Oregon Media Insiders

Byron Beck is leading this morning with the following blind item:

Is one of Portland's most popular morning shows trying to go back in time?
It sure looks it.

I've just heard word one of Portland's prettiest princesses might just be the next sacrificial lamb to be thrown onto the lay off heap in order to make way for the return of a longtime local radio personality. The show has already dumped one dj and replaced him with another familiar voice. If this all goes down as planned it will mean that, by the end of 2008, one of this city’s oldest and most recognizable morning teams will be together, once again, on the air.

All they would be missing is a certain traffic guy. Hmmm......

Now, before you all start, the first thing I did is call Rebecca Webb. This is 100% NOT about her. She's happily out of the biz and in her first term at grad school.

SO. Who is it?

Update: It was Nicolle Camarta, who got the boot yesterday from Nelson and Terry's show on 105.1. She's being replaced by Stacey Lynn.

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Good story in the Friday PBJ: Dead Air: TV stations face tough times as political advertising fades away. We all knew this was coming; the record-breaking campaign season temporarily firmed up the spongy ground the media is standing on. What we don't know is how bad it's going to be. KPTV laid off an entire program's worth of folks; KGW has frozen salaries. What do you think is next?

Back from a working vacation in California, where I watched the election returns with my folks. Today we went down to the OMI Caffeine Bureau and saw that the Obama and Merkeley people were almost entirely moved out of their offices already. Another campaign cycle over, dear friends. Oh, and one of my web clients won her election! Amanda was the first candidate I did a site for (other than Tom Potter, and I just took over from another guy on that one) who's actually won; I was beginning to think I was a jinx.

What's up, my dears?

We been waiting a long time and we still have not seen the sudio in the square that KGW has promised and it was supposed to be dones this summer but it isi still not done that this time. whope it is ready soon anyone else have info on the studio.

is KPTV still getting a new chopper or is tony just going to broadcast from the traffic center at kptv i like when he is in teh air as he gets to the breaking new fast. Danny dwyer should replace bill diaz on the 4pm news as danny was recently layed off it would still hope to see him on kptv when tony is sick or on vaction.

One more day until the campaign ad money dries up we elect a new slate of leaders. Here's yer thread to discuss election coverage.

I think that both KATU and KGW are going a little overboard. Joe Donlon is on the floor of the Rose Garden. I know that Joe is a good reporter but it was wacky watching him interview players.

KATU: is live at the Rose Garden and is seems that all they are talking about the Blazers.

Studs Terkel, Oral Historian, age 96.

Three hundred people nationwide were laid off this week at CBS Radio. In the local cluster, K-Hits afternoon guy Steve Lloid and at KUPL traffic guy Danny Dwyer and DJ Jim E. Chonga all got the ax. There may have been more, but those are the ones I know about. [h/t PDXRadio.]

Eugeneans are sad to hear this morning that KPNW's Lee Chabre passed away yesterday after a long bout with cancer. He was 63. Here's Tom Adams's remembrance of Lee.