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Hearne: Extreme Micro Wrestling Federation Slams Granada in Lawrence Tonight
To borrow an expression, let’s get ready to rumble…
You guys are about to owe me. That’s right. Because I’m about to turn you on to the Extreme Micro Wrestling Federation‘s midget wrestling show tonight at the Granda in downtown Lawrence. You can thank me later.
Or not.
In any case, I didn’t want you to miss it, since chances you’re bound to see stuff like "people 4’10” and under pummel each other with fists, various props, and Spandex," according to imposemagazine.com (why didn’t I think of that name?). "The entire event involves three one-on-one matches, a steel cage match involving several of the wrestlers, and then a surprise bonus at the end, which is promised to be ‘unlike anything you’ve seen before.’ This ends up being stripping midgets."
Fancy that. But before you guys go Craig Glazer, be advised it looks like all the midget strippers will be dudes. Can’t say for sure, but I couldn’t find any PR pix of chicks other than the full size ones.
Hearne: Nick Wright vs. Kevin Kietzman, No Punches Pulled
Uno que mas…
Which have you had the most "more than enough" of? My radio ratings breakdowns or Harley‘s comments section rants about me not having a clue?
That said, I’m going to risk it all by offering up one last ratings breakdown I think you’ll find of interest. You won’t find it on any local loser, blogger sites cuz they can’t get ’em.
So here come the Top 5 afternoon drive radio shows for male listeners ages 25 to 54, weekdays.
In other words, most of you dudes reading these words.
Starbeams: Under Arrest for Pol Threatening, Pot Smoking, Car Jacking & Cop Bashing
A Kansas man was arrested at Honolulu airport over threats to Vice President Joe Biden. Justin Alan Woodward was arrested Friday when he arrived in Honolulu on a Delta Airlines flight. Ironically, Woodward now leads President Obama by 7 points in the latest poll.
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Missouri Governor Jay Nixon‘s son, Wilson Nixon, has been charged with possession of marijuana. Wilson is 21. He says he is just practicing up in case his dad ever runs for Mayor of Kansas City.
Leftridge: Next Year’s Kansas City Royals Could Be The Real Deal
Dateline: Minnesota. September 28th, 2011.
The weather is cold, too cool for baseball really. The Twins knew what they were getting into when they built Target Field, but the promise of beautiful, starry-skied summer evenings was too much to pass up. It’s the top of the ninth and the Royals are trailing by two runs. First baseman Eric Hosmer is on second after a walk and a stolen base. Johnny Giavotella, diminutive second baseman, is at the plate. He’s down 0-2 to Twins closer Joe Nathan. Nathan rears back and launches a knee-buckling curveball… that lands a foot in front of the plate. Giavotella takes a violent hack, but the wind is his only victim.
The ballgame, the season and even the summer, is officially over.
Ok, so this didn’t happen. Yet. But it could.
Glazer: Local Sports Media Follow The Leader. As In Me
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Now everyone’s lined up behind your humble scribe…
To be blunt, nobody saw the Chiefs as one of the worst in the league. Except me. I broke it down for you weeks ago as to why they would struggle. After a preseason – which I explained DOES matter when your team lacks confidence and talent – they got jacked by everyone’s second team and went 0-4.
Yeah, it mattered.
There are stats about teams where it doesn’t, but with teams that finish 2-5 like the Chiefs it does.
Glazer: Leaving Las Craig-as; Bright Lights, Big City, Changing Times
OK, so I was 100 percent right on the Chiefs…
No need to dwell on that now, we’ve plenty left to worry about. Vegas was a nice time. My trip out sucked but the four days there were fun. Rio has great pools and a nude private pool. The new thing is semi-nude dancers in every ultra lounge bar and in casino bars for the first time.
New hotels come and go – they open big, then die way down. The new three hottie hotels are, of course, Encore (a couple years old but upscale and classy with great food). The newest is the spectacular Cosmopolitan – wow, eye popping! And lastly, Aria with one of the top new clubs, XS.
Donnelly: Bon Iver at the Uptown Theater, September 9, 2011
After listening to Bon Iver’s latest self-titled album several times leading up to Friday night’s sold out Uptown Theater show, I had an idea in my head of what their performance might be like.
I figured it’d be a quiet, intimate show with lots of instrumentation, lots of ambient noise, and precise musicianship. And of course, Justin Vernon’s unique falsetto vocals that combine one part Prince and one part Beck from Midnite Vultures.
You know, some mellow nap-rock that would take me away to my own cabin in the winter woods of Wisconsin, where I could grow a beard and contemplate things by myself.
I couldn’t have been more wrong…
Hearne: The Top 10 Kansas City Radio Stations for Women Listeners in August
One of the most prized possessions in all of radio is women listeners….
Obviously, right? Equally obviously, you can’t break those numbers out and thus make a determination by staring at the 6-plus ratings readily available to the public.
You gotta go deep so here they are…
The Top 10 KC Radio Stations in Women Listeners gaes 25 to 54, Monday thru Friday from 6.am. to 7 p.m.
1) K-Love with a 10.1 share up from 9.3 in July tied with Mix 93.3 at 10.1 up from a 7.5 share.
2) KPRS FM at a 6.8 share up 6.7
3) KCMO FM with a 6.2 share down from a 6.5 share.
4) The Rock with a 5.6 share down from 6.1
5) KCFX FM with a 4.8 share up from a 3.4 share
New Jack City: Round & Round They Go, Hollywood’s Numbers Game
In case you may be swayed to rent some of this year’s earlier filmfare, let’s review what America’s movie fans wisely stayed away from in droves when Hollywood unleashed these stinkers.
That’s not to say that these films are totally unwatchable, but you should have fair warning that not everything here that shines actually glitters.
According to THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER these are the biggest flops of 2011—SO FAR!
* MARS NEEDS MOMS—Estimated production cost $150 million / Domestic ticket sales $21.4 million.
Donnelly: KC’s Best Team Riding High Atop Eastern Conference After Houston Shutout
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Kansas City sports fans, take notice.
KC has a first place team.
A team that at various times earlier this season floundered during a self-imposed two month road trip. A team that heard many call for the firing of their head coach and technical director. A team that many said was buried half way through the long season, starting off the 2011 campaign with a 2-6-1 record.
A team with grit, personality, and a penchant for late-game dramatics. A team with a local ownership group that doesn’t skirt issues, but tackles them head-on. A team that is committed to winning, and has made public that they will accept nothing less than a playoff berth THIS SEASON.
Today: Humble Scribe From Vegas to Comments Crowd; ‘I Told You So’
Get ready to wash the cars, run errands and do yardwork…
That’s how bad this year’s Kansas City Chiefs are. Why watch bad football and drink cheap beer when the Great Outdoors beckons?
With the Chiefs down 41 to 7, humble scribe Craig Glazer called from Vegas to say, "I told you so."
"The headline should read, ‘Humble Scribe says, Will the Chiefs Win Even One Game?’" Glazer says. "This will be Todd Haley‘s last season. Get Marty Schottenheimer back!"
Glazer’s been on record all summer that the Chiefs would have a gawdawful season.
Hearne: Kansas City’s Top 10 Radio Stations in Men 25 to 54 in August
It’s August, fall and football are already in the air…
Why not, given the sorry state of baseball here? It’s hardly surprising that local sports talk stations were looking ahead to the NFL season. Despite the Chiefsn poor preseason play.
Music heavyweights KCFX and The Rock were softer but still strong. But who tied a lead balloon to alt rocker The Buzz‘s formerly high flying kite? Maybe Lazlo should spend more time in a real church and less preaching politics in his. And now…
KANSAS CITY’S TOP 10 RADIO STATIONS IN MEN 25-54, 6 A.M. TO MIDNIGHT, MONDAY THRU FRIDAY
1) KCFX FM with a 11.9 share, down from 12.8 in July. Still going strong but awaiting will a shakey Chiefs season take a toll?
2) The Rock with a 10.1 share, down from July’s 10.6. Johnny Dare still living large with new contract in tow.
3) WHB with a 7.7 share up from 6.2. This is why you gotta ignore bloggers touting 6-plus and 12-plus seven day ratings that plainly do not matter. And where you’ll find ridiculous headlines like this one: "KCSP STILL AHEAD OF WHB"
Hearne: Kansas City’s Top 20 Radio Stations in August – For Real!
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You guys did a kickass job of indulging me on my explanation of why the seven day, 6-plus radio ratings are bogus…
Actually, you barely laid a glove on me. Not even Kansas Karl. Obviously, you had other radio things on your minds, which is fine. Not that I couldn’t use the abuse. Anyway, here are the Top 20 radio stations in KC for August in adults 25 to 54, Monday through Friday 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.
1) Who else? KCFX FM, The Fox, with an 8.7 share, up from 8.6 in July and the station’s best month in a year.
2) The Rock with an 8.1 share, down slightly from 8.5 in July.
3) K-Love with a 6.4 share up strongly from a 5.3. No two ways about it, these Christians are lions!
4) Mix 93.3 FM with a 5.6 share, up from a 4.5 share.
5) KCMO FM with a 5.2 share, up from 4.8.
6) KPRS FM with a 5.0 share up from 4.8
7) WHB with a 4.5 share up sharply from a 3.5 share.
8) Alice with a 4.0 down from a 4.4 in July.
9) The Buzz, freefalling to a 3.9 from a 6.1 share.
10) Q104 FM with a 3.8 share, down sharply from a 6.0 share a month earlier.
Hearne: Radio Station The Buzz Plummets from Top 5 in August
There’s only on word for the ratings fall suffered by radio station The Buzz in August…argggh!
Five short months ago the local alt rocker was kicking butt and taking names in adults 25 to 54 weekdays from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. with a 7.4 share of listeners. In August – during its bitter falling out with music fest Kanrocksas – it plunged from No. 3 in the marketplace with a 6.1 share to No. 9 with a 3.9 share. Ouch!
It gets worse.
In Men 25-54 in that same period, The Buzz fell from a 6.3 share to 3.9 for 10th place. Its morning drive show dropped from 4th to 15th from a 6.2 share in men 25-54 to to 2.9.
Things could be worse…
Glazer: Crashing Las Vegas, Fright Flight, Fat Folks & Terrorist Bathroom Bust
I come here not to bury Caesar, but to praise him…
Caesar’s Palace, that is. Well, they were sold out, so I had to go to my old favorite the RIO. You see it on TV with the Texas Hold ‘Em championship. Decent, but not as good as Caesar’s. Oh well, maybe I’ll learn not to book stuff at the last minute.
Had to fly to Phoenix first to save 500 bucks. That’s right, a round trip, last minute, day before, non stop flight cost $950. Mine was $465, not good, but oh well.
Next my new suit case wouldn’t fit into my brother’s new Porsche Boxster. So my Dad had to drive me to airport. Christ, he bitched the entire time.
Today: Here’s Why The 6 Plus Radio Rankings Really Don’t Matter
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I’ll give you the correct, accurate, important radio ratings and rankings shortly…
In the meantime allow me to explain why the publically published ratings for listeners ages 6 and older, Monday thru Sunday, 6 a.m. to midnight are unimportant. Misleading even. Those are the ratings Arbitron releases to the public and media largely for PR purposes.
They’re free-to-good-home, unlike the key ratings ad agencies and stations pay thousands of dollars to obtain.
If all Arbitron had to offer were the 6-plus numbers, it would be out of business.
The ratings that matter measure key listening hours and specific demographics important to stations and advertisers. And the timeslots where the most listenership and revenues are attained are on weekdays between 6 a.m. (morning drive) and 7 p.m. (afternoon drive).
Far fewer listeners tune in outside of those hours, with few exceptions.
What’s more, the 6-plus ratings actually distort the real radio ratings and rankings.
Hearne: Banned by KU – Forget KU Football & Twitter – It Could Happen to You!
Lost in shuffle and the blistering August heat was a story about banning at KU….
That’s right, banning. I’m not talking about KU football coach Turner Gill‘s banning of Twitter for the team. We’re talking "Banned in Boston" type banning. Or like the time the Plaza tried to banish panhandler Jerry Mazer.
You know, banning.
Take the case of former Pennylane music guru Saul Tucker, aka the KU sports mascot who goes by White Owl…
After pyramiding his strange looks and dance moves into a love affair with the KU football team (when it was good a handful of years back) and a 20-something KU coed, Tucker vaulted from homeless dude to toast of the town.
No mas….
Sounds Good: Bon Iver@Uptown, Blink-182@Sandstone, Crossroads Music Fest
I’m kind of confused… 
My friend says that Wilco is soft – at least anything post Ghost is Born. Really?
I mean, yeah, Wilco (The Album) kinda sucked, as did Sky Blue Sky to a certain extent, but does liking those albums automatically make me a pussy?
I’m asking.
He also says that the best new stuff around is Bon Iver. (Say it like you’re French, like "bone eve-air," squares). You know, wispy, high pitched vocals, songs about lost loves, and stuff like that.
And Wilco’s soft?
No, they’re not soft I keep telling myself. He doesn’t know what he’s talking about, right? He’s the one who, after the My Morning Jacket show said, "Well, they’re no Bon Iver."
What does that even mean? I kind of want to release my "friend’s" contact info to the infamous KCC commentariat to do with it what they will. Hmmm…
Side note: Wilco is coming to the Uptown on December 3rd just shortly after the release of their new album, that I hear is not "soft" at all. Nor crappy like the last two. So to recap that’s: 1) new Wilco album and show at the Uptown; 2) not soft; and 3) not crappy.
On to this weekend’s picks…
Hearne: Gunslinger Sportswriter Wanted; Fumble Fingers Need Not Apply
Ready to get star struck?
Find yourself moping and daydreaming all day? Fantascizing becoming the next Matt Donnelly or something?
Mope no more.
KC Confidential is looking for someone to help lighten the onerous burden of almost single handedly carrying the entire Greater Kansas City and Lawrence sports scene upon his back; World’s Humblest Scribe, field marshall Craig Glazer.
