Shaun Valentine

Clear Channel KOST/Los Angeles Lovesongs host Shaun Valentine adds Saturday morning on-air duties at sister KBIG.

Madonna signs a deal with Penguin/Puffin to publish five children's books ... Kudos to KIIS-FM/Los Angeles afternoon driver Sean Valentine, the new host of Married By America on Fox ... Quick recovery to JMA's Tom Barsanti, who was in a snowmobile accident in Montana while visiting his son at college.

Many of the deejays are in Los Angeles, working for Clear Channel's pop powerhouse KIIS-FM, but listeners in smaller markets across the country may hear Rick Dees joking about their local news or Sean Valentine trumpeting upcoming concerts at their local amphitheater, as well as a similar playlist laden with bands such as 'N Sync and Linkin Park.

"Kiss" programming recorded in Los Angeles is exported to Des Moines and Jacksonville, Fla., as a series of taped moments, from phone calls to song intros, that are spliced together to sound as if the deejays are chatting from a studio down the street.

The voice-tracked segments, music and commercials can be whisked from one station to another on a digital network that is potentially available to 80% of Clear Channel's stations.Producers cut and paste the segments to create the appearance of deejays taking live requests and calls from listeners, or even record half of a conversation for a live deejay to interact with.

Clear Channel touts this as a technique that delivers big-city deejay talent to small markets that couldn't otherwise afford it.

Clear Channel KOST/Los Angeles Lovesongs host Shaun Valentine adds Saturday morning on-air duties at sister KBIG.

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