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Thursday, May 29, 2003

IT CAME FROM THE MIND OF STEVE BAXLEY
By Steve Baxley
(As told to Pita Ojeda while they were dancing on the boardwalk in Miami Beach)

-OK,everything is copa between me and Doug, after yesterday's rantage Im going back to what I do best ..

-Now then, the Pribax Comedy World Radio Network has at the moment been froze out by WXUT, and it looks like June 2
we may be an endangered species..OR WILL WE??.. as we go to press, a friend of mine is ..to borrow a phrase from FOX2 "Working for us" to get a gentleman who runs an internet radio network to give us a shot, also there is a new Internet radio network starting up
that is searching right now for 'IJs" for a 10 station network ..details of which can be found at this website: http:// www.RVILLE.com
plus Im still working on a tape for WKRK but as they say,without SOME assistance all i got is what I can work with.. so right now the best I have is the following:
  • NAKED NEWS INTERVIEW

  • BUTTERFLY HOUSE INTERVIEW

  • TWINKEE COMMENT

  • DEBRA WILSON INTERVIEW

  • And some of our comments

  • As I said, not much to work with, but Im going to try to work some gold..best to hope for is a silver.

    -Well,looks like Doug will be burning his COLDPLAY C.D.s as COLDPLAY has just done a video for UPNs "WWE SMACKDOWN"
    which just preemed tonight.

    -Looks like King George II was wrong saying that Saddam was gone, and that the conflict was over, the conflict , Saddam is still alive
    and just struck back big time. he is reforming his organization and has struck all week ..NOW then King George II, time to rethink!
    Seems to me you had said that the war was over..well????

    -Mike Tyson has done it again, he opened his mouth and REALLY inserted his tootsies, On the FOX NEWS show "On the record" he now says he WANTS to rape!, Ladies and gentlemen..I give you the arsehole of the week

    -As for this FCC announcement, all the protests wont mean diddly since its already a fate du acompli,3-2 vote to bless the 45% ownership cap and cross-ownership rule. My opinion is this, the big three main munchkins(Infinity,Clear Channel,and News corp)
    are the ones who have wanted to raise the limit,now they got it. BUT now with the gates open, what next ?
    You have Newspaper owners like Gannett,The Blade,Tribune,etc all now itching to get tehri hands on some prime properties,
    One has to ask this ..whats left to grab??
    Here in Jackson-Lansing for example there is ABC53 WLAJ, owned at present by FREEDOM Communications, now WLAJ has a tiny staff and is so bare bones that they have only a total of 50 minutes a week of news (A 10 minute newscast mon-fri 6pm only) now granted WLAJ is a small station, but they actually need a big owner to help them get re-established in the news biz, Gannett and or Tribune could save them.
    Meanwhile the radio side is but a big mess, after all with Clear Channel and its 1240 stations (all mainly centralized with voice tracking)
    they gots to be licking their lips about what is inevidable..whats next ??? who knows Clear Channel and Infinity could become more powerful than ever ...but on the good side, PAX could be out of business.. Stay Tuned