FEBRUARY 25, 2000 ISSUE 2293 THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN RADIO $PCAIN$1ill "Deliriously wonderful! Twangy Can Country Slow Dance? guitars, rhythmic thump, vocal personality, and a classic of a MUSIC country song. This just might be my favorite single released so far in TOP 40 2000. A star is born!" Faith Causes - /2a6 7C CUen«m Heavy Breathing RHYTHM CROSSOVER Thong Song Exthplodes "flowersi on the wall" COUNTRY Jessica Breaks Top 20 NEWS Tony, Elton "Stunning" In SF Sirius, XM In Joint Venture from the Gets Of '99 Ad $$$ Radio 8.2% forthcoming Mercury Records CO Er Cassette Home of thee Seminar in Radio 44>NASHVILLE swimming in champagne c 2000 Mercury Records From the Publishers of Music Week, MBI and fono visit www.mercurynashville.coin A Miller Freeman Publication praRisaed ericheatherly.com . Fslairayea'drj !da eddy TCoderfss Co,:aae, www.americanradiohistory.com ark. -.ills Kathy .attea Neffi Coty Jafflie I'Neal Eric Heatherly LkA T Terri Clark M Ei,3CLIAY 1-) i ill you experence the future 111. YYlI<COMar 03000 MaRury Records, a Universal Musk Colnpar y www.americanradiohistory.com Tony, Elton Kick Off "Super Thursday" "That was one super Thursdar, That's how one radio programming vi- üesuiueu mu /C13 ,11 ill n lull Llay I GAVIN Seminar 2000, which led off with Tony Bennett delivering a stellar SRO performance at noon at the Hyatt Regency, and Elton John cappine ! -L-ow th' unt"l Riveting with a phennrrrr. just up the h I! -et Fáirmort "Congratulations on yet another successful GAVIN seminar. The panels were riveting, the Internet day was cutting edge, the acts were solid and Bennett Stuns Sir Elton Delivers wonderful. It was a slam- the schmoozing with fellow industry types was "Stunning." SHANE, EX-WKTU-NY dunk. Congrats to you and your staff." -ANDY If you had to use just one word Pure Gold to describe Tony Bennett's intimate The Road to El Dorado led up FUN... Fun ... Fun performance at GAVIN Seminar California Street to Nob Hill and San 2000, that would be it. Normally Francisco's exclusive Fairmont Hotel. I you that the GAVIN Seminar was the most "Can just tell jaded record and radio people Where Elton John-with full band fun I've had since I can remember. Everybody was there, were amazed at the perfection of (including longtime sidemen Davey and San Francisco is such a beautiful city. I can't wait his voice and the range of the Johnstone and Nigel Olssen)-tore until Miami next year." -TIM RICHARDS, Q95.5 -DETROIT All Abuzz "GAVIN 2000 was huge! The halls were always buzzing about the latest panel, featured artist, etc. You'd have to work to not leave San Francisco with valuable informa- tion and contacts!" -BARRY JAMES, VP/PROGRAMMING, WTMX-CHICAGO Totally Pro music. Bennett left the GAVIN up the Venetian Room with a blister- Seminar crowd breathless as he ing live show that was taped for a 'I felt like I really made the most of my time. 'The No Static Squad' re - a mixture of Frank VH1 special. John was introduced energized my radio batteries. Thanks so much for an informative, enter- performed Sinatra, Duke Ellington and, of by DreamWork's principal Jeffrey taining, and professional event. I can hardly wait to get back and do course, Tony Bennett favorites, Katzenberg after a short preview of something creative." -SKIP DILLARD, WBLK/FM-BUFFALO backed by the outstanding Ralph the studio's upcoming animated fea- Sharon and his quartet. The leg- ture, The Road To Eldorado. After six endary singer received countless selections from (or inspired by) the Get Ready For "Streamies" standing ovations during the show; movie, including the upcoming sin- Blue" and Tired of those trendy Web terms, like "stickiness" and "portal"? Get ready for anoth- afterwards, key programmers- gle "Someday Out of the "16th er one, as the "streamies" begins to take hold. regardless of format-begged to vintage -sounding Elton rocker Elton up "Streamies," as defined by Arbitron, are online listeners who are highly responsive get backstage to get his autograph. Century Man," cranked to "dot -corn" advertisements and purchase more on the Web than Internet users who And yes, he did a phenomenal ver- both the energy and the volume faves: "Phila- are not listening online. According to Arbitron's most recent Internet study, conducted sion of "I Left My Heart in San with several crowd & the with Edison Research, 79 percent of online radio listeners are likely to visit a Website Francisco," plus a sensational delphia Freedom," "Benny Rock," and a advertised on their favorite radio station-and 60 percent have made a purchase "unplugged" version of "Fly Me to Jets," Crocodile rendition of "Saturday from a Website. the Moon." "This was the gem of resounding For Fighting)." The top five items purchased on the Web by "streamies" are books (57%), CDs all GAVIN Seminar moments," Night's (Alright DreamWorks for a (52%), software (50%), airline/travel reservations (47%), and clothes (41%). observed GAVIN CEO David Dalton Special thanks to fantastic evening. The study was released February 16 at the GAVIN Seminar. as a thrilled Bennett left the stage. CONTENTS FORMAT SECTIONS ACTIVE ROCK 30 NEWS COUNTRY 31 TOP 40/RHYTHM CROSSOVER 8 Tony, Elton Kick Off "Super Thursday" 3 GAVIN Attendees Face New Realities The West Coast Rules Awards Radio $$ Were 8.2 Percent of All '99 Ad Sales 4 Can Radio Slow Dance To Better Ratings? RAP 14 Sirius, XM Develop Joint Standard 6 AMERICANA 36 Hot Nix: Word on the Street RADIO@LARGE 6 GAVIN Seminar: Back From the Future Artist Profile: Kombo "(Pushing) The Envelope, Please" TRIPLE A 39 URBAN/URBAN A/C 16 RATINGS & RESEARCH 7 GAVIN Seminar Triple A Recap "Fun and Fundamentals" Fall Arbitron Format Report Card JAZZ/SMOOTH JAZZ & VOCALS 45 A/C, HOT A/C 21 Jazz and Smooth Jazz Seminar Highlights Honoring the Best and Brightest 1/1, Miller Freeman ALTERNATIVE 26 A United News &Media company c2000 GAVIN "Sands' Jive -Ass Seminar Photo Journal" February 25, 2000 gavin 3 www.americanradiohistory.com GauH 2000: Spectacular! If technology has you confused and owns emails, the label won't to punch their ticket...and figure it about where the world is going, hold the same sway. They know it out. Label Heads on the Record San Francisco was a great place to and it was clearly on their GAVIN 2000's vibe was upbeat Some of the music industry's top talk about it. GAVIN 2000 was a faces. with spectacular entertainment! executives weighed in on the Internet welcome whirlwind of activity for Seeing Tony Bennett was church! during the "View From the Top" dis- radio/record people who now No one who was in that room will cussion at the GAVIN Seminar: guess weekly what any Friday ever forget the goosebumps "Just as the record companies can bring. when he put down his micro- may look at the Internet as the The Internet permeated the phone and sang full voice. ultimate cash register, broadcaste-s Seminar as radio and records Elton John's performance for can look at the Net as the continued to plot a course out \Iusie saure Gavin Goes Glossy about 400 people at the titi, 111 the ultimate antenna." F.IM , John, I e. Bennett of the woods. new s hl mug Note, The good 4r.d x,ntnr ahem k; Fairmont's Venetian room was -JIM CAPARRO, ISLAND/DEF JAM Y. radio iudmu. ,OmCnlgn is that most heads have been music-and performance-at "The Internet hasn't broken an act. seen leaving the sand. its highest altitude. Word-of-mouth is still the most Radio seems to understand GAVIN folk had a responsi- powerful factor in breaking an act - that their coveted local brand bility to architect a conference but the Net can be a very big needs the wings of the Web to that could stand as the centu- amplifier of that word-of-mouth" compete. Labels have also realized The fact is our universe is now ry's first confab. A classy glimpse -HOwIE KLEIN, REPRISE that database (not content) is king! divided into two factions; people into what was and what is. So when, in the future, an artist who make the music and people Me thinks they did. "The Internet has very similar reaches commercial critical mass who buy it. Everyone else needs JIMMY RISK, CLIFTON RADIO demographics to the record compE- ny's core demographic-but remember that a record company provides Radio, Internet Becoming Do -Complicated the prioritizing and focus- t ing functions. There are 400,000 "Today, the average office worker next 12 months, will radio suffer? it right we will not suffer. Someone unsigned acts on the Net, but none gets 34 phone calls, 15 email mes- "No," answered Nickelodeon else will." has come to the forefront yet." sages, 11 voice mail messages, Online's Fred Seibert. "The idea is Some more sound bytes -RAY COOPER, VIRGIN eight beeps, and five faxes per day. not how we're going to replace from "Music Programming "There will still be a need for a sin- What does this mean? It means radio or cable or TV but how-with on The Net" Day: gle in some fashion, but it may be that everyone is multi -tasking, whatever we're doing-we can > "We don't care if we drive our lis- under a subscription model. A con- doing all things at once...and in the make people want even more stuff. teners to our Website.