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For years American diers, employees were businesses had built up faced with a new world. People are becoming hostile to very hierarchical struc- Suddenly neither perfor- institutions that take them for granted tures with all sorts of mid- mance nor longevity nor their individualism. dle managers, department seniority meant anything. and disregard heads, and division direc- There was no security, not Radio is no exception. tors. From a societal view even for the most loyal of this was necessary: it cre- soldiers. The rug had been ated jobs for all those pulled out from under highly- educated baby employees' feet. They boomers who were enter- were rudderless. They had ing the job market. How- no foundation. We Have Seen the Future... ever, as competition be- Workplace pundits are Internet connectivity, streaming audio, and the rapid rise came global, such hierar- offering hundreds of sug- chical structures became gestions-some savvy, of MP3 audio have all taken a prominent position in the handicaps. some silly -about how radio and music industry's development. Tony Sanders Small companies were employees can deal with looks at what's ahead for the radio and music business. quick to take advantage of information technology and could soon do things that previously required large (and costly) organi- zations. Since they didn't End of the World As We Knew It have multi -layered bu- reaucracies to support, 106.7 The End (KKND) -New Orleans PD Dave Stewart they could charge less for on the day -to -day realities of programming in the New comparable goods and Corporate World Order: "You have to learn that every- services. Information tech- nology also enabled for- body is not the enemy anymore. You get a lot of good eign businesses to com- ideas from guys who, in the old days, might have been pete with American firms. Their lower pay standards the changing economy your competitors." offered them competitive and come out on top. advantages. Many, including myself, 01999 GAVIN In an effort to compete have urged employees to Miller Freeman in A Vetoed News @ Meda with smaller and foreign think of themselves like company Contents businesses, America's lar- free agent athletes-the News URBAN 38 gest corporations started employees who have "Y -100 Legends" to The Diamond Rio MP3 Player cutting staff. Every time probably done the best in And the Winner Is... Close Out Seminar 5 they laid off a few thou- this new, laissez-faire type Osgood to Receive "Lifetime" Award 6 RAP/HIP -HOP 41 Teller Forms Atomic Pop 13 Making Hip -Hop History sand souls, Wall Street of environment. But I've Puerto Rico Numbers Finally In 13 TRIPLE A 48 applauded. Since most seen in my own practice Ani DiFranco, Take 2 corporate executives have that not everyone is a 25- Ratings & Research 14 ALTERNATIVE 54 their personal compensa- year old left -handed pitch- Dialing for Diaries 'The End' of The Big Easy 20 COLLEGE 56 tion tied to stock prices, in er who won games last Bigger Picture 16 Luaka Bop Celebrates 10 Years one way or another, they year. Some people are the Strengthening the ACTIVE ROCK 59 were helping themselves 35 -year old utility infield- Audience Connection JAZZ/SMOOTH JAZZ at VOCALS 60 as they helped the compa- ers who batted .240. John Tesh's One World ny and its stockholders. These folks are still valu- Spotlight: AMERICANA® 64 Future Tech: The Shape of Americana Marathon -a The losers in all this were able-no team can win Things to Come 18 COUNTRY 68 the employees. without them-but Hard Questions for The Big Easy Brought up to believe in they're not going to com- Features & Charts an unwritten contract that mand the kind of atten- 26 Parting Shots 78 TOP 40/RHYTHM CROSSOVER jobs that merits behaving PD Profile: Darrin Stone gmail BoxSet 78 said they'd keep their tion A/C. HOT A/C 34 if they were loyal foot sol- like free agents. A Panel of Experts February 19, 1999 GAV I N 3 www.americanradiohistory.com Look for Shania on: 2/19 Rosie O'Donnell 2/23 Tonight Show with Jay Leno 3/3 Shania Twain's Winter Break, 9pm est on CBS featuring Elton John and the Backstreet Boys also 3/23 Performing on Grammy's 6 GRAMMY NOMINATIONS INCLUDING: ALBUM OF THE YEAR RECORD OF THE YEAR SONG OF THE YEAR As seen on MUSIC sMS1 SIIANIA T I N "That Don't Impress Me Much" from the 8x PLATINUM album, COME ON OVER © Jon Landau Management Produced by Robert John "Mutt Lange owes by Mike www.americanradiohistory.com N EWS FIÜSTVVUFi U5 N "Got ?" GAVI Enough Reading through a another trade magazine the other day, I came across yet "Y -100 legends" to Close Out Seminar another tired ad playing off the now -infamous "Got Milk" campaign. To the jocks who worked Florida with a rock -oriented, the air," recalls consultant GAVIN's Quincy McCoy.The one Now, I don't mean to do there, it was the "Amazing urban -flavored, street -hip pre- Buzz Bennett, credited with and only Dave "Your Duke" my Andy Rooney impres- FM "To the listeners of sentation that (like L.A:s Boss coming up with the Y-100 Sholin moderates the session. sion here, but haven't we Miami, it was "predictable Radio nearly a decade before name. "Most stations that are unpredictability" that spoke it) quickly became known as cutting edge are stations that had enough of this already? the lan- listen to the street, and you -Music really i No question, the "got guage of can't get that from research. It under siege milk" concept was a great the street. takes a lot of work, but if you one, but the copycat men- And to the have a force out there...well, because of the tality that's so pervasive in competi- that's how you win." ease with which the media today has tion it was The legends behind theY-100 a pesky lit- legend will be re- living their anyone can brought this idea well tle gnat let experiences (well, at least use a computer beyond the point of overkill. loose Dave Sholin Bou Bennes some of them) at the the Glance through almost any along Miami Beach, giving "the fastest moving station in "Amazing FM Class Reunion" and Internet magazine or newspaper market -leading WQAM (and America." tomorrow (Saturday) at the to send and111 today and you'll find a varia- the rest of the radio market) One of the first FMs to GAVIN Seminar in New tion on this theme...and a a real run for the numbers. achieve double -digit ratings, Orleans. Slated for the '70s receive songs... For the record, it was WHYI the station rocketed to suc- "flashback" are Bill Tanner, Rao' Kill"zll'eil lost opportunity to do some- (100.1) in Miami, Heftel's cess because it listened to the Buzz Bennett,Tony Novia, Kid thing creative, innovative, see 18 powerhouse FM that, in the sounds of the city.