WBFO-FM 88.7 — the region’s largest provider of National Public Radio news — has been sold to the WNED family of public radio and television.
WNED will pay the University at Buffalo $4 million for the licenses to operate WBFO, and its two sister stations in the Southern Tier — WUBJ-FM 88.1 in Jamestown and WOLN-FM 91.3 in Olean.
All three stations — which serve about 90,000 listeners from Western New York and Southern Ontario each week — will retain their call letters and continue to operate on the same frequencies.
It was not immediately clear how the sale might affect staffing. The two o
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WASHINGTON — Weird hours, frantic pace, sleepless nights. Why journalism? It’s a question I’m often asked about my chosen career.
Before I answer, I think about reporters like the Los Angeles Times’ Ruben Salazar. He was a pioneer, a truthseeker, and the first Mexican-American to cover Latinos in the mainstream media. He was killed in 1970 by a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s deputy while covering an anti-Vietnam War march.
On Tuesday night, the National Council of La Raza awarded my grandfather, Ignacio E. Lozano, Jr., the Ruben Salazar award for dedicating his professional life to the positive portrayal of Latinos in the media.
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Sci-fi Western. Starring Daniel Craig, right, Harrison Ford and Olivia Wilde. Directed by Jon Favreau. (PG-13. 118 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.)
The reason for “Cowboys & Aliens” – the justification for it, the appeal of it, the whole point of it – is contained in the title. Take a cowboy movie, add space aliens. That’s a gimmick that could easily have exhausted itself after 20 minutes, but director Favreau, a team of screenwriters and some well-cast actors keep it alive, and the result is a crowd-pleasing summer movie with more wit than most.
The more you know Westerns, the more you’ll enjoy “Cowboys & Aliens.” Every Western cliche is pumped up and blown out, not only the cliches of story but of character, costume and set design.
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ST. PAUL, Minn. — Fans of British soul singer Adele still have a chance to buy tickets for her sold-out St. Paul concert.
JAM Productions says a couple of hundred additional tickets will be released for sale at noon Wednesday. Those tickets will be available only at the Xcel Energy Center box office — they will not be sold online or by phone. Prices range from $29.50 to $89.
There’s a two-ticket limit on all sales, and the line has a lottery system. Numbered wristbands will be available from 11 a.m. until 11:45 a.m. Wednesday, with one number drawn at 11:45 a.m. to determine how the line will form.
Ticket-buyers must be at least 16 years old to receive a wristband.
Adele performs at the X on Aug. 24. V
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“Parts of France and Northern Italy along with Bulgaria, Romania and Hungary have been bottling mass quantities of wine created from this varietal for centuries. The quality of the vast majority of these offerings is rather poor and this leads to the myth that merlot is an inferior grape.”
LOS ANGELES — Maria Shriver filed for divorce Friday from Arnold Schwarzenegger in Los Angeles Superior Court.
The former television journalist and Kennedy family heir filed for divorce in Los Angeles, citing irreconcilable differences. She did not list a date that the couple separated.
The filing comes six weeks after the action star and former governor admitted fathering a child out of wedlock with a member of his household staff.
Shriver’s petition seeks joint custody of the couple’s sons, ages, 17 and 13.
Schwarzenegger’s spokesman Adam Mendelsohn declined comment in an email. S
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