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02.09.96 Issue #459 $6.95 FIRST CLASS MAIL U.S. POSTAGE PAID PHILADELPHIA, PA PERMIT #3852 THE INDUSTRY'S SOURCE FOR PROGRAMMER OPINION RECORD OF THE WEEK ZZ Top, "She's Just Killing Me," Epic/Los Hooligans Say what you will, but #1 Most Added two weeks in a row says plenty. 42 adds later and not far from a certified COR killer, "She's Just Killing Me" is working to convert that sleepy Classic Rock factor into a vital target heart rate for those looking for big name value, broad demo sweep, and a song that doesn't sound like an out -take from one of their earlier albums. KQRC's Doug Sorensen sees it in the big picture. "Finally, it's where ZZ Top ought to be. All the elements to be a good record." And KIOZ's Greg Stevens notes,"Good reaction from the people who like that type of sound and are pretty vocal about the fact that they don't hear enough of it." PANEL -APPROVED m U J W O Silverchair Dog's Eye View Bush Goo Coo Dolls "Israel's Son" "Everything Falls Apart" "Machine Head" "Naked" Rough for all -day play but Is there a music format any- Tell KBPI, KIOZ, KUPD, WBZX and Closed out, moving up, making a clear artist automatic. where that won't do the Dog? WXTB they're not working it. 'em more of a household name. BAD RELIGION zI- Bad Religion Limblifter Rust Foo Fighters "A Walk" "Screwed It Up" 'Not Today" 'Big Me" KBPI, KLOS, KNRX, KROQ, Live Could this be Mercury's KLOS, KBPI, WAAF, WBZX, and This little big song could become 105, and Q101. Need more? 7 Mary 3 style success story? WZTA lead this week's charge. the largest from them yet. 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DATA SYSTEMS DAVID HALL KEN SUBRAMANIAN PATTI MARTIN FLASH KISSINGER CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: WHERE'S THE DRIVER? Mike Cooper DAVID EINSTEIN Jonathan Wrigl SEMISONIC Jason Parke' JOE BABKA'S BUS EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS: LADY MISS PAMELA Julie Cao., ! DUBIN Rob Lauks SHEILA Carrie Long THIS IS WHAT I GET? Klnf Madise ROLAND WEST Rob Re, er JARS OF CLAY on E. Zito BILL MILLER SEPULTURA within may not be reproduced without permission. ports are due: Monday & Tuesday 10 AM-5PM EDT RAOUL HEADS TO ATLANTA ONE GRAPHICS GUY IN HELL - Hnr 9 1 q'gr, THE HARD REPORT 3 BY BILL HARD As had been widely anticipated, the Telecommunications reform bill has been approved by Congress. Certain portions of the legislation will affect cable rates, local phone service, high definition television, and sexually explic- it materials on the Internet. But changes in radio ownership rules are the aspects of the bill that will most directly affect the American public, and our industry. Those provisions include: 1. No limit on how many radio stations a group can own across the country. 2. In the largest markets (with 45 or more signals) one owner can have up to 8 radio sta- tions, with no more than five on one band (FM or AM). 3. Markets with 30 to 44 signals: one entity can own up to seven signals, with no more than four on one band. 4. Markets with 15-29 signals: six stations is the ceiling with no more than four on one band. 5. In the smallest markets (with less than 14 signals) one owner can have no more than five stations or no more than 50% of the stations in his community, and no more than three on one band. That's the new reality in theory. This week the overview..."If you look at the way Jacor's new com- always -aggressive Jacor Broadcasting Corporation bo lays out, each station has its own little 5 year, 6 year was the first major group to make the new rules niche. KBPI has the 18-23's and the Fox has the 24- and regs radio reality, with their announced $152 mil- 30's and KBCO has the 30+. They now have 8 stations: lion purchase of the Noble Broadcast Group. The 12 4 AM's and 4 FM's. One of the newspapers today said station deal includes three properties in St. Louis that the word on the street is that they're going to and in Toledo, as well as three significant Denver sig- spin off the weaker AM, at 1190, and pick up KTCL. nals and 91X in San Diego. Then they'll have 5 FM's and 3 AM's. The AM's they have are the 50,000 watt monster KOA, KHOW, The scenario in San Diego will be interesting to which is the second best AM signal in Denver (and is watch, as Jacor has been basically sitting on KHTS-FM, KOA's fierce competitor), and then KTLK which is the which they purchased last fall. Since then they've been third best AM signal, and the outlet with many of the simulcasting beautiful music from WDUV ('The Dove') major talk personalities. Jacor will now control the in Tampa. Obviously, some sort of logical pairing with three news/talk operations, the three best AM signals 91X is in store. and they have the four best FM signals on the dial. They have built themselves an incredible empire, and But the industry talk this week is all about the virtual when and if they pick up KTCL, all of a sudden they vice grip the acquisition of KBCO, KHOW and KHIH in have young Alternative, they have older Alternative, Denver gives Randy Michaels and Co. in the Mile they have Classic Rock, they have Triple A KBCO, High City. Consultant Dennis Constantine provides this and then they have NAC. They have it covered." THE HARD REPORT 4 February 9 1996 noise continued You can't cover Randy: I think it depends on the tenacity of the indi- this story without vidual operator and, to some extent, their patience. a few words from the man with the Is this the time to sell? master plan...Jacor President Randy Randy: Maybe, maybe not. I think that the people who Michaels. hold out, the guy with the last piece in the market, has a total sellers market and is going to be able to hold a How much more delicious auction. I think, unfortunately and sadly, impactful than the days of a Frank Wood starting up a WEBN with his deregulation dad in the garage are over. The days of the great will the effect of operators, the major market single -owner stations like this bill's pas- WXRT, are gone. You can count those stations on sage be? one hand. They've been an endangered species long RANDY MICHAELS before the days of Telecom. Speaking of Frank Wood, how long before you two Randy: It is a couple of orders of magnitude bigger. officially tie the knot? It's bigger in a number of ways. First of all, what the duopoly bill did is make all the markets twice the size, Randy: Anything's possible, and clearly - right or because if you're in an $80 million market and now you've wrong - our whole country is marching toward con- got twice as many stations it's just like being in a $160 solidation of all kinds of mass marketing with the million market, perhaps with some synergies. It real- emergence of specialized boutiques to take care of the ly made the markets twice as big. Obviously they've just rest. You don't go downtown anymore and shop at a doubled again. That's exciting in and of itself. But I think dozen little stores. You're not even going to the mall there are many other subtleties and not -so -subtleties anymore. You've got a category killer for computers, to the Telecom bill that most broadcasters haven't for furniture, for appliances, for hardware. Small town by Sam's and Wal-Mart. I'm thought through yet. I certainly haven't thought stores have been replaced through all of the implications. We'll be thinking not judging the Telecom bill right or wrong. I'm just about it for a long time. Clearly the elimination of nation- telling you it's changing radio forever. Since I'm going al caps is going to mean regionalization is much more to be in the radio business I'm going to figure out attractive. Jacor would never have wanted to be in Toledo how to play and not grumble about it. prior to Telecom reform. But now Toledo's got relatively few signals.