Subject: Radio

• Sonic Spectrum on the Buzz

  July 29, 2007

• Save Us, Gram Parsons

  September 25, 2007

• Daily Briefs: Bodine, come here! I want you!

  October 21, 2008

• Daily Briefs: Don't Believe the MAX.

  ¿De que color es el autobus? Back when the thinly budgeted Kansas City Transportation Authority started the MAX express line from the City Market to Waldo, there was a lot of talk about the magickal properties that distinguished it from, for instance, the smelly old 57 line your grandparents are always going on about between defibrillations. One of the more fanciful Tolkien-grade claims about the MAX route was that sensors on downtown traffic lights could detect the buses and hold a yellow ligh

  December 11, 2008

• Despite NPR budget cuts, KCUR's OK for now

  With word earlier this week that National Public Radio, in budget trouble like everyone else in this country, would lay off 7 percent of its work force and cancel a couple of programs, we wondered what might be ahead for Kansas City's KCUR 89.3.Patrica Cahill, the station's general manager, tells me things aren't as grim as people might conclude from this week's news."I was on the board of NPR in 1983 when they almost went bankrupt, and this is so much better," Cahill says. That's because the ne

  December 12, 2008

• Low-power surge

  February 17, 2000

• Buzz Killers

  August 31, 2000

• Best Local Radio Show

  October 19, 2000

• Letters

  June 21, 2001

• Entercom's Official Word on Kiss FM: It's a Station for the Ladies

  The PR eagle has landed, KC radio listeners. Mwah! Just got this press release regarding the demise of the Boulevard and the launch of Kiss FM at 99.7, which we noticed yesterday. Tuesday, January 13, 2009 RYAN SEACREST MOVES TO KANSAS CITY Entercom-Kansas City announces a powerful new radio station for women (Mission, Kans.) - Entercom-Kansas City launched The All New 99.7 KISS-fm at 4 pm today with an all-star national talent line up including Ryan Seacrest afternoons (4-7pm), Kidd Kraddi

  January 14, 2009

• Best Mullet (Male)

  October 18, 2001

• Royals Flushed

  April 11, 2002

• Train Wreck

  June 10, 2004

• Best Saturday Night All-Ages Cruising Soundtrack

  October 7, 2004

• Download

  August 25, 2005

• Downloads

  February 23, 2006

• Chronically Popfree online radio has become a full-time job for Justin Bale, aka Chronic the Hedgehog

  March 19, 2009

• TV On The Radio

  October 30, 2008

• Blues Jam

  October 2, 2008

• Stream On

  Royalty hikes shouldn’t dam Web radio’s flow into the future.

  May 10, 2007

• Love in the Time of Xanax

  TV on the Radio brings message of peace, hope, harmony, possible werewolves

  March 15, 2007

• Bully Pens

  April 13, 2006

• One Hot Throwdown

  Corporate radio tramples the turf of hip-hop king KPRS.

  January 26, 2006

• Texas Ranger

  Letters from the week of November 18, 2005

  November 17, 2005

• The SOFA Awards!

  Here's a sports fan's agony and ecstacy, as experienced on the couch in 2002.

  January 2, 2003

• Early Word

  Jim Rome's talk-show fanbase wasn't built in a day.

  May 30, 2002

• 2001 Sofa Awards

  Sports Outstanding and Forgettable Achievement, Awards for the Media

  December 27, 2001

• Spike This

  KMBZ 980 could do better stealing other talent.

  November 29, 2001

• Best New Radio Station

  e105.1 FM

  October 18, 2001

• Angie Martinez

  Up Close and Personal (Elektra)

  June 7, 2001

• Fly in the Soup

  A professional radioman lands in KKFI 90.1's melting pot of artists, Iranians, rockabilly goddesses and malcontents.

  May 31, 2001

• Sounds of the Border

  The Phillips and Phillips Law Office finds easy listeners and fast money on Spanish radio.

  May 17, 2001

• Shearer Delight

  The voice of Flanders is the voice of reason, absatively, posilutely.

  April 26, 2001

• Sofa Awards 2000

  The Best and Worst of Kansas City's Year in Sports -- from the couch.

  January 4, 2001

• Record Time

  Bill Shapiro plays the most intelligent new songs of the year, for the 22nd year in a row, on KCUR 89.3.

  December 28, 2000

• Station Identification

  KKFI's trying to be more "professional" -- even if it is run mostly by volunteers.

  October 12, 2000

• Death of the Cool

  KCUR has a jazz spaz.

  September 21, 2000

• Sports Talk Empire Builder

  Jerry Green is not your usual coat and tie radio station mogul. He loves to have fun, be independent -- and kick corporate radio where it hurts.

  June 29, 2000

• In the studio with Jeriney, goddess of KRBZ 96.5’s Homegrown Buzz

  May 7, 2009

• KC Latina poet catches Garrison Keillor's attention

  In the past few days, thousands of radio listeners have heard the poetry of Linda Rodriguez, vice president of the Latino Writers' Collective in Kansas City, thanks to public radio star Garrison Keillor. Earlier this month, Northwestern University Press sent a review copy of Rodriguez's new book, Heart's Migration, to The Writer's Almanac, a nationally syndicated public radio segment of poetry and literary insight from the famous Prairie Home Companion host. To Rodriguez's surprise, Keillor q

  June 29, 2009

• Spat between Royals blogger and organization ends with whimper

  Hot topic among Royals fans this weekend was the "ban" levied by the club against Rany Jazayerli, who pens Rany on the Royals and also hosts a Royals heavy radio show on WHB 810. Jazayerli went into the Royals doghouse for a column calling for the head of trainer Nick Swartz. A never ending string of injuries led Jazayerli to the conclusion. The team wasn't happy, and Jazayerli claimed they "banned" him. "Let's just say you won't hear anyone from the front office on my radio show anytime soon,"

  July 7, 2009

• Kansas City's hip-hop wants a piece of Hot 103

  December 3, 2009

• Will she run for Congress? Who cares – it makes good radio for KMBZ 980's conservative Darla Jaye

  December 10, 2009

• Glutton for punishment: A liberal rates Kansas City's conservative talkers

  Photo by Michael McClureDarla Jaye​My girlfriend rolls her eyes. My friends don't like to ride with me. But, like millions of Americans, I find myself tuning in to conservative talk radio as I tool around town, a habit that led to this week's cover story on firebrand talker Darla Jaye. Since I'm an English teacher and a theater critic, this makes sense: Talk radio is all about rhetoric and performance, the two topics I spend my life thinking about. (Crap Archiving helps, too.) As a minor p

  December 11, 2009

• Throwback MP3 of the Week: Jay McShann Band ft. Charlie Parker, "Honeysuckle Rose"

  This track comes from The First KANU Radio Album. KANU is now better known as Kansas Public Radio, but back in 1974, it was one of the first stations gathered together under the aegis of the then-new National Public Radio banner. ​As a matter of fact, the last track on the LP is Susan Stamberg's address at the re-dedication ceremony for KANU in October of 1973, and Stamberg explains what NPR is to those listening. The first track is the one we present to you today. It's the Jay McShann B

  December 16, 2009

• Song of the Year: "K.T.R.S. (Kill the Radio Station)" by James Christos

  ​Oh no he did NOT. It's been a long time a song has made us say that. And damn does it feel good. Striking somewhere between Jay-Z's coolly brutal "Threat" and unhinged Albert Finney from Network, the latest single from James Christos is a magazine full of teflon-tipped lyrical bullets aimed at one thing and one thing only: Kansas City radio station KPRS Hot 103 Jamz. Beginning with a (virtual) called-in bomb threat to Carter Broadcasting, the song launches into a catchy, bangin' tirade

  December 18, 2009

• Your blogger is on the radio

  If you'd like to take an opportunity to hear what your music blogger sounds like, I'm on the University of Kansas' student-run radio station right now until noon. You can tune in either online at KJHK's website, or via the radio waves floating through the ether at 90.7FM.

  January 4, 2010

• The most handy radio guide ever

  Want to know what's playing on the radio, right now, all over the country? Check this website out. It's called the YES Nation. It's nothing but a Flash app that displays what's currently playing on the radio all over the country, but watching it is absolutely hypnotic. You'll discover which areas have stations with a strong Latino lean, where certain singles are doing well, and by clicking on each city, you'll be taken to an even deeper listing.

  January 8, 2010

• Incoming: Ira Glass to the Lied Center

  Ira Glass, host of This American Life​The quirky radio man behind America's most popular podcast is coming to Kansas next month.Each week, 1.7 million people tune in to "This American Life" to savor the always informative, mostly offbeat and sometimes laugh-out-loud hilarious stories about everyday life and current events. There are plenty of geek celebrities, like David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell, who've made the National Public Radio show a perennial award-winner. But the host, Ira Glass, is t

  January 20, 2010

• Ira Glass on fakery, musicals and the incredible whiteness of Lawrence

  It's weird to dial a phone number and have Ira Glass pick up on the other end. It's kind of like calling the tooth fairy or the Easter Bunny. At first, it feels surreal. Photo by George BarcosRadio host, Ira Glass, mixing live onstage​If you're a fan of the public radio program This American Life, Glass' voice is unmistakable: definitely nerdy, a little bit nasal, lined with an undercurrent of laughter or irony. Each week, that voice brings millions of radio listeners a one-hour package of p

  February 18, 2010