NEWS
May 24, 2012 | Ellen Gray
IT HAPPENS every May: The broadcast networks announce their schedules for the following season and it's as if we're seeing double. It usually takes three to declare a trend, but TV seasons tend to get filled like Noah's Ark, with new (or recycled) ideas arriving in pairs. A year ago, it was '60s dramas — NBC's "Playboy Club" and ABC's "Pan Am" — and shows in which fairy tales turned out to be true — NBC's "Grimm" and ABC's "Once Upon a Time. " If there was any surprise, it wasn't that the "Mad Men" wannabes didn't make it to Season 2, but that the other two did. (And that CBS ordered its own '60s drama, "Vegas," for this fall.)
NEWS
May 18, 2012 | By Dan DeLuca, INQUIRER MUSIC CRITIC
Look out Non-Comm, here comes Bob Lefsetz. Bob who? Non-what? Non-Comm is the shortened term for the annual radio industry gathering officially called the Non-Commvention, which is hosted by WXPN-FM (88.5-FM) and starts Thursday in University City. It will bring an assortment of high-wattage and up-and-coming names to World Cafe Live over the next three days, including Willie Nelson, Norah Jones, Beth Orton, Brandi Carlile, and the War on Drugs. (Tickets for all those artists are sold out, but piano man Rufus Wainwright highlights a free Saturday afternoon show at the new Penn Park, at 31st and lower Walnut Streets.)
NEWS
May 17, 2012 | By Darran Simon, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The husband of April Kauffman, a South Jersey radio personality and advocate for veterans' causes who was found fatally shot in her master bedroom last week in Atlantic County, has hired a well-known defense attorney, who said his client had "cooperated fully" with authorities. James Kauffman, an endocrinologist, has retained Edwin Jacobs, the Atlantic City lawyer said in an interview Tuesday. "He met the county prosecutor's investigators and answered all their questions," Jacobs said.
NEWS
May 12, 2012 | By Darran Simon, and Jacqueline L. Urgo
A South Jersey talk radio personality was found fatally shot Thursday in a bedroom of her Atlantic County home, authorities said. County Prosecutor Ted Housel said a worker called 911 around 11:30 a.m. after he discovered April Kauffman's body in the home on Woodstock Drive in Linwood. Kauffman, 47, who lived about three blocks from Mainland Regional High School, was shot several times, authorities said. No arrests had been made as of Thursday afternoon, authorities said.
NEWS
May 11, 2012 | BY WILL BUNCH, Daily News Staff Writer
FOR A POLITICAL movement that serves as a 50,000-watt boogeyman for conservative talk radio in America, finding your local representative of the New Black Panther Party is not easy. There's no party headquarters and no membership roll — just a doorbell at a modest brick home in the lawn-checkered, rebuilt stretch of North Philadelphia between the Temple campus and Center City. When King Samir Shabazz, the Philadelphia chairman of the New Black Panther Party, emerges, he agrees to an interview only if it can be conducted while he paces up and down the sidewalk out front.
NEWS
April 26, 2012 | Dan Gross
DROP-ped CouncilmanFrank Rizzo is hoping that Thursday's fill-in shift on Talk Radio 1210-AM, on which he will host 10 to midnight, leads to a regular job at the station. "My intention is to show my value and become a permanent part of the team," Rizzo, who formerly hosted talk shows on WWDB and WPEN-AM, told us yesterday. 1210-AM recently dumped Rush Limbaugh and says it's going to an all-local format. Out and about "Jersey Shore" star Deena Nicole Cortese caught Tuesday's Nickelback/Bush concert at the Wells Fargo Center with her boyfriend and her parents.
NEWS
April 23, 2012 | By John F. Morrison, Daily News Staff Writer
They made a lot of kids late for school. Brian Carter and his sidekick, Dave Sanborn, thrilled morning radio in Philly as entertaining yakkers and disc jockeys on Power 99 from 1987 to 1999, and later on WDAS. Carter, the brasher and funnier of the mixed-race duo, died Sunday of a heart attack at home in his native Baltimore. He was 54. "You and Sanborn raised me," a fan wrote on 99FM's Facebook page. "I listened to you guys all through middle school and high school.
NEWS
April 12, 2012 | By Angela Couloumbis, Inquirer Harrisburg Bureau
HARRISBURG - He is not at war with women. He does have a heart. And he really did a lot of work on that trade mission in March to France and Germany. So said Gov. Corbett on Wednesday when he made his monthly radio talk show appearance on WPHT-AM (1210) in Philadelphia. The governor weighed in on everything from former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's decision to suspend his Republican presidential bid, to who he thinks would be a good running mate for Mitt Romney, to why he supports legislation pending in the Capitol that would require women who want abortions to get ultrasounds first.
NEWS
April 10, 2012 | By John F. Morrison, Daily News Staff Writer
He was basically a West Philly kid who never really forgot the life of the corners and the playgrounds and the camaraderie of the streets. But Steve Fredericks rose from that environment to become one of Philadelphia's best-known sportscasters, a man who raised sports broadcasting above the ordinary with his wry sense of humor and his erudition. "Live," he would intone on opening his Sports Line show, "from the palatial, but not overly ostentatious, studios of WCAU Radio.
NEWS
March 30, 2012 | By Jan Hefler, Inquirer Staff Writer
Medford Township officials are furious at Gov. Christie for suggesting on a radio show this week that they are trying to scare voters into approving a tax increase that exceeds the state's 2 percent cap. Christie urged voters to "call the bluff. " Councilman Jeff Beenstock fired off an e-mail Tuesday to the governor saying, "I do not believe your statement last night with respect to Medford was accurate or fair, and is likely to result in people voting against the referendum without understanding the situation we are in. " Beenstock did not receive a reply.