KC Confidential

Future KU multi millionaire Andrew Wiggins

The poor play of the University of Kansas football team is starting to cause difficulties for the school’s vaunted basketball program.

Take the smackdown of KU’s so-called Fieldhouse Apartments.

The outlandishly expensive, $17.5 million dollar apartment complex represents a failed recruitment tool schmooze for KU basketball coach Bill Self.

“Housing, where our student-athletes reside now, is way, way, way, way behind what the competitors would be housing their student-athletes in, in a big way,” Self has stated. “In order for us to maintain and even exceed what we’ve been doing, there are certain things that have to be done…Bells and whistles are very, very important…It’s for the benefit, and certainly for the development, of the student-athletes.”

However a Kansas Legistlative Committee shot down KU athletics request for financing.

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Few Kansans embrace the word “flyover” when referencing our corner of the earth…

And rightly so; it’s a pejorative term used by east and west coasters to describe the vast wasteland we losers are stuck living in. A wasteland that cool people on the coasts must transverse in order to strike civilization on the other side of the country.

That said, college basketball aside, it’s not like we’re doing ourselves any favors image wise by enacting, or trying to enact embarrassing, goofy laws that let people know that we think…

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Were there any surprises in the newly released radio ratings?

Not exactly, but a few observations are in order. Starting with the fact that while country music station KFKF FM remained Numero Uno in listeners 6 and older in January, its share dropped from 11.4 in the Holiday ratings book to a 7.9.

Why the steep drop?  Continue reading →

Kelly Urich
The Point 99.7 FM

Let’s get something straight right up front…

The following January radio ratings are for listeners 6 and older, Monday through Sunday from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m. These are the broadest measures – and because of that – the most accurate ratings.

What they do not address are the specific demographics stations use to sell advertising. For example women ages 25 to 54, men ages 18 to 36, etc. Those numbers are made available only to subscribers – like ad agencies and radio stations – who pay tens of thousands of dollars and more to access those specifics.

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Let’s talk about the rioting on the Plaza…

More to the point, the young black kids and teens who – like their mostly white counterparts – find the upscale shopping and dining Mecca to their liking as a safe, fun place to hang.

The main difference being, because they generally come from less affluent families, the kids don’t have much if any money to spend. Or other halfway appealing parts of town they can easily get to. And  of course, because of their number and the color of their skin, they make affluent whites and others uncomfortable – very uncomfortable. And that scares the bejeezus out of the owners of the Plaza and the retailers  nd restaurateurs that operate there.

Which makes for a lose-lose deal. Continue reading →

It’s not easy being Randy Miller these days…

Was a time Miller ruled Kansas City’s radio roost. And to this day he remains a legend. He was what Erich “Mancow” Muller and Johnny Dare aspired to become…within reason. He cashed the town’s fattest radio paychecks – paychecks now dwarfed by Dare – and could do no wrong.

Hold it, scratch that.

Miller could do all kinds of wrong, but even when his on-air misdeeds rose to fireable offenses, another station in another market would come a calling with more money, resulting in more fame. Then another firing – yet more money – and on and on. Continue reading →

I’m playing these cards ultra close to the vest, but you heard it here first…

Sources say that the DEA is poised to drop the hammer on the scion of a highly regarded Kansas City jewelry family.

The details are sketchy but allegedly it entails the smuggling of both diamonds and drugs as well as some alleged intra-family misdeeds. It’s also said to entail the owing of enormous sums of money to other area jewelers.

If true, this could be the most shocking scandal in modern Kansas City history. Continue reading →

Word that Randy Miller was mounting a comeback came as news to Mancow…

After all, the syndicated shock jock out of Chicago cut his teeth interning for Miller in the late 1980s. It was a time the Cow will never forget…would that he could. What made the news even odder, was that Miller would be returning after a decade off the air in Mancow’s former college stomping grounds, Warrensburg, Missouri.

“That’s where I started my radio career,” Mancow says. “I wish Randy every bit of luck. I wouldn’t deny him the ability to feed his family.”

The flip side of those goodwill tidings: Continue reading →