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OK, it’s been more than 24 hours since the latest episode of The Amazing Race signed off. By now, you should now Lake and Michelle from Hattiesburg were philiminated.

Cindy and I truly hoped this was a non-elimination leg – but Phil delivered the home team the bad news.

When we go to the movies, we usually drive past Lake’s dentist office on the way. Hmmm – wonder if he screams out “Dagnabbit” if he drills a wrong tooth.

In any event, some radio business tomorrow, an Easter Sunrise service Sunday and straight to RockTrax afterward. Have a great and safe weekend, everyone.

I was busy Thursday — and didn’t get to blog about this. And it’s probably a good thing. Last night, I had this weird dream the third hour of Today was being replaced with Who Wants To Be A Millionaire as Meredith Vieira was coming over from ABC.

Seriously, I trust you’re aware as Today is losing Katie Couric, it’s gaining the service of Meredith.

The total number of minutes I’ve actually watched The View I can count with one hand. And I recall her brief stint on 60 Minutes.

During my travels, I’ve tried to catch her hosting the syndicated version of Millionaire (never has aired here…grrrr) and I think she does an excellent job with it. She’s no Regis — but she doesn’t have to be.

Truly wanted to see Ann, Campbell or Natalie move up in the world. But, Meredith will fill the shoes just fine.

OK, folks, barring a retraction from McPaper, now you may begin the speculation game…

http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2006-04-04-couric_x.htm?POE=LIFISVA

…FWIW, if indeed Katie leaves, I think they’d be wise to promote within (read: Ann Curry, Natalie Morales or the recently married Campbell Brown).

Further, should this all comes to fruition, how much ya wanna bet Katie will be disciplined for running a story about American Idol on The CBS Evening News? 🙂

Stop me if you’re heard this before. The Today Show on NBC once again gave free air time to Fox’s American Idol.

This morning, an interview with Kevin Covais — followed by a brief performance from the kid they call “Chicken Little”, because of his resemblance to the Disney character.

Again I ask — why? Aside from the fact AI is a monster hit — why?

Call me crazy (you wouldn’t be the first) — but I think Today is better off doing interviews related to Deal or No Deal. To the best of my knowledge, they’ve done one where Matt played an abbreviated mock game with Howie live in the L.A. studio and half-a-dozen models and their respective cases. Because DoND has been one of few new NBC shows worth writing home about, it’s worthy of just a little more attention.

(Spoiler warning: Some results of last night’s DoND are included in this post. Stop now if you haven’t seen the show from 3/29/06 and don’t want to know ’til you see it.)

Continue reading “Chickening Out Again?”

To help get me in the Friday mood, I played the Deal or No Deal game on NBC.com. I picked case #23, in honor of the fact I popped the question to Cindy two years ago yesterday (March 23). The result…

…she just asked if I was entitled to 10% of this payoff. No, I responded, it’s all fictional fundage.

Tip of the cap to Jay Lewis, my buddy in Canada, for creating the “ten years on 104.5FM” open at www.dougmorris.net.

Will she or won’t she be the next anchor of the CBS Evening News? Only Katie Couric knows for sure. My take: I’ll believe it when I see it.

But this nonsense…

http://www.broadcastingcable.com/article/CA6310992.html?display=Breaking

…I don’t buy for a minute. For starters, this “industry leader” either didn’t watch or completely forgot the ABC News 20/20 interview that aired several hours after Bryant Gumbel signed off from CBS’ The Early Show for the final time. In the interview, he essentially said he wouldn’t be on TV five days a week again.

I think it’s safe to say he’s happy with his current TV gig (HBO’s Real Sports), wife #2 (Hilary Quinlan) and the occasional guest host appearance (Live with Regis and Kelly).

I’d like to know what this industry leader’s been smoking; either (s)he needed to quit it or share it.

You there. Want to buy some stuff with my radio station’s logo? And help out one of my co-workers in the process?

The 104 Store at www.rock104fm.com store is selling tote bags, sport bottles, note pads and more.

This is for the benefit of Stephen St. James. He’s a great guy who taught me a lot about the biz way back when — and was one of the first to welcome me to Rock 104 ten years ago. Stephen went through another round of brain surgery recently and proceeds from the www.rock104fm.com store’s sales help pay for the expenses not covered by insurance.

An oops award is on its way to Fox Sports Radio for airing this liner voiced by sportscaster James Brown…

“Hi, I’m James Brown – and you’re listening to The Drive on Fox with Chris Myers and Brian Cox.”

…such a liner was useless for two reasons…

1. Chris and Brian were both away on assignment — Chris in Florida covering Daytona SpeedWeeks and Brian visiting our men and women in uniform in Iraq. To the network’s credit, Fox Sports Radio’s voice guy introduced their substitutes.

2. J.B., so nicknamed by his colleagues and legions of fans, is no longer with Fox Sports. In a week Al Michaels “crossed the street” to NBC, Brown was named the new studio host for CBS’ The NFL Today.

…oh, and this liner aired *twice* this week.

OY!

Cindy e-mailed me noting we have a couple to cheer for when The Amazing Race 9 starts…

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race9/bios/lake_michelle/

…I think we can bury the hatchet over “find the Southern colonel” from TAR8, a.k.a. the family edition.