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Management: Caresse Henry - Caliente Management PACTING RADIO 10/27 & 10/28 www.americanradiohistory.com OCTOBER 24, 2003 I N S I D E Arbitron Reports Progress LISTENING TO IN-CM RADIO BEHAVIOR With PPM Joint Venture What are the driving forces behind in -car Company's Q3 profits beat Wall Street forecasts radio listening? Read the interesting findings and recommendations from Edison Media By Joe Howard revenue improved 8%, to $69.6 Research and Arbitron's latest study in this R&R Washington Bureau ihowarderadroandrecords.com million, while EBIT grew 5%, to week's Management/Marketing/Sales The quarterly earnings sea- $30.6 million. Also: Williams section. Roy talks about son is ramping up, and Arbi- Arbitron also reduced its what's in name it's a - must reading for tron on Tuesday stepped up to long -term debt from $135 mil- marketers. Dave Van Dyke argues for acting report improved earnings and lion to $115 million during Q3. intuitively, Steve Stockman explains how to THE INDUSTRY'S NEWSPAPER revenue. It also of- Looking ahead, the com- use TV to brand your personalities, and Irwin www.radioandrecords.com fered updates on pany forecasts Q4 rev- Pollack shows how to convince salespeople the Portable enue will grow 9 %- to make cold calls. Plus, Jeffrey Hedquist on People Meter and 11% and is standing better brainstorming. the company's bur- by its year -end fore- geoning joint venture casts of 7%9% growth for Pages 6 -8 both Rush Limbaugh Comes Clean with Nielsen. revenue and EBIT and $1.60- Arbitron's Q3 income beat $1.64 in EPS. Talk host admits drug addiction, enters rehab Wall Street forecasts, as the During a Tuesday- morning URBAN REPORTING CRITERIA company's earnings per share conference call with investors by and a legal in- By AI Peterson pending of 55 cents was a penny ahead and Wall Street analysts, R &R Urban Editor Dana Hall profiles three R&R NevrsTalkJSports Editor vestigation of Premiere Ra- of the consensus estimate of Arbitron President /CEO Steve apetersongradroandrecords .am new reporters and explains the criteria for dio Networks Talk radio ti- analysts polled by Thomson Morris talked up the versatility becoming a reporter. In the process, we learn It all started as a quiet tan Rush Limbaugh. First Call on net income that of the PPM, explaining that his how Urban radio is impacting new buzz of whispered conver- The timing could not have improved from $15.4 million in marketplaces, including Omaha. sation punctuated been worse. That Q3 2002 to $17 million. Q3 net EARNINGS See Page 10 by cell phones ring- very morning Lim - Page 33 ing throughout the baugh was scheduled crowd of radio to deliver the keynote people gathered address to a packed Radio Revenue Remains Flat NUMBER ONES around the hotel - ballroom of radio ex- lobby bar late on the ecutives who, along National sales up 5 %, local down 2% in August CHR/POP first evening of the with a horde of me- By Jett Green 3 DOORS DOWN Here Without You (Republic-Universa)) recent NAB conven- dia reporters, were cal revenue in red figures on a tion in Philadelphia. already eagerly R&R Executive Editor CHR/RHYTHMIC Igreen®radioandrecords. com year-to-year basis, local sales By the following awaiting his response Despite a 5% increase have failed to generate a posi- BEYONCÉ f/SEAN PAUL Baby Boy (Columbia) Limbaugh in na- morning, that quiet to the mounting con- tional sales revenue from a year five annual comparison for four URBAN buzz had become a deafen- troversy over remarks he'd ago, a disappointing 2% drop in consecutive months - since BEYONCÉ f/SEAN PAUL Baby Boy (Columbia) ing roar, spilling out into made on ESPN several days local radio sales resulted in April's 1% bump. the hallways and coursing earlier that some had called overall August revenue holding Looking back at 2002, local URBAN AC through the Philadelphia racially insensitive. level with the same month in business for August was ahead R. KELLY Step In The Name Of Love (Jive) Convention Center as over- The ensuing media frenzy 2002. Year- to-date, the first eight 4% compared to the same COUNTRY night reports and rumors over that incident ended months show radio up a mod- month in 2001, while national were confirmed with the with Limbaugh's resigna- GARY ALLAN Tough Little Boys (MCA) est 2% overall, with local sales was up 9%, for a 5% total im- light of day - the National tion from the cable TV maintaining a 1% edge over provement. However, the first AC Enquirer and the New York sports network, something 2002 for the fourth straight eight months of 2002 were only UNCLE KRACKER IDOBIE GRAY Drift Away (Lava) Daily News were both print- he acknowledged he had month and national up 8 %, just 3% above 2001. It was in the fi- ing front-page allegations HOT AC as it was through July. nal four months of 2002 that of prescription -drug abuse See Page 13 most of last year's improvement SANTANA URLEX BAND Why Don't You d I (AriSfa) While August was the first month since March to post lo- REVENUE See Page 10 SMOOTH JAll PRAFUL Sigh (Rendezvous/N-Coded) ROCK Far House STAIND So Away (Flip/ElelaraíEEG) Calls For Media -Rules Vote Punks On The Rise ACTIVE ROCK Hinchey seeks floor time for resolution Senate A completely STAIND So Far Away (Flip/ElektrarEEa) arbitrary and opinionated By Adam Jacobson guide to Alternative movers and shakers ALTERNATIVE R &R Radio Editor a/acobsonaradroandrecords. corn A PERFECT CIRCLE Weak And Powerless (Virgin) By Max Tolkoff the more dangerous kind of Efforts are building in the Ase Alternative Editar TRIPLE A House of Representatives to mtolkoft@radiaandrecordscorn punks, the ones who will ul- timately control all that we R.E.M. Bad Day (Warner Bros.) bring to a vote a Senate-ap- They're young - most of proved resolution that would them, anyway - dangerous see and hear in the future. CHRISTIAN AC roll back the FCC's new media- and totally new school. Indeed, some of them work AVALON New Day (Sparrow) ownership regulations. How- They're the people right next to you. CHRISTIAN CHR ever, supporters of such a vote other people STACIE ORRICO (There's Gotta Be) More.. (Forefront/Virgin) are still far from getting the talk about. majority needed to force House Hinchey Dorgan Some are well CHRISTIAN ROCK Speaker Dennis Hastert to known. Some SUPERCHICK Me Against The World (Inpop) bring the resolution to the happy with the rules passed by are not, but will be. For If you are not in these the FCC in June. They also pages, please CHRISTIAN INSPO House floor. en- this column I go back to the don't start joy the support of the White original usage of "punk." whining and complaining TWILA PARIS God Of All (Sparrow) On Monday Democratic Rep. Maurice Hinchey an- House, as President Bush has I'm not talking about and acting all hurt and stuff. SPANISH CONTEMPORARY nounced that he had collected said he will veto any congres- pinned, pierced and Mo- Believe me, some of the CHAYANNE Un Siglo Sin Ti (Sony Discos) the signatures of 190 House sional effort to restore the hawked cranky youth in people included would pre- members who commission's old ownership creepers. No, I want you to fer not to be here. They TEJANO are urging Hastert to bring the vote to rules. imagine a more subversive would rather live out their INTOCABLE Eso Duele (EMI Latin) fruition. Hinchey has received In order for Hinchey's efforts cranky youth, one who Alternative lives in quiet REGIONAL MEXICAN bipartisan support for the vote, to succeed, he must gain the looks like a goober who desperation.