MID WEEK Top 40 UPDATE BILLBOARD.COM/NEWSLETTERSBOARD.BIZ/NEWSLETTER FEBRUARY 28, 2013 | PAGE 1 OF 10 INSIDE EDITED BY MIKE STERN
[email protected] Promote Your Station In Just Six Seconds Finding The Boundaries PAGE 3 Is ‘By The Radio hasn’t exactly been putting its best foot forward lately. acceptable on air. The world has vastly changed since the days Numbers’ Here in the United States the industry’s biggest headlines of Howard Stern attacking his competitors with reckless aban- have come from Todd Schnitt’s lawsuit accusing Todd “Bubba don, but just what is allowed, who sets the standards and what Top 40 Still A the Love Sponge” Clem of defamation. Schnitt is suing over re- it means for radio isn’t easy to understand. Listener Draw? marks Clem made about his wife and, even though the trial is over PAGE 3 and Schnitt lost, the saga may not be finished, as he’s reportedly YOU CAN’T SAY THAT—OR CAN YOU? considering an appeal. In the Schnitt/Clem case it’s important to realize that, as opposed Radio, Records Overseas, two Australian hosts made the news when they to many of the other restrictions broadcasters work under, the Rally To Help called a hospital in England while Princess Catherine was being rules governing the situation aren’t coming from the Federal Com- A Place Called treated for severe morning sickness. They got private informa- munications Commission (FCC). In the case of defamation, ex- Home tion about her condition from plains David Oxenford, a partner her nurse by impersonating at the law firm Wilkinson, Barker, PAGE 5 Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Knauer and author of the Broad- Charles.