NEWSSTAND PRICE $6.50 MARCH 17, 2006 Pearl Jam Return In Force Rick Dees Con Sabor The first single off the band's J /RMG debut completely On March 5 Los Angeles morning legend Rick Dees debuted dominates the Rock formats. At Alternative, "World Wide a new weekend countdown on Latin Urban KXOL/Los Suicide" picks up Most Added, with 63, and Most Increased Angeles. The show is called Rick Dees Weekly Plays, with +1,466, and debuts at No. 6 *. At Active Rock, the Top 40 Con Sabor, and it's a version of Dees' track gets Most Added, with 45, and Most Increased Plays, countdown geared toward a bilingual with +751, and audience. It's a bold move by Dees - debuts at No. 14 *. At so bold that it took two columns to get Rock, it scores Most all the details. CHR/Pop Editor Kevin Added, with 15, and Carter talks to Dees, and Latin Most Increased Formats Editor Jackie Madrigal gets Plays, with +282, BJB/UilE88hhS®1 the scoop from Spanish Broadcasting and debuts at No. 7`. www. rad,oarad,rccords. corn System's Pio Ferro. Pages 23 and 91. BROOKS ip MARTIN & DINN ENTERTAINER TOP FEMALE VOCALIST TOP VOCAL DUO SINGLE RECORD, SARA EVANS VIDEO AND TOP FEMALE SONG VOCALIST "BELIEVE" CARRIE UNDERWOOD TOP FEMALE VOCALIST FEETOP NEW ST SONG AND RCA LABEL GROUP RLG /NASHVILLE SONY()) BMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT SINGLE RECORD "JESUS A R I S T A B N A R C A C 2006 HMO MUSIC TAKE THE WHEEL" 1111111111, www.americanradiohistory.com 1 PEARL JAM WORLD WIDE EUICIDI THE #1 MOST ADDED TRACK OF THE YEAR AT THE ROCK FORMATS! THEIR HIGHEST ALTERNATIVE DEBUT EVER! R &R ALTERNATIVE: DEBUT 0 #1 IN AUDIENCE!!! MODERN ROCK BDS: DEBUT 3* #1 IN AUDIENCE!!! R &R ACTIVE ROCK: DEBUT Q #4 IN AUDIENCE!!! ACTIVE ROCK BDS: DEBUT 11* #3 IN AUDIENCE!!! R &R ROCK: DEBUT Q #2 IN AUDIENCE!!! MAINSTREAM ROCK BDS: DEBUT 6* #1 IN AUDIENCE!!! HERITAGE ROCK /BDS BUILDING CHART: DEBUT 4* #1 IN AUDIENCE!!! TOTAL MODERN + ACTIVE + HERITAGE ROCK AUDIENCE IN SIX AND A HALF DAYS: 17,000,000+ OVER 3000 TOTAL SPINS IN A WEEK! ON TOUR: MAY 9 - TORONTO - AIR CANADA CENTRE MAY 10 - TORONTO - AIR CANADA CENTRE MAY 12 - ALBANY- PEPSI ARENA MAY 13 - HARTFORD - NEW ENGLAND DODGE MUSIC CENTER MAY 16 - CHICAGO - UNITED CENTER MAY 19 - GRAND RAPIDS - VAN ANDEL ARENA MAY 20 - CLEVELAND - QUICKEN LOANS ARENA MAY 22 - DETROIT - PALACE AT AUBURN HILLS MAY 24 - BOSTON - TD BANKWORTH GARDEN MAY 27 - PHILADELPHIA - TWEETER CENTER AT THE WATERFRONT MAY 30 - WASHINGTON, DC - VERIZON CENTER JUNE 1 - EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ - CONTINENTAL AIRLINES ARENA JUNE 3 - EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ - CONTINENTAL AIRLINES ARENA NEW ALBUM PEARL JAM IN STORES MAY 2 ^-r° ^^.rt°^ www.americanradiohistory.com INSIDE MARCH 17, 2006 CELL PHONES VS. RADIO HD RADIO IN SMALL Cell phones are everywhere these days. In MARKETS fact, many younger people have abandoned land lines and use cells as their Management/Marketing /Sales Editor only phones. This is a problem for radio, Adam Jacobson talks to NRG Media's especially stations with formats catering to Mary Ouass about HD Radio. NRG 18 -34- year -olds. because Arbitron doesn't operates 86 stations, many in small sample cell phone -only households. Rock markets, and Quass says that while Formats Editor Steven Strick talks to some operators may not like the Jacobs Media's Fred Jacobs (pictured) and Bridge changes HD Radio will bring. they'd THE INDUSTRY'S NEWSPAPER Ratings' Dave Van Dyke about this issue. Page 74. better start preparing for them. www.. radioandrecords. corn See Page 13 GREAT PROMOTIONS One popular session at the R &R Christian Summit was "Great Promotions Without Breaking the Spitzer's Latest Eighth Commandment," and in this Electronic- Ratings Candidates Down To Three week's recap, panel participant and Target: Entercom Creative Animal President Doug The Media Audit/Ipsos, Arbitron, MediaMark are selected as finalists Harris presents some great promo Company 'confident' By Adam Jacobson and options for radio -audi- leas. R&R Management/Marketing/Sales Editor Arbitron Unveils issues will be resolved [email protected] ence measurement, and See Page 86 The Next -Generation we are moving for- PPM Rollout Plan New York State Attorney Gen- to eral Eliot Spitzer's office on Electronic Ratings ward aggressively Arbitron on Tuesday took the ag- March 8 announced that it has Evaluation Team cre- review them," said gressive step of unveiling a rollout ated in response to Clear Channel Sr. VP/ plan for its Portable People Meter filed a lawsuit Clear Channel's June Research Jess Hanson, system in the United States. against Entercom, 2005 request for pro- who chairs the evalu- Although the PPM electronic -audi- the nation's third - c-r posals for a state-of- ation team. is largest radio op- ence-measurement technology still the-art electronic ra- "The evaluation one of three devices the Next- Genera- erator, alleging dio ratings service o team was im- tion Electronic Ratings Evaluation that the company has winnowed its list dip 0, pressed with the . Team is evaluating traded airtime for of finalists to The ss,$) ingenuity (see story, left), Arbi- payments includ- Media Audit/Ipsos, e 0'9 track records of sev- tron in July will of- ing trips, gifts and Spitzer Arbitron and Media- ""°'`` eral of the finalists ficially begin promotional Mark Research. Smart cell phone and is particularly in- measuring ex- items. The three companies terested in the cell phone posure to radio Spitzer's office also charges PRIM! nnFylp(l;y will move on to the next as a measurement device." via the PPM in that Entercom staff solicited and CONJUNTO PRIMAVERA level of examination and That's good news for Houston, accepted payments from record - Algo De Mi (Fonovisa) present their respective TMA /Ipsos, which has ag- where the label executives and developed company CHR,POP electronic ratings systems gressively pushed the internal programs that were has been - NE -YO So Sick (DefJam /IDJMG) to smart cell phone as "the Portable People Meter allegedly supported and directed the team later this conducting CHR,tIHYTHMIC month. The decision trims simplest, most common - by senior management - to sell its second PPM trial. E MARY J. BUGE Be Without You (Geffen) airtime to labels. four proposals from the sense device for media The to PPM from the changeover Entercom responded to the team's December 2005 list measurement today." TMA current diary method marks the end OEM I RANCHIZE BOYZ Lean Wit It (So So DefNirgin) charges by saying that it is a com- of finalists. Chairman and head of re- of an era - Arbitron began using "It has been encourag- search Jim Higginbotham diaries to collect radio audience es- pany "that believes in playing by 'MARY J. BLIGE Be Without You (Geffen) ing to find that there are said, "We have designed a timates in 1965. the rules, and does so." In an in- terview with R &R, an Entercom real potential alternatives RATINGS See Page 10 ARBITRON See Page 9 I' MAR' MARY Yesterday (Sony Urban/Columbia) ENTERCOM See Page 9 KENNY CHESNEY Living In Fast Forward (BAIA) SNIo01-31 JAZZ r RICHaRD ELLIOT Mystique (Artizen) What's Right With Radio *tale Of 3ub.ep.ettñknrr JAMES BLUNT You're Beautiful (Custard /Atlantic) Programmers point out the positive $l01 At for a moment, Note ruled the Smooth Jazz JAMES BLUNT You're Beautiful (Custard/Atlantic) Consider, the word independence. It is charts, but as those majors Damella Dunham dio a lot more. Our jocks go out R&R CHR/Rhythmic Editor an enormous concept that have grown less involved NICKELBACK Animals (Roadrunner/IDJMG) [email protected] to pep rallies and school events. implies autonomy, compe- with smooth jazz music, es- Radio has been getting a bad We help raise funds for organi- tence and self- reliance tablished independent labels r' GODSMACK Speak (Republic/Universal) rap over the last year, but it's zations like St. Jude's. We're al- - indeed, freedom itself. This and newer startups have still doing a lot of things right, ways out there, and we're com- year's Smooth Jazz special, filled the void. NINE INCH NAILS Every Day Is Exactly... (Interscope) so I reached out to a few PDs mitted to serving the public. The State of Independence, The State of Independence . and asked them for some posi- That's what radio's supposed to i s ,,L celebrates and honors inde- pays homage to the handful JACK JOHNSON Upside Down (Brushfire/Universal) tive thoughts on the medium. do because we're in the cus- pendence as we know it in of independently owned Their responses varied but tomer- service business. C111-- CHR this format. Smooth Jazz radio stations; BARLOWGIRL i Need You To... (Fervent/CurbNUarnerBros.l showed that there is still much From a listener's point of The radio and record in- independent record labels, to be proud of, and some pro- view, you can't really win con- CHRISTIAN AC dustries have changed dra- large and small; indepen- F. CHRIS TOMLIN How Great Is... (SixstepslSparrow,EMI CMG) grammers also shared their tests on some of the other medi- matically over the past dent producers whose cre- ideas for what can be done to ums. With radio, you get to in- CHRISTIAN ROCK dozen years, especially since ativity gives smooth jazz its P.O.B. Goodbye For Now (Atlantic) make radio even better. teract with the jocks, learn about the Telecommunications Act distinct sonic luster and vi- pop culture, get informed about CHRISTIAN INSPO of 1995.