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AGAIN, we are at the cutting edge of the zeitgeist – USA Today notes that the “adult” entertainment industry often leads the way in technology: Online pornographers have been among the first to exploit new technology for more than a decade – from video-streaming and fee-based subscriptions to pop-up ads …

The NAACP “honors projects and individuals who have demonstrated exemplary works by and for people of color” with the annual Image Awards. The 35th annual awards were handed out Saturday night in Los Angeles: [Luther] Vandross is recovering from a stroke and was not at Universal Amphitheatre to pick up …

Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl assault on the sensibilities of the American viewing audience began a chain of events that includes the FCC and Congress cracking down on broadcast “indecency,” which is jeopardizing the careers of Howard Stern and shock jocks from coast to coast. Howard, in particular, is whining vociferously …

Howard Stern whined and felt sorry for himself on his radio show Friday. He lamented that his show was over: Shock jock and self-proclaimed “King of All Media” Howard Stern believes his reign on the radio is coming to an end. “The show is over,” he announced Friday morning on …

When I am scanning the news, I usually take a quick look at AP’s Strange News because, you know, it’s news and it’s strange and stuff. What is concerning me is that hardly a week goes by that a Strange News item doesn’t come out of my home state of …

BBC 4 has opened a fascinating archive of radio interviews, arranged alphabetically and by topic. Here is a list of the A’s and B’s, by way of example: Achebe, Chinua b1930 Adams, Ansel 1902 – 1984 Altman, Robert b1925 Amis, Kingsley 1922 – 1995 Amis, Martin b1949 Angelou, Maya b1928 …

There is a lot of hoopla over FCC cracking down on indecency over the airwaves, Clear Channel dumping Howard Stern, firing Bubba the Love Sponge, and related matters of live TV delays in the wake of Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl nipple flash. But veteran radio observer Sean Ross takes a …

The Paul Harvey of the UK, Alistair Cooke, 95 (he was 50 when I was born – he was freaking 35 when Roger Daltrey was born – he joined the BBC as a film critic the year after my father was born), has retired from his Letter From America radio …

Our great pal Cindy Chaffin announces: It’s finally here! Today, Monday March 1st TexasRadio1.com is fully launched! -Every Monday at 3pm CST it’s the The Buddy Blues Show. The Best in Texas Blues by the good folks who bring you Buddy Magazine!!! -Every Tuesday at 6pm it’s The Fine Line, …

Okay, back to Mel: the NY Times remains consistent in its disapproval of The Passion. Conservative commentator William Safire sees the fim as inflaming anti-Semitism: The word “passion” is rooted in the Latin for “suffer.” Mel Gibson’s movie about the torture and agony of the final hours of Jesus is …