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Feature Report

Cover Story: Canadian Achievers 10 Canadian Rock Pirates by Dick Drew

The Death of Radio 14 Denied Yet Again by Pat Hurley

The New Koerner Hall 20 Sweet Sounds Flow at New Performance Centre by Alan Hardiman

Departments

4 The View from Here Piracy…And Other Threats

6 Industry News CBC’s Barrie ‘Retires’; Lloyd and Gord, Not So Much

16 New Products and NAB Preview

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2-24 BRC Mar 10.indd 3 09/03/10 8:43 AM Editor Lee Rickwood The view from here [email protected] Contributing Editors David Bray; Dick Drew; Derrick Scott; Jonathan Hiltz; Michael Nunan Senior Publisher Advertising Sales James A. Cook (416) 510-6871 Piracy…and Other Threats [email protected] Art Director one of the hottest topics of discus- have successful legitimate careers. Anne Miron sion at major industry events like In fact, pirate radio paid back what Print Production Manager It’sCanadian Music week – piracy, it owed - big time! Once the U.K. decided Phyllis Wright (416) 510-5101 digital downloads and the theft of intel- to allow radio stations to obtain new Production Manager lectual property. licenses, sell ads, and make money as a Gary White (416) 510-6760 It’s also a very old topic, extending way to battle the pirates, many of those Vice-President at least to the early 1700s, when the original buccaneers stayed on board, as it Alex Papanou President term piracy first came to be applied to were, buying up legit licenses for a song, Bruce Creighton unauthorized commercial copying. and selling or monetizing them later for Circulation Manager With the lapse in 1695 of what’s several gold doubloons (or millions of Cindi Holder (416) 442-5600 ext. 3544 known as the Stationers Company’s dollars Canadian)! Customer Service printing monopoly, a profitable new Responding to an obvious market- Malkit Chana (416) 442-5600 ext. 3539 industry arose that printed and distrib- place expression of need and want, what News Service uted other people’s works. Soon, the first was once pirate radio from a ship off the Broadcast News Limited copyright act was passed (the 1709 Stat- Dutch coast became mainstream radio Editorial Deadline: ute of Anne) to combat the trend. across this country. Stations we know Five weeks before publication date. Broadcaster is published 8 times yearly, by (At about the same time, one Wil- and love today were launched and fund- BIG Magazines LP, a div. of liam Kidd – often referred to as the most ed yesterday. Buccaneers can still become Glacier BIG Holdings Company Ltd. audacious of early pirates, due in part privateers. 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9 NEWS Canadian Rock Pirates Shake the British Empire; Rattle the Radio Industry

A Pirate Scrapbook: Gordon Cruse takes a breather between shifts; Keith Hampshire poses on board; Terry Bate [left] and Don Mackenzie make a sales call on dry land.

Photos courtesy G. Cruse, K. Hampshire; D. Mackenzie.

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In 2007, the BBC outfitted a replica ship as part of a 'pirate party'. The original, moored six miles off the coast of Holland, broadcast illegally on 253 meters 1187 kHz, 50kW Rock Pirates

By Dick Drew Some forty years ago, they were the dreaded pirates of offshore radio; more recently, they were the honoured guests at a radio reunion hosted by the BBC. And the hits just keep on coming.

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“ here’s eight million people listening; and what British Parliamentarians soon called promotions including `Caroline Cash Casino` they’re gonna love ya!” “the destruction of all things sane and sound”. which brought in tens of thousands of letters With those words from a Canadian The first two Pirate Radio ships were Radio each containing a proof of purchase. program director named Tom Lodge, a nervous Caroline One and Radio Caroline Two (some One promotion worked so well the client 20-year-old Calgarian named Keith Hampshire recall it as Caroline North and South). Each ship rewarded them with the use of his villa in Spain. became a pirate — with his first on-air DJ shift directed its signal to a different part of England, As Don now recalls, “It was a feeding frenzy!” from Caroline One. but each also spilled over into adjacent countries. Gord Cruse was a 24 year old former DJ from It was Easter Sunday 1964 — the day the The fresh new sounds of rock ‘n’ roll that CFQC Saskatoon, in London while working his genie known as Pirate Radio exploded from the everyone wanted to hear were being delivered way around the world. Earning five pounds per British broadcast regulator’s bottle. by energetic announcers keyed up and ready to week doing back breaking work in a warehouse, Over the next three years, the explosion led to rock. Who knew they were mostly Canadians? he heard someone as looking for announcers a fleet of a dozen or so illegal commercial Pirate Back then, there were no private com- with neutral accents. Radio ships anchored off the British coast, out of mercial radio stations in Great Britain, There “Midway through my audition,” Gord told reach of British regulators. was the staid and revered BBC, over which the me, “The producer opened the studio door and Operating much like pirates of yore, they plundered audiences and advertisers unfettered — until the government passed a Marine Offenc- Yep you guessed it folks. Canadians es Act specifically to shut them down. were in there like pirates. The end came August 1967. Some say what the Internet is doing today British Government exercised strict control. For asked if I could start tomorrow at 25 pounds per to disrupt conventional media is comparable to damn sure they could not play that confounded week.” Terms were two weeks on the ship, one what Pirate Radio did back then. rock ‘n’ roll music. And no commercials week ashore, and that was juts fine for most of Overlooked entirely in the recent movie of please, we’re British! the approximately two dozen Canadian DJ’s. the same name is the crucial role Canadians had Strange when you consider that British Hampshire, for example, stayed right to in driving Pirate Radio’s success groups like the Beatles and others had invaded end, and then went on to have a very success- Canadians can lay claim or take blame for North America several years earlier and taken ful singing and recording career (among his much of the infamous success of Pirate Radio over our airwaves. It was seemingly only fair that disparate hits, The First Cut is the Deepest and Canadians would play a part in this role reversal. OK, Blue Jays!) Radio Caroline was first imagined by a brash “Dick,” he told me recently, “I was origi- 27 year old Irishman named Ronan O`Reillihy. nally hired by Tom Lodge, who later returned The money came from his wealthy family. Ronan to Canada and worked at CHLO St. Thomas looked to Canada for both on-air radio talent before he initiated the Recording Arts program and experienced salespeople, wise in the ways of at Fanshawe College. I also worked with Errol selling and packaging radio advertising. Bruce, who came back and did the all night He hired a dynamic sales team headed by show at CKFH Toronto. Steve Young came back Allan Slaight of CHUM, Toronto. Allan formed and went into radio in Kelowna. Gary King, who a partnership with Terry Bate of Stephens & now lives in Hamilton, went on to be the London Towndrow, one of the hottest radio promotion correspondent for one of the big TV networks.” sales shops in Canada. They recruited a bright Hey, these pirates have legs! young pistol named Don Mackenzie (also from Much later, as Gord Cruse told me, “Dick, Stephens & Towndrow), and Don’s wife Saundra the irony here is stunning. In 2007, the 40th sailed off to England with them to work in their anniversary of the Marine Offences Act which traffic department. put us out of business, the BBC outfitted a ship Allan Slaight is the same Allan Slaight recently complete with studio and transmitter. Anchored featured in this column. Years later, he would it in Harwich Bay. And invited about sixty of us be in charge of CFRB and a number of other former Pirates to come on board and work air stations. He later sold them several years ago for shifts for one week just like the old days to relive a reported one billion dollars and was recently the 60’s. Not only that, they paid us a talent fee included in the Canadian Business magazine list for our work!” of Canadian billionaires. With a broad smile, he added, “I would like (Allan’s son Gary is being honoured this year to acknowledge the BBC for having the maturity during Canadian Music Week.) and humour to invite pirates to celebrate with When Don Mackenzie returned to Canada, he them.” The cinematic story of the pirates of radio leaves came to work with me at CHML/ CKDS-FM Ham- Gord continued his wandering through radio the Canadian connection all wet. ilton where I was General Sales Manager. We winding up eventually C-FAX in Victoria, where all enjoyed hearing his dazzling stories of sales he now lives in retirement.

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ears ago radio was purchased on a cost per because no station could deliver that entire thousand basis based on a station’s entire group in large numbers. I stated at a CAB semi- Ycoverage or total circulation. Each radio nar years ago that, “This is not a demographic, station had a very distinct and valuable profile it’s a family reunion!” An 18 year old has noth- of listeners based on income, education, home ing in common with a 49 year old except a ownership and their propensity to purchase mother and daughter or father and son. various categories of products. Some larger stations fought back and insist- Then one day a smart media buyer decided ed the age groups be broken down to reflect doesn’t get the desired results, they blame the to purchase radio on a whole new criteria, cost individual station audiences. Youth oriented sta- radio stations they purchased instead of the way per point, which was being used to purchase tions attract an 18-24 audience, A/C stations they were purchased. television at that time. Cost per point is based 25-34, some 25-54 and others, 50 plus. Local retail radio advertisers are guided to only on the primary coverage area of a station Little credence was given to the quality of a purchase radio the correct way by well-trained thus excluding any audience outside the primary station’s audience profile. In most cases it was local sales people, who know from experience coverage area measured by BBM. totally ignored. The object of the buyer was to how the medium works. If their local retail cli- The result: stations were forced to base their buy radio as cheaply as possible for the client ent doesn’t get results, they don’t renew, it’s as rates only on the audience in their primary without regard for any other factors. If you want simple as that. coverage area. The buyer was paying for only the business, tow the line or we will buy other Every national media buyer should be forced a portion of the station’s audience instead of its stations. to complete the RMB training program and total audience. The big top rated stations buckled under and attend a Roy H. Williams seminar before they are This move forced stations to lower rates to all the other stations were forced to follow and allowed to ask for any submission from a radio comply with the buyer’s CPP objectives. Instead the station owners went along with it. station or rep firm here in Canada. He is known of the station owners taking a stand, spearheaded In my view, allowing the media buyers to use as ‘the Wizard of Ads’ and has given seminars by the Radio Marketing Bureau, they rolled over and went along with the new buying criteria Something - many things - have been blamed for the death of implemented by the media buyers. radio. But the medium refuses to die. Then the buyers devised another way to further decrease the value of the station’s audi- CPP to purchase radio has cost radio stations on the effective use of radio many times here in ence by demanding they pay only for a particular and their owners millions of dollars over the Canada. age group they wanted to purchase. This further past decade alone and has vastly undervalued Each radio station delivers a very distinct reduced the stations’ audience. the medium. Most buyers don’t even know how audience and should get full credit for its total The initial age group they chose was 18-49 to purchase the medium correctly. When radio audience, not just a portion of it. 680 News was the first radio station to bypass the media buyers and go directly to the marketing directors to Western Association of plead their case. The media buyers were then Broadcast Engineers forced by their clients to purchase the station regardless of CPP. Please visit our new web site for details on our 2010 680News, with its broad coverage and clear convention, WABE’s Educational Initiatives and to signal, delivers an audience of approximately download copies of our 2009 papers: www.wabe.ca one million listeners each week. Their sales reps Mark your calendar for this year at the do an excellent job of selling retailers the right Sheraton Wall Centre in Vancouver, BC. amount of frequency (at least three times per week) to get results. November 7th – 10th, 2010 If you consider the difference between prima- For information please contact: ry and full coverage, the target group the buyer Kathy Watson, WABE Office Manager, wants and the station’s total audience, usually adults 18+, and what the buyer ends up paying [email protected]. Or call 403-630-4907 for, there is a huge difference. Imagine the rates

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2-24 BRC Mar 10.indd 14 08/03/10 9:17 AM if CHFI got full credit for all its total audience and me on behalf of radio, to look at net media 18+ on a cost per thousand basis rather than the rates and make a recommendation to broadcast- CPP, based only on its primary coverage. ers. We were going to recommend that both go The point is, that if stations were purchased to net media rates. on a cost per thousand basis, which they should Before we could even make our recom- be, they would be incredibly efficient. The media mendation to the CAB, the ad agencies found out buyer on the other hand using CPP wants to about it and threatened to boycott the radio and show the station in a much poorer light on a cost television stations we represented. I remember efficiency basis. one agency president spoke to me personally Every time a station allows itself to be pur- and confirmed the threat. Radio and television chased by a media buyer on a CPP basis it’s station owners caved in and it never got off the discounting a large portion of the audience it ground. Screwed by the ad agencies again. delivers, and this is to the buyer’s advantage. When it comes to branding, radio can do Television is no longer the magic medium it used it better and cheaper than any other medium to be. The programming is not attracting large including television. “Why buy a mattress any- audiences like it used to do, except for sports, where else?” because of poor programming and the time Christine Magee has proven that radio can people now have for television viewing. win the hearts of the consumer long before the Studies have shown that among men, when a need arises, for Sleep Country Canada. It would television commercial comes on, they do one of have been prohibitive to try to do it with televi- three things, switch to another channel, mute the sion because of the cost. Radio delivers the reach commercial or leave the room: it’s a guy thing. and frequency necessary to do the branding. My wife and l have been married for 47 years The biggest problem is that most ad agencies and we do not watch television together. I drive do not know how to use radio effectively. They her crazy with my channel switching, using my make their big bucks on television production. remote control. Even Bill Gates has complained about the out- Satellite radio has not affected radio tuning rageous cost of television commercials. Then because there is no local content. No local news, there’s the high cost of the air-time to expose traffic reports, information on local issues and them. Radio has survived since its inception and weather reports. will continue to grow because it reaches the In the Toronto area, listeners today have a buyer closest to the time of purchase. variety of radio channels pre-set on their car It’s such a shame radio audiences are being radios. Fan 590 for sports, CFRB for talk radio, discounted by media buyers who buy it on a CPP 94.7 -FM for Smooth Jazz, 680 News for news basis and radio broadcasters who continue to and traffic, CHFI and EZ Rock for easy listening, allow them to buy it at a discount, I don’t think Q 107 for Classic Rock, Z 103 for the younger most radio broadcasters even realize it’s costing set, 96.3 FM for classical lovers and KX 96 for them millions in lost revenue. Country just to name a few. Or how well the “old medium” plays with the Radio is the most effective medium to reach “new” - studies show that radio is the most cost busy people. Everyone today is time-poor. None efficient and effective medium to drive traffic to of us have the time to do all the things we want an advertiser’s website. This is especially true for to do. A recent study among people, who com- retailers who have their own websites. mute by automobile, showed that among women Financial guru Warren Buffet says plainly, who spent at least a half hour commuting in their “He who wins the Internet wins the war.” cars, loved that time for themselves. They listen In conclusion, my view is that radio’s future to the radio while they drive. has never been brighter. It is local, loveable and Radio broadcasters are prostituting them- is a proven media survivor. selves every time they allow a media buyer to “Rumours of its death have been grossly purchase their station on a CPP basis and it is exaggerated!” costing them millions in lost revenue that right- Was it off-shore pirates? Music videos? Satel- fully belongs to them. If they were smart they lites or the Internet? B would have their industry organization, the RMB, fight their battle but only if the radio broadcast- Veteran Radio Sales & Marketing Broadcaster ers back them up. Pat Hurley is currently the Sales Manager at I remember as though it was yesterday when Wave 94.7 FM in Hamilton. the CAB asked Peter Sisam on behalf of television

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NEW PRODUCTS 08/03/10 9:17 AM 19 the NEW Koerner Hall Sweet Sounds Flow from Technological Innovations

by Alan Hardiman

uilt over three years at a cost of some rating — N1 — making it ideal for the finest “Concert halls need public address systems $110 million, the new Michael and Sonja sounding performances across musical genres. that are separate from any music reinforcement B Koerner Concert Hall is the jewel of the Its variable acoustics makes it equally well suited systems they may need,” says Philip Giddings, new Telus Centre for Performance and Learning to amplified music, spoken lectures, and film president of audio-visual consulting firm Engi- at the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto. presentations. The hall features two balcony neering Harmonics. “Music systems tend to be The 1,135-seat hall features a number of tiers above the main orchestra level, and a third large and fairly obtrusive, and if they’re hung in unique technological innovations, designed technical balcony, all sounding and looking good the middle of a beautiful concert hall, they can both to ensure the highest quality sound repro- with optimal sightlines for TV recording and live be an eyesore. For announcements and lectures, duction in the Hall itself, but also to support broadcasting. you need something smaller and inconspicu- online connectivity and creative collaboration That elegance is not interrupted by the ous,” he says. at great distances. sophisticated in house voice-lift system that Engineering Harmonics worked with manu- The Hall has the highest possible acoustic integrates with the performance sound system. facturer Renkus-Heinz to design a unique and

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2-24 BRC Mar 10.indd 20 08/03/10 9:18 AM The Telus Centre for Performance and Learning-the new extension to the Bloor Street headquarters of the Royal Conservatory of Music-will be avail- able for events beginning in October 2009. Designed by Canadian architects Kuwabara Payne McKenna Blumberg, the centre will include music studios, wired classrooms, a library, the Conservatory Theatre rehearsal hall, which will hold 160 for dinner and cocktails for up to 200, and the 1,120-seat Koern- er Hall-suitable for music and spoken word performances, lectures, and conferences. Mazzoleni Hall has permanent theater seating for 237. Meeting rooms and workshop spaces can hold groups of 12 to 69 people. Close-ups of voice stick by Bill Coons

almost invisible retractable ‘voice-stick’, comprised of three off-white Renkus-Heinz IC16 ICONYX digitally steerable array systems, just a little over six feet high and arranged back to back in a circle 120° apart, sand- wiched between two 1/4” thick aluminum discs 18” in diameter and flown over the stage on a three-point hang from the top plate. The voice-stick is augmented by two additional IC16 arrays camouflaged behind acoustically transparent fabric in the wood front walls on either side of the stage. Each IC16 incorporates sixteen 4-inch drivers, each of which receives an individually filtered and delayed

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2-24 BRC Mar 10.indd 21 08/03/10 9:18 AM Koerner Hall at the new Telus Centre for Performance and Learning is one of Toronto's best new concert venues, thanks in part to the state of the art sound system installed there.

credit,” describes Bill Coons, director of Contact Distribution, Inc., who supplied the Renkus-Heinz equipment. Yet another design innovation was to provide a permanent mix position at the rear of the parterre level on the centreline, just steps from the door to the sound control room. signal, enabling the IC16 to produce up to eight independent specified verti- “For a teaching facility, a house mix position is essential. Listening in a cal beams and steering angles up to ± 30°. An upper beam can be aimed control booth isn’t the same as being immersed in the sound environment to provide coverage for the choir-level and balcony seating while a lower and hearing it naturally. You can’t really learn about sound very well when beam can be programmed to cover the lower seating levels. you’re removed from it in a booth,” Van Dijk says. The Soundcraft Si3 Beamware control software communicates with the loudspeakers via 64-input digital house mixing console can be wheeled in and out of the RHAON (Renkus-Heinz Audio Operations Network) to permit adjustment mix position as required. of coverage. For recording recitals and events for practice, review, and archiving, “With the voice lift system, we are designing to maximize intelligibil- two Sennheiser MKH-416 microphones suspended from the catwalk pro- ity, not sound reinforcement,” notes MartinVan Dijk, senior designer vide a program sound feed, which is split into a USB microphone pream- with Engineering Harmonics. “The voice-stick works very well with the plifier connected to a dedicated Music XPC computer in the sound control acoustics of the room. If we had used a more conventional array, it would room for recording to hard drive immediately. Says Van Dijk, “I love the have been difficult, if not impossible, to get that lift without hearing it as XPCs because they’re quiet, you can put them in the room with you, and a point source.” they work.” The sound reinforcement system for amplified performances consists of A broadcast quality Hitachi DK-H32 camera feeds a broadcast-quality a single retractable, centre line-array comprising eight JBL Vertec VT4887A HD signal via HD modulators to flat panel displays deployed in the lobbies compact, bi-amplified three-way loudspeaker systems, augmented by two and back of house, and to a low-noise Dell PC fitted with an Extron HDSDI- Vertec VT4881A subwoofers hung in the canopy and seven smaller loud- ACR 100 video capture card and simple recording software for archiving. speakers concealed in the stage lip. This set-up permits capture of a high quality stereo audio and video feed of For reinforced performances, the voice-lift system can be integrated a recital or concert, which can then be burned to DVD. with the flown performance sound system in an ingenious way to provide Yet another innovation is the incorporation of network infrastructure complete coverage of the orchestra level and the seating in the chorus levels for collaborative music events and programs with other schools in Canada above the sides and rear of the stage. and the USA. When both systems are deployed, the voice-stick hangs mere inches “You may have a master class recital with a MIDI-actuated piano on the behind the centre cluster, and this is where things get really interesting. stage in Koerner Hall, and on a retractable screen you’ll see live video of a RHAON allows for the front-firing IC16 in the voice-stick to be switched off, pianist sitting in Montreal, at McGill’s studio and playing a MIDI-equipped otherwise it would fire right into the back of the centre performance clus- piano. The MIDI data will be streamed in real time from Montreal to the ter. This leaves the other two IC16s that aim at 120° and 240° to provide piano in Koerner Hall some 500 km away, and you’ll hear it in all the coverage for those areas to the sides and rear that the performance sound acoustic splendour of Koerner Hall,” Van Dijk explains. cluster does not address. “In future, they see real-time musical collaboration as a reality. To The centre cluster is essentially omnidirectional at low and low-mid make it as close to real-time as possible, they’ll be using a dedicated data frequencies, so those parts of the spectrum wrap around to the sides and path and will know exactly what the propagation time is. This is the Telus rear somewhat, and integrate with the mid and high frequencies from the Centre, after all, and Telus has guaranteed a certain allotment of bandwidth two rear-side units in the voice-stick. and capability, so the highway is there. Now they just have to come up with “This alleviates the need to mount a rear-firing unit to the back of the the things to plug into it.” B centre performance cluster that would have compromised the riggings’ straightforward design and the ability to retract the cluster into the ceiling. Alan Hardiman is Producer & Creative Director at Associated Buzz Contact us today for a dealer near you. 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