I'm Not Gay

Junction City's Water Tower

This our landmark for our sleepy little town of 4500 people--it is our only tall structure. The bottom photo was taken by me 3 years ago at the Scandi Fest and the top night photo was taken at last week's Scandi Fest by my friend Peter Herley.

Family Pic of the Week

Me and My cousin, Chris Bruning, in Chris' backyard, Orange Terrace West Haven Connecticut 1961.

The WORST of ELVIS

I don't know why I am jumping on all this 30 year Elvis anniversary crap but one of my fave CD's is called "Elvis' Greatest Shit".
It features the worst songs Elvis ever committed to tape and today on the Hangover at 11AM I am going to play the worst of the worst Elvis. Why play the best? Everyone else is already doing that.
Now available for download HERE.
KWVA

Myself, Dad and Michael -Easter 1962 ish

Me and Paul Xmas 1964ish

Sleepy Christmas Morning

That's me and brother Michael opening presents Xmas1961 or 1962. Note Flintstones game and Etch a Sketch.

Four Brothers Circa 1964

My Brother Michael found the missing family slides and sent them to me-I am so Happy!! I hope more are on the way! This is My Brothers Skip, Paul Me and Mike 1965(?).

BALLBUSTER

My fave blog is the WFMU site and here is a great video of my fave game.

Diggin' Nancy Sinatra

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Sinatra
This show is now available HERE

In the words of my friend Armin: "Swingin' with Nancy- Part 1 of today's show is a special tribute to the career and recordings of Young Blue (brown?)-Eyes, Miss Nancy Sinatra. This great show was broadcast prior to the annoucement of the passing the previous day of Nancy's producer, writer and singing partner, the great Lee Hazelwood . Great stuff."

Airship Radio Theatre Crashes

This is how I found out that our radio show and all other local shows were no longer to be aired.:The Register-Guard
Liberal station KOPT scraps local content
By Ilene Aleshire
Published: Thursday, August 2, 2007

Liberal-leaning KOPT radio station has pulled the plug on local programming, switching to a nationally syndicated format as of today.

"Despite gaining a loyal listenership, the station, which debuted in November 2004, has been a challenging business venture for Churchill Media," the company said in a statement.

"The challenge is going up against the big guys, the Clear Channels, satellite feed talk radio programs," Churchill Media General Manager Paul Danitz said. Although KOPT did include some satellite feed programs, it also ran a full line news department - an expensive proposition, Danitz said.

Syndicated programming essentially "costs nothing," he said. "You give them a couple of commercial units per hour and they provide you with programming." The only cost to the station is the equipment, and one person to run it, he said.


In contrast, KOPT spent more than $250,000 per year to staff its local news department, Danitz said. Nine news people have now been laid off, he said. One remains.

"Progressive/liberal talk radio is having a very difficult time surviving around the country," Danitz said. "We felt that, with the liberal attitude of the Eugene-Springfield market, we could swim upstream. We couldn't."

The station was never able to get the commercial sponsorship it needed, he said.

Churchill will now concentrate on its core market of Hispanic radio, Danitz said. Churchill owns and operates seven other radio stations in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, six of them Hispanic stations.

Churchill got in on the ground floor of Hispanic programming in the Pacific Northwest, and that division is doing well, Danitz said, to the point that KOPT could have survived if it only broke even. In this region, it's still a small market, he said. "But the cost of operating a Hispanic property is far less than the weight of full-line programming."

KOPT will continue to carry syndicated Air America shows - at least for now. Churchill Media President Suzanne Arlie said Wednesday that she is open to selling KOPT. If the station is not sold within three months, she said, it may be converted to a jazz format.

Danitz said that he's been in radio for 37 years, but that Wednesday was a hard day.

"Today when I went down to deliver the news, to a news department that won 20 awards in 18 months, people knew they were under the gun," he said. "But they gave it everything they had, until the last second."