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A childhood friend of mine recently found me on Facebook and we were recalling old times. I laughed out loud when I saw this part of his message:

I love that you’re in the news industry now. I recall you interviewing me with a tape recorder as a kid. One time you asked me to say ‘all the bad words’ I knew. Unbeknownst to me you were recording all the great words I knew at that age. I remember being scared you would give it to my mother.

Wow! Even back then I sound like I was practicing to be a TV reporter/producer. Awesome. Years later I would end up strapping on a hidden camera and deck for a real story. Not as fun as it sounds…a little uncomfortable in this case.

It’s not on XM 41 anymore, but The Boneyard returned this week on the newly reunited Sirius XM on Channel 53 (replacing AC/DC radio). And yes that means you have two 80s rock channels now with the Boneyard and Hair Nation still on 41.

It works like this:

Boneyard - heavier rock/metal - Judas Priest/Iron Maiden/Guns N’ Roses/old Aerosmith
Hair Nation - hair metal - Poison/Cinderella/Warrant/Bon Jovi

Matt Davis and Eddie Trunk return (Eddie still on Mondays at 5pm CST).

I am very happy.

The Insite clues us in on Houston television reporter Carolyn Campbell’s new job with former city attorney Gene Locke. You may remember Campbell most recently from KHOU Channel 11. READ MORE

My wife was listening to her Cibo Matto Pandora channel on Monday and heard a commercial for American Idol in between songs. Anyone else heard this?

Funny thing, I was listening to my Pixies/Nirvana/Sonic Youth channel Sunday and it was still commercial free.

I thought his was strange. Belo who used to own the Dallas Morning News and WFAA, KHOU, KVUE, KENS and other stations until the newspapers and TV stations were split up has a book out about its history.

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It’s called ‘Belo: From Newspapers to New Media’ by Judith Garrett Segura.

As the new 24 season debuts on FOX, Perez Hilton tells us Jack Bauer is nearing retirement:

Kiefer Sutherland revealed in a new interview that they’re doing one more and then that’s it!

He’s also warned fans not to expect a happy ending for the character he’s made so famous, Jack Bauer. READ MORE

I stopped watching the show a few seasons ago after I could start predicting the outcomes.

I decided to look at the rest of my photos and put up new ones I took at the 2009 Chevron Houston Marathon. Lots of you enjoyed the pictures I put up Sunday so I figured you might like these too.

Houston Marathon photos

Go see the other ones.

Remember how I told you a few months ago that NBC and Fox owned and operated stations in the same market will team up to cover news?

Well it is already happening in the Dallas-Fort Worth market reports Broadcasting and Cable:

The plan for Fox and NBC to share video in markets where both own a station now includes Dallas, as KDFW and KXAS just completed their first week of sharing a helicopter. As is the case in Philadelphia and Chicago, managers from the Dallas stations are in talks about expanding the newsgathering partnership, and selling the content to other media outlets in the market. READ MORE

I also recently posted how the Dallas Morning News and the Fort Worth Star Telegram have teamed up on certain news coverage too. What’s next? A bunch of radio stations in the market will be owned by the same company? Oh wait…

Want to run Britney Spears’ social networking empire? You better be from the Ivy League my friend:

Britney Spears believes it’s so important to get the right “online media manager” that she’s narrowed the recruitment process down to Harvard graduates alone, according to a small ad she posted on the college’s private message board. That’s right: Britney thinks that only alumni from a university which counts 75 Nobel Prize winners among its affiliates could be up to managing her Facebook, YouTube, MySpace and Twitter profiles, plus her other personal websites. READ THE REST

The article goes on to mention that the pop star has around half a million followers on Facebook alone.  Who knows if this is true, but it explains why Kevin Federline didn’t stay on to manager her digital empire.

Matt Lavine gives us the scoop on how the Houston-area rap group Huntzville performed “Backpack Fulla Gunz” on Fox 26 KRIV’s morning show.  He says some viewers didn’t get crunk during the performance. READ MORE