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Volume 24, Issue 5, Jim Carnegie, Editor & Publisher
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Tuesday Morning January 9th, 2007
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Radio News ®
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 Emmis sets vote on 1-share, 1-vote
Emmis shareholders will get to vote next month on whether all shares of Emmis stock should have the same voting rights. If you like to bet on elections, this is as close to a sure thing as you can get. The board of directors at Emmis isn't advising shareholders to vote one way or another, but it notes in the prospectus being sent out to shareholders that CEO Jeff Smulyan intends to cast his 60.4% of votes against the measure, which would reduce his voting power to 13.7% by eliminating the super voting power of his Class B shares. With the "no" votes guaranteed to win, the board says the proposal is moot. So why is Frank Martin of Martin Capital Management, the owner of about 8% of the publicly traded Emmis Class A shares, persisting with his proposal? According to his supporting statement sent out in the prospectus, "...Mr. Smulyan may win the battle (a Pyrrhic victory perhaps) for absolute control of Emmis but in the process further estranges himself from directors and shareholders alike, increasing the likelihood that he will in due course be held accountable." This is not the first time that Martin has publicly battled with Smulyan. Last year he denounced a Smulyan plan to take the company private and accused the CEO of putting his own interests ahead of his shareholders (5/22/06 RBR #100).
RBR observation: We have long supported the idea that the government should prohibit public companies from having uneven voting rights. However, such setups remain legal, so we can't imagine why Jeff Smulyan, Sumner Redstone (Viacom, CBS), the Ochs-Sulzberger family (New York Times) or anyone else with super-voting rights would willingly give them up.
Emmis on deck this morning
Gone are the days when Wall Street looked to Emmis as a bellwether for the radio industry. Because of its heavy dependence on the New York and Los Angeles markets, both of which have had their own problems in recent quarters, analysts no longer expect the radio industry as a whole to mirror the results of Emmis, whose fiscal quarters are out of sync with the calendar. Lehman Brothers analyst Anthony DiClemente issued a report yesterday saying he expects Emmis to see revenues decline 5.7% in its current fiscal year. He is looking for revenues to be down 8.7% for the fiscal Q3 being reported today. His forecast for all of radio in calendar 2007 is bright by comparison. The Lehman Brothers analyst expects radio revenues to be down 1% this year.
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 MSN Direct goes HD with Clear Channel
Microsoft and Clear Channel Radio announced at the International Consumer Electronics Show 2007 that they have signed a deal to build a nationwide data delivery service using HD Radio technology, providing personalized and localized content to a variety of HD Radio receivers. This initiative will be branded MSN Direct HD, an extension of Microsoft's existing MSN Direct service, which currently transmits a variety of information including traffic, weather, movie times, sports, and stocks to Smart Watches, weather stations, GPS navigation devices and small home appliances. Field tests of the data delivery service will be conducted with the support of iBiquity Digital. The expansion of MSN Direct to HD Radio is part of Microsoft's Smart Personal Objects Technology (SPOT) initiative. Beginning immediately, the companies will introduce opportunities for consumer electronics companies and automotive manufacturers to offer MSN Direct content in HD Digital Radio format on their devices in 2008.
WQXR-FM signs for PPM in NYC
Arbitron announced Classical WQXR-FM New York, owned by The New York Times Company, has entered into a multi-year agreement for Arbitron's radio ratings services that include PPM measurement when deployed in New York. Tom Bartunek, GM, WQXR commented, "We look forward to the more detailed and dynamic information that the Portable People Meter will be able to generate. It's our expectation that our audience and its listening habits will be more thoroughly measured than heretofore, and we plan to make good use of the data it provides, on behalf of both our audience and our advertisers." "The Portable People Meter will be an ideal programming and sales tool for the leading classical radio station in the country's largest radio market," said Carol Hanley, SVP/Sales, Arbitron. "We're confident that WQXR will be in the forefront of the information that the PPM system can provide in order to serve their knowledgeable and passionate listeners."
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Talk radio holds steady as US news source
55% of all Americans check in with their favorite local television news program every day, and another 14% view it several times a week, according to The Gallup Poll's recent study of media news sources. Perhaps an even more impressive number, however, is the percentage of respondents who claim never to check in with a local TV news program, a scant 8% (23% said they tune in occasionally). Local newspapers trail in both the daily and frequent categories with 44%/13% shares respectively - but the good news here is that a long-term downtrend flattened as the results matched those of 2004 almost perfectly. Talk radio continued a slight downtrend that has seen it fall from 22%/10% in 2002 and 21%/12% in 2004 to 20%/9% this time, but still reaches over half of all Americans at least once in awhile, and remains almost double its level in 1998. The trajectory of growth for internet news flattened considerably. Daily users went from 20% to 22% over the two-year period. Perhaps its most significant change is that the number of respondents who never use it declined from 49% to 43%.
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 Activists heading
for Memphis
Friday 1/12/07 marks the kick-off for this year's National Conference for Media Reform. The session continues through the weekend and will feature appearances from the two Democratic FCC commissioners, along with Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and key House member Ed Markey (D-MA). The commissioners, making another stop on their on-going road show, are Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein. Also listed as headliners are Bill Moyers, Rev. Jesse Jackson, actors and activists Jane Fonda, Geena Davis and Danny Glover. Two other members of Congress, local incoming freshmen Steven Cohen (D-TN), who won the seat Harold Ford Jr. gave up to run for Senate, and House media Democratic pointman Maurice Hinchey (D-NY). Other media figures making appearances include David Brancaccio of PBS, MSNBC's Flavia Colgan, Phil Donahue, Deepa Fernandes of WBAI, Helen Thomas (Hearst Newspapers) and Laura Flanders of Air America. The watchdog/frequent testifier community is also well-represented, with attendees such as Mark Cooper (Consumer Federation of America), David Brock (Media Matters for America), Jeff Chester (Center for Digital Democracy), Linda Foley (Newspaper Guild-CWA), Kim Gandy, president (National Organization for Women), Gene Kimmelman (Consumers Union), Robert McChesney, president (Free Press), Alex Nogales (National Hispanic Media Coalition), Chellie Pingree (Common Cause), Andrew Jay Schwartzman (Media Access Project), and Jenny Toomey (Future of Music Coalition). Also attending will be former FCC commissioner Gloria Tristani and many others.
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Ad Business Report TM
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 JMA to handle ad sales for JAM;
affiliate sales for Workin' It
Jones MediaAmerica announced it is now handling advertising sales for JAM Creative Productions. JAM creates musical radio station ID jingles for broadcasters, promotional and thematic music for television, commercial jingles for advertisers and custom music for agencies and corporate clients. For the first time, JAM is now giving its clients the option to order audio production using their on-air inventory as barter instead of cash. Headquartered in Dallas, JAM was founded in 1974 by Jon and Mary Lyn Wolfert, who continue to own and manage the company. The name "JAM" was formed from the initials of "Jon And Mary Lyn." JRN also announced it's now handling affiliate sales for Workin' It, a weekly, one-hour progressive radio show focusing on working life in America. Hosted by comedienne and author Jackie Guerra, the magazine program puts the media spotlight on the declining state of workers' rights. Workin' It will soon expand to a two-hour format to include call-ins and expert analysis on rights in the workplace.
Star 98.7 LA invites listeners to create TV spots
CC Radio's Star 98.7 (KYSR-FM) in Los Angeles announced a new contest, ":15 Seconds of Fame," which invites listeners to shoot (or videotape) a :15 second commercial that promotes the station in a fun, positive manner. Qualifying videos will be posted on Star 98.7's website for viewing. A panel of judges will select the best 10 videos and display them on Star's website for voting. The entry with the most votes will win 25,000, in addition, the winning entry will be revealed locally in an episode of FOX's "24."
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Wilkins doubles up in Pensacola
Under licensee name Pensacola Radio Corp., Bib Wilkins' Religion-oriented Wilkins Communications Network has acquired its third Michael Glinter station and second in Pensacola (the other isn't far away, in the neighboring Mobile market). This time Wilkins is picking up WTVJ-AM Pensacola, which will double up with previously-acquired WNVY-AM Cantonment FL. According to documents filed with the FCC, the pricetag is 545K cash. An LMA kicked in on New Years Day.
Close encounter in Charlottesville
Saga Communications is the proud owner of WCNR-FM in Charlottesville VA, according to broker Dick Foreman of Richard A. Foreman Associates. It came from Jeffrey D. Shapiro's Force 5 Communications, and joins a cluster which also includes WQMZ-FM, WWWV-FM, WINA-AM & WVAX-AM. According to documents filed with the FCC, the pricetag was 2.9M.
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 Senate wastes no time
teeing up the FCC
"Assessing the Communications Marketplace: A View from the FCC." That's the title of a session already on the schedule of Chairman Daniel Inouye's (D-HI) Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation. It's scheduled for 10:00 AM on 2/1/07. Although no witnesses have been announced, the title would indicate that expecting appearances from, at minimum, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, along with some or all of the other four commissioners, would be a safe bet. As far as the committee itself goes, former Chairman Ted Stevens (R-AK) is listed as Co-Chairman on the committee's membership webpage, and also as Vice-Chairman in an unrelated press release (so, we guess, take your pick when addressing the gentleman from Alaska). The balance of votes has swung toward the Democrats, 13-11. In addition to Inouye, the Committee is now home to returning members Jay Rockefeller (D-WV); John Kerry (D-MA); Byron Dorgan (D-ND); Barbara Boxer (D-CA); Bill Nelson (D-FL); Maria Cantwell (D-WA); Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ); Ben Nelson (D-NE); Mark Pryor (D-AR); transferring member Thomas Carper (D-DE); and incoming freshmen Claire McCaskill (D-MO); and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN). On the Republican side, returning with Stevens are John McCain (R-AZ); Trent Lott (R-MS); Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-TX); Olympia Snowe (R-ME); Gordon Smith (R-OR); John Ensign (R-NV); John Sununu (R-NH); Jim DeMint (R-SC); and David Vitter (R-LA). Newly transferred is John Thune (R-SD). MIAs include Conrad Burns (R-MT) and George Allen (R-VA), both of whom lost re-election bids.
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| Entertainment Media Business Report TM |
ABCRN syndicates The Ric Edelman Show
ABC Radio Networks announced the national syndication of The Ric Edelman Show. After 16 years on ABC Radio's News/Talk WMAL-AM DC, the financial advice will be available nationally starting Saturday, 1/13, debuting on WABC New York, KABC Los Angeles, WLS Chicago, KSFO San Francisco, WBAP Dallas, WJR Detroit, KPRC Houston and of course the flagship WMAL Washington. "It's an honor to bring the show to a national audience," said Edelman. "But the program is not about money or Wall Street. It's about helping people achieve their goals -- buy a home, pay for college, prepare for retirement, care for elders, get out of debt, and enjoy financial security. This is a show everyone needs because, after all, money doesn't come with instructions."
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 One in 10 mobile subscribers have music phones,
but song purchases slow
According to recently published research from Telephia, the world's largest provider of syndicated consumer research to the telecom and mobile media markets, there are now 23.5 million mobile subscribers in the U.S. who have phones with integrated music players. The number of consumers with music-enabled phones is up five times from the same period in 2005 and nearly 20% of the new phones purchased in Q3 2006 were music capable. Many of these subscribers report loading music on to their phones via their PC, but only a small number have actually downloaded music over the air (OTA) from a wireless carrier music store. In Q3 2006, a little over two million subscribers, about 8.5 percent of those with capable phones, reported any purchases of music via OTA downloads. "It is still early days in the market for OTA music purchasing and carriers are experimenting with pricing models and working to improve the user experience," said Kevin Burden, Senior Manager-Mobile Devices, Telephia. "Clearly, the ability to facilitate impulse music purchasing will allow the wireless music stores to capture some portion of the larger digital music market - the only question is how big a piece they will get." Mobile phones with integrated music players have been in the U.S. market for more than two years and have gone through substantial improvements in memory capacity, file format capability and sound quality. Nearly all of the major device manufacturers are featuring music-capable phones as an important part of their current product portfolios. The LG Chocolate (VX8500) has been one the most heavily promoted music phones, but the five most popular models among recent purchasers are the Motorola RAZR (V3m and V3i), Motorola E815, LG VX8100, and Sony Ericsson Z525. Mobile operators have launched their music stores much more recently and OTA purchasing is still not available on all the major carriers. Sprint was the first major U.S. operator to launch its music store in October 2005, followed quickly by Verizon Wireless in January 2006. Subscribers on these carrier networks represent the majority of the two million OTA downloaders. Music phones and OTA music stores were the focus of much of the advertising spend from carriers during the holiday season. Of the more than 3.5 billion of carrier advertising dollars that was spent in 2006, 234.3 million or 6.7%, promoted music phones and music download services.
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Ford teams with Microsoft
to deliver "Sync" digital system
Ford announced the launch of a new factory-installed, in-car communications and entertainment system that is designed to change the way consumers use digital media portable music players and mobile phones in their vehicles. The Ford-exclusive technology based on Microsoft Auto software, called Sync, provides consumers the convenience and flexibility to bring into their vehicle nearly any mobile phone or digital media player and operate it using voice commands or the vehicle's steering wheel or radio controls.
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BE unifies RF, studio line sales
Broadcast Electronics has restructured its sales organization to reflect its role as an end-to-end supplier of radio systems. Effective immediately, all BE regional sales managers will offer total solutions from the BE studio and the RF product lines. In addition, BE has appointed key personnel to account management roles and realigned geographic territories in order to better serve broadcasters planning and developing their digital and analog operations. The announcement comes on the heels of news that BE has hired two new regional sales managers in the U.S. and has established a new office in the Asia Pacific region along with the appointment of a new sales manager there.
 XM unveils new innovations at 2007 CES
XM is showcasing its newest innovations for the car, home, and portable use at the 2007 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this week. The Bushnell ONIX 400 Weather Tracker, pictured, is the first portable, handheld device that offers GPS navigation, live XM Radio reception, and personalized, real-time XM weather info. The device alerts to specific weather threats for routes and final destination. This in-depth weather data is continuously updated and displayed on the GPS map. XM is also unveiling the Delphi SKYFi3 satellite radio with the new Delphi Premium Sound System, a portable speaker system with advanced acoustics for listening to XM at home, the office, or on the go. The system offers a modular docking connector that is designed to work with multiple XM radios, including the SKYFi3, MyFi, RoadyXT, and Audiovox Xpress. XM will also demo the latest cell phones from Cingular and Alltel that receive XM Radio Mobile, the new service that streams XM music channels to handsets and displays channel and song info on the screen.
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3M KSAZ-AM Tucson AZ (Marana AZ). 100% of Owl Broadcasting & Development Inc. from William Ehlinger et al to Aim Broadcasting Phoenix/Tucson LLC (N. John Douglaset al). 140K escrow, 400K indemnity escrow, balance in cash at closing less LMA payments. LMA 12/11/06. [File date 12/19/06.]
1M WDCF-AM & WZHR-AM Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater FL (Dade City, Zephyrhills FL) from Wagenvoord Advertising Group Inc. (David Wagenvoord, Lola Wagenvoord) to Norman A. Quintero Ministries (Norman A. Quintero, Miriam C. Quintero). Cash. LMA/option dated 5/3/06. [File date 12/18/06.]
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| Stock Talk |
Gap rumor helps boost stocks
Lower oil prices and a CNBC report that The Gap was putting itself up for sale gave the stock markets a boost. The Dow Industrials rose 25 points, or 0.2%, to 12,423.
Radio stocks were higher as well. The Radio Index gained 0.829, or 0.5%, to 155.554. Emmis, which reports earnings this morning, was down 1.1%. The best performer was Cumulus, up 2.6%.
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Here's how stocks fared on Monday
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Arbitron
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ARB
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43.52
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Journal Comm.
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JRN
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12.78
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+0.23
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Beasley
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BBGI
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9.42
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-0.03
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Lincoln Natl.
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LNC
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64.85
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+0.08
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CBS |
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31.05
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+0.16
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Radio One, Cl. A
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ROIA
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6.88
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unch
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CBSa |
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31.04
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+0.13
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Radio One, Cl. D
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ROIAK
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6.87
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+0.06
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CDL |
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9.76 |
+0.10 |
Regent
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RGCI
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2.90
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+0.03
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Clear Channel
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CCU
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35.39
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-0.04
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Saga Commun.
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SGA
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9.69
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-0.09
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Cox Radio
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CXR
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15.64
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+0.22
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Salem Comm.
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SALM
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11.49
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+0.11
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Cumulus
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CMLS
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10.51
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+0.27
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Sirius Sat. Radio
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SIRI
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3.76
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-0.04
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Disney
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DIS
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34.50
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+0.31
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Spanish Bcg.
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SBSA
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3.99
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-0.10
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Emmis
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EMMS
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8.28
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-0.09
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SWMX
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SMWX
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1.95
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unch
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ETM
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27.90
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+0.30
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Univision
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UVN
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35.64
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+0.04
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Entravision
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EVC
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7.91
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Westwood One
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WON
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7.11
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+0.04
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Fisher
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FSCI
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41.90
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XM Sat. Radio
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XMSR
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15.18
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-0.14
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Hearst-Argyle
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HTV
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25.19
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Radio Media Moves
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New Media gurus
at Bonneville
Bonneville announced that as part of its New Media operations, Andrew Bunker has been named as Director of Internet Technology for the company, organizing and heading the company's Internet technology team that will be providing a wide variety of technical systems/solutions, expertise, and consulting to all Bonneville stations in its broadcast markets. Bonneville also announced that Brian Hoopes will be joining its New Media operations as Web / Systems Developer and will be reporting to Bunker. Bunker previously led web operations for Bonneville's Salt Lake City division. Hoopes has been working in Bonneville's Salt Lake City operations for the last year and a half as a developer for the company's DC web functions.
Summit City moves
Summit City Radio Group has announced a number of promotions at its Ft. Wayne, IN cluster: Doc West has been promoted to PD of WXKE-FM; Rob Livergood has been named Station Sales Manager of both WXKE-FM & WNHT-FM; JJ Fabini has been named PD of WGL-AM & WWGL-FM and Music Director of WXKE-FM; Scott Howard has been named Stations Sales Manager of WGL-AM & WWGL-FM; Sherita Brewer has been named Sr. AE of WGL-AM & WWGL-FM; Vince Wilson has been named PD of WNHT-FM; and Ben Saurer has been named Sr. AE of WNHT-FM.
NRRC selects
new officers
At its recent December 2006 meeting, the Network Radio Research Council (NRRC) announced the selection of Charles Steinhauer, Senior Vice President, Research/Operations, Dial Global Inc. as Chair. Len Klatt, Senior Vice President of Research at Premiere Radio Networks, will serve as Vice Chair. The NRRC was created in 2001 to promote valid, reliable, and effective national radio audience measurement research. Its members include ABC Radio Networks, American Urban Radio Networks, Crystal Media Networks, Dial Global Inc, Jones MediaAmerica, Premiere Radio Networks, and Westwood One Radio Networks
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JRN upgrades digital delivery with Wegener
Jones Radio Networks announced the launch of the Jones Digital Audio Server (JDAS), its new digital platform for distribution of its radio content. In November, JRN began live transmission to affiliate stations via JDAS. JRN will continue a multi-level replacement program of its older Starguide and Wegener networks which had served the company since the mid '90s. Manufactured by Wegener Communications, JDAS delivers content via satellite and Internet. The system contains a hard disk that will allow local stations to retrieve affidavits files, liners, commercial distribution and short-form programming. JDAS is fully compliant with all specifications for digital broadcasting and all audio is ready for HD encoding.
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RBR Radar 2006
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Changing one's mind
on PPM encoding
Arbitron now says Radio One has agreed to encode its radio stations in Philadelphia and Los Angeles for the PPM audience measurement service. Remember, encoding is free to all stations, whether they subscribe to the ratings book or not. Clear Channel is the last holdout in the Philly market now for encoding.
RBR observation: We reiterate: Clear Channel is probably still not encoding because now that they're going private, they don't need to bow to Wall Street pressure, so they can afford to gamble for a year (the deal will still be executed at the same price, no matter what), further posturing against Arbitron for lower rates and/or hoping Media Audit gets the RFP recommendation. RBR assumes this issue will hit CC's new owners' (Thomas H. Lee Partners and Bain Capital) RADAR screen soon (pun intended). As PPM gets rolled out in more and more markets, CC Radio will potentially be seeing less and less revenue from agencies like Carat refusing to do business with non-encoding or "unrated" stations. The next, and impending, Electronic Ratings Measurement RFP Committee Meeting may shed some light.
01/08/07 RBR #4
Arbitron to offer Audio
Matching within a year
In case you haven't heard, while The Arbitron Advertiser/Agency Advisory Council announced a resolution strongly advising radio stations encode their signals for PPM measurement in the face of holdouts Clear Channel and Radio One (1/4/07 RBR #2), Arbitron says within a year there will be a solution within a year, in 2007: "Audio Matching" will allow non-encoding stations' listening to be picked up by the PPM device.
RBR observation: Many stations were afraid of the idea of commercial ratings for radio, but after the Coleman study came out saying radio does a great job of keeping listeners through breaks, the fear is subsiding. The study says on average only 7% of listeners leave stations during commercial breaks. In addition some advertisers like Anheuser-Busch, for instance, may have big issues with buying unrated stations-if their 21+ audience comp. is not proven to be 70% or higher, they are breaking the industry guidelines. If someone is not encoding, they may have no idea (for the time being) what their audience comp. is on that station. It may be taken off the buy altogether. There is more in this issue of RBR
01/05/07 RBR #3
Wall Street beat up
on radio in 2006
At first glance, the tally for radio stock performance in 2006 isn't so bad - 12 of the stocks tracked daily by RBR were up and 16 down. But if you look closer, it was the pure play radio groups (and satellite radio) who constituted almost all of the suffering. With radio revenue growth close to a flat line, 12 pure play radio stocks were down double digits. Also down double digits were both satellite radio companies, with the former Wall Street darlings repeatedly lowering subscriber projections. The big winner for the 06 was Disney. So Wall Street preferred for radio companies to sell themselves rather than operate radio stations. RBR's Radio Index, currently consisting of 13 public companies whose primary business is radio, was down 13.5% for the year. SBS exited the Index in the course of 2006 as its stock price fell into penny stock territory. Our chart spells out the winners and losers in this issue of RBR.
01/05/07 RBR #3
Arbitron Advertiser/
Agency Advisory Council
wants PPM encoding
Look out Radio One and Clear Channel: The Arbitron Advertiser/Agency Advisory Council announced a resolution strongly advising radio stations encode their signals for PPM measurement. We mentioned agencies like Carat are likely to boycott non-PPM encoding stations (12/27/06 RBR #249). Perhaps this is the first agency warning shot over the bow. Kathy Crawford, MindShare President/Local Broadcast "The resolution was written to vocalize what has already been said to the radio industry, which is that accountability is the name of the game..."
RBR observation: People this is one issue you best pay attention to. Suggestion is to read the resolution in RBR.
01/04/07 RBR #2
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