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Language (SGML). He felt it would be more logical if domain names were listed in descending order of hierarchy— org.acm.cacm, for instance— but the Domain Name System already existed, so he took it as it was.
In 1990, Paolo Palazzi, a physicist at CERN, tried to tempt Berners-Lee into joining his Programming Techniques Group. Instead, Berners-Lee showed him the Web project he was working on. Palazzi says he saw the problem Berners-Lee was trying to solve, but did not fully understand his proposed solution. Nonetheless, he thought the project was worthy of support. " Truly innovative ideas cannot really be grasped, so you have to trust the person proposing it," he says.
Berners-Lee was someone he
trusted. "He had a special way of go-
ing about solving problems," Pala-
zzi says. "Tim is one of this class of
people who have peculiar abilities at
inventing or discovering."
It was the way he combined existing
ideas—hypertext and Internet proto-
cols—that was innovative, Palazzi says.
HTML, HTTP, and URIs were inventive
in themselves, but, Palazzi says, "The
way they combine together is, I think,
a stroke of genius."
By 1994, the Web had progressed
from a small research project to a
global phenomenon, with compa-
nies such as IBM adopting it and new
companies such as Netscape, the first
browser company, being created.
Berners-Lee moved to the computer
science department at the Massachu-
setts Institute of Technology (MIT)
and founded the World Wide Web
Consortium, an international group
that developed standards for the Web.
In 2008, he was named the 3Com
Founders Professor of Engineering at
MIT. In 2016, he became a professor
in the computer science department
at Oxford University, although he is
also still working at MIT.
The Turing Award is the latest in
a long list of honors recognizing the
work of Berners-Lee. In 2004, he was
knighted by Queen Elizabeth, who
also awarded him the Order of Merit in
2007. He is a fellow or member of many
professional organizations, includ-
ing the Royal Society and the National
Academy of Sciences, and has been giv-
en medals by groups ranging from the
Institute of Physics (IOP) to the United
Nations Educational, Scientific, and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
The Turing Award includes a prize of $1 million, with financial support provided by Google. Berners-Lee has not yet made plans for what he will do with that sum.
In 2008, Berners-Lee founded the World Wide Web Foundation, a nonprofit organization promoting access to the Web for all. "That was about recognizing that there was a duty that the haves have to the have-nots, to try and get as many people to have as much access as possible," he says. The Alliance for Affordable Internet, a project of the Foundation, seeks to drive down the price of broadband access so people in developing countries can access the Web.
Open access continues to be an issue for the Web, Berners-Lee says. "Whenever people ask me the question, 'What's your biggest fear?', it's always been that some one entity, either commercial or political, should control the Web. That would be the death of it." Net neutrality is important, he says; a service provider should not be able to control what content its customers see.
He also worries about governments either blocking access to certain Websites, or worse, using the Web to track which websites users visit, then punishing people based on that information.
"It's also something which countries like America and the U.K. have to be very careful with, make sure they don't slip into the fear of terrorism. The war on terrorism is being used as an excuse for many things, but one of them can be taking away people's fundamental rights to communicate." He cites recent calls by the U.K. government, in the wake of the terror attack in London in March, to be given backdoor access to applications such as Whatsapp for fear terrorists are using them to coordinate attacks.
At MIT, Berners-Lee is co-director of the Decentralized Information Group, which is working, in his words, on " re-decentralizing" the Web to burst some of the "filter bubbles" people have created for themselves on social media.
"Because the Internet didn't have countries as a thing, [some people] hoped that people would learn to just break down cultural barriers and it would lead to love and understanding across borders, and world peace. And it didn't," he says. The group is pursuing the notion that perhaps the right software could help realize that utopian vision.
Another project Berners-Lee currently is working on seeks to give people greater control over their data, such as where it is stored and what other people and applications have access to it.
For young computer scientists looking to have an impact on the world, Berners-Lee recommends ignoring conventional wisdom and following their own instincts.
"You should feel free to develop something for yourself, because it seems to appeal to you, scratches an itch that you have," he says. "To a certain extent, one has to beware of asking the users what they want, because the things which they would find really exciting, they can't imagine."
Neil Savage is a science and technology writer based in Lowell, MA.
The World Wide Web
"was about
recognizing that
there was a duty
that the haves have
to the have-nots,
to try and get
as many people
to have as much
access as possible."
Watch the Turing recipient discuss his work in this exclusive Communications video. https://cacm.acm.org/videos/ turing-award-recipient-sir-tim-berners-lee


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This article contains a list of station stops made by the first Freedom Train on its 48-state tour.

1947

September 1947
 September 17–September 19 - Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
 September 20 - Atlantic City, New Jersey
 September 21 - Trenton, New Jersey
 September 22 - Elizabeth, New Jersey
 September 23 - Paterson, New Jersey
 September 24–September 26 - New York, New York
 September 27 - Brooklyn, New York
 September 28 - Jamaica, Queens, New York (Long Island)
 September 30 - Van Nest, Bronx, New York (The Bronx)

October 1947
 October 1 - Stamford, Connecticut
 October 2 - Bridgeport, Connecticut
 October 3 - Waterbury, Connecticut
 October 4 - Hartford, Connecticut
 October 5 - New Haven, Connecticut
 October 7 - New London, Connecticut
 October 8 - Providence, Rhode Island
 October 9 - Worcester, Massachusetts
 October 10 - Lynn, Massachusetts
 October 11 - Boston, Massachusetts (North Station)
 October 12 - Boston, Massachusetts (South Station)
 October 13 - Rutland, Vermont
 October 15 - Burlington, Vermont
 October 16 - Montpelier, Vermont
 October 18 - Nashua, New Hampshire
 October 19 - Lowell, Massachusetts
 October 20 - Lawrence, Massachusetts
 October 22 - Haverhill, Massachusetts
 October 23 - Dover, New Hampshire
 October 24 - Augusta, Maine
 October 25 - Bangor, Maine
 October 26 - Lewiston, Maine
 October 27 - Manchester, New Hampshire
 October 28 - Fitchburg, Massachusetts
 October 30 - Springfield, Massachusetts
 October 31 - Pittsfield, Massachusetts

November 1947
 November 1 - Schenectady, New York
 November 2 - Utica, New York
 November 4 - Rome, New York
 November 5 - Syracuse, New York
 November 6 - Rochester, New York
 November 7 - Buffalo, New York
 November 8 - Elmira, New York
 November 9 - Binghamton, New York
 November 11 - Albany, New York
 November 12 - Scranton, Pennsylvania
 November 13 - Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
 November 14 - Williamsport, Pennsylvania
 November 15 - Altoona, Pennsylvania
 November 16 - Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
 November 18 - Reading, Pennsylvania
 November 19 - Allentown, Pennsylvania
 November 20 - Chester, Pennsylvania
 November 21 - Wilmington, Delaware
 November 22 - Salisbury, Maryland
 November 23 - Dover, Delaware
 November 25–November 26 - Baltimore, Maryland
 November 27–November 28 - Washington, D.C.
 November 29 - Charlottesville, Virginia
 November 30 - Lynchburg, Virginia

December 1947
 December 2 - Roanoke, Virginia
 December 3 - Winston-Salem, North Carolina
 December 4 - Charlotte, North Carolina
 December 5 - Greensboro, North Carolina
 December 6 - Raleigh, North Carolina
 December 7 - Norfolk, Virginia
 December 9 - Richmond, Virginia
 December 10 - Wilmington, North Carolina
 December 11 - Columbia, South Carolina
 December 12 - Spartanburg, South Carolina
 December 13 - Greenville, South Carolina
 December 14 - Augusta, Georgia
 December 16 - Charleston, South Carolina
 December 17 - Savannah, Georgia
 December 18 - Brunswick, Georgia
 December 19 - Jacksonville, Florida
 December 20 - Miami, Florida
 December 21 - Tampa, Florida
 December 22 - Tallahassee, Florida
 December 23 - Pensacola, Florida
 December 26 - Mobile, Alabama
 December 27 - Montgomery, Alabama
 December 28 - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
 December 29 - Columbus, Georgia
 December 31 - Macon, Georgia

1948

January 1948
 January 1–January 2 - Atlanta, Georgia
 January 3 - Chattanooga, Tennessee
 January 4 - Nashville, Tennessee
 January 6 - Jackson, Tennessee
 January 7–January 8 - New Orleans, Louisiana
 January 9 - Hattiesburg, Mississippi
 January 10 - Meridian, Mississippi
 January 11 - Jackson, Mississippi
 January 13 - Vicksburg, Mississippi
 January 14 - Monroe, Louisiana
 January 15 - Alexandria, Louisiana
 January 16 - Baton Rouge, Louisiana
 January 17 - Shreveport, Louisiana
 January 18 - Texarkana, Arkansas/Texarkana, Texas
 January 19 - Little Rock, Arkansas
 January 21 - Pine Bluff, Arkansas
 January 22 - Fort Smith, Arkansas
 January 23 - Muskogee, Oklahoma
 January 24 - Tulsa, Oklahoma
 January 25 - Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
 January 27 - Enid, Oklahoma
 January 28 - Ada, Oklahoma
 January 29 - Denison, Texas
 January 30–January 31 - Dallas, Texas

February 1948

 February 1 - Fort Worth, Texas
 February 2 - Waco, Texas
 February 3 - Tyler, Texas
 February 4 - Beaumont, Texas
 February 5–February 6 - Houston, Texas
 February 7 - Galveston, Texas
 February 8 - Harlingen, Texas
 February 10 - Corpus Christi, Texas
 February 11 - Austin, Texas
 February 12 - San Antonio, Texas
 February 13 - Del Rio, Texas
 February 14 - El Paso, Texas
 February 15 - Santa Fe, New Mexico
 February 16 - Albuquerque, New Mexico
 February 18 - Douglas, Arizona
 February 19 - Tucson, Arizona
 February 20 - Phoenix, Arizona
 February 21 - Yuma, Arizona
 February 22 - San Diego, California
 February 23–February 26 - Los Angeles, California
 February 27 - Pasadena, California
 February 28 - Long Beach, California
 February 29 - San Bernardino, California

March 1948
 March 1–March 8 - the train receives a complete overhaul, including a new coat of paint, at the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway shops in San Bernardino.
 March 9 - Riverside, California
 March 10 - Bakersfield, California
 March 11 - Fresno, California
 March 12 - Modesto, California
 March 13 - Stockton, California
 March 14–March 16 - San Francisco, California
 March 17 - Palo Alto, California
 March 18 - San Jose, California
 March 19 - Oakland, California
 March 20 - Sacramento, California
 March 21 - Reno, Nevada
 March 23 - Elko, Nevada
 March 24 - Salt Lake City, Utah
 March 25 - Provo, Utah
 March 26 - Ogden, Utah
 March 27 - Pocatello, Idaho
 March 29 - Boise, Idaho
 March 30 - Walla Walla, Washington
 March 31 - Yakima, Washington

April 1948
 April 1–April 2 - Portland, Oregon
 April 3 - Eugene, Oregon
 April 4 - Corvallis, Oregon
 April 6 - Salem, Oregon
 April 7 - Olympia, Washington
 April 8 - Tacoma, Washington
 April 9–April 10 - Seattle, Washington
 April 12 - Wenatchee, Washington
 April 13 - Spokane, Washington
 April 14 - Coeur d'Alene, Idaho
 April 15 - Missoula, Montana
 April 16 - Butte, Montana
 April 17 - Helena, Montana
 April 18 - Great Falls, Montana
 April 20 - Billings, Montana
 April 21 - Sheridan, Wyoming
 April 22 - Rapid City, South Dakota
 April 23 - Pierre, South Dakota
 April 24 - Aberdeen, South Dakota
 April 26 - Bismarck, North Dakota
 April 27 - Minot, North Dakota
 April 28 - Jamestown, North Dakota
 April 29 - Fargo, North Dakota
 April 30 - Grand Forks, North Dakota

May 1948
 May 1 - Duluth, Minnesota
 May 2 - Superior, Wisconsin
 May 3–May 4 - St. Paul, Minnesota
 May 5–May 6 - Minneapolis, Minnesota
 May 7 - Brainerd, Minnesota
 May 8 - St. Cloud, Minnesota
 May 10 - Willmar, Minnesota
 May 11 - Watertown, South Dakota
 May 12 - Sioux Falls, South Dakota
 May 13 - Sioux City, Iowa
 May 14–May 15 - Omaha, Nebraska
 May 16 - Lincoln, Nebraska
 May 17 - Grand Island, Nebraska
 May 19 - Alliance, Nebraska
 May 20 - Casper, Wyoming
 May 21 - Cheyenne, Wyoming
 May 22–May 23 - Denver, Colorado
 May 24 - Colorado Springs, Colorado
 May 25 - Pueblo, Colorado
 May 26 - Trinidad, Colorado
 May 27 - Amarillo, Texas
 May 29 - Hutchinson, Kansas
 May 30 - Wichita, Kansas
 May 31 - Emporia, Kansas

June 1948
 June 1 - Topeka, Kansas
 June 2 - Lawrence, Kansas
 June 3 - Parsons, Kansas
 June 4 - Joplin, Missouri
 June 5 - Springfield, Missouri
 June 6–June 7 - Kansas City, Missouri
 June 9 - St. Joseph, Missouri
 June 10 - Sedalia, Missouri
 June 11 - Jefferson City, Missouri
 June 12–June 14 - St. Louis, Missouri
 June 15 - Hannibal, Missouri
 June 16 - Quincy, Illinois
 June 17 - Burlington, Iowa
 June 18 - Iowa City, Iowa
 June 19 - Cedar Rapids, Iowa
 June 20 - Des Moines, Iowa
 June 21 - Davenport, Iowa
 June 23 - Rockford, Illinois
 June 24 - Madison, Wisconsin
 June 25 - La Crosse, Wisconsin
 June 26 - Eau Claire, Wisconsin
 June 27 - Wausau, Wisconsin
 June 29 - Green Bay, Wisconsin
 June 30 - Oshkosh, Wisconsin

July 1948
 July 1–July 2 - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
 July 3 - Racine, Wisconsin
 July 4 - Kenosha, Wisconsin
 July 5–July 9 - Chicago, Illinois (Chicago Railroad Fair)
 July 10 - Gary, Indiana
 July 11 - Joliet, Illinois
 July 13 - Peoria, Illinois
 July 14 - Bloomington, Illinois
 July 15 - Kankakee, Illinois
 July 16 - Champaign, Illinois
 July 17 - Decatur, Illinois
 July 18 - Springfield, Illinois
 July 20 - Belleville, Illinois
 July 21 - Cairo, Illinois
 July 22 - Paducah, Kentucky
 July 23 - Evansville, Indiana
 July 24 - Vincennes, Indiana
 July 25 - Terre Haute, Indiana
 July 27 - Danville, Illinois
 July 28 - Logansport, Indiana
 July 29–July 30 - Indianapolis, Indiana
 July 31–August 1 - Louisville, Kentucky

August 1948
 August 2 - Bowling Green, Kentucky
 August 3 - Frankfort, Kentucky
 August 4 - Lexington, Kentucky
 August 5 - Ashland, Kentucky
 August 6 - Portsmouth, Ohio
 August 7–August 8 - Cincinnati, Ohio
 August 10 - Muncie, Indiana
 August 11 - Fort Wayne, Indiana
 August 12 - South Bend, Indiana
 August 13 - Kalamazoo, Michigan
 August 14 - Grand Rapids, Michigan
 August 15 - Muskegon, Michigan
 August 17 - Lansing, Michigan
 August 18 - Battle Creek, Michigan
 August 19 - Ann Arbor, Michigan
 August 20–August 22 - Detroit, Michigan
 August 24 - Jackson, Michigan
 August 25 - Flint, Michigan
 August 26 - Saginaw, Michigan
 August 27 - Port Huron, Michigan
 August 28 - Pontiac, Michigan
 August 29 - Dearborn, Michigan
 August 30 - Monroe, Michigan
 August 31 - Toledo, Ohio

September 1948
 September 1 - Sandusky, Ohio
 September 2–September 3 - Cleveland, Ohio
 September 4 - Akron, Ohio
 September 5–September 6 - Columbus, Ohio
 September 7 - Dayton, Ohio
 September 8 - Springfield, Ohio
 September 9 - Lima, Ohio
 September 10 - Canton, Ohio
 September 11 - Youngstown, Ohio
 September 12 - Steubenville, Ohio
 September 14 - Wheeling, West Virginia
 September 15–September 17 - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
 September 18 - Erie, Pennsylvania
 September 19 - Oil City, Pennsylvania
 September 21 - Johnstown, Pennsylvania
 September 22 - Cumberland, Maryland
 September 23 - Parkersburg, West Virginia
 September 24 - Clarksburg, West Virginia
 September 25 - Charleston, West Virginia
 September 26 - Huntington, West Virginia
 September 28 - Bluefield, West Virginia
 September 29 - Bristol, Tennessee
 September 30 - Johnson City, Tennessee

October 1948
 October 1 - Kingsport, Tennessee
 October 2 - Knoxville, Tennessee
 October 3 - Oak Ridge, Tennessee
 October 5 - Asheville, North Carolina
 October 6 - Danville, Virginia
 October 7 - Winchester, Virginia
 October 8 - Hagerstown, Maryland
 October 9 - York, Pennsylvania
 October 10 - Lancaster, Pennsylvania
 October 11 - Easton, Pennsylvania
 October 12 - Morristown, New Jersey
 October 13–October 14 - Jersey City, New Jersey
 October 15 - Princeton, New Jersey
 October 16–October 17 - Camden, New Jersey
 October 19 - Red Bank, New Jersey
 October 20 - Orange, New Jersey
 October 21 - Montclair, New Jersey
 October 22 - Passaic, New Jersey
 October 23 - Ridgewood, New Jersey
 October 24 - Hackensack, New Jersey
 October 25 - New Brunswick, New Jersey
 October 26 - Havre de Grace, Maryland

1949

January 1949
 January 22 - Washington, D.C.

References
 Timeline for the 1947-1949 Freedom Train, retrieved December 23, 2004.

History of rail transportation in the United States

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Sports Radio's Summer Ratings Report
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Op-Ed by The Salt Lake Tribune Incites Controversy
The Summer ratings book was released in early October to sports stations across the nation, and we do our best here at BSM to provide a snapshot of how brands are performing in the format. Although we make attempts to track down information, not every station or market is cooperative. We're always happy to help stations share their stories, but whether they choose to do so or not is their prerogative. Those interested in being included in future columns can reach us via email at JBarrett@hvy.tcp.mybluehost.me.
The reason we create this piece each quarter is to help educate members of the industry, and advertisers of some of the great success stories taking place inside the sports format. Since this format launched, many have perceived it as 'niche'. Yet the local content can't be duplicated, the personalities have stronger ties to their audiences than many in other formats do, and in every other form of media, sports is seen as a must-buy.
This matters because these stations and individuals have an ability to move product. That should make them top of mind for any business who's looking to reach sports fans, especially those who are Male between the ages of 25 and 54. Why sports radio doesn't receive a larger chunk of the advertising buy is up for debate, but if we can help change one or two minds by showcasing the format's success, then it's work worth doing.
Lastly, though we work with some brands on a professional level, numbers don't lie. If a station performs well, it's our responsibility to share that with you, regardless of our personal or professional allegiances. We also try to steer clear or praising one brand while damaging another. If that's not your cup of tea, so be it, but that's how we believe in presenting our information.
Now that we've got that out of the way, here's a look at how a number of sports radio brands performed during the summer book.
Usually when the ratings get released they're in the New York newspapers within a matter of minutes. This quarter though for some strange reason not much was written about WFAN or ESPN NY's performance. Nonetheless, we were able to gather a little bit of data to show how both are executing.
Starting with WFAN, the legendary NY sports talker finished 3rd in weekday prime (M-F 6a-7p). The station produced the same share as it did in the spring, and was up seven tenths of a point year to year.
In mornings, Boomer and Gio delivered just under a 6 share to finish 2nd for the quarter. The show was up seven tenths from the spring book, but down a full point year to year.
Middays with Benigno and Roberts (despite Joe missing significant time during the book) tied for 5th with a 5 share. The program added five tenths of a point from the spring book, and three tenths of a point year to year.
The trio of Carlin, Bart, and Maggie received some positive signs this quarter. The ten month old show placed 5th with a 6.2, up three tenths of a point from the spring, and nine tenths of a point year to year. Their share was the best on the station for the summer book. One additional item worth pointing out, if you removed the Yankees games this quarter that affected CMB's show, they only lost three tenths of a point which is pretty solid.
And last but not least, The Fan's longtime cleanup hitter Mike Francesa finished the summer the same way he did the spring, in 3rd place. Francesa registered a 5.8, down two tenths from the spring, but up five tenths year to year. Once again if you pull away the Yankees games that cut into the show this book, there wasn't much of a drop. The show goes from a 5.8 to 5.6 which is still very healthy.
On the other side, ESPN NY had to feel encouraged by the performance of Golic & Wingo. Though it's harder to win in market #1 with a national show, Trey and Mike hit the top 10 this quarter with a 4 share. The show gained four tenths of a point book to book, and were up eight tenths of a point year to year. If they can hold steady in the top 10 in the nation's largest market, that's a good sign for the show.
In afternoons, The Michael Kay Show finished 7th with a 5 share. TMKS was down four tenths of a point book to book but up six tenths of a point year to year. Without an advantage from baseball play by play, that's a nice showing from ESPN NY's top rated show.
Overall, The Fan remained in front this quarter, but ESPN NY stayed in the hunt. What will be interesting to watch is how the two stations close out the fall. The Yankees should provide a little boost early in the book for WFAN due to advancing to the first round of the playoffs. Both stations carry NFL, NBA and NHL play by play so they'll be close to even in that regard.
It was at this time last year that Francesa began his farewell tour, and The Fan was mired in controversy with Craig Carton's exit. WFAN wound up finishing last fall 1st in mornings, and 2nd in afternoons. Michael Kay's show despite no additional press or public sendoff placed 3rd, just one ranked spot away from the NY ratings king.
The nation's 2nd largest market isn't known for producing big sports radio numbers, but you'd think that the news of LeBron James joining the Lakers, the Dodgers landing Manny Machado and competing to win the NL West, and the Rams, Chargers, USC, and UCLA all returning to action would help.
Unfortunately it didn't.
That raises two possibilities, either local people aren't interested in sports or the market is under served from a ratings measurement standpoint. We're betting on the latter.
Regardless, ESPN Los Angeles held head to head advantages over AM 570 LA Sports in mornings, afternoons, and 12p-3p among Men 25-54. 570 prevailed between 10a-12p and during evenings.
It's worth noting that during this quarter, ESPN LA underwent changes in both drive times due to Marcellus Wiley leaving to join FOX Sports 1. How that will impact the fall book remains to be seen. What should help both stations during the fall is the advancement of the Dodgers to the NLCS, LeBron making his Lakers debut, and the Rams becoming a high powered attack and one of the best teams in the NFL.
Chicago:
The race between 670 The Score and ESPN 1000 has been tight over the past few years, but for this quarter, The Score enjoyed a comfortable win. The bad news for Adam Delevitt, that means he has to pick up the next lunch tab with Mitch Rosen.
Chicago Cubs baseball certainly helped The Score, but that's not all of it. The Score took some shots for changing the majority of their shows during the spring. The moves weren't popular, and the audience could've easily fled in other directions. Instead, they stuck with The Score during a period of transition, a testament to the trust the brand has built over the past few decades.
Starting with mornings, Mully and Hanley, and one month of Mully and Haugh, finished 2nd overall, cruising past ESPN 1000's Golic and Wingo 7.5 to 2.8. Bernstein and McKnight continued the surge winning the 9a-1p timeslot 4.2 to 2.3. A similar story occurred between 1p-6p where Dan McNeil and Danny Parkins were 4th and ahead of 1000's shows 5.5 to 4.1.
An important point to remember, the two stations structure their weekday lineups differently, thus the reason for not being able to list simple head to head comparisons.
Taking a look at things from 1000's point of view, Kap and Company had a down quarter. The 9a-12p show produced an unusual 2.1, nearly 2 points lower than the first 3 hours of Bernstein and McKnight. Is that a meter issue or a case of the summer blues? It's too early to tell. Kap's certainly proven before he can generate numbers.
Things were better in afternoon drive for ESPN 1000's Waddle and Silvy. The station's top rated show finished in the top 5 with a 4.4. Though their performance was strong, they trailed McNeil and Parkins by a little more than a point.
With the fall book including one month of Cubs baseball, the return of the Bears and arrival of Khalil Mack, and Bulls basketball and Blackhawks hockey, both stations should expect to see positive gains to wrap up the year.
KNBR earned another quarterly victory, beating 95.7 The Game in weekday prime (M-F 6a-7p) by nearly a point and a half. They also prevailed for the full week (M-SU 6a-Mid) by just over a full point. However, it was the month of September which provided cause for concern for the Bay Area's Sports Leader.
Before we get into that, let's take a look at the weekday show comparisons. KNBR had to feel good about their collective performance, led by Murph and Mac who topped The Game's Joe, Lo, and Dibs 5.2 to 3.9 in morning drive. Gary and Larry continued that momentum holding off Matt Steinmetz and Daryle "The Guru" Johnson 4.6 to 4.1. And similar results were achieved in afternoons by Tom Tolbert and John Lund finishing ahead of Damon Bruce 5.2 to 3.4. The Game's Greg Papa and KNBR's Fitz and Brooks battled to a draw during the hours that they matched up.
Although the majority of head to head matchups favored KNBR, the interesting part of the summer book that likely has both brands pushing even harder were the September results. The two stations tied for 5th for the full week (M-SU 6a-Mid). KNBR also finished one spot in front of The Game in PM drive. However, The Game got the upper hand gaining victories in weekday prime (M-F 6a-7p), AM drive, 10a-12p, and 12p-3p. That's something KNBR isn't used to.
Looking ahead to the fall, neither station is likely to gain a huge ratings boost from the 49ers or Raiders. Each team plays once a week and are in the midst of bad seasons. In baseball, both the San Francisco Giants and Oakland A's were eliminated from postseason play, so there's no advantage there either. But The Game is poised to gain a few ears from the return of the defending NBA Champion Golden State Warriors.
If the September trend continues for The Game, and the addition of Warriors basketball delivers the usual spike that it has the past few years, The Game may finally have enough to pass KNBR in the ratings. Though The Game has reason to be optimistic, winning a book vs. a month is a tall order, and KNBR didn't earn the name "the Bay Area's sports leader" by accident. Best of luck to both brands in their pursuit for 4th quarter victory!
This is a market where both 105.3 The Fan, and Sports Radio 1310 The Ticket perform well. It's easy to get caught up on who finished in front of who in the ratings, but each station has great talent, strong ratings, and should be on the radar of advertisers looking to reach male sports fans in the Dallas market.
For the summer book, The Ticket held steady in both drive times, winning the head to head battles, thanks to the stellar work of The Musers and The Hard Line. The Fan though had nothing to apologize for as both Shan & RJ and Ben & Skin were both inside the Top 4.
Where The Fan gained an advantage was in middays. G-Bag Nation prevailed this quarter over Norm & Donovan, and BaD Radio. It was the first head to head win for The Fan against The Ticket for a full book this year.
Overall, The Ticket is down a point and a half year to year, and has experienced a drop since May when they were in double digits. That said, they still won the overall book with Men 25-54 with a mid 7 share performance. The Fan holds the edge with Men 18-34. ESPN 103.3 has been a non-factor with ratings in the low 2's.
Regardless of your rooting interest, it's hard not to appreciate what both of these stations continue to produce on a consistent basis. Expect more of the same when the fall book rolls around.
Sports Radio 94 WIP was once again the primary choice for sports radio listening for the summer book in the city of brotherly love. The station placed 3rd with Men 25-54 with a 7.7, 3 full points ahead of 97.5 The Fanatic. Another positive sign for WIP was its nearly 5 and a half point lead over The Fanatic with Men 18+.
As usual, Angelo Cataldi dominated mornings, finishing 2nd with Men 25-54 with a 9.7. Cataldi was also 2nd with Adults 25-54 with a 6.7, and 3rd with Men 18+ with a 9.2. The Fanatic during the summer book featured Anthony Gargano in mornings, who registered a 5.2 with Men 25-54, and a 3.2 with Adults 25-54. He's since moved to middays, leaving the gigantic task of taking down Cataldi to Marc Farzetta and Tra Thomas.
In middays, Joe DeCamara and Jon Ritchie led WIP to another win. The popular pair were ranked 4th with a 7.6 with Men 25-54. Year to year the show is up 20%. The Fanatic's team of Harry Mayes and Jason Myrtetus generated a 5.1. Mayes has since left the station, replaced by Gargano.
Afternoon drive is where The Fanatic gained an edge, although the gap isn't as wide as it once was. Mike Missanelli reigned supreme with a 7.4, besting WIP's team of Jon Marks and Ike Reese who delivered a 6.7. The two shows finished tied with a 4.1 with Adults 25-54.
The competition remained close between the market's three key brands this period, but this time bragging rights for the full week belonged to SportsTalk 790 who won the quarter by six tenths of a point over Sports Radio 610 KILT, and by eight tenths of a point over ESPN 97.5 FM. In the weekday prime hours of M-F 6a-7p, 790 won again, except with a slightly larger lead.
Looking at the key weekday shows, it was another positive story for 790 as they prevailed in mornings, middays, and afternoons. KILT picked a win during evening hours.
The Houston Chronicle listed all of the top performing sports talk shows for the quarter which you can see by clicking here. We've posted the Top 5 below. Be advised that some programs may increase or decrease their standing depending on streaming and simulcast numbers being included. It is surprising to see none of 610's programs cracking the top 5.
1. Fred Faour/A.J. Hoffman (4p-7p ESPN 97.5)
2. Sean Salisbury (3p-6p SportsTalk 790)
3. Josh Innes (6a-10a SportsTalk 790)
4. Matt Thomas (12p-3p SportsTalk 790)
5. Greg Koch/N.D. Kalu 10a-12p SportsTalk 790)
Atlanta:
Winning baseball by the Atlanta Braves, and the August buildup to the NFL and College Football seasons helped the market's two top sports brands deliver a successful quarter.
92.9 The Game remained the top performer, finishing the summer book in 3rd place with a near mid 7 share. That ranking was the same, but the number was slightly higher in mornings thanks to John Fricke and Hugh Douglas.
The Game's Carl Dukes and Mike Bell produced the station's biggest number this book, finishing 2nd in afternoon drive with just under a 9 share. They were also 1st overall for the final month.
Nights on The Game also produced positive results. The station was 2nd in the timeslot with a low 6 share.
Meanwhile for The Fan, they enjoyed their best quarter in years. Most of the station's weekday programs were in or near the Top 10 with Men 25-54. Their 55+ numbers also provided some positive signs.
Washington DC:
106.7 The Fan continued to establish itself as the market's dominant sports voice, led by an outstanding summer book. The momentum gained from the Capitals winning the Stanley Cup during the spring book carried forward, as The Fan grew from 7.4 to 7.5 M-SU 6a-Mid with Men 25-54. For weekday prime (M-F 6a-7p) the station dipped slightly from an 8.8 to 8.3.
Where things were especially positive for The Fan were in their weekday dayparts. Grant and Danny delivered the best ranking on the station finishing 1st in middays. The Sports Junkies remained strong with a 2nd place finish in mornings. And Chad Dukes secured 3rd place in the highly competitive afternoon drive timeslot.
A few other interesting tidbits to pass along.
The Fan is up over a full point year to year with Men 25-54 M-SU 6a-Mid. They're also up seven to eight tenths of a point during that same period with Adults 25-54 in M-F 6a-7p and M-SU 6a-Mid, as well as with Men 25-54 M-F 6a-7p.
The biggest ratings gainer over the past twelve months has been M-F 10a-3p (Grant & Danny + 1-hour of Chad Dukes) which has increased from a 6.9 to 9.0. The Fan has also received an impressive 6.3 number from the Junkies in mornings with Adults 25-54.
The story remained the same in New England where 98.5 The Sports Hub won the overall week, and WEEI emerged victorious in a few head to head battles. In M-SU 6a-Mid, The Hub produced an 8.4 with Men 25-54, which was enough to finish first. WEEI placed 2nd with a 7.2. The station also received a .4 from WVEI which broadcasts WEEI's programming out of Providence and registers in the market.
In mornings, WEEI's Kirk and Callahan finished 1st with a 8.9. The Hub's Toucher and Rich came in 2nd with an 8.4. An interesting note to point out, Kirk Minihane missed a number of programs during the summer book. He took an indefinite leave from the station in September so that should make the fall book interesting as well.
Turning to middays, WEEI's combination of OMF (moved to PM Drive in August) and Dale and Keefe bested The Hub's team of Scott Zolak and Marc Bertrand 8.8 to 7.5. That allowed WEEI to finish 2nd in the daypart. The Hub placed third.
The Hub bounced back claiming victory in afternoons where Felger and Massarotti doubled WEEI's Dale and Keefe and a few weeks of OMF 13.3 to 6.5. The Hub also won the 6p-7p hour when both stations typically host baseball pre-game shows, 10.8 to 5.0.
Closing things out at night, WEEI's combination of Boston Red Sox baseball and Mut at Night earned a 9.5 to emerge victorious over The Hub's Adam Jones who generated a 6.5.
Phoenix:
Arizona Sports had reason to celebrate, finishing as the highest rated spoken word station in the market for the quarter. Leading the way were the station's drive time programs, Doug and Wolf, and Burns and Gambo, which both ranked 4th overall with Men 25-54. Doug and Wolf also finished 8th for the quarter with P25-54.
Turning to middays, Bickley and Marotta came in 7th during their daypart. The station's combination of Diamondbacks baseball and The Rundown with Luke Lapinski also received a 7th place ranking during evening hours.
One additional positive for the brand, among Men 18-34, Arizona Sports finished 6th.
Seattle:
The quarter once again belonged to Bonneville's 710 ESPN. The team of Brock and Salk enjoyed three straight months inside the To 10 to earn bragging rights as the market's preferred choice for sports in morning drive.
Switching to middays, John Clayton, and Bob, Groz, and Tom saw their numbers increase during the three month stretch from the high 2's to the mid to high 3's. With football season now underway, that momentum should help their programs gain even more ground during the fall book.
Finishing up in afternoons, the trio of Danny, Dave, and Moore had the best overall three month performance of the station's key weekday shows, finishing between 5th and 9th for each month of the book. The only timeslot to perform better was evenings, led by Seattle Mariners baseball, which ranked between 4th and 7th.
Tampa:
There may not be a ton of sports radio competition in the market for WDAE, but Tampa's leading sports station did what it's supposed to do, build upon its own success.
For the summer book, Ronnie and TKras led the way in mornings, gaining a full share increase with Men 25-54. JP Peterson doubled the station's share in PM drive, a huge feat given that Peterson has been holding down the fort for Steve Duemig who's been battling health issues.
Also worth noting, all of WDAE's weekday shows recorded Top 8 finishes with Men 35+.
St. Louis:
Another quarter, another dominant performance from St. Louis' leading sports brand. 101 ESPN remained powerful, crushing the market's sports competition and establishing a stronger presence against top brands from other formats.
The station finished 3rd with a 9.1 M-F 6a-7p, and 3rd with a 7.0 M-SU 6a-Mid.
Looking at the weekday shows, Bernie Miklasz produced an 8.1 to place 3rd in morning drive. Kevin Wheeler and The Turn also finished 3rd in middays. In fact, The Turn was just four tenths of a point under a ten share, which is especially remarkable considering Chris Duncan was away from the show for the entire quarter.
Rounding things out in afternoons, The Fast Lane cruised to another 1st place finish with a 12.1. Randy Karraker, Brad Thompson, and Chris Rongey have been at or near the top of the ratings ladder for nearly two years.
Baltimore:
It was another strong quarter for 105.7 The Fan. Baltimore's sports voice was above a 10 share in weekday prime (M-F 6a-7p), helping the station finish 1st in the market for its third straight book. That's the first time in station history that The Fan has accomplished this feat.
A few other notes worth sharing.
The Big Bad Morning Show with Rob Long, Ed Norris, and Jerry Coleman continued to dominate with Men 25-54, while also moving into the top 4 with Adults 25-54.
The station's midday show featuring Bob Haynie and Vinny Cerrato came in 1st with Men 25-54, while registering a 6th place finish with Adults 25-54.
The afternoon show with Scott Garceau and Jeremy Conn provided a similar story, generating above a 10 share with Men 25-54.
The transformation of WFNZ in Charlotte over the past eighteen months has been fun to watch, and the summer book continued to highlight the way the brand's programming has connected with local listeners.
For starters, Mac and T-Bone climbed from a 2.1 last year to a 2.7 this year in morning drive, a performance which helped them jump 7 positions in the summer book. Even more noteworthy has been their appeal to Men 18-34 where they produced a 6th place ranking for the month of September.
Middays also provided some positive signs thanks to the arrival of Nick Wilson and Josh Parcell. Though the new midday crew didn't start until August 6th, their first month in the ratings produced a Top 10 finish (3.8). The overall quarter for middays was lower (2.8) due to the station going thru a search for a new show. With Wilson and Parcell now firmly entrenched, further growth should be expected.
In afternoons, the talented team of Kyle Bailey and Frank Garcia kept things steady, delivering a 2.7 to remain just outside of the Top 10. The show began to see excellent growth signs with Men 18-34 in September, leading all shows on the station with a 5th place finish and 5.6 share.
Considering that the summer months in Charlotte are devoid of local sports driving frequent listening occasions, WFNZ had a pretty good book, and is set up well for the fall ratings period when Panthers Mania floods the airwaves.
Memphis:
92.9 ESPN has been on quite the roll over the past year. During the past twelve months, the radio station has generated a 9.1 rating. That's been good enough to lock up 2nd place in the market during that time period.
As far as the summer book was concerned, it was more of the same. Memphis' leading sports brand received its best performance from Jason & John who finished the quarter 1st overall with a 10.7. During the month of September alone, the program produced just under an 11 and a half share.
Second on the list was Geoff Calkins who came in 2nd during his mid-morning slot with a 10 and a half share. Calkins' September performance was even more impressive, registering a low 13 share.
The rest of the lineup saw Gary Parrish soar in with just under a 9 share to place 2nd in afternoon drive. Eric Hasseltine's midday program was ranked 6th during its daypart with a low 8 share.
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As Bickley said on the air Tuesday morning, keeping Kingsbury is harder to justify with the coaches likely to be available.
Arizona Sports 98.7 FM
The Arizona Cardinals finished a troubling late-season collapse by losing their NFL Wild Card playoff game Monday night to the Los Angeles Rams, 34-11.
As could be expected, the disappointing result is prompting plenty of questions and criticism among Arizona fans and media. Dan Bickley and Vince Marotta, hosts of Arizona Sports 98.7 FM's morning show, led the charge Tuesday morning. In their view, it's time for Cardinals head coach Kliff Kingsbury to go.
Marotta called the playoff loss "a disgusting end to a promising season." The Cardinals began the 2021 season with seven consecutive victories. By Week 13, they had a 10-2 record. But following its bye week, Arizona imploded, losing four of their final six games. Most troubling among them was a 30-12 loss to the Detroit Lions, who finished with the second-worst record (3-13-1) in the NFL.
It's time for a change. A new plan. A new head coach. And to complete the reboot, the #AZCardinals should unveil a host of brand new uniforms as a cosmetic gesture of good faith. It's time to raise expectations across the board, writes @DanBickley. #RedSeahttps://t.co/Ryw6cZKFXf
— 98.7 Arizona Sports (@AZSports) January 18, 2022
Bickley was even more pointed with his criticism in a piece written for the Arizona Sports 98.7 FM website. The longtime columnist and host points out the pattern of late-season collapses in Kingsbury's tenure with Arizona. In 2019, the Cardinals finished 2-7. The 2020 season ended with a 3-6 slide. Add this season's 2-4 collapse and the pattern is apparent.
As Bickley said on the air Tuesday morning, keeping Kingsbury is harder to justify with the coaches likely to be available. He singled out Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive coordinator Todd Bowles as a good fit for the Cardinals, obviously favoring a coach with a different philosophy than Kingsbury.
Yet the Cardinals have shown improvement during Kingsbury's three seasons, progressing from a 5-10-1 mark to 11-6 this season. That may be good enough for team owner Michael Bidwell and general manager Steve Keim. According to Bickley, it shouldn't be. Management should be aggressive, rather than content.
You can listen to Bickley & Marotta each morning, Monday through Friday, on the Arizona Sports 98.7 FM website and app. The show is also available via podcast.
"Late in the first quarter, Eli tried to throw it to his older brother to breakdown the play that resulted in the Rams' first score of the night. It didn't go as planned."
Why do people love the Manningcast on ESPN2? It has a lot to do with Peyton and Eli being their authentic selves on screen. The same goes for their guests. That authenticity has included a few NSFW moments this season and we got another during the first ever Monday night playoff game.
Peyton: "I can't hear shit!" pic.twitter.com/ZO06cVXgLu
— Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) January 18, 2022
Kudos to Eli for the simple, but truly funny response of "never mind"!
The Manningcast has made a few headlines for these moments this season. Marshawn Lynch swore multiple times during his Week 7 appearance. More famously, Eli shot the camera the double bird in Week 2.
It is a memorable way to close an undeniably successful first season for ESPN2's alternate coverage of Monday Night Football. Certainly everyone at the network would love to bring the Manningcast back for 2022. Whether or not Omaha Productions can make that happen will likely depend on just how serious rumors of Peyton Manning's interest in being a part of owning the Denver Broncos are.
"CBS will send its top team of Jim Nantz and Tony Romo to Kansas City for the Bills and Chiefs. Davis told Rome that is a fact that will not be lost on Titans coach Mike Vrabel."
It's kind of hard not to feel bad for Charles Davis. He was a guest on Monday's edition of The Jim Rome Show. It was an interview that opened with The Pimp in the Box asking Davis about just how cold he was in Buffalo over the weekend.
Temperatures reached the single digits with wind chill in the negative numbers during the Bills' blowout of the New England Patriots in the Wild Card round.
Davis said that there was no way not to think about his discomfort. He gave credit to the stage crew in the booth that helped to keep him an Ian Eagle warm.
Later in the interview, Rome asked Charles Davis if the Tennessee Titans were being unfairly overlooked. They are the top seed in the AFC afterall.
Davis said that was very likely. The team is getting both Derek Henry and Julio Jones back in time to face the Bengals in the divisional round.
That is the game assigned to Davis and Eagle. CBS will send its top team of Jim Nantz and Tony Romo to Kansas City for the Bills and Chiefs. Davis told Rome that is a fact that will not be lost on Titans coach Mike Vrabel.
"He'll use this one. Jim and Tony are going to Kansas City/Buffalo. He's getting Ian Eagle and myself," Davis told Rome. "He may not disrespect us, but he'll let his team know the number one team is not getting the number one broadcast team."
Teams shouldn't need extra motivation. Every game in the playoffs is your last if you don't find a way to win. Charles Davis says that doesn't mean Vrabel isn't looking to add a little extra juice to his locker room and he and his partner's presence may be the perfect catalyst.
"He'll use that. Coaches use all of that stuff. He'll use it to the Nth degree."
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Manhattan, New York to Prosecute Armed Robbery as a Misdemeanor – Personal Defense World
January 11, 2022 Mark Chesnut	18 Views 0 Comments
Here's the scenario: You're carrying a concealed firearm. Wisely, you have trained extensively on how and when you can use it in a self-defense scenario. While you're walking home from work, a man comes up behind you, shoves you into an abandoned alley. He then sticks a snub-nosed revolver in your face and demands all your money and any other values you might have on you. This used to be a felony but now Manhattan will only prosecute armed robbery as a misdemeanor.
Manhattan Will Now Prosecute Armed Robbery as a Misdemeanor
Obviously, you have good reason to fear for your life. After all, you have extensive knowledge of handguns and ballistics. If he pulls that trigger while the gun is aiming at your face, you're not likely to survive. In most areas of the country, you'd be perfectly justified in shoving his gun aside, pulling your own handgun, and defending your life with deadly force.
However, in New York City that's not really the case. A concealed carry permit can take many years and even more money. However, in Manhattan, it is nearly impossible—unless you are very rich or have political connections. Basically, the only thing that prevents the above scenario from occurring more often than it does (which is a lot, with NYC seeing its worst violent crime wave in years in 2021), is a fear of an armed robbery conviction and spending 25 years in jail.
Well, hold on, Manhattanites! That deterrent is no longer in place. This, thanks to new Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg's recent decision to prosecute armed robbery as a misdemeanor, moving forward.
A Memorandum
In a memo to staff on his first day on the job, Bragg said his office "will not seek a carceral sentence" except with homicides and a handful of other cases, including domestic violence felonies, some sex crimes, and public corruption.
According to the memo, which was obtained by the New York Post: "Armed robbers who use guns or other deadly weapons to stick up stores and other businesses will be prosecuted only for petty larceny, a misdemeanor, provided no victims were seriously injured and there's no 'genuine risk of physical harm' to anyone."
Bad policy aside, Bragg shows his misguided position when he states that victims are in "no genuine risk of physical harm" when robbed by an assailant with a firearm. As previously mentioned, in most parts of the country, armed citizens can shoot and armed robber. That is if that citizen believes his or her life is in danger. Which isn't hard to feel, with a gun shoved in your face! Gun safety dictates that when someone points a gun at you, you are facing a "genuine risk of physical harm."
Armed robbery is a class B felony and is typically punishable by a maximum of 25 years in prison. Now, as a petty larceny charge, convicted armed robbers face up to 364 days in jail and a $1,000 fine. The state will then release them to endanger law-abiding citizens all over again.
Not Well Received
Not unexpectedly, many in law enforcement didn't look upon Bragg's new directive favorably.
"Police officers don't want to be sent out to enforce laws that the district attorneys won't prosecute," Patrick Lynch, president of NYPD's largest union, told the Post. "And there are already too many people who believe that they can commit crimes, resist arrest, interfere with police officers, and face zero consequences."
Of course, making armed robbery a misdemeanor isn't the only change Bragg made—just the most pathetic. He's also dramatically downgrading charges for certain residential burglars, drug dealers, and convicted criminals caught with weapons.
The likely end result of a skyrocketing armed robbery rate might surprise Bragg. But it won't surprise most who understand violent crime and the people who perpetrate such offenses. Manhattanites better get used to having guns stuck in their faces and their property stolen from them on the streets. Because that's likely to happen a lot more often with Bragg in the DA's office.
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Soaked British Isles Could Remain Flooded for Months
There is a thread running thru this narrative, that includes unseasonable melt and warmth in Alaska, brutal drought in California and the West, Frigid air masses in the US East, and the constant pounding of rain and storms in the UK – all connected by a stubborn, "stuck" jet stream, that is behaving very much as we might expect if it is indeed responding to loss of arctic ice.
I've been talking to well informed observers on the ground in the UK, more on this later – but as one of them told me yesterday, it's one thing to have a "one-in-150 year" event, that's weather. But when you begin to have a string of "one-in-150 year" events, back to back, you begin to wonder if the dice are indeed loaded.
We are watching a globally significant environmental, and perhaps, political, event unfold.
Guardian:
The defence secretary, Philip Hammond, insisted the government has got a grip on the UK's devastating floods as he tried to put an end to "recriminations" about whether more could have been done to prevent them.
The senior Tory cabinet minister argued that the military and emergency services have everything under control, as concern about the potential scale of serious flooding along the Thames Valley continues.
It comes after the government reaction to the severe weatherdescended into infighting over the weekend, forcing David Cameron to order his feuding cabinet ministers to stop sniping at the Environment Agency (EA).
The prime minister, who returned to the flooded West Country on Monday, was said to be exasperated by the communities secretary, Eric Pickles, who attacked the competence of the EA on Sunday and apologised for the policy decisions taken by the environment secretary, Owen Paterson, who is recuperating from eye surgery.
Cameron is continuing his tour of flood-hit areas of the south-west on Tuesday while thousands of properties in the Thames Valley are at risk of flooding on Wednesday.
Amid anger about the speed of the response to the crisis, Hammond told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The government has got a grip on this. The emergency services are in the lead and they are properly organised, the military have been mobilised to provide additional support [and] additional money has been available, equipment has been brought in …
"We're dealing with an enormous force of nature here, vast quantities of water and an unprecedented weather pattern."
Telegraph:
The chairman of the Environment Agency risked further criticism on Monday night when he suggested that flooded residents were partly to blame for their problems by choosing to live in high-risk regions.
Lord Smith said people who bought homes in flood plains need to think about the "risk that that property faces".
The remarks stoked the mounting anger towards Lord Smith's agency, which has been criticised for its response to the floods.
It comes just a week after Lord Smith said Britain must decide whether to protect "town or country" from flooding because it can't afford to do both.
Flooding affecting south-west England and along the Thames Valley should provide a "sharp reminder" even to climate change sceptics of the risk of flooding, a former Conservative environment secretary has warned.
Caroline Spelman told the Guardian that today's climate was a consequence of what had happened twenty years ago – and that the UK must adapt to the changes that she said were still to come.
"This flooding is a sharp reminder that everyone, sceptic or not, has to think about the risk of flooding, whatever they think causes it," she said. "We need to adapt. What is happening now relates to what we were doing two decades ago [in increasing greenhouse gas emissions]."
The debate over tackling climate change had become "muddied", the former minister added, and criticised politicians for using the term "global warming" because it confuses people into thinking that climate change will result in warmer weather, rather than an increase in extreme weather such as higher rainfall.
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46 Responses to "Soaked British Isles Could Remain Flooded for Months"
omnologos Says:
Where was the jet stream last year, or two years ago? What if it's in a different position in one year's time? Is it too much to ask for this climate-change-defining moments to be forecasted rather than explained after the fact?
dumboldguy Says:
Uh, O-Log? Where have you been that you have not noticed that extreme weather due to changes in the jet stream has been "forecasted" for quite some time now by climate scientists?
anotheralionel Says:
But they have been forecast except that the exact time and place of any 'climate-change-defining moment' is impossible to predict as you should well know.
The explanation in Met Office report pointed to from this blog two days ago via The Carbon Brief:
Click to access Recent_Storms_Briefing_Final_07023.pdf
should help you inform yourself.
Could you predict the precise score run from the throwing of loaded dice?
Ah yes, the skeptic argument that until a climate scientist has a crystal ball where they can accurately predict chaos and the randomness of weather, anything they say must be ignored. Don't you ever get tired of this short-circuit thinking?
If you had bothered to listen, the claim has been that whenever these weather events happen they will bring more moisture, and indeed as we see with the jetstream slowing down, more prolonged weather, or "stuck weather" as some like to call it. Or indeed as in California suck whatever moisture is in the ground out for months on end.
Climate change has never been about predicting weather events, it has been about predicting the severity of them when they do impact an area. Much like climate scientists cant predict when the next volcano will erupt to cool the atmospheric temperatures and neither any reasonable prediction for when the next big El Ninõ will occur (except through statistical chances). None of these change the physical underlying fact that the earth has an energy imbalance and that will continue to warm up the planet for as long as the CO2 levels are higher than the carbon cycle is able to digest and we haven't reached any equilibrium with energy in vs energy out.
greenman3610 Says:
The recent "stuck" behavior of the jet stream has been widely noted, and it is consistent with general predictions of more extreme weather events. That this emergent behavior has not been predicted months in advance should not be a surprise.
See tomorrow's video on Abrupt Climate Change. It's the Unexpected stuff that we expect.
johnrussell40 Says:
Yes, omnologos, it is "too much to ask for this climate-change-defining moments to be forecasted". That's because these particular events are weather, and weather can't be forecast more than a few weeks ahead because there's too much variability in the system.
Climate forecasting can only warn of the statistical likelihood of extreme weather events occurring, not precisely when we'll see droughts, heatwaves or floods. It's like the impossibility of predicting heads or tails on the next throw, compared with ease of forecasting that if you toss a coin 1,000 times you'll land on heads, near as dammit, 50% of the time.
The net is far too wide to be of much use..paradoxically, if the jetstream had been moving erratically, we would be reading now of climate change making it move, just as we read of climate change making it get stuck.
What I mean is, any extreme of any sort would be used to demonstrate that climate change is happening right now exactly as predicted. But the prediction is too nebulous…
It would have been far superior service from the MeOffice to have generated a list of probable what-if's, one of them including the current stuck-jetstream configuration.
Otherwise it's like discussing with those convinced Nostradamus predicted it all…they are just as good in finding explanations after the fact, you know.
skeptictmac57 Says:
I think "the use" of these not specifically predicted events, is to be taken as a sign that what was once considered a reasonably small risk to life property and infrastructure has now shown signs of increasing,and those who want to avoid the negative effects of those increased risks may want to change the odds back in their favor.
Hence, hardening of infrastructure,moving away from flood zones,increased conservation of water resources,avoiding of building on cliffs or coastlines subject to erosion,need to be taken more seriously.
And finally,the recognition that we have to do as much as we can to stop fueling the problem,by reducing our output of greenhouse gasses would be a good "use" for that wide cast "net".
Skepticmac57 – I agree with the point about being able to finally withstand what Nature can throw at us.
I do not think we need to wait until we have or haven't evidence of climate change before going in that direction. Obviously too many people are unprepared to the weather of today, let alone to the one of 2100 whatever that will be.
I wish therefore that the issue of adaptation were de-coupled completely from discussions about climate change and mitigation. Some wish, of course.
ubrew12 Says:
"I wish… adaptation were de-coupled completely from… climate change" That's a little like wishing the subject of hardening London from bombing could be decoupled from the Blitz. The Roman's founded London. Maybe, having been there for two thousand years, London was adapted just fine for the climate that was, and is no longer.
This speaks to the significance of what is happening in England today. This is the empire upon which the sun will never set, and Nature is setting to drown her. Whats up with that?
David H. Says:
Climate scientists develop models, and those models are in turn used to generate predictions. However, these are not predictions in the "weather forecast" sense, but only in the sense of what observations we should or should not get if the model is correct. So the only real question is whether the observations of reality are consistent, or not consistent, with the models. If they are consistent, then it's a clue (but not necessarily proof) that the models are working properly. If inconsistent, it means they have some work to do to figure out why its wrong, and to modify or abandon the model as necessary.
Since the current climate models predict that both periods of stability and erratic behavior will occur, the observation of either alone indeed does not, on its own, give cause for concern. Only if some other aspect of the observations fails, say perhaps the relative frequency of the two conditions occurring, will it be evidence that the models are wrong in some way.
In either case, it's seriously dishonest to insinuate that it's all just some kind of post-facto rationalization on the part of the scientists, instead of the proper functioning of the scientific method.
David H – it is also dishonest to suggest I said what I did not.
The point about the locked jetstream being a sign of climate change because it's an extreme event among many, has been made by Peter in his post and repeated by others in the comments.
My reply is therefore to them and not to some 'scientists' that would not be here to answer anyway.
Of course you didn't "say" it. Being the excellent little contrarian troll you are you are careful to never come out and clearly accuse anyone of anything. Instead you suggest and hint and insinuate, and then backtrack whenever you're called out on it.
David – if I didn't say it, I didn't say it, and unless you have magical power of mindreading via the internet, stick to what I actually say. You have just wasted four comments to talk about your paranoid dreams about what I did not say.
talies Says:
The *increased frequency* of droughts, floods and storms is itself a well-predicted event.
You know if someone pushes you off a cliff, the investigators could after scraping you off the ground come to these two conclusions:
A) You tripped and fell (random event)
B) Someone pushed you (physical external event)
You try to make it sound like anything is happening by faith or by gods hand, do you really believe in that? Don't you ever consider the fact that mans action might be responsible for something happening?
I mean paleoclimate records clearly shows there is a clear correlation between the amount of CO2 and temperature. We don't need to guess about what future events mean like some Nostradamus match-up because we already have facts about past events that give us physical facts about what we can expect in the future based on CO2 levels.
So, Climate change is?
A) Just random events when God throws dice
B) Influenced by physical changes to the biosphere
Jcl -you're simplifying -there's too much handwaving. "Something will happen" then "Something has happened". It's too easy and provides zero information because something is bound to happen. Like the infantile game of saying to people "I've commanded you to say what you just said" after they said it.
To move forward we'd need figures, befores and afters, multidecadal values, the works. SREX had trouble even in defining "extreme". Maybe a future version will deal with the issue.
I understand Peter is a visual guy by profession so images make sense to him. Am just not sure they do from a purely scientific point of view.
So CC is something that is happening but still we can't tell how badly already and we can only guesstimate about in the future, not even sure if the new normal will be "more of the same". In the meanwhile I can predict weather will cause troubles in 2014. 100% certainty.
Well, there is no real action to curb emissions globally yet is there? But still we know by now that our emissions are already altering climate and if anything it will not get better in the future. So why stalling action? Why demanding more detailed predictions?
It's like walking into a room filled with poisonous snakes and asking the expert at the door, "but there is a chance I might not get bitten right?". Why on earth does that besides people who love gambling at high stakes?
Are we really prepared to gamble with the lives of so many people today and coming generations? Do we as individuals have the right to decide not to deal with this?
I think there is more than enough evidence to act now. And I believe Peter's blog sort of emphasize that with both info about technological possibilities to get us off fossil fuels and events likely caused by current climate change from AGW.
The way I interpret your messages is almost like the guy in the the Naked Gun movie standing before the fireworks factory that is on fire yelling "Nothing to see here". It's pretty silly wouldn't you agree by now?
John – please respond to me and not to a fantasy "skeptic" you have in mind. I cannot remember when it was last time I said on Crocks that action should be stalled on the mitigation side (besides, even if I had said that, I would not have any power to stall any action on anything really).
If you ask me, I'd like to see a mitigation plan seriously expected to work. So far we had the ETS (where money got transferred from all citizens to Big Energy companies), Palm Oil (an environmental and social disaster that is making some Big Palm companies richer), ethanol (probably the opposite of mitigation, once again with huge monetary transfers from citizens to wealthy individuals), wind farms (never mind the birds, this scheme is perfect to enrich very rich landowners), solar energy (Solyndra anybody, plus lots of dodgy metals awaiting to be incorrectly disposed of). Maybe we had some more.
Now, I presume we all agree none of those efforts has done anything noticeable to reduce the risk of having Britain flooded for months. Or let me know if you think otherwise.
redskylite Says:
The IPCC reports do more than "guesstimates about the future" and much more than mere predictions, they project different scenarios well into the future with differing parameters (which is mankind's option), i.e business as usual (as is happening now), serious emission cuts and so on. The models agree that future times will be toughest nearer the tropics places like Africa, South Pacific Islands, South America (in all scenarios), where there will be severe food shortages and species extinction. This is not a Nostradamus dream vision, this is the result of scientific projection. Sea level rise will not be uniform will also affect Africa and the tropics more than many other places. CO2 at 450 ppm will stop the corals growing and start marine species extinction. This is not mere speculation, all this is known. People who persistently ignore this and put up cranky and bizarre alternatives are dangerous to health and should like cigarette packages come with a government health warning. By Murex consultancy I guestimate you are into trading, not the genus of tropical sea snails. Well good luck with the share trading and risk management business.
redskylite – fyi no, I am not "into trading". I am an IT guy, by profession.
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Let it be written: IT now = Into Trading
This is a great site to collect information about the general inhuman aspect of climate change alarmism. I do not think any of you guys has ever escaped the chance of showing your inner, true, people-hating nature.
There is no actually need to look for any other reason why, after so many years, climatism is a side issue to energy production instead of the other way around.
Eh we are people-hating?!? We are trying to inform people of climate change from global warming and you are trying to do what exactly? If anyone is people-hating it must be those who stand in the way of the change needed in order to reduce the amount of suffering people will have from climate change. There is nothing people-hating about wanting to reduce any kind of emission, whether it be poison in the rivers upstream or CO2 from burning of fossil fuels.
My attempt at humor was not intended to be at your expense Omno. If it makes you feel any better i, myself, am into trading, and do indeed hold equities from all over the energy sector spectrum.
Ok Andrew and sorry for the outburst…sometimes I do wonder if people are here to talk climate change or just hanging around waiting for some 'enemy skeptic' to talk against, at a personal level
And just in case, I do not do any trading and do not hold any stock myself in any company apart from my own. Same for all immediate members of my family (for the others, I have no idea, as I have never asked them).
If I will ever find a job remotely connected to the energy sector, I will be wary to discuss climate change in any shape or form, and maybe go silent altogether as I already do for anything that relates to my day job.
Add this to the list of "1000 Dumbest Things O-Log Has Ever Said". I'm a visual guy too, and maybe I wouldn't have believed the 15 inches of snow I shoveled yesterday if I had done it blindfolded. And I wouldn't be able to see the chunk of snow half the the size of a Smart Car that the %&@*# sadistic plow driver pushed in front of my driveway while I slept.
Yes, let's blind all the climate scientists—-then their "scientific point of view" will be reduced to sticking a hand out the window and trying to "make sense" of what they can feel on it.
Lord love a duck, but I am getting tired of watching us waste time on O-log. 40+ Crock comments to wade through this AM, and the ones on this thread seem to be too much about O-Log and not enough about climate science. (I know this because I am a visual guy who reads and analyzes "from a purely scientific point of view", not from a delusional state like O-Log)
Gary Evans (@Bluecloud9) Says:
The first Guardian article is partially correct, but the UK government really haven't got a grip on the situation at all. First the y cut spending on flood defences, hence hampering the Environment Agency (EA), then the Communties minister waded in with unfolding criticism of the EA. Finally the Prime Minister, David Cameron stated there was no limit to finance to deal with the flooding.
You couldn't make it up.
The Telegraph article is typical right-wing rubbish. Chris Smith, the head of the EA is doing a marvellous job. He is being scapegoated so that government incompetence, and a general failure to manage is not focused on.
But the blame game has backfired and Cameron now looks like a fool.
I really hope this disaster gets the message across that climate change can no longer be ignored. The Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, needs to acknowledge that the climate is changing. That would be a good start.
Martin Gisser Says:
Here's the start: Owen Paterson is a ridicu-lousy climate science denier, hence incompetent for the job. He should be fired, as well as the git who appointed him. Mother Earth is obviously protesting and punishing the UK for incompetence and/or corruption.
And Paterson needs to stop listening too the the likes of fracking has no problems Peter 'Tethys Petroleum' [1] Lilley.
https://www.facebook.com/notes/biff-britain-ireland-frack-free/some-discussion-on-peter-lilley-mps-fracking-lies-on-national-tv-including-a-fee/816882611671099
The GWPFs Nigel Lawson has, surprise, surprise, come out against Dame Julia Slingo's Met' Office report 'The Recent Storms and Floods in the UK'.
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/feb/12/nigel-lawson-met-office-floods-global-warming
And it looks like he who holds the purse strings, George Osborne, is keeping his head down.
[1] Note that Tethys is into Uzbekistan where Coal bed Methane extraction is in process.
I have great sympathy for flood victims, but many of those now angry that "they" aren't helping probably voted for a party whose avowed aim is small government.
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rayduray Says:
ROTFL. You nailed him.
Thank you, ray 🙂
Christopher Arcus Says:
OMFG! LOL! A worthy waste of time. Better than responding to him.
The ratio of downvotes affixed to a particular comment of his to upvotes on your link makes me think not so many people clicked the link.
The Met Office is now saying that the causal chain you describe also goes back to Pacific Ocean warming – extreme rain in Indonesia, causing the jetstream to buckle northwards in N Pacific.
http://in.reuters.com/article/2014/02/12/britain-flooding-climate-idINL5N0LH2KW20140212
So it seems to me there are 2 "starting points" we could select in the global weather system: warming Arctic and warming tropical Pacific, both caused by agw.
Very good article as usual. Thank you for all your work.
excellent summary article. Here is more discussion of the issue – arctic vs tropical influence in jet stream instability
Well, this staid item cites the leftish Guardian and the Establishment Telegraph on the political mud-slinging the rains make so enticing.
But for sheer entertainment sake, I do have to say I enjoy the UK's tabloids and their colorful stylings.
Tory Eric Pickles got into quite a bit of trouble for castigating the technocrat Environment Agency head Lord Smith. What was the Mirror's response? That Eric Pickles highest calling in life would be to serve as a "sandbag".
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/flooding-row-eric-pickles-more-3132682
I do so love the irony of Tory Pickles chastising the EA for not dredging the rivers draining the Somerset Levels, after the Tory government cut the funding for such work. It takes real chutzpah to be as breathtakingly hypocritical as Eric Pickles, the winner of the Mr. Sandman of the Year Award.
Some insurance and house value shocks ahead:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/feb/12/insurance-flood-risk-4tn-fall-house-values
so much for the insurance industry being already prepared for "climate change"…
The process is very slow, Southern U.K is sinking at the rate 5cm by the end of the century, sea rise is slow, atmospheric CO2 is rising slowly. All of these things are slow but progressive.
Events are not happening dramatically and are not particularly visible in a single person's life time (the exception may be glacier melts and Arctic melts but you need to see it with your own eyes). Spring is arriving on average two weeks earlier than in the last century. Whether this latest set of storms and jet stream configuration is a persistent pattern or a quirk of variability remains to be proven by time.
However we are warned of sleeping monsters and tipping points, and need to blow the cobwebs of doubt away. Things are definitely changing. I have lived for 3 score years and ten and have never seen such weather patterns in the U.K, and I doubt my father or grandfather saw such events either, although I admit my grandfather did experience some very tough times of flooding.
We use computer models as there are just too many things for human minds to compute, conceive and comprehend, you have challenged the programming standards in the past (by horribly mis-quoting a light hearted New York Times, NASA article in a previous post ) and (although you say you are an IT guy) that makes me wonder how deeply you are experienced in the technology. In my world of programming code is audited and peer reviewed and shoddy programming will not pass and be tolerated at all in professional academic and scientific institutions.
We're getting OT. Not sure where you've been in the past few years, where Windows has taken the world, and successive UK governments have suffered repeated software project failures, and Harry has written a readme file at the UEA, and and and.
No Windows has taken the commercial world but Unix remains the preferred technical platform and you are talking out your arse…..
Your gentlemanly answer confirms you have absolutely no idea about the computing world. Dream on.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Three Democratic governors say they won't let the United States back away from the global commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions despite President Donald Trump withdrawing from an international pact.
Jerry Brown of California, Jay Inslee of Washington state and Andrew Cuomo of New York have formed the U.S. Climate Alliance to uphold the Paris climate agreement. Their announcement Thursday came just after Trump's formal declaration that he intended to remove the U.S. from the deal.
The governors say they're committed to reducing U.S. emissions by 26 to 28 percent from 2005 levels. They're urging other states to join.
Brown has made climate change one of his legacy issues and is calling Trump's decision to withdraw from the agreement "deviant behavior from the highest office in the land."
"Donald Trump has absolutely chosen the wrong course. He's wrong on the facts. America's economy is boosted by following the Paris Agreement. He's wrong on the science. Totally wrong. California will resist this misguided and insane course of action. Trump is AWOL but California is on the field, ready for battle."
Other California elected officials and business leaders were also critical of Trump's decision.
Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said he is working on a motion with Councilman Mike Bonin to instruct the city's departments to follow the Paris Agreement.
"This is an urgent challenge, and it's much bigger than one person," Garcetti said. "With the president pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, L.A. will lead by committing to the goals of the accord - and will work closely with cities across America and the world to do the same."
Garcetti is a co-founder of the Mayors National Climate Action Agenda, which issued a statement signed by him and 60 other mayors pledging to adhere to the climate agreement.
Paris Climate Accord did not kill US coal. Cheaper energy did. We need to honor coal workers & help them transition, not lie to them.
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Guglielmo Pepe (* 13. Februar 1783 in Squillace, Kalabrien; † 8. August 1855 in Turin) war ein neapolitanischer General.

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Guglielmo diente wie sein Bruder Florestano Pepe ab 1799 als Offizier in der Armee der Parthenopäischen Republik, die nach dem Zusammenbruch der feudalabsolutistischen Bourbonenherrschaft und dem Einzug der französischen Truppen 1799 gebildet wurde,  ging dann, von den zurückkehrenden Bourbonen verbannt, zur französisch-italienischen Legion nach Dijon.  Pepe kehrte mit Napoleon I. nach Italien zurück. 1800 nahm er an der Schlacht von Marengo teil, beteiligte sich an Aktionen antifranzösischer Briganten in Mittelitalien.  Ein Aufstandsversuch in Kalabrien endete mit seiner Verurteilung 1801 zu lebenslangem Zuchthaus, aus dem er aber durch die Einsetzung Joseph Bonapartes als König von Neapel 1806 entkam. 1811–1813 war er Brigadekommandeur in Spanien, 1814/15 unter dem französischen Marschall Joachim Murat, stieg dann zum Generalleutnant auf. 1820/21 stand er an der Spitze der gescheiterten bürgerlichen Revolution im Königreich beider Sizilien (Neapel), war Oberkommandierender der Armee der Konstitutionalisten und ging dann nach Niederschlagung der Revolution nach Großbritannien.

Nochmals zum Tode verurteilt, konnte er nach Neapel erst nach der 1848 erlassenen Amnestie zurückkehren, trat aber nun unverzüglich an die Spitze der von Neapel zur Bekämpfung der Österreicher nach der Lombardei entsandten Armee von 16.000 Mann. Obgleich er zurückgerufen wurde, beteiligte er sich entgegen dem königlichen Befehl 1848/49 mit 2.000 Mann am Kampf gegen den ausländischen Gegner und ging schließlich nach Venedig, bei dessen Verteidigung gegen Österreich  er wesentliche Dienste leistete. Nach der Übergabe der Stadt flüchtete er 1849 auf einem französischen Schiff, um in Paris zu leben. 1851 begab er sich nach dem Machtantritt Napoleons III. nach Turin, wo er am 8. August 1855 verstarb.

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 Relations des évènements politiques et militaires qui ont eu lieu à Naples en 1820 et 1821. London (1823)
 L'Italia militare. Paris (1836)
 Mémoires du général Guillaume Pepe 2 Bde., Paris (1847)
 Continuazione delle Memorie. 4 Bde., Turin (1850)
 Histoire de la révolution et des guerres d'Italie en 1847, 1848 et 1849. Paris (1850)

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 Hermann Reuchlin: Geschichte Neapels während der letzten 70 Jahre, dargestellt an dem Leben der Generale Florestan und Wilhelm Pepe (Lebensbilder zur neueren Geschichte Italiens; Bd. 3). Beck Verlag, Nördlingen 1862.
 Lexikon "Biographien zur Weltgeschichte", VEB Verlag der Wissenschaften, Berlin 1989 ISBN 3-326-00218-1

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A year ago, all four of Kansas City's regular-season losses came after big wins. Big wins like the Chiefs' rout of New England last week to open their season.
Two of those losses came at Arrowhead Stadium, which will be the site of Sunday's game against Philadelphia. The Eagles opened their season with a 30-17 win over Washington.
For quarterback Alex Smith, word that he was the AFC's Offensive Player of the Week after the upset of the Patriots brought only a brief smile.
"I just think that if you play long enough you realize how quick things can change," Smith said Wednesday. "One week everybody's raving about you and how quickly it can flip if you drink the Kool-Aid."
Smith finished the opener 28-of-35 passing for 368 yards and four touchdowns, but that's old news to him and the rest of the Chiefs.
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If anyone doubted that trademark licensing has become an essential part of brand management, the recent Annual Meeting of the International Trademark Assocation (INTA) would have set them straight. Several high-powered speakers at that event promoted the view that building brands (the goal of every red-blooded American) now also means building partnerships with others who will borrow and help build your brand for you.
You can be sure that 7000 trademark attorneys gathered in one place also noted the biggest risk posed by lending your brand to others: dilution. But no one (at least no one that I heard over the five-day conference) commented on another risk: that trademark licensing with the controls a brand manager demands may subject it to liability as a franchisor.
Licensing vs. Franchising
Historically, trademark licensing and franchising have been very different legal animals. A trademark licensee was a company experienced in its core business but able to use the licensor's brand to its advantage. The licensor chose the licensee because of its experience in manufacturing and selling such products, and did not try to tell the licensee how to run its business.
A franchisee, on the other hand, sought to borrow not just another company's name but its entire business concept, and was willing to share its revenues with the franchisor in exchange for reduced business risk. The franchisor chose a franchisee because it brought financial resources to the deal, but also because the franchisee spared its franchisor the cost of setting up its own business. A condition of their agreement has always been the franchisee's agreement to run its business almost exactly as the franchisor requires.
Given these differences, there has historically been little risk that a license agreement would be confused with a franchise agreement. In a legal franchise relationship, the franchisee must operate its business pursuant to a marketing plan or "system" imposed by the franchisor; the franchisee must pay a franchise fee; and the franchisee's business must be substantially associated with the franchisor's trademark. Imagine the typical McDonald's restaurant: it operates under rules imposed by the McDonald's Corp.; it sends a percentage of all revenues to the McDonald's Corp.; and it exists as a business solely under a trademark borrowed from the McDonald's Corp.
In contrast, the typical licensee has had a very different job: although it, too, sends a portion of its revenue based on the licensor's brand back to the licensor, it has complete freedom in running its own business separate from the licensor.
But these distinctions are narrowing as brand managers grow increasingly excited about the ways that licensing can build their brands. These brand managers invariably want to exert as much control over their licensees as they exert over their advertising agencies, and as they do so, their licensees look more and more like franchisees. One day, such a licensor is going to find itself sued by a disgruntled (or terminated) licensee for violating state and federal franchise laws, liability for which can be extensive.
How Not to Be a Franchisor
What can licensors do to limit that risk?
First, they need to make sure that their oversight of the licensee's marketing efforts remains oversight and does not become control. This will remain difficult so long as trademark attorneys tell clients that they have to review all uses of their marks on licensed goods and so long as brand managers insist that consistent usage on all licensed products is an essential aspect of good brand management. Licensors are seeking increasing control over the products their licensees develop, and as that control gets closer to the control a fast-food chain exerts over the pickle slices its operators serve, licensors will be more vulnerable to liability as franchisors. Licensors need to select aspects of their licensees' business, product development and marketing over which they do not attempt to exert control.
The same applies for quality control. The licensor needs assurance that the licensee is manufacturing its products in a safe and consistent manner, and it wants to be the one to decide what safe and consistent means. Licensors now uniformly develop their own quality control standards for licensees and send their own quality control experts to guarantee their compliance. When does this behavior cross the line into the kind of control exerted by franchisors? It is difficult to say, but licensors should think carefully about opening up this process, relying on mutually chosen third parties, and letting licensees at least have input in determining the quality control standards that should apply to them.
Third, licensors need to build in more safeguards in deals where the licensee has little business independent of its license with them. Such a licensee, one who may even have set itself up in business solely to take advantage of this opportunity, is much more likely to look like a franchisee to courts or attorneys general. Licensees who hold several other licenses, and have several other lines of their own in addition to the licensed line, will look less vulnerable to risks created by an individual licensor than those whose livelihood depends on the license in question.
If licensors are able to maintain some distance between themselves and their licensees, through these or other methods, licensees will have fewer opportunities to hold them liable for having told them how to run their business.
From the September 2002 issue of The Licensing Letter


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