Posts Tagged ‘New York Times’

The Feed for Friday, December 5th

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  • Shannon exits WYNE/Mercyhurst North East: Several sources have confirmed that Erie radio veteran Bill Shannon (former K104 Program Director) is no longer employed at Mercyhurst North East. Shannon ends his long affiliation with the college, most recently starting up a radio broadcasting course of study and flipping the old WHYP 1530 signal to an oldies format. Captain Dan Geary expands his role from doing mornings to basically manning the ship. Personal reasons were cited for the departure.
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Christmas Wish List: Amazon Kindle

With Christmas Eve less than six weeks away, we are going to review some of the cool media-related gifts on the market.

Today its the Amazon Kindle Wireless Reading Device. Amazon says that it’s a “revolutionary electronic-paper display provides a sharp, high-resolution screen that looks and reads like real paper.”

You don’t need to sync to a computer with the Kindle, since it uses the wireless EVDO network to connect to Amazon’s servers.

Of course, what’s on those servers is what really matters: 190,000 books, periodicals and blogs available for download, including most of the titles on the New York Times Best Seller list, and only for $9.99 for each e-book.

The Amazon Kindle costs $359.00 and comes with free shipping…click here to order the Kindle.

Halloween Special: Remembering the ‘Paul is dead’ hoax

By 1969, the world has already experienced the summer of love, the murders of Martin and Bobby, and fear and suspicion was rampant. So when a college student named Tom called a popular Detroit radio DJ talking about evidence he discovered that suggested that Paul McCartney of the Beatles had died, it set the world on fire.

Even though there was no internet chat rooms, blogs or 24-hour cable news, this rumor spread very quickly and was difficult to refute, given the volume of so-called “evidence.”

The shortened version of the story is that Paul McCartney had a minor car accident in 1966. Rumors about the accident were amplified to the assertion that he had crashed his car and was beheaded. He was then replaced by a lookalike, but the Beatles had left clues in their music and album art about the switch.

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The Feed for Friday, October 10th

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  • Confirm as a friend: Striving to use all avenues available to communicate with the viewing public, Dwight Miller, President of WQLN-TV tells P&T that there is a Facebook fan page now available with the latest news about the station’s antenna situation. The latest news is the climbers were on the tower Friday (10/10) morning installing a temporary digital antenna at about 300 feet. Previously we reported that when the Q goes back to full power, it will be broadcasting only in digital. UPDATED: The Q is back on-the-air in digital only, using a temporary antenna at 300 feet reaching a portion of their normal viewing base. Full power will be up around Thanksgiving.
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