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NERW 11/28/11: AM Bounces Back
In this week's issue: New AMs in Toronto, Montreal – WDAS revival in Philadelphia – EMF sells in Central New York – Cumulus cuts jobs at ex-Citadel stations
*Over the last few years, we've spent a lot of time chronicling the gradual disappearance of AM radio in CANADA. Since the CRTC began routinely allowing AM stations to migrate to the FM band more than a quarter-century ago, the AM band has fallen all but silent everywhere outside Canada's biggest cities, leaving sizable communities such as Halifax, Moncton, Sherbrooke, Kingston and Sudbury with no AMs at all.
But as the Canadian FM dial, once sparsely populated, has filled to bursting, broadcasters seeking dial space in a few of the largest Canadian cities are turning back to the AM band, and this week we can report on new AMs coming to both the Toronto and Montreal markets in the months to come, as well as a new format that's about to make a big splash on the Canadian AM dial.
In the Greater Toronto Area, the CRTC approved a brand-new facility last week: sports marketing agent Elliot Kerr (on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated) will get 2 kW days/280 watts at night on 960, serving Mississauga. That's a frequency that has never before been used in Toronto, though it did see use 80 km to the west in Cambridge, where CFTJ/CIAM used 960 from 1977 until it moved to FM in 1998 (it's now Corus' CJDV 107.5).
In its new Mississauga incarnation, 960 will be a local station for an area that's struggled to retain a local media identity. While Mississauga is Canada's sixth-biggest city, boasting a population of more than 700,000, it's always been very much in the shadow of the much bigger Toronto media right next door. Broadcasters have tried to serve Mississauga in the past, most notably in the form of the Caine family's CJMR (first on 1190, later on 1320) in the 1970s and 1980s, but the call of the larger Greater Toronto market has been hard to resist – which is why CJMR is now a full-time ethnic outlet with Toronto's skyline at the top of its website. There's not even a local daily paper serving the city; the parent company of the Toronto Star puts out a thrice-weekly freebie and that's it.
Elliott Kerr
And while Astral (which owns several Toronto stations) commented on Kerr's application, suggesting that he should be barred by condition of license from marketing to Toronto or other nearby communities such as Oakville, Kerr says the signal limitations of his proposed facility will force him to be Mississauga-only. Kerr says the signal was specifically designed to avoid reaching most of Toronto even by day, and he says it will have trouble serving all of Mississauga at night. Despite those limitations, Kerr has ambitious programming plans that include 126 hours a week of news and talk, most of it live and local and "including coverage of city council, local business issues, and community related political and social events."
Can Kerr succeed where others have failed? While his application predicts revenue of more than $7 million within five years, his new station will face plenty of challenges – but being on the AM dial might not be as much of an obstacle as one might assume: listeners in the area are already trained to find the middle of the AM band by listening to top-rated stations such as Astral's CFRB (1010), which will become the next-door neighbor to Kerr's new AM 960. (For some listeners in the GTA, the new 960 signal might be an obstacle, too: it will block some Toronto-area reception of Buffalo's WNED 970, which has been the only broadcast source for NPR news in the region – but with WNED's news-talk programming set to move to WBFO 88.7 next year anyway, it's not clear how much longer 970 was going to remain a Toronto NPR option. If WNED intends to sell the 970 signal, though, the presence of the new 960 in Mississauga could make 970 less desirable for would-be purchasers hoping to hit a cross-border audience…)
The new 960 signal is planned for a site on Cancross Court, off Hurontario Street near the 401 interchange.
*If AM is staying alive in the Toronto area, it's crawling back from near-death in Montreal. Over the last two decades, we've chronicled the demise of most of the mass-market AM signals that once dominated the field in Canada's largest Francophone community: the Telemedia-Radiomutuel merger that silenced CJMS (1280) in 1994, the demise of CKLM (1570) the same year, the CBC/Radio-Canada moves to FM in 1999 that took away CBF (690) and CBM (940), the subsequent moves of CKVL (850) and CIQC (600) to the former CBC frequencies, the sudden silencing of those new 690 and 940 signals (now CINF and CINW) in early 2010, and then the equally sudden silencing of French-language sports on CKAC (730) earlier this year to clear the way for a provincially-subsidized all-traffic service. That left just a pair of English-language players keeping the AM band alive: Astral's market-dominant CJAD (800) and Bell's "TSN Radio" sports outlet, CKGM (990), along with a motley assemblage of smaller signals broadcasting to niche audiences.
As of last week, that picture is about to change, and in a pretty dramatic way. The CRTC's approval of three AM applications in Montreal not only promises more options for Anglo- and Francophone listeners, it also sets the stage for still more AM frequencies to come back into play in Montreal.
Here's how it all plays out:
The two biggest signals on the table were the clear-channel facilities at 690 and 940 that were abandoned by Corus when it took CINF and CINW silent in 2010, and after expecting to end up with both of them without a competitive hearing, Cogeco emerged from the CRTC's speedy decision-making process with neither. As Montreal media writer Steve Faguy (who's quickly becoming a must-read) noted in his excellent analysis of the Commission's decision, Cogeco may have overplayed its hand by insisting that only those two 50 kW facilities would be suitable for the all-traffic formats it's trying to put on the air. (The French version ended up on CKAC 730 when Cogeco abandoned its 690 application; the English version was to go on 940, with Cogeco telling the CRTC it would accept no substitute.)
Instead, 690 goes to Bell, which will make that frequency the new non-directional home of its "TSN Radio" CKGM, vacating the directional 990 signal that, CKGM says, prevents the station from being heard well in the West Island neighborhoods where much of Montreal's Anglo community lives.
The move to the big 690 signal will make that frequency English-speaking for the first time in its Montreal history, and it will give CKGM's Canadiens coverage a wide reach over most of Quebec and the northeastern U.S. at night. (There's already some sentiment out there calling on Bell, which also owns CTV outlet CFCF-TV, to restore the historic "CFCF" callsign to radio when it moves the station down the dial next year.)
The 940 signal, meanwhile, will flip from a long heritage as an English-speaking outlet to French when its new occupant, the Tietolman-Tétrault-Pancholy partnership, launches a French-language news-talk station there…assuming, of course, that the group doesn't stand by its own ultimatum to the CRTC, in which it had originally insisted it needed both French and English signals to make its plans for a new Montreal radio group successful.
The Tietolman-Tétrault-Pancholy plans were by far the most ambitious to come before the CRTC in this set of hearings: the group proposed a pair of stations with a staff of more than 150 and annual budgets of more than $5 million. (Partner Paul Tietolman knows all about big-staff, full-service radio in Montreal: he's the son of Jack Tietolman, who built the old CKVL 850 into a top-rated, top-notch station before selling it to Metromedia…which, ironically, ended up putting the station – by then CINF 690 – into the hands of Corus and eventually shutting it down, opening up the frequencies for which Paul Tietolman was applying. But we digress…)
With such an ambitious plan to make local radio relevant again, how could the CRTC have said no – even if there was plenty of doubt about whether Tietolman-Tétrault-Pancholy could live up to their big business promises? But as Faguy notes, the CRTC also hedged its bets by awarding TTP only one of the two big 50 kW channels, in effect calling the group's bluff to see whether it will go forward with only a French-language signal on 940 and no English on 690.
And then there's 990: unlike past CRTC proceedings, in which AM stations have been allowed to upgrade to better frequencies while leaving their old channels silent (as with the CFCF/CKVL moves from 600/850 to 940/690 more than a decade ago), this time the Commission is immediately assigning a new occupant to the 990 frequency being vacated by CKGM's move to 690. With neither Cogeco's traffic application or the Tietolman-Tétrault-Pancholy group expressing a willingness to use the 990 frequency, it goes (almost by default, says Faguy) to the last party standing: the Toronto-based Evanov group, which will use the channel for "Radio Fierté," a French-language version of "Proud FM" (CIRR 103.9), its Toronto signal aimed at gay and lesbian listeners. Evanov's application had called for the use of 690, diplexing on the CJAD (800) towers south of Montreal, and it's not yet clear whether they'll try to use that site for 990, or whether they'll attempt to use Bell's current CKGM 990 facility. While that South Shore site will remain in use for CKGM's new two-tower 690 operation as well, the CRTC ordered Bell to make it available for a new 990 signal as well, with lease terms to be decided via arbitration. (On 940, the TTP group plans to build two new towers at the South Shore site of CJMS 1040, which in turn is the old location of CKGM when it was on 980.)
The CRTC isn't done with Montreal AMs: it told the applicants that it will entertain new applications for the use of other vacant Montreal AM channels, including the 600 and 850 frequencies vacated by CIQC and CKVL. (To clear that path, the CRTC dismissed several lower-powered AM applications last week, including one for a religious signal on 600.) Assuming Cogeco reapplies for an English-language traffic service, it seems likely that 600 will be the next frequency it applies for; the old four-tower 600 site in Kahnawahke still stands vacant, having been used later on by CINW/CINF and transferred to Cogeco when it bought Corus' Quebec operations last year. That's a desirable site for English-language operators aiming at the West Island, but the Tietolman-Tétrault-Pancholy group has complained that Cogeco has been unwilling to make it available on competitive terms. So would Tietolman attempt to reclaim the 850 frequency where his father made CKVL famous? As always…stay tuned.
One more Montreal note: one of those newer niche-market AMs, Haitian-targeted CJWI (1610), is temporarily broadcasting at night only. That's because of interference between CJWI's recently-relocated transmitter and a neighbor's phone system, and until the problem can be resolved, CJWI (which broadcasts as "CPAM Radio Union.com") is off the air from 7 AM until 6 PM on weekdays. It's a short-term issue, since CJWI has a permit to move from 1610 down the dial to 1410 from a different site.
*More news from around Canada: in Hamilton, there's another application to backfill a vacated frequency. Independent CHCH-TV (Channel 11) stayed on its VHF channel when it went digital over the summer, but it's finding (surprise, surprise!) that 4.5 kW of digital power doesn't come close to replacing its old 325 kW of analog juice from up on the Escarpment in Stoney Creek. So CHCH is asking the CRTC for permission to move to UHF, taking the RF channel 15 that had been occupied by the Hamilton relay of now-defunct CKXT-TV; on that channel, CHCH would run 132 kW max DA (59 kW average), using the antenna on the CHCH tower that had been used for the interim channel 18 digital operation of CITS-TV.
On the radio, Milkman UnLimited reports Mike Tyler has moved from afternoon drive and the PD chair at CHTZ (97.7 St. Catharines) to morning drive at CIXL (91.7 GIANT FM) in Welland, where he started last Monday. Over in London, January 1 is the official start date for the new all-comedy "Funny 1410" format at Astral's CKSL, which will drop its current oldies programming – and our friends over at RadioInsight.com have picked up on a slew of additional "Funny" domain registrations from Astral for everything from "Funny1010.com" (CFRB Toronto) to "Funny650.com" (CISL Vancouver). Most are probably just placeholders; while CFRB, for instance, carries the "24/7 Comedy" network overnight, it's hard to imagine the programming expanding much beyond those hours at such a major AM signal.
*Crossing the border, we start our Thanksgiving-shortened news report in PENNSYLVANIA, where there's more good news for defenders of old-school AM radio: Clear Channel is bringing back a venerable callsign and format in Philadelphia.
For many decades, WDAS (1480 Philadelphia) overcame a lousy directional pattern and low power to become the voice of the city's black community. Civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X made regular visits to the WDAS studio/transmitter site at the city's edge to spread news and call for change, and the station built an outsized reputation as a major player in black radio through the 1960s and 1970s. That audience eventually segued over to WDAS-FM (105.3), and after experimenting with black gospel, 1480 flipped to Spanish-language programming a few years back as "Rumba 1480," WUBA. (That format had migrated down the dial from 104.5 FM, now WRFF.)
Now WUBA is history, and WDAS(AM) is back. Clear Channel relaunched the station on Wednesday with a mix of Christmas soul music, but after the holidays are over it will segue into a full-time classic soul format programmed by Joe "Butterball" Tamburro, whose roots with WDAS go back more than four decades. Like WUBA, the new WDAS will also be heard on the HD2 channel of Clear Channel sister WISX (106.1 Philadelphia).
*Radio People on the Move: Mike Miller is the new PD at WHKF (99.3 Harrisburg), where he does afternoons and had been serving as assistant PD. Miller fills the void left by J.T. Bosch's promotion to a regional programming role for Clear Channel. In the Pittsburgh suburbs, Dave Russell is the new PD at WOGG (94.9 Oliver), where he replaces Terry Hunt. Russell had been working at sister station WOGI (104.3 Moon Township).
*We send our best wishes to Susan Koeppen, who's been off the air at KDKA-TV (Channel 2) since suffering what the station calls a "serious heart problem" while jogging last weekend. Koeppen, a veteran of CBS News and of Pittsburgh's WTAE and Rochester's WHEC, had just joined KDKA two months ago to anchor the 6 and 11 PM newscasts; she'll return to the anchor desk once she's recuperated.
*We remember Arthur Browne, who died November 18 at his home in Sellersville, Pennsylvania. Browne started his broadcast career at NEW JERSEY's WCTC (1450 New Brunswick), then went on to a long career at WABC (770), ABC Radio News, WABC-TV (Channel 7) and eventually as national editor at ABC TV news. Browne was also the voice of Army football on the radio in the 1970s. Browne was 75.
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*A station sale in upstate NEW YORK: EMF Broadcasting ended up with one station more than it needed to serve the Utica market, and now it's unloading its original signal there. The station on 100.7 was WVVC when EMF bought it for $1.25 million back in 2001, and it spent most of the next decade as "K-Love" outlet WKVU before a flip last December moved K-Love and the WKVU calls to the much bigger 107.3 signal, at which point the smaller 100.7 facility became an "Air 1" outlet as WRCK.
Now EMF is unloading the 100.7 facility – but not the WRCK calls or the tower site southeast of Utica – to Roser Communications Network, which will pay $425,000 for the 1.6 kW/623′ class A facility. Roser isn't saying yet what its plans are for the new addition, which will join "Kiss" simulcast WSKS/WSKU, "Bug Country" WBGK and the WUTQ combination that includes two AMs (WUTQ 1550/WADR 1480) and an FM translator. Could 100.7 become the new WUTQ-FM?
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In Syracuse, WSYR (570/106.9) PD Jason Furst is shifting his portfolio: he's handing off his PD responsibilities for top 40 WWHT (Hot 107.9) to a player to be named later, and in exchange he's adding the title of PD for WHAM (1180) and WHTK (1280/107.3) here in Rochester, 90 minutes down the Thruway in good weather. (In bad weather? Don't ask…) Furst, who was recently named one of Edison Media's "30 Under 30," takes over the programming portfolio last handled by Jeff Howlett before his departure over the summer. Will Rochester listeners soon be hearing more voices from WHAM's Clear Channel sister station in Syracuse, and vice versa? Bet on it…
Across town in Syracuse, the Cumulus budget-cutting ax has been swinging at the former Citadel cluster (WNTQ/WAXQ/WLTI/WSKO). CNYRadio.com reports top-40 WNTQ (93.1) is now jockless after 7 PM, thanks to the removal of night guy "Brandon C" from the payroll. With Brandon gone from the 5-11 PM shift, the rest of the day at 93Q gets rearranged: ops manager Tom Mitchell is now heard (largely tracked, we're guessing) from 10 AM-3 PM, instead of his previous two-hour 10-noon shift, while afternoon jock Rick Roberts moves to 3-7 PM from his old noon-5 PM shift. (We're also hearing rumors of other cuts behind the scenes over there on James Street; more next week…)
The relentless march of "ho-ho-ho" continued across the region last week, with new entries on the all-Christmas-music list including WLYK (102.7 Cape Vincent, aimed across the border at Kingston, Ontario), WDOE (1410 Dunkirk), WMXW (103.3) in Binghamton, WRMM-FM (101.3) here in Rochester and WVOR (102.3) in nearby Canandaigua and WHUD (100.7 Peekskill) downstate. Elsewhere in the region, additional all-Christmas entries included WFPG-FM (96.9 Atlantic City NJ), WXKC (99.9 Erie PA), WMVL (101.7 Lineville PA), WOGL (98.1 Philadelphia), WMGS (92.9 Scranton), WHLM (930 Bloomsburg PA), WRCH (100.5) in Hartford, WHOM (94.9) and WYNZ (100.9) in the Portland, MAINE market, WCNL (1010) in Newport, NEW HAMPSHIRE, WWLI (105.1) in Providence, RHODE ISLAND, WMAS-FM (94.7) in Springfield, MASSACHUSETTS and WSRS (96.1) and WORC-FM (98.9) in Worcester, plus CHFI (98.1) in Toronto.
*More Radio People on the Move: Tracy Burgess is exiting the morning show at New York's WFAN (660) at week's end; she'd been working for Metro Networks and doing traffic for the "Boomer and Carton Show." Just up Hudson Street at the Emmis cluster, WRKS (98.7 Kiss FM) has edged its way into the…um, late 1990s, finally adding streaming audio after many years of holding out.
And in Westchester, Lisa Wexler brings her talk show across the state line from CONNECTICUT to WFAS (1230 White Plains) beginning next week. Wexler's show had aired on WSTC (1400 Stamford)/WNLK (1350 Norwalk) before Cox sold those stations to WSHU; it will be heard weekdays from 4-6 PM on WFAS, which has otherwise been largely automated.
If you missed last month's Audio Engineering Society panel discussion marking the 50th anniversary of FM stereo, the audio has now been made available at the AES website. Having moderated the event, I'm more than a little biased, of course – but it really was an amazing event, with contributions from a remarkable cross-section of engineering talent that included Dick Burden, the last surviving member of the 1961 standards-setting panel, as well as processing gurus Bob Orban, Frank Foti, Eric Small and Bill Sacks and many, many more. It's unlikely a group like that will ever again come together in one place, and it was truly an honor to be able to participate.
*A few more tidbits from an otherwise very slow week for New England news: the Citadel-turned-Cumulus budget axe has eliminated WHOM (94.9 Mount Washington/Portland) morning man GV Rapp; Tim Moore adds morning drive duties (and voicetracking up till noon) to his PD job there, while Sandra Harris handles noon-7 PM.
We note the passing of Maine's Gene Terwilliger, who started out on the air at WLOB (1310 Portland) but soon moved over to engineering, where he became a fixture in the Pine Tree State for many decades. Services for Terwilliger were held on Saturday.
A pair of call changes straddling the Massachusetts/Connecticut state line: new WJCI (89.5 Baptist Village MA) becomes WWQZ, while unbuilt WFSJ (89.9 North Granby CT) becomes WWQA. Both licenses are owned by the Power Foundation, and they'll serve opposite sides of the Springfield market with religious programming.
And WEDY-TV in New Haven is powering up at long last. The Connecticut Public TV outlet has been effectively a low-power TV station for many years, serving only the immediate New Haven area from its East Rock Park transmitter site on analog channel 65 and then on digital channel 6, where it ran a whopping 400 watts. At one point, WEDY held a digital assignment for channel 39, which it swapped to WCTX (Channel 59); now it holds a construction permit for RF channel 41, where it will run a much more potent 60 kW/308′.
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Kevin McNicholas was a familiar voice on radio stations all over the Bay State that contracted with him to provide reports from the State House for many decades. Sadly, that voice was silenced last week when McNicholas, the dean of the Beacon Hill press corps, died on Thursday at 61. McNichols had been running the "Radio News Service" out of the State House since 1975, supplying sound from state political stories and other Boston news items to stations around the state that included WATD (95.9 Marshfield) and WFCR-FM (88.5 Amherst). He'd been suffering from cancer of the bladder.
There's still no word from WBZ (1030) about a permanent choice of a new anchor for its morning newscasts, but a very familiar voice will be back behind the mike for a few days next week. Gary LaPierre, who retired in 2006 after 43 years at the station, will be the guest anchor the week of December 6. And in the meantime, WBZ has announced that veteran Boston anchor Rod Fritz, who's been doing weekend news there, will be the temporary replacement for Ed Walsh after his last morning shift on Tuesday. Could Fritz be the permanent pick, too? That's certainly the consensus out there in message-board land, and it's hard to think of many other anchors out there who are as talented as Fritz, as experienced in Boston – and as available!
A format flip on the NEW HAMPSHIRE/MAINE state line: Clear Channel's WMYF (1380 Portsmouth) quietly flipped from standards to ESPN Radio as "The Sports Animal" early last week.
There's a morning show shift coming in NEW YORK City, where Patty Steele is leaving the "Scott and Todd Big Show" on WPLJ (95.5) next month after more than a dozen years alongside Scott Shannon and Todd Pettengill. Steele and her husband, veteran New York City programmer Steve Kingston, are in the process of buying a station in Florida, WSJF (105.5 St. Augustine Beach), under the name "Cortona Media"; it's not clear whether her departure from WPLJ is related to the new acquisition.
In Binghamton, Equinox's WRRQ (106.7) has completed its relocation from Windsor, far to the east of town, to centrally-located Ingraham Hill. The move changes WRRQ's city of license from Windsor to Port Dickinson, significantly improving its coverage of the market and eliminating the station's need to rely on translators to reach Binghamton-area listeners. "Now, everyone can get Q106.7; no need to tune anywhere else," say the promos running (over and over again) on the new signal.
Who'll replace Gary LaPierre on the morning news at WBZ (1030 Boston)? Former WOR (710 New York) morning anchor Ed Walsh, that's who. Walsh has been working nights at WCBS (880 New York) for the last few months, and he'll take over from the veteran LaPierre on January 1, 2007.
Every year at this time, your editor puts on one of his other hats – news editor of 100000watts.com, the radio directory site – to help compile what we believe to be the most accurate list of stations flipping to an all-Christmas format during the run-up to December 25.
This year, there's an unusual flip amidst the normal batch of AC and oldies stations suddenly playing "Little Drummer Boy" over…and over…and over again. It's Clear Channel's WFKP (99.3 Ellenville), which last made headlines here in April 2005, when it flipped from top 40 "Kiss" (simulcasting with WPKF 96.1 Poughkeepsie) to soft AC "Lite" (semi-simulcasting with WRNQ 92.1 Poughkeepsie) by way of a couple of days as "Cupid 99.3."
Now WFKP is flipping again. Beginning December 25, it'll be simulcasting yet another of Clear Channel's Poughkeepsie-cluster FMs, market-leading country outlet WRWD-FM (107.3 Highland). But until then, it's playing a nonstop diet of country Christmas tunes. Once it flips, WFKP will help extend WRWD's reach into the Catskills to compete with Cumulus' "Wolf" country WKXP (94.3 Kingston)/WZAD (97.3 Wurtsboro); we'd note, too, that WRWD-FM is already simulcasting in Ellenville on WRWD (1370), though the AM signal doesn't reach down to Middletown as the FM does.
New York Jets fansOur big headlines from MASSACHUSETTS this week are mostly TV-related, starting with the FCC's approval of Tribune's sale of CW affiliate WLVI (Channel 56) to Sunbeam Television, which already owns Boston's NBC affiliate, WHDH-TV (Channel 7). Sunbeam has set a date – December 19 – for the launch of its own WHDH-produced 10 PM newscast on Channel 56, which means the current "Ten O'Clock News" will shut down sometime before that, putting a talented staff out of work just before Christmas. WHDH general manager Mike Carson tells the Herald that there may eventually be a morning newscast (again) on WLVI, but he won't be around to oversee it. He's retiring next July 1, handing the reins over to sales manager Randi Goldklank.
Meanwhile, it should come as no surprise to anyone that Boston's CBS station, WBZ-TV (Channel 4), is preparing to ditch its unpopular "CBS 4 Boston" branding early next year, returning to branding itself simply as…"WBZ." (We're at least mildly amused to see the newspaper coverage that makes it sound as though the station actually changed its call letters or something; here at NERW, where we believe the callsign is sacred, we've never called them anything but "WBZ-TV.")
Speaking of WBZ, the radio side of the operation proved the value of a full-time newsroom last week when a chemical plant exploded early Wednesday morning. While WBZ's overnight local newscasts are pre-recorded, its talk shows aren't, and so WBZ listeners had updates from callers (and, soon, from WBZ reporters who awoke and rushed to the scene) while a certain other newsroomless talk station was deep in "Coast to Coast AM." (And, its posted schedule on its website notwithstanding, said station didn't have "Boston this Morning With Rod Fritz" on the air at 6, either.)
Speaking of WRKO, it had still more headaches last week, when its phone system failed, leaving Howie Carr and other hosts to try to take callers with just a single working phone line. Ouch…
won't have to adjust their dials for a while – the team's signed a new two-year deal to keep WEPN (1050 New York) as its flagship through the 2008 season. The games are also heard on WEPN's sister station, WABC (770), though the future of that simulcast may be in doubt when and if Disney completes the sale of WABC and the rest of the ABC Radio empire to Citadel. (The latest word is that closing on that deal isn't expected any time before July 2007.)
The two-year investigation into the finances of Boston University's RHODE ISLAND public radio stations, WRNI (1290 Providence) and WXNI (1230 Westerly), has wrapped up with a clean bill of health from state Attorney General Patrick Lynch. The probe began when the stations' parent operation, WBUR-FM (90.9 Boston), announced in September 2004 that it was putting the Rhode Island signals on the market. Local donors who'd contributed much of the money to buy the signals from their previous commercial owners complained, and that triggered the investigation. BU backed off its plan to sell WRNI/WXNI, and Lynch agreed to close the investigation after the university named a full-time general manager and created a local advisory board for the stations. That GM, Joe O'Connor, tells the Providence Journal-Bulletin that "this chapter in WRNI's history is closed," and that "every penny that is donated to WRNI is specifically allocated just for this station."
Up in CANADA, Thanksgiving's been over for weeks now, and the CRTC was open for business all last week, granting Corus its move off the AM dial across most of Quebec.
CJRC (1150 Gatineau-Ottawa) will go to 104.7 (11 kW DA/95 m); CHLT (630 Sherbrooke) will move to 102.1 (23 kW DA/91 m); CHLN (550 Trois-Rivieres) will move to 106.9 (100 kW DA/87 m) and CKRS (590 Saguenay) will move to 98.3 (100 kW DA/148 m).
With the closure last week of CKTS (900) in Sherbrooke, that city will have no AM station once the CHLT move is complete, while the CKRS move will silence the AM dial in the Saguenay region and the CHLN move will leave only relay station CKSM (1220 Shawinigan) on the air in the Mauricie region.
It's not exactly a "fad format," but there's no mistaking the wave of format changes sweeping across NERW-land over the Thanksgiving weekend: stations all over the country, in fact, are dropping AC and oldies formats to go all-Christmas music for the next month. It's largely a Clear Channel thing (and no wonder; it's easier to make a flip like this when you own eight stations in the market!), with that group's flips including WRNQ (92.1 Poughkeepsie), WALK (1370 Patchogue; the FM side stays AC), WTRY-FM (98.3 Troy), WMXW (103.3 Vestal), WYYY (94.5 Syracuse), WISY (102.3 Canandaigua) and WJJJ (104.7 Pittsburgh). But other groups are also getting into the holiday spirit: Barnstable, with WLVG (96.1 Center Moriches) on Long Island's East End; Vox, with the satellite standards on WENU in Glens Falls going all-Christmas; Citadel, with WLEV (100.7 Allentown); and independents WHLM (930 Bloomsburg PA, using the Christmas music as a stunt to launch regular programming early in 2002) and WLSH (1410 Lansford PA, which has done this every year since it signed on!)
We'll start the rest of this holiday-shortened week in the one part of NERW territory where it wasn't a holiday: CANADA. While those of us south of the border were gorging on turkey and stuffing, Corus was busy getting rid of Howard Stern's last Canadian outpost. As of this morning (Nov. 26), Stern will be off Toronto's Q107 (CILQ 107.1), which was the first station in Canada to pick him up back in September 1997. Why drop Stern now? Q107 managers tell the Toronto Star ratings weren't a consideration, that it was simply time to refocus the station on the Toronto market. To that end, Q107 and its sister station "Mojo 640" (CFYI) will move this week from their studios on Yonge Street in North York downtown to the Hard Rock Cafe at Yonge and Dundas. (If that happens to help Corus' cost-cutting efforts, too, we wouldn't be surprised…) Replacing Stern in mornings will be current Q107 afternoon jock (and former FAN 590 morning guy) John Derringer. As for Stern-heads in Toronto, they'll have to point their antennas south to Buffalo's WBUF (92.9), which continues to carry Howard.
Fifteen Years Ago: November 25-29, 1996 –
Boston's business-radio station is raising a lot more questions than it's answering with its public pronouncements this week. WBNW (590) has been the subject of repeated sale rumors over the last few weeks, and now station owner Back Bay Broadcasting has gone to the trouble and expense of hiring veteran Boston PR man George Regan to spread the word that "there will be no change of owner." In an article in Saturday's Boston Herald, Regan is quoted as saying, "as far as (Back Bay owner) Peter Ottmar is concerned, no one has an option on the station." The very next paragraph begins by noting that Salem Communications has an option on WBNW. It also answers a question we've been puzzling over here at NERW headquarters: it seems Salem picked up the option on WBNW in the process of selling KDBX(FM) Banks-Portland, Oregon to American Radio Systems this fall. This is the first solid confirmation we've seen of the long-held speculation that ARS had an option to buy WBNW ever since the station went on the air in September 1994.
Back to the denials: Regan tells the Herald that the departure of WBNW's general manager, Peter Crawford, this week was a "mutual parting of the ways," and he says October was WBNW's most successful month yet. We'll be keeping a very close ear on 590…at least as long as the station audio isn't drowned out by all those denials.
It's the radio saga that just won't end: Alexander Langer's attempts to return two dark New England AMs to the airwaves. Last year, Langer bought WBIV (1060) in Natick, Mass., which had been off the air since selling its transmitter site and equipment to Douglas Broadcasting for the new WBPS (890) Dedham-Boston. Shortly thereafter, he picked up WRPT (1050) in Peterborough, NH, which has been off the air for about four years. Ever since then, we've seen application after application for different ways to put the stations back on the air, including a dismissed application earlier this year to move WRPT down to Foxboro, MA (a move of over 100 miles!) with a change of frequency and power, to 650kHz. Now Langer's trying again. An article in Tuesday's Middlesex News alerted NERW to his latest application, this time to move WRPT to Ashland, MA as a 250 watt daytimer on 650. The transmitter site being proposed is that of WKOX (1200) in nearby Framingham.
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Garrett Wollman November 28, 2011 at 4:15 pm
Can you add a bit of margin on the left hand side? Just an em or so would make it much easier to read.
ncprguy November 28, 2011 at 5:29 pm
I second Garrett's suggestion.
Rick November 28, 2011 at 6:51 pm
Having to scroll down all the way to the bottom to log in (and out) seems poorly engineered. It would be so much more convenient located at the top (as at most websites requiring login), confronting the reader immediately upon arrival.
That's on the "to fix" list…and I like Garrett's suggestion as well. Should be all fixed tomorrow.
James November 29, 2011 at 7:28 am
"…..we've got quite the distinguished and civilized group of subscribers here at the new fybush.com – so I'm trusting we can keep the conversation at a fairly high level."
Don't worry. I'll fix that. ;-D
Jon November 29, 2011 at 6:48 pm
I second Rick's suggestion.
Ted December 1, 2011 at 10:55 pm
Scott, the site looks fine in Google Chrome, and Safari, and on my iPad. You might want to consider setting up a separate theme for mobile phones though – there are several available for WordPress sites, and many of those are free.
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Thanks! It's something I'm thinking about…though I'm actually quite pleasantly surprised at how usable the site seems to be on my Droid even without a separate mobile theme. Any other mobile users have an opinion to offer?


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1998 Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
M.F.A. - Painting (Karl Benjamin Painting Fellowship)
1986 San Francisco State University, California
M.A. - Painting
1982 Midland College, Fremont, Nebraska
B.A. - Fine Arts
1982 Arizona State University, Tempe
1981 University of Colorado, Boulder
Guest lecturer, Otis College of Art and Design
2011 Guest Lecturer, Mt. San Jacinto College, San Jacinto, California
2008 Visiting Professor, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts (Undergraduate and Post-Graduate students), Shenyang, China
Guest Lecturer, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
Guest Lecturer, Fudan University - Shanghai Institute of Visual Art, Shanghai, China
Guest Lecturer, Petterson Museum of Intercultural Arts, Claremont, California
2007 Guest Lecturer, The Attached Secondary Art School of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts (650 students), Shenyang, China Visiting Artist, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts (Undergraduate and Post-Graduate students), Shenyang, China
Guest Lecturer, Dalian Polytechnic University, Dalian, China
2006 Visiting Artist, Luxun Academy of Fine Arts (Post-Graduate students), Shenyang, China
2005 Guest Lecturer, Phoenix Art Organization, Long Beach, California / Art Professor, Italian Study Abroad Program (Ferrara, Italy), Mt. San Antonio College / Guest Lecturer, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport
2002 Guest Lecturer, Art Forum, Santa Ana College, California
1998-present Professor of Art, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California (Chair 2002- 2006 / Co-Chair 2000-2001)
1997-1998 Adjunct Professor, Saddleback College, Mission Viejo, California
1996-1998 Adjunct Professor, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California
1996 Guest Lecturer, University of Akron, Ohio
1991 Visiting Artist, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
1989 Visiting Artist, Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
1988 Guest Lecturer, Midland College, Midland, Texas
1987 Visiting Artist, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln
1985 Instructor, A.S.U.C. Studio, University of California, Berkeley
Selected One-Person Exhibitions
Kirk Pedersen: Urban Asia, Lucie Foundation, MOPLA, Los Angeles
Kirk Pedersen: Urban Asian Series, Pacific Asia Museum, Pasadena, California
Kirk Pedersen: Urban Art, Mt. San Jacinto College, San Jacinto, California
Kirk Pedersen: Urban Paintings and Photographs, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Do Not Enter, Cal Poly Pomona Downtown Center, Pomona, California
Kirk Pedersen: Urban Asia, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis
2008 Kirk Pedersen: Urban Paintings and Photographs:
Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Art Gallery at Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China
Ucity Art Museum, Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
Kirk Pedersen, Art of the City, GeFeng Contemporary Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Japan Juxtaposed - Modern Images: Photographs by Kirk Pedersen (Tokyo Images), The Gallery at Penn College,
Urban Asia Photographs, Petterson Museum of Intercultural Arts, Claremont, California
2006 Eine Ausstellung IM Deutsch-Amerikanischen Zentrum - James-F.-Byrnes-Institute E.V., Stuttgart, Germany / Urban Landscapes, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA / Urbanscapes, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis
2005 Urban, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport / Italia: Paintings of Urban Italy, The Asylum Gallery, Pomona, California
2000 Convergence, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis / Mt. San Jacinto College, San Jacinto, California / Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
1998 The Urban Series, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis / Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
1997 The Urban Series, Riverside Art Museum, California
1996 New Work: From Darkness To Light, David Jacobs Fine Art, Santa Monica / Recent Paintings, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis / In Collaboration, Akron, Ohio
1995 Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School, Santa Monica / Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
1994 Contemporary Urban Still Life, In Collaboration, Santa Monica / Urban Series: 1989-1994, Harris Gallery, Houston / Napa Valley College, Napa, California
1993 Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco / Universal Studios, Burbank, California
1992 Desert Ruins/Road Relics, Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin / Ventura College, Ventura, California / Shaklee Corporation, San Francisco
1991 Desert Ruins/Road Relics, University of California, Riverside / Road Relics and Urban Fountains, Harris Gallery, Houston / Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
1990 Brenda Kroos Gallery, Cleveland / Francine Ellman Gallery, Los Angeles
1989 The Urban Series, Mitchell Museum, Mount Vernon, Illinois / Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois / Infrastructure, Lizardi/Harp Gallery, Pasadena, California / Neville-Sargent Gallery, Chicago
1988 Harris Gallery, Houston / City Gallery, Sacramento (two-person)
1987 Moss/Chumley Gallery, Dallas / Neville-Sargent Gallery, Chicago / Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln / Hastings College, Hastings, Nebraska / Haydon Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
1986 Stanford University, California / Harris Gallery, Houston
1985 Imprimatur Gallery, Minneapolis
1984 Hoover Gallery, San Francisco
1983 Beuret Gallery, Honolulu
1982 Leslie Levy Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona
2013 U.S. Embassy Bangkok �180 Years of Friendship� Photography Exhibition, CentralWorld, Bangkok, Thailand / Central Airport Plaza, Chiang Mai, Thailand / Arts and Cultural Center, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok / CentralPlaza, Suratthani, Thailand
2012 Abstract Expressionism, Santa Ana College Art Gallery, Santa Ana, California
2011 Art Chicago, Atrium Gallery, Chicago
Art Chicago, Atrium Gallery, Chicago
Four Current Perspectives, Renmin University, Beijing
ArtChicago, Atrium Gallery, Chicago
Renmin University, Beijing, China
2008 Abstraction, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
2007 Kunst 07 Zurich 13th International Art Fair, Walter Bischoff Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
Tromp L'Oeil: The Art of Illusion, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois
Art Auction 12, Long Beach Museum of Art, California
2006 Los Angeles City College (three-person) / Paper, Paper, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis / Selections, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis
2005 California Landscape, Long Beach Museum of Art / California Visions: Art Auction XI, Long Beach Museum of Art / Relative Truths, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, California (three-person) / Philharmonic House of Design, Lemon Heights (Orange County), California / With Spirit, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis
2004 CITIRAMA, St. Louis
2003 Postcard Exhibition, Los Angeles City College
2002 Community College Invitational Mentor and Mente Art Exhibition, California State University, Los Angeles / Scale it, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis
2001 Painting and Sculpture Exhibition, California State University, Los Angeles / Double Overhead, Don O'Melveny Gallery, West Hollywood / Sequence Two, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California
2000 L.A.bstractionists, INMO Gallery, Los Angeles (Curated by Peter Frank) / Dreamhouse, Miller Durazo Contemporary Artists Projects, Los Angeles / Recycled Paper Three, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis
1999 Selections from the Sweeney Collection, University of California, Riverside / Recycled Paper Two, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis
1998 Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
1997 Abstraction, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri / RoundRobin, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, California
1996 Watermarks: Contemporary Watercolors, Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, KS / Watermarks, Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, CA
1995 New Talent, Allan Stone Gallery, New York / Watercolors: Connoisseurship, Technique and Exploration, Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri
1994 City Art, Millard Sheets Gallery, Pomona, California / Works on Paper, Longview Art Museum, Longview, Texas
1993 State of the Art 1993, The New England Fine Art Institute, Boston / Recent Acquisitions, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
1992 One Square Foot, Gensler and Associates, Santa Monica / Four Watercolorists, Mondavi Center, Costa Mesa, California
1990 Allan Stone Gallery, New York / 54th Annual National Midyear Exhibition, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio
1987 Three Abstract Painters, Nimbus Gallery, Dallas / First Prints Biennial Expo Campinas 1987, Sao Paulo, Brazil / Contemporary American Watercolors from the Collection of the Springfield Art Museum, University of Missouri, Columbia / Watercolor Now, Springfield Art Museum, Missouri / Landscapes Near and Far, Museum of Nebraska Art, Kearney
1986 The Monumental Image, Springfield Art Museum, Missouri / Watercolors, Cedar Rapids Art Museum, Iowa / Driven to Abstraction, Moss/Chumley Gallery, Dallas / 12th International Print Exhibition, Kanagawa Perfectural Gallery, Yokohama, Japan / Gallery Artists, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
1985 Five Views, San Francisco State University / 11th International Print Exhibition, Kanagawa Perfectural Gallery, Yokohama, Japan / Bay Arts 1985 Current Directions in the Visual Arts, Arts Council of San Mateo, Belmont, California
1984 All California 1984, Lauguna Beach Museum of Art, California / Fish: An Exhibition, Hockaday Center for the Arts, Kalispell, Montana / Aqueous 1984, University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington
One-Person Exhibition Catalogues / Books:
Brouws, Jeff. "The Realization of a Possibility: The Urban Asia Photographs of Kirk Pedersen." Urban Asia. ZERO+ Publishing, Inc., 2009. (hardcover book: 160 pages / 83 color images)
Chattopadhyay, Collette. "Kirk Pedersen: Images of Transience and Change." Kirk Pedersen: Urban Paintings and Photographs." Shenyang, China: Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, 2008. (48 pages / 30 color reproductions)
_____. "Kirk Pedersen: Images of Transience and Change." Kirk Pedersen: Urban Paintings and Photographs. Beijing, China: Today Art Museum / Shenyang: Luxun Academy of Fine Arts / Guangzhou: Ucity Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts / Shanghai: Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, 2008. (84 pages / 55 color images)
Doe, Donald
Bartlett. "Memories of 10th Street: The Recent Paintings of Kirk Pedersen." Kirk Pedersen: The Urban Series. Mt Vernon, Illinois: Mitchell Museum / Peoria, Illinois: Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, 1989. (32 pages / 16 color reproductions)
_____. "The Process of Landscape: The Paintings of Kirk Pedersen." Kirk Pedersen. Dallas: Moss/Chumley Gallery, 1987. (12 pages / 3 color repro. / 3 B&W repro.)
Frank, Peter. "Citiness: Kirk Pedersen's Veristic Abstractions" Kirk Pedersen: Urban Landscapes, Walnut, California: Mt. San Antonio College, 2006. (56 pages / 43 color repro.)
_____. "Kirk Pedersen: An Abstraction So Real." The Urban Series. Riverside, California: Riverside Art Museum, 1997. (20 pages / 9 color repro.)
Pagel, David. "Just Passing By, Intimately and Unforgettably." (See Brouws for complete information)
Reed, Jim. "Night as a Metaphor." Kirk Pedersen: From Darkness to Light. Santa Monica: David Jacobs Fine Art. 1996. (16 pages / 9 color repro.)
Shao, Da Zhen. Significant Cultural Meaning from Ordinary Images.Insert for Kirk Pedersen: Urban Paintings and Photographs. Beijing: Today Art Museum, 2008.
Warren, Katherine. "Kirk Pedesen: Desert Ruins/Road Relics." Kirk Pedersen: Desert Ruins/Road Relics. Manitowoc, Wisconsin: Rahr-West Art Museum / Riverside, California: University of California, 1991. (36 pages / 20 color repro.)
Kirk Pedersen: Urban Asia Photos. Diamond Bar, California, 2007. (36 pages / 33 color reproductions)
Newspapers/Magazines/Books/Catalogues/Newsletters:
Gordon, Alex.
"CARTWHEEL Interview with Kirk Pedersen of ZERO+ Publishing." CARTWHEEL, (Los Angeles), January 16, 2013. (18 color repro.)
Junker, Eric.
"Kirk Pedersen: No Map Required." Fabrik (photography issue), Issue 16, (Los Angeles), 88 - 91. (4 color repro.)
Reevo, Jay.
"Urban Asia & Tradeoffs - Kirk Pedersen." Ektopia.co.uk, Suffolk, England. (7 color repro.)
"Kirk Pedersen: City Impression - Beijing." Designdb.com, (Seoul, Korea). (16 color repro.)
Brouws,Jeff;
Pagel, David;
Chattopadhyay, Collette.
City Impression: Kirk Pedersen Urban Painting and Photograph Exhibitions in China. Finance: Oriental Art. (Beijing, China), January 2009, 22-25. (5 color repro.)
Liu, Vivian.
Art and Design Magazine (Beijing, China), March 2009.
Lieber, Katherine R.
Art Chicago 2009 Review, Artscope.net, May 1 (one color image).
Sieloff, Alison. "Oh, the Urbanity." Riverfront Times (St. Louis), September 10-16, Volume 33, Number 37, 20-21. (repro)
Yang, Nan.
City Impressions by Kirk Pedersen in Beijing.www.china.com.cn (Beijing, China), January 16, 2009. (3 color images)
Yang, Shen.
City Impression: American Artist Kirk Pedersen Painting and Photography Show Opens in Beijing.Vision Union (Beijing, China), January 10, 2009. (5 color images)
Zhong, Hui Min.
American Artist Kirk Pedersen China Exhibition in Beijing.www.cnci.gov.cn (Beijing, China), January 16, 2009. (color image)
Zhu, Xiao Jun. Kirk Pedersen: City Impressions. China Culture Daily (Beijing), January 11, 2009, 2. (repro.)
Television Interview. (Beijing, China), January 11, 2009.
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Urban Impression Solo Exhibition of Kirk Pedersen. Today Art Museum Newsletter (Beijing, China), January March 2009, 6-7. (color repro.)
Alexander, Amanda. At the Galleries, SunGazette.com, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, July 24.
Chen, Meng Zhe.
See the City Through His Eyes.Shanghai Weekly (Shanghai, China), December 16, 2008, A8-9. (10 color repro.)
Hwang, Jessie.
Exhibition Review, City Impressions Paintings and Photographs by US Kirk Pedersen.www.lifeofguangzhoz.com (Guangzhou, China), October, 18, 2008. (2 photos)
Lee, Bonnie.
Television Interview. Discover Guangzhou, GZTV - Guangzhou English Channel (China), October 17, 2008.
Liu, Giong. The City Impression. Shenzhen Economic Daily (Shenzhen, China), November 16, 2008, A9.
Liu, Hai-sha.
Interview with American Artist Kirk Pedersen.MEIYUAN - Journal of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts (Shenyang, China), 2008 - 6, 40-44. (9 color repro. including back cover)
Liu, Sha Sha. City Impressions by Kirk Pedersen.Shenzhen Daily (China), November 16, 2008.
Que, Zheng Gang.
American Artist Kirk Pedersen China Exhibition Opens in Guangzhou. www.99ys.com " (Guangzhou, China), October 24, 2008. (4 color images)
Sheng, Xiao Lin.
From the Details the World Can Be Seen.GuangzhouDaily (Guangzhou, China), October 16, 2008, B6. (color repro.)
Wang, Da Ju. Exhibition Review. Shenyang Evening News (Shenyang, China), September 28, 2008, C5. (repro.)
Wang, Feng;
The City Impression by Kirk Pedersen.Panyu Daily (Guangzhou, China), October 19, 2008, P3. (color repro.)
Yang, Lin.
American Artist Kirk Pedersen Show in Shanghai.www.artc.net.cn (Shanghai, China), December 11, 2008. (color image)
Yao, Dian.
City Impressions.www.99ys.com (Shanghai, China), December 11, 2008. (color image)
Zhang, Shao.
Impressions of Urban: Kirk Pedersen (US) Solo Exhibition. www.Artintern.net, December 5, 2008. (color repro.)
Exhibition Preview. China Daily (Beijing), December 5, 2008, P20. (repro.)
Shenyang Daily News (Shenyang, China), September 26, 2008, 19. (color repro.)
Impression of City.SH (Shanghai, China), December 5, 2008, 22. (color repro.)
Kirk Pedersen: Impression of the City.Shanghai Star Weekend (Shanghai, China), December 4, 2008, 12.
Television Interview, LTV Television (Channel 16), Shenyang, China, September 25, 2008
Television Interview. Primary Scene, Shenyang TV Station (Shenyang, China), September 26, 2008.
Television Interview. SZTV - Shenzhen Television (Shenzhen, China), November 17, 2008.
Television Interview. City Beat - International Channel Shanghai (Shanghai, China), December 8, 2008.
(Over 100 Web Sites in China have featured the show Kirk Pedersen: Urban Paintings and Photographs)
Artner, Alan G. Review. Chicago Tribune, June 16, 1989.
Daniel, Jeff. "Kirk Pedersen: Convergence and Jeanine Coupe Ryding: Divers." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, January 7, 2001, F5.
_____. "Urban Scene Gets Vibrant Rendering." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 19 June 98, E6.
_____. "Contrast Within Contrast Creates Startling Exhibit." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 28 August 1997, 23.
Doherty, M.
Stephen. "Using Water-Based Opaque Paints." Watercolor 88, 1988, 66-74. (2 color repro.)
_____. "Using Water-Based Opaque Paints." Watercolor Highlights, Summer 1993, 120-129. (2 color repro.)
Goforth, Candace. "Building's New Owners Give Mural the Brushoff." Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio), June 23, 1998, B1. (2 repro.)
Howell, Camille. "Variety of Offerings at Exhibit has Broad Appeal." The News Leader (Springfield, Missouri), June 21, 1987, 2G.
Ineck, Tom. "Nebraska Native's Art Reveals Details of Our Lives." Lincoln Star Journal (Lincoln, Nebraska), January 1, 1995, 13H. (repro.)
Kilbane, Marie. "Brenda Kroos Gallery: A Fine Addition to the Art Community." Scene (Cleveland, Ohio), October 25-31,1990, 6.
Klein, Jerry. "Lakeview Art Show is Exciting." Journal Star (Peoria, Illinois), September 3, 1989 3B. (repro.)
Knaff, Devorah. "The City, Up Close and Personal." The Press Enterprise (Riverside, California), November 14, 1997, AA3. (3 color repro.)
_____. "On the Road Again: Kirk Pedersen at U.C. Riverside." Artweek, (Oakland, California), October 10, 1991, 11. (repro.)
_____. "Paintings Find Beauty in the Ruins." The Press Enterprise (Riverside, California), October1, 1991, D-9. (repro.)
Koppman, Debra. "Previews: Kirk Pedersen." Artweek, February 2006, 6. (1 repro.)
Kutner, Janet. "Driven to Abstraction." The Dallas Morning News, September 10, 1986.
Landwehr, William "California Artist Sets Up Shop Here." Journal Star (Peoria, Illinois), June 1, 1989, 1. (4 repro.)
_____. "Watercolor U.S.A. 1986 - The Monumental Image." Exhibition Catalogue, Springfield Art Museum, (Springfield, Missouri), June 1986. (color repro.)
_____. "Watercolor U.S.A. 1987." Newsletter, Springfield Art Museum, (Springfield, Missouri), July/August 1987. (repro.)
Locke, Donald. "Reading Artists' Statements." New Times (Tempe, Arizona), August 18-24, 1982, 53.
Lucie-Smith, Edward. Zoo: Animals in Art, Watson Guptill Publications, New York, 1998, 168-169. (color repro.)
McKinnon, Lisa. "Artist Paints Life Into the Discarded." The Ventura County Star Press (Ventura, California), September 1, 1992, B 1-2. (color repro.)
Moehl, Karl. Review. New Art Examiner, (Chicago), January 1990, 47. (repro.)
Moon, Grace. "Graceful Wrecks Create Mystery in the University Art Gallery." Highlander (University of California, Riverside), September 24, 1991, B-4. (repro.)
Morse, Marcia. Review. The Sunday Star-Bulletin and Advertiser (Honolulu, Hawaii), February 6, 1983, 10c.
Myer, Joe. "Strolling the Galleries." Palm Desert Post (California), February 8-14, 1989.
Nixon, Bruce. "Many Bright Spots in Introductions." Dallas Times Herald, July 13, 1987, 2.
Pagel, Anne. "Kirk Pedersen at Haydon Gallery." Nebraska StatePaper.Com, October 4, 2000, 1-3.
Pincus, Robert L. "City Scenes Unequal to Task at Hand." The Plain Dealer (Cleveland, Ohio), October 3, 1996, C3.
Shepley, Carol
Ferring. "Reflections of the Self." St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 14, 1996, C5. (repro.)
Shinn, Dorothy. "Up-Close Homage to Asphalt." Akron Beacon Journal (Akron, Ohio), July 12, 1996, A1. (2 color repro.)
_____. "Straightforward Paintings Add Up to Whole New Show." Akron Beacon Journal, (Akron, Ohio), September 15, 1996, E3. (repro.)
Simmons, John. "Watercolor Show has Appeal Locally and Nationally." The News Leader (Springfield, Missouri), September 3, 1989, 3B.
Shoup, Claire. "Lakeviews Features Pedersen Art Exhibition." Star Journal (Peoria, Illinois), August 10, 1989, 1-2.
Ulrich, Linda. "Urban-Environment Artist Pedersen 'Young Artist of the Year." Lincoln Journal-Star (Lincoln, Nebraska), February 8, 1987, 10H. (repro.)
Waterman-Peters, Barbara. "Watermarks: Contemporary Watercolors." Exhibition Catalogue (Mulvane Art Museum, Topeka, Kansas), January 1996, 5. (color repro.)
Weinger, Alice B. "Kirk Pedersen: The Urban Series." Lakeviews (Peoria, Illinois) Fall, 1989, 2-5. (9 repro.)
Wolgamott, Kent. "A Man of Fashion." Lincoln Journal Star (Lincoln, Nebraska), October 8, 2000, 12M. (color repro.)
Wright, John. "The Shape of the World." The Riverfront Times (St. Louis, Missouri), Number 983, August 6-12, 1997, 79.
Articles without listed author:
Japan Juxtaposed: Traditional Textiles/Modern Images.The Gallery at Penn College Newsletter, Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport, 2008. 2009, 3. (color repro.)
The Colorado Collection. CU Art Museum Newsletter, University of Colorado, Boulder, Volume V, 2008, 11. (color repro.)
Kirk Pedersen Exhibit. Accents Magazine (Stuttgart, Germany), June. August, 2006, 22. (color repro.)
California Landscapes.(Long Beach Museum of Art), Antiques and the Arts Online, June 2005
California Landscapes at Long Beach Museum.Art Knowledge News (online), July 2005
Landscapes of the Golden State.Russian Antique (online), May 25, 2005.
Long Beach California Landscapes.Plein Air Magazine (online), June - July 2005
Kirk Pedersen, Los Angeles.Art Forum (Santa Ana College Art Department Quarterly, California), November - December, 2002, 1-2. (4 repro.)
"Artworks by Kirk Pedersen." L.A. Times (Inland Empire Edition), August 28,1991. (repro)
"Desert Ruins/Road Relics." ArtTimes (Riverside, California), Fall 1991, 7. (repro.)
"Pedersen Presents Talk on 'Close up' Artwork." The Daily O'Collegian (Stillwater, Oklahoma), February 1-3, 1991, 3-4. (2 repro.)
"Urban Artwork." Stillwater NewsPress (Stillwater, Oklahoma), January 27, 1991, 6A. (repro.)
"Harris to Show 'On the Edge' Paintings." Art-Talk (Scottsdale, Arizona), March 1988, 40. (repro.)
"Kirk Pedersen: The Urban Series." Cedarhurst Quarterly (Mt. Vernon, Illinois), February-April, 1989, 2. (2 repro.)
"Recent Acquisitions." Lakeviews (Peoria, Illinois), Fall, 1988, 9. (repro.)
"Charlotte National 1987." Exhibition Catalogue, Spirit Square Center for the Arts (Charlotte, North Carolina), May, 1987, 5. (color repro.)
"Honolulu Printmakers 55th Annual Exhibition." The Sunday Star-Bulletin and Advertiser (Honolulu, Hawaii), February 6, 1983, C-10. (repro.)
"Young Trio Show Work." Daily Progress (Scottsdale, Arizona), May 14, 1982, 35. (repro.)
Selected Public Collections:
Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, St. Joseph, Missouri
Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe
Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock
Art Gallery of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China
Bradley University, Peoria, Illinois
College of Engineering, Nebraska Hall, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
CU Art Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder
Dalian Polytechnic University, School of Art and Design, Dalian, China
Eine Ausstellung IM Deutsch-Amerikanischen Zentrum - James-F.-Byrnes Institute E.V., Stuttgart, Germany
Fisher Art Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California
Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota
Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Michigan
Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois
Liaoning Provincial People's Government, Department of Cultural Affairs, Shenyang, China
Long Beach Museum of Art, California
Lucie Foundation, Los Angeles
Luxun Academy of Fine Arts (Watercolor and Printmaking Department), Shenyang, China
Morris Graves Museum of Art, Eureka, California
Mt. San Antonio College, Walnut, California
Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University, Topeka, Kansas
Nevada Museum of Art, Reno
Oklahoma State University, Stillwater
Palm Springs Art Museum, California
Pennsylvania College of Technology, Williamsport
Petersen Automobile Museum, Los Angeles
Rahr-West Art Museum, Manitowoc, Wisconsin
Riverside Art Museum, California
Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery, Scripps College, Claremont, California
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, Nebraska
Sioux City Art Center, Iowa
Southwest State University, Marshall, Minnesota
Southwestern College, Wichita, Kansas
Springfield Art Museum, Missouri
State of Louisiana, Baton Rouge
State of Washington: Kelso, Spokane, Pateros
The Attached Secondary Art School of Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Shenyang, China
Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
Ucity Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
University of Nebraska, Omaha
Villa Haiss Museum, Museum fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Zell am Harmersbach, Germany
Watts Towers Art Center, Los Angeles
Selected Corporate Collections
American General Companies, Houston
Baxter International, Inc., Chicago
B.D.O. Siedman, Torrance and Century City, California
Billboard Publications, Inc., New York
Central Bank, Denver
Doric Development Corporation, Alameda, California
Galbreath Company, Cleveland
General Monitors, Lake Forest, California and Singapore
Grubb & Ellis, Tucson, Arizona
Hallmark Corporation, Kansas City
Hibernia, San Francisco
Inlingua: international School of Languages, Ferrara, Italy
Josai Hospital, Yuki City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan
Kaiser Permanente, Denver
Linclay Corporation, St. Louis
M-Bank, Houston
Methodist Hospital, Houston
Mountain Bell, Denver
Novotel Bangkok, Thailand
Ohbayashi Corporation, Los Angeles and Tokyo
Pentair, Inc., Minneapolis
PacifiCare Health, Cypress, California
Schiff Pharmaceutical, Taipei, Taiwan
Shell Oil Company, Houston
Sofitel Silom, Bangkok, Thailand
Southwestern Bell, Houston
Steelcase, Grand Rapids, Michigan
Stouffer Hotel, Orlando
Texas Instruments, Dallas
US West, Denver
VISA International, San Mateo, California
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When Arrow Films needed an explosive trailer for the release of the high octane action thriller 'Security', GVFilm were happy to oblige. Scripting, editing, mixing and graphics in-house with a booming 5.1 master by our friends at Tamborine.
We also created social media assets including a 30 second TV spot, motion poster and Gifs.
An ex-special services veteran (Antonio Banderas), down on his luck and desperate for work, takes a job as a security guard at a run-down mall in a rough area of town. On his first night on the job, he opens the doors up to a distraught and desperate young girl who has escaped and fled from a hijacking of the Police motorcade that was transporting her to testify as a trial witness in a briefcase. Hot on her heels is psychopathic hijacker (Ben Kingsley), alongside his resourceful henchmen, who will stop at nothing to extract and eliminate their witness.
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We were recently commissioned by Hamburg based rock band 'Lucifer Star Machine' to shoot, direct and edit a promo for their 'Your Love Remains' 7inch release on Self Destructo Records.
Inspired by 70's and 80's grind-house movies it stars models June Summer and Tanna Barthel and Holger Sichart as the 'The undead stalker'.
It was shot by long time GVFilm collaborator Dan Poole, with kit being provided by Timebomb Pictures.
Directed by our very own 'Baron Von Strange', GVFilm edited and graded the promo in-house as well as adding all aged film effects and providing a 4K master.
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GVFilm were commissioned by Kaleidoscope Film Distribution to create this hard hitting and emotional trailer. We worked closely with the film's producers and director, as well as the Kaleidoscope team to craft the narrative and focus; producing a sales trailer for AFM from test footage, and then re-creating the trailer once the actual film had been shot.
All editing, graphics and basic mixing were in-house with surround mixing and deliverables being supplied by our friends at Tamborine.
As the 1914 summer sun heats up mainland Europe, the First World War crashes down across the fractured continent.
Living in Paris, Arthur Knaap yearns to serve, protect and defend his beloved nation and joins the Foreign Legion.
Before long, Arthur is plunged into the cold, consuming darkness of frontline trench warfare.
As the men who stand beside hime lose their limbs, their friends and their hope, the true horror of the conflict refuses to abate.
With the lights going out on the Western front, the receipt of the devastating news spurs Arthur to make a decision that will change his life, and the course of his war, forever. But as his worn boots take him away from the falling shells, the gravity of his choice and the screams in his nightmares bring a harrowing conflict of their own.
No Man's Land is available to own and rent in the UK on March 16th.
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Currently showing on BBC4, Hostages is the original Israeli series that inspired a US remake before it was even screened!
GVFilm edited the trailer for Arrow Films' Nordic Noir & Beyond label, commissioning music from acclaimed film composer
Richard Wells (Being Human) and mixed in surround by Nick Harris at Tamborine.
The night before a high profile operation on the Prime Minister, the surgeon due to perform the procedure, Yael, is
surprised at her family home by four masked assailants. The gang quickly take control of Yael and her family and
order her to kill the Prime Minister on the operating table in the morning, or else they will kill her family, Yael does her best to manage
the situation, and buy her precious family some time, by injecting the Prime Minister with medication to disrupt his
nervous system giving her medical grounds to delay the operation. Under constant pressure from her captors to perform
the fatal surgery, Yael lives daily with the very real and growing threat to her family. An atmosphere of increasing mistrust
and paranoia develops between the hostages and the Kidnappers whilst Yael balances the preservation of her family
against the life of the Prime Minister in this gripping and twisting ten-part part drama.
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Arrow Films' Nordic Noir label is pleased to confirm the Monday 6th October 2014 UK DVD box set release of thrilling Swedish period drama "Crimes Of Passion".
The series, currently airing in BBC Four's coveted Saturday evening slot, is based on six novels by legendary Swedish crime writer Maria Lang, whose work helped shape the renowned Murder Mystery genre in Sweden.
Posted on July 9, 2014 October 5, 2016
Braquo Box Sets
As seen on Fox TV, hard hitting French action drama 'Braquo' comes to DVD, Blu-Ray and Digital from Arrow FIlms' Noir label.
GVFilm created trailers with multiple retail tags for both the third series and trilogy box sets and a compact 10 second TV spot to round off an explosive campaign that was trailer of the week on industry site The Raygun
Posted on June 12, 2014 September 22, 2016
Nordic Noir And Beyond Showreel
Arrow Films commissioned GVFilm to create a showreel promoting their hugely successful range of Nordic Noir titles such as 'The Killing' and 'The Bridge'
and their breakout hits from beyond Scandinavia including 'Hinterland', 'Salamander' and Generation War.
The acclaimed series comes to the UK on BBC2 and Digital and Home Entertainment via Arrow Films.
GVFilm created a special UK version of the extended trailer, re-scoring with film and TV Composer Richard Wells, noted for his 'Being Human' score.
From the hit TV series on More4, Arrow Film's 'Noir' label brings this tense Norwegian drama to Digital and Home Entertainment formats.
GVFilm created multiple format versions, scripting, editing, and choosing the score for the Official UK Trailer for the internationally acclaimed series.
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Lucifer Star Machine – Death Or Jail
Death Or Jail – Lucifer Star Machine.
Official Promotional Video.
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We recently completed a third promotional video for the band 'Lucifer Star Machine', just before their headlining tour of Europe. Shot at 'The Pipeline' in London, we hope it captures the raw chaos of their live shows.


Last week I blogged Part 1 of the previews of upcoming changes to the Developer Tools area of addons.mozilla.org. This week we'll look at another new page in the revamp, now known as AMO milestone 3.5.
Clearer understanding of translations with the idea of "adding" and "removing" translations rather than leaving untranslated fields blank.
Sleek appearance. The translation boxes match the rest of the site, although some of the fields pictured may move to the Edit Add-on Properties page.
Complete rewrite of backend code for retrieving and saving translations that will dramatically reduce the number of queries and processing required.
Closer to 3.5 we'll have a staging area setup for testing these new tools, but until then, please post any feedback you have as comments here. Thanks!


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Golden Globes 2019: Roma, Green Book, and Sandra Oh's parents win big
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The 76th Annual Golden Globe Awards took place on January 6th, and they were…strange. Hosted by Sandra Oh and Andy Samberg, the show offered plenty of surprises and cringe-worthy moments — after all, these are the Globes — but the evening was marked by a string of curious moments from Jeff Bridges' (um, interesting?) speech to Timothee Chalamet's sparkly harness.
Unsurprisingly, Dick Cheney biopic Vice only walked away with one award for Christian Bale's leading role despite six nominations — more than any other film. On the more shocking side of things, dark comedy The Favourite missed out on the night's biggest awards and only won a single trophy for Olivia Colman's work in the film. Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody baffled (and terrified) everybody, winning Best Actor for Rami Malek and Best Motion Picture – Drama. The ceremony's other big award — Best Motion Picture – Comedy or Musical — went to Green Book, which emerged as the night's big winner with three awards.
Fan favourites A Star is Born and Black Panther suffered, only the former winning for Best Song for "Shallow". While Lady Gaga was thought to be a lock for Best Actress, it was Glenn Close who came from left field to deservedly claim the title for her towering performance in The Wife. Many will attribute this to seniority, but make no mistake: Close earned her win.
As the Academy Awards draw nearer, all eyes are on Netflix's Roma, which snagged two of its three nominations including Best Director for Alfonso Cuarón. This only gives Mexico's Foreign Language Film entry more momentum going into the Oscars, but could it go all the way and make history as the first foreign Best Picture winner? Time will tell, but it has a good shot.
Of course, we cannot forget the night's biggest winners. The Ohs not only watched their daughter make history as the first Asian woman to host the Golden Globes, but the Killing Eve Actress also won the globe for Best Actress in a Drama, making her the first Asian to win multiple awards (her first win being for Grey's Anatomy 13 years ago). They were visibly proud. We were in tears.
Here is the complete list of film winners:
Best Motion Picture, Drama
Bohemian Rhapsody (WINNER)
Best Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Crazy Rich Asian
Green Book (WINNER)
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Drama
Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity's Gate
Lucas Hedges, Boy Erased
Rami Malek, Bohemian Rhapsody (WINNER)
John David Washington, BlacKkKlansman
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama
Glenn Close, The Wife (WINNER)
Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born
Nicole Kidman, Destroyer
Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Rosamund Pike, A Private War
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Christian Bale, Vice (WINNER)
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mary Poppins Returns
Viggo Mortensen, Green Book
Robert Redford, The Old Man and the Gun
John C. Reilly, Stan & Ollie
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Musical or Comedy
Emily Blunt, Mary Poppins Returns
Olivia Colman, The Favourite (WINNER)
Elsie Fisher, Eighth Grade
Charlize Theron, Tully
Constance Wu, Crazy Rich Asians
Mahershala Ali, Green Book (WINNER)
Timothée Chalamet, Beautiful boy
Adam Driver, BlacKkKlansman
Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Sam Rockwell, Vice
Amy Adams, Vice
Claire Foy, First Man
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk (WINNER)
Emma Stone, The Favourite
Rachel Weisz, The Favourite
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Best Original Score, Motion Picture
Marco Beltrami, A Quiet Place
Alexandre Desplat, Isle of Dogs
Ludwig Göransson, Black Panther
Justin Hurwitz, First Man (WINNER)
Marc Shaiman, Mary Poppins Returns
Best Original Song, Motion Picture
"All the Stars," Black Panther
"Girl in the Movies," Dumplin'
"Requiem for a Private War," A Private War
"Revelation," Boy Erased
"Shallow," A Star Is Born (WINNER)
Best Motion Picture, Animated
Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse (WINNER)
Best Motion Picture, Foreign Language
Roma (WINNER)
Best Screenplay, Motion Picture
Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, The Favourite
Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk
ADam McKay, Vice
Peter Farrelly, Nick Vallelonga and Brian Curie, Green Book (WINNER)
Best Director, Motion Picture
Alfonso Cuarón, Roma (WINNER)
Peter Farrelly, Green Book
Spike Lee, BlacKkKlansman
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When I woke up this morning, I had this very clear idea about something I wanted to try to get working across my Casual Marketer business. The idea was pretty simple, start creating procedures for the tasks that we don't currently do well.
It really was that simple of an idea.
The biggest process failing I have is turning these emails into blog posts and publishing them on the Casual Marketer site. I think over the medium and long-term the content of my daily emails should be quite beneficial from an organic search perspective, so publishing them on the site is important.
I could make a bunch of excuses as to why it's not happening, but the truth is, the reason is that too much of it relies on me doing stuff. I'm busy and that's the lowest priority task so it is always the one that falls away.
So this morning I woke up inspired to document the procedure and figure out how I might be able to get other people to help me.
After I went to breakfast, bought a new garbage bin for the kitchen, picked up some new solar Christmas lights for the garden and did the grocery shopping, I came home and got stuck into it. You can see that even my inspiration around this ongoing task ends up getting placed further down the old "to do" list.
Anyway, I started out and documented the steps at a high level. I created a checklist from that list of activities and felt proud of myself.
Then I decided to see how far I could take it.
I've tried many, many times over the last couple years to find a way to not only use Slack but to actually come to like it. People that get into it absolutely rave. Personally, I've always found it to be a bit of a nuisance.
I decided to give it a go and see if I could somehow make Slack work for me.
The first thing I did was set up a channel in Slack dedicated to the creation of new blog posts from email. One thing I learned from using Slack in the past is that discrete activities require their own channels to contain the crazy.
I then created an IFTTT Recipe that goes into a label in my Gmail, finds the daily emails that I send and pulls them into the Slack channel. I'm pulling in the entire body of the email so that if someone is going to create a blog post from it then the entire post is in Slack and they only need to copy and paste the text into the new WordPress post. As the end of the body, I've added in a special highlighted word tag which I'll explain in a second.
The other thing I've done is I've gone to a product called Manifestly and created the standard operating procedure checklist. Manifestly allows you to easily create checklists as templates and then when you need to execute the checklist you run it. It also integrates natively with Slack.
This is where the special highlighted word comes in.
I've created a zap in Zapier that listens for new posts in the dedicated channel and specifically filters looking for the highlighted word. When the email is pulled in with that highlighted word, the zap fires and creates a new checklist in the channel using Manifestly so that all the tasks are there. in sequence. I can go into Manifestly if I want to and assign the tasks to people and Slack will respect that which is great.
What I really like about Manifestly's use of Slack is that it uses the Slack buttons feature so that people can close or make comments on tasks without ever having to leave the Slack channel. And at any time I can poll the Manifestly bot in the channel and see which tasks are still outstanding.
In effect, I've not only documented the process today but I completely was able to automate the management of the ongoing procedure using Slack.
Then I had some spare time so I set up a Slack channel to listen to Twitter for any references made to me and pointed a few Google Alerts feeds in there as well. That literally took five minutes to do – which was handy because I'd been considering getting a subscription to Mention, but that's $100/mth to get a properly working version.
Here's the funny part though – this solution that I've built is pretty powerful, the only problem though is that I'm not sure if I like it. I find Slack intrusive. I dislike tools like Asana and Basecamp even more, but that's not really setting a high standard. I'm going to have to see how this pans out before I commit to it.
Ultimately, I'm going to have to figure this thing out because I need to start getting these posts done. The answer that many people have said to me is, "Oh, just get your team to do it for you." The problem with that is you end up managing people for the same amount of time as you would just doing the task yourself. The challenge I'm trying to solve is to eliminate the management overhead.
Either way, it was a fun day. It's sometimes nice to just roll up your sleeves and play with technology to see what you can make it do. At one point early in the piece, I'd cracked open a code editor to start writing my own Slack automation bot to do this – then I realized that what I was doing was crazy and someone else must have solved it.
The big win though out of everything is I've now found the important task that always gets forgotten and I've written a procedure for getting it done. If you can examine your business every once in awhile, reach down inside the operational layer and find those necessary tasks that you can wrap a procedure around you should try because you inevitably come away discovering a bit of gold.
Sean's Update, January 2018 – This process failed miserably. There's no way to sugarcoat this at all. I don't think the tech was the problem, it was the operator… Me. I'm not working on getting this sorted out. I fell behind by about 550 – that means I had about 550 daily emails that needed to be turned into blog posts. That number is down to less than 400 and shrinking, so it looks like I'm getting over this stumbling block.


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During the Great Patriotic War there was not a clear title as "submarine ace": Royal Navy was used to give attentions to the boats and the crew often used personal "Jolly Roger" war-flags for submarines with painted on them the recorded victories. German Navy gave more focus to the Submarine Commander, calling "Aces" the ones that achieved large tonnages (at least 100.000 GRT) of enemy shipping sunk. Soviet Navy both awarded the crewmembers, the submarine (with titles as "Guards Badge" or "Order of the Red Banner") and the commanders.
The list includes the submarine commanders in Soviet waters that achieved at least 5 confirmed victories (both sinking or damaging enemy units).
Survived at War. (His second submarine was sunk in Soviet air raid of Pe-2 bombers, but he survived).
Note: Soviets gifted a reindeer foal to the submarine crew: the animal was kept as mascot into the submarine!
POW when the submarine was sunk by the Finnish submarine Vesihisi.
(the best soviet result in terms of GRT sinking).
The two big transports were full with evacuated (both civilians and military personal) up to 13.200 killed.
Only other commander to sunk a target of more than 10.000 GRT in Soviet waters.
Best Finnish commander (with 2 sinking).
Best commander during the Winter War (with 2 sinking).
Best commander during Soviet-Japan conflict in 1945 (with 2 victories).
KIA at the end of August 1945, when submarine was sunk by mine.
British awards (only the ones received by British Aces on Eastern Front operating from Soviet base).


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For the first time, we implemented a practical part into our Global Health Summer: The Campaign Skills Lab aims to link theory and practice.
Over the last decades, the diversity of digital technologies has broadened the opportunities to activist enormously. Using digital media gives us the chance to spread social/political messages in a completely different way and mobilize people all over the world. Therefore we need skills in communication strategies and creative ways of expressing a message. Beside this theoretical level successful campaigning and activism needs a broad knowledge of digital technologies and social media. In our skills lab we both worked on the theoretical and practical level of how to develop a successful campaign.
While students gained knowledge about Global Health in general and pharmaceutical industry in particular during the Summer School and Conference, they had the chance to become active themselves in a three-days full-time Skills Lab. The objective was to give an introduction to activism and campaigning – including soft skills (basics in activism, criteria of a good/bad campaign) and hard skills (digital tools, new media). The Skills Lab aimed to answer the question: "What are the tools and trends, the opportunities and challenges of activism both on a practical and theoretical level"? By the end of the workshop participants created a campaign on the Summer School topic by themselves with full support from campaign experts.