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KRDM/Des Moines Goes Poo •Constar Pitches JS AWith URI] •Goldberg Launches Artemis •Arhitron's New Research Director July 9, 1999 s, sum= mean your s a ALSO INSIDE What The Digital Fine-Tuning How To Strengthen Your Millennium Copyright Act Your Benchmarks Retail Relationships Means For Radio _ lfflregffloeugulpi.ntel* ....RM.' MACIIIIIE 11E11 r er . if t Full-Length The Burning Red Goes For Metal & Specialty Adds This Week, 7/12! 1.4seilatoje, 48>.„ The first single from the new album ti tit° "je TOP 5MOST ADDED INCLUDING: KUPD Wc3RR KRXQ KXTE WXTM WNOR WQXA KDOT KAZR WQWK KRQR KTUX KHTQ WBYR KQWB KEY-J. KBSO WZNF And Morel! Shipping 100,000 Units Street Date: August 10 PilODUCED BY ROSS ROBINSON FOR TArti rititnICTIONS MIXED BY ItRRY DATE PrimiimuLiriENT: JOSEPH W. HUSTON MANAGEMENT 'lel.APR`U. • kn 1999 Roadrunner Records www.roadrunnerrecords.com www.machineheadl.com Publisher/Owner Kal Rudman Executive VP/GM Fred Deane [email protected] m b VP/Executive Director World Wide Web: www Im bcam Jul 9 9 •ISSUE No 1149 Paul Heine [email protected] VP/Managing Director Mike Boyle upfront [email protected] What The Digital Millennium Copyright Act Means Administrative Director 3 Judy Swank For Radio New digital copyright laws mean new licensing fees for [email protected] Webcasters and satellite broadcasters. aniflà Associate Director Jay Gleason How To Shore Up Your Retail Relationships [email protected] 6 Two buzz words in every label's retail department are price and Modern Rock Director positioning. The sales department at WEQX/Manchester-Albany Michael Parrish helps labels attain this by soliciting artists for their "The Hits Of [email protected] Tomorrow, Today" discount retail program. Progressive Director Sybil McGuire 11 Programming To Win: Fine-Tuning Your Benchmarks [email protected] Steve Stone on how to keep the things your station does every day sounding fresh. 11 Progressive Specialist/ Advertising Coordinator treeterchize_ Kevin Boyce theweekinmusic [email protected] 12 Stats Summary Modern Rock Specialist Mike Bacon 13 New Music Page [email protected] Rock Charts Metal Radio Specialist 15 Bram Teitelman Airplay Analysis 12 [email protected] 16 Research Specialist Kathy Wagner musicn ew s [email protected] 18 Creed readies new album for September release. Research Specialist John Popper is alright after heart scare. Pat Berkery [email protected] mustr ea d Art Director Ratings Janet Drialo-McArdle 23 Phase II Spring Arbitrends Galore! [email protected] Designers 60 Trade Shots Nancy Green School's Out for 0104, Grinspoon Gets Extreme in Vegas, Gina LaMaina Journey Rocks Philly, Loudmouth Flys To Toledo, Econoline Grace Pietropaolo Crush Plays For WZTA/Miami, And WTFX/Louisville Welcomes Linda Steere Everlast. Production Assistants Susan Adcock departments Maria King 26 Active Editorial/Research Assistants VVAAF's 7th Annual Celebrity Golf Tourney... DC101 Premieres Tony Chiarulli Charmame Parker The Blair Witch Project. Paul Driscoll Ginny Reilly 27 Progressive Theresa Meire Ruth Watts Kim Richey Is Pro-Former Of The Week. Metal Contributing Editors 35 Tom Barnes. Ted Bolton. Metal Gives It Up For The Nookie; Limp Bizkit #1! John Bradley. Dennis Constantine, Liz 51 Modern Janik. Randy Lane, Dave Lange, Terry Paul Jacobs And Tim Davis Talk About Jacobs Media's New Web Marshall, Mark Ramsey. Paul Sexton, site. Denny Somach Productions. Pat Welsh covers to r y Radio For Shore! Executive Mews, F-36 64 1930 East Marlton Pike More that half of your market's population leaves in Cherry Hill, NJ 08003 September only to return in May. Sound impossible? It's (8561 424-9114 reality every year for a group of resort town stations, primar- Fax: (8561 424-6943 ily along the eastern seaboard. Radio For Shore! looks at Email: [email protected] how to deal with an influx of listeners who cannot help your numbers without alienating the listeners who can. 07999 Friday Morning Quarterback Album Report Inc All roghts reserved Ponied and first published m USA »1, /mudshovel Th ew single from their album Dysfunction and the follow-up to their hit Just Gi). Produced by Terry Date and StaInd Co-produced and A A R by Fred Durst A & R by DJ Lethal Execuloye Producer: Jordan Schur Management The Firm On Flip/Elehlta compact dtscs and Mi. •• Gass, www.elektra.com www.staind.com www.flip-records.com Officially Impacting Rock Radio This Week! Couldn't Wait: WAAF WCCC KRXQ KUPD KUFO WMFS WRQC KQRC KSJO WRIF WNOR KTUX WNCD WKLQ KAZR KIBZ WXTM WLZR WBYR KRZR WQXA ...And Many, Many, Many More! BDS Active Monitor D-40* R&R Active Rock: D-41* On Tour Now With Limp Bizkit & Kid Rock! _A I ICKDM/Des Moines Goldberg Goes Top 40 Launches Cl?ar Channel Also Closes On Dame Media Artemis Just before the stock exchange. The deal took Dame Media owner Al Records July 4th weekend, over a year to close because it Dame added, "I've known and Glass, White and Clear Channel required the FCC to issue a respected Lowry and his orga- entered into an one-to-a-market waiver. As part nization for a long time. It Krumper Take agreement to pur- of the deal. Clear Channel pleases me to see Dame go to Executive VP Titles chase Modern picks up 21 stations in Penn- an operator with such a fine Rork KKDM/Des Moines from sylvania and New York, includ- record." Former Mercury MV 'Communications for ing rocker WOUR/Utica. Finally, the company has Records Group $7.35 million. The company "Dame Media's reputation as announced that it has pur- Chairman Danny thei flipped the station to a quality broadcaster has been chased Talk/Sports KASI-AM Goldberg has Ma nstream CHA as "The All well known for many years." and CHR KCCQ in Ames, Iowa teamed with C&P Nev Kiss 107FM," which is cur- Clear Channel Chairman/CEO from Ames Broadcasting for Capital partners rer fly jockless. Lowry Mays commented. $4 million. KCCO does factor Michael Chambers KKDM adds to Clear Chan- "Management has done an into the Des Moines market and Patrick Pan- ne 's Des Moines cluster that excellent job of establishing where Clear Channel just flip- zarella to launch inc udes News/Talk WHO-AM, heritage market positions while ped KKDM to CHA, so some New York-based Danny Goldberg Hc tAC KMXD-FM and Soft AC continuing to pursue innovative format adjustments could be in Artemis Records. Chambers' and SY-FM, all of which they business practices. We are store. They have also acquired Panzarella's ventures include Ng ac luired through the Jacor happy to announce the closing Adult Standards KEJO-AM and Records (home to Orange 9MM). m( (rger. of the transaction and welcome AC KFLY-FM in Corvallis- plus publishing and artist man- Meanwhile, Clear Channel Dame's personnel to the Clear Albany. Oregon from Madgekal agement divisons. Goldberg will hé sclosed on its previously Channel family." Broadcasting for $2.3 million. act as Artemis President/CEO. ar nounced acquisition of Dame RED Distribution will handle M dia in a tax-free stock-for- -Jay Gleason releases in the U.S. Additional appointments at eed molds anew album for September release... John Popper is out of the hospital... Morphine's Mark Sandman dead at the newly formed label include the age of 46... VH1 to broadcast Springsteen U.S. tour opener... Details in Music News, page 18. Executive VPs Daniel Glass (four der of GlassNote Records and former President of Univer- sal Records and SBK Records) What The Digital Millennium Copyright Adrian White (former Sr. VP Litigation at Universal Records and Sr. VP Business Affairs at Act Means For Radio Motown), and Michael Krumper (former Sr. VP/Marketing at Mercury Records Group). The Fow will artists' rights be protected in the new digital age of instant information and data communication? company will also become fully /ith the Internet looming large as anew source for music and "radio," how will record labels protect both staffed with promotion, publicity tleir interests and those of their artists? What price will satellite and Internet radio broadcasters be required and marketing departments in the t) pay for the right to broadcast music? near future. These and other questions are being hammered out now in Washington and around the world. Digital "Much as Ienjoyed running capyright laws will have to be worked out business-to-business, through discussions and negotiations — major labels." Goldberg comment- nd soon. Otherwise the courts could ultimately decide how intellectual property rights are protected. ed. "I feel really liberated creating A growing number of radio stations now stream audio on the Internet. Companies and individuals are an independent, especially at this inaking music available in compressed formats for download via MP3, enabling anyone to burn their own particular time. Iam thrilled to be :Ds. New Internet-only "radio" stations are signing on in droves. totally flexible regarding the It's the RIAA's responsibility to protect the record industry's — and consequently, the artists' — copy- continued on page 3 ights, no matter how ephemeral, or difficult to quantify, the medium where they're being exposed. continued on page 7 fmqb July 9, 1999 3 On Over 50 Rock Stations: WRIF WQXA WEBN HERD WZTA WMMR WJRR The Verve Pipe WIOT KPOI & More! Album In Stores 7/27 Over 90% Of The Modern Rock Panel In Including. Modern Rock Monitor: 31-25*, 785 Spins WXRK WBCN 99X CIMX (+205, Greatest Gainer) Q101 KNDD KDGE KPNT fmqb Modern Rock: 38-28*, 837 Spins (+1811 KZNZ WRZX WXDX & Many More! The debut single from the self-tilled album THE VERVE PIPE. Produced by Michael Beinhom.