Sunday Morning Odds & Sods

50° - clear at 11:50am. Frost last night!

Happy Sunday. Morning coffee accompanied by radio via the 'net. The usual. Later: Kids flag football - plus pumpkin and costume shopping.

Halloween fun: "Dead Bass Player Days" - from KKZX/Spokane - here. I did laugh out loud...very clever!

This Weekend: WCSX/Detroit is offering listeners a "Monsters of Classic Rock" Weekend (4 song blocks) - here.

WAQY/Springfield is doing a "Ghosts of Rock" Weekend. Its dead rockers. Here.

What is your station doing on air for halloween?

More Ghoul Tube. We mentioned WGRF/Buffalo's "Ghoul Tube" here the other day. A couple other stations on-board with the concept too. WCSX/Detroit has theirs here. Likewise with Citadel's KHYT/Tucson.

Clear Channel has "scariest music videos" on many of their station websites. Click the link here to see. Look at clip #12. LOL!

Classic Rock A to Z. Watching television last night - it looks like Jerry Seinfeld's "Bee Movie" might have some clips suitable for letter "b" imaging. Find trailer and clips here. I'm just thinkin'....

Geico Caveman. Rachel Veness at Geico emails to tell me that the Caveman's Crib interactive website has been updated. Fun stuff. Check it out here and be ready to point and click.

And: the actor who plays the Caveman for Geico - John Lehr - has a website. See the transformation to Caveman here.

Have a great Sunday!

Sunday Morning Odds & Sods

72° - scattered clouds at 10:40am

Welcome to Sunday.

It's "Vinyl Record Day" - more here.

Listening to my usual Sunday Morning combination. WDRV/Chicago until 11 eastern - then onto WKLH/Milwaukee. Each stations does a program named "Rock & Roll Roots" - though the shows are far different from each other.

Both shows rock and well worth your time.

Number one 12-plus club. Add to that list KKZX/Spokane in the new Spring numbers. (Nothing new for KKZX; the station has been the 12+ leader in its market many times before).

Around the country:

Detroit: WCSX is hitting the streets next Friday and Saturday for the 13th annual Woodward Dream Cruise.

The event is "the world's largest one-day celebration of car culture with more than 1 million visitors and more than 40,000 classic cars". See here.

Meanwhile - sister station WRIF is giving local bands a chance to open for Motor City Madman Ted Nugent when he returns to town. Details here.

And WRIF is going to broadcast the Detroit Grand Prix live on Sunday, September 2nd. See here. Both 'CSX and 'RIF are pretty dialed into Detroit - very visible in events extending beyond music.

Chicago: WDRV up market legend Bobby Skafish from weekends to PM drive. Skafish for years did PM drive across town on WXRT. A huge move for The Drive!

Denver: KRFX says goodbye to comedian/actor Harland Williams in PM drive. "Shark" - currently middays - moves into afternoons.

Accolades to KRFX PD Garner Goin - an innovator - for trying something very out-of-the-box with Harland Williams.

Have a great Sunday.

Here and There

Sun and 63° here at 10:30am

Listening this morning to KKZX/Spokane on the 'net. The "Radiomen" are on the air. Flashback host/VO pro Bill St. James is their imaging voice. sweet!

Mothers Day. Sunday. WMGK/Philadelphia is doing a Mother's Day Request Weekend. If your request is played, you'll also pick up a pair of Def Leppard/Styx tix. KSAN/San Francisco doing 3-song sets for mom on her day.

Practical. WAQY/Springfield giving listeners a chance to get all the junk out of their home. A prize a wife would love. Ends the nagging! Details here.

Another one: "Show Us Your Crack". KTWS/Bend, OR is looking for the biggest crack. Here.

Morning Show TV. KRFX/Denver AM drivers Lewis & Floorwax (aka "The Masters") take highlights of their radio show to Comcast Cable Wednesday through Friday Nights. Here. How many cable systems are looking for programming....??