Adams Joins The Hubbard Seattle Family

8-25-14

Lisa Adams is the new PD at Click 98.9 (KLCK- FM) in Seattle. Adams was most recently the O.M./P.D. of KCIX (Hot AC), KWYE (Hot AC), KXLT (AC), and KAWO (Country) in Boise for Townsquare. She's also worked for CBS in Portland, Oregon and spent many years in Seattle where she worked for Sandusky (now Hubbard), Infinity, and Entercom. Adams said, ?I'm so incredibly excited and blessed to be able to return to a city I love, and work with such a talented team at Click 98.9. Here's to an amazing and successful journey with a wonderful company, Hubbard Radio."

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Family Of Late Philly Radio Host Sues Hospital

3-17-14

58-year-old Philadelphia radio host Steven Collins died in early September after arriving at the hospital complaining of symptoms of a heart attack. According to the Philadelphia Daily News, Collins' family has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Chestnut Hill Hospital, alleging hospital staff failed to immediately diagnose and treat the heart attack that killed Collins.

An attorney for the family said, instead of treating Collins immediately with the standard blood-thinning and artery-opening drugs like aspirin, nitroglycerin, and heparin, an emergency-room doctor ordered a drug that lowered his blood pressure so much that his heart couldn't recover. The attorney also said the doctor failed to immediately consult a cardiologist, diagnose an acute arterial blood clot, or order a follow-up electrocardiogram and drugs that could have saved Collins.

Collins was director of Urban marketing and external relations, and host of Philly Speaks on WRNB (Old School 100.3)/Philadelphia.
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Mid-West Family Sends Moore Some Hope

5-23-13

Here's another example of radio leaning on its listeners to help Americans located in another state. Mid-West Family Radio in Springfield, MO, stuffed a 53-foot trailer, with the assistance of Convoy of Hope, with flashlights, batteries, work gloves, water, diapers, baby wipes, and ready-to-eat food, collected for disaster relief and distribution in Moore, Oklahoma. For 12 hours, listeners to four Midwest Family radio stations helped donate, collect, and prepare to ship the items to Moore, OK. 

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CBS And The Pirates Are Family

The Pittsburgh Pirates have not won a World Series since 1979 (can you name who they defeated?), however CBS RADIO has lots of love for the team that Stargell built. The Pirates and KDKA-FM, Sportsradio 93-7 The Fan, announced they've entered into a multi-year agreement beginning with the 2012 season. The games were being carried on Clear Channel's WPGB-FM. 

KDKA-FM is the lone 24/7 sports station in Pittsburgh. KDKA will also broadcast pre- and post-game shows for all 162 regular-season games and the "Neal Huntington Show" prior to Sunday Pirates games. Pirates broadcasters Greg Brown, Tim Neverett, Steve Blass, Bob Walk and John Wehner will continue to call the game action, and will also be heard as regular guests on CBS RADIO's Pittsburgh stations. Pittsburgh Pirates baseball game broadcasts will continue to be aired on the Pirates Radio Network, which is owned by the team. The network consists of 38 radio station affiliates across four states.

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"I Have Embarrassed Myself And My Family".

Radio talker and MSNBC host Ed Schulz started serving his one week suspension last night after appearing on his 10PM show for 4 minutes. Schultz started his show with a major apology and a request for forgiveness for the remarks he leveled at Laura Ingraham. He was quickly replaced after the networks' first commercial break. Schultz called his remarks the "lowest of the low for me" adding I used vile and inappropriate language." Schultz apologized to his staff for embarrassing them and said he tried to call Ingraham to apologize but no contact was made.

Schultz was suspended by MSNBC for a week after calling Laura Ingraham a "right wing slut" on his radio program. There is no word yet on what, if anything will happen to his radio program which is syndicated by Dial Global. We reached out to Dial executives last night and received a "no comment."Here is the Scultz MSNBC apologoy video Listen to his rant HERE Scultz has also posted the apology to his website.

Ingraham responded to Schultz on her Facebook page: "Re the rude comments made about me by Ed Schultz on his radio program: First, I was surprised to learn that Ed Schultz actually hosted a radio show. Is it only available online? Second, I have to get back to recording the audio edition of my new book "Of Thee I Zing." Now I'm tempted to insert one additional zing--about men who preach civility but practice misogyny."
Follow the discussion on the Radio Ink Facebook Page Did Schultz go too far? What should happen next?
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(5/26/2011 8:53:15 AM)
Tom,

To equivocate, as you are, is to intentionally mislead and avoid scrutiny.
We are commenting on Ed Schultz and Ed Schultz only, not Janet Jackson, not George Carlin, not Joe Biden, not Eric Rhoades. If you think one week's suspension is adequate for Schultz, every fired, over the top former broadcast host will be seeking you out for employment. Let's hope you're not in a position to give it to them.

(5/26/2011 8:35:20 AM)
That's very funny...you say he 'used the basest insult' he could against a woman. But at the same time the right wing want rape victims to be called 'accusers' while denying many poor women access to basic ob/gyn health care. Guess it's all in what one says, not what they do. Bunch of hypocrites!
(5/26/2011 8:30:26 AM)
No question, what he said was inappropriate and over the top. But let's not charge up our phony outrage and pretend that conservatives don't say insulting, inappropriate, and untrue things repeatedly, on a daily basis. It's just that Eric Roads does not focus attention on these in his heavily biased 'news' resource.

Shultz was disciplined by his employer; people like Limbaugh are not...because they're considered 'ratings' gold for saying vile things.

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