As we watched the wedding live on TV we tried to figure out what everyone was saying when we could see them talk but hear no audio.

CNN helped us out a lot and I thought I’d share the video with you.

Everywhere I went today on the internet there was something about the Royal Wedding.

But a story on Yahoo caught my eye because of this photo.

I have always said it was eerie how much Prince William looks like his late mother Princess Diana. But this photo made me do a double take.

Side by side the expression and features are freaky.

Aflac is betting a sales manager from Minnesota has the voice to drive the name “Aflac” into the recesses of your brain and keep it there.
(photo provided by Dan McKeague)
Daniel McKeague beat out 12,500 others in a contest to replace actor Gilbert Gottfried as the new voice of the supplemental insurance company’s duck mascot.

McKeague is 36 and works in sales at KQRS in Minneapolis.

He has three children and is known for doing silly voices. His first ad airs tonight during NBC’s talent show “The Voice.”

Gottfried voiced Aflac’s duck for U.S. audiences for 11 years but was ousted in March after making insensitive remarks on Twitter about the earthquake and tsunami in Japan.

About 75 percent of Aflac’s revenue comes from Japan, where the duck is voiced by a different actor.

I sleep on any international flight I’ve ever taken. But this passenger, who set up his Canon 5D Mark II digital SLR camera on a tripod and attached a timelapse controller, did not. And we are all enjoying what happened because of it.

When he pointed his 16mm-to-35mm lens out his airplane window, the result was this remarkable timelapse video of his 11-hour flight.

Taking that Great Circle route above the polar regions, the video flies us through the aurora borealis, giving us a look at those spectacular northern lights.

Also remarkable is the fact that the Air France flight crew allowed the use of that bundle of electronic devices throughout the entire flight. At the end of this video, you’ll see the rig with which he snapped the 2,459 shots — one approximately every two miles. After the flight, they were edited together along with a few judiciously placed iPhone pics shot along the way.

By the way, you don’t even need to be flying that far north to see the northern lights — once on a night flight from Montréal to Detroit, I could see the aurora borealis out of the right side of the plane during the entire trip.

After 16 years of driving you home, Texas Radio Hall of Fame inductee Rowdy Yates (Josh Holstead) is retiring from CBS Country KILT/Houston and is relocating to Tulsa, where his wife, Kim, was just transferred.

“Rowdy has been an integral part of our station’s history and heritage, as well as an important part of the Houston radio landscape and Texas as well, for that matter,” says PD Mark Adams. “His breadth of experience, tireless work ethic and dedication to the listeners will all be missed.”

Yates will continue to host his Westwood One-syndicated Country Gold show.

Former KILT midday guy Steve Rixx will jam his feet into Yates’ rather large afternoon boots, effective April 25. He’s been back doing weekends/swing and is the hosted the party at Whiskey River Dancehall and Saloon on Saturday nights. “Steve wears pearl snap shirts, looks good in a hat and knows more about Houston and Texas Country artists than I do,” Mark Adams admits. “Granted, that’s a low bar to clear, but nonetheless, Steve’s a solid addition to an already great on-air lineup and brings a lot to our station. He’ll rock… and I mean that in the most Country way imaginable.”
Read my personal thoughts on the Texas music blog.

Not me!

Ding dong the ding dong’s gone!

And no tears will be shed here. Perhaps we will get another big cry from the big cry baby.

Less than a year after his “restoring honor” rally attracted a few thousand tea partiers, Fox news has announced Glen Beck’s TV show will be gone from their network by the end of the year.

His comments like President Obama has “a deep-seated hatred for white people” helped to chase away almost all of his major advertisers.

More than 400 Fox advertisers told the company they did not want their commercials on Beck’s show. Beck’s advertisers were dominated by financial services firms, many touting gold as an investment.

And while all of us in media know bringing in money can keep you on the air even with a poor product, losing millions of listeners helped cement his exit from the faux news network.

Viewers had begun turning away. Beck’s 5 p.m. ET show averaged 2.7 million viewers during the first three months of 2010, and was at just under 2 million for the same period this year, the Nielsen Co. said. His decline was sharper among younger viewers sought by advertisers.

Don’t worry, there are Beck survival kits!