Mary J Blige "No More Drama"
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NEWSSTAND PRICE $6.50 JANUARY 18, 2002 Not Lonely At The Top A Boss Book! Cher returns to the airwaves this week with "Song for Celebrated radio programmer Ron Jacobs chronicles the Lonely," the first single the creation of a great Top 40 radio station in his new from her forthcoming Warner book KHJ: Inside Bros. album, Living Proof. The Boss Radio. In this song grabs Most Added week's R &R Jacobs honors at AC this week, with gives us excerpts 52, while ranking third Most from his play -by- Added at Hot AC ani CHR /Pop. play on how all the This release puts Cher in rare exciting elements of company: She will row have KHJ came together chart hits in five decades. back in 1965. MARY J BLIGE "NO MORE DRAMA" ALREADY ON: Z100/NEW YORK WKSC /CHICAGO WIHT/WASHINGTON DC WXKS/BOSTON WKQI/DETROIT THE TITLE TRACK KBKS /SEATTLE KDWB/MINNEAPOLIS KSLZ /ST. LOUIS FROM MARY'S WFLZ/TAMPA WBZZ/PITTSBURGH MULTI- PLATINUM, WKST/PITTSBURGH KLZR/KANSAS CITY GRAMMY KZHT/SALT LAKE CITY WXXL /ORLANDO ItA:NOU/INDIANAPOLIS NOMINATED ALBUM APPROACHING 1000 SPINS NO MORE DRAMA AT MAINSTREAM TOP 40 NATIONWIDE TOUR Written I v James Harris III, Terry Lewis, Barry Devorzan, and Perry Botkia, Jr. BEGINS FEB. 5 ProdLCed by Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis =c r Flyte Tyme Productions, Inc. Doecutive Producer: Mary J. B. ige Management: Tra -La -Lee & The F rm www.mjDIijge.com www.mcarecords.00m del lo PLAYS THIS W IA.K! 15 :RRIC u.w. tttvistw,R ©2002 MCA Rec->rds MUSIC FIRST www.americanradiohistory.com THE NEW SING FROH HER HIGHLY ANTICIPATED NEW ,ALBUNI WORT WKTU PWR106 B96 WKSC KMEL KYLD WBTS KHKS WIOQ WJMN WPGC FULL MOON 92Q KBXX KTHT WDRQ Y100 KUBE KKFR KZZP IN STORES MARCH 2O02 WFLZ WLLD WKST KXJM FROOMED BY: WAKS WKFS WXSS WWKX F ODNEY JERKINS FOR DARKCHILD ENTERTAINMENT /R.1 'RODUCTIONS KTFM WNVZ WXXL WPYO PIAVAGEyENT: . WNOU WHHH KSFM KBMB ; DNJA 3. NORWOOD FOR NORWf OD & NORW00D, INC. AND MANY MANY MORE! E;tVERBRANDY.CCfd! MUZ RAST ^ ï RDS.C)M WARNER MUSIC GROUP d]:9o1 ATLANTIC RECORDING CORP. AN AOL TIME WARNER COMPANY www.americanradiohistory.com JANUARY 18, 2002 I N S I DE Gehron Joins Clear Channel Radio vet serves as Chicago RVP/Market Mgr. BY ADAM JACOBSON R &R RADIO EDITOR management 4 marketing sales [email protected] Did you feel uncomfortable airing certain John Gehron, a veteran industry executive who most recently as commercials following the Sept. 11, 2001 served Sr. VP/Programming for Infinity Broadcasting, has named tragedies? Our resident commercial -copy been Regional VP/Market Manager for Clear Channel's Chicago specialist, Dan O'Day, says in this week s operations. In addition to overseeing the Management, Marketing & Sales section company's six Windy City stations, Gehron will that if a commercial you aired made yoL oversee six properties Clear Channel owns in Mil- feel uncomfortable after Sept. 11, perhaps waukee, Eau Claire and Madison, WI. Further- it should have made you feel more, he will assume VP /GM responsibilities for uncomfortable before! Pull out your GEHRON/See Page 13 Gehron shock -o- meter, and begin reading now! Pages B -9 PART ONE OF A TWO -PART SERIES R &R TALK SEMINAR CLOSING IN! Green Rejoins R &R Who are the best managers in Talk radia? You can find out by attending R &R Talk. As Exec. Editor Radio Seminar 2002 in Washington, DC, KHJ: Inside Boss Radio has joined R &R where we have a panel composed of five Jeff Green as Exec. Editor. He will oversee superstar Talk managers: Dan Bennett, An inside look at one of America's all -time greatest radio stations the newspaper's Karen Carroll, Mickey Luckoff, BY RO\ InCOeS Jim Meltzer Management, and Susanne Mowbray. The TRS is just SPEC] :\I. IO R&R [email protected] Marketing & five weeks away! Register now at Sales section www.rronline.com. Editor's note: For _limner KHJ/Lo.s Angeles PD (1965 -1969) Ron Jacobs. and be invol- ved in the de- IN THE NEWS writing his new book, KHJ: Inside Boss Radio, which is about to be published velopment of new edito- and distributed by consultant Guy rial RAB: Radio revenues down Zapoleon's Zapoleon Media Strategies, products, including the 10% in November has been a labor of love. co- The book, which includes an oral his- develop- Green Tony Brown, Tim DuBois form ment of R &R's tory of the station, Jacobs' anecdotes SAJ Universal South label digital assets into book publish- about his days there and. most amazingly, side ing, searchable databases and John King becomes Citadel a compilation of KHJ in -house memos, is S online subscription services. He Regional President a gold mine for anyone interested in ra- Jacoba will be in dio history. b7 Bon based R &R's Nash- _.,..<.,, <..,..,,. David Hall named SVP /Programming ...,.<.e ,0.,1rwRl:;,0.< ville bureau. As Jacobs puts it, "Like ci pro football NYMe' r,NC+Y blL6.' <w,l N<-,1<p<Y4 M I marks for Premiere, Robin Bertolucci teams playbook, there are roam' intricacies Green's arrival his re- turn to R &R, where he served as becomes Clear Channel /L.A. Dir. /AM to what is involved in a coordinated team AC Editor and Managing Editor Programming operation that the fans don't know (or care) in the 1980s. A 23 -year industry about. Hopefully, radio insiders, finer lis- Michael Martin adds San Jose stations, veteran, he most recently spent teners and students of pop behavior will becomes Clear Channel Dir. /Prog. & nearly nine years as Sr. Director/ want to check this out, with the caveat that Ops., Bay Area International & New Business it is more of a manual than a memoir- i Development for the Country Steve Candullo rises to EVP When Jacobs called to tell me that he was Wojimarti* Music Assn. in Nashville. Green cf Metro /Shadow writing a book about KHJ, 1. jumped at the The cover of KHJ: Inside Boss Radio directed international market See Page 33 Page 3 GREEN /See Page 13 THIS Johnson Now SVP/ FCC's Copps Presses Aircheck Issue Botwin Becomes NICKELBACK ABC to monitor stations; others How You Remind Me (Roadrunner/IDJA) GM, Atlantic Urban won't commit Columbia Records BY JOE HOWARD AND JEFFREY eting up the discussion each cNë lrnIMIC Atlantic Records has elevat- YORKE R &R WASHINGTON BUREAU time he meets with broadcast- Group President JA RULE Always On Time (Murder Inc. /DefJam/IDJMC) ed Ronnie Johnson to the new- newsroom @ rronline. com ers. B STI:vf'. WONSIEWICZ URBAN ly created post R&R MUSIC EDITOR Hoping that broadcasters While Copps declined to swonc @ rror Il ine. corn JA RULE Always On Time (Murder Inc. /DefJam/IDJMC) of Sr. VP/GM, Urban Divi- will be kinder and gentler on identify all of the groups or the airwaves this year. FCC individual broadcasters with Columbia Records Group URBAN AC sion. He re- Commissioner Michael which he's held these discus- has promoted Will Botwin to MICHAEL JACKSON Butterflies (Epic) mains based in this week he in- sions, he says all of his ex- President. He New York and Copps said COUNTRY tends to those changes have been friendly, remains based reports to At- "highlight ALAN JACKSON Whe<e Were You... (Arista) people and companies who and broadcasters have been in New York lantic co-Pres- are reaching to open to the notion. What's and continues AC idents Craig out the stars and those who plumb to the more, he said that Disney reporting to ENRIQUE IGLESIAS Hero (lnterscope) Kallman and CRG Chairman Ron Shapiro. depths." CEO Michael Eisner has NOT AC Speaking with reporters in agreed to have all ABC Radio Don Ienner. Johnson will Johnson In his new CALLING Wherever You Will Go (RCA) direct daily his Washington, DC office on stations except Radio Disney Tuesday morning, Copps, the affiliates aircheck themselves. role Botwin will SMOOTH JAZZ operations at the unit, including lone Democratic commis- In a Dec. 5 letter to Copps work with Zen- BONEY JAMES See What I'm Sayin' (Warner Bros.) overseeing marketing, promotion sioner at following a ner on a range and publicity. the FCC, said he meeting several Botwn ROCK wants broadcasters to do a weeks earlier, Eisner wrote, of activities, in- "Since joining the Atlantic cluding overseeing day -to -day CREED My Sacrifice -up) better job of voluntarily "After I returned to my office, 'Wind family less than three years ago, airchecking broadcasts and to I discussed this issue with my operations and helping to deter- ACTIVE Ronnie has played a critical role ROCK hold the tapes or transcripts staff, and we decided to for- mine the overall strategic direc- in the revitalization of our Urban LIN' {IN PARK In The End (Warner Bros.) for 60 days in case a listener malize this practice. We are tion of the label. Botwin will division," Kallman said. "With files an indecency complaint. instituting a company policy continue to oversee A &R and ALTERNATIVE his promotion to GM, he will be Copps first broached the sub- that all of our owned- and -op- marketing and assume expanded LINKIN PARK In The End (Warner Bros.) able to draw on the full range of ject last summer, and he told erated radio stations [except responsibilities in all areas of the TRIPLE his knowledge and experience, A R &R that he has been ratch- COPPS/See Page 13 company. DAVE MATTHEWS BAND Everyday (REA) JOHNSON/See Page 13 BOTWIN/See Page 13 Fall 2001 Arbitron results from 10 major markets: Page 21 and www.rronline.com www.americanradiohistory.com Impacting Now! Over 100 Stations Playing! 30 New This Week! Including: KRBV KRBE WKQI WWWQ KHTS WKST KDND WXSS WPRO WNCI KFMS FEVER featuring "CAN'T GET YOU OUT OF MY HEAD" \ / © ?00 EMI R- LLo+;7, Ltj management: Terry Blamey Management nollywoodandvine com www.kylie.com www.americanradiohistory.com R&R ISSUE NUMBER 1436 King Now Citadel JANUARY 18, 2002 Regional President Ad- Revenue Slide Slows In November NEWS & FEATURES John King, a Radio-industry revenues tumbled ber contributed to a 5% decline in longtime radio 10% in November 2001 compared local revenues, a 19% drop in na- Radio Business 4 Legends 23 executive who to the same month a year earlier.