Lately, shoes are either getting thrown or dropped. President Bush had to dodge a couple in Iraq recently and now an article by Peter Lauria in the New York Post says Clear Channel is set to let the other shoe drop in rumored budget and personnel cuts.

According to Lauria: "The new owners of radio giant Clear Channel Communications will next week begin implementing a massive restructuring plan that seeks to cut $400 million in costs...[through]...the restructuring will include layoffs across the company's radio, outdoor advertising and international divisions as well as cuts to programming budgets and consolidation of back-office operations."

Layoffs are supposed to begin on Tuesday while most people are preoccupied with Barack Obama's Inauguration Day.

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As the story goes, some radio listener penned this email late one night to the Radio God and sent it to an address he found deep within some Radio-oriented website. The writer had a few suggestions, compliments, and gripes about Radio and felt it was time to reach out to a higher source. You can read that email now. (Opinion)

SIRIUS XM Satellite Radio will provide a wide variety of coverage for the inauguration of Barack Obama including broadcasts, commentary, and interviews across 17 different channels including its P.O.T.U.S. (Politics of the United States) channel on SIRIUS channel 110 and XM channel 130.

SIRIUS XM has also announced that the conservative show, The Wilkow Majority, heard on SIRIUS Patriot, channel 144, will now also be heard on XM Radio's America Right, channel 166 beginning today. Andrew Wilkow joined SIRIUS Satellite Radio in August of 2006. He is a 36-year-old native New Yorker who began his radio career in college at the University of Florida’s WRUF.

SIRIUS XM’s Alt Nation channel will launch Boombox Radio, a weekly show featuring new and remixed versions of alternative rock and electronica. Former Boombox Radio channel DJ, DJ Icey, will now host a weekly show, Automatic Static, featuring breakbeat music on SIRIUS XM’s Area channel. Alt Nation SIRIUS airs on channel 21 and XM channel 47. Area SIRIUS can be heard on channel 38 and XM channel 80.

Ana Marie Cox to Join Air America

Air America's inauguration coverage will be shored up by a new addition, Ana Marie Cox, who will be the progressive network's first D.C.-based national correspondent. Cox will debut on Air America Monday, January 19 to report from the nation's capital for Air America's inauguration coverage.

Cox's regular contribution also be to travel the country and profile people and stories that illustrate life in America. Cox gained notoriety as the founding editor of the political blog, Wonkette.

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I do a lot of web surfing in preparation for my own radio show and I couldn't pass this one up. Boston.com published an article entitled, "Hack your brain - How to hallucinate with ping-pong balls and a radio".

The procedure is relatively simple and probably has no lasting ill-effects. But, you will need a radio and a pair of halved ping-pong balls.

I feel it's only fair that you read the short instructions at the source. This will remove any liability I might have for even suggesting this plus you'll be able to see the neat graphic.

Should anyone actually try this, do let me know how it goes.

Go Ahead: Hack Your Brain

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