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JAGGER’S FORMER LOVER: I SEE OLD LETTERS AND I TURN THEM INTO GREEN

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LONDON (AP) – Do you have words like Jagger? You may be able to find out soon – as a batch of handwritten letters from Rolling Stones star Mick Jagger go on auction next month. The letters were written to his former lover, Marsha Hunt. The American-born singer gave birth to his first child – and was the inspiration for the Stones’ 1971 hit “Brown Sugar.” Sotheby’s says Hunt has turned over 10 letter letters from Jagger written in 1969. The handwritten letters are part of a group of writings from Jagger that are expected to fetch between $111,300 and $159,000 when auctioned.

JASON’S YOUTUBE FLASHBACK! WEEKEND EDITION

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Time to go Back….To the 80s!  Here are some totally awesome commercials that originally aired during the 1989 broadcast of “Bugs Bunny’s Thanksgiving Diet”.  Am I the only one who misses the days when every holiday was an excuse to cut together some old Looney Tunes and stitch them together with $1.98 worth of new animation?  Probably.  Anyway, set the flux capacitor to “restaurant tie-ins” and here we go!

 

 

 

IT’S A HORNY CHRISTMAS WITH CHICAGO

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SEDONA, Ariz. (AP) – The band Chicago has two Christmas albums out, but they don’t ever do all-Christmas concerts. Trumpeter Lee Loughnane (LOK’-nayn) says they’ve learned they can’t do more than two holiday songs live or people get antsy to hear their hits. He sort of understands: Loughnane says he only puts on Chicago Christmas music every four or five years. He says if one of the songs comes on the radio, he’ll think, “Oh yeah, that came out pretty good!” Chicago’s two holiday albums have been packaged together with a lower price as “Chicago’s Ultimate Christmas Collection.”

JON BON JOVI WRITES SONGS FOR BUDDY MOVIE

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LOS ANGELES (AP) – The last time Jon Bon Jovi wrote and performed a song for a movie, he won a Golden Globe and was nominated for an Oscar. That was “Blaze of Glory” from “Young Guns 2” — but it was 22 years ago. He’s giving it another try. Bon Jovi wrote and performed two songs for the upcoming criminal buddy movie “Stand Up Guys,” out in February. He says the song “Old Habits Die Hard” was inspired directly from a line in the first scene when old friends see each other again. He says the other song, “Not Running Anymore,” is about criminals on the run and he had to put himself in a confessional and “be that Catholic school boy one more time.”

WENTY’S TWO CENTS: “NEW COKE?”

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WENTY’S TWO CENTS
The caffeine-addled ramblings of KCOW “Wakeup Show” host Jason Wentworth

Well, we’re eight days into the launch of our new website, and–to the surprise of nobody on our radio and internet team–reaction is mixed.  You see, we’ve had experience with good, bad and ugly reactions to change.  And we love it!  We’d really be upset if nobody said anything when we added or removed programming, changed our schedule, etc.  I’ve said about a thousand times in my years here: “KCOW listeners are the most observant radio listeners in the world.”

So…we knew that replacing two individual websites with a new site that serves both the Alliance and Chadron area was a big change.  And big change can be…messy.  History is thick with stories of changes people didn’t want, and in some cases (remember “New Coke”?) the change was reversed.

But panhandlepost.com is not “New Coke”.  A new label?  Maybe.  A new packaging innovation? Most definitely.  But allow me to express what our two old websites and this new one have in common.

Our local news and sports stories are still researched, reported and written by KCOW News Director Kevin Horn and Double Q Country News Director John Axtell.  These guys live and work in this community, they know where the stories are, and they spend more hours a day posting new articles to this website than I do watching old reruns on TV.  And I spend a lot of hours doing that.

Open Mic still posted every day?  Check.  Teamline audio links to Chadron State Eagles and Alliance Bulldogs sports play-by-play?  Check.

I know there’s a learning curve finding this material in the new layout after so many years with our previous websites–which, by the way, were brilliantly developed and maintained.  The fact that so many of you miss the old layout certainly reflects that.

But this website is allowing us to bring you new content, and new features we never had before.  Let’s start with the most obvious–comments!  We want your thoughts on all the articles you read here, and now you can give us feedback instantly.  You can also share any article to social media like Facebook.  These are functions that other websites have had for several years if not longer.

In the past, we would never think to fortify our websites with entertainment stories, or blogs like this one, or really anything that wasn’t local news.  We didn’t want to interfere with what brings most of our listeners to our website.  Now, with the Panhandle Post design, we can do all of the above and more–but if you’re strictly interested in local news stories, you’ll find them under the “Local” tab–and nothing else.  Same with the sports tab–only sports scores and stories.

I’m starting a new paragraph because this is key: If the front page overwhelms you, make the tabs your friend.   They’re all along the top of the home page, like little monorails that take you directly to what you came for.  (Am I overexplaining this?  Maybe so.)

Now, this is my blog and everything you’ve just read is my opinion.  I just felt like putting it out there.  I hope that if your early reaction to the website was less-than-rapturous, you will at least give yourself time to get familiar with the new look.

Because when it comes to local content, community information and hometown connections, we’re still using the Original Recipe.

JASON’S YOUTUBE FLASHBACK! 11/8/12

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The new James Bond film “Skyfall” comes to theaters this weekend, and yesterday on the “Workday Show” Mike Glesinger and I talked about some of the great James Bond movie songs.  From Shirley Bassey to Adele, part of the fun of each 007 adventure is the music.  I think Gles and I ended up agreeing that this one is our favorite.  And I saw it performed live at the Pepsi Center in 2005, complete with fireworks and explosions!

 

http://youtu.be/s9CgEMt7TJg

ARETHA CONCERTS D-E-L-A-Y-E-D BY SANDY CLEANUP

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NEW YORK (AP) – Aretha Franklin is postponing two shows because of the ongoing cleanup from Superstorm Sandy. Franklin was supposed to perform Saturday in Newark, New Jersey, and Tuesday in White Plains, New York. She says she is rescheduling those shows “due to the many troubling issues still facing the community at large.” Franklin says she’s praying for people in those areas and donating to the Red Cross. The new dates have not yet been announced.

JASON’S YOUTUBE FLASHBACK! 11/5/12

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Happy 65th birthday today to Peter Noone–aka Herman of Herman’s Hermits!  This classic British Invasion combo cranked out hit after hit in the 60s– “Wonderful World”, “Silhouettes”, “Mrs. Brown You’ve Got A Lovely Daughter”, and more.  My fave is this one–it’s also my go-to karaoke song.

“Second verse, same as the first!”

 

 

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