Welcome (back!!) to SDRadio for Monday, August 22, 2011. There are a couple of shopping months until Christmas!
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James Barbour leaves San Diego after a week of criticism from 760 KFMB talk show host Rick Roberts.
After initially voicing their support, San Diego’s Old Globe Theatre announced on Thursday that actor James Barbour was leaving his role in their upcoming production of The Rocky Horror Show.
The move followed nearly a week of intense on-air criticism. 760 KFMB’S Rick Roberts blasted the theatre and their CEO Louis Spisto for hiring Barbour following his 2008 guilty plea on two misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child. The Globe is widely known of its annual production of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and regularly hosts young actors for workshops and other events. Barbour admitted to seducing a 15 year old girl who had visited him backstage. He also admitted to having had oral sex with the girl at his apartment.
The Globe cited “issues with his (Barbour) wife’s pregnancy” as the reason for his departure.
Mr. Roberts placed numerous calls to The Globe staff to speak to Mr. Spisto directly regarding his approval of Barbour’s hiring, his presence at The Globe and Spisto’s support of the actor. Each call was directed to a voice mail box–no calls to Mr. Roberts have been returned.
“I’m deeply concerned about the judgment of The Old Globe’s CEO Louis Spisto,” said Roberts. “We deserve to hear from him directly so that he can explain why he thought it was appropriate to bring Mr. Barbour to San Diego and whether or not he’d hire him for any future Old Globe productions.”
Rick has had a history of “exposing” sexual predators on his radio show, and using the power of his microphone and his “court of public opinion” is not afraid to rattle the cages of “lemming thought” in the area.
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AM 600 KOGO, San Diego’s News and Talk Station, has announced a unique project in honor of the tenth anniversary of the 9-11 terrorist attacks on America. KOGO has begun a community-wide campaign to locate San Diego children who were born on September 11, 2001 to participate in a video documentary, entitled “DOB 9-11”.
The special video production will feature stories and interviews with 10-year-olds in San Diego born on or about 9-11-01.
Children born on 9/11 or after, live with a different perspective than the rest of us. It is that perspective we will explore in this video documentary “DOB 9-11”. AM 600 KOGO is looking for children who were born on September 11, 2001 to participate in this documentary. We want to hear their perceptions of this event in American history that occurred on the day they were born and to get their views of the world and the impact 9/11 has had upon it.
AM 600 KOGO invites parents and legal guardians of children born on September 11, 2001 to visit KOGO.com (keyword: TEN) by August 29, 2011, where more details about the documentary and participation are available. KOGO plans to debut the documentary online at KOGO.com on Friday, September 10, 2011.
In its 236 year history our nation has endured many traumatic events, but the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 may well be the most profound. The events of that day unfolded before our eyes, in real time, on television and computer screens where we lived, worked and went to school. It was perhaps the first time in our nation’s history that most citizens witnessed the devastation and loss as it happened. “9/11” as it has become known, forever changed the American landscape and our outlook on life.
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Mike Terry, known for his years at 760 KFMB died recently. (Pictured here with Jon Cryer at the studios.)
Cliff Albert writes: ” I hired Mike back in 1981 to be the morning news anchor on the Hudson and Bauer Show when I was News Director and Mike anchored the news and was an important part of San Diego’s #1 morning show through all of the 80s until he left San Diego in 1990 and moved back to Wisconsin for family reasons.
“Mike was a real pro,” Cliff writes, “one of the best voices in the business, diligent at his work, a good writer and a warm and giving personality. I first met him when we worked together in the late 1978 at WLIP in Kenosha, Wisconsin. He was a believer in Christ and I am sure he is doing heavenly newscasts now.”
Shotgun Tom Kelly writes: “When Tony Pepper called me the other night and told me that Mike Terry had passed away I was so surprised. It was just last month Mike Terry sent me an e-mail and we were talking about his days in San Diego radio. Mike had to be the friendliest newsman I worked with at KFMB. I will miss him and his nice E-mails.”
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Congratulations to Elaina Smith for her home-run signing of our national anthem at the Padres game on Friday night. Here, she is pictured with Channel 4′s John Weisbarth and DSC Producer Emily Maguire.
