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James L. Fitzpatrick, owner, CEO and publisher of San Diego Magazine, will be honored with a Father of the Year award by the American Diabetes Association (ADA) at a dinner on June 6. Jim and wife Jan, married since 1968, have three children and six grandchildren, including twin boys. They both attended Lutheran North High School in Chicago, where Jim was the captain of the football team and Jan was a homecoming queen. Their first date was on New Year’s Eve, Dec. 31, 1965. In 1986, Fitzpatrick acquired an ownership interest in Entrepreneur Magazine, headquartered in Irvine, and served as publisher for four years. Then, in November 1994, he acquired San Diego Magazine from founders Ed and Gloria Self. He sold the magazine to Curtco Media in 2005, and reacquired the magazine in 2010. The ADA will host its 10th annual Father of the Year Awards beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 6, at Hyatt Regency La Jolla, 3777 La Jolla Village Dr., San Diego. Tickets begin at $300 per person. For more information, contact Nicole Parker Eades, manager at the ADA’s San Diego office, at (619) 234-9897, ext. 7438, or visit www.diabetes.org/SanDiegoFOTY.
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Mission Publishing Group publisher Jim Madaffer has announced that Genevieve Suzuki has been named executive editor of the Mission Publishing Group's three publications, Mission Times Courier, La Mesa Courier and Mission Valley News. Suzuki first began working for Mission Publishing Group as editor of Mission Times Courier in September 2011. She became editor of La Mesa Courier in July 2012. In December 2012, She was named acting editor of Mission Valley News. Suzuki was a journalist for several years in Hawaii before moving to San Diego to pursue her law degree at California Western School of Law. After graduating in 2008, she returned to journalism by freelancing for various news publications. With a cumulative print circulation of 70,000, Mission Publishing Group reaches an audience of over 160,000 readers both in print and on line each month. The publications aim to provide their communities with a local voice and an opportunity to get the coverage they deserve.
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Gary Beals, who ran a marketing company in San Diego for 30 years before moving to central Spain in January 2004, reports he’s staying busy during his retirement years with organizing weekend medieval renaissance fair for nearby villages. The 69-year-old also is hoping to begin a living history exhibit at Alcazar, a castle palace in the city of Segovia (population 55,000), where he lives with wife Maureen. Perched on top of a huge rocky outcrop that’s shaped like a ship’s bow, Alcazar was Walt Disney’s inspiration for the Cinderella castles at Disney theme parks. Beals founded the Finderbinder, a news media directory that still operates in several U.S. cities, including San Diego.
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OBIT: Raymond Davis “Ray” Jackson, former community relations director for the San Diego Union and Evening Tribune newspapers, passed away at his home of natural causes on April 4, He was 85. He worked for Copley Publishing Co. for 27 years and retired in 1989. He is survived by Betty, wife of 66 years, and son and grandson. A date for memorial services was not announced.
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The San Diego County Taxpayers Association (SDCTA), the region’s leading taxpayer watchdog, has announced finalists for its Media Watchdog awards. In the print/electronic media category, finalists include: Matt Clark, UT San Diego, “Many Red Light Tickets Spew from One Spot;” Craig Gustafson, UT San Diego, “Filner’s Flawed Take on Bidding Process;” and, Will Carless and Wendy Fry, Voice of San Diego and NBC San Diego, stories on school district use of capital appreciation bonds and campaign contributions to school bond elections. In the broadcast media category, finalists include: Wendy Fry, Christine Haas and Rebecca Stickney, NBC7 San Diego, “San Ysidro Board Votes to End Lifetime Health Benefits;” Wendy Fry, NBC7 San Diego, coverage of San Ysidro school board trustee parking lot cash exchange; and, Mitch Blacher, 10News, “Metropolitan Water District Spending Questioned.”
The Media Watchdog awards recognize excellence in reporting on behalf of taxpayers. Other annual SDCTA awards offer praise or criticism for smart and not-to-smart government spending decisions over the past year, including public-private partnerships award that recognizes programs that stretched taxpayer dollars through innovative collaborations between public agencies and businesses, Golden Watchdog awards for government programs or services that exemplify efficient use of tax dollars or good government practices, and Golden Fleece awards for government programs, services or expenditures that exemplify wasteful, inefficient – or downright absurd – use of taxpayer dollars. Winners will be announced at a dinner this Thursday, May 9.
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Ad Club board member Carmella Spencer has been named vice president of engagement at Digital Operative, Inc., announced B.J. Cook, Digital Operative CEO and co-founder. He said Spencer will handle strategic development for clients specializing in digital commerce and culture and will oversee some of the agency’s dynamic accounts, including Lifeproof, 7 Diamonds and the San Diego Film Festival. Previously, Spencer served as senior director of marketing and account management at aRes Travel, Inc., where she oversaw marketing and booking engine technology implementation for convention and visitor bureau websites. In addition, Cook announced that Alvaro Martinez-Esteve has joined the firm as marketing manager. Martinez-Esteve will work with the agency's marketing clients to enhance social media strategies, branded content and global campaigns and will provide consulting for early-stage companies launching on platforms, including Kickstarter and IndieGoGo. Cook also announced that Digital Operative recently won a 2012 Pixel Award in the fashion category for an e-commerce website for apparel company 7 Diamonds, www.pixelawards.com/nom_win_2012.php.
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The Huffington Post reports that half of the Los Angeles Times editorial staff say they would quit if Charles and David Koch bought the newspaper. The brothers are believed to be the only group prepared to buy all eight Tribune papers, including the Chicago Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Orlando Sentinel and Hartford Courant, as a package, which is an arrangement that current owner The Tribune Co. would prefer. Apparently, the newsroom staff would prefer a coalition of LA billionaires led by former Democratic mayoral candidate Austin Beutner and prominent Democratic donor Eli Broad. Read more at www.huffingtonpost.com/kathleen-miles/koch-brothers-la-times_b_3180391.html?icid=maing-grid10%7Chtmlws-main-bb%7Cdl36%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D306476.
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Congratulations to XETV-TV on its 60th anniversary. Channel 6 appeared on the local airways 60 years ago today, on April 29, 1953. This morning, the station aired a special broadcast of its morning news show “Wake Up San Diego.” On-air personalities, including anchors Marc Bailey and Lynda Martin, weathercaster Kimi Evans, reporter Kristen Mosteller and field reporter Ruben Galvan, were outfitted in vintage 1950s fashions. Evans even did one of her weather forecasts using a board with stick-on graphics and hand-lettering, along with a live commercial for Bill Howe Plumbing. Anchors read favorite memories sent by viewers to 60Years@SanDiego6.com. The 8:30-8:40 a.m. segment aired in black and white with music from 1953. City Council President Todd Gloria and County Board of Supervisor Chairman Greg Cox proclaimed April 29 as “Channel 6 Day.”
“When we went on the air,” said Chuck Dunning, VP and GM, “there were about 700,000 people living in the county, the Padres played in a stadium at the foot of Broadway, Mission Bay was transforming from swampland and there were more cows than people in Mission Valley.” XETV was the second TV station to serve San Diego. After KFMB-TV went on the air in 1949, XETV-TV arrived on April 1953, followed by KGTV-TV (then KFSD) in September 1953. “If you grew up in San Diego, then you grew up with Channel 6,” said Dunning.
A 60th anniversary party and employee reunion was held this past Saturday at the studios. Among the more than 200 guests: Mayor Bob Filner, members of Congress Susan Davis and Scott Peters, and City Councilmember Scott Sherman. Other guests included: Dick Knoth, an original Channel 6 sales executive who later founded ad agency Knoth & Meads; Bob Gardner, producer of Channel 6’s “News Now” show with the late Lionel Van Deerlin, who worked at Channel 6 as a reporter from the late 1950s until 1962, when he began an 18-year career as a San Diego Congressman; former City Attorney John Witt, whose wife Lenora worked at XETV; movie critic Fred Saxon; Paul Palmer of Big Brothers and Big Sisters; and, political commentator John Dadian.
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KPBS will host is annual gala this Saturday, May 4, at the US Grant Hotel. Proceeds from the fundraiser will support the station’s missions and programs. Audrey S. Geisel, Conrad Prebys, Debbie Turner and Brad Warner will be inducted into the KPBS Hall of Fame. Geisel will receive a visionary award for her commitment to KPBS’ outreach and literacy programs for children. Philanthropists Prebys and Turner also will receive visionary awards for their recent gifts to the Masterpiece Trust and KPBS. The late Brad Warner, KPBS’ first TV program manager, will be the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award. Warner, who passed away in 2002, joined the station in 1967. The PBS show “Downton Abbey” is the gala theme. Performers will perform scenes inspired by the series. Event sponsors include CARS, Sycuan Band of the Kumeyaay Nation, Scripps Health, Sharp Grossmont Hospital, City National Bank, Jackson Design & Remodeling and Manpower.
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U-T San Diego recently reassigned Dan McSwain from the editorial page to business columnist. So, McSwain has published an online “disclosure page” with details about his personal stocks, bonds and real estate investments, as well as personal confessions. “Sometimes I do stupid things,” he writes, “such as improving a home beyond its market value during an asset bubble. I recently completed a short sale on my former home, a process that involved wiping out my equity and persuading two banks to settle for less than my full mortgage balances.” He also admitted his “full blown” alcoholism, which led to homelessness. “It took me about four years to get sober,” said McSwain. “It’s been nearly 16 years since my last drink, drug, car wreck or jail term.” Read more at http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/apr/22/dan-mcswain-disclosure/?page=1#article-copy. McSwain’s action was described as “inspiring” by FishbowlLA,
http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlla/dan-mcswain-utsandiego-business-columnist-introduction_b86936.
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Tammy Lee and John Flint of “John and Tammy in the Morning” KSON Radio’s top-rated morning show supported the American Diabetes Association’s (ADA) 2013 Tour de Cure, a cycling fundraiser held this past Saturday, April 20, at Torrey Pines High School. Flint and Tammy’s husband Kurt Matel rode 100 miles on streets throughout the North County in the communities of Elfin Forest, Escondido, San Marcos, Oceanside with returning through Leucadia, Encinitas, Cardiff, Solana Beach and Del Mar. They called their team of riders Mile 23, named in honor of a friend whose 13-year-old son Jesse passed away from diabetes on 02/03/2010 (February 3rd). The friend, Michelle Page-Alswager, lives in Madison, Wis., where Tammy and John spent 10 years before joining KSON in July 2011. John and Tammy are now in their 13th year as a radio team. Today, Page-Alswager serves as development director of the non-profit Riding on Insulin, (www.ridingoninsulin.org). At Saturday’s ride, Mile 23 team members rode mile 23 in silence in Jesse's honor. In addition to Flint and Matel, other Mile 23 team members included Diana Henry, Kelly Stelzer, Laurie Miller and Jen and Bob Nicholson, who lost their son to diabetes. More than 900 cyclists rode on routes of seven, 30, 50, 75 and 100 miles, and raised more than $400,000 in donations for diabetes research and programs and services for people with diabetes.
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Michael Cardenas, president of Local Concept of San Diego, has announced his international marketing and translation services firm has been selected by Harvard Business Publishing of Watertown, Mass., to translate 42 web-based courses for business executives who speak Chinese, Spanish and Brazilian Portuguese. Cardenas said services provided to Harvard Business Publish will include translation from English to the other languages as well as testing, which refers to verifying the technical proficiency of each course as a hands-on user. Subtitles will be used for each course’s video and interactive components, he said. Founded in 1985, Local Concept provides translation of technical documentation, collateral marketing materials and localization of website and software to help clients succeed in international markets and fit in anywhere. Offices are located in Downtown San Diego and Taipei, Taiwan, with production sites in more than 36 countries. For more information, visit www.LocalConcept.com.
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The National Multiple Sclerosis Society’s San Diego-based Pacific South Coast Chapter has announced its media partners for the San Diego County Credit Union Walk MS, to be held this Saturday, April 27, at NTC Park at Liberty Station in San Diego’s Point Loma. Media sponsors of the 2013 San Diego County Credit Union Walk MS include NBC7 San Diego, KyXy 96.5, Energy 103.7, Clear Channel Outdoor, CBS Outdoor and KPBS. More than 4,000 people are expected to walk a three-mile route along San Diego Bay, and help raise $575,000 in donations to benefit research and services and programs for people with MS, a chronic, unpredictable and disabling neurological disease of the central nervous system with no known cause, cure or prevention. Admission is free. There is no cost to be a walker. Check-in begins at 7:30 a.m. and the walk begins at 8:30 a.m. Registration information is available at www.MSWalk.com. San Diego County Credit Union (SDCCU), San Diego’s largest locally-owned financial institution, is the title sponsor. It will be the 12th consecutive year that SDCCU has served as title sponsor. SDCCU has supported the National MS Society’s Walk MS for the past 15 years, and has served as title sponsor since 2002. Over the years, SDCCU’s sponsorship support for Walk MS has exceeded $1 million, according to the National MS Society.
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Bennett Peji of Bennett Peji Design said three upcoming student portfolio shows may be of interest to the graphic design community. Seniors at Point Loma Nazarene University will present from 4 to 6 p.m. on Thursday, April 25 at Colt Hall on campus. At the University of San Diego Center for Peace and Commerce, at the Joan B. Kroc Institute for Peace & Justice building, business students from various disciplines of will present design concepts for social innovation and entrepreneurism from 4 to 6:30 p.m. on Friday, May 3. Also at the same venue at USD, the American Institute of Graphic Arts (AIGA) will host its 17th Annual Student Portfolio Exhibition from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturday, May 11. For more information, contact Peji at (619) 238-4555.
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Chuck Dunning, VP and GM of XETV/San Diego 6, is hosting a very special “San Diego 6 60th Anniversary Party and Employee Reunion” from noon to 4 p.m. on Saturday, April 27, at the XETV studios, 8253 Ronson Road, San Diego. Dunning says, “If you worked here or wished you worked here, knew someone who worked here, or have done business here, come on back, bring the family, take a tour and enjoy music, food, drinks and memories. This is a very special time for us. We want to share this milestone with our current employees, our past employees and our partners.”
Monday, April 29 will be proclaimed as “Channel 6 Day” by both the county and city in recognition of the station’s 60 years of serving the community. Appearing on Monday, April 29th’s morning news show, “Wake Up San Diego,” will be San Diego City Council President Todd Gloria and Scott Sherman, City Council member from the 7th District, as well as San Diego County Board of Supervisor Chairman Greg Cox. Also on the morning show on that day, news anchors Marc Bailey and Lynda Martin, along with weathercaster Kimi Evans, reporter Kristen Mosteller and field reporter Ruben Galvan, will be outfitted in 1950s fashions, and one of the segments will air in black and white with a vintage look.
XETV was the second TV station to serve San Diego. After KFMB-TV went on the air in 1949, XETV-TV arrived on April 29, 1953, followed by KGTV-TV (then KFSD) in September 1953. When Channel 6 was launched in 1953, Dunning notes, “At that time, there were about 700,000 people living in the county, the Padres played in a stadium at the foot of Broadway, Mission Bay was transforming from swampland and there were more cows than people in Mission Valley. From our days as an ABC affiliate, an independent, a Fox affiliate and now a proud affiliate of the CW network, if you grew up in San Diego, then you grew up with Channel 6.”
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Ad Club board member Dr. Donna DiGioia, who spent the past 14 years with The Art Institute of California – San Diego (AiCA-SD), has founded The MARCC Academy, a professional development educational company serving entry-level professionals working in advertising, marketing and interactive communications jobs. DiGioia said MARCC Academy (MARCC stands for Media Arts, Creative Communications) will offer continuing educational courses, weekly workshops, monthly seminars and networking events designed to advance career development. She said her business model is similar to a health club membership with introductory monthly fees starting at $55. “There is a tremendous need in the business world for continuing education for younger working professionals who might have a college degree but who need additional skills, knowledge and mentoring to advance and take the next step in their careers,” DiGioia said. Free open houses will be held from 10 a.m. to noon on the next two consecutive Saturdays, April 20 and 27, at MARCC Academy headquarters in Downtown San Diego at the Co-Merge Building, 330 “A” St. For more information about The MARCC Academy, visit www.themarccacademy.com.
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This Thursday, April 18, Intelligent Talk 1170AM KCBQ will host “A Day with KCBQ and The Experts,” a 14-hour live broadcast from the Hall of Champions in Balboa Park featuring on-air hosts in person, including Mark Larson, Dennis Prager, Michael Medved, Hugh Hewitt, and Craig Sewing. Also throughout the day, KCBQ experts will host seminars in the lower lever auditorium offering professional advice to listeners on mortgage, finance, real estate, credit management, legal matters and business solutions. Attendees to the seminars qualify to win an iPad2. Admission is free.
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As part of its professional certificate in Marketing and Media, SDSU’s College of Extended Studies will offer “Media Planning and Buying” on Wednesdays from April 17 to May 8, 6 to 9 p.m. Instructor will be Leslie Larranaga-Britt, owner of MediaWise. This course will serve as an introduction to the subject of evaluating and selecting media to meet specific strategic marketing goals. Among the topics for discussion: types of media, including electronic, print and out-of-home; advantages and limitations; components of the media plan, including target audience, geography, seasonality, communication objectives, media budgeting, media strategies and tactics; and, media buying methods. Fee for this course is $249 for San Diego Ad Club members and $299 for non-members. For information, call (619) 594-0787, visit www.neverstoplearning.net/interactive, or email cjbrown@mail.sdsu.edu.
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Armon Mills is returning to the San Diego Business Journal as president and publisher. Mills was at the Business Journal from 2004 to 2010, when he accepted a business development position with J.H. Cohn, now CohnResnick. Mills, an audit, tax and business consulting firm. Mills is replacing Randy Frisch, who has served as SDBJ president and publisher for more than two years. Frisch is joining the National University system as vice chancellor of business and administration. Prior to the San Diego Business Journal, Mills served as publisher of the Phoenix Business Journal and then with business publications in San Jose and Silicon Valley.
“My first love is the Business Journal,” Mills said. “I am really excited to be back, and look forward to reacquainting myself with our clients.”
“I have loved working at the Business Journal, and with all of the business leaders of San Diego,” Frisch said. “But the opportunity to work for Dr. Lee and to return to CFO and general counsel work convinced me this was the perfect opportunity for me.” Frisch will continue to be associated with the Business Journal on a consulting basis over the next few months, according to a statement.
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San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles debuted their new layout with the April issue, including a new size (20 percent larger) and two new columns to the Lifestyles section, including “A Fine Line” and “Cheers.” Overseeing the revamping is new art director Laurie Miller and new editor Janice Kleinschmidt. San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles has a growing cumulative readership of over 320,000 (The Media Audit Jul-Aug 2012).
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SpearHall Advertising has named Brian Williams executive vice president. Williams previously operated Green Flash PR, which merged with SpearHall. “This merger will open the door to join forces with a highly reputable agency, an extended support team, additional resources and the opportunity for unlimited growth and success,” said Williams. Among SpearHall's clients: BYCOR General Contractors, Imaging Healthcare Specialists, X-Feds and Galey Homes.
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i.d.e.a. has announced the addition of four brand partners, including U-T San Diego, Islands Restaurants, Global Equity Finance and Fit4Mom. The integrated marketing company said it will collaborate with brand partners on initiatives across many disciplines. i.d.e.a will develop a brand campaign for U-T San Diego to launch its digital newsroom, utsandiego.com. i.d.e.a.’s work will includes creative, print, radio and out of home advertisements, and a website launch party event strategy. Southern California-based Islands restaurant group has named i.d.e.a. as its agency of record. i.d.e.a.’s public relations team will support San Diego store locations through strategic media relations, and the company’s brand team will execute radio advertisements in the first and second quarters of 2013. In addition, i.d.e.a.’s digital team has been tasked to help Global Equity Finance improve its online lead generation program through PPC and landing page optimization. Also, i.d.e.a. has been selected by Fit4Mom to develop branding guidelines, standards and logos in addition to messaging strategy.
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El Latino newspaper will present “Celebrando 2013,” the nation’s largest Latina conference in Spanish, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday, June 8, at the Hilton San Diego Bayfront Hotel. After two previous sold-out annual events, Celebrando 2013 will continue to fulfill the needs of its audience by featuring two parallel conferences on the same day, according to Natalie Richards. “Celebrando Latinas” will draw an expected 800 attendees, while the “Celebrando Teens” conference will include 200 underserved youth ages 13-18, who will receive empowering messages. El Latino will publish 20 pages of coverage, plus include coverage on ElLatinoOnline.com. For more information, visit CelebrandoLatinas.com.
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KPRZ 1210-AM has begun carrying “Daily Hope,” a half-hour teaching show from Rick Warren, founding pastor of Saddleback Community Church in Lake Forest, Calif. The new show on KPRZ will air weekdays at 10 a.m. Other stations carrying the show include KBRT AM-740 in Los Angeles, KCBC AM-770 in San Francisco, KWRD-FM 100.7 in Dallas, KKHT-FM 100.7 in Houston, WNIV AM-970 in Atlanta and KGU-FM 99.5 in Honolulu. According to RickWarren.org, among the reasons for starting the radio ministry is Warren’s concern over the erosion of religious liberty in America. The website said, “On every front, school campuses, businesses, hospitals, and even in churches, secularists in government are increasingly trying to limit, undermine and even outlaw historic protections of our religious liberty. Our first freedom is religious liberty and it needs to be protected.”
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Tamara Bousquet, executive VP and media director with Piston Agency and Ad Club board member, has been named host of the iMedia Agency Summit, May 5-8 in Austin, Tex. May 5. iMedia (www.imediaconnection.com/summits/) will bring together agency elite to address concerns and formulate best practices at the helm of agency transformation. The focus will be on agency evolution and media progression with an exploration of big data, the balance between creative strategy and media technology, consumer platform innovation and the talent necessary to respond to today's digital marketing dynamics. Bousquet has become a familiar face on the speaking circuit and was named to the 2011 iMedia 25 List of Digital Marketing Innovators. She has nearly two decades of domestic and global experience in strategic planning, integrated efforts, creative media development, and communication planning, and has worked on Apple, HP, and UPS, as well as current clients Cars.com and Oakley, among others.
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Dave Long, who has worked in the market since 1990 and sold ads at San Diego Home/Garden Lifestyles magazine for nearly 20 years starting in 1992, recently joined MainStreet Media as a media consultant. He works out of the Del Mar office. MainStreet publishes several local community newspapers, including the Rancho Santa Fe Review, Del Mar Times, Carmel Valley News, La Jolla Light and Solana Beach Sun, along with Poway News Chieftain, Rancho Bernardo News Journal and Ramona Sentinel. Dave can be reached at DaveL@RSFReview.com
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OBIT: Memorial services for former Channel 8 weathercaster and station announcer Doug Oliver are scheduled for 2 p.m. tomorrow, Tuesday, March 26, at the First Presbyterian Church, 320 Date St., between 3rd & 4th. He died March 15 of complications from old age. He was 90. Oliver worked at Channel 8 for 32 years, starting in the 1950s. He is survived by two sons, a daughter, two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Here is a link to a recent U-T San Diego article, http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/mar/21/weatherman-doug-oliver-dead/. Here is a sample of tributes posted on the Channel 8 website (http://www.cbs8.com/story/21657466/former-news-8-weatherman-doug-oliver-dies-at-90): “He had a fantastic voice and wonderful dry sense of humor;” “His life needs to be viewed as a testimony that nice guys can do well;” “Simply a class act, blessed with a great smile and sense of humor;” “Doug was always a gentleman with a wonderful sense of humor.”
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Good News Etc., a monthly tabloid newspaper covering the Christian community since 1984, recently printed its 10 millionth copy, said publisher Rick Monroe. The newspaper (www.goodnewsetc.com), generally with 20-to-24 pages, has two geographic editions, a San Diego edition with 19,000 circulation and a North County edition, including Temecula, with 16,000 circulation. Monthly sections include opinion, family, sports and business, all with a local news focus. National awards from the Evangelical Press Association and Association of Christian Newspapers have been received for column and article writing, headlines page and photo layout, and general excellence. About half of the 650 drop-off locations are churches, and the other half, says Monroe, are businesses, ministry offices and public locations, including libraries, courthouses and several jails. Monroe said, “Our advertisers include not only churches and Christian businesses, but also advertisers who are targeting consumers who are looking to buy cars and eat out, and not just on Sundays.”
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San Diego-based Herring Broadcasting Company, Inc., (HBC) announced last week it is preparing for the launch of a new 24/7 high-definition news channel called One America News Network. Scheduled to launch on July 4, 2013, HBC said the new network will fill a void by providing a credible source of national and international news around the clock along with a number of signature political talk shows. HBC’s press release (www.oneamericanews.com/pressrelease/) said that One America News Network will air political talk shows that offer substantive contrarian viewpoints to a plethora of left-leaning shouting-style political news programs. The network’s studio talk programs will debate the role of government, protection of civil liberties, fiscal responsibility, along with highlighting political corruption and government waste. In 2004, HBC launched one of the first themed 24/7 national high-definition cable networks, WealthTV, which it continues to own and operate.
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The U-T San Diego has announced that registration is now open for the U-T California (www.Run1020.com), a running race of 10 miles featuring 20 bands, one every half mile, to be held on Sunday, Feb. 16, 2014. The route will begin and end at the Del Mar Fairgrounds and include portions of Solana Beach and Encinitas. Presenting sponsor is the Grand Del Mar Hotel. The benefiting charity will be the American Cancer Society. Local non-profit partners include Del Mar Village Association, Del Mar Community Connections, San Elijo Lagoon Conservancy, and Cardiff 101 Main Street. Managing the U-T California will be Austin, Tex.-based TurnKey Operations (TKO). TKO event management is led by race director Peter Douglass, a founding member of San Diego-based Elite Racing Inc. and an original creator of the popular rock ‘n’ roll marathon running events.
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L7 Creative Communications and Orion Creative Group have announced they have joined forces. A statement said, “With today’s marketing departments demanding more interactive web experiences, top brands need an agency partner with cutting-edge capabilities in digital marketing, interactive branding, design and technology implementation. The joining of these two award-winning agencies answers this need by offering complete advertising agency services with a specialization in digital brand engagement.” L7, based in Carlsbad, was founded in 2001. Orion has been operating for the past 10 years in Southern California, and has been expanded its interactive development and online marketing expertise during the past three years.
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A six-term former Arizona Congressman and a former candidate for U.S. Senate will be the new co-host with Lee “Hacksaw” Hamilton on The Mighty 1090’s morning show, beginning Monday, March 18. J.D. Hayworth was selected among seven finalists who auctioned for the job during the past three months. “In the end, J.D.’s extensive background in radio and true chemistry with Hacksaw made the difference,” said Mike Shepard, program director. “When the two of them were on together it was what we call ‘lean forward and listen’ radio.’” Hayworth and Hamilton knew each other when both worked in Phoenix, Hayworth as a TV sportscaster and Hamilton at KTAR, his radio home before relocating to San Diego.
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Shari Winet Rodriguez has been promoted to vice president of public relations for Bridgepoint Education Inc. Winet Rodriguez joined the San Diego-based higher education company in 2008 as a director, and was promoted to associate vice president in 2010. She has since developed the company's public relations department into a team of 18 communications professionals in five states. Winet Rodriguez previously owned and operated Lemon Drop Productions, a San Diego-based communications and event planning firm. She also served as director of public relations for the law offices of Mazzarella Caldarelli and as the assistant director of public relations for the San Diego Opera.
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