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Welcome to the New Normal

11.05.09 | Cecil Van Houten | Comments[3]

It's mostly the tab and the ctrl keys that do it - make me wince a little that is.  I'll have to get used to it for awhile, but all in all, I have no complaints. As I mentioned a few weeks ago, Tuesday I was back at Strong Memorial ...

The Wheat and the Chaff...Do Performance Rights Matter

10.26.09 | Cecil Van Houten | Comments[3]

So last week the Senate Finance Committee voted to approve the Performance Rights Act which, if it ultimately becomes law, will impose performance royalties on broadcast radio.  You may have heard the debate as it's been getting ...

A Progress Update

10.18.09 | Cecil Van Houten | Comments[6]

Someone came up to me during the Sharathon Friday and asked how I was feeling.  As we talked it dawned on me that it had been three months to the day that everything happened.  Three months.  In some ways it seems like ...

Fa La La La La...Here We Go Again

09.30.09 | Cecil Van Houten | Comments[28]

To quote Vince Guaraldi and the Peanuts gang, "Christmastime is Here"...well, almost.  I put an article up last week about Christmas music and had over two dozen email responses so I thought it might be good to carry the topic over to a blog ...

The Value of What You Do

09.18.09 | Cecil Van Houten | Comments[2]

I was working on scheduling music for the network this morning - a task that takes hours each week to accomplish - and when I was finished I thought to myself, "Good, that's done for another week."  I looked down at the screen ...

Have You Noticed?

09.08.09 | Cecil Van Houten | Comments[4]

Have you noticed how many trees, mostly maples it seems, are starting to turn color already?  Connie and I were driving around the southern tier over the long weekend and were surprised at how many leaves shone in bright shades of orange and ...

The Most Interesting Month of My Life - Part II

08.18.09 | Cecil Van Houten | Comments[23]

The columnist Robert Novak died yesterday of brain cancer at the age of 78.  Last night I was watching the rebroadcast of an interview Brian Lamb did with him on C-SPAN a couple of years ago and only then realized that the cancer that killed ...

The Most Interesting Month of My Life - Part I

08.14.09 | Cecil Van Houten | Comments[20]

One month ago today I went to my doctor for an appointment I had scheduled several months earlier.  I hadn't been feeling well for awhile before that day - very fatigued, little appetite, stressed out - so my goal that day was to ask my doctor ...

Kingdombound 2009!

08.03.09 | John Carter | Comments[0]

Hey everyone! Here are some pictures recently from Kingdombound! Click here for recent pictures from KBWe are boradcasting live video as well..Click here for KB Live video!Leave comments below! We love to hear form ...

Failure Isn't Final

07.08.09 | Mary Giovinazzo | Comments[1]

          The only time failure is final is when we don't keep ...

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