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We are playing a particularly cool version of "Subterranean Homesick Blues" on KCCK these days, which reminded me of something that has been disturbing me for awhile. Has anyone else noticed that the older Bob Dylan gets, the more he looks like Salvador Dali? Just sayin'.
I had a semi-brush with greatness this week when I learned that two Hollywood stars apparently chill out listening to our Iowa Channel webcast. Full story on the Iowa Channel blog, and here is the story that appeared in the L.A. Times. Believe it or not, this is not the first time my work has …
Usually, my colleagues at NPR are spot on both in hard news and soft features, but yesterday.... not so much. Robert Siegel introduced an interview with an upstart NCAA tourney team by explaining this group of young men was the "feel-good story of March Madness."... The first team from their conference to reach the Sweet …
Survey Says!-Dennis Thanks again to everyone who participated in KCCK's recent Listener Survey. We had over 200 responses, which ran the gamut from "We love everything you do" to "You suck pretty much all the time" and everything in between. In years past, we would have shared the results and comments with our staff, and …
So, the geeky among us know that Google has rolled out a phone service called Google Voice, where you can get a phone number from Google and have the calls forwarded to the phone or phones of your choice. One of the really cool functions of GV is that when someone leaves you a voicemail, …
There are two groups of people who are already tired of Christmas music before most of us have even started our shopping: Anyone who works in retail, and…. DJs. Personally, I’ve had a love/hate relationship with holiday music for years. As a young radio announcer, I would watch with a sinking feeling as the program …
My friend Chad Canfield, host and producer of the excellent podcast, The Canman Show, recently asked fans of the show on Facebook to tell him about their most memorable concert experience. Read those postings here. Chad's request seems to have been inspired by taking his daughters to see Miley Cyrus in Des Moines, but let's …
Took me a few days to get to it, but I finally pulled "Flash Forward" off the DVR last night. I was pretty impressed. I haven't read the Robert Sawyer novel it's loosely based on, but was skeptical. I'm generally nuts for Sci Fi shows (or is it SyFy now?), but have been unimpressed with …
So, over on the Jazz 88.3 Blog, a post I made several weeks ago has been the subject of dozens of comments, way more then usual for any conversations about KCCK. All in Japanese. All nonsense in both Japanese and English. The original posting dealt with the installation of our new 106.9 translator, which improves …
