Thursday, November 29, 2007

Sound Bites

NYC radio babe Wendy Williams gets a TV talk show to air next spring on an unnamed network and only in NY. Michael Starr NYP

Whoopi wakes up and smells the coffee. Talk radio is harder than it looks. Miz Goldberg the latest untrained celebrity to attempt and fail at talk radio. Tom Taylor's Radio-Info You'd think radio suits would finally get the definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again hoping for different results. Whoopi is more into her role on ABC's "The View." A cakewalk compared with talk radio formatics.

Imus WABC casualty Warner Wolf's tedious "Boo Of The Week" and the rest of his tiresome shtick move to WEPN, WABC's former sister station now Citadel's ESPN. NYDN

HBO making a move based on a book baring Barry Bonds and baseball's steroid scandal. Variety

FCC chair Kevin Martin greasing the skids to complete the $8 billion Chicago Tribune sell to Sam Zell giving the paper a pass to override TV radio ownership regs. NYP

No more salivating at phallic cigarettes in magazines. R.J. Reynolds is bagging cig print ads.

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