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ISSUE 61 MUS I C EDITION OCTOBER 22, 2007 Albright, Cody, Kraig, Owens, Robbins React Next year’s Country Radio and Country Music DJ Hall Of Fame inductees will be officially honored March 4 during CRS-39, but WSM-AM/Nashville’s Bill Cody, KSSN/Little Rock’s Bob Robbins, consultant Jaye Albright, radio and label vet Bobby Kraig and veteran station manager and owner Michael Owens are already reacting to the well-deserved good news. Bill Cody, who has been in Nashville with both WSM-AM and WSM-FM since 1994, has handled mornings on WSM-AM since 2000. He’s also been on the air in Lexington, KY, Louisville, Orlando and San Antonio. He also currently hosts Great American Country’s Master Series. He told Country Aircheck, “It’s on a much larger scale, but I now have an appreciation for what [2007 Air Dressers: RCA's Sara Evans kicked off her tour Friday night (10/19) Country Music Hall of Fame Inductees] Vince Gill, Ralph Emery in Ft. Wayne, IN, and a crack staff of makeup artists and stylists flew in or Mel Tillis mean when they talk about being thrilled to death and from Nashville on Air Galante for the big show. Pictured (clockwise from humbled at the same time. bottom left) are Country Aircheck's Lon Helton, WQHK/Ft. Wayne's “There are so many WSM pioneers and the big three were Rob Kelley and Dave Michaels, Sony BMG's Joe Galante, Sirius Radio's Ralph Emery, Bill Mack and Charlie Douglas. And then there are Scott Lindy, WAWC/Warsaw, IN's Jay Michaels, SBMG's Butch Waugh the guys already in the Hall, like Bob Kingsley and Bob Moody. and WSIX/Nashville's Keith Kaufman. All those memories and influences have flooded back to me, all the way back to childhood and the fact I’ve developed true old boy who got me started in radio, the late Bill Miller. My dad friendships with people I was spellbound by growing up. It’s a was an old radio man and they would both be so excited. I wish I little surreal sometimes.” could find the words. It took hours to soak in.” Bob Robbins helped launch KSSN in 1979 and still does (continued on page 6) mornings. He was honored as CMA’s Broadcast personality of the Year in 1996. “I’m on cloud nine, floating around like a Madonna’s Deal In Nashville? butterfly,” he told CA. “I was on vacation today, had taken off to Touring continues to make marketplace gains as the go squirrel hunt. The phone rang early this morning and it was recorded music business sees rapid decline, and in this [Clear Channel VP/Programming] Phil Hunt congratulating me. environment concert powerhouse Live Nation has inked a I thought he was kidding. The first thing I thought of us was the reported $125 million 10-year deal with Madonna. The deal, ©2007 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] October 22, 2007 Country Aircheck Music Edition Page 3 which covers touring, merchandise, films and music sales, may DATE CHE C K be the first of many. In a subsequent interview on CNBC, Live Nation CEO October 23 – Voting on final CMA Ballot Ends at 5pm Michael Rapino says the company’s model eliminates the need www.cmaworld.com for a label. “The concert is now moving to the center of the circle for the artist,” he said. “I think we’re going to start a bidding war October 24 - SOLID Panel “Moving On Up: How To Get over artists who sell a lot of concert tickets.” In, Fit It and Take It To The Top” Among the artists Rapino mentioned directly were Dave Belmont University’s Massey Performing Matthews, U2, The Rolling Stones and Tim McGraw. So what Arts Center does it all mean for country music? www.solidnashville.com “Live Nation is a great company with great people,” says rpm’s Scott Siman, who manages McGraw. “We think the October 25 - SOLID’s Women Rock For The Cure world of them, but there haven’t been any conversations. From a 3rd & Lindsley, Nashville general perspective, it’s good to see people thinking outside the www.solidnashville.com box and trying to create new business models. This adds another option and element on the playing field. November 4 - 13th Annual Inspirational Country Music “One of the big lynchpin issues in our business is whether Awards record companies will morph into something new or become Acuff Theater, Nashville a piece of something else,” he continues, noting the deal only www.ccma.cc addresses part of the challenge the broader industry faces. “If you’re Tim McGraw, Madonna or the Rolling Stones, you’ve got November 5 – SESAC’s 2007 Nashville Music Awards an audience already. Putting together a deal for those kinds of SESAC Headquarters artists is easier than trying to figure out how to break a new artist www.sesac.com in a really tough environment.” Spalding Entertainment’s Clarence Spalding, also a negotiate contracts. So if you do this kind of deal you still might manager, shares Siman’s concern about developing artists. “You need a team of people double checking everything and looking see these big acts giving everything away and everyone’s making out for the best interests of the artist.” the label out to be a bad guy,” he says. “I don’t look at it that way. Live Nation/Nashville’s Brian O’Connell declined to The model needs to change, but none of those acts made it in comment for this story. Label executives had not returned the first place without a label behind them. If you’re Radiohead requests for comment at press time. and your deal is over, that’s great. But you can’t wash away your history. Name me five acts who made it without radio airplay. Radio News “So before we go erasing all that stuff, we need to be Promotions: Another sold out Hannah Montana show, this one thinking about what’s going to make someone want to come in Denver, has radio’s creative promotion juices flowing. This to Nashville and do this. That kid at Belmont might want to be time, KYGO has eight dads slated to dress in girls’ clothing working on a new model.” and a run a 50-yard dash for a tickets to Thursday’s show. Their Buddy Lee’s Tony Conway says Live Nation’s move isn’t a daughters now have a great excuse to yell at them for running complete surprise. “This type of deal has always been a concern like girls. in the agency world. To this point they’ve assured the agencies it Mapleton Communications KNAH/Merced, CA just isn’t their intention, but this obviously goes beyond that. wrapped up their “Birds Of A Feather” promotion by sending “Up to this point, Live Nation has worked within a system one lucky winner to Los Angeles to see the Eagles and Dixie that’s been in place since the 1800s. Agencies do a lot more than Chicks in concert this Friday, Oct. 26. ©2007 Country Aircheck™ — All rights reserved. Sign up free at www.countryaircheck.com. Send news to [email protected] October 22, 2007 Country Aircheck Music Edition Page 4 Lyric Street Works Cyrus BIRTH D AYS Lyric Street has assumed promotion responsibilities for Tuesday (10/23) - Bart Allmand, Jimmy Wayne, Dwight Billy Ray Cyrus’ Walt Disney project, including his current Yoakam, Jeff Walker ([email protected]) single, “Ready, Set, Don’t Go,” which now features special guest Miley Cyrus. CO5 had previously handled promotion for Wednesday (10/24) - George Achaves (george@ the single. By the way, this reunites BRC with Lyric Street VP/ radioproducer.net), Dave Miggo, Stephanie Keshe (stephanie. Promotion Kevin Herring, who at one time was Dir./National [email protected]) Promotion for Mercury – BRC’s first label home. Herring Thursday (10/25) - Chely Wright, Mark Miller, Enzo worked “Achy Breaky Heart” and numerous singles from BRC’s DeVincenzo ([email protected]), Jennifer Thorpe first three Mercury albums. ([email protected]) Gig Alerts Friday (10/26) - Keith Urban, Doug Montgomery • Nassau Broadcasting WNHW/Concord, NH Regional ([email protected]) Manager Robert Fulmer is looking for a PD. Contact him at Saturday (10/27) - Wayne Carlyle, Amy Hendon, John [email protected]. Moesch ([email protected]), Scott Donato • Withers Broadcasting KBXB/Sikeston, MO PD C.J. Cruze is ([email protected]), Ed Blount looking for a middayer. Email him at [email protected]. Sunday (10/28) - Charlie Daniels, Brad Paisley New Book Chronicles WSM-AM In the excitement of adding shows in Kansas City, Brooks Nashville-based journalist Craig and company double booked the fifth, causing a seemingly Havighurst has authored Air Castle of the irreconcilable conflict with Leno. “So I called and apologized,” South, which traces the rise of WSM-AM/ Brooks says. “They called me back and moved the [5pm] taping Nashville and its influence in Nashville and up. They’re going to record early for the first time in 18 years.” country music. Lauded in a recent Wall Street After the 1pm taping, Garth and crew will jet to Kansas City, Journal review for “preserving the colorful and where they’ll perform for thousands while the folks at home instructive history of WSM” and “reminding watch him on the Tonight Show. us that giants once lived on the radio dial,” the “It’s gonna be tight, but it’s gonna be fun,” Garth says.

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