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ISSUE NUMBER 957 THE INDUSTRY'S NEWSPAPER Limbaugh In Stratosphere INSIDE: 21st Century Rush? EFM Me- Chairman Ed McLaughlin be- dia has renegotiated its deal lieves the deal ever_tually po- ADAMS FACING with Talk phenom Rush Lim - sitions the Rusher to earn more baugh, and while specifics of than Infinity's multimillion- RECEIVERSHIP? the new contract weren't re- dollar man Howard Stern. Adds vealed, both sides say the pact Limbaugh: "This show has Charging Radio Group Corp. - will keep Limbaugh in place for become the biggest thing in formerly Adams Radio Corp. - most of this decade. radio in a long, long time, and As for financial details, Lim- this contract reflects that." with "gross mismanagement," baugh will only say that his The "Rush Limbaugh Show" bankers are demanding several compensation consists entirely is currently heard m 500 sta- of a share of the show's profits tions, with a weekly cume of of the group's stations be placed - he draws no salary. EFM 12.8 million. into receivership. Page 4 THE TRUTH ABOUT DIARYKEEPERS Bush Signs Indecency Bill left unaffected by action Rob Balon reveals the facts Morning drive about people who keep Arbitron As expected, President George Bush last week signed diaries: legislation that would limit in- Repercussions They can't be manipulated decent radio and television broadcasts to the hours of mid- Harbor open from They can't be BS'd night to 6am. midnight -6am They're not more "radio - The FCC currently recog- Court reversal (l -r) EFM VP/Partner Stu Krane, EFM Chairman Ed McLaughlin, literate" than others nizes an 8pm -6am "safe har- Rush Limbaugh, and EFM President John Axten. bor," during which broad- expected Page 40 casters may air allegedly inde- TV to be most cent material without risk of be- affected ing fined by the agency. The NAB declined to com- HOW TO HANDLE ment on Bush's action. A programming in the post -mid- of the Nationwide PD Zapoleon WORKPLACE CONFLICTS spokesman said officials night period made such mater- not reach- industry group have ial too inaccessible to adults. ed a decision on whether to seek Even if the law is imple- To Exit For Consultancy All offices experience conflicts injunction to prevent activa- an mented, it will likely have little among co- workers. What really tion of the new law. effect on radio. The vast major- Van Stone to leave Pollack for KHMX job Most observers have express- counts is how you deal with ity of radio indecency fines are law will ed confidence that the issued for material that airs Guy Zapoleon, Nationwide them. Turn to R&R's weekly be by the courts as overturned during the 6-10am morning Communications National PD an impermissible infringement Management section for eight drive period. Television, on the and KHMX /Houston PD, will on free speech. Even Rep. John other hand, might face an in- resign those posts effective No- tips on resolving disputes. Dingell (D-MI) no friend of - crease in indecency actions un- vember 15 to open Zapoleon Page 18 has la- "blue" broadcasting - der the new law. Consulting. Nationwide will be beled the legislation "clearly :z .... 4.:ßz unconstitutional." In 1988, a federal court re- RADAR RATES PRIME jected an identical midnight - NUMBER ONE NET 6am safe harbor proposed by Blowin' In the FCC. In that ruling, the According to Strategic Radio court said corralling indecent The Wind Zapoleon Van Stone Research's latest RADAR ratings Apair of EZ Communica- his initial client. Replacing network radio's semiannual tions stations joined Zapoleon at KHMX will be Pol- - lack Media Group Director/ forces to help victims of scorecard ABC's Prime Contemporary Formats Dave - Sly VP/GM At Hurricane Andrew. WMXC (Mix package continues to hold a 104.7)/Charlotte - which Van Stone. weathered Hurricane Hugo just "This [consultancy] is some- towering lead over the WRIF /Detroit Guy has wanted to do three years ago - solicited thing that competition. Westwood One's Great American has made community donations and truck- since he was a child," Nation- wide President Steve Berger Mutual placed second. another major move at its ed them to South Florida, where struggling Detroit property. re- they were distributed by sister told R&R. "If he was going to do Page 12 placing WRIF VP /GM Bob station WHIT (Hot 105)IMiami it, now was the time." Schutt with KBPI /Denver VP/ (shown below). At right, Hot Zapoleon said, "My goal is to GM Clint Sly. The company re- 105 Public Service Director be a custom, not cookie- cutter, operation. I'll probably concen- IN THE NEWS... cently transferred WLZR /Mil- Shawn McIntyre reports from waukee OM Greg Ausham to the scene. trate mainly on Hot AC and Bill Pasha Corporate PD 'RIF. CHR, but I can also do AOR and New Rock." at Paxson Broadcasting "Clint has the abilities needed to help 'RIF regain the crown as "We're sad this chapter in Kevin Stapleford earns Detroit's home of rock 'n' roll," Guy's career with Nationwide is VP stripes at Noble remarked Great American over, but like ever /thing we've President Dave Crowl. "He's done here, this move was a col- Prez, David Jim Caparro been successful at every station laborative process," com- Blaine Sr. VP at PGD he's managed, and we look for- mented KIIMX GM Clancy Woods. "Dave was the only can- Ray Boyd Dir. /Programming ward to similar results in De- troit." didate to replace Guy. I've at Radio One "The difficult part of this is known him for 12 years and am thrilled we'll be alYie to work to- Eric Thrasher VP /Black that Bob's a good friend," Sly told R&R. "But I'm excited [the gether again." Music Promo at Reprise SLY /See Page 36 ZAPOLEOWSee Page 36 Page 3 Newsstand Price $6.00 CHR, Country Scoreboards Pages 49, sa www.americanradiohistory.com 1"; The new single from: Good Stuff Produced by Nile Rodgers . Direct Management Group - -,----',- row . ;;,-, . , . ,-, -, - 992 Repr-:c Records. www.americanradiohistory.com Promoted Pasha Humpin' Around L.A. r-1f! To Paxson Corporate PD SEPTEMBER 4, 1992 After just three months in his BEANTOWN NEW ROCKER current position, WHVE & WNZR/ WFNX SPRINGS AHEAD Orlando PD Bill New Rock pioneer WFNXIBoston's spring Pasha has been release Brown's promoted to Cor- Bobby Brown and wife Whitney Houston celebrated the of book was the best in the station's nine -year The first radio broadcast porate PD for latest LP, "Bobby. " festivities marked the satellite history. But PD Mad Max isn't quite sure from a digital compact cassette (DCC) source. Socializing at L.A.'s Univer- parent Paxson sal Studios are (l-r) Matsushita Asst. GM/Home Audio Division Andy Nelkin, why. Broadcasting. He MCA Recreation Services Group President/Worldwide Marketing David Page 47 will relocate to Weitzner, MCA Music Entertainment Group Chairman Al Teller, Houston, company head- Brown, MCA Inc. President Sid Sheinberg, and MCA Records President quarters in Richard Palmese, President/Black Music Division Ernie Singleton, and Ex- Pasha Clearwater, FL. ec. VP/A &R & Artist Development/Black Music Division Louil Silas Jr. Pasha formerly programmed FEATURES WAPE /Jacksonville and Dallas stations KRSR and KHYI, and was <.x1 ;»# RADIO BUSINESS: Bankers pressuring Adams 4 VP /Programming for Toby Arnold NEWSBREAKERS 12 & Associates. Paxson owns or has purchase OVERVIEW By 18 agreements with 14 stations in Mi- RAB: Local Sales Up 2% MANAGEMENT: Resolving workplace disputes ami, Tampa, Orlando, and Jack- MEDIA: Top Ten Talk Topics 20 sonville. National drop offsets gains made during July LIFESTYLES: How to speak hip 22 TECHNOLOGY: Electronic audio sales figures 24 recovery for the radio July 1992 local radio advertising for a strong PEOPLE 26 revenues were up 2% from July industry going into '93," Fries said. STREET TALK: FCC hits Stern ... again 28 1991 levels, according to the RAB. The East was the only region to 34 Local revenues have increased for post a drop in July local revenues, TIMELINE RATINGS & RESEARCH: Truth about diarykeepers 40 Stapleford Upped seven straight months, but the July dipping 1 %. The Southwest posted gain was offset by a 15% drop in the strongest growth, up 6 %. The MUSIC To Noble VP Post national spot business. Overall, the Southeast was up 5% and the Mid- MUSIC DA TEBOOK 42 month was off 3% from July 1991. west gained 2% . COMPACT DATA 42 Noble Broad- Despite the continued weakness National business was off by dou- POLLSTAR 44 cast Group has in national sales, RAB President ble digits everywhere except the MARKETPLACE 61 appointed Gary Fries was optimistic about Midwest, where the decline was OPPORTUNITIES 63 XETRA -FM the continued upturn in local rev- 4 %. Drops were 20% in the West, (91X) /San Diego enue. "We feel this is a solid base 19% in the Southwest, 18% in the PD and KNDD Southeast, and 15 % in the East. (The End) /Seat- Network revenues, which are not FORMATS tle consultant included in the RAB's totals, were Kevin Stapleford off 8% in July. as VP /Program- Boyd Radio One For the first seven months of AOR: Photographic memories 46 ming for both 1992, local revenues were up 3 %, NEW ROCK 47 New Rock out- Dir. /Programming mixed results 49 Stapleford national revenues were down 10 %, CHR: Scoreboard yields lets. and total radio revenues were flat UC: WDAS /Philly's Unity Day . 52 "Kevin's innovation, creativity, Former WBLS /New York PD compared against the same period COUNTRY: CRI hits all -time high 54 and those great `ears' have led 91X Ray Boyd has been named Direc- in 1991.