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Mix 102.9 KDMX lands Khloé Kardashian Odom
Closed Published by mikemcguff January 24th, 2012 on mikemcguff.com blogMix 102.9 KDMX in Dallas has just landed a big asset for its mid-day lineup. That’s right, new Dallas resident Khloé Kardashian Odom. She’s in the Metroplex because her husband, Lamar Odom, is a recently traded Dallas Mavericks player now.
Clear Channel Media and Entertainment’s MIX 102.9 – KDMX -FM announced today that, Khloé Kardashian Odom will be the newest member of the on-air staff. The Mix Up with Khloé Kardashian Odom on MIX 102.9 takes over DFW from 12 noon – 1 pm CST starting Monday, January 30.The Mix Up with Khloé Kardashian Odom on MIX 102.9 is a daily, one hour, commercial free show where Khloé will take requests, chat with her celebrity friends and more, during Mavs season while she’s with her husband. “Khloé has the perfect mix of personality and sincerity that will fit right in on MIX 102.9,” stated Operations Manager, Patrick Davis.
Khloé, star of, ‘Khloé & Lamar’, ‘Keeping Up With The Kardashians’, co-designer of Kardashian Kollection and other projects will now add daytime radio host in her new hometown of Dallas to her list of credits.
“We embark on a new era where our on-air talent is also an international star,” says Program Director, Jay Michaels; “I am excited to see how this unfolds on-air and the entertainment it will offer our listeners.”
“I have always loved doing radio! The best part is connecting with the callers and I’m so excited to get to know the Dallas audience,” stated Khloé.
In addition to her new role in Dallas as hostess of The Mix Up with Khloé Kardashian Odom on MIX 102.9, you can find Khloé active in her different business ventures, engaged in her charity work and filming.
Tune in Monday, January 30 at 12 noon for the debut of The Mix Up with Khloé Kardashian Odom on MIX 102.9…..the voice that will become DFW’s source of entertainment.
DFW reality TV show follows ‘American Pin Ups’
Closed Published by mikemcguff January 24th, 2012 on mikemcguff.com blog
Dallas based network news producer, Derik Lattig (also formerly of KTVT 11 and KTRK 13), tells me he is embarking on a new project and it involves women and reality TV. Sounds like it a winning formula in that world!
It’s called American Pin Ups and follows pin-up models and a photographer in Fort Worth:
Safari Productions presents the new original real-life series “American Pin Ups,” which follows two Texas pin up models and a photographer who are hoping fame and fortune are just one click away. A “pin up” craze is sweeping the country and this trio hopes their photographs, costumes and attitude will propel them into the national spotlight. The soon to be shot 10-episode half-hour series is currently being shopped to several major Networks.
Each episode of “American Pin ups” dives into the fun but competitive world of retro pin up photography. Watch as these nationally published professional’s juggle their day to day lives and battle for the chance to land a cover or spread in major magazines. The show begins featuring Lorelei Lee and Flossie Carmichael who appear to be everyday wives, moms and homemakers. Appearances can be deceiving though as a phone call can transform this pair into sexy rock and roll gals from days gone by or elegant fur clad models. The man behind the camera is Rene Soliz, who has his own magazine “Delicious Dolls”. He too works to balance his “real job” as an engineer with his love of photography. It’s a rock and roll filled half hour show illustrating the rollercoaster life of a pin up.
From pesky garage workers on location to conflicts with other models to the truly bizarre, these models do what it takes in hopes of reaching the top. The high-stakes race is on as they set out to get that perfect picture, and any setback can cost big bucks.
From shooting in freezing cold temperatures in front of Texas landmarks to dark damp warehouses, no shoot is too hard for these professionals to handle. Lorelei Lee has been featured in numerous magazines, films and commercial TV over the past several years and clearly has a knack for the business. She always manages to keep a smile on her face and makes the best of adverse situations both in front of and behind the camera. Flossie Carmichael may be slightly newer to the pin up world but is no rookie. She’s about as tough and competitive as they come. She has participated in dozens of shoots since 2009. Whether at work in his historic Deep Ellum studio in Dallas or on location Rene Soliz is a true professional whose photographs and magazine have received a lot of attention.
NBC 5 Program Nominated for GLAAD Media Award
Closed Published by mikemcguff January 23rd, 2012 on mikemcguff.com blogNBC KXAS 5 sent me a release about how one of its shows has been nominated for a GLAAD Media Award. The station says it is the only local TV station nominated for this national award:
NBC 5’s “NBC 5 Spotlight,” a locally-produced program for and about North Texans, has been nominated by The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) for their annual GLAAD Media Awards, which recognize and honor media for outstanding images of the GLBT community.
“NBC 5 Spotlight: GLBT in Texas” is nominated in the Outstanding TV Journalism – Newsmagazine category and is the only local television station to earn a nomination among any of GLAAD’s 116 nominees across 25 English-language categories.
The 23rd Annual GLAAD Media Awards recognize and honor media from across the nation for their fair, accurate and inclusive representations of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community and the issues that affect their lives.
“NBC 5 Spotlight: GLBT in Texas,” a thirty-minute program, originally aired in February 2011 on NBC 5 and DFW Nonstop, NBC 5’s 24/7 digital channel. The program tells the stories of local people in touching reality: the first Dallas Police Department officer to transition gender during her career with the department; a Fort Worth lesbian couple successfully adopting an at-risk youth into the family; and, a video essay on the Dallas Diablos Rugby Football Club who openly include both gay and straight team members.
NBC 5 anchor/reporter Kristi Nelson hosted and reported in the nominated episode and NBC 5 executive producer Reginald Hardwick produced the program.
The GLAAD Media Awards ceremonies will be held in New York on March 24, in Los Angeles on April 21 and in San Francisco on June 2.
Goofy TV news videos, Dave Ward update and more
Closed Published by mikemcguff January 23rd, 2012 on mikemcguff.com blog
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Dave Ward fans flood KTRK with well wishes after fall takes Houston TV icon off the air
Dave Ward of KTRK Ch. 13 took a small, but nevertheless nasty, fall on set Friday only minutes before the evening newscast. Noted local media blogger Mike McGuff reported a mysterious change of venue and personnel during Friday night’s KTRK broadcast, as Melanie Lawson went through the day’s events from the newsroom rather than the typical desk area viewers know and love.
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Girl, Wanted, by Texas Watchdog’s Steve Miller, nominated for Edgar Allan Poe award
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VIDEO: KHOU 11 promotions for Shern-Min Chow and more
Closed Published by mikemcguff January 19th, 2012 on mikemcguff.com blogHere are three new KHOU 11 promos just released.
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Daniella Guzman IS NBC5 WMAQ bound from KPRC 2
Closed Published by mikemcguff January 18th, 2012 on mikemcguff.com blog
Earlier today I blogged how longtime Chicago media reporter Robert Feder was taking time out to report that KPRC 2 weekend anchor Daniella Guzman was getting hired in the Windy City.
Feder reported Guzman would jump to weekday mornings at NBC owned and operated NBC 5 WMAQ:
After more than five years at KPRC-TV in her native Houston, Guzman is the odds-on favorite to succeed Zoraida Sambolin as anchor of NBC 5 News Today. Sambolin signed off last November to join CNN as co-anchor of Early Start with Ashleigh Banfield.
Well Guzman told me earlier this evening the deal is actually done and she is leaving her birth city for the bigger TV market.
“I’ll be heading to NBC 5 in March,” Guzman told mikemcguff.com. “Opportunity knocked and I opened the door. I will miss Houston very much!”
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Closed Published by mikemcguff January 18th, 2012 on mikemcguff.com blogUPDATE
Daniella Guzman IS NBC5 WMAQ bound from KPRC 2
Longtime Chicago media reporter Robert Feder is reporting that one of our Houston anchors could be going to the Windy City. It’s none other than KPRC 2 weekend anchor Daniella Guzman too. Feder reports she’s up for the big morning gig at NBC 5 WMAQ.
I know many of my male readers have a crush on her. At least TV stations have websites where you can watch video from afar now.
Here is Feder’s report:
Daniella Guzman, a reporter and weekend news anchor from Houston, soon could be the new face of mornings at NBC 5 in Chicago.
After more than five years at KPRC-TV in her native Houston, Guzman is the odds-on favorite to succeed Zoraida Sambolin as anchor of NBC 5 News Today. Sambolin signed off last November to join CNN as co-anchor of Early Start with Ashleigh Banfield.
If all goes as planned, Guzman could start at NBC 5 in early March, insiders said. It’s not clear whether she’ll co-anchor with Rob Elgas or be part of a reconfigured talent lineup from 4:30 to 7am weekdays. There’s talk of shifting Elgas off the morning show to anchor duties later in the day. READ MORE
It seems all I write about lately are posts about Houston TV news people leaving town!
I contacted Guzman, but have not heard back from her yet.
UPDATE
Daniella Guzman IS NBC5 WMAQ bound from KPRC 2
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Weatherman’s bet with KHOU 11’s Gene Norman did not cost his job
Closed Published by mikemcguff January 18th, 2012 on mikemcguff.com blog
The Baltimore Sun’s TV critic David Zurawik writes that WMAR weatherman Justin Berk’s bet with KHOU 11 chief meteorologist Gene Norman did not cost him his job.
Let me start from the beginning now. TVSpy first wrote Friday how Berk and Norman made a bet about the Baltimore Ravens vs Houston Texans game. The website said the terms of the bet were Berk’s crab cakes against Norman’s barbecue sauce, which the loser must eat on the air in the opposing team’s gear.
Turns out that was the last day for Berk on air.
Zurawik blogs that the rumor for Berk’s departure was the bet with Norman, but the station denied that. You can read more about Berk’s dismissal here.
TV prank calls, KDFW Twitter and more
Closed Published by mikemcguff January 18th, 2012 on mikemcguff.com blog
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David Sadof joins Third Rock radio at NASA.gov
Closed Published by mikemcguff January 18th, 2012 on mikemcguff.com blogI told you in December how NASA.gov gets alternative online radio through RFC Media. What this means is Pat Fant, the guy who created Rock 101 KLOL and 107.5 The Buzz KTBZ, is behind it.
Fant has just hired a well known music guru to join the online venture, former Lunar Rotation and Exposure host David Sadof.
David Sadof with Tori Amos The mission of NASA’s Third Rock Radio is to explore new worlds of music and present the best of those discoveries for the enjoyment of audiences everywhere. Such an assignment calls for the most inspired among us to take the first watch.
RFC Media has tapped noted music explorer and expert discographer David Sadof to join the programming team of Cruze and Donna McKenzie in the creation of the infinite playlist that supplies NASA’s Third Rock – America’s Space Station with a continuous source of New Rock/Indi/Alternative.
Sadof and RFC Media’s Pat Fant first connected over a spinning turntable in 1986 at Houston’s Rock 101/KLOL where Sadof’s specialty program Lunar Exposure became Houston’s radio launch pad for unheard of bands like Pearl Jam, Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins.
David Sadof, Fant and Cruze first came together as a trio when they kicked off Houston’s alternative rocker KTBZ, The BUZZ in 1995. Now, a full rotation later, the band is back, along with Her Highness Donna McKenzie, to make more atmospheric waves around Radio Powered by NASA.
Welcome to David Sadof, now in residence at RFC Media, Houston, Texas.
Houston-based RFC Media, LLC, designs, produces and executes private label radio stations enabling brands to stream custom content live online and across the mobile broadband networks. The firm brings a rich history of broadcast management, programming and media marketing to private enterprise in the development of on-demand media.
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