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...Asked by reporters in his home district in New York whether the Speaker should have done more, Tom Reynolds, the Republican leader who runs the National Republican Congressional Committee, replied: "That's a question you'll have to ask the Speaker." House Majority Leader John Boehner said in a radio interview: "I believe I talked to the Speaker, and he told me it had been taken care of. And my position is, it's in his corner, it's his responsibility. The Clerk of the House who runs the page program, the Page Board - all report to the Speaker...
...DIED. Iva Toguri D'Aquino, 90, Japanese-American jailed, amid post-World War II anti-Japanese prejudice, as the seductive, traitorous radio host Tokyo Rose; in Chicago. In fact, there was no Tokyo Rose-the name was given by U.S. troops to any English-speaking female on Radio Japan, the propaganda outlet where D'Aquino was forced to work after being stranded during a visit to Tokyo by the bombing of Pearl Harbor. With references to listeners as "our friends-I mean, our enemies" and off-air efforts to aid American POWs, she made clear her loyalty...
Meanwhile, most big-market indies say they will have high-definition digital radio soon. Podcasting, or on-demand radio, is also in the works. What's more, owners like WMVY's Gallagher, realizing that radio is heading into a user-controlled, I-want-it-now mode, view the Internet as a potential cash machine whose raw materials will be deep program catalogs, as well as syndication, replay and on-demand rights. "Right now, it's a long-term play, but we're betting that it turns into our meal ticket," says Gallagher...
Part of that effort means bringing Google to businesses that are still offline oriented. Online advertising, though growing fast, represents just 6% of total ad spending. So Google is going retro, ramping up its video-ad program, launching a major radio-ad service and testing ads in print. "We start with the premise that we should partner with everybody," says Tim Armstrong, Google's vice president of ad sales, who helped close the deal with MySpace...
DIED. Ralph Story, 86, TV and radio personality known for his wry on-air manner; in Santa Ynez, Calif. Born Ralph Snyder, the World War II fighter pilot became a household name as M.C. of TV's The $64,000 Challenge in the 1950s. Later he told quirky stories in a then rare casual style on Ralph Story's Los Angeles, an Emmy-winning series that examined life in the city and aired for six years...