Saturday Items

by Norm Gregory on December 5, 2009

in Daily Items

Seattle Radio Stations Party on with Holiday Concerts

Holiday music comes in many flavors — the shlocky, the comforting, the irreverent, the carols and classics, the radio bashes.

It’s a radio bash that looms large this weekend, as the indie-friendly Seattle station The Mountain (KMTT 103.7 FM) hosts its Winter Warmth benefit concert on Sunday at the Moore Theatre. ● More from: Seattle Times Newspaper

‘Blind Side’ gains B.O. yardage over ‘New Moon’

Bullock film makes $6.8 million in its third Friday

In their respective third Fridays, Warner Bros. football drama “The Blind Side” beat Summit Entertainment’s “The Twilight Saga: New Moon,” $6.8 million to $5.2 million. ● More from: Variety

Pamela Anderson To Release Pop Song

For those who think the music scene is boring and totally devoid of anything worth listening to – say hello to Pamela Anderson, pop star. ● More from: beatcrave.com

Wahlberg On ‘Entourage’: Two More Seasons, “But Then, A Movie”

“Entourage” executive producer Mark Wahlberg is eyeing a possible leap to the big screen for the HBO show, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Wahlberg told the trade that he believes there are two more seasons in the show’s run, “But then, a movie.” ● More from: Hollywood Wiretap

Google Finance Streams Real-Time News

After putting real-time and streaming quotes to its financial site, Google is again at it, this time adding real-time, self-updating financial news stream to Google Finance, the hopes that financial workers would turn to their financial services site to give them the edge in the market. ● More from: Search Engine Journal

Zucker on Jay Leno “In terms of ratings it’s doing exactly what we thought it would do”

A long interview with NBC Universal chief Jeff Zucker on the Comcast deal and other topics. At around the 6:45 mark he talks about Leno at 10pm and says in terms of the ratings the show is doing “exactly what we thought it would do,” though he conceded the impact on local stations was bigger and that it was something that they had to assess. ● More from: TVbytheNumbers.com

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