This Week: Music & Media's POPKOMM Preview Updates On The Music, The Panels, The Fair. See Pages 7-15. Europe's Music Radio Newsweekly . Volume 10 . Issue 34 . August 21, 1993 . £ 2.95, US$ 5, ECU 4 French Nets Winners In CarignonsRadio Plans FRANCE Jean -NoelJeanneney,which will be able to develop its concept by Emmanuel Legrand proposed a ceiling of 100 million Rires et Chansons, and even potential listeners. Explained make a hoped -for purchase of The strict ownership regulations Carignon, "This will allow our full -service web RMC. currently barring major operators radio stations to be in a better Luxembourggroup CLT- such as NRJ and RTL from buy- position to face competition. We which owns full -service net RTL, ing third networks may be loos- are in a sector that can exist only has a 39% stake in EHR web ened in the next year, according if economic rules are respected." M40 and 34% of EHR web to a recent announcement made The proposal will be regarded Fun-will not be limited inits by French communications min- as a gift to major radio groups plans to take over 100% of Fun. MILLTOWN BROTHERS SIGN WITH RONDOR - The Milltown Brothers such as NRJ, which, alongside its An RTL spokesperson tells recently signed a songwriting deal with Rondor Music London. Their sec- ister Alain Carignon. second net Cherie FM (Gold), (continues on page 25) ond album "Valve" is now out on A&M. Pictured (l -r) are: Rondor Music The plan, revealed in an inter- addresses (RM) MD Stuart Homall, RM GM Peter McCamley, RM international man- view with CB News, thecontentsoftherecently ager Zara Morris, band manager Andy Proudfoot, band lawyer Howard drawn -up law, whichis Livingstone and band members Matthew Nelson, Simon Nelson, Nian radio expected to be presented before 2nd Qtr. UK Music Brindel, James Fraser and Barney James. the French Parliament this autumn. Current regulations limit network ownership at 30 million Sales Best Since 1986 listeners. In the interview Carignon sug- UNITED KINGDOM the UK music industry. Virgin Radio Adjusts gested an ownership ceiling of up by David Stansfield Total sales reached £155.63 to 120 million inhabitants, million(app. US$228 million) "regardless of the number of net- An 11% rise in value plus healthy (wholesale price), according to works and without conditions." increases in singles and albums statisticsproducedbyrecord Format; Adds ACE This goes much further than the shipments in the period April - industry association BPI. Singles UNITED KINGDOM The programming adjust- radio law project prepared by pre- June have injected the hope of a shipmentsdutingtheperiod by Mike McGeever ments, which will include chang- vious minister of communications general economic recovery into (continues on page 25) ing its one-man breakfast show to The UK's first national commer- a two -man "Rock 'n' Roll Break- No. 1in EUROPE cial rock service, Richard Bran - fast Show," are an attempt to Biork Challenges The Conventions son's Virgin Radio 1215 AM, is respondtolistenerfeedback European Hit Radio adjustingitsoutput to include which has at times criticised the EUROPE involved in is run of the mill. 4 NON BLONDES more ACE tracksandallow station for lacking in personality by Machgiel Bakker The record deal is complex, the What's Up greaterDJprofilefollowing and concentrating on "white male artist has very strong ideas for (Interscope) "lessons learned" by the station's guitarmusic," says co -pro- "Be ready to get con- theproject,while the programmers since it launched on gramme director Richard Skin- fused." These are some soundofthealbum Eurochart Hot 100 Singles April 30. ner. The adjusted playlist will of the lyrics of Human (Debut)defies easy cat- 4 NON BLONDES The station, which launched now include more veteran black Behaviour,thedebut egorising, not least What's Up half way through this year's sec- artists and female vocalists. solo single of Bjtirk, the through the daring pro- (Interscope) ond quarter ratings survey, gar- Skinner concedes that in the formersinger of Ice- ductionofSoulII nered a 2.2% share of its total early days the programming was landic indie rock band Soul's Nellee Hooper. European Top 100 Albums survey area, representing 93% of somewhat one-dimensional. But The Sugarcubes. But theseapparent 2 -theUK's46.7millionadults since then he and joint PD John And indeed, nothing Biork intricacies have not Zooropa -about 150.000 listeners short of Revell have been adding new that Bjork does or gets (continues onpage 25) (Island) its predicted 3.3 million. 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Hours before the U2 concert in Oslo on July 29, right-wing party by David Stansfield ing his regular show on August 7. In announcing his resignation Hoyre handed out flyers telling people that if they vote for the party Although he had hoped to work on air, Travis told an estimated during the autumn elections the parallel import legislation will be Veteran BBC Radio 1 DJ Dave until his current contract expires in four million listeners,"Recently removed. The party says it is against the current three-month jail sen- Lee Travis was sacked on August October, he was dismissed three there has been a lot in the press tence for importing copies of recordings already distributed by the 11 following his announcement on days later for breaching the terms about the BBC. I really want to put multinational record labels. Parallel import was made illegal in early air that he was resigning after 20 of his contract which prohibit him the record straight at this point, and June. Kai Roger Ottesen years at the station. Travis first fromdiscussingBBCaffairs I thought you ought to know first. Changesarebeing made here GERMANY: RTL Der Oldiesender Number One In German FM Market which go against my principals. A recent telephone survey covering the German FM radio market con- Polydor Dovetails Intl/Nat'l My only option, very regrettably, ducted by ILRES, the national research institute of Luxembourg, puts is to leave." Luxembourg -based RTL-Der Oldiesender as the number one sta- HOLLAND responsibilitieswill remain with The BBC's decisionfollows tion in the German FM market (Saarland and the districts of Trier, by Miranda Watson national repertoire. recent attacks on the management Koblenz and Cologne). RTL Radio scored a reach of 32% of listeners Tekstra, a former singer -song- style of BBC director general John aged 12+, ahead of EHR public SWF 3 with 27% and EHR/gold Following the appointment of Jan writer and producer, will report Birt and Birt's vow to make the Radio RPR Super Radio Market with 19%. Other parts of the Rai Tekstra as A&R manager at Poly- directly to MD Albert van der Radio 1 FM EHR web more "alter- FM market not included in the survey include parts of the Dusseldorf dor Holland(effectiveAugust Kroft and concentrate on national native" and "closer to its younger district as well as RTL's AM market in the rest of North Rhine-West- 16),several changes are being A&R. It is Tekstra's first position audiences." phalia and Rheinland-Pfalz. Miranda Watson introduced to streamline operations with a record company. Birt's claimed commitment to a at the company. National product Van der Kroft says the changes more youth -oriented station was ITALY: FIMI Withholds Results Until September and promotion departments will have been made to create better underlined with the recent appoint- FIMI, the IFPI-recognised industry body representing 18 of Italy's now all report to general manager cooperation between international ment of Matthew Bannister as major record companies, has delayed until September publication of Kees van Weijen. Van Weijen is and national product. "There is a new Radio 1 controller (M&M, retail results for the first six months of this year. Inside sources say the alsoresponsibleforthewhole strong focus on European reper- August 7). Bannister, former GLR results could reveal a calamitous drop in sales. Sources high up in two international repertoire operations toire in PolyGram now. One of our managingeditor,isreportedly companies have said that sales in some sectors dropped by as much as (marketing, product, promotion). aims at Polydor is to try and incor- determinedtoimplementBirt's 40% last April. Italy's political situation, economy and piracy are to National product manager Jacque- porate national repertoire into other request quickly, with programming blame, they say. One manager said that the drop in sales is precipitated line Jansen and national TV/press Europeanterritoriesand create and personnel changes being pre- by the cost of CDs which is squeezing the budget, especially of young Inge Verver will also now report more of a synergy between nation- dicted when the network reveals its record buyers.