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...Captain Chesley Sullenberger less than five minutes to become a hero, from the moment his Airbus A320 hit a flock of geese on Jan. 15 to its safe splashdown in the Hudson. For Captain Timothy Cheney and First Officer Richard Cole, it took an hour and a half of radio silence to become national punching bags. After their Northwest Airlines flight shot past its Minneapolis destination at 37,000 ft., air-traffic controllers feared the worst: A hijacking? A flight-deck catastrophe? After 91 minutes, the pilots resurfaced, saying they'd been absorbed in their laptops, reviewing a new crew...
...hand, the fortunately named Bob Proffitt, and found a local private-equity firm, Endeavour Capital, that was willing to back Wilson's new venture, Alpha Broadcasting. It paid $11 million for Paul Allen's Portland stations--Allen bought them for about $50 million. Experts say the price premium for radio stations has fallen from 20 times earnings to eight times...
...Radio has many would-be saviors. There are those, like the recently merged Sirius and XM, that have put all their chips on the pay-radio table. Others, including iBiquity Corp., believe the future is in HD radio. And there are others, like Mike Agovino, COO of Triton Digital Media, who believe that all radio stations need to create a digital infrastructure: ESPN Radio apps, Internet video of musicians or a morning-show host, online audio streamed through your computer at work. "We talk about the infinite dial," says Agovino. "The ability to access 20-, 30-, 40,000 radio stations...
...Their self-titled debut and sophomore album “Pinkerton” eschewed the oft gloom-ridden nature of early ’90s grunge and pop rock. In the years since, Weezer has released a series of disappointing albums that have driven the band more toward a radio pop direction. Their latest album, “Raditude” is the current apex of that progression. Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo ’99-’06 is notorious for his love of pop culture, referencing bands and pop icons from the Beatles to Green...
...Zelaya, still holed up in the Brazilian embassy in Tegucigalpa since sneaking back into the country from exile in September, appears to have grossly miscalculated the odds of the legislature voting in his favor, and that leaves a cloud of uncertainty hanging over the accord. On Friday, Zelaya told Radio Globo that the accord was "dead," adding that there was "no sense in deceiving Hondurans." (See pictures of the protests in Honduras...