Volume XXXIV• Number 38 • September 19, 2008 software tool suites for Web content management, database marketing, text messaging, and emerging technologies. MJI Interactive has been the market leader for innovative Web media MAIN STREET solutions for radio stations since 1996. Presents Put Lipstick on THIS!! Talk KBYR-AM/Anchorage suspended radio host Eddie Burke for broadcasting the phone numbers of The Conclave women involved in a protest against Republican VP hopeful Sarah A T T L E Palin last weekend. Said GM Justin McDonald: “Though I do TT A T T L E RR not agree with some of the comments he made, as a licensee, we attempt to respect everyone’s First Amendment rights, Publisher: Tom Kay Editor: Benjamin Holsen including Eddie Burke’s, our listeners’ and our non-listeners, (but) Cartoons Suggested by Lenny Bronstein & Jay Philpott That does not mean I condone inciting violence or harm in any The Conclave Launches One! The Conclave announced it has way to people wanting to voice their opinions with peaceful launched a new website dedicated to better serving the online protest.” Burke called two women leaders who organized the needs of the broadcast industry. The new www.theconclave.com, rally that drew 1,500 people, “socialist, baby-killing maggots,” designed and developed by MJI Interactive, will provide read their phone numbers on-air and encouraged listeners to information about Conclave events, including the Summer call them. The women’s voice mail quickly filled with angry, Learning Conference and TalenTrak, and will also reflect an profane and in some cases, threatening messages. He has expansion of online learning tools and information. According to apologized for the name-calling and claimed he didn’t realize he Conclave Executive Director, Tom Kay: “The Conclave is best was giving out personal cell phone numbers. Burke has been known for two annual events as well as providing thousands of suspended for one week without pay. dollars in scholarships, and that will remain the backbone of what we do. However, we are a 365-day-a-year organization, and we A group of current and former Los Angeles Times reporters are look to fulfill our mission of educating radio broadcasters through suing Tribune Company Chair./CEO Sam Zell, asking that he multiple interactive online opportunities. The site that MJI (and others) be removed from the company’s board of directors. Interactive has put together will be a platform for webinars…like The class action was filed in a federal court in California, and the one planned for October 8th with Jacobs Media (details next asserts that Zell damaged the company’s reputation and business week!), podcasts, and blogs as well as industry news, photos since taking it over last year. Says the suit, “Through both the and video related to the broadcast and related industries.” MJI structure of his takeover and his subsequent conduct, Zell and Interactive’s President, Margaret Shiverick, noted: “We’ve been his accessories have diminished the value of the employee- a fan and supporter of The Conclave and everything it does for owned company to benefit himself and his fellow board members.” over a decade, so we were delighted they chose to partner with Zell responded: “The lawsuit filed yesterday is filled with frivolous MJI on their new site. The Board’s vision, especially how they and unfounded allegations, and I hope every partner in this wanted to use the Web to interact with industry constituents, was company is as outraged as I am at having to spend the time and right-on from the start. Now, they’re where they want to be, and money required to defend ourselves against it. The media industry The Conclave team has a truly custom solution which can evolve is in crisis, the advertising environment is extremely difficult and with the organization.” The new www.theconclave.com debuts the economy is in turmoil. The overwhelming majority of our with exclusive video of Isaac Hayes and David Porter at this employees have taken up the challenge; they are working hard, year’s Summer Learning Conference, one of the last public leading by example, and devoting themselves to re-inventing our appearances of the Grammy and Oscar winning singer/ businesses by developing new and innovative products for our songwriter. In addition, a guest blog from McVay Media’s Daniel readers, viewers and advertisers. As a company we are attacking Anstandig and information about the upcoming TalenTrak on our problems and revolutionizing the media industry. “This lawsuit November 8th in Chicago will also be featured. MJI Interactive is a mere distraction, and we will work quickly to see that it is (www.mjiinteractive.com), a company of Triton Media Group, dismissed. It will not deter us from completing the work ahead.” LLC, provides syndicated Web content for radio stations and SATURDAY•NOVEMBER 8, 2008 CHICAGO, ILLINOIS COLUMBIA COLLEGE TalenTrak SEMINARS • AIRCHECKS • KEYNOTE • LUNCH • MORE! Presented by Details Available Soon at www.theconclave.com THE CONCLAVE/MAIN STREET MARKETING & PROMOTION, 4517 MINNETONKA BLVD #104, MINNEAPOLIS, MN 55416 PHONE/FAX: 952.927.HITS (4487)/927-6427 Publisher: Tom Kay at [email protected] Web: www.main-st.net NEWS UPDATES AROUND THE CLOCK www.RadioandRecords.com Announcing TalenTrak 2008! Chicago’s TalenTrak is just around radio’s end has been predicted with the onset of each new the corner: Saturday, November 8th at Columbia College’s technology, yet radio is “strong and growing.” Said Rehr, “(We University Center (525 S. State St). TalenTrak is the Conclave’s are) not hearing about radio’s success ... (radio) connects, one-day air talenet seminar designed to improve the performance informs, inspires an estimated 230 million listeners each of any and all personalities who attend. The day begins with a year…We must commit to spreading the positive news about series of one-hour highly-focused seminars hosted by WLUP/ radio.” Rehr stated: “Radio needs people to believe.” Reprising Chicago PD Bill Klaproth, breaks for lunch with a special his Conclave comments for the NAB crowd, he said that an anti- keynoter TBD (in the past, TalenTrak has featured great keynoters performance royalty bill has 226 House members supporting it, like Tom Barnard, John Records Landecker, and Danny a majority, and added the jingoistic twist he debuted in Bondaduce!), and then launches into the all-important aircheck Minneapolis last summer, indicating the fight against the clinic where programmers and consultants individually critique “performance tax” as a battle between the U.S. radio industry airchecks of all TalenTrak students! The price for this special and the “foreign-owned” labels. day of learning? Just $49 ($39 students) until October 31. If you’re coming in on Friday night or staying Saturday night, stay FCC Commish Jonathan Adelstein talked about his biggest at the nearby Travelodge Hotel/Downtown Chicago, 65 E concerns about radio at the NAB Radio Show in Austin. The list Harrison St., Chicago, IL, 60605; phone 312-376-148; email contained HD Radio (“The future of radio is going to be on HD”), [email protected]. Ask for Darren Andrews, tell him AM stations and FM translators (“We hope to get that done next you’re with the Conclave and will be attending TalenTrak and week”), ownership diversity (“We’ve got o do more to make you’ll be offered a junior suite with kitchenette for $155 + taxes America’s airwaves sound like America looks”) and radio tuners while inventory lasts. For details and to register, visit http:// in cell phones. Adelstein doesn’t expect the localism initiative to www.theconclave.com. be acted on by the end of the year. “The issue is of central importance to the future of radio,” he said. “Localism is the heart A jury has awarded $3.8 Million to Davar and Todd Gardner in a of what radio does.” Explaining what he wants from radio suit against Skyline NT KGEZ/Kalispell, MT Host John Stokes regarding localism, he complained that a local Austin station for statements he made and knew were false about the Gardners. played Faith Hill’s “This Kiss” but not local music, and lauded a In 2007, on three separate occasions, Stokes claimed the station for talking about local football on its morning show. But Gardner’s lied under oath during a previous lawsuit with Stokes; he said that mandating a percentage of local music would be that the Gardners submitted false affidavits during the same “tough” and raises First Amendment issues. litigation; and that the Gardners committed bank fraud when obtaining a $900,000 loan. Will Stokes ever mention the Gardners FCC Chairman Kevin Martin told a breakfast audience at the on the air again? “Only if they keep harassing me with lawsuit NAB Radio Show that broadcasters should be thinking about after lawsuit, but I have no intention to go after them.” John said. “what kind of safe harbor code of conduct (they can) come up with to address” the Commission’s concerns about localism. He The following stories are highlights from this past week’s NAB & admitted there are “legitimate concerns” about localism in R&R Conventions in Austin, TX (for complete coverage, we invite broadcasting, such as whether stations have sufficient personnel readers to check out the following Conclave Media Partners for on hand at all times for emergencies and whether voice-tracking details on these and other sessions: AllAboutCountry, All Access, by hosts not in the market is sufficiently identified. But he said Inside Radio, FMQB, Radio & Records, Radio-Info.Com, and that the industry should be looking to create a code to address Radio Ink): the issues before the Commission has to enact regulation to that effect.