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NEWSSTAND PRIDE $6.50 JUNE 17, 2005 Green Day Wake Up Alt A Hot Night In Cleveland With "Wake Me UJ When September Ends," the Reprise On Thursday, June 23, from 7 -11 pm, as part of R &R band score their fourth consecutive Most Added track Convention 2005, R &R presents an evening at the Rock from the smash CD American and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, sponso -ed by Idiot. Tie single gets 32 adds Premiere Radio Networks. Convention attenlees will and rises 45 -41 * on the have the entire hall to themselves for the nir ht and Alternative chart. R &R access to all the exhibits. There will Converrtion 2005 attendees also be live performances by will see the world premiere of Jon Secada, Warren Hill the "September" video at the and Wade Brown, and food Alternative & Rock Anti - ¡Alu S IEIII/BB$ and drinks will be served. Awards Lunch on June 23. Come early and s =ay late! TA L K R A D I cO N E T W O R K F M Your Station Here ,m[r\tP\Te d;onr\nrvan. ect TRN-FM www.talkradionetwork-FM.com 866 -876 -5077 www.americanradiohistory.com 113 THE II/Dl/SIR r s MOWER w.,,,,on,;ne.rom B193 RECORDS ARE PROUD TO PRESENT JON SECADA PERFORMING JUNE 23RD, 9.30PM AT THE 2005 R &R CONVENTION OPENING NIGHT COCKTAIL PARTY AT THE ROCK N ROLL HALL OF FAME PERFORMING HIS NEW SINGLE "WINDOW TO MY HEART" www.americanradiohistory.com JUNE 17, 2005 TRIPLE A NOMINEES BUZZARD FLIES HIGH This week we announce the Triple A nominees for For 37 years WMMS (The Buzzard)/ R &R Industry Cleveland has had a strong bond Achievement Awards. The with its listeners during the station's categories are PD, Promo Exec, MD, Personality, ups and downs and different format Station and Label of the Year. Once everyone has voted, incarnations. Rock Editor Ken the winners will be announced during the R &R Triple A Anthony talks to PD Bo Matthews Summit, which takes place in Boulder, CO, Aug. 10-13. about The Buzzard's history and its Vote early and vote often! Page 64. staying pomer. THE/NDUSTRY'S NEWSPAPER www. radioandrecords. corn See Page 57 John Dimick's hip -hop conversion: Page 31 BEYOND POLITICS Talk host Glenn Beck's show is full of information, inspiration and Hunnicutt Promoted To CC VP/Country comedy. What it's surprisingly short It's Official: Viacom Will By Lon Helton on is politics. This week Beck tells R &R Country Editor News/Talk/Sports Editor Al Peterson Split Into Two Companies [email protected] Gear Channel Mid-South Regional VP/Program- what he's doing to set himself apart Moonves to lead new CBS Corp., including ming Gay Hunnicutt has added VP /Country duties -rom the other conservative -leaning remains Infinity; Freston to head new Viacom entity for the company's 177 Country stations. He posts out there. based in Nashville and succeeds Alan Sledge, who By Joe Howard earlier this year was upped to Sr. VP /Programming See Page 13 R &R Washington Bureau Chief for Arizona, Texas jhoward ®radioandrecords.com Nevada and and has now elected to step down from the VP /Country post to concen- Viacom's board of direc- Hunnicutt tors on Tuesday approved a trate on his new responsibilities. plan to divide the com- "I felt it was time to turn the VP /Country post over to some- pany's assets into two sepa- one else," Sledge told R &R. "Clay has done a great job in the rate, publicly traded com- Southeast and helped me pull many things together in our con- panies, following through tent-to- content initiatives. He'll do a great job as VP /Country." on a plan announced in HUNNICUTT See Page 11 March and enthusiastically Moonves Freston supported by Viacom Chair- man /CEO Sumner Red- President /co -COO Tom High Court Won't Hear Ownership Case stone. Freston. The new Viacom The creation of the two will comprise MTV Net- Ruling forces FCC to better justify station -count limits companies is expected to works, BET, Paramount Pic- The United States Supreme ownership cap in a market, us- close in Ql 2006, and the tures, Paramount Home Court on Monday declined to ing FCC -adopted Arbitron- spinoff is expected to be Entertainment and Famous SHAKIRA f/A. SANZ consider a petition from the based radio-market definitions. La Tortura (Sony BMG) tax -free for Viacom stock- Music. NAB that, among other things, The high court also refused holders, leaving them with The other company, sought a reversal of the FCC's to consider petitions from a va- shares in both companies. dubbed CBS Corp., will be enactment of its new radio - riety of newspaper groups that GWEN STEFANI Hcllaback Girl (lnterscope) The first company will helmed by current Viacom ownership rules. Those rules sought reversal of the FCC's retain the Viacom name and co-President /co-000 Les count stations that radio groups new broadcast- newspaper cross - MARIAH CAREY We Belong Together (Island/IDJMG) will be led by current co- VIACOM See Page 12 operate under local marketing ownership rules that rewrote, and time -brokerage agree- and in some cases tightened, R KELLY Trapped In The Closet (Jive/Zomba Label Group) ments against the companies' COURT See Page 11 K.EM I Can't Stop Lacing You (Motown /Universal) MARY MARY Heaven (Sony Urban /Columbia) Nat'l Spot Radio There's Only One Ladd CC Seeks New KEITH URBAN Making Memories Of Us (Capitol) Dollars To 25 -54s Ratings System A look at what makes a On The Decline legend tick KELLY CLARKSON Breakaway (RCA/RMG) Unfazed, Arbitron touts By Adam Jacobson body in there, even According to Interep's analy- 2006 PPM rollout plan R &R Radio Editor people who work [email protected] ROB THOMAS Lonely No More (Atlantic) sis of the top 25 radio metros' here," says Jim Ladd, share of national spot radio ad- In a direct challenge to Arbi- It's late on a Thurs- host of KLOS /Los tron, Clear Channel on Monday NILS Pacific Coast -Iighway (Baja/TSR) vertising dollars in 2004, the per- day evening, and an Angeles' late-night centage of dollars aimed at released a request for proposals artist is at work. His Headsets. "I don't al- to "create a state- of-the-art ra- AWDIOSLAVE Be Ycurself (lnterscope/Epic) 25-54 to 4(11% adults dropped studio is darkened, low it. I'm creating a last year. dio ratings system that will ac- iVE RUGK illuminated only by thematic show, and curately and credibly represent M1IDVAYNE Happy/ (Epic) That's down from 42.2% in lamps over his work- it takes total concen- 2003 and reflects a slow, consis- radio's true performance and station and the large tration to put to- value to advertisers." NINE INCH NAILS The Hand That Feeds (lnterscope) tent decline seen year since J each wall -mounted rack gether a four -hour 1995, when the percentage was Citing three studies com- that holds all the ele- Jim Ladd show" pleted by the Radio Advertis- COLDPLAY Speed Of Sound (Capitol) 55.5 %. National ad dollars to 25- ments he needs to Ladd is the mas- 545 dipped to 54.4% in 1996, ing Effectiveness Lab that have ,ARISTIAN AC properly practice his art. ter of a dying style of rock demonstrated radio's effective- . JEREMY CAMP Take You Back (BEC/Tooth & Nail) 52.9% in 1997, 50.5% in 1998, This artist rarely has guests 'n' roll radio. Call it free- 50.3% in 1999, 48.5% in 2000, ness as an advertising me- kCMnsnAMm in his studio, but tonight, for form radio, call it freedom dium, Clear Channel Radio JOY WILLIAMS Hide (Reunion/PLG) 44.7% in 2001 and 43% in 2002. the first time in his 35 -year from the rigid playlists that Interep said that the 25 -54 CEO John Hogan said, "Radio career, he is allowing some- have been handed to air is a powerful, effective me- DISCIPLE The Wait Is Over (SAE) demo remains of the group one to observe him for the personalities for a genera- Americans most targeted by ad- dium whose influence and entire evening. Furthermore, tion, but don't call it a reach have been under -re- CFfBIS Is vertisers marketers. How- TOMLIN Holy The (Sixsteps/Sparrow/EMI CMG) and the artist has allowed this hodgepodge put together ever, adults 18 -49 received ported and diluted. guest to participate in the cre- by someone playing what 24.4% of total national ra- "In discussions with other LOS TEMERARIOS Ji En Defensa Propia (Fonovisa) spot ation of one of his works. he wants. dio advertising dollars in 2004 radio groups, it's become clear "I don't ever have any- that a different approach is SHAKIRA I /A. SANZ La Tortura (Sony BMG) See Page 25 DECLINE See Page 12 RATINGS See Page 12 ISSUE NUMBER 1611 www.americanradiohistory.com New York 2.8 to 4.1 UP 46% Los Angeles 10.8 to 21.4 UP 98% San Francisco 4.8 to 6.9 UP 44% Tampa 4.9 to 5.3 UP 8% Cleveland 9.2 to 12.5 UP 36% Portland, OR 5.2 to 8.4 UP 62% Cincinnati 2.4 to 3.0 UP 25% Sacramento 6.9 to 7.3 UP 6% San Antonio 2.6 to 7.0 UP 169% Buffalo 3.8 to 6.1 UP 61% Albuquerque 3.4 to 4.5 UP 32% :J7 Austin 2.8 to 4.4 UP 57% Listener Loyalty Of Epic Proportions THE JIM R SHOW 818.461 .5177 www.americanradiohistory.com Cassidy To Lead June 17, 2005 D &R As Interep's NEWS & FEATURES Agovino Resigns Kevin Cassidy will be return- 4 Opportunities 76 Radio Business ing to Interep on July 1, assuming Management/ Marketplace 77 the post of President of D &R Ra- dio.