100.3 The Sound [WSDD] Review

After 5.75 days of 100.3 The Sound's existence, it has worked for the St. Louis Market. I think it will last, given the Rap was horrid music, and that there is WHHL, 2 Urban ACs (WFUN and KMJM) and KSLZ (Top 40 leaning more Rhythmic).

Here's what was played during the First 6 Hours of 100.3 The Sound:
12AM CST HOUR
Owl City - Fireflies 26.12.2009 12:03am (1st song ever as WSDD)
Gin Blossoms - Follow You Down 26.12.2009 12:06am
Matt Nathanson - Come On Get Higher 26.12.2009 12:10am
Daughtry - No Surprise 26.12.2009 12:14am
Jimmy Eat World - The Middle 26.12.2009 12:18am
Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire 26.12.2009 12:21am
The All-American Rejects - Gives You Hell 26.12.2009 12:25am
Sugar Ray - Someday 26.12.2009 12:28am
Plain White T's - 1,2,3,4 26.12.2009 12:32am
Nickelback - Never Gonna Be Alone 26.12.2009 12:36am
The Black Crowes - Hard To Handle 26.12.2009 12:40am
KT Tunstall - Suddenly I See 26.12.2009 12:43am
Blues Traveler - Run-Around 26.12.2009 12:47am
Five For Fighting - 100 Years 26.12.2009 12:51am
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning 26.12.2009 12:55am
Sara Bareilles - Love Song 26.12.2009 12:59am

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1AM CST Hour
Collective Soul - Shine 26.12.2009 1:03am
Rob Thomas - Someday 26.12.2009 1:07am
Staind - Right Here 26.12.2009 1:12am
Counting Crows - Mr. Jones 26.12.2009 1:16am
Creed - Rain 26.12.2009 1:20am
Coldplay - Viva La Vida 26.12.2009 1:24am
Ingrid Michaelson - Maybe 26.12.2009 1:28am
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge 26.12.2009 1:31am
Green Day - Wake Me Up When September Ends 26.12.2009 1:35am
Uncle Kracker - Smile 26.12.2009 1:40am
Barenaked Ladies - Brian Wilson 26.12.2009 1:44am
311 - Love Song 26.12.2009 1:48am
Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon 26.12.2009 1:51am
The All-American Rejects - Dirty Little Secret 26.12.2009 1:55am
Everclear - Wonderful 26.12.2009 1:58am

2AM CST Hour
Colbie Caillat - Fallin' For You 26.12.2009 2:02am
U2 - The Sweetest Thing 26.12.2009 2:06am
Nickelback - If Today Was Your Last Day 26.12.2009 2:09am
Train - Hey, Soul Sister 26.12.2009 2:13am
Maroon 5 - This Love 26.12.2009 2:17am

Cavo - Let It Go 26.12.2009 2:21am
Rob Thomas - Her Diamonds 26.12.2009 2:24am
Collective Soul - December 26.12.2009 2:28am
Shinedown - Second Chance 26.12.2009 2:32am
Bon Jovi - We Weren't Born To Follow 26.12.2009 2:36am
Sister Hazel - All For You 26.12.2009 2:40am
Jack Johnson - Upside Down 26.12.2009 2:44am
Creed - My Sacrifice 26.12.2009 2:48am
Augustana - Boston 26.12.2009 2:52am
Foo Fighters - Big Me 26.12.2009 2:56am
Sheryl Crow - The First Cut Is The Deepest 26.12.2009 2:58am

3AM CST Hour
Jason Mraz - I'm Yours 26.12.2009 3:02am
Jewel - Who Will Save Your Soul 26.12.2009 3:06am
Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody 26.12.2009 3:10am
Counting Crows - Accidentally In Love 26.12.2009 3:13am
Third Eye Blind - Semi-Charmed Life 26.12.2009 3:16am
John Mayer - Heartbreak Warefare 26.12.2009 3:20am
The Fray - You Found Me 26.12.2009 3:25am
Five For Fighting - Chances 26.12.2009 3:29am
Maroon 5 - Harder To Breathe 26.12.2009 3:32am
Goo Goo Dolls - Better Days 26.12.2009 3:35am
Owl City - Fireflies 26.12.2009 3:39am
No Doubt - Spiderwebs 26.12.2009 3:43am
Fall Out Boy - Sugar, We're Goin Down 26.12.2009 3:47am
Santana/Alex Band - Why Don't You & I 26.12.2009 3:51am
Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out 26.12.2009 3:55am
Nine Days - Absolutely (Story Of A Girl) 26.12.2009 3:58am

4AM CST Hour
Rob Thomas - Someday 26.12.2009 4:02am
Creed - With Arms Wide Open 26.12.2009 4:05am
O.A.R. - Shattered (Turn The Car Around) 26.12.2009 4:09am
Michael Franti & Spearhead - Say Hey (I Love You) 26.12.2009 4:14am
Jet - Are You Gonna Be My Girl 26.12.2009 4:17am
Shinedown - If You Only Knew 26.12.2009 4:21am
Lifehouse - Whatever It Takes 26.12.2009 4:25am
Hootie & The Blowfish - I Go Blind 26.12.2009 4:28am
Nickelback - Gotta Be Somebody 26.12.2009 4:31am
Green Day - 21 Guns 26.12.2009 4:35am
Goo Goo Dolls - Slide 26.12.2009 4:41am
Jack Johnson - Sitting, Waiting, Wishing 26.12.2009 4:44am
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Learning To Fly 26.12.2009 4:48am
Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah 26.12.2009 4:51am
U2 - Desire 26.12.2009 4:55am
The All-American Rejects - It Ends Tonight 26.12.2009 4:58am

5AM CST Hour
Katy Perry - Hot N Cold 26.12.2009 5:02am
John Mayer - Why Georgia 26.12.2009 5:06am
Uncle Kracker - Smile 26.12.2009 5:10am
Buckcherry - Sorry 26.12.2009 5:15am
The White Stripes - Seven Nation Army 26.12.2009 5:19am
Lifehouse - Halfway Gone 26.12.2009 5:23am
Theory Of A Deadman - Not Meant To Be 26.12.2009 5:26am
Daughtry - No Surprise 26.12.2009 5:30am
Coldplay - Clocks 26.12.2009 5:34am
The Fray - How To Save A Life 26.12.2009 5:38am
Colbie Caillat - Fallin' For You 26.12.2009 5:44am
Fastball - Out Of My Head 26.12.2009 5:48am
The Killers - Read My Mind 26.12.2009 5:50am
Barenaked Ladies - One Week 26.12.2009 5:54am
Matchbox Twenty - How Far We've Come 26.12.2009 5:57am
Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody 26.12.2009 6:01am

Random songs
Default - Wasting My Time 26.12.2009 7:51am
Soul Asylum - Runaway Train 26.12.2009 10:06am
Stone Temple Pilots - Plush 26.12.2009 10:58am
Counting Crows/Vanessa Carlton- Big Yellow Taxi 27.12.2009 6:51pm
The Cure - Friday I'm In Love 27.12.2009 9:05pm
Dave Matthews Band - Where Are You Going 28.12.2009 5:29pm
Pearl Jam - Better Man 28.12.2009 5:45pm
Linkin Park - Numb 28.12.2009 5:53pm
Marcy Playground - Sex And Candy 29.12.2009 5:05am
Gin Blossoms - Hey Jealousy 29.12.2009 5:17am
Sublime - What I Got 29.12.2009 5:31am
R.E.M. - Stand 29.12.2009 3:55pm
Liz Phair - Why Can't I? 29.12.2009 7:06pm
U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For 30.12.2009 12:07am
Lenny Kravitz - American Woman 30.12.2009 12:49am
Michelle Branch - All You Wanted 30.12.2009 7:56pm
Spin Doctors - Two Princes 31.12.2009 7:42am
Gavin Rossdale - Love Remains The Same 31.12.2009 7:50am
Fastball - The Way 31.12.2009 11:06am
The All-American Rejects - Move Along 31.12.2009 11:56am
Bon Jovi - It's My Life 31.12.2009 12:07pm
Hoobastank - The Reason 31.12.2009 12:51pm
Chumbawamba - Tubthumping 31.12.2009 12:55pm
3 Doors Down - Let Me Be Myself 31.12.2009 12:58pm
Tonic - If You Could Only See 31.12.2009 1:35pm
Evanescence/Paul McCoy - Bring Me To Life 31.12.2009 2:18pm
Beck - Where It's At 31.12.2009 3:04pm
The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California 31.12.2009 3:14pm
Radiohead - Creep 31.12.2009 3:47pm
The Cardigans - Lovefool 31.12.2009 4:56pm
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - The Impression That I Get 31.12.2009 5:34pm
Nelly Furtado - Say It Right 31.12.2009 5:06pm
Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now 31.12.2009 6:04pm
Saving Abel - Addicted 31.12.2009 6:27pm
Natalie Imbruglia - Torn 31.12.2009 6:53pm

Now, where should Mediabase report this as? AAA, Hot AC, or Alt. I am thinking AAA. How will it impact KYKY and KPNT? I think KYKY will be going more pop whereas KPNT is heading to full-blown active rock.

UPDATE (01.05.2009): Link updated. Mediabase has put WSDD as a Hot AC.


-- From: http://www.yes.com/#WSDD

Fuse Best of 2009/T40 Live Blog

LiveBlog
2:51PM CST: 10 Minutes Away from the start of Fuse's Top 40 of 2009.
2:59PM CST: Fuse Top 40 of 2009 starts. Toure hosts.
3:00PM CST: #40: Jay Sean/Lil Wayne "Down"
3:03PM CST: #39: Mariah Carey "Obsessed"
3:04PM CST: Year in Rihanna plug.
3:05PM CST: Why the hell is Toure hosting when it should be Steven or Juliya doing it?
3:07PM CST: Commercial Break #1
3:11PM CST: #38: The Fray "You Found Me"
3:13PM CST: Allison with Biggest Singles of 2009.
3:15PM CST: #37: Katy Perry "Waking Up In Vegas"
3:17PM CST: 2nd Commercial Break
3:21PM CST: #36: Theory Of A Deadman "Not Meant To Be"
3:22PM CST: Allison with Biggest Tours.
3:23PM CST: #35: The All-American Rejects "Gives You Hell"
3:25PM CST: Commercial Break #3
3:29PM CST: #34: Flo Rida/Ke$ha "Right Round"
3:31PM CST: #33: Muse "Uprising"
3:33PM CST: Allison with Biggest Digital Downloads.
3:35PM CST: Commercial Break #4
3:39PM CST: #32: The-Dream "Rocking That Thang"
3:42PM CST: #31: Incubus "Love Hurts"
3:45PM CST: Steven with Green Day.
3:47PM CST: Commercial Break #5
3:51PM CST: #30: Keri Hilson/Kanye West/Ne-Yo "Knock You Down"
3:55PM CST: Allison on Kanye West 2009.
3:57PM CST: #29: Kanye West "Heartless"
4:00PM CST: End of Hour 1. Start of Hour 2.
4:01PM CST: Commercial break 6
4:05PM CST: #28: 30H!3 "Don't Trust Me"
4:08PM CST: Allison with Wusic Festivals.
4:11PM CST: #27: T.I./Justin Timberlake "Dead and Gone"
4:16PM CST: Commercial Break 7
4:20PM CST: #26: Mudvayne "Do What You Do"
4:23PM CST: Allison with Twitter of 2009.
4:25PM CST: #25: Disturbed "Indestructible"
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4:29PM CST: Commercial Break 8
4:33PM CST: #24: Silversun Pickups "Panic Switch"
4:37PM CST: #23: Anberlin "Feel Good Drag"
4:40PM CST: Allison w/ Bands That Reunited
4:42PM CST: Commercial Break 9
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4:45PM CST: #22: Taylor Swift "You Belong With Me"
4:49PM CST: Commerical Break 104:53PM CST: Allison on KOL
4:55PM CST: #21: Kings Of Leon "Use Somebody" (Way Too Low!)
4:59PM CST: End of Hour 2 and 1st half. Start of Hour 3 and 2nd Half.

5:00PM CST: Start of 2nd Half. #20: P!nk "Sober"
5:01PM CST: #19: Nickelback "If Today Was Your Last Day"
5:03PM CST: Jay-Z segment.
5:06PM CST: Commercial Break 11
5:10PM CST: #18: Metallica "All Nightmare Long"
5:12PM CST: Twilight.
5:15PM CST: #17: Beyoncé "Halo"
5:16PM CST: Commercial break 12
5:20PM CST: #16: Jamie Foxx/T-Pain "Blame It"
5:22PM CST: The Year in Britney w/ Allison.
5:24PM CST: #15: Kid Cudi "Day N' Nite"
5:27PM CST: Commercial Break 13
5:29PM CST: #14: Daughtry "No Surprise"
5:31PM CST: The Year of Black Eyed Peas w/ Allison
5:33PM CST: #13: Black Eyed Peas "Boom Boom Pow" (exclusive to Fuse)
5:35PM CST: Commercial Break 14
5:40PM CST: #12: Rise Against "Audience Of One"
5:44PM CST: #11: Slipknot "Dead Memories"
5:48PM CST: Commercial Break 15
5:52PM CST: #10: Kelly Clarkson "My Life Would Suck Without You"
5:54PM CST: Biggest Feuds w/ Allison.
5:57PM CST: #9: Green Day "Know Your Enemy"
6:00PM CST: Year in Lady Gaga.
6:02PM CST: End of Hour 3. Start of the 4th and final hour.
Commercial Break 16
6:06PM CST: #8: Jay-Z/Rihanna/Kane West "Run This Town"
6:10PM CST: Allison w/ Biggest Albums.
6:14PM CST: #7: Shinedown "Sound Of Madness"
6:16PM CST: Commercial Break 17
6:21PM CST: #6: Linkin Park "New Divide"
6:23PM CST: #5: Lady Gaga "Poker Face"
6:24PM CST: Top 4 still up in the air.
P/ds:
4 Eminem
3 Papa Roach
2 Britney
1 Paramore
6:25PM CST: Michael Jackson tribute.
6:28PM CST: Commercial Break 18
6:32PM CST: #4: Eminem "3AM"
6:37PM CST: #3: Paramore "Ignorance"
6:41PM CST: Commercial Break 19
6:45PM CST: 2010 Preview W/ Allison
6:47PM CST: #2: Papa Roach "Lifeline"
6:51PM CST: Commercial Break 20
6:55PM CST: #1: Hitlerney Spears "Circus"
Her fans fucking rigged the whole cock-sucking countdown, when Paramore and Papa Roach should've been #1 and #2, and Britney should've been kicked out when she faced off against Gaga.

I hope someone maces her face in for ruining the Fuse Best of 2009.

Jessie James - My Cowboy [Pop or Country?]

Jessie James
"My Cowboy"
Jessie James (2009)

Reaction: A lot of the CMT viewers heavily oppose it, and say it is too pop and/or sexed up. This video was briefly shown on Thursday afternoon.

My take: I think this is Country-pop, whereas ILSG(WY) is straight pop and Wanted is pop w/ country influence. The video's main draw: Jessie James dancing around as a sexy teacher is most every man's fantasy (including mine). I think of that scene as a reminder for her to spank me, bust my balls/walk all over me with her heels on (femdom/foot/shoe fetish card played here), and give me detention.

Best of SURS Playlists

10.02.2009: Green Day, officially called Steven's Untitled Rock Show. Also, the 1st full hour episode of SURS.
1 My Chemical Romance "Helena"
2 Green Day "Holiday"
3 Motion City Soundtrack "My Favorite Accident"
4 Coheed and Cambria "Blood Red Summer"
5 Blink-182 "Down"
6 Millencolin "Ray"
7 The Used "Take It Away"
8 The Clash "I Fought The Law" [Punk Rock 101]

10.09.2009: Rise Against
1 My Chemical Romance "I'm Not Okay (I Promise)"
2 Rise Against "Swing Life Away" (Live)
3 Transplants "Gangsters and Thugs"
4 Jimmy Eat World "Pain"
5 Taking Back Sunday "You're So Last Summer"
6 Reggie and the Full Effect "Get Well Soon"
7 Alkaline Trio "We've Had Enough"
8 The Offspring "Can't Repeat"
9 Sunny Day Real Estate "Seven"

10.16.2009: Weezer
1 Head Automatica "Beating Hearts Baby"
2 Reggie and the Full Effect "Congratulations Smack and Katy"
3 Weezer "We Are All On Drugs"
4 Motion City Soundtrack "Everything Is Alright"
5 Bloodhound Gang "Foxtrot Uniform Charile Kilo"
6 Me First and The Gimmie Gimmes "I Believe I Can Fly"
7 Fall Out Boy "Saturday"
8 Copeland "Pin Your Wings"
9 XTC "The Mayor Of Simpleton"

10.23.2009: Foo Fighters1 Story Of The Year "We Don't Care Anymore"
2 Foo Fighters "DOA"
3 Coheed and Cambria "Welcome Home"
4 Saves The Day "Freakish"
5 MXPX "Heard That Sound"
6 30 Seconds To Mars "Attack"
7 Transplants "Gangsters and Thugs"
8 Pixies "Velouria"
11.13.2009: Depeche Mode1 My Chemical Romance "Ghost Of You"
2 Depeche Mode "Precious"
3 The Early November "The Mountain Range In My Living Room"
4 Dashboard Confessional "Hands Down"
5 Weezer "Perfect Situation"
6 Straylight Run "Existentialism on Prom Night"
7 Nightmare Of You "I Want To Be Buried In Your Backyard"
8 Depeche Mode "Personal Jesus"

11.20.2009: 30 Seconds To Mars1 AFI "Miss Murder"
2 30 Seconds To Mars "The Kill"
3 Say Anything "Alive With The Glory Of Love"
4 Armor For Sleep "Remember To Feel Real"
5 The Used "Box Full Of Sharp Objects"
6 Taking Back Sunday "Cute Without The 'E' (Cut From The Team)"
7 Jack's Mannequin "The Mixed Tape"
8 The Cure "In Between Days"

11.27.2009:

JGibson Radio Shows (2009)

11.25.2009: ATRL Live w/ JGib:
No music
P1: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2643157
P2: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2643879
P3: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2644006

10.13.2009: At The JMAs
Songs: Atreyu - Storm To Pass
AFI - Medicate
Kelly Clarkson - My Life Would Suck Without You
Katy Perry - Hot N Cold
http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2348683

10.04.2009: ATRL Live w/ JGib:
Songs: Flyleaf - Again
Atreyu - Storm To Pass
Rob Thomas - Someday
Green Day - 21 Guns
Lady Gaga - LoveGame
Foo Fighters - Wheels
Breaking Benjamin - I Will Not Bow
http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2286217

09.26.2009
Songs: Foo Fighters - Wheels
Chevelle - Jars
Jessie James - I Look So Good (Without You)
Three Days Grace - Break
Incubus - Black Heart Inertia
http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2235016

09.19.2009:
Songs: Muse - Uprising
Green Day - East Jesus Nowhere
Silversun Pickups - Substitution
Cavo - Champagne
Sick Puppies - You're Going Down
http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2192171

09.13.2009 (Special Podcast):
Songs: Disturbed - The Night
Three Days Grace - Break
http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2160201

09.12.2009:
Songs: Jordin Sparks - SOS (Let The Music Play)
http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2151872

09.05.2009:
Songs: none
http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2112169

08.29.2009:
Songs: Gary Go "Wonderful"
Hey Monday "How You Love Me Now"
Kate Voegele "99 Times"
Janus "Eyesore"
Oasis "I'm Outta Time"
http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2071382

08.21.2009:
Songs: Pre-Show: Hollywood Undead "Undead"
The Ting Tings "Shut Up And Let Me Go"
Foo Fighters "The Pretender"

Post-Show: The Airborne Toxic Event "Sometime Around Midnight"
Pre-Show: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2023596/http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/2/2023461
Actual Show: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2023761

ATRL Fantasy Football Live Shows:
12.22.2009:
Hinder - Without You
Slipknot - Snuff
Mudvayne "Scream With Me"
Chevelle "Letter From A Thief"
http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/3347871

12.15.2009:
The Offspring - You're Gonna Go Far, Kid
Anberlin - Feel Good Drag
Green River Ordinance - Come On
http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/3142633

12.08.2009:
Dead By Sunrise - Let Down
Alice In Chains - Your Decision
OK GO - WTF?
MuteMath - Backfire
Shinedown - If You Only Knew
Skillet - Hero
Metric - Gold Guns Girls
P1: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2745173
P2: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2745513
P3: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2745565
P4: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2745828

12.01.2009: World Aids Day
Pearl Jam - Just Breathe
Dashboard Confessional - Belle Of The Boulevard
Vampire Weekend - Cousins
Demi Lovato - Remember December
P1: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2689806
P2: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2690086
P3: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2690224
P4: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2690241
P5: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2690367

11.24.2009:
Jet - Black Hearts (On Fire)
Allison Iraheta - Friday I'll Be Over You
Nickelback - Never Gonna Be Alone
Orianthi - According To You
Lifehouse - Halfway Gone
Paramore - Brick By Boring Brick

P1: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2636475
P2: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2636565
P3: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2636650


11.17.2009: Tina's 1st appearance
Fall Out Boy- Alpha Dog
Cobra Starship - Hot Mess
Nelly Furtado - Mas
Switchfoot - Mess Of Me
Shakira/Lil Wayne - Give It Up To Me
Puddle Of Mudd - Spaceship
The Bravery - Slow Poison
30 Seconds To Mars - Kings and Queens
Wolfmother - New Moon Rising
Manchester Orchestra - Shake It Out
Cage The Elephant - Back Against The Wall

P1: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2581988
P2: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2582169
P3: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2582395
P4: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2582429
P5: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2583015
P6: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2583089
P7: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2583150

11.10.2009: JGib returns
Songs: Creed - Rain
Tegan and Sara - Hell
Jessie James - My Cowboy
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance (Video)
Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown
Muse - Undisclosed Desires
Skillet - Monster
P1: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2531253
P2: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2531403


11.03.2009: (Ed and Red fill in)
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2486636

10.27.2009: (ATRL Fantasy Football Show; Ed, Red, and Tina were guests, filling in for me): http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/2438276


10.20.2009: Songs: Death Cab For Cutie - Meet Me On The Equinox
Leona Lewis - Happy
Rihanna - Russian Roulette (w/ commentary)
Rihanna - Russian Roulette
Lady Gaga - Bad Romance
Pete Yorn/Scarlett Johansson - Relator
Daughtry - Life After You
Otep - Smash The Control Machine
P1: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2393309
P2: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2393511

10.14.2009: Songs: Leona Lewis - Better In Time
The Dead Weather - I Cut Like A Buffalo
Five Finger Death Punch - Hard To See
Demi Lovato - Got Dynamite
Shinedown - If You Only Knew
http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2354841

10.06.2009: Songs: Chevelle - The Clincher
AFI - Medicate
30 Seconds To Mars - Kings and Queens
Snow Patrol - Take Back The City
http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2297066
http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2297170

09.29.2009: Songs: Rise Against - Savior
Owl City - Fireflies
Paramore - Crushcrushcrush
My Chemical Romance - Desolation Row
The White Tie Affair - Candle (Sick And Tired)
Marilyn Manson - Arma-Goddamn-Motherfuckin-Geddon
Papa Roach - Lifeline
Pearl Jam - The Fixer
Lostprophets - It's Not The End Of The World But I Can See It From Here
JGibson's Stream: http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2252975
TC and Red: Live Feed:

09.22.2009: Songs: Muse "Uprising"
Muse "Uprising"
Skillet "Monster"
Cobra Starship/Leighton Meester "Good Girls Go Bad"
http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2211566

09.15.2009:
Songs: Alice In Chains "Check My Brain"
Three Days Grace "Break"
http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2169316

09.08.2009:
Songs: Hollywood Undead "Everywhere I Go"
http://www.ustream.tv/myvideos/1/2129293

Power 10 and Not So 5 (09.14.09)

Power 10 (Newsmakers, sports figures, etc...)

HM: Lady Gaga
10 Media Matters For America [MMfA]
9 Green Day/Nickelback
8 Muse
7 Ichiro Suzuki, Seattle Mariners (RF)
6 Pittsburgh Steelers
5 James Laurinaitis, St, Louis Rams (LB)
4 Any and all sponsors boycotting Glenn Beck
3 Keith Olbermann/St. Louis Cardinals/Albert Pujols, St. Louis Cardinals (1B)
2 Rachel Maddow/Ed Schultz
1 Taylor Swift/Beyoncé/Robin Meade/Barack Obama

Not So 5
HM: VH1 Top 20
5 CNN
4 Seattle Seahawks
3 Serena Williams
2 9/12 Tea Party-goers
1 Kanye West/Joe Wilson+John Shimkus/Right-Wing Hate Cabal (Glenn Beck/Sean Hannity/Michelle Malkin/Whiner Savage/Billo The Bozo/Boss Limbaugh/Fixed News+FBN+Fixed Nation)

My Fantasy Hockey Team Draft.

League ID#:	131914
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Robin Meade: "I Am The Author Of My Own Life"

Robin Meade: "I Am The Author Of My Own Life"

By Alissa Krinsky on Sep 07, 2009 09:00 AM

It was June 12, 2009, and Robin Meade was about to parachute from a plane for the first time. She would share the skies on this jump with former President George H.W. Bush, celebrating his 85th birthday. The U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team would guide them, with the event recorded by TV cameras.

Meade tells TVNewser she felt "no anxiety at all." And that was significant. A "great exclamation point at the end of the sentence of my complete trip through the world of self-doubt," she says.

Self-doubt. Lifelong feelings of worry. Anxiety attacks. It's all laid bare in Meade's new book, Morning Sunshine!: How to Radiate Confidence and Feel it Too, officially out Thursday.

It will come as a surprise to those who "know her as the composed, upbeat host of 'HLN's Morning Express With Robin Meade'", as the book jacket states.

In Morning Sunshine, Meade tells of a watershed moment in the late nineties, when she experienced her first panic attack while anchoring a weekend newscast at Chicago's NBC station. Stressed out by the pressure to do well at her job and to please new management, Meade's confidence wavered. "Along the way, I really lost who I was, and who the real me was. 'What if I'm not what they want?'...it just escalated from there."

It was confusing. She had grown up singing in her church choir, went on to become Miss Ohio 1992, and then a broadcaster. "I'd done hundreds, maybe thousands of news shows up to that point in my career. So why was this happening to me?" she wondered.

"I've been confident in aspects of my life, yes. When it came to being a news anchor, that was my job, and that was how I made my money, so I didn't want to mess up."

The attacks continued — about 30 over two years — but even though her general practitioner diagnosed the episodes as anxiety-related, Meade was reluctant to seek out a social worker or psychologist. "I refused to get help, I was so mortified," she says, also concerned about confidentiality in light of her visible local profile.

Finally, Meade's husband arranged for her to work with a holistic chiropractor who "challenged my thinking...I really had to learn to stay in the present, which I think most of us have a hard time doing."

Meade also had to learn to break a lifelong habit of worrying about whether others liked her. "I put so much value in someone else's opinion that it really just kind of degraded my own opinion [of herself]..."

She says she now has "more control of my life. I am the author of my own life." In Morning Sunshine — so named for the greeting she gives during her daily HLN newscast — she offers tips on being confident and happy, and shares life experiences.

In Morning Sunshine's acknowledgments, she thanks CNN brass for being supportive of the book. These days, she writes, "I've done a complete 180 from my confidence-challenged days...I've found my confidence."

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/hln/robin_meade_i_am_the_author_of_my_own_life_130374.asp

Power 10 and Not So 5 (09.08.09) Power 10

Note: due to Labor Day, the list will be up early.

Power 10 (Newsmakers, sports figures, etc...)

HM: Van Jones
10 Media Matters For America [MMfA]
9 Lawrence O'Donnell
8 Muse/Kings Of Leon
7 Matt Holliday
6 Ed Schultz
5 Senator Ted Kennedy, Jr and his Family
4 Barack Obama/Rachel Maddow
3 Any and all sponsors boycotting Glenn Beck
2 St. Louis Cardinals
1 Keith Olbermann/Robin Meade/Albert Pujols

Not So 5
HM: LeGarrette Blount, HB (Oregon)
5 Health Care Forum Disrupters/Betsy McCaughey
4 Mount Vernon, Washington
3 Michelle Bachmann/Laura Ingraham
2 Fixed News+FBN+Fixed Nation/Keri Hilson/Jay Sean
1 Glenn Beck/Sean Hannity/Steven Anderson/Michelle Malkin/Mark Steyn/Pat Buchanan/Shawne Merriman

Power 10 and Not So 5 (08.31.09) Power 10

Power 10 (Newsmakers, sports figures, etc...)

HM: Michelle Beadle/Robin Meade
10 Matt Holliday/John Smoltz
9 Chula Vista 2009 LLWS Team
8 Lawrence O'Donnell
7 Rachel Maddow
6 Barney Frank
5 St. Louis Cardinals/Albert Pujols
4 Barack Obama
3 Any and all sponsors boycotting Glenn Beck
2 Senator Ted Kennedy, Jr and his Family
1 Keith Olbermann/Ed Schultz

Not So 5
HM: Grandma attacks the press with a garden hoe
5 Betsy McCaughey
4 Fixed and Fools/Wally Herger
3 VH1 Top 20 voting list/Keri "Coon" Hilson/Jay Sean
2 Billo The Clown/Fixed News+FBN+Fixed Nation
1 Boss Limbaugh/Glenn Beck/Sean Hannity/Steve Anderson/Health Care Forum Disrupters

JGibsonBlog: Anxiety attacks nearly put an end to HLN anchor Robin Meade's career

Anxiety attacks nearly put an end to HLN anchor Robin Meade's career

Anxiety attacks nearly put an end to HLN anchor Robin Meade's career

By Richard Huff
DAILY NEWS TV EDITOR

Monday, August 31st 2009, 4:00 AM

Robin Meade

Robin Meade comes off as a happy-go-lucky, confident anchor on HLN's daily "Morning Express."

But not so long ago, she suffered from near-crippling anxiety and self-doubt that almost sidelined her career.

"I dealt with it for two years before I got help," says Meade, who documents her battle with anxiety in a new book, "Morning Sunshine! How to Radiate Confidence and Feel it Too," out Sept. 10 from Center Street books.

Meade, whose HLN show is enjoying its best ratings ever, said the anxiety emerged one night while she was doing weekend newscasts at a station in Chicago and was handed some breaking news to read.

"I felt sweaty," she writes in "Morning Sunshine!" "Just as I opened my mouth to speak, the set seemed to fade into a gauzy haze. My breathing was jagged."

A co-worker gave her some water. By the time the video clip for the piece ended, she had calmed down a bit, but the incident exposed a larger problem.

"Some things are seared into your brain," Meade says of the incident. "That day is for me. I know the outfit I wore, I never wore it again."

Meade reveals that she was at first embarrassed by her general practitioner's preliminary diagnosis: anxiety attacks.

She eventually found help from Amelia Case, a chiropractor who heads up the Universal Health Institute and who taught her how to come to terms with her anxiety and lack of confidence.

The book follows Meade from that night in Chicago through the diagnosis and treatment and to HLN. Along the way, she offers ideas on what she - and the readers - can learn from her experiences.

For many, the tale will come as a shock. "I don't think my bosses here, or the people I worked with, had any idea that I struggled with anxiety," she says. "One of the most freeing experiences was when I handed in my manuscript."

When the book was done, she gave it to her bosses at HLN.

"I'm not hiding part of myself," she says, 'Not that I needed to hide anything. It's not like you say, 'Hi, my name is Robin, and 10 years ago, I had self-esteem issues.'"

Meade says her problems stemmed from focusing on what people thought of her, not on what she thought of herself.

"My measurement was whether I was likable or not," she says.

Part of the problem, she says, was being so focused on her job and never saying no. In addition, she didn't have the ability to be comfortable as herself.

It's different now, she says, She's comfortable in her role at HLN, where she started in 2001, and in her own skills.

Even so, Meade says she still has to work on her anxiety and confidence.

"If I feel like I'm slipping back into a tendency of wondering, 'How was that, do you like me,'" she says. "I can catch it and get myself out of it."

also: http://robinmeadeblog.com/?page_id=5052
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2009/08/31/2009-08-31_anxiety_attacks_nearly_put_an_end_to_hln_anchor_robin_meades_career.html