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New Found Glory

Chain Reaction

Cat Power

The Observatory

Meiko and Bobby Long

Yost Theater

TBN Coming to a Prison Near You

Maybe the inmates will tithe in cigarettes and celebrate communion with Pruno.The Trinity Broadcasting Network has announced a partnership with Folsom State Prison to air four of its channels in one of the state's most notorious pokies. They will include the network's flagship channel, the JCTV netw ... More >>

Orange County Register's Freedom Overlords Sell 8 TV Stations to Conservative Concern

Freedom Communications, the Irvine-based media company whose flagship newspaper is the Orange County Register of Santa Ana, has completed the sale of its eight television stations to the company that famously ordered its ABC affiliates not to show an April 30, 2004, Nightline tribute to American sol ... More >>

Sinful Sex at TBN and a Motor Home for Jan Crouch's Dogs Alleged in Lawsuit

​Sex scandals are merely crumbs from the table of a lawsuit filed this week against Trinity Christian Center of Santa Ana, which includes allegations that founders Paul and Jan Crouch fetched a $50 million jet through a "sham loan to an alter ego corporation" and that a $100,000 motor home was pur ... More >>

Lisa Loeb; Jill Sobule

Coach House

Gavin Degraw and David Cook

Fox Pomona

Ronald Reagan Statue is Not Enough: 5 More Ways Park Can Honor the Gipper

​A bronze statue of Ronald Reagan was dedicated at Bonita Canyon Sports Park in Newport Beach Sunday. (Bonita Canyon Sports Park, where have I heard that name before? Oh yes, HERE, in a post about Newps dumping its former city attorney for allegedly getting in a DUI wreck near the park.)Dana Rohra ... More >>

Three Reasons the Michael Jackson Trial App Feels So Wrong

​So yes, there is such as thing as a Michael Jackson Doctor Trial App, a mini "media center for the iPhone and iPad and Android devices." Released by Fox Television Stations, the app includes live video of the trial proceedings, recorded local news segments, photo galleries and biographies of thos ... More >>

Art Alexakis

Coach House

[UPDATED with Tribune Talks Back On:] Sale Could Lead to One Company Owning All SoCal Dailies

​UPDATE, JUNE 16, 9:22 A.M.: Now that merger talks with MediaNews have broken down, Irvine-based owner of the Orange County Register Freedom Communications has revived negotiations with that other Southern California newspaper  publisher.No, not the Los Angeles investment company that bought ... More >>

Charo

Cerritos Center

Owners of Los Angeles Times and Other SoCal Papers Expected to Bid on The Orange County Register

​Like vultures hovering over roadkill, media companies and private-equity firms are expected to pick at what remains of Irvine's Freedom Communications--parent company of The Orange County Register of Santa Ana--at auction Thursday.Among those likely placing bids will be Chicago-based Tribune, whi ... More >>

[UPDATED] Robert Ellsworth Shorter Jr., Ex-Guard Accused of String of Burglaries at TBN Headquarters

​A fired security guard is being arraigned in Newport Beach this morning for allegedly stealing from what we assume must be a bejeweled donation box given the Caligula set holding it: The sparkly Trinity Broadcasting Network headquarters across the 405 from South Coast Plaza in Costa Mesa.Robert E ... More >>

Orange County Register Owner Freedom Communications' Papers, TV Stations for Sale

​Update, November 18, 5:20 p.m.: A media industry watcher suggests Freedom Communications may have a strategy behind what would seem to be a counter-intuitive move to sell the modern-day equivalent of buggy whips, daily newspapers."Might the strategy be to sell some of the properties, keep othe ... More >>

Face to Face

House of Blues

Robert Shorter, Ex-Guard Held in String of Trinity Broadcasting Network Burglaries

​Robert Shorter was a security guard at the worldwide headquarters for Trinity Broadcasting Network (TBN) in Costa Mesa before being fired several years ago.So, it was unusual that the 39-year-old Yorba Linda resident would be walking out of the opulent eyesore across from South Coast Plaza after ... More >>

Adam Lambert

Pacific Amphitheatre

Loretta Sanchez: I'll Fight Obama Spending Cuts If Necessary

Sanchez: Not necessarily joining in Barry's party​Balancing the awkward stance that she craves fiscal responsibility from the wild-spending federal government and simultaneously demands no cuts to federal grants to Orange County, Democratic Congresswoman Loretta Sanchez announced today that she'll ... More >>

Network

Bay Theater

Octomom Cleans Up the Floor With Kate Gosselin

Mom fight! Mom fight!​In last Wednesday's Fox TV "special" Octomom: The Incredible Unseen Footage, Nadya Suleman takes potshots at Jon & Kate Plus 8's Jon-less, down-on-her-luck Kate Gosselin."It's so staged," Octomom said of tabloid pictures of Gosselin in a bikini on the beach. "She's doing ... More >>

Antonio & Kate Plus 8?

You know what can happen if you switch TV channels too quickly with your remote? Your brain mooshing together separate bits of infotainment and leaving you to believe that, say, Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa announced today he would not be running for California governor in 2010 because he ... More >>

Miracle on the 73: TBN Personality Turns Wine into a Double DUI

It's telling about the sad state of religion reporting in Orange County, one of the founts of American Christianity, that no one has yet to report this: a major Trinity Broadcasting Company personality has pleaded guilty to two felony DUIs that put a 70-year-old man in the hospital with serious inju ... More >>

Tomorrow: Michele Rene and Bobby Bancalari

Long Beach duo Michele Rene and Bobby Bancalari are performing at Viento y Agua tomorrow. The pair might not be a household name, but believe you me, these two can flat-out play.The twosome first graced the stage in a group called Marmalade Skies. Some of their tunes were used on the television prog ... More >>

A Family Divided

Seth MacFarlane

KOCE Asked for Your Cash While Orange County Burned

Let's say you're KOCE-TV Channel 50 head honcho Mel Rogers, and you were presented with the ratings bonanza that was this past weekend's devastating fires in the badlands of northern Orange County. With the advent of digital television, you now have four distinct channels in your capacity. You are ... More >>

The Clip Your Church Doesn't Want You to Watch

Movies get trailers, so why not books? The latest edition of Laguna Beach author Tim Leedom's The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read, which the Weekly previewed here, is now being pimped via video. Leedom has advantage over most other authors when it comes to this kind of promotion. His d ... More >>

Raptor Attention

Walking with Dinosaurs: The Live Experience

Oil Can

Flobots

Baby Got Back

Wango Tango

XM Merges With Sirius

Earlier today, the Justice Department approved Sirius Satellite Radio's proposed $4.59 billion (!) aquisition of satellite old-schooler XM Satellite Radio. This decision created one single US satellite radio provider. In response to questions fearing a monopoly, the Justice Dept. said " the combin ... More >>

Parents Television Council Loves TBN, Is Full of It

Tomorrow, those boob tube rubes known as the Parents Television Council will impart its Entertainment Seal of Approval™ (their trademark, not our lame irony) on the Trinity Broadcasting Network. "We commend the TBN Networks for upholding the positive values that families hold dear," states a PTC ... More >>

TBN Televangelists Subject of Senate Probe

Apparently, good Republicans do exist. CBS News is reporting that Senator Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) has sent letters to mega-millionaire televangelists Paula White, Joyce Meyer, Creflo Dollar, Eddie Long, Kenneth Copeland and Benny Hinn asking they turn over all financial records within a month or r ... More >>

Crazy-ass Reg letter o' the day!

(Category: World-Is-Going-To-Hell) SELLING LUST, NOT HAMBURGERS "I am appalled every time I see the new Carl's Jr. ad about 'flat buns.' These ads certainly are helping to destroy our culture. The ads degrade both teachers and students. Please tell Carl's Jr. and the television channels that air th ... More >>

Fire Information

The Windy Ridge Fire is 80% contained, according to the Orange County Fire Authority (OCFA), and is expected to be fully contained sometime tomorrow. The OCFA recommends checking news radio stations-- KFWB (AM 980), KNX (AM 1070), KFI (AM 640)--  for the latest updates on the fire.  Or yo ... More >>

LBC on TV

In terms of media attention, Long Beach has always languished in the shadow of the colossus of the north, L.A. And of course, it has never provided TV networks with the hours of advertising-delighting conspicuous consumption that OC has (The OC, The Real Housewives of…, Laguna Beach). But t ... More >>

B-Movies and Breasts

OnDVD: Elvira's Movie Macabre

Why Does Daystar Hate Jesus?

The religious broadcaster fighting for KOCE is already under federal investigation for abuse of the airwaves

Barney the Dinosaur? Meet Jan Crouch

KOCE boss Mel Rogers is betting he can kill KOCE to save it

Guillotines and Escargots

Enjoy a bit of Paris in Little Saigon

Sound Salvation

94.3 aims to be OCs independent rock radio

Welcome to Jesusville

Rage Against the Radio