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NEWSSTAND PRICE $6.50 OCTOBER 17, 2003 3 Doors Go Back To Back Both 3 Doors Down and their label, Universal Records, score back -to -back No.1 iv.,Lis) songs this week. 3 Doors have their second Rock Survey Tells All straight CHR /Pop chart- topper with "Here Ifs everything you need to know about stations, program- Without You," following mers and record execs in Rock and Active Rock. R &R Rock labelmate Nelly, who Editor Cyndee Maxwell, inspirec by the famous Zagat lopped the chart for Guide, has assembled a conc!se -eview of radio and labels tree weeks with "Shake that you can use the next time you're wondering where to va Tailfeather." go in the format. Unpredicta Can REVOLUTIONIZE PM DRIVE WITH Gossip THE WEN DY WILLIAMS Trash Tait, . EXPE'_: E Celebritie°= EXPERIENCE RATINGS INC Intervie G. Wenaydomina' like nobody else! WBLS goes #15 to #2 in one book ( M -F 2p -6p 1 EXPERIENCE PUBLICITY! 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Ali Rights Reserved www.americanradiohistory.com OCTOBER 17, 2003 I N S I D E The Rock Survey TIME TO BRAND YOUR TALENT A tongue -in -cheek guide to the format, Zagat style Your air personalities can and should be their means satisfying a hankering own brands, regardless of format. This week, By Cyndee Maxwell R&R Rock Editor for fish, steak or pasta or sim- in the first of a two -part series in the cmaxwelldradioandrecords.com ply filling my belly. It was one Management/Marketing/Sales section, Steve Now for a little fourth-quar- of those very scenarios and the Stockman shows how to exploit the ter levity, with a nod to The subsequent dive into a guide- marketing value of your talent. Also: Dave Zagat Survey for inspiration. book that gave me the idea of Van Dyke explains his five -step employee - For me, choosing a restaurant creating a similar survey for the confrontation technique, Rick Torcasso has always been like the format. advises on the four steps for launching a classic exchange: new format, and Irwin Pollack shares his 19 THE INDUSTRY'S NEWSPAPER "Where do you traits of top salespeople, plus Jeffrey want to go ?" "I Hedquist's latest 60- Second Copywriter and www.radioandrecords.com don't know, where radio's most current Industry Calendar. do you want to go ?" "Oh, I How I would love to have Pages 7 -9 don't know, where do you want had the time to go way in-depth to go ?" On and on. with a rating scale on different Mega Sizzles In Summer Thus, Zagat, other restaurant aspects. For radio, it could have guides and even the phone been a point system in the cat- JUST IN TIME FOR THE HOLIDAYS By Adam Jacobson book have helped me decide egories of ratings, music, on -air It won't be long before holiday cash registers RAR Radio Editor New York where alacobson 4ndioandrecords. tom to dine, whether that See Page 56 are ringing, and industry hopes are high for Station (Format) Wi '03 Sp '03 music. R &R Music Editor Frank Correia Clear Channel AC WLTW WLTW-FM (AC) 6.7 6.6 profiles the superstar releases from a host of (Lite FM) is once again the WUHT -FM ( CHR/Rhythmic) 4.9 4.5 labels, including Arista, Capitol, Epic, Jive No. 1 station in New York, WNEW Taps Rivers As PD slipping 6.7 -6.6 in the sum- WSW-FM (Tropical) 3.5 4.5 and Warner Bros. By Kevin Carter said Rivers, who has spent the WRKS-FM (Urban AC) 3.8 4.2 Page 20 mer 2003 Arbitrons. But R &R CHR/Pop Editor past 10 years as VP /Program- the big news in the Tri- WINS -AM (News) 4.3 4.1 kcarterksradroandrecords.com ming for Infinity/St. Louis and State Area involves Span- Smokey Rivers has been ap- OM /PD of that cluster's AC ish Broadcasting System's Los Angeles pointed to fill the vacant PD KEZK and Hot AC KYKY. Tropical WSKQ (Mega Station (Format) Wi '03 Sp '113 post at Infinity AC WNEW Rivers first became involved NUMBER ONES 97.9). Mega sizzled in the (102.7 Blink)/New York. Rivers KPWR -FM (CHR/Rhythmic) 5.3 4.8 with Blink in September, when summer book, leaping 3.5- will continue as the company's he oversaw the changeover KROO-FM (AK.) 4.4 4.7 CHR/POP 4.5 12+ to move into a sec- VP /AC Programming and re- from an "infotainment"-heavy KFI-AM (Talk) 4.3 4.2 - 3 DOORS DOWN Here Without You (Republic/Universal) ond -place tie with Emmis' places Steve Kingston, who ex- format to a more mainstream CHR/Rhythmic WQHT. KSCA-FM (Reg. Mex.) 3.5 4.0 ited Blink last month. 'CHR/RHYTHMIC RIVERS Emmis can still boast that KIIS/KVVS (CHR/Pop) 3.5 3.7 "We live for the challenges!" See Page 17 BEYONCÉ f/SEAN PAUL Baby Boy (Columbia) it has the No. 1 station in URBAN Los Angeles, as KPWR re- Chicago BEYONCÉ f/SEAN PAUL Baby peats in the market's top Boy (Columbia) Station (Format) Wi'03 Sp'03 Quimby Named WCBS -AM PD spot. However, the station is WGNAM (News/Talk) 6.7 7.2 URBAN AC down 53-4.8 and now leads Scheld rejoins Infinity station as News Director KEM Lore Calls (Motown/Universal) No. 2 WGCI-FM (Urban) 5.8 6.3 KROQ by just one- By Al Peterson WVAZ-FM (Urban AC) 4.3 4.9 COUNTRY tenth of a point. KFI remains R&R News/Talk/Spans Editor WBBM-AM (News) 5.1 4.4 apetersonâradivandrecords.com GARY ALLAN Tough Little Boys (MCA) in third. With pennant fever grip- WUSN-FM (Country) 2.9 4.4 Infinity's News WCBS -AM/New York has TIC ping Wrigleyville, Tribune's tapped 23 -year news and programming veteran Continuously updated ratings UNCLE KRACKER 1/DOBIE GRAY Drift Away (Lava) News /Talk WGN widens results: www.radioandrecords.com Crys Quimby as PD and longtime network news- 1 man Tim as 1107 AC its lead at No. in Chicago Scheld News Director. They assume with a 6.7 -7.2 move that hold on second 12 +, while duties that were most recently held by Frank SANTANA VALEX BAND Why Don't You & I (Arista) comes, in part, from rabid Clear Channel Urban AC sis- Raphael, who exited the station last month. SMOOTH JAIL Cubs fans tuning in to the ter WVAZ climbs to third. "Crys' passion for News radio and Tim's exten- - -- - - - -- - - -- - -- - - --- CANDY OULFER Finsbury Park, Café 67(Eagle Rock) team's radio broadcasts. Infinity's Country WUSN -FM sive background in journalism make them WGCI -FM strengthens its uniquely qualified for their respective positions," ROCK RATINGS See Page 17 Quimby STAIND So Far Away (Flip/Elektra/FEG) WCBS See Page 17 ACTIVE ROCK STAIND So Far Away (Flip/Elektra/EEG) Streaming ALTERNATIVE STAIND So Far Away (Flip/Elektra/EEG) For Dununiesnies 1RIPLE A By Dave Rahn R.E.M. Bad Day (Warner Bros.) Co- President, SUR Creature CHRISTIAN AC Streaming is one of those top- ics that radio has largely swept ZOEGIRL You Get Me (Sparrow) under the rug for the past CHRISTIAN CHR couple of years. Some broad- SWITCHFOOT Gone (Sparrow) casters hope streaming - along with satellite radio will just CHRISTIAN ROCK - go away. Others are taking a FM STATIC Crazy Mary (Tooth & Nail) wait- and-see attitude. That usu- CHRISTIAN INSPO ally means they'll wait until JAMIE SLOCUM I Cannot Turn Away (Curb) there's a viable way to make money streaming. SPANISH CONTEMPORARY But the evidence we're seeing Hats Off To RadioNow/Indianapolis! CHAYANNE Jn Siglo Sin Ti (Sony Discos) and hearing from listeners tells That crashing sound you hear is thousands of Indianapolis commuters colliding with us that we need to make stream- TEJANO each other at the sight of the new billboard campaign being mounted (no pun intend- INTOCABLE Eso Duele (EMI Latin) ing more of a priority lest we risk losing TSL to other services. ed) by the aptly named Wank & O'Brien, the wacky morning guys at Emmis' CHR/Pop REGIONAL MEXICAN We should stream not because WNOU (RadioNow) /Indianapolis.