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February 8, 2010 Issue 178 Dungan: Lady A Sales Are Nuts HOLIDAY SC H EDULE Last week’s No. 1 all-genre debut of Lady Country Aircheck will be closed Monday, Feb. 15 in observance Antebellum’s Need You Now was fueled by of the President’s Day holiday. All Country Aircheck Mediabase a huge single, some crossover airplay and a monitored reporters can submit station adds any time from this national stage television performance, but Thursday (2/11) until 3pm ET/Noon PT on Tuesday, Feb. 16. Country Aircheck non-monitored Activator reporters may submit their 480,000 sold still caught some in the industry full reports any time during that same time frame. The Country by surprise. Country Aircheck spoke with Aircheck Weekly will be delivered Tuesday evening, Feb. 16. Capitol/Nashville President/CEO Mike Dungan for the stories behind the big story. When did you know it had the potential to be that big? Albright & O’Malley pre-CRS It was like losing your mind. It was gradually, then suddenly. McVay New Media Pres. Daniel That’s a quote. It felt big from the day we took it to Country Anstandig, dmr Pres./COO Tripp radio, certainly, and that it would be big with or without this Eldridge and Jaye Albright and Phillip pop exposure we had. Over the Thanksgiving weekend we Beswick are the newest additions to noticed some key pop stations were just playing it. With all this Albright & O’Malley’s annual pre-CRS consolidation, these guys are right next to each other and many Client Seminar. Anstandig will present The Interactive Media are programming both. It just started showing up and then we Action Plan, followed by Eldridge as he discusses listener’s had to decide if we wanted to go for [pop airplay] and if so, “Moments of Truth,” before Albright and Beswick introduce how and when. We decided to officially go for Meet The Family: A Qualitative Analysis of the Country Format it on the pop side after the first of the year. Audience Who’s working it on the pop side? . The newcomers join previously announced keynoter Eric Samuels, A&O’s Mike O’Malley’s client-wide perceptual Our team is led by Greg Thompson in New study and a performance by co-sponsor Lyric Street’s Tyler York, Dennis Reese – who does Top 40 – and Dickerson. The event starts at 1pm Feb. 23 and is free and open Patty Morris who does the Adult formats. to those working in non-competitive situations with A&O clients. Mike Dungan They’ve been having a lot of fun with it. To get your invitation, contact Jaye Albright (206-498-6261) or (continued on page 4) O’Malley (732-937-5757). ©2010 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] (continued on page 4) February 8, 2010 Country Aircheck Weekly Page 2 Sweet Nothings: UMG/Nashville brought a host of PDs, MDs and other radio folks to Phoenix over the weekend. Participants attended Friday’s George Strait, Reba and Lee Ann Womack show, and enjoyed a Saturday evening showcase by Coldwater Jane, Randy Montana and Easton Corbin. They spent the flight home trying to figure out why UMGN’s Royce Risser (center, top) was kissing the neck of KBEQ/Kansas City’s Mike Kennedy, a move so shocking that UMG’s Katie Dean couldn’t bear to watch. Radio News the label, which is currently negotiating radio promotion. No Justice’s first release is due out in late spring. • St. Jude Radiothon: KKNG/Oklahoma City, $102,950. Tickets for CRS 2010’s Music City Jam, New Faces Of • Envision Radio Networks’ The Live Ride with Danny Wright Country Music Show and Capitol and UMG luncheons are now can now be heard on KEZS/Cape Girardeau, MO. available on CMTAuctions.com. In addition, concert tickets for • Noalmark/Hobbs, NM, which includes Country KPER, has upcoming Jewel, Reba and Jack Ingram shows have been added. added the Virtual News Center to provide local news. The auction raises funds for the Country Music DJ and Radio Gig Alerts Hall of Fame. For the second year, Country Thunder festivals in both • WAXX/Eau Claire, WI PD/morning co-host George House is Florence, AZ and Twin Lakes, WI will be showcased on GAC seeking a Nashville-based, video blogging co-host. Candidates Nights and GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown. should have Nashville industry connections. Send airchecks and resumes here. Artist News • KMLE/Phoenix PD Bruce St. James is looking for a Rascal Flatts are offering 14 Love full-time middayer. If you’ve got a “fresh, new sound,” send Songs For The 14th exclusively through airchecks and resumes to him here. all online outlets beginning tomorrow • WMAD/Madison OM Mike Ferris needs a PD; resumes here. (2/9). Tracks featured include “I Melt,” Industry News “Bless The Broken Road,” “My Wish” and “Take Me There.” Rascal Flatts Dallas-based Carved Records has officially opened with Gretchen Wilson will embark on the signing of No Justice. Founder/CEO Tim Porter heads up an 18-date I Got Your Country Right Here club tour Wednesday ©2010 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] February 8, 2010 Country Aircheck Weekly Page 3 (2/10) in Jacksonville. Other markets on the schedule include Phoenix, Los Angeles, Kansas City and Oklahoma City. Full MY TUNE S : MU S IC TH A T SH APED MY LIFE itinerary here. WQYK-FM/Tampa MD Jay Roberts Sammy Kershaw was inducted into the Louisiana Music Hall discusses his most important songs, artists of Fame Saturday (2/6) during his Lafayette, LA concert. “I am or concerts: 1. Beach Boys, Steel Pier, 1964: It was very proud and very, very honored to receive this from my home my first concert experience. I was a junior state of Louisiana,” Kershaw said. in high school in New Jersey and a buddy Blake Shelton is offering three different pre-order packages and I drove to Atlantic City. It was an for his upcoming Hillbilly Bone CD (out March 2). From Feb. awesome show even though tickets were 16 to March 1, fans have the option of the Premiere Pak, the Jay Roberts kind of pricey at $3. regular Pak and the Tee Pak. All come with a shirt and prices 2. Johnny Paycheck/She’s All I Got: In start at $18.99. Details here. 1971 while stationed in Colorado Springs during my tour in the Burns & Poe have signed a footwear agreement with the Air Force, I was punching through the AM dial on my car radio Clarksville, TN-based Dan Post Boot Company. The duo will and stumbled upon this song. That hooked me on country! wear the product on their tour and at appearances. 3. George Hamilton IV, Canadian Pacific and Lightfoot Country: These have always been two of my favorites, and I still Daniel Lee Martin and Belize’s Tranquility Bay Resort are enjoy listening to them 40 years later. offering a seven-day, all-inclusive fly-fishing packages for the 4. Charley Pride, Ronnie Milsap and Gary Stewart, Tampa’s Sportsman Channel Backstage & Backroads ’s challenge May Curtis Hixon Hall: My first country concert. In 1975, I had recently 3-9. Details here. joined the WQYK air staff and was star struck to see these three perform live. Wayne Update: State Line 5. Garth Brooks, Tampa’s Ice Palace, Oct. 1998: My most As Jimmy Wayne nears the Arkansas-Oklahoma state memorable concert event at WQYK. Four consecutive sold-out line on his 1,600-mile Meet Me Halfway walk to Phoenix, shows, and each one was a completely unique experience. There he understands more about his life as a homeless teen. Last was no better entertainer at the time ... incredible! week, Wayne visited a government-run Job Corps facility that • A highly regarded song or album you’ve never heard: Kenny assists U.S. homeless teens who have aged-out of foster care. G’s “Breathless”... am I missing something? But as Wayne found out, the facility isn’t available to all in • An “important” piece of music you just don’t get: Britney Spears, but I think I’m out of her demo, anyway. need. “The more I walk, the [more] I realize now why I was • An album you played or listened to incessantly: The Zombies’ homeless,” Wayne tells us over the phone in Little Rock, AR, Odessey and Oracle. It was released in 1968 after the group had last Friday (2/5). “[It’s] already disbanded. A masterpiece! because of the politics and • One obscure or non-country song everyone should listen to the people who are in the right now: “If I Ruled The World” by P.J. Proby. One of the most way. I was asking why this underrated singers, ever. kind of government-run facility isn’t offered to all of the kids. They told me, opportunity. They deserve to be taken care of.” Wayne says he ‘It is offered to all of the plans to continue his mission to help homeless teens after this kids if they meet a certain Jimmy Wayne with a Saints fan walk.”I think I’ll be doing this for the rest of my life. It’s just criteria.’ It should be equal who I am. I can’t imagine walking away.” ©2010 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] February 8, 2010 Country Aircheck Weekly Page 4 Chronicle BIR th DAY S Our thoughts and prayers are with the friends and family of Tuesday (2/9) - Joe Ely, Danni Leigh, Travis Tritt, Anne Sarosdy, former WQDR/Raleigh morning host Jay “Jaybo” Butler, who Tamara Saviano ([email protected]), Janie Wes succumbed to prostate cancer Sunday (2/7).