FRRRRRRRRIDAY!

Special Friday edition. Which means no weekend edition. Or, if you want to think you're getting the weekend edition early, go ahead and think that!

Here's some shtuff....






NBC'S RATINGS ARE ALREADY RISING AT 10pm....
Two weeks into NBC's NEW (slash) OLD schedule...which features normal primetime shows in primetime and JAY LENO'S "Tonight Show" in late-night...the network's ratings for the 10:00 P.M. hour have already risen 45%.

"The Jay Leno Show" averaged 5.15 million viewers a night...but over the past two weeks, NBC is averaging 7.44 million viewers a night at 10:00 P.M.

The numbers are up almost every night of the week. Wednesdays have been the best, with "Law and Order: SVU" attracting 8.5 million people. Monday nights are the worst, with "Law & Order" regularly drawing a very Jay-like 5.21 million.

NBC *IS* still in last place among the big 4 networks in primetime TV.








HOW *HIGH* CAN YOU GO?
Luda is in the high digits this week! His new disc "Battle Of The Sexes" is the top-seller this week.







I FINALLY HAVE GOOD THINGS TO SAY ABOUT MILEY CYRUS...
I know, SHOCKER moment! I'm kind of shocked myself. But here's the deal. MILEY CYRUS may be a huge pop star...but she decided to BLAST country music in an interview with "Parade" magazine.

Miley was asked why she hasn't pursued a career in country music...and off she went. She said, quote, "It scares me, that's why. It feels contrived on so many levels. Unless you're wearing a cowboy hat and cowboy boots and singing and whining about your girlfriend or boyfriend leaving you it's not going to sell."

That seems sort of like a stab at Taylor Swift maybe? Regardless, I'm NOT a fan of country music AT ALL, so GO MILEY! I've attempted to listen to it, I can't. The twangy, whiney guitars, I just can't do it, regardless of the lyrics. If you like country, hey, more power to you, but I've long felt that country is just a bunch of whiney lyrics about wife gone, only have a dog...and a pickup truck...and tractor. And I'm from the city, I can't deal with that! Anyway, Miles continues...

"I think that's why my dad finally got out of it. You have to wear those cowboy boots and be sweet as pie. It makes me nervous, the politics of it all."

Having said that...I firmly believe that Miley will eventually shoot for the country stars, as Jewel has done, Jessica Simpson, Michelle Branch...Miley has a VERY whiney sound on her ballads, and she'd fit in there perfectly. Now, it's whether country will accept her or not when she no longer can make it in the pop music world. She mighta just screwed herself.









ASHTON KUTCHER...ALWAYS "KELSO" TO ME...
ASHTON KUTCHER and NATALIE PORTMAN will play casual sex partners who start to fall in love in a new movie called "Friends with Benefits".

It's being directed by IVAN REITMAN . . . the genius behind the "Ghostbusters" movies, "Kindergarten Cop", "Twins", "Meatballs" and other comedy classics.

By the way...when the script for this one was making the Hollywood rounds, it actually bore the title "(Eff) Buddies". Not that it could have ever been made under that name.









THE LATEST ON PAULA ABDUL...
Earlier this week, "Entertainment Weekly" said that so-called "sources" told them that PAULA ABDUL was close to a deal to host an updated version of "Star Search" for ABC. Well, now they're taking it back.

"Entertainment Weekly" now says "insiders at ABC" tell them that Paula is NOT doing "Star Search" after all. No reason for the change was given...although they also caution that the deal could be back on again at a moment's notice.

In other words, "Entertainment Weekly" has no idea what Paula is up to. Recently, Paula posted a message on Twitter advising us not to believe anything unless it comes directly from her. That sounds good to me.









SNOOKI'S PAST...
RadarOnline.com reports that NICOLE POLIZZI...a.k.a. SNOOKI from "Jersey Shore"...was charged in connection with the alcohol-related death of a teenager named Michael Truncali back in 2004.

Here's what they say happened, allegedly:
Six years ago, Snooki...who was roughly 16 at the time...was throwing a party at her mother's house. And perhaps not shockingly, underage people were drinking.

This Michael kid was there...and was drinking pretty heavily. He made the unfortunate decision to drive home, and on the way he crashed his car and died.

Snooki was charged with selling alcohol to minors...despite the fact that she was a minor herself...because she was CHARGING for alcohol at the party. (Hey, gotta at least admire her entreprenuership, two other men were arrested for providing the alcohol.)

It's not clear what punishment Snooki received, if any, for the crime, and Snooki's mother, who may have been at the house at the time, wasn't charged with anything because there was insufficient evidence that she did anything wrong.

The parents of this Michael kid talked with RadarOnline, and said that they have forgiven Snooki...and accept their son's fault in his own death.

But they say they're NOT cool with how "Jersey Shore" appears to GLORIFY alcohol consumption.








GAGA BEING SUED...
This has been making the 'rounds today, some songwriter and producer named Rob Fusari is suing LADY GAGA for $30.5 million, claiming that he co-wrote some of her early songs and helped launch her career...and hasn't been fairly compensated for his efforts.

He also claims that he came up with the name "Lady Gaga," which he says was inspired by QUEEN'S "Radio Gaga". Lady Gaga has not commented on the suit. (For what it's worth, Fusari also says he had a romantic relationship with her.)

Speaking of Gaga, her new single "Alejandro" which you'll hear soon on Q92...sounds EXACTLY like Ace Of Base/Don't Turn Around!! I swear, it does...








DEBAUCHERY IN DAYTONA...
Right now, colleges all over the country are on Spring Break. Maybe you're like Mount Union, and you've already been there, done that and are back in classes. Anyway, that means lots of kids are on vacation getting hammered, and making risky sexual decisions.

Just this week, there have been six reported RAPES in Daytona Beach, Florida. And so far, just one person has been arrested in connection with a rape.

Sadly, that's still pretty low compared to last year when a total of 41 sexual assaults were reported in Daytona Beach during Spring Break.









HOW DO THE MARCH MADNESS STARS DO IN THE CLASSROOM...??
Every year at the start of March Madness, the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport at the University of Central Florida releases a report on the graduation rates of basketball teams in the NCAA tournament.

According to this year's report, at BYU, Marquette, Notre Dame, Utah State, Wake Forest and Wofford, 100% of their players graduated on time.

And at Duke and Villanova, more than 90% of their players graduated on time.

But programs like Cal, Arkansas Pine-Bluff, Washington, Tennessee, Kentucky, Baylor and New Mexico State all graduated fewer than 36% of their players on time.

And the University of Maryland's on-time graduation rate is a pathetic 8%. That's just ONE PLAYER on the team's entire roster.

Still, according to Maryland's coach, Gary Williams, the numbers are deceiving.

He says, "Obviously, those years we had players leave early and they're millionaires now, and they're coming back to get their degrees, just like other guys have come back and gotten their degrees."

Um, for the record, there are only three former University of Maryland players in the NBA right now...STEVE BLAKE of the Los Angeles Clippers, JOE SMITH of the Atlanta Hawks and CHRIS WILCOX of the Detroit Pistons.








CHAT ROULETTE STATS...
One of the most entertaining websites on the Internet right now is ChatRoulette.com. It randomly pairs up webcam users with strangers around the world, and the site's just filled with freaks.

Anyway, a group called RJ Metrics performed a study to find out who's using Chat Roulette, and how exactly they're using it. Check it out:

--89% of Chat Roulette users are men, and about 70% of them are between the ages of 20 and 40.

--That means just 11% of Chat Roulette users are women. They tend to skew a little younger, with 23% under the age of 20, and 97% under the age of 40.

--47% of Chat Roulette users are from the United States. After that, the country with the second-greatest showing on the site is France at 15%.

--At any given time, about ONE in EIGHT Chat Roulette users are doing something X-rated on their webcam. That includes exposing their privates, having sex or going to town on their junk.

--And you're twice as likely to encounter a homemade sign asking women to show their boobs than you are to encounter actual female nudity.

--Overall, users from the UK are most likely to molest themselves on camera, followed by Turkey, France and Germany. Americans are least likely to molest themselves on Chat Roulette.

www.chatroulette.com
Enjoy.









SAINT PADDY'S PICS...
Check out the fun we had on Wednesday! http://www.q92radio.com/cpg133/index.php







CAR RELIABILITY....
Yesterday, J.D. Power and Associates released its annual Vehicle Dependability Study. It's based on the number of problems original owners have experienced with their 3-year-old cars...meaning from the 2007 model year.

The five MOST dependable cars on the market are:
#1.) Porsche
#2.) Lincoln
#3.) Buick
#4.) Lexus
#5.) Mercury

And the five LEAST dependable cars on the market are:
#1.) Land Rover
#2.) Suzuki
#3.) Volkswagen
#4.) Jeep
#5.) MINI


If you're wondering, Toyota was ranked as the sixth most dependable car brand.

Somehow, I get the feeling the bulk of J.D. Power and Associates' research was collected BEFORE all this recall nonsense.
http://www.jdpower.com/autos/articles/2010-Vehicle-Dependability-Study-Results








Have a GREAT weekend! Thanks for reading and listening!