Commentary: Unpaid Internships Not Just For "Wealthy Kids"

This morning as I was doing my usual round of blog reading, one article posted at The Sac Rag caught my attention. Author sac-eats did an excellent job alerting the young public to internship opportunities happening this summer at Sactown Magazine, but one particular …

Crystal Meth Documentary To Air On All Sac TV Stations

A thirty-minute program highlighting the dangers of crystal meth use will air on every television station in Sacramento tomorrow.

Crystal Darkness is a documentary produced by Global Studio in association with Childhelp and Secret Witness which exposes the epidemic of …

Rolling Stone Reveals Coldplay's Fourth Album Title

Viva la Vida, which translates to "long live life," will be the name of British rock band Coldplay's upcoming studio album. Coldplay's fourth studio album, their runner up to the 2006 release X&Y, was recently reviewed by Rolling Stone magazine and proves to be …

Clear Channel: Let's Make Satellite Radio Life Difficult

The largest radio company in the country has petitioned the Federal Communications Commission to force a merged XM-Sirius satellite radio service to abide by the same indecency laws set throughout the terrestrial radio industry.

Clear Channel, which was fined in 2004 …

Justice Department Approves Sirius Buyout Of XM

The Justice Department approved Sirius Satellite Radio's $5 billion buyout of XM Satellite Radio today. The two satellite giants had long argued that merging would cut down the cost of operations and allowed satellite radio to compete against HD Radio, Internet radio …

Future Elvis Costello Album To Be Vinyl-Exclusive

Break out your old record players! The new Elvis Costello album, entitled Momofuku, will not be sold as a CD but instead as a vinyl record. The vinyl release, which will be the first Elvis Costello album since The River In Reverse in 2006, will include a code for a …

Music Video Monday: See The World

Didn't have enough time this morning to post the iTunes links for this week's Music Video Monday. Check back tonight and I'll have the links posted.

This week's video comes from the new album How We Operate from the band Gomez. It's a new discovery that I can't get enough of.

Dish Network HD Satellite Fails To Orbit After Launch

A satellite launched from Kazakhstan that was to bring high-definition television content to Dish Network customers failed to orbit once it reached space Friday. The Ku-band satellite, owned by SES Americom and under contract by Dish Network's parent company Echostar …

USPS Is Going Green, Wants You To Recycle

Think green? Then the United States Postal Service might be a new friend. The USPS now allows you to mail your old printer cartridges, MP3 players, PDAs, cell phones and other portable electronics to the zero-landfill recycling company Clover--and the postal service …

KPIX Honored With Twelve APTRA Awards

San Francisco's CBS affiliate KPIX received twelve recognitions on at the Associated Press Television and Radio Awards on March 15th in Los Angeles. KPIX received more awards than any other television station in the Western Division of the awards, which includes …

Sacramento Bee Recognizes RadioMatthew.com

The Sacramento Bee added a new feature to its 21Q blog this week. The five writers of the SacBee's Ticket section each listed their favorite blogs to visit throughout the week, and RadioMatthew.com was listed toward the top!

It's a pretty big accomplishment to be …

Music Video Monday: Possession

As an artist, how do you deal with fans who become a little obsessed? For Canadian chick rocker Sarah McLachlan, she turned all of those obsessive fan letters from unwanted admirers into a song.

Possession is a song written from the perspective of an person with an …

Upset Listener Rams Car Into Portland Radio Stations

The employees at a Portland broadcasting company got quite a shock Friday afternoon when a car smashed into the lobby of two radio stations, causing damage and coming within inches of the company's receptionist.

KXL-AM Radio reports an upset listener drove his white …

CBS13 To Launch Street Team, Gives Cameras To Public

CBS13 and sister-station CW31 announced today that they are rolling out the CBS13/CW31 Street Team. Executive Producer Brandon Mercer said via e-mail they are ready to begin accepting video and photos from the public in an effort to pull community-oriented issues into …

How We Did The News In Classy El Paso

That's how we did the news back in El Paso! Two news vans from my adopted hometown in West Texas, one belonging to CBS affiliate KDBC Channel 4 and the other belonging to ABC affiliate KVIA Channel 7, decided to challenge each other to a friendly competition of drag …

Disney Sells 4 Million Movies On iTunes

Walt Disney Studios is enjoying around $120 million in pocket change after it boasts over 4 million movies and 40 million videos and short films sold on the iTunes Music Store within the past year. Disney CEO Bob Iger says this falls just short of Disney's projected …

On-Demand Coming To DirecTV Satellite Soon

There's been a big "cable vs. satellite" debate raging since the mid-1990s, becoming more prominent and deeper with every technological advance that comes to television every year. Personally, I have cable but faced with the choice between the two, I'd rather have …

Madonna, Mellencamp Become Hall Of Famers

"There is truly only one Madonna," spoke pop sensation Justin Timberlake Monday night. Madonna, whose hits Ray of Light and Burning Up were sung in punk-style by fellow musician Iggy Pop, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame following a career of …

Paramount Pictures To Offer Free Clips On Facebook

Paramount Pictures is teaming up with Los Angeles-based FanRocket to release thousands of movie clips online via Facebook.com, marking the first time a major movie studio has released its own content online for free. Videos will include past classics like Forrest …