This is what a Frank Herzog Redskins broadcast looked like

Every time former Washington Redskins play-by-play man Frank Herzog would say "driving from left to right across your radio dial" this is approximately what I'd see in my mind. Somehow I found an image of an old AC Delco AM radio that looks a lot like the one my dad's 1976 (Super)Nova had. Not pictured -- ambient Camel (unfiltered) cigarette smoke. I can still smell it. Of course, the radio would have been on 630, WMAL, but we can't be too picky.

In 2004, Larry Michael fired Herzog after 25 years of calling the Redskins and took the play-by-play job for himself. Herzog has been doing spot work for WTOP after he was also let go from WUSA-TV late in 2004. He was one of the many post-Glenn Brenner (retconned from Metroblogging DC) anchors on that station. According to DCRTV, he is retiring from WTOP to spend more time with his wife and grandchildren (do his children feel being left out?). This retirement announcement has brought back some nostalgia for the days when Redskins radio (and the team) was good (DC Sports Bog, The Post). Back then, the Redskins were on WMAL, at the time a juggernaut in the D.C. area with all local programming. Johnny Holiday did pregame, while Ken Beatrice did post-game. Holiday is still doing Maryland Terps sports and Nats studio coverage, but Beatrice is long since retired -- somebody track him down and do a profile of him. Unrepentant homers, Hall of Fame Redskins Sonny Jurgeson and Sam Huff are still doing Redskins radio like a pair of your favorite bickering uncles, but their glory, like the team's is faded. I don't think I'm exaggerating when I say sports radio was much better back then. Watching the game with "the sound turned down and the radio turned up" was a big part of the fan culture here as in other cities. I even did it and I was not even a Redskins fan growing up.

Like the team, Herzog's replacement, Michael, have been pretty awful. I'll say the team has been better than Michael though, who is just an shill with a slicky-boy attitude, bad propagandist with an annoying voice. If I have listened to a quarter of a Redskins game since then I'd be surprised.

When the Washington Nationals started up, I was hoping Herzog would be involved in the broadcasting because every D.C. team he had worked for had won a world championship -- the 1978 NBA Champion Bullets had you know who at the microphone. That didn't happen but I'm pretty happy with the radio team of Charlie Slowes and Dave Jageler. I'd gladly take Herzog on TV though.

So, good luck and a happy retirement to Herzog, who will live in our memories and even on some of those NFL Films of the Redskins in the 1980s.

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posted by WFY @ 9:05 PM | |

I don't think Chico Harlan will be missed on the Nats beat

A goodbye - Nationals Journal, The Post
WE WON'T HAVE CHICO HARLAN TO KICK AROUND ANY MORE
Friday evening, Chico Harlan said farewell to The Post's Washington Nationals beat:

...if you want to know more about the low point of that tenure, please reference my name in a Google search.

The Web is full of published items headlined like, "Nats beat writer Chico Harlan does not like his job..."

That headline probably looks familiar because it is the one I wrote after I read Harlan's infamous Washingtonian interview, though Harlan didn't include the link to it. It turns out that saying you are embarrassed to cover sports isn't a great idea, but I don't think Harlan had many consequences other than his own regret. His fellow beat writers (Nats Insider) seemed to like him which says a lot.

To his credit, Harlan could overcome hating his job enough to write some pretty good feature stories (like the Jesus Flores story of last week) but his game recaps tended to be mediocre. He feel in love with his own snark sometimes too, using a hammer when a scalpel was more appropriate.

Adam Kilgore has assumed the role of Nats beat writer and so far I'm pleased with what I am seeing. Kilgore has enthusiasm for the beat and has taken to pulling out the flip cam down at spring training. So far, so good, but the real test is how his gamers come out. I'm eager to read them.

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posted by WFY @ 5:46 AM | |

Sid Vicious: NYC tabs know that Sidney Crosby hates America

Yes, diver/whiner Sidney Crosby making the winning shot in overtime for Canada to beat the United States for the gold medal is the worst case scenario. The New York tabloids know this to be true. Look at him up there will the poster boy for birth control expression on his face. Ugh. You couldn't have made one more save Ryan Miller?

I wonder how many Yinzers were rooting for Canada yesterday.

Zach Parise though, is an American hero.

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posted by WFY @ 5:56 AM | |

I am a Pens fan so I know why you do not like Crosby. That is o.k., I despise Ovechkin.

As a Pens fan, I was happy that it was Crosby instead of someone else on Canada's team. However, I was strongly (strongly) rooting for the U.S. Having grown up in Pittsburgh, I would be shocked if many (any?) people were rooting for Canada. Like me, glad it was Crosby, sorry the U.S. did not win.

# posted by  Anonymous : Monday, March 01, 2010 10:28:00 AM  

A Mike O'Meara Show profile in The Post

With this Web radio gig, who needs FM? - The Post
Now about 2.5 months into his podcast, Mike O'Meara has recouped his original investment through sponsorships and donation and looking to expand into video. The podcast has about 15,000 listeners, 40% from the D.C. area.

I have not listen to the podcast much because I'm stuck in y2k when it comes to technology -- no iPod jack on my car stereo and no iPod for that matter. Had I those two things, I'd probably listen fairly frequently. Also, I have to think that O'Meara wouldn't mind an afternoon or morning drive gig in local radio.

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Mike O'Meara Show returning as a podcast today at 1 p.m. - 12.07.2009

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posted by WFY @ 12:35 PM | |

Bill Waterson of Calvin & Hobbes Q&A'd

Bill Watterson, creator of beloved 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip looks back with no regret - Plain-Dealer (Cleveland)
There isn't much insight from the creator of "Calvin & Hobbes" in the Q&A, but I'm posting it anyway. I haven't read the comics regularly since "Calvin & Hobbes" and "The Far Side" went away. Let me know if anything is in their ballpark for brilliance.

H/T Kevin Reiss

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posted by WFY @ 12:03 PM | |

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Mike O'Meara Show returning as a podcast today at 1 p.m.

After a hiatus of several months, the Mike O'Meara Show returns as a podcast today on mikeomearashow.com. O'Meara, plus Robb Spiewak, Buzz Burbank and new cast member Oscar Santana, formerely of the Big O & Dukes show will be "broadcasting" at 1 p.m. daily. Still no over-the-air gig for the show, though DCRTV posted rumors that the show would be heading to Citadel's 105.9 FM to do mornings. Jack Diamond, of Mix 107.3, another Citadel station and a long-time O'Meara rival, is said to have nixed it.

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posted by WFY @ 9:00 AM | |

You have a point there Anonymous.

# posted by  WFY : Monday, December 07, 2009 9:04:00 PM  

MASN to show all Nats games in HD

MASN (Malevolent Angelos Sports Network) is putting all of the Washington Nationals 2010 games in HD. This is a rare sign of competence from the inept, anti-Nats/DC network owned and operated by Peter Angelos. Gutless MLB Commissioner Bud Selig agreed to a corrupt bargain with Angelos just before the 2005 season to avoid a lawsuit. Angelos of course voted against baseball's return to D.C. because he is a coward who mistakenly believes Washington and Baltimore are the same market. Angelos then kept the Nats off of most area cable systems until September 2006, costing the Nats two years of exposure to the greater D.C. area. It stifled the fanbase and hurt the District of Columbia's investment in Nationals Park. Once the Nats were available, Angelos continued his bad faith by making network Baltimore-centric and treating the Nats as the secondary team. The network is prone to technical incompetence. Keep all of this in mind if you are tempted to buy tickets to Angelos' Orioles -- you don't want to reward bad behavior do you?

The news was apparently supposed to be embargoed until today, but Rob Dibble showed his is as good as keeping secrets as he is broadcasting by tweeting about it it on Friday afternoon. I wish I had gotten to post this sooner, I dont' want any of you thinking I'm respecting a MASN embargo.

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posted by WFY @ 8:11 AM | |

NJ Nets: Biggest losers on two tabloid backpages, NBA

The New Jersey Nets lost their 18th game in a row to start the 2009-2010 NBA season. The ignominious distinction is observed by the backpages of both New York City tabloids today.

I like to think this is happening because the Nets took "NEW JERSEY" off of the road uniforms. Their owner, Bruce Ratner, has been trying to move them to Brooklyn for years and seems to be getting closer. I'd rather they stay in the Garden State and move into the Prudential Center in Newark where the NHL Devils play.

I wonder if the new BS Sports Blog will comment on this development.

Speaking of the NBA, the Washington Wizards have won 4 of 5 (The Post). Where can I get my Earl Boykins jersey?

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posted by WFY @ 12:05 PM | |

Will the Wash. Times void be filled? Maybe

The apparent demise of The Wash. Times as we know it means a lot of quality writers and editors section will soon be out of work. That is a shame of course, but hopefully some recent and upcoming developments in D.C. media will lead to new employment for the doomed.

The first thing that comes to mind is the open position on The Post's Nationals beat. Mark Zuckerman and Ben Goessling have both been solid reporters on Nats beat -- on a day-to-day basis, they were better than outgoing Chico Harlan, who was often trying to hard too be snarky and did not like his job. That showed in Chico's lack of reporting what was actually going on. Zuckerman and Goessling are reporters first, but good writers too.

Secondly, Allbritton Communications Co. wants to start a local news Web site "that can become for local news what POLITICO's become for political junkies." Obviously, that could be of interest for local reporters and columnists as well as folks from sports. I think if they want to really go for broke, they ought to do it with sports.

Another possible winner of this decision -- CSNWashington.com, Comcast SportsNet's local site. If they want to make a run about being a big deal, they have one less competitor and can probably find a few writers and columnists who want to be a part of it.

Also, will ESPN go and create espnDC.com like they have with Chicago, Boston and Dallas?

Lastly, there is The Washington Examiner, a "pioneer" in the "let's give it away free to some people, but not others" circulation model. I think of they are unlikely to make much of a move to capitalize on their rival's downfall. Their business model is bare-bones and heavily reliant on bloggers who get paid by the pageview, so I don't expect to see any familiar bylines moving over that daily. The same probably goes for NBCWahington.

I am hopeful that some of these established and emerging outlets will be able to snap up a number of the writers and editors from The Wash. Times and keep their voices out there. Hang in there folks! We value what your body of work and hope that other local media sees that and hires you. Now get your resumes out there!

The Washington Times, Rev.SunMyungMoon, newspaper, DC,

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posted by WFY @ 6:03 AM | |

Massive layoffs, change of strategy coming to The Washington Times

TWT announces new structure, layoffs - The Wash. Times
Washington Times to cut staff to reach goals - The Post
WashTimes cutting staff up to 40 percent - Politico
UDPATED 6:00 AM THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2009

Rev. Sun Myung Moon has apparently gotten tired of not making money -- his Washington Times is giving up as a general interest daily newspaper after 27 years. Massive layoffs (40% is being mentioned) are on the way, probably 60 days from now. This is an about-face for the paper which as recently as three years ago had serious plans for getting its Web site into the "top 10" in overall traffic. That goal was never realistic though. Even a year ago, they were still pushing forward with the hiring of the John Solomon as managing editor. He left the paper last month.

The paper will follow The Washington Examiner model of circulation and be distributed free in certain zip codes, plus some "premium price home-delivery" and newsstand sales. The content will be the paper's bread and butter -- commentary from and for political conservatives. Local coverage and sports appear to be casualties of the reorganization and that is a real shame. Having two local sports sections available in town was great for sports fans and their Metropolitan section got some stories the Post did not. I'll have more on the sports tomorrow.

Despite the crazy man that owns the paper, The Wash. Times has been an important part of D.C. media for a long time and it will be missed.

25 years of The Wash. Times - May 17, 2007

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posted by WFY @ 9:06 PM | |

I'm addressing that in a post tomorrow morning.

# posted by  WFY : Wednesday, December 02, 2009 9:51:00 PM  

Traffic reports used to originate from the Washington Monument

30 years of steering you home - WTOP
The dean of D.C. traffic reporters Bob Marbourg celebrated his 30th anniversary as a traffic reporter yesterday. Congratulations to him, but the most interesting part of the story was that before he took the job, traffic reports used to come from a department of transportation employee stationed on top of the Washington Monument. That's pretty cool and just about impossible to imagine these days with traffic stretching up to 40 miles away from the monument now, but back that then it was pretty resourceful.

Back to Marbourg, what do you suppose the odds that he and morning traffic reporter Lisa Baden have a rivalry with each other?

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posted by WFY @ 10:00 AM | |

27TH HEAVEN: NY tabloids celebrate Yankees win with same cover headline

Not surpsingly, editors at both New York City tabloids were thinking the same thing late last night. While the headline seems a little corny, I'm not complaining about it.

They were thinking the same thing on Long Island too.


UPDATE: ESPN did it too:


Apparently deadpsin noticed this stuff too -- If this anyone other tan Steve Allen, you're stealing my bit.

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posted by WFY @ 8:30 AM | |

Yankees clinch playoffs, matching backpage tabloid headlines

It seems like it has been forever since the two New York City tabloids had headlines on the cover that matched. Today, the morning after the Yankees clinched their 14th playoff berth in 15 seasons we see the same headline. Why did the news need to add quotes around "in" though?

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posted by WFY @ 10:00 AM | |

QWK Rock reborn as QWiK Rock

QWIK Rock to launch tonight - The Collegian
State College's QWK Rock is back -- sort of.

Last week, Magnum Broadcasting launched QWIK Rock on 105.9 and 106.9 FM. That didn't take long. QWK Rock on 103.1 FM closed down earlier in the summer. The format will contain current rock and some for the 80s and 90s.

Tomorrow, D.C. rock radio news

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posted by WFY @ 12:52 PM | |

State College's QWK Rock off the air

State College loses long-running rock radio station - The Collegian
QWK Rock changes its tune - CDT
Forever Broadcasting took long-time rock station WQWK 103.1 FM (97.1 back when I was an undergrad) off the air yesterday. QWK Rock (pronounced Quick Raaaahhhck) lives on online at qwkrock.com. Apparently, they had trouble convincing advertisers that they had a money demographic. It had been on-air for about forty years. In its place is conservative talk radio.

Like Elvis Costello said, radio is a sad salvation.

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posted by WFY @ 12:02 PM | |

The Post advertises on washingtontimes.com

Searching for this morning's Nats headlines, I noticed that the prime advertising real estate on washingtontimes.com had an ad for The Washington Post, the direct competitor. This probably happened because washingtontimes.com advertising inventory is being handled by a third party network and not the Web site staff. One would at least hope so because this looks kind of bad if they are selling ads to their biggest rival.

Here is what a colleague in Ad Ops has to say about this:

That's hilarious.

I would assume that it’s coming from a remnant ad network that they're running on their site...It seems very strange that they wouldn’t have The Washington Post in their blocked list, assuming they have one.

Maybe Dan Snyder is running their sales department over there. You know he'll sell ads to anyone and put them anywhere he can.

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posted by WFY @ 8:30 AM | |

Gene Weingarten takes package, will only chat monthly

Last week, Gene Weingarten announced that he was taking a package from The Post, but would continue to host Chatological Humor monthly and write his "Below the Beltway" column weakly err weekly.

Yes, I took it because I wanted to. Generously, The Post offered to hire me back, on contract, to do the same job I am doing now, whatever that is. But I'm 57, and want to start on some book and movie projects before I get even older and feebler and the DNA in my brain further deteriorates to the point that I can''t even finish my own senten

We should all be so lucky. More details:

I'm not really going anywhere. I accepted a partial contract, and will still be writing my weekly column, which Tom The Butcher, also on contract, will still be editing. Tom and I will still be working on The Post Hunt. Mostly what's different is that after July 1, I'm no longer doing big magazine stories or The Gene Pool, which is the discussion group you all tend to deride because you don't understand that the golden future of journalism is unedited ranting and gnashing by citizen journalists.

So, boo, I like chat on a weekly basis and the long magazine stories tend to be much better than the weekly column. The Gene Pool was stupid. His final weekly chat is going on right now. I'll miss stuff like this on a weekly basis:

Okay, this has been quite a few days for celebrity deaths. First Ed, then Farrah, then Michael. Just when we thought we were done with the mourning ... Billy! Still, that last one felt so ... right, like when they added "Bobby" to "Abraham, Martin and John."

I guess I am the only one who thinks Michael Jackson was essentially a shallow disco phenomenon, generously talented but mostly a product of cynically manipulated personal style and shrewd marketing, personally abhorrent in a number of significant ways related to racial identity and sexual proclivities, and not worthy of all this adulation, particularly by the media, whose hemorrhage of unquestioning accolades is suspiciously self-serving. Okay, just checking.

Hey, man, I'm unmoved by Jacko's demise too, but that's harsh, the guy was scary talented.

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Weingarten is a hack!
Post Pulitzers
Weingarten does it again
Q&A: Gene Weingarten

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posted by WFY @ 12:00 PM | |

Radio, radio: HFS sort or returns; WJFK going sports; Don Geronimo on in Delmarva

Cerphe has launched HFS2 on 94.7 HD2. It is a modern incarnation of the former modern rocker that died in 2005, after many years of neglect by CBS Radio. If you have a HD radio, let me know if its any good.

WJFK, another CBS radio station, might be flipping to sports according to The Post. What would that mean for Mike O'Meara Show is uncertain. I'd be annoyed if that goes away. In the end, if they don't get any of the local teams, like the Capitals and Nationals on the frequency, I don't see much point of them flipping to sports. Actually, I don't see the point anyway since sports talk has never done well as a format in this town, though an alternative to Dan Snyder's Redskins Radio (980 AM) isn't a bad idea. Personally, I can't stand most sports talk, too many idiots calling in.

Speaking of O'Meara, his former partner, Don Geronimo landed a gig in Delmarva. His new show started today on WGMD. No stream or podcasts are planned per contractual obligations with CBS Radio. He blogs and is on Twitter.

By the way, is it just me or has BIG 100.3 gotten worse since its competitor the late Classic Rock 94.7 flipped formats?

As always, if you don't want to wait for me to blog about radio, go to Dave Hughes' dcrtv.com

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posted by WFY @ 2:00 PM | |

New newspaper Web sites: Baltimore Sun & CDT

In the last month or so, two newspaper Web sites in my regular rotation have redesigned their front pages.

centredaily.com - The new CDT site is so...2002. After all of these years, the paper of record in State College still doesn't have a very good Web site. The new design is functional, but blocky and boring. The top navigation is useful though.

The site loads slowly though, about 5 seconds before the page becomes visible and it does not completely load until about 12 seconds have elapsed.

baltimoresun.com - The new Web site debuted last week with the "flag" showing "THE BALTIMORE SUN" prominently in the same typeface as the dead tree version. The page is full of modules with internal tabs that make finding stories about specific topics from the "print sections" possible without navigating away from the home page. That is a good thing too since the load time on this page is pretty bad -- about 9 seconds for it to start appearing in the browser and 16 seconds until all the scripts have loaded. The modules probably have something to do with the slow load time, so in the end, they are probably a mixed blessing. The page also has a little too much "trapped gray space." Overall though, not a bad design and improvement over previous efforts.

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posted by WFY @ 12:14 PM | |

The Bronx Beltway is a stupid nickname for new Yankee Stadium

Readers choose The Bronx Beltway as the new Yankee Stadium's nickname - NY Daily News
Huh? Why in the world would anyone give the new Yankee Stadium the nickname "the Bronx Beltway?" How does that make sense?

Let's just let a nickname come about organically rather than rush to come up with something. *bronx cheer*

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posted by WFY @ 2:00 PM | |

Final Marc Fisher chat

Potomac Confidential - The Post
"Join Post Metro columnist Marc Fisher on Thursday, June 4, at Noon ET for the final regular edition of Potomac Confidential, a chance to talk about the future of news-gathering, the Virginia governor's race, how the GM bankruptcy will affect Washingtonians, and lessons learned from a decade of column-writing."

I will miss his column and chat an awful lot.

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posted by WFY @ 10:00 AM | |

Marc Fisher's final column

MARC FISHER - After 1,250 Columns, the End - The Post
Fisher is moving on to an Metro editor position:

There are a million stories in the naked city, someone once said, and I told 1,250 of them here, and another 1,200 on the blog. I heard from readers 250,000 times and I tried to respond to all of them. I could stay on this road for years to come, I love it so. But this path feels worn and familiar, and the challenge now is to hack out a new one.

Newspapers are in a fight to survive, desperately searching for new ways to reflect the world to an audience that is less trusting, more distracted and diffuse. For many people now, digital connections seem to trump geography as the central definition of home. But those electronic ties don't fulfill all our needs. Where we live still matters. Starting next month, I'll be putting together a group of writers whose job it will be to tell the truths of Washington in compelling and essential ways, combining traditional storytelling with new forms that involve and engage the people who live here.

Sounds like it is worth a shot. Fisher was the best Washington columnist around and I will miss his columns and chats.

Marc Fisher, Washington Post

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posted by WFY @ 2:00 PM | |

TMBC's referring to my tweet. I get the "let's get everybody worked up by starting a fight" thing, but the NHL's continued coddling of the Penguins is an embarrassment.

Go Red Wings!

# posted by  WFY : Monday, June 01, 2009 12:11:00 PM