ABC News Radio details inauguration coverage
ABC News Radio will provide comprehensive live coverage from Washington, D.C., beginning 1/117 and running through 1/20, as George W. Bush and Dick Cheney are inaugurated for a second term.
Live Inauguration Day coverage will be anchored by ABC News Correspondent Gil Gross, with continuing in-depth reports from ABC News correspondents in Washington, D.C., including political news vets Ann Compton at the White House, Vic Ratner from the Capitol, and Jim Hickey, Bill Greenwood, Pam Coulter, Jon Bascom, and Jim Ryan along the parade route.
ABC News Radio will establish a Talk Radio Row in the Ronald Reagan Building, on Pennsylvania Avenue, along the Inaugural parade route. Participating ABC News Radio affiliates broadcasting from the Ronald Reagan Building include: WBAP/Dallas, KTTB/Tyler, KLBJ/Austin, WMAL/Washington, and KTRH/Houston.
In addition to comprehensive coverage of Inauguration Day events, ranging from the swearing-in ceremony to the celebration at the evening's Inaugural Balls, ABC News Radio will provide two special prime-time one-hour broadcasts. On 1/19, Special Correspondent Gil Gross will take a look back at the first term of President Bush. And on Inauguration Day, 1/20, Gross will anchor a wrap-up of all the day's events with reports from ABC News Radio's team of correspondents.
Racial joke lands 'Java Joel' in hot water
Joel Murphy, the nighttime jock known as "Java Joel" and host of "The Rubber Room," has talked himself out of his job at Clear Channel Radio's WKSC-FM Chicago. After three years at the CHR station, Murphy was fired this week for telling a joke on the air deemed racially insensitive by his bosses.
"WKSC will no longer air 'The Rubber Room' program hosted by Java Joel," John Gehron, regional vice president of Clear Channel Radio and general manager of "Kiss FM," said in a statement. "The comments made by Java Joel on the Jan. 11, 2005 show were inappropriate and do not reflect the opinions of WKSC or its employees."
During the 9 p.m. hour on his show Tuesday, Murphy alluded to "Mr. Belvedere," a 1980s sitcom about an English housekeeper who helps raise three youngsters. That led Murphy to joke about the possibility of adopting "three black kids" and "taking them to the zoo to see where they came from."
At least one listener who heard the bit complained to the station, prompting an internal investigation and Murphy's dismissal, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.
In addition to hosting his "Rubber Room" live from 7 p.m. to midnight in Chicago, Murphy customized his show on recorded voice tracks for airing on CC stations in Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Louisville, Jacksonville and Rochester, N.Y.
No decision has been made on a replacement for him, Gehron told the paper.
Eastlan measuring in Louisiana
Eastlan has announced plans to begin measuring radio ratings in Louisiana's fifth largest radio market - - Houma-Thibodaux-Morgan City. According to the ratings company, the market - - three parishes which are west of the New Orleans metro - - has a 12+ population of just over 240,000. The first book will be Spring 2005.
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