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Oregon Media Insiders
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...I caught wind of this yesterday, and now it seems that Oregon Media Insiders is confirming it: The Oregonian?following news that their circulation shrank by 4.76 percent in the last six months?is going to offer voluntary buy-outs to all of its part timers. In editorial, the number I hear is that would apply to up to around 90 people (unless I misheard and that's a paper-wide number. It's a big chunk of employees, either way.)
From Oregon Media Insiders comes the strange-bedfellows news that Shawn Taylor, Lars Larson's producer (until she was unceremoniously dumped last month) will be executive producing the Thom Hartmann's show on Air America.
There has to be a moral, or a pattern, or something there, but I can't seem to find it.
from the Oregon Media Insiders feed...KEX sports director Scott Lynn is being treated for colon cancer. On the send Scott a get well greeting page at KEX, he says in part:
My New Year's holiday didn't quite go the way I'd planned.
On Sunday, December 28th, I went to the hospital with extreme abdominal pain and the next thing I knew; I was having surgery for colon cancer!
The first few days have been a little rough and I look forward to recuperating at home. After some healing time, my doctors tell me I'll need chemotherapy.
Conservative talker 910 KTRO is now simulcasting the Wolf 99.5 (KWJJ) as of midnight Monday. No idea what it's eventually going to happen other than a for sale sign.
With digital TV, stations can offer digital subchannels with distinct programming. In Portland, KGW offers the "KGW Weather Channel" (formerly NBC Weather Plus) on 8.2, while OPB offers additional public television programming and OPB Radio. KPXG supplements its Ion feed with children's, lifestyle, and religious programming; and KNMT broadcasts wall-to-wall-to-wall evangelical Christianity across 5 channels.
MGM will provide classic TV and movies to unspecified Fisher stations in the coming months with This TV. Other possible additions include:
If you're in Bend, and you're a BendBroadband customer, there's a very good chance you no longer receive KFXO. More from Utterly Boring.
Tower Trouble On Sylvan Hill
The Sylvan Tower that broadcasts the KOIN Local 6 signal has a broken guy wire. A guy wire is a tensioned cable designed to give support to structures.
The tower in question is located in the West Hills of Portland and is supported by multiple wires. The guy wire that broke is located near the top and on the southeast side of the tower.
Police have been notified.