M&M REPORT: Backstage At MTV Europe's Music Awards... see page 6 I DECEMBER9, 1995 VOLUME12, IssuE 49 Beatles Storm Into Europe's Radio -Active Newsweek!), £2.95 DM8 FFR25 US$5 DFL8.50 Top 100 & EHR Pages 13 & 21 Hansen Challenges Labels Capital Radio Poised To To Push European Talent by Christian Lorenz they are second best. My job Enter European Market is to prove that they're not!" PARIS- European record Heclaimedthatthe by Jonathan Heasman Capital's head of interna- such arrangements."There's labelsshould no European music tional development Tom Tur- no point in just making invest- longer be content to industry is not using LONDON - The Capital Radio can explains the revised strat- ments in overseas radio com- take second place in MTV Europe-and Group has revealed plans to egy."Whentherewasa panies-our shareholders theworldmarket, itsannualMusic make substantial investments change of management three could do that for themselves. accordingto MTV Awards,heldthis in ventures outside the UK. years ago, it was decided to re- We want to contribute and use Europe president, yearinParison At present,the UK's focus the group on UK radio. our expertise to add value to creative director November 23-effec- largest commercial radio com- But having now grown sub- the companies." Brent Hansen. tivelyas a promo- pany has no overseas inter- stantially within the UK, we Capital is already talking In an interviewBrent Hansen tional tool. ests, having sold off Riviera are awarethat [licence] to prospective partners in a with Music & Media, "The European Radio/Monte Carlo in 1992. restrictions exist-although number of different territories, Hansen said, "Europe has music industry complains a But Capital Radio's chair- we have not reached them he adds, and announcements an inferiority complex. On lot about not getting enough man Ian Irvinesays, "The yet-and so to look further for- about future projects can be an individual and industry- exposure," saidHansen. provenradioprogramming ward we have to go outside expected within the next year. wide basis Europeans think continues on page 20 and sales skills of the Group [the UK]." "But we are taking a cau- arecapableof exploitation Turcan says that Capital's tious approach," he promises. overseas. We have begun to preferred optionwill beto "We are aware of some of the investigate a number of establish joint radio ventures bad experiences British radio INSIDE promising overseas markets with local media companies companies have had [in invest- Nazis To where deregulation and pri- looking for experienced radio ing overseas], and we are in no New Radio France vatisation are creating real partners. rush." President Announced 3 opportunities for experienced He confirms that Capital continues on page 20 Go On -Air radio broadcasters." will play a very active role in Spain's Newest Music Trade Fair 4 by Charles Ferro Disco Piu Signs Cara Cardigans' Radio Advertising Across COPENHAGEN -The Danish 'Easy' Style Europe 10 culture ministry has finally granted a radio licence to the Embraced By country's Nazi movement NUMBER ONE (DSNB),endingweeksof Radio debate and speculation. European Hit Radio The licence was formally MA'AM - Five young Swedes awarded to Radio Oasen by have hit the big time after WHITNEY HOUSTON the government on November drawing inspiration from late - Exhale (Shoop Shoop) 28 after a meeting of the local '60seasylistening masters (Arista) authority-which was due to like Burt Bacharach. hand thelicence over-was The Cardigans have sud- Eurochart Hot 100 Singles disbanded as several members denly found themselves in the COOLIO FEAT. L.V. failed to turn up. middle of an underground easy Gangsta's Paradise DNSB leader Jonni Hansen listening trend. (MCA) says, "Our plans are to send But EHR stations across weekly debate and youth pro- Italian dance indie Disco Piu has signed US singer, dancer and actress Europe have also discovered European Top 100 Albums grammes. We willaddress Irene Cara. A single entitled You Need Me is scheduled for release in Jan- the mainstream appeal of the QUEEN some vital issues." Some of the uary, while an album is expected in March. Pictured (l -r) with Cara (seat- band's two singles Carnival Made In Heaven debate will take the form of ed) are: Disco Piu international director Maurizio Cannici, writer Michele and Sick & Tired, particularly Vice, producer Peter Roberts, Cara's manager Bob Diamond and Disco (Parlophone) panel discussions and phone-ins. in the UK and Germany. continues on page 20 Piu president Lino Dentico. See page 8 STOP PRESS POLYGRAM SCOOP FIVE MAJOR AWARDS AT MTV EUROPEAN MUSIC AWARDS IN PARIS ...SEE BACK COVER FOR DETAILS... AmericanRadioHistory.Com BESTMUSICMTVWINNER MALE EUROPE AWARDS ARTIST AmericanRadioHistory.Com M & M N E W S T H I S W E E K CSA Appoints Outsider LILIcrRt] 136itiTC] Industry highlights this week To Head Radio France by Emmanuel Legrand included on the shortlist of nine vious voting rounds, the CSA's SPAIN he was able to remain on air personalities who applied for nine members had been unable until 1987. PARIS -In a move that caught the job. tochoosebetweenFrance Opposition Vows To Gov't Tells BBC To Sell Off the radio industry by surprise, He has no previous experi- Inter's scheduling director Change Catalan Radio Transmitters the French broadcasting body ence in radio and has never Patrice Duhamel and current Radio output in Spain's north- The government is to require CSA has appointed outsider managed a broadcasting com- general manager of daily Le east region of Catalonia is to the BBC to sell of its transmit- Michel Boyon as president of pany. Appointed to the post on Monde Dominque Alduy. change after the November 20 ter network, but will allow the public broadcasting corporation November 23, Boyon started CSA's president Herve regional elections which put pubcaster to keep most of the Radio France. work and replaced Jean Maheu Bourges, realising that the situ- an end to the control of local proceeds. Under the plans, the Boyon, a civil servant who seven days later. Maheu had ationwascompletelydead- public radio and television by BBC will have to organise its was chief of staff for former served for two three-year terms. locked, proposed the authority the ruling Catalan national- own transmitter privatisation ministerof culture Francois Boyon was elected by six interview outsiders for the job, ists, who lost the absolute and will then be able to keep Leotard from 1987-89, was not votes to three. During two pre- including Michel Bassi, who majority they had enjoyed for some of the assets paid for by manages audiovisual company a decade. Leaders of the four licence -payers' money -an SFP, Xavier Gouyou- opposition parties -the social- estimated 70-80%. Money Yabba Dabba Doo! Beauchamps, who is GM of TV ists, the conservatives, a from the sale of World Service channelFrance 3, Pierre republican independence transmitters, paid for by Wiehn, from TV channel TF1, party, and a communist -led grants, will return to the gov- and Boyon. Thefirstthree coalition -all agreed their pri- ernment. The sale is likely to turned down the offer. Boyon ority was to end the long create more than £100 million was rushed in for an interview monopoly of the Convergencia (app. US$1.56 million) for the and,to thesurprise of the i Ulna nationalist party and BBC to invest in digital tech- industry, was elected. "introduce plurality" in the nology. The Radio France section of Catalan Radio Television Cor- BELGIUM union CFDT has made public poration, which consists of its "regrets that CSA had not Catalunya Radio, news/talk VRM Focuses On New chosen a professional but some- Catalunya Informacio and Music Sounds one who knows nothing about TV3. Antwerp -based private VRM the company." Cadena 100's T -Shirt (formerly Radio Contact Campaign Aids Charity Antwerp) is currently testing a Thousands of young "slightly more aggressive for- Spaniards swapped their old mat" with its audience. VRM SER Plans T-shirts for new ones with MD Frank Leysen says the Arcade's Yabba Dabba Dance series of compilation albums, which Cadena 100 emblazoned station wants to shift from its includes Yabba Dabba Dance Mix, Yabba Dabba Dance Hits and Yabba 'Massive' across the front as part of a EHR format to a slightly Dabba Dance Classics, have sold over 2.5 million copies throughout Europe. The initiator of the project, Arcade International vice president campaign run by the 49 -sta- younger sound with emphasis Investments Robert Jan Hertog, is pictured above with an award for sales ofover tion web on November 24. Net on new material. As private 600.000 albums in Scandinavia. by Howell Llewellyn director Rafael Revert says network groups are banned some 10.000 T-shirts were from Flanders, VRM currently MADRID -The leading Spanish given away. The net will has six "sister stations" to Ratings Track Rise radio group Cadena SER is to donate the old shirts to chari- which it transmits format make a massive increase in its ty organisations. guidelines. This will continue investment in new technology UNITED KINGDOM under the new format, Leysen Of EHR Net RDS as it enters the next century, says, but the six stations will accordingtoitschairman Parsons' Production all change format accordingly by Mark Dezzani cert in Rome, which included Jesus de Polanco. Standards Recognised and add the words "Top Radio" live coverage on the Italia 1 Speakingattheannual Producer and musician Alan to their names. MILAN -Rome -based EHR net- private TV network. meeting of SER directors in Parsons has received the 1995 HOLLAND work Radio Dimensione Suono But RDS' meteoric rise has Valencia on November 23-26, Les Paul Award, presented by (RDS) continued to consolidate been registered over several De Polanco said the advance of the Audio Engineering Society Veronica Saves Classical on recent consistent gains with ratings periods and managing cable radio and TV -scheduled to "individuals who have set Channel From Closure an impressive 14.2% rise in director Eduardo Montefusco to start within a year once the the highest standards in The classical music channel the latest Audiradio ratings.