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Did You Read……….
….about Oprah’s new cable network?
The New American Dream?
All year I’ve been amused by the journalistically fostered idea that white Americans, the (voting) majority of this country, are ready to actually go into small booths in November 2008 and, privately and deliberately, elect a Black male as POTUS. Before he gets assassinated.
Late last night, I was in bed with the great passion of my life—Rolling Stone. 🙂 It documented the overdose of optimism that is part of Obamaland. I read this article days after watching an interview Bill Moyers did with esteemed political scientist Ron Walters. Our brother seemed, well, cautiously optimistic about Barack Obama, too.
I just have a hard time believing it. I know I’m not the only one. Yes, this is the America of Condi and Oprah and Will Smith, but it’s also the America of Jena 6 and Megan Williams and institutional, if not blatant, racism in every aspect of American life—especially politics. Remember the McCain “slur” in South Carolina? Or “Harold at the Playboy party?”
Yes, the Oprah thing LOOKED impressive. But in America, it’s those angry “Washington Journal” (white) callers who actually vote. Ask Karl Rove about this. 🙂
If Walters hadn’t said what he did on Tee Vee about Obama’s chances, I’d just dismiss all of this as media hype generated by the yearning for the End of White Guilt. Let’s see what Iowa, New Hampshire and especially South Carolina will yield.
Did You See…….
…………last week’s “Bill Moyers Journal” report on media ownership by people of color?
No?
Well, then, here it is.
NOVEMBER 19th UPDATE: Here’s the follow-up on the larger issue of consolidation.
He's BAACCK! Do You Care?
Easy Come………..
………..and so goes Syndication One.
Nice idea. But next time, if you want to make Baisden money, then hire a Baisden! LOL!
Meanwhile, Black America is still gonna need a Black news-talk radio network, particularly during the election. Any takers?
(HEARS CRICKETS CHIRP 😉 )
I thought not. No one has any McDonald’s money—for Black information, at least. Meanwhile, look at the total of annual Black spending.
And, as we process allathat, here’s something to check out.
OCTOBER 9th UPDATE: Sharpton may be staying. More on this as the facts come out.
OCTOBER 11 UPDATE: Richard Prince just sent me this. Okay, so Sharpton stays and the Stews go—along with any other talk.
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For Immediate Release
Thursday, October 11, 2007
Contact Information
Maiya Hollie
Communications Manager
REACH Media Inc.
(972) 371-5851
maiya.hollie@reachmediainc.com
RICKEY SMILEY AND YOLANDA ADAMS FIRST OF NEW TALENT ADDED TO SYNDICATION ONE’S RADIO LINEUP
Radio One’s Syndication Network Announces Programming Expansion
(Black PR Wire)LANHAM, MD– October 11, 2007 – Syndication One announced today that it plans to expand its programming beginning with two feature weekday morning shows which include Rickey Smiley and Yolanda Adams.
Syndication One, a joint relationship between Radio One, Inc. and REACH Media Inc., has made programming changes in an effort to extend its lineup to include established talent that complement music based programming, as well as FM radio stations.
“The Al Sharpton Show, Keeping It Real,” which has proven to be a popular draw on weekdays addressing news and talk issues, will continue with Syndication One. Current radio shows, “The 2 Live Stews” and “The Warren Ballentine Show,” will end their run with Syndication One in December.
“We’re excited to be bringing additional creative and entertaining programming to the urban radio market place,” stated Alfred Liggins, President and CEO of Radio One. “Rickey Smiley and Yolanda Adams are proven talent that can be a morning show cornerstone for key stations.”
Popular comedian Rickey Smiley, who has already established rating success on Dallas’s KBFB 97.9 The Beat, a Radio One, Inc. station, has generated a number of inquiries that have prompted syndication opportunities. “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show” has already been added on WHHL-FM in St. Louis and WFXA-FM in Augusta.
Grammy award winning gospel artist Yolanda Adams has developed an inviting morning show with a mix of praise and inspiration launched on Houston’s KROI Praise 92.1 FM. “The Yolanda Adams Show” is syndicated to twelve markets, including Praise 97.5 WPZE-FM in Atlanta, 94.1 WXEZ-FM in Norfolk and Praise 103.9 WPPZ-FM in Philadelphia.
About Syndication One
Syndication One is a joint relationship between Radio One Inc. and REACH Media Inc. and is designed to develop African American targeted programming. Over the past year, the programming has been at the center of the nation’s hottest issues engaging all viewpoints.
Syndication One currently features “The Al Sharpton Show,” “The Rickey Smiley Morning Show,” and “The Yolanda Adams Show.” REACH Media Inc. is the authorized sales representative firm for each of the radio shows.
Radio One, Inc. (http://www.radio-one.com) is the nation’s seventh largest radio broadcasting company (based on 2006 net broadcast revenue) and the largest radio broadcasting company that primarily targets African American and urban listeners.
Pro forma for recently announced transactions, Radio One owns and/or operates 55 radio stations located in 18 urban markets in the United States. Additionally, Radio One owns Magazine One, Inc. (d/b/a Giant Magazine) (http://www.giantmag.com), interests in TV One, LLC (http://www.tvoneonline.com), a cable/satellite network programming primarily to African Americans and REACH Media, Inc. (http://www.blackamericaweb.com), owner of The Tom Joyner Morning Show and other businesses associated with Tom Joyner. Radio One also operates the only nationwide African American news/talk network on free radio and programs “XM 169 The POWER,” an African-American news/talk channel, on XM Satellite Radio.
REACH Media Inc., founded by radio and television personality, philanthropist and entrepreneur Tom Joyner, is a multimedia company formed in January 2003. As the parent company of The Tom Joyner Morning Show, The Tom Joyner Show in television syndication, BlackAmericaWeb.com, The Tom Joyner Foundation and Tom Joyner signature events, REACH Media targets African Americans through radio, television, signature events and the internet. The Tom Joyner Morning Show is aired in more than 115 markets throughout the United States, reaching more than 8 million listeners every week.
BlackAmericaWeb.com, which has more than 1.3 million registered members, is a virtual town square for visitors to get daily news, learn about issues affecting the black community and listen to the Morning Show online.
For more information about the shows or to set up interviews with the hosts, contact Maiya Hollie, 972.371.5851, maiya.hollie@reachmediainc.com. Companies interested in obtaining any of the shows for broadcast should contact Melody Talkington, vice president, affiliate relations for REACH Media Inc., 972.371.5845,
melody.talkington@reachmediainc.com.
What?!? No More Kids' WB!?!?
And then, in 2008, there was none. Damn. Money really does talk, and talk well, huh? DAMN! What happened to subsidizing your BRANDS? Oh, that’s right; the network is the CW now. Boy, am I naive! LOL! 🙂
Clearly, after 16 years of geek bliss, it’s finally time to leave the house on Saturday mornings. 🙂 I will always have great memories of the Great Animated Superhero Cartoon Commercial Television Era of 1992 (the year “Batman: TAS” premiered on Fox Kids on weekday afternoons) to 2008. “X-Men,” “Spider-Man: TAS,” “Phantom 2040” , “Gargolyes” and “Superman: TAS” followed on Fox Kids, Kids WB! or in weekdaily or weekend first-run syndication (not counting UPN Kids, ’cause it just showed repeats of the other network shows), all to great acclaim from fanboys (read: me 🙂 ).
And on and on, “Fantastic Four: TAS,” “Iron Man: TAS,” “Silver Surfer: TAS” (my all-time favorite) “The Avengers: TAS,” and more, as the ’90s turned into ’00s. Up through “The Batman” (a show I only tolerated until it began to take itself seriously, writing-wise, at the start of its fourth season) and “Legion of Super Heroes.”
With Fox Kids and Kids’ WB! gone, at 39 I really can’t make the audience investment anymore, following the remaining cartoons to cable or wherever. *SIGH* At least there are now a lot of (direct–to-) DVD animated films from which to choose.
Time to take those Saturday art classes—sculpture? painting?— I keep claiming I want. And perhaps I should start pulling out my “How-To-Write-A-Screenplay” books and my African myth anthologies……..
Damn, AJR………
…………I’m sorry that you might go to that Great American Magazine Graveyard. It’s too full. And there had been good news, too, which makes it all the more sad.
Harry Potter And The Never-Ending Wait :)
The whole family in front of me had round glasses of some type—some Harryish, some real.
We were in line, outside, in downtown College Park, Maryland.
For The Book.
Evangelists and snarky, too-cool passerby college students couldn’t spoil our mood. In front of me, mostly 10-year-olds, dressed in black cloaks and black wizard hats I’d see all evening. In back, mostly teens, sans stuff.
Darkness was setting. The Wait Had Begun.
I’m an Old School Geek, so this particular fetish took some time to develop. I mean, I just like the movies. But since this was the last one—the last book, the last Friday/Saturday midnight book release party—I had to go to Vertigo.
One little girl was going to make sure the Vertigo folks kept their word about the 10:15 p.m. opening. She stuck her face up against the window and announced, “Two minutes.”
The doors opened on time. Staffer Jennifer Cook was in full let’s-have-fun-kids mode—y’know, the way she always is with grownups who enter Vertigo. 🙂 Kids in tonight’s standard uniform, circled on the floor. She asked them how many have read all the books more than once. Most, if not all, raised their hands.
While looking at the long line, my eye caught something from my childhood: “Charlotte’s Web.”
(Jen to Kids: “Should we trust Snape?”)
That book spawned a great animated film and a live-action movie. But it never created its own culture. I wondered what it would have been like to have a “Charlotte’s Web” club, where kids would walk around dressed as pigs or spiders carrying signs saying “SOME PIG.”
(Jen to Kids, hosting a kind of Harry Potter version of “Jeopardy”: “The Weasley’s home is called THIS.”)
A palm reader was present, while a magician worked the crowd.
One beautiful young sister, looking about 10, not only had the full hood, but the Gryffindor scarf. You know the one.
Slowly, the line became a polite crowd. At least 100, including a tall guy who had on a trench and a “Mad-Eye” Moody eye.
The Bookstore Master Plan was also in effect: some of the patrons were looking at other books.
(Jen to Kids, announcing a Harry Potter quiz: “If you’re not careful, I’ll break out into a bad British accent.”)
Zero hour. Or, more appropriately, the Witching Hour.
My number was Four. I quickly squeezed my way out the store. Knowing now there would be no more.
Have You Read…………
………. Mark Anthony Neal’s interesting explanation (I won’t call it a defense, but I could 🙂 ) of Michael Eric Dyson?
Drums in the Global Village 