DECEMBER 10, 1999 ISSUE 2284 THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN RADIO CELEBRATE T MUSIC RHYTHM Chi aii$Iill]TIR Blaque Is Beautiful ©#1 oe.,.angA"- cAssc HOT A/C Filter Is Picture -Perfect ALTERNATIVE Don't Blink, 182 Is #1 COUNTRY Reba Takes Top 5 NEWS Citadel Pays $145 Million For Stations First Arbitron Web Ratings Released GY MARLEY, Diane Warren To Receive GAVIN Award THE GIPSY KINGS AND HARLEM BOYS CHOIR Home of the / Seminar in Radio G2K in SF0-Feb. 16-20, 2000 From the Publishers of Music Week, MBI and fono A Miller Freeman Publication www.americanradiohistory.com ONE LOVE THIS NEW SINGLE FROM ZIGGY MARLEY AND THE GIPSY KINGS IS THE VOCAL ANTHEM TO THE ONE-TIME ONLY WORLDWIDE BROADCAST EVENT, MILLENNIUM 2000. On the morning of December 31, 1999, MILLENNIUM 2000 will begin - the most ambitious television production ever mounted. The broadcast will cross 24 time zones during 26 hours of programming and has a potential global audience of billions. Live on ABC and PBS across the United States. Worldwide on the BBC. Unprecedented collaboration between 57 worldwide broadcasters will follow the celebrations as millennium events unfold - from Chile to Japan, Auckland to Miami, France to Fiji, the MILLENNIUM 2000 broadcast event will unite parties and prayers around the whole world as the sun sets on the twentieth century and rises on a new millennium. You can see the Gipsy Kings perform "One Love" live from Miami, as part of the Millennium Eve broadcast - at 1 1 :57 EST on PBS. "One Love," the global anthem for a new millennium, is available exclusively on the Sony Classical soundtrack 2000 TODAY, the official soundtrack to the MILLENNIUM 2000 broadcast event. With original score by TAN DUN. CONTACT: SAM KAISER (323) 650-8695 www.2000todaymusic.com SONY www.sonyclassical.com !,. r INC I .VFNT é AND "SONY CLASSICAL' ARE TRADEMARKS OF SONY CORPORATION " N..'-' Er ria www.americanradiohistory.com Imagine This "I'd urge people to buy the song as a tribute to John and to promote his ideas. It is the right note on which to end the millennium. I can't think of any more appropriate way. It helps to spread the idea of peace and John would be so touched if it reached Number One again. It was a wish piece and laid out his vision for the world." -YOKO ONO, EXPLAINING IN THE SUN WHY FANS SHOULD PURCHASE THE NEW REMAKE OF THE JOHN LENNON CLASSIC "IMAGINE" Born Yesterday "I listened to my son's album in its entirety and, Small Stations Win Big except for the profanity, Biggie tells beautiful sto- ries. To this day, I could do without the profanity. That's why I ask the studio to give me the clean ver- sion. The dirty versions go out to the people who In 1 st InfoStream Ratings like them." -VOLETTA WALLACE, MOTHER OF NOTORIOUS B.I.G., PROMOTING HER SON'S LATEST In the month of October more than 900,000 Internet listeners spent over 1.3 million hours POSTHUMOUS RECORDING, BORN AGAIN listeners tuned to 240 channels of audio pro- tuned to Internet audio in October. gramming offered by the four streaming media companies that participate in Arbitron's Advance Placement InfoStream Internet audio ratings service. "I really didn't agree with doing another album. If The top three Web outlets in terms of total Biggie were here today, he would be at such another Mega-hitmaker listeners in October were Triple A texasrebel- advanced level. Being that he was the best rapper of all Diane Warren radio.com (KFAN/FM-Johnson City, Texas) time, he would have been rhyming in a different way." has been named with 83,900 listeners; Triple A kpig.com -RAPPER LIL' KIM, ON THE RELEASE OF BIGGIE'S BORN this year's recip- (KPIG/FM-Monterey, Calif.) with 70,200 lis- AGAIN, ON WHICH SHE APPEARS ient of the Bill teners; and Hot A/C cd93.com (KCDU/FM- Gavin Heritage Monterey), with 66,300 listeners. The top Award at the three channels based on time spent listening GAVIN Seminar 2000, Feb. 16-20, How (Not) To Get Rich: were smoothjazz1059.com (WJZW/FM- 2000. Warren, who has penned Washington) with 8 hours, 26 minutes per Number One hits for dozens of week; kpla.com (KPLA/FM-Columbia, Mo.) artists, will receive her award Post Music on the 'Net with 6 hours 32 minutes; and wkdd.com during a one-on-one conversa- (WKDD/FM-Akron) with 5 hours, 26 minutes. The artist tion Friday afternoon (Feb. 18) earning the most money from MP3.com's Payback for Playback According to the InfoStream survey of during the Seminar. promotion pulled in an amazing...drum-roll, please...$4,556 in the these four streaming content providers, month of November. That's the amount pulled in from the sale of audio downloads by the electronica group Trance Control, and does not include sales of CD, concerts, or merchandise. Citadel Pays 145 Million For 11 Stations The top ten MP3 money earners: 1. Trance Control (electronica) $4,556 Citadel Communications has agreed Lansing; WFBE/FM in Flint; and 2. Ernesto Cortazar (easy listening) 3,693 to pay $145 million for 11 stations WHNN/FM and WTCF/FM in 3. Killer Spam's Comedy Stuff (comedy) 2,709 in two separate deals, the company Saginaw. In the second deal, 4. Ghost in the Machine 1,770 announced earlier this week. Citadel purchases WXLO/FM and (electronica) In the larger of the two deals, WORC/FM in Worcester, Mass. 5. The Cynic Project (electronica) 1,760 Citadel acquires nine stations in from Montachusett Broadcasting 6. Charlie Sneller (easy listening) 1,630 three Michigan markets from for $24.5 million. 7. Kryptonic (electronica) 1,490 Liggett Broadcast for $120.5 mil- Both deals are expected to close 8. Red Delicious (Alternative) 1,417 lion. Included in the transaction are in the second quarter of 2000, and 9. Bassic (electronica) 1,366 WMMQ/FM, WJIM/AM-FM, WFMK/ will bring to 123 the number of 10. Emily Richards FM, WITL/FM, and WVFN/AM in radio properties owned by Citadel. (pop rock) 1,357 CONTENTS FORMAT SECTIONS COUNTRY 27 GAVIN Seminar 2000 Award Nominees TOP 40/RHYTHM CROSSOVER 6 N EWS Make Your Station Larger Than Life GAVIN Seminar 2000 Award Nominees Citadel Pays $145 million for 11 Stations 3 AMERICANA 31 RAP 11 Small Stations Win Big In InfoStream Ratings 3 GAVIN Seminar 2000 Award Nominees GAVIN Seminar 2000 Award Nominees RADIO@LARGE Artist Profile: Continental Drifters Artist Profile: Cash Brown "It's the Most Flammable Time of the Year" 4 TRIPLE A URBAN/URBAN A/C 13 33 RATINGS & RESEARCH GAVIN Seminar 2000 Award Nominees GAVIN Seminar 2000 Award Nominees Arbitron Addresses Low Diary Response-Again 5 Reviews: Folk Implosion, Michael Penn, A/C, HOT A/C 17 Aimee Mann GAVIN Seminar 2000 Award Nominees JAZZ/SMOOTH JAZZ & VOCALS 37 ALTERNATIVE 21 GAVIN Seminar 2000 Award Nominees in Miller Freeman GAVIN Seminar 2000 Award Nominees A United News &Media company ©1999 GAVIN Profile: Artist Profile: R.E.M. Artist Ottmar Liebert ACTIVE ROCK 26 December 10, 1999 gavin 3 www.americanradiohistory.com RADIO@LARGE "It's The Most Flammable Time of the Year" BY PAIGE NIENABER singing carols. Get someone in a not the only ones doing it. Have Santa suit to collect donations from them say exactly what their dona- It's like rain on your wedding day. listeners. tion is. If it's a multiple-family situ- A free ride when you've already ation, get listeners to "adopt" fami- paid. I think you get Alanis's point. BE CREATIVE. Everyone is begging lies for the holidays. It's inevitable that in these final this time of year. To stand out, you days before Christmas some need some panache. In Honolulu a BE REAL. Don't come off like calamity is going to strike. It's real- few years ago, thieves broke into a game show hosts. There's a fine ly no big surprise. It happens every school the week before Christmas line between helping people and year. A church filled with toys to be and stole all the kids' computers. glomming on to someone's distributed to underprivileged kids tragedy. bums to the ground. Thieves break Last week in Memphis an apart- into the offices of a charity and ment complex fire created sixteen make off with all the cash ear- homeless families. Hot 107 did marked for holiday meals. A family everything that I've outlined above. on the way to the mall is in a hor- They put some of the victims on rible car accident. the air to talk about what they lost. Promotional opportunities come They presented listeners with in all shapes and sizes. A test of a "Angels of Mercy" certificates as station's greatness is how it thanks for their donations. It was a acknowledges and reacts to these homerun. "You have the obligation less pleasant circumstances. When to respond to these kinds of a home burns down or a Salvation tragedies. They happen all the time Army Santa gets mugged, it's a but they just seem to stand out tremendous chance to respond to more this time of the year," says something that'll be all over the TV Hot 107 Program Director Lee news and that less progressive sta- KRTR 96, which was doing an on-air Cagle. "We helped out, and I know tions will completely ignore. contest called Radio Roulette, brought that it gave our audience a whole Ah...exclusivity! the game live to the school and let the new perspective on Christmas." As a veteran of the Holiday kids "win new computers," which the This is a magical time of the year Calamity Promotional Front, I have station solicited off-air from clients.