LL on the Airwaves: Tune in to The Politics Hour With Kojo Nnamdi today at noon on WAMU-FM (88.5 FM). We'll be talking elections, blockades, stadiums, and some stuff about the ’burbs, too.

Dan Snyder just announced that, yes, he's bought WTEM-AM, aka Sportstalk 980. Good golly.
"Ahoy mates! We're being boarded!" is how Steve Czaban opened his soon-to-be-defunct Sports Reporters show.
UPDATE, 4:46 P.M.: Full press release is after the jump. They spelled Andy Pollin's name wrong.

Jonetta Goes Down the Memory Hole: A minute in to the Politics Hour on WAMU-FM, host Kojo Nnamdi makes no mention whatsoever of the firing of his former co-host, Jonetta Rose Barras. Filling in for her is NewsChannel 8 host Bruce DePuyt, who is currently talking about...team tennis. —Mike DeBonis

Sure, there's no such thing as bad press in the era of the hit-counter. But damn if it don't hurt to be mocked on a site as grand as DCRTV.
"DC City Paper is out with its annual 'best of' issue. And it confirms that the weekly rag is pretty cluelessly brain dead about local TV and radio," writes the heroic DCRTV [...]

Plotkin Is Back: The health problems that sidelined WTOP's Mark Plotkin for more than three months have apparently been resolved–the man was back in the chair this morning on the Politics Program in fine old form. Especially fun: Listening to Virginia Del. Brian Moran squirm (yes, he audibly squirmed) while Plotkin asked why he hasn't [...]

Ira Glass is coming May 1 to a movie theater near you. Sort of. He's actually coming to a theater near you via satellite from a theater near him in New York. But it's live, people, the scripted pauses, the predictable story arcs, perhaps even the grating delivery of Sarah Vowell—it'll all be in real [...]

V-v-v-v-vuh. (WTOP)

Something's been missing from WTOP radio's Politics Program With Mark Plotkin since earlier this year. That would be Mark Plotkin.
Since early January, the hourlong Friday morning show has been helmed by WTOP reporter Mark Segraves.
Plotkin, reached at his Glover Park home, says he hasn't been feeling like his usual vigorous self lately. "I have some [...]

DC radio fixture Chris Core got canned from WMAL recently.
He used to be part of the AM-630's's feel-good duo, Trumbull & Core. But for the last several years, the station has been Hatemonger Central — Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, etc. — and Core tried like heck to blend.
Every time I heard Core, he was begging [...]

Sorry, Silver Spring. NPR is staying in the District. According to an announcement today, the headquarters is transferring from Mass Ave to North Capitol—111 1111 N. Capitol NE, to be precise. Six-hundred D.C.-based staff will make the move to the BID of "NoMa, North of Massachusetts Avenue, an emerging area that has begun redevelopment into [...]

Wolfgang Puck, the gnomish chef with the massive empire, finally launched a restaurant in D.C. last year with The Source, located next to the Newseum, which itself is taking its sweet time to open. Puck has been pretty busy, so it's understandable that he has been slow to reach the nation's capital. He first had [...]

On the way to work this morning, Big 100.3 started playing Jackson Browne's "Boulevard." Reflexively, I switched to 94.7, the Globe. But IT WAS PLAYING THE SAME SONG! "Boulevard" is one of those songs I'm pretty sure nobody actually likes; it just wormed its way into the classic rock canon by dint of Browne's association [...]

Veteran D.J. and legendary music scenester Tom Terrell passed away Nov. 29, Bobby Hill, program director for WPFW says, and he will be greatly missed.
"He was a musical genius," Hill says. "He knew dates, he knew facts. Music was his love and he knew a lot about it."
Terrell, who hosted a program for [...]

Washington Times sportswriter John Mitchell has issued a public apology for last week's outburst against Len Shapiro. Well, sort of.
For those not following the catfight: Mitchell, who didn't like the non-appreciation Shapiro wrote for Sean Taylor when the Redskins star's body was barely cold, called the Washington Post veteran a “racist, conniving skunk” and a [...]

Breaking News: Mark Gray, host of the Sports Groove on WOL, says that he'll have Leonard Shapiro of the Washington Post on his show tonight at 8:04 p.m.
Gray and guests have spent much of the week tearing into Shapiro for a column he wrote about Sean Taylor's death. The highlight of the tearing-intoage being [...]