i'm glad we could make it work. >> annual revenues for all radio stations last year was $17.7 billion up from $16 billion in 2009. >> radio is the cockroach of media. it can't be i did. >> radio is very simple. radio is free. you don't need to give anybody your credit card. you don't need to download any software. >> there is no reason why we wouldn't continue to do it. if we're making money, and we're making people happy, isn't that what radio stations are supposed to do? >> and ultimately those endless loops of feliz navidad and frosty the snowman will give radio stations around the nation the hope of holiday cheer. >> and don't think that the all holiday music phenomenon is happening on just terrestrial old fashion radio. pandora radio reports that last holiday season its subscribers listened by choice to 241 million hours of holiday music, and the classic have yourself a merry little christmas received a thumbs up 2.2 million times. that's a whole lot of thumbs. coming up next we've taken you to the top of the world and back again in our coverage of the new cold war. what is life

. >> a small, automated 4,000-watt radio station located in atlantic city, and transmitted to southern new jersey. what makes the station unique, it's the very first radio station in the nation to go all christmas music 24 hours a day. when does wezw start playing jingle bells, white christmas and silent night? on october 17th. that's right, wezw is in the christmas business a full two weeks before halloween. christmas music can be enormously profitable for a radio station. the industry calls it flipping. and radio station that's flip can enjoy an average of 129% lift in their ratings. in fact, the average all holiday radio audience -- >> when we go all christmas, our ratings double, and we become the number-one station. and the revenues explode. >> according to flesher, flipping provides an extra $200,000 in revenue each year. >> the beauty of christmas radio is that every retailer is a candidate for a christmas promotion. >> it's a. >> it's a trend that's catching on, 229 stations flipped, and by 2013, the number doubled to 488 radio stat

. >> a small radio station in atlanta city andransmitting to southern new jersey. what makes the station unique is it's the first radio station in the nation to go all christmas music 24 hours a day. when does wezw play "jingle bells" and other carols - october 19, two weeks before halloween. christmas music can be enormously profitable for a radio station. the industry calls it flipping. according to nielsen, radio stations that flip can enjoy an average 129% lift in their ratings. in fact, the average all-holiday radio audience is 500% larger on christmas each than during the rest of the year. >> when we go all christmas, ratings double, and under the signal we are the number one station. as a result our revenues explode. according to fisher, it is like a christmas present to the station, providing 50,000 in revenue each year. >> the beauty of christmas radio is every retailer is a candidate for a christmas promotion. >> reporter: it's a trend that is catching on. 279 radio stations flipped to around the clock holiday music. by

in fact the revenue for all radio stations was $17.7 billion up from $16 billion in 2009. >> radio is the cockroach of media. it can't be killed. >> radio is very simple. radio is free. you don't need to give anybody your credit card. you don't need to download any software. >> there's no reason why we wouldn't continue to do it. if we're making money and we're making people happy, isn't that what radio stations are supposed to do? >> reporter: and ultimately those endless loops of feliz navidad and frosty the snowman -- >> marry snow, al jazeera. >>> crowds gathered in response to tonight's grand jury decision not to diet a police officer in the death of an an unarmed black man. >> on "america tonight": what will it take? another death at the hands of police. another decision not to indict. >> i don't know what video they were looking at. it wasn't the same one that the rest of the world was. >> will eric garner's death on camera reignite the fury in ferguson. what can be done when officers and the community they serve face the next flash point. also tonight: the search for

annual revenues for all radio stations last year was 17 that $.7 billion, up from $16 billion in 2009>> radio is the cockroach of media. it can't be killed. >> radio is very simple, radio is free. you don't need to give anybody your credit card. you don't need to download software. >> there's no reason why we couldn't continue. if we're making money and making people happy, isn't that what radio stations are supposed to do? >> ultimately those endless loops of christmas music may give hundreds of radio stations around the nation a reason to be full of holiday cheer. >> it's the gift that keeps on giving the whole year. >> mary snow, aljazeera. >> the holiday music phenomenon happens on line. pandora said last season, subscribers listened to 241 million hours of holiday music, and that could go up even more this year. >> nicole mitchell, let's see, christmas music in october? >> i can deal with the decorations, it's a little too early for the non-stop music for me, like the week before christmas, i'm good with it. as we head out, it feels more like fall, technically still is fall. in c

i just want to thank everybody who made this possible, will.i.am, all the radio stations who is playedst shows how powerful when tv and radio get together. iheartradio.com, even -- the internet, social media, twitter. and of course the fans. not only did you guys request the song, and listen to the song, but a ton of you helped make a new video for it. that's right. we actually got sent in things, just lip-syncing to the song. we made a super-cut of "ew" starring you, here you go. ♪ ♪ seriously look at her butt ew oh she looks like a slut ew i'm like what the what ew ♪ ♪ right right ew ew oh you got to see this ew oh my gross i can't believe it ew ♪ ♪ she's so basically basic ew she's literally making me sick ew this is embarrassing ew ew ♪ ♪ like seriously seriously ew ew no seriously seriously ew ew i can't i can't ♪ ♪ ew ew [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: yeah! we have the best fans. that's awesome. to see the rest of the video, go to our website at tonightshow.com. thanks again, everyone! 26! [ cheers and applause ] ♪ i'm framing that, i'm framing that. it's been a great week so

she works at the same radio station as ray hadley. he has spoken to the suspect as well via at least one of the hostages, a 23-year-old man who actually managed to call on his cell phone into ray's radio show, and a short time ago we spoke with ray. >> i've just come off a nine-hour shift. i normally do nine till midday. and we kept going because i made contact with the hostages. they found my program. obviously i didn't want to put them to air, so i took their calls off air. and at the same time could hear the hostage taker giving the young man who spoke to me, a 23-year-old, instructions on what he wanted to do. what's now been revealed by your reporter and others, that he wanted the i.c.e. flag, he wanted a conversation with the prime minister or he'd start to dispose of hostages. i spoke to our police commissioner, our police chief, the equivalent here in new south wales where sydney is the capital, and spoke to him, spoke to our premier, which is a bit like your governor. and they told me off air it would be best if we didn't rep

tv screens faded to black and radio stations broadcast the sound of static.ungary's largest private broadcaster said the law would hit them harder than any other media outlet. they said the orban government was targetting them deliberately. >> this advertising tax is against rpl. we have 15% of the market, and we pay 80% of the tax. the goal in this whole thing was they want rtl out of hungry. >> this new advertising tax is called an rtl tax. however, what happens is it indirectly hurts the market. the largest players will pay the most tax, but the smallest might end up paying the actual price. >> put that to the government and the response seems to depend on who is answering the question. we asked a government spokesman, and he said rtl has it wrong. >> like any other tax, there's no target. we haven't singled out any agency. it's high time to have a new and fair approach to distributing that what comes with the running of a country. ask the prime minister's office, and you get a different view. even those not affected by the advertising tax have reason to b

one outlet that those dmandzs were relaid to was a radio station called 2gb. anchor reporter matthew wolfry joins me to talk about that. matthew, thank you for taking the time. it is one of the most striking features of this story, that this individual reached out through a hostage that we understand from your colleagues was very calm when the call happened to relay demands. tell me about ha happened on that phone call. >> that's right. it's a very unique situation to what happened here in sydney. it wasn't just to our radio station, but we did receive a call yesterday morning through our switchboard, one of the receptionists at the desk, s saying this man was one of the hostages and wanted to speak to our presenter on air. ray hadley, who was the anchor of our show there and was actually on air for around 12 hours yesterday, spoke to him off air with police also listening in on that phone call. and he explained to ray hadley that there were several demands that the gunman had made that weren't yet to be made, and they ranged from various things including aski

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radio. i will take our station here in new york, the real popular z 100. there is z 100.com and all sorts of information you get there which is a companion to your listening experience. and so for us what we're trying to do is blur these lines and trying to do consumer first. what is the consumer want and how can we serve them with all these assets, not how have we served them in the past and how can i hope they'll hang in the past with mement and i think moving to the future has been the right game plan and will be going forward. >> how much of it is driven by personality? >> a lot. >> and you know, you may not know the personality because they may only be a star in jackson mississippi or. >> but they're known there. >> they're known there and they're popular. it's interesting, ryan seacrest talks about it, he says if i go out with a movie star, people rush up to the movie star and worship them and they look to me and say that thing you were talking about the other day, they treat me like their friend. we talk about at our company that the radio station i

he host on the programs from medvez are o michael the republican and p only time on the radio stations for candidates. f you gets so upset about the mainstream media why was the right wing media do the same thing? guest: i think there's is a difference between conservative talk radio and journalism say by "new york times" or "washington post." why?: guest: because the "washington post" and "new york times" middle much pld of the road moderate outlets that don't have a bias we i has bias with "new york times" or "washington post" or salem communications. be honest.ould all people know i'm a conservative journalist and reporter and writer. i'm happy to offer opinions and right opinion columns but i'm interested in pursuing fast and furious like the first become. people know where i'm coming from which is a more transparent "new an pretending lake york times" or "washington post" that they are straight news straight news when we all have biases and they can come in many forms. give you an example, i as a conservati reporter will probably cover the food stamp issue differently than a liber

radio stations who were, you know, in charge at that time, they immediately switched their formats. >ng his hand in october of 1954 at the grand 'ole opry, elvis becomes the country's first taylor swift. >> the change was just overnight. the music went from frank sinatra to elvis presley. >> elvis presley was danger. and he was passion. and he was sex. and he was controversy. i mean, he broke all these barriers. >> hooking up with super manager tom parker, elvis gets rich when he sells his sun record deal to rca for an unprecedented 40 grand. with his first $5,000 advance, elvis buys a pink cadillac for his mother gladys. in 1956, he goes hollywood with "love me tender." ♪ for my darling i love you >> his dream of acting realized, elvis makes and breaks records. until in january 1957, just two days after his third and final appearance on "the ed sullivan show" famously filmed only from the waist up, elvis gets his draft. >> elvis presley begins his military service. >> rock 'n roll, if it should diminish in popularity or disappear, what would you do? >> well, i would probably try acti

we have run radio station, whb. an am station.played tammy why net, led zeppelin and marvin gay and the supremes. m motown was coming through big time. everything was right there. i had the jackson five, knew nothing about michael jackson. the temptations. when the '70s came, we had a rock and roll station and a crazy soul station. all of that felt perfect to me. then they want to put me into a box. i'm like okay, i'll go over here. some day, i'm going to get out. going to move a little more. >> free at last. >> yes. >> i love hearing the term. >> come on. >> i love it. that was priceless right there. the m to the e is back. the new project, "this is m.e." i think you will love it. good to have you on the program, again. i'm honored to have you come see us. melissa is going to close the show with a song called "a little bit of me" off the cd "this is m.e." love you, too. thanks for watching. enjoy the performance. as always, keep the faith. ♪ ♪ if you believe, if you tried ♪ it could be enough to know you were alive ♪ ♪ if you kne

did you hear what he told a philadelphia radio station? >> yes, i just heard that, actually, on the show, and my dad is actually a police officer, and so we have these sort of conversations in our house, and for me, it was important that my dad came home every day, so i understand that police officers do an incredible job. not all police officers are bad people, but my dad also had to have that same conversation about how i should interact with officers, even though he was an officer himself, because he understood that not everybody has the same training or the same cultural awareness that he had, and i could end up just like michael brown, shot dead. >> so some people have said this is way overblown and what happened in ferguson was, it happened in ferguson, but it doesn't happen that much across the country. people are exaggerating the problem. what would you say to them? >> i think the preponderance of these new videos that have come out has shown that when you talk to communities of color across the nation, and they tell these stories

. >> the radio station is like your best friend sitting in that empty seat next to you in the car.n, we're not your hobby, we're not an object. and what we better do is exactly what a great friend does which is tell you a lot of good information, oh, by the way, turn left, the weather is going to be good to

the marine corps, and i did not want to go to work, though i got a job as a news director at a radio station in worcester massachusetts. >> from there, gordon moved to washington to cover sports. >> yes, a lot of sports for cbs radio. the impossible dream with the red sox and cardinals, and i covered arthur ashe and billie jean king, and i did a lot of sports. the battle has been lost here at the supreme court. >> but his first love, political reporter, pulled him into washington, d.c., in 1969. >> the civil rights thing was big. i walked up 14th street. the mayor. 1969. my clothing reaked with tear gas, in my clothing and my eyes and i loved it. >> ward and also began a 45-year to rear as one of the area's premier news anchors, and we shared the desk at wusa and here at wjla for the past 10 years. >> the best 10 years i have ever had, right here, and also the chance to reunite with you was a main factor. you and doug hill, and the bonus was becoming so friendly with leon harris and alison starling and of course jim grant. >> gordon also brought an award-winning news institution with them, "

radio. i will bring up a popular station here in new york -- z100.here is z100.com and there's all sorts of information you can get there which is a companion to the music you experience. we are trying to blur these lines and do consumer first. what does the consumer want and how can we serve them with all of these assets? not how have we served them in the past and how can i hope they will stay in the past with me? i think movement to the future is the right game plan. >> how much is this driven by personality? >> a lot. you may not know the personality because they may be a star only in jackson, mississippi or -- but they are known there and popular. ryan seacrest talks about this. he says if he goes out with a movie star, people rush to the movie star and worship them. they look over at me and say that thing you were talking about the other day. they treat me as their friend. we talk about in our company that the radio station is like your best friend sitting in the empty seat next to you in the car. we are your companion, not a hobby or an object

some people inside have been able to call out speaking to radio stations. sky news is reporting he is making two demands he be known through the hostages speaking to the media. also it should be said the police say they are now in contact with the man. he is calling him several "the brother." his demands are he wants an isis flag drivelivered to him and he wants an opportunity to speak with prime minister tony abbott. >> earlier, he was able to speak through people he was taking. we have on the phone will geddies. we will talk about the situation. obviously, will, a difficult situation for authorities. you have a lot of people in that cafe. they say it is contained to just that area. the demands are so very odd from the hostage taker. give us a sense of what you think is happening there. >> incredibly volatile and precarious situation. probably in fact going into a more difficult phase which is a currently in australia and particularly in sydney, they are now going into the hours of darkness. the hostage taker has kept the hostages for about 12 hours. he ha

shady mccoy was on our sister radio station sports radio wip last night talking about the disappointings to the eagles season. the birds were eliminated from the playoffs, after saturday's lost to the redskins, and sunday's cowboys win. shady, was being realistic. >> we played well at times ... >> in the inaugural miami beach bowl in member fills, accounted for seven touchdowns, including touchdown pass in the second over time to beat byu55 to 48. but this game, got ugly, a huge brawl broke out after the game's final play. dozen of people from both side lines fought in the middle of the field. that is what you call a bench clearer. there is no immediate word on any disciplinary action from either time. >> hate to see that. >> i know. >> right now 5:21. are you waking up still little going think morning? we'll let you know what may be keeping from getting a good night's sleep. >> we've got our coffee. also, "3 on your side" with newly-released crash test results just out this morning. see if your car earned one of the top safety picks. it is tuesday morning, we're coming right back. >> i

funded radio station in azzu azerbajan. the u.s. aid department said that it's deeply disturbed. >>> no. mexico hundreds of protesters attacked an army base in th in the city where 43 students disappeared three months ago. >>> police released gas canisters to disperse a crowd. the mexican government said that students are taken by local police and handed over to members of a drug gang. only one body has been found and identified. >>> students have been protesting, calling for justice. >> there is a real feeling of anger, frustration and disbeli disbelief. three longs months after 43 students were taken by police, their parents still don't know what happened to them. thousands of people have joined the parents here today in mexico city, the fourth time that people have marched here in the nation's capitol drawing attention to the fact that information still has not come out, and the wave of violence here in mexico continues this case has really galvanized people and brought them together to speak out about the injustices here in the

. >>> "action news" was at the salvation army community center where volunteers from the radio station mor fm guided parents through a treasure trove of gifts, even small gifts mean so much. >> a secret santa is making this a special christmas for 100 central pennsylvania families. >> my name is keesha calling from wal-mart -- >> workers from this wal-mart near harrisburg, were busy letting people know that someone paid off their lay away. the man only known as santa, pay $50,000 on lay aways due. some were going to drop it, because they didn't have the money to pay for it. >> feel like a million pounds of stress is lifted off my shoulders. >> i am grateful for whoever did it, it's nice. >> some how santa b knew how much to donate. but wal-mart insists this was not an inside job. >>> and there is a new place where you can really blow off stress and it's all legal plus coming up david murphy has the exclusive accuweather forecast. >>> well, are you planning a trip over the holidays? you'll have company according to aaa, the motor club predicts that 90 million americans will venture 50 m

upon returning from the war, ray sat down for an interview with an omaha, nebraska, radio station. an interview they reported on two 78s. records matt's family lost track of years and years ago. now they were so close, literally in his hands, yet still lost in a way. >> there's a radio crack on both of them which makes them unplayable. >> reporter: which led him to andover and technology developed at a lab where a camera captures high resolution images of the records grooves and then a computer processes those into sound, sound they're about to listen to for the first time. >> what were you doing before the war? >> i was working in a grocery store, my mother's grocery store. >> reporter: a small piece of american history perhaps, but one that couldn't sound any bigger to one man's ears. >> this is precious, right? this is it, so it is really nice to finally hear it. >>> our next story is also about preserving history, but in this case someone else's history just because it is the honorable thing to do. it takes place at the king's academy, a private christian prep school founded in

he contacted a radio station earlier in the day, then channel nine, and then in the last 20 minutes oro he's contacted another tv station, channel 10. they have just spoken to two of the hostages inside the cafe. the gunman has two demands. he wants an isil flag in exchange for one hostage and a cowl to t call to the prime minister. the gunman is calling himself the brother and claims there are two bombs in the cafe and two elsewhere. this is now getting into the eighth hour of this siege right in the heart of the cbd. it's difficult to see what the motivation of this particular gunman is. but the first clarification there, that this gunman, calling himself "the brother", now wants an isil delivered to him, and he will release one more hostage. >> let's back up here. we had these reports earlier in the day, that the gunman had spoken to a shock jock, very right wing and conservative radio announcer. we did not put that on air, because there was some confusion whether it was actually the gunman and that he had made this similar demand, that he wanted to talk to tony abbott, live on the

a few days after that a radio station open in pasadena, california which still exist.ortly thereafter, the first ever real radio station opened in madison, wisconsin just up the road. america started talking to itself. that image that i cherish so much, the family in front of the radio set, truly began on christmas eve, 1906. nothing to do with americans but a king of persia huddling under a shade tree. then came on, said the lord's prayer, and wished the ships at sea a happy christmas. that was the beginning of the thing that i think is perhaps the most unifying feature of modern america. thank you all very much indeed. [applause] and i know that there are some limitations imposed by television, the eye would be delighted if there are any questions. think this book what have been different had you been born in america? if you had a different perspective because you're born if you knowountry what i mean. >> i do know what you mean. not too long ago i wrote to the arizona. eastern i don't know if you have been. it is a wonderful canyon full of anasazi dwellings. every s

police reporter for sydney radio station told us that the lights are now off in the cafe. the police or authorities have managed to do or if they were turned off by gunman. the police reporter we spoke to, tiffiny gender said the hostages have been speaking with the media through their mobile phones facebook and twitter. >> they are trying to get the name of the gunman who is yet to be identified. the offices of 7 news were evacuated when the crisis began. those offices down the street from the lindt chocolate cafe. one reporter was allowed to return to his newsroom. listen to him speak about the situation. >> let's start with what we can see of the gunman. he has been clearly identifiable as he paces his way back and forth through the four plate glass windows at lindt cafe. he is wearing a white shirts and black cap and he is unshaven and he is carrying a pump action gun. let's talk about the hostages, mel. we have counted 15 different faces being forced up against the windows over of the last eight or nine hours. not the 50 that had been speculated earlier. i think that

it was an am radio station and it played everything.ear led zeppelin, i could hear tammy wynette, and then i could hear marvin gaye or you know motown, and there was no barriers. there was no boxes that the, you know, that these genres were in. and i loved it all and then as my career went on, well first i played country music just cause that was the music that people wanted to see live, and then it was um, you know pop music. and then when i went out on my own, i was, it's kind of rock and roll is where i landed. but i have such a love of soul and r&b. it's, it's because rock and roll and soul and r&b they're you know they're related. they're very, very similar. >> ifill: you know i did a little experiment which is i went on pandora, we were talking about technology, and i put your name in to see what else popped up. and it was all kind of acoustic women singing melancholy songs. it was tracy chapman from back in the day, and it was sarah mclaughlin, and it was adele, but not cheerful adele. sad adele. what do you think that tells you

in 1977, this is a true story, when i was in 8th grade, i won two tickets from a local radio station to see this new movie star wars two weeks before it came out nationally. no idea what it was going to be, haskel feudenberg's mom drove does. an i loved it it on the way home theres with a full moon. i pretended it was the deathstar it but at school on monday, i couldn't explain how everything was different now because nobody had seen it it they thought my darth vader impression was just asthma. though, though i will say, i did get out of gym for a month. then the movie comes out. everybody is saying it is the greatest thing ever but i thought first i have been a star wars fan two weeks longer than any of you. now let me tell you-- (cheers and applause) >> stephen: and let me tell you, folks, this trailer has got everything you want in a star wars movie. wake surfing e-wick, r2-d2's head playing soccer, even a black stormtrooper. so for the record, jawas, if he stops you and frisks you, it's not racist. also, you are kind of asking for it it those hoodies. and folks, that's not-- no,

could you go a radio station and say whatever popped in to your head rather than what people wanted yout was the situation day-to-day for people working in the information business? >> well, it certainly was not a free press then. no. there were somewhat independent newspapers, more than there are now. but most of the media was controlled by the government. certainly most of the -- almost all of the broadcast media was controlled by the government. there were some independent newspapers, but even they were somewhat meek. but it's gotten much worse now. as i said, recently we had a situation where editors of both government-run and private newspapers said they were not challenge the government. they would not print anything that was critical government because they didn't want to be seen as promoting terrorism. of course this is exactly what the sisi government is saying is that any kind of criticism of the government is equate that go with terrorism. and what you saw with the al jazerra journal assists is they were simply trying to interview members of the opposition of the government t

for many years this woman owned the air waives at a radio station.new heights by focussing on a different type of ownership. here's a look inside this week's corner office. >> in the pursuit of success there's pieces of professional advice heard by all and ignored by many and then there's those that know a good thing when they hear it. >> where do i start? >> former radio personality turned business woman the career advice she received many years ago meant all the difference in her life. >> i had a mentor that said if you want to last and want your career to have longevity across the board these are the things you should do and some things you shouldn't do. part is having a plan a and plan b. working and massaging that plan b which for me was real estate. i grew up knowing that real estate was the foundation of wealth and i got bit by that bug much like the radio bug early on. >> it was only a matter of time before plan b would become the master plan. >> i think when we put energy out into the universe it gives us the same back and for me i decided t

. >> newspaper radio station or standing on the corner and shouting at the top of your lungs? >> well, back in the 1990s the supreme court did hear a case on the internet. and the supreme court says the intrrnt iinternet is given the l panoply just like newspapers can. the court said well the internet is really more like print. so speech on the internet gets the full protections, juries and justices are going to have to grapple do people treat social media differently than traditional media? the speech they see or hear on it? >> jamie, this was a divorced couple a bitter breakup the man was angry because his wife had moved to another state with the couple's children. had he said some of these things directly to her face or over the phone to her, would they exist in a different legal space from the one that we see here, with him posting rap lyrics on an internet site? >> many of the amicus briefs suggest what you say ray, rather than see this case through the prism of the internet, that we should see it through the same prism through which we see domestic violence cases, that r

it was very early this morning into the pace that my radio station day radio was contacted by one of the hostages. a phone call was made to one of our announcers. that seemed to be the first contact that anyone had from inside the lindt cafe. now, that hostage i guess was relaying demands from this armed g gunman to the media. >> that message was disseminated. it went really wide. i guess that was the aim of the man he has since contacted, other media outlets on orders of the gunman i guess to try and get those demand out there. >> we have been told that the gunman has encouraged people to use their phones and social media, which is unusual, as you stated there. the demands we understand, so far, the list involves a proper isis flag what he has been holding up is something called the shhshahada. this comes months after the urgency, specifically sydney, the terrorists going from medium-to-high, what has been going on will? . >> reporter: well, it was in november we had some anti-terrorism rights, 800 police officers descending on properties. now, they arrested about two dozen people a

dallas sports radio station gave him the dubious honor which i will not repeat for the game plan. >>nk the biggest difference in the two games that we had, we stopped the run i believe, you know, equally well. there was a lot of shots on goal. there was 40 run attempts but it was the play of tony romo and the throws. the throws in thanksgiving were under thrown and bad and we were coming back and making plays. the throws the other night were on the money and they were right where they needed to be. >> cbs3 is the place to be on saturday. we'll have a saturday edition of sunday kick off. at 4:00 p.m. the nfl network pregame show followed by the eagles and redskins on channel 3. at 8:30 chargers taking on the finer over on cbs3. >> big night. >> again for the record the road to the playoffs has to involve a cowboys loss. >> and greatest opportunity is probably this sunday with indianapolis and dallas. >> so we're all >> got a story you would like us to investigate? e-mail your ideas to i-team at cbs3.com. >> well, nasa is celebrateing a new era in space travel with this song parody. >>