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We watched Atom Smasher formerly of 104.1 KRBE do his thing last week, now lets look at his successor at night, Carson.

Bonus:  Here is Carson doing his show in Tampa in 2002.

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KTRK 13 Jeff Ehling was the only Houston TV reporter to cover the Pearland team in Williamsport last week and Ken Hoffman mentioned the fact in his Houston Chronicle column:

Reporter Jeff Ehling was in Williamsport covering the Little Leaguers for Channel 13. He told me that his name has never been in my column. I was all set to mention him - then I heard that Channel 13 bragged that it had the only Houston reporter in Williamsport. What am I, pastrami on rye? Bye-bye, Jeff Ehling mention. READ THE REST

Oh, but I must point out that Ehling has been in Hoffman's column before...twice. How do I know? Because as Ehling's producer I did everything I could to get him in there!

Here you go:
Mention 1 and Mention 2

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So there is a new billboard that will probably really stick out in southwest Houston near Highway 59 and 610. It asks “Still A Virgin?” and then gives a phone number with an offer to help you out. CLICK HERE TO SEE THE BILLBOARD

KPRC 2 reporter Mary Benton found out the real deal. She called the number and found out it is actually a promotion for a new Will Ferrell backed movie called The Virginity Hit.

http://www.thevirginityhit.com/

Last night I blogged how former Jim Rome producer Travis Rodgers is replacing Ken Hoffman on 1560 The Game. So where does that leave Hoffman's co-host David Nuno? Readers are sure wondering.

I talked to Nuno and he says he's not going anywhere. He is still the sports director of the station and very much a 1560 The Game guy. In fact, Nuno is going to start working more on Sporting News Radio, the recently KGOW acquired national sports network. You'll be able to experience him in an anchor/reporter type role.

You'll already have a chance to hear Nuno and Raheel Ramzanali this Thursday night (7 to 9pm) doing a special live remote show on The Game too. These two already make TV appearances together you might remember.

Nuno adds he will definitely miss Hoffman. They spent some good years together.

"I think Hoffman has a brilliant radio mind and is one of the best interviewers in Houston," Nuno told the mikemcguff.com blog.

No doubt Hoffman will be back on the radio somewhere. He's been on it since he worked with John Lander and the Q Morning Zoo at the Top 40 version of 93Q KKBQ.

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- KHOU 11's Alex Sanz welcomes new duties
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- KIAH 39 9pm producer Adam Silverstein on to KSTU Fox 13

David Barron is reporting that the Houston Chronicle's Ken Hoffman is being replaced on 1560 The Game. The replacement has a good resume in radio. Travis Rodgers was the former, longtime producer of The Jim Rome Show.

And in classic Hoffman form, his quote in the newspaper is as follows:

I joined (KGOW) with the intention of staying one year — just to sock away some money in my kid's college fund. I wound up staying three years," he said. "I resisted my urges to buy ice cream and salted peanuts, and now my kid will have enough money to mess up in a really good college. ... So now I leave 1560 with, and I'm serious, love for those people. I can return to my true passion in life - scrapbooking."

When I interviewed Hoffman in July 2007 for this blog about his new radio gig at KGOW, he told me this about how he used the extra radio money:

"So I've always had a little bit of a part-time job on the radio just so I could get money for soda and candy. You know, wax lips and candy cigarettes, stuff like that."

I am now going to solicit advertisers and try to get a show somewhere else on the dial with Hoffman. Our show's main topic - attractive female TV news anchors. If you would like to sponsor this, give me a ring.

Rodgers is moving to Houston and will start his new show from 1 to 3pm on Tuesday.

http://travisrodgersnow.com/

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KIAH 39 9pm producer Adam Silverstein is headed off west for a new TV job. He will now be an executive producer at KSTU Fox 13 in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Silverstein says he will miss all the talented folks he's worked with at Channel 39 in Houston.

The Univeristy of Texas graduate previously worked as a producer at Fox 7 KTBC in Austin. Before that he interned with The Daily Show.

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If you don't have cable or satellite and like old TV, you now have another channel in Houston to watch the classics (or at least old shows.)

The Retro Television Network (RTV) is now on 34.2 in Houston.

RTV airs old TV shows like Adam 12, The Adventures of Black Beauty, Airwolf, Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The A-Team, Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, Dragnet, Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries, Harry and the Hendersons, The Incredible Hulk, I Spy, The Jack Benny Show, Kate and Allie, Knight Rider, Kojak, Leave it to Beaver, Magnum P.I., Marcus Welby M.D., McHale's Navy, The Rockford Files, Simon and Simon and the Voyagers. SEE FULL SHOW LISTING

Sounds like many shows I used to watch on 39 KHTV (now KIAH) or 20 KTXH as a kid.

Channel 34.2 in Houston is not even listed as an affiliate on the The Retro Television Network website but I went to my over the air antenna TV and sure enough it was there. The funny thing is there is nothing on the main channel 34 signal except for a screen that says KUVM (at least when I checked it which was prime time). There is also a 34.3 and 34.5 with the same KUVM screen.

The station that is now KUVM Channel 34 in Houston has been on the air in one form or another since 1981 according to Wikipedia. It is a low power station so it might not reach your area of the Houston metro.

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(Thanks to @gridlockjoe)

I already sort of covered this with a link in an earlier post, but here are promos for KHOU 11's new 11 News I-Team (video below). The station says it will be the largest investigative unit in Texas.

The new group will include senior investigative reporters Jeremy Rogalski and Mark Greenblatt from the former 11 Defenders unit. The other contributors will be Len Cannon, Dave Fehling, Shern-Min Chow, Rucks Russell, Leigh Frillici and Jeff McShan. Others the station says are included include producers and photographers - two of which I am guessing will be producer David Raziq and photojournalist Keith Tomsh.

As I've been blogging in the last year, KHOU 11 has won a ton of awards for investigative journalism.

Here are the promos, hot off the Final Cut Pro machines, for the new 11 News I-Team.

If you want to look at NASA photos from more than half a century, then head over to Flickr. The space agency and picture site just teamed up.

"NASA's long-standing partnership with Internet Archive and this new one with Yahoo!'s Flickr provides an opportunity for the public to participate in the process of discovery," said Debbie Rivera, lead for the NASA Images project at the agency's headquarters in Washington. "In addition, the public can help the agency capture historical knowledge about missions and programs through this new resource and make it available for future generations."

That's right, the public can add tags or keywords to the images to identify objects and people. The hope is the public's assistance will make the images easier to find online and add insight about NASA's history.

The sets of photos are broken down into themes:
- The "Launch and Takeoff" set captures iconic spacecraft and aircraft taking flight.
- "Building NASA" spotlights ground-breaking events and the construction of some of NASA's one-of-a-kind facilities.
- The "Center Namesakes" set features photos of the founders and figureheads of NASA's 10 field centers.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nasacommons

While the NASA and Flickr partnership is new, the space agency already has a site called NASAimages.org which provides hundreds of thousands of images and thousands of hours of video, HD video and audio content available free to the public for download.

http://www.nasaimages.org/