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favorite R&R writers and editors. Nominations are open now and Volume XXXIV• Number 8 • February 22, 2008 can be submitted simply by clicking http://infinitedial.com/ 30under30.php and filling out the entry form. Remember—the Conclave and Edison Media Research want your young talent to be AIN TREET recognized as much as you do, so take the time and sell them! M S Nominations will run from now through the end of March. Feel free Presents to nominate as many young broadcasters as you wish. Concludes TheThe ConclaveConclave Larry, “Thanks, and we look forward to seeing you at the Conclave in a few months!” A T T L E A T T L E th TT RR The FCC finds out February 29 if the Supreme Court will hear its case over their authority to fine TV stations for the broadcast of the Publisher: Tom Kay F-word under federal indecency laws. Four of nine votes are needed Cartoons Pilfered by Lenny Bronstein & Jay Philpott to ensure the court’s review. The FCC denied the appeal of ABC owned stations and their affiliates for the February 23rd, 2003 airing 30 Under 30 Returns to the Conclave Learning Conference! Last of NYPD Blue which showed a woman’s bare butt. The FCC gave year when the Conclave and Edison Media Research launched 40 affiliates until February 21st – only 52 hours from the appeal denial the first 30 Under 30, celebrating the 30 brightest young stars under – to pay the $27,500 fine. At the same time, it cancelled the fines to the age of 30 in broadcasting, we had no idea what to expect or how one dozen other stations. Reasons for the cancellation range from fantastic the response would be. Says Edison CEO Larry Rosin, the expiration of a stature of limitation, to the fact that no one in the “We had no idea we would be hosting a SECOND 30 Under 30 at affiliates’ market complained about the episode. The FCC rejected all. What we got in 2007 was beyond our expectations—hundreds arguments that it gave the affiliates insufficient time to appeal the of quality nominees, a wonderful event at the Conclave, and as the ruling; the stations noted that they only had 17 days to file their icing on the cake, Bob Eubanks himself instructing the ‘30’ on the appeal, when the usual time is 30 days. The Commission doesn’t finer arts of ‘whoopee’. So it is with great pleasure that we announce have to give 30 days. What if the stations refuse to pay the fine? the start of the 2008 Edison Media Research 30 Under 30. Once Well, then the FCC would have to go to district courts in each station’s again, the fine folks at the Conclave will be hosting this event, and market to try to force them to pay up. all 30 award winners will be invited to attend the Conclave and our special award luncheon on Saturday June 28 in Minneapolis.” How The FCC’s rules about airing phone calls also apply to voicemail. The can you participate? Look deep within your stations, clusters and FCC issued a $4,000 fine against Courier Communications, license corporate offices for the next generation of bright young stars—the holder for WNOV-AM for a February 2007 incident in which the cell folks who will be carrying the torch for great radio for the next several phone voicemail greeting of then WISN-AM morning show producer decades. Remember, the folks at Edison aren’t just interested in the Keith Conrad was played over the air without his permission on under-30 broadcasters who are already stars, but those who have Michael McGee’s “Word Warriors” show. the potential to be the great young broadcasters of the future. As such, it will be your job to find them and let Edison know how great It’s already been a year since the merger announcement of XM/ they are! Says Edison VP Tom Webster, “Though Larry, Sean and Sirius and the National Association of Broadcasters has asked I have met a lot of smart, wonderful people in radio over the past the FCC to block satellite radio providers from offering local few years, we can’t know everyone—so we need you to step up and broadcasting in hopes of gaining an edge for terrestrial radio. The tell us why your nominee(s) deserve to be amongst this year’s 30. NAB points out that both Sirius and XM have an alleged record of For our part, we are going to be doing our best to make the 2008 30 “misbehavior” in following FCC rules and should be banned from the most diverse group imaginable, and we hope to get a wide abusing local stations. According to NAB claims, both Sirius and assortment of men and women in programming, sales, marketing/ XM have admitted to unauthorized or misused antennas and promotions, sales and engineering. Don’t assume someone else repeaters. The NAB has also admitted that it hopes to block other will nominate that rising young star you know—take it upon yourself expansion moves that would provide access to satellite radio in areas to write us and tell us why they are great—and will become even which satellite radio is normally unavailable, such as Sirius’ plans to greater. To help Edison reach out to as wide a variety of potential install repeaters in Alaska or Hawaii. The association has often nominees as possible, they’ve enlisted the help of Conclave Partner contended that a Sirius and XM union would constitute a monopoly Radio and Records to help find talent in all the various formats and that provides an unfair advantage against land-based radio. disciplines they cover—so expect some phone calls from your ed schultz ed 2008 KEYNOTE 2008 KEYNOTE 2008 JONES RADIO NETWORK david rehr david CEO NAB Learning-Sharing-NetworkingLearning-Sharing-Networking The 33rd TuitionTuitionOverOver coverscovers 4040 Sessions/EventsmanySessions/Eventsmany mm EarlybirdEarlybird TuitionTuition Conclave Learning Conference $199 until 2/29/08! $199 until 2/29/08! June 26-29, 2008 eals/snacks! 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