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- In New Philadelphia, the “L” in LPFM Stands for Local
This is the second in a series about the author’s experiences helping to launch and operate WDOG(LP) “The Rock Dog.” Read Dan’s first feature in the series, “It’s the People Who Craft a Career in Radio.” WDOG(LP) in New Philadelphia, Ohio is my latest “pet project” (you have to love the pun). This is the third LPFM I’ve built and launched, and my fourth FM station overall, counting a Class C in Dallas, Texas. WDOG is easily the most fun project yet. After decades of “playing radio” alongside industry greats, top program directors and brilliant music directors, I took everything I learned over the years and crammed it into this tiny 100-watt station. The secret to making it work isn’t really a secret. It is just common sense. What made radio great decades ago is still the key to success today: offering something people want that they can’t get anywhere else, and making the station entirely relevant to the listener. A friend who was high up in the corporate radio food chain once branded their HD Radio stations as “all your favorite music, all the time.” To me, that missed the mark. The only guaranteed way to get all my favorite music all the time is to use my own media player or a streaming service loaded with my specific library. What I really want from radio is my preferred style of music, combined with an introduction to fun tracks I haven’t thought about in years or have never heard before. Tell me compelling stories about the artists, their tour dates and when they are coming to town. More importantly, tell me what is happening down the street. If I just saw smoke and heard sirens, I want to know what is going on. I don’t need a digital jukebox; my phone already fills that void. I want entertaining, fun, local content that keeps me engaged. That is the secret to great radio. When you are on a massive commercial Class C rocker, it is a blast to know you are reaching hundreds of thousands of people. However, it is also incredibly easy to alienate your audience by focusing too heavily on one specific neighborhood, leaving three-quarters of your coverage area bored by the topic. Steve Kelly hosts “The Beatles for Breakfast,” Saturday mornings on WDOG(LP). The same rule applies to web streaming. You can talk about generic lifestyle… [TheTopNews] Read More.53 mins ago - Trump Drops Shocking Violent AI Vid Showing Assault on Late Show Host Stephen Co...
President Donald Trump dropped a violent Artificial Intelligence (AI)-generated video depicting an assault on ousted Late Show host Stephen Colbert — which was also distributed by the official White House X/Twitter account. The Late Show ended its run next week, a cancellation that was announced last year just days after Colbert made a particularly harsh criticism of CBS and Trump. On Thursday night, the show ended with an emotional finale that concluded with Colbert and rock legend Paul McCartney turning out the lights in the Ed Sullivan Theater. Trump himself has taken credit for Colbert’s cancellation, along with a raft of other media moves, and was quick to celebrate the end with a late-night attack following the show. He wrote “Colbert is finally finished at CBS. Amazing that he lasted so long! No talent, no ratings, no life. He was like a dead person. You could take any person off of the street and they would be better than this total jerk. Thank goodness he’s finally gone!” But Trump wasn’t done. On Friday night, he posted a video on his Truth Social account that featured a fake Late Show clip of Colbert welcoming the audience back from a commercial break, but then being assaulted by Trump. After throwing Colbert into a dumpster, the AI Trump does a discombobulated version of the trademark upper-body dance. The president also posted the video on his X/Twitter account, and the White House followed suit minutes later. Their post carried the caption “Bye-bye .” Earlier, on Friday morning, Trump posted another attack on Colbert that carried a threat to other hosts and used the language of death. “Stephen Colbert’s firing from CBS was the “Beginning of the End” for untalented, nasty, highly overpaid, not funny, and very poorly rated Late Night Television Hosts. Others, of even less talent, to soon follow. May they all Rest in Peace! President DONALD J. TRUMP,” Trump wrote. This imagery comes as Trump and his government are attempting to jail former FBI Director James Comey for posting a photograph of seashells forming the numerical phrase “86 47,” which the Trump DOJ is claiming constituted a threat on the president’s life. Watch above via Truth Social and CBS.The post Trump Drops Shocking Violent AI Vid Showing Assault on Late Show Host Stephen Colbert — So Did His White House first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.2 hours ago - Trump Claims He ‘Did So Well With the Gay Vote’ Because He Plays the ‘The ...President Donald Trump claimed he did well among gay voters in the last election, and credited The Village People. Trump held a rally in Suffern, New York on Friday, where he was joined by Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY), who is running for reelection in New York’s 17th congressional district. The president was introduced by New York Giants quarterback Jaxson Dart, whose physique Trump marveled at. “I’m looking at the legs,” Trump said. “He’s this beautiful guy. He’s got legs like tree trunks!” Later, he told the crowd that First Lady Melania Trump had requested the president not recite some of his regular rally lines. During the anecdote, he took a brief detour to say he did well among gay voters because he plays “Y.M.C.A.” by The Village People at his rallies. “[S]he says, ‘Darling, please, you speak so beautifully, would you do me a favor? Don’t do the swimming story. Don’t do the weight-lifting story. It’s so damn unpresidential. And also, darling, when you’re leaving, and they have that song, gay national anthem,'” Trump said, relaying the first lady’s remarks. “That’s why I did so well with the gay vote, I think, because of that song,” he said. “I did great with the gay vote, better than any Republican’s ever done by far, but my wife, first lady, very elegant woman.” Earlier this month, Trump stated that his wife “hates” when he dances to the song. “She hates when I dance, too, at the end,” he told the crowd at the time. “She hates when I dance to what’s sometimes referred to as the gay national anthem. You know that? She hates it.” Polls show Trump received around 12% of the LGBTQ vote in the 2024 presidential election.The post Trump Claims He ‘Did So Well With the Gay Vote’ Because He Plays the ‘The Gay National Anthem’ at Rallies first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.10 hours ago
- Japanese Company Pours $50 Million Into Trump Presidential Library
AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson According to a Friday exclusive from Politico, Japanese tech giant SoftBank Group quietly donated $50 million to President Donald Trump’s future presidential library and foundation — one of the largest publicly known contributions to the project so far. Politico’s Daniel Lippman reported, per two people familiar with the matter, that the donation is for a section of the library planned on the U.S.-Japan alliance, specifically the economic and strategic cooperation between the two countries. As the report notes, SoftBank — one of the world’s largest investors in artificial intelligence and a major backer of OpenAI — has maintained close ties with Trump throughout both of his administrations. Founder and chair Masayoshi Son has appeared alongside the president multiple times at the White House, and even promised to invest $100 billion into U.S. companies during his second term in 2024. The company also actively lobbies the federal government on AI and technology policy issues, according to recent disclosure filings cited by Politico. Lippman went on to disclose, according to one of his two sources, that while SoftBank previously donated to the presidential libraries of former President Ronald Reagan and former President George W. Bush, those contributions came after the libraries had already been completed. Per Politico, spokespeople from the Trump library and SoftBank refused to comment. As Mediaite noted in March, when first renderings of the planned Miami building were released, the skyscraper bears a resemblance to New York City’s One World Trade Center, but with Trump’s name clearly atop it. As Politico notes, it will also be the home of Trump’s new Boeing jet — a gift from the Qatari royal family. Other funds for the Trump library effort, as Lippman points out, come in the form of lawsuit settlements with the president from major media and tech firms like Meta, X, Paramount Global, and ABC News.The post Japanese Company Pours $50 Million Into Trump Presidential Library first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.12 hours ago - ‘Are You Saying That About Me?!’ Jessica Tarlov Confronts Co-Host Who Floate...On Friday’s edition of Fox News’ The Five, Jessica Tarlov confronted Fox News contributor Tyrus after he floated the use of a crude word, responding, “Are you saying that about me?!” During the moment in question, Tarlov was discussing a Friday speech from President Donald Trump at a rally in Rockland County, New York, for Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY). “Today,” she said, “telling people you have more money in your pockets when nobody thinks that — except the richest Americans at this point. You know, the weird stuff again about the cognitive tests and how he’s acing things that they give to people who’ve had traumatic brain injuries, no one knows there’s a B in the word dumb — we all know there’s a B in the word dumb.” She continued: And he has cratering support with core constituencies. In the Fox poll, amongst Republicans, non-MAGA GOP, white voters, rural Americans, approval in the mid-30s, 71% disapprove of the economy, he’s negative 52 on handling inflation. And guess what? There are no legislative accomplishments for the Republicans. [Sen.] Josh Hawley [R-MO] has admitted it. There’s a big POLITICO piece about this. I love this from a GOP Senate aide: “The so-called victories” — I’m talking about this getting [Rep.] Thomas Massie [R-KY] out — “over the last couple of weeks are just a mirage. They’re self-owns. Gas is up 45% due to the president’s decisions to go to war with Iran, and he’s focused on the ballroom and his slush fund.” They couldn’t do the reconciliation bill because he’s like, “Oh, there were very fine people who came in on January 6, and they deserve compensation.” “There’s another word with a B that I would like to add to that, and it’s in the front,” said Tyrus. “Are you saying that about me, Tyrus?!” asked Tarlov. “I’m talking about the Democratic party,” he backtracked. Watch the full clip above via Fox News.The post ‘Are You Saying That About Me?!’ Jessica Tarlov Confronts Co-Host Who Floated Using Crude Word first appeared on Mediaite. [TheTopNews] Read More.13 hours ago
- Adam Schiff Shreds Tulsi Gabbard While Offering Condolences for Husband’s ‘S...
Francis Chung/POLITICO via AP Images Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) tore into departing Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard on Friday, ripping her resignation as her “only positive contribution” to U.S. national security after she announced her plan to “step away from public service” while her husband battles a bone cancer diagnosis. The senator’s blistering statement came just hours after Gabbard announced she was stepping down from her role in President Donald Trump’s administration effective June 30 and acknowledged the “circumstances around her departure” – offering prayers – before scorching the outgoing DNI’s record. “She politicized intelligence. She dismantled critical agencies keeping Americans safe. She weaponized the IC to pursue baseless election fraud claims. And more,” Schiff wrote on X. He continued: “We must ensure that her tenure — marked by a devotion to the person of the president and not to the security of the country — represents a terrible exception at DNI and not the new normal.” Schiff’s remarks were met with furious rebuttal from administration officials and conservatives alike who viewed the takedown as wildly insensitive, given Gabbard’s stated reasoning. Trump’s ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee unloaded on Schiff as a “serial liar” and condemned the statement: I've always realized Adam "full of" Schiff had NO class & he proved to be a serial liar who fabricated hateful charges against @realDonaldTrump but his comments about @TulsiGabbard are a new low for someone I didn't think could sink any lower. He just did. https://t.co/IwQI0qmbYT — Ambassador Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) May 22, 2026 White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson called the post “ghoul behavior”: Absolute ghoul behavior. Disgusting. — Abigail Jackson (@abigailmarone) May 22, 2026 New York Post columnist Miranda Devine branded Schiff a “snake”: You snake https://t.co/l6Lt3bXTNj — Miranda Devine (@mirandadevine) May 22, 2026 Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) and conservative pundit Megyn Kelly also joined in to slam the senator’s remarks: Utterly classless. https://t.co/OIfu8sLLv2 — Nancy Mace (@NancyMace) May 22, 2026 Omg you are so inappropriate. Shame on you @SenAdamSchiff https://t.co/GCL2Ovoq17 — Megyn Kelly (@megynkelly) May 22, 2026 Gabbard, formerly an anti-interventionist Democrat and the fourth Trump Cabinet official to resign, served a tenure marked by several controversies, including criticism over her appearance at an FBI raid connected to a Georgia election office in Fulton County. She later said she had attended… [TheTopNews] Read More.14 hours ago
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