Category Archives: Hearne_Christopher
Hearne: Shot Dead ‘She’s A Pistol’ Owner Neither Martyr nor Hero
Live by the sword, die by the sword… That’s the sad reality – and as good a way as any – to describe the death of a small time Shawnee gun shop owner that got killed last week in a wild west style … Continue reading
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Tagged Becky Bieker, Cowboys from Hell, Jon Bieker, Kansas City Star, Karen Dillon, Pantera, She's a Pistol
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Hearne: 610 Sports Spanking WHB in Younger Listener Demos
Some of you sports radio codgers are not going to be very happy with this column… Because in spite of the fact that you may think 20 and 30-something sports talkers like Nick Wright are ridiculously bad, there’s a case to be made … Continue reading
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Tagged Carrington Harrison, Danny Parkins, don fortune, Henry Lake, Jay Binkley., Kevin Kietzman, Soren Petro
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Hearne: Star’s Mellinger Trips on St. Louis Rams Column
Journalists love it when people critique their stories by sniping, “Slow news day!” Meaning of course, the writer must have been truly bored to have choked out something so disinteresting and mundane. Sometimes readers play that card because they disagree with or simply … Continue reading
Hearne: New Lawrence Library Bucks Trend, Battles for Relevancy
The Internet giveth, the Internet taketh away… For every amazing, wondrous benefit the Internet has afforded there’s a downside. Or so it seems. We get news at lightning fast speed, but newspapers and magazine’s have gone from cash cows to the walking dead. … Continue reading
Hearne: Murderer’s Row Lawrence, Courtesy of Topeka
Small town thinking can be a little small-minded… Make no mistake, Lawrence, Kansas is definitely a small town in most every sense of the term – complete with good old boy politics and a sleepy citizenry. The small townsters here … Continue reading
Hearne: News/Talk on FM No Guarantee of Success
Brace yourselves… Today’s the big day when news/talk radio station KMBZ splits in two. Its longtime home on 980 AM will be waltzing off with right win geezer pleasers shows like Darla Jaye, Rush, Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck. Meanwhile the 98.1 FM half of … Continue reading
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Tagged 980 KMBZ, dana wright, Darla Jaye, KMBZ, KMOX AM, Rush Limbaugh
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Hearne: Round & Round & Round They Go And…
Let’s take a few to sift through some tea leaves of the December radio ratings… Up top at Numero Uno we have – big surprise – classic rocker KCFX The Fox. Not a big surprise since Baby Boom, Gen X (and some Millenials) … Continue reading
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Hearne: 610 Sports Nosedives in December Radio Ratings
Easy come, easy go… Just like that 610 Sports Cinderella ratings run last fall is in the dumper. After riding the Kansas City Royals Cinderella-like coattails in October and November’s ratings – with a 4.8 and 5.6 share respectively – the party’s o-v-e-r. 610 sank like … Continue reading
Hearne: Another Case of Media Crying Wolf?
Remember a few months ago when the entire country seemed poised to turn into a bad science fiction movie? Everywhere you turned the topic was Ebola, and this little known, largely misunderstood disease from Africa appeared ready to overrun the country. Why hadn’t the major drug … Continue reading
Hearne: It’s Time for the Chiefs to Take the High Road
What big bucks corporation wouldn’t relish putting one over on the media? That’s exactly what the Kansas City Chiefs accomplished by pulling the wool over the eyes of the Star’s Mary Sanchez and convincing her that they’d mostly eliminated the misuse of Native American symbolism. And that’s … Continue reading
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Tagged Kansas City Chiefs, Kansas City Star, Mary Sanchez, tomahwak chop
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Hearne: Star’s Sanchez Metes Out Bogus Praise for Chiefs
There she goes again… It took Kansas City Star columnist Mary Sanchez more than 20 years to revisit the ongoing controversy of using bogus American Indian symbolism to promote the Kansas City Chiefs football club. In November 1992 Sanchez scolded sports teams for their … Continue reading
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Tagged Hearne Christopher, Kansas City Chiefs, Mary Sanchez, tomahawk chop
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Hearne: Star Flubs Telling Readers Where to See ‘The Interview’ Christmas Day
My wife and I will be going to see “The Interview” on Christmas Day… And although Jack warned me I’d have to stay up for a late, late show if I wanted to see it – and Tim Engle at the Star choked … Continue reading
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Tagged Hearne Christopher, Jack Poessiger, Kansas City Star, The Interview, Tim Engle
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Hearne: Lame Magazine Study Ranks Manhattan Atop Lawrence
Enough with these bogus magazine “Best Of” magazine scams… What’s the best city to live in, the best go to college in, to raise a family, maintain your girlish figure, to visit, to retire, to start a biz – the … Continue reading
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Tagged Columbia, Hearne Christopher, K-State, Kansas, KU, Lawrence, Manhattan Kansas, MO, MU
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Hearne: Moderated Comments, Anyone? Smartman, Scribe?
A funny thing happened late last week… Not ha-ha funny, more curious funny. I’d just added a pair of words to the KC Confidential “forbidden words list” – the one I started four years ago to combat that clever rascal smartman. … Continue reading
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Tagged Hearne Christopher, Marti Dolinar, moderation, smartman
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Glazer: It’s True, The Chiefs Are Super Bowl Bound
The Chiefs stockings Sunday were full of coal… From coal town, no less – Pittsburgh, Pa. Yep, the Steelers pretty much ended the Chiefs season. Actually it ended when they couldn’t beat the gawdawful Oakland Raiders a few weeks back. … Continue reading
Hearne: The Flip Side of News-Talk Station KMBZ’s New Split Personality
Once upon a time – not that long ago actually – KMBZ 980 AM was taking down in excess of $6 million a year in billing… But you know, times change – listeners get older, advertisers loose interest or boycott … Continue reading
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Hearne: Rumored KMBZ Radio Format Change Could Backfire, Experts Say
It took nearly four years for Entercom to admit it made a mistake… To confirm that blowing up adult contemporary powerhouse KUDL (98.1 FM) in order to simulcast News Radio KMBZ (980 AM) on the FM band to try and attract younger listeners was a failure. … Continue reading
Hearne: Don’t Miss KC Confidential’s Christmas Wilding Wednesday @ Stanford’s
Brace yourselves… This year’s KC Confidential Christmas Wilding is about to unfold. Better and badder than ever, btw, in part because we’re shedding our in-town ways and holding the shindig in South Johnson County. That’s right, in the land of milk and honey where propped up two-income … Continue reading
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Tagged April Macie, Craig Glazer, Hearne Christopher, Rosana Square, Stanford & Sons
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Hearne: KCC Comments Moderation Problem is History
In the pantheon of Small Steps for Mankind, this is an infinitesimally small one… But somehow, some way, something very wicked – not to mention strange – came KC Confidential‘s way recently. Kinda like that mysterious flu that has people chunking … Continue reading →