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Another Week: Number 63
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Online radio streaming: Good work music is hard to find
The hours spent in front of my computer are generally more enjoyable and productive with good work music playing. For this reason, I have a pair of inexpensive but decent little computer speakers sitting on my desk. Thanks to iTunes,...
Waterboarding is torture: Mancow lasts 6 seconds
Last night on MSNBC's Countdown, Keith Olbermann showed a video: The waterboarding of Erich "Mancow" Muller in Chicago for Mancow's radio show: "Absolutely torture," he says. "That's drowning," he says. If he were being interrogated...
Billy Bob Thornton’s bizarre interview on CBC Radio’s Q / Qtv
Billy Bob Thronton and his band The Boxmasters were interviewed by Jian Ghomeshi on CBC Radio's Q yesterday. Their latest album is a 2-CD set called Modbilly. Here is last night's AP story: Joaquin Phoenix II? Billy Bob gives odd...
Where the ducks walk on the fish: Pymatuning State Park on NPR
Since radio is dead, I've been listening to even more public radio than I already did anyway. Just now on NPR's All Things Considered, I heard a little thing about some carp and ducks that was unlike anything I have ever heard before. [includeme...
T.D. Mischke fired from KSTP
(Update: Great news: Tommy Mischke will be heard again on weekday afternoons beginning March 4 from 2 to 4 p.m. via CityPages.com.) As you most likely know by now, broadcasting legend Steve Dahl was let go on Friday by CBS Radio. Phil Rosenthal has the details over at...
Telecommuting termination: Exit interview by telephone
I'm sitting in my kitchen waiting for Rod Zimmerman and Todd Cavanah of CBS Radio to phone and officially terminate my seven years of telecommuting employment with their company. Otherwise, it's at least sunny outside and I would like to shower and maybe go for a...
‘Steve Dahl Show’ to end, along with my job
Around 10 o'clock this morning, I got a phone call from Steve Dahl. Since Steve just never calls me, I immediately understood that this was the very bad news he had been foreshadowing for a couple of weeks. He confirmed it. CBS Radio...
Terry Armour, 1961-2007
I'm sure everyone in the Steve Dahl Show family is stunned and saddened tonight as Amy and I were upon learning that Terry Armour has died from an apparent heart attack at the Chicago Tribune offices. Terry was an endless source of fun and humor at the remote...
‘Steve Dahl Show’ moves to mornings
On Sunday, all of my clocks were pushed back one hour. On Monday, my working day for The Steve Dahl Show was moved up eight and a half hours. It's going to take me some time to fully adjust to this new normal. One of my favorite rituals so far is morning coffee alone...
Where to find music?
It was simple when I was, say, 17. I could tune my radio to 93 XRT and just leave it there to hear my favorite music and some exciting new stuff at any time of the day or night. Now, it's been years since I listened to WXRT. If I look at what they're playing this...
Steve Dahl Show, Sheraton Maui remote, 2005
Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii — Remote broadcast of the Steve Dahl Show from the Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa at Black Rock on Kaanapali Beach. Left to right: Musicians Henry Kapono and Barry Flanagan, Chicago Bears analyst Tom...
Mark Zerang, radio engineer
Lahaina, Maui, Hawaii — Radio engineer Mark Zerang controls the audio mixing board during a remote broadcast of the Steve Dahl Show from the Sheraton Maui Resort & Spa on Chicago's 105.9 WCKG. At upper left are musicians...
Henry Kapono, Steve Dahl, Tom Thayer on Maui
Honokowai, Hawaii — Hawaiian music superstar Henry Kapono, Chicago radio personality Steve Dahl, and Chicago Bears analyst and former offensive lineman Tom Thayer chat during a break in a live Steve Dahl Show broadcast from...