f---ing second. What the f--- are you doing?!" READ MORE
30 Rocks's Tina Fey is on Twitter and appears to be as funny through social networking as on television. No Sarah Palin jokes...yet (at least that I have seen).On the local advertising front, I was surprised to see that KPRC (Channel 2) accepted an advertisement for AshleyMadison.com, the Web site that helps arrange extra-marital affairs for married men and women.
AshleyMadison.com bought time last year on KILT (610 AM) and the Houston Texans radio network, but the ads were dropped after the Texans objected.
I’m not sure how much Channel 2 was paid to shill for AshleyMadison.com Maybe I should call Larry Blackerby, the station’s general manager, and find out how much money you get paid these days for 30 seconds of encouraging people to cheat on their spouse. READ THE REST
Long before anyone had heard of the Internet, early home computer users could read their morning newspapers online ... sort of. Steve Newman's 1981 story was broadcast on KRON San Francisco.
First it was the David Lee Roth Runin' with the Devil raw vocal, then the Diamond Dave soundboard and now it is the DLR video game! 
At work and want to make a cake? But don't have an oven? 
We now know that NBC 5 Chicago WMAQ is restructing itself much in the same way that WNBC New York has. 
Never seen a snake fight? Then here is your chance courtesy of Banjo Jones.
