NOVEMBER 1999 ISSUE 2278 THE MOST TRUSTED NAME IN RADIO Alternative Spotlight: "Before They Were Rock Stars" Q&A With Dan Mason TOP 40 Lopez Breaks Top 10 HOT A/C "Morning" Mouth A Smash FAITH HILL ALTERNATIVE Limp Bizkit THE NEW ALBUM. "Re -arranges" Chart IN STORES COUNTRY TH FOLLOW-UP TO Yankee Grey HER QUADRUPLE PLATINUM ALBUM Nears Top 10 FEATURING THE NEWS HIT . NGLE Industry "Power" List Yanks Sweep Series BORMAN Home of the / Seminar in Radio INTEA1A'. Album produced by Byron Galimore, G2K in SFO-Feb. 16-19,2000 Dann Huff and Faith Hill Single produced by Byron Gellimore From the Publishers of Music Week, MBI and fono and Faith Hill Mixed by Mike Shipey with A Miller Freeman Publication additions) mixing by Chris Lcrd-Alge www.americanradiohistory.com BREATHE Oetobe WB RADIO AWARDS -PERFORMANCE NovemEb: FAITH HILL ALBUM PREMIERE BROADCAST BY PREMIERE RADIO NETWORKS Novel LIVE CCNCERT BROADCAST TO WAL -MARTS NATIONWIDE Noveo THE TONIGHT SHOW Novemb, THE ROSIE O'DONNELL SHO November -December Visibilit' BILLBOARD VOGUE GLAMOUR -COVER COUNTRY MUSIC US PEOPLE COUNTRY WEEKLY CMT GAO VH-1 FASHION AWARDS "BREATHE" VIDEO-NOVEMBER CMT VIDEO BIO -DECEMBER MASSIVE COVER GIRL' TELEVISION AND PRINT CAMPAIGN .ww.faitrn ,,. _,.m www. wa rnerbro ,nashville. corn ©1999 Warner Bros. Records Inc www.americanradiohistory.com Chemistry Set "In the old days, 1 really didn't want to deal with being a star every day, and you could kind of hide inside heroin. It was like a cocoon-a soft wall between you and everything else." -ROLLING STONE AND SELF-CONFESSED "DRUGOLOGIST" KEITH RICHARDS, DISCUSSING HIS DRUG LISE IN THE "OLD DAYS" OF THE 19705 Pure Chemistry '-There are just chemical differences between people. Either the sex is so good or you both like drinking a lot of tequila or you both like jogging or Radio Music Awards Were a Megaglast something that brings you together. There's a whole much deeper, intense, intrinsic thing going on. I don't know if it's a load o: shit, but that's what I (but beware the Jagermusic.com luge) was thinking about." -BUSH FRONTMAN GAVIN ROSSDALE DISCUSSING THE CONCEPT OF "THE CHEMICALS BETWEEN ITS" Garth Brooks was there. So was Taylor Dayne and Lou Diamond Phillips, a few assorted members of 'NSync, the living half of Milli Vanilli Fabrice Morvan, Smash Mouth, and a bunch of rising stars from the WB's new fall slate. That's the who (actually only a partial list)...but what's the why No Chemistry and where? -I want to get this out in the open. I do not satisfy The why was to see and be seen at the WB Radio Music her needs. She doesn't satisfy some of my Awards and MegaBlast in (where) Las Vegas last week. It was all part of a grand experiment designed to bring needs...We love each other too much to go on like together air personalities, producers, and program direc- that. I thought we would grow old together...I just tors from nearly 100 (96 to be exact) major market stations lived too long." This is the most painful thing I've to conduct live broadcasts and essentially hype the hell out ever gone through -SHOCK JOCK HOWARD STERN, REVEALING ON HIS of the Radio Music Awards telecast which was Thursday night IFE on the WB. Slated just four days before the start of the November TV SYNDICATED SHO\\ \\ HY HE ANI) \\ ALISON ARE SPLIT'l'ING UP AFTER 21 sweeps, the network was counting on the power of radio to make the awards show a YEARS OF MARRIAGE first -round knock-out among its younger -skewed viewers (a four -game Yankees sweep in the World Series was a lucky break). The concept: invite a hundred top stations, give them space to broadcast from the AMFM Names bowels of the lavish Mandalay Bay Resort in Las Vegas, hook them up with a stream of HyperActive Spotlight: music and film stars, and throw a party around it. Cluster VPs Brian McKnight Did it work? It works any time someone throws a party in Las Vegas. But the real indication of success will come when next week's Nielsen ratings are released. Until AMFM Inc. named six more cluster "Brian McKnight is large!" -Rob then, have to we'll just pray that all those folks who "shot the Jagermusic.com luge" vice presidents to oversee specific Morris, PD, KDWB-Minneapolis didn't come down with any nasty communicable diseases. regional groups within the compa- "Big phones and strong research on ny's operational structure. Brian McKnight." -Mr. Ed Lambert, They are: PD, KHKS-Dallas Sholin VP; Rizzo Hired at Capitol Mick Anselmo, Minneapolis "Brian McKnight is an absolute "I'll be racking up lots of frequent flier miles-and watching my waistline." (7 stations) smash, calling out Top 5." That's the word from Dave "The Duke" Sholin (pictured), newly -appoint- Brian Biegler, Sacramento -Domino, PD, WFLZ-Tampa ed VP/Pop Promotion at Capitol Records, who will he based in San Francisco (4 stations) (natch) and will travel to "anyplace where there's a stick." Jake Karger, Boston (3 stations) Savage Garden Sholin, of course, is a San Francisco radio legend and Chris McMurray, Houston "I predict that GAVIN veteran who most recently served in a similar posi- (8 stations) Savage tion at Island Records. Doug Sterne, San Francisco Garden's "Have you heard 'We Live from BossonY" he asks, (7 stations) 'I Knew I already on the job. "It's got an unbelievable hook...and Clancy Woods, Phoenix Loved You' will Robbie Williams is a total home run. Meanwhile, phones (8 stations) be huge." -Barry McKay, PD, are exploding on Chris Gaines." You get the picture... Each Cluster VP is responsible KLSY-Seattle Concurrent with Sholin's appointment, Mark Rizzo joins the Capitol promo- for all stations in his/her group, "The latest from Savage Garden is tion team as Senior National Director of Adult Format Promotion. Rizzo, who with primary emphasis on maximiz- the most active on our phones." previously worked at Columbia and Arista, says, "As of tomorrow, I'll be oper- ing top -line growth, ratings perfor- -Michael Hayes, PD, WPHH- ating out of the New York office as an equal counterpart to my friend Nick mance, expense control, and per- Pittsburgh Bedding [in L.A.] and working some great adult -oriented music." sonnel recruitment. CONTENTS FORMAT SECTIONS RATINGS AND RESEARCH Summer Arbitrons Shine on Alternative 46 TOP 40/RHYTHM CROSSOVER 9 NEWS FRIENDS OF RADIO Promorama: the Millennium Bug Giveaway Radio Enjoys MegaBlast in Las Vegas 3 Patrick Am, Gotham President 46 RAP 14 Sholin VP/Pop Promo at Capitol 3 ACTIVE ROCK 48 Artist Profile: Pharoahe Monch AMFM Names Cluster VPs 3 Q&A with KISW's Clark Ryan URBAN/URBAN A/C 16 RADIO®LARGE 4 COUNTRY 50 Radio Philanthropy: Giving Back "A Remote Possibility" Artist Profile: Sherrié Austin A/C, HOT A/C 20 GRAB BAG 6 TRIPLE A 54 The Zone's Real World Experiment God Saves The Smithereens for Triple A SPOTLIGHT: ALTERNATIVE AMERICANA() 58 How Oh Boy Built a Label Using the WWW Miller Freeman ALTERNATIVE 26 A United Newa&Media company ©1999 GAVIN JAZZ/SMOOTH JAZZ & VOCALS 61 Radio/Record Execs: B-4 They Were Rock Stars 34 Artist Profile: Steve Oliver Q&A With Dan Mason 42 November 1. /999 gavin 3 www.americanradiohistory.com RADIO@LARGE FIRST WORDS "A Possibili Leaving Las Vegn Remote a In the end great time was had by all. BY PAIGE NIENABER their favorite song. one's going to show up if you The three-day awards Often remotes are nothing more spend a minute talking about war- show and Radio Last Summer I was talking with a than a horrible commercial that ranties. Your job is to create an MegaBlast lived up to friend about his station's plans for drags on and on. Few people care atmosphere and event that people every expectation, from the big Fourth of July weekend. about this guy's financing. Nobody will want to take an hour out of the 40 -plus radio and Embarrassed, he confided that he cares about his "friendly sales their weekend to go to." music industry honors handed out on Wednesday was committed to be at eleven paid staff." A remote broadcast is all WLLD/Wild 98.7 turns their to the televised awards appearances over the holiday. brevity. I've major remotes into practically mini -circus- about heard bestowed upon the fresh- What about during the day on stroke -jobs when they put the es with tricycle races and other est artists and best air the 4th when the beaches and "Often remotes are nothing games and once even hosted a personalities in the busi- parks are filled with vacationing mega -pool party with 100 plastic more than a horrible ness. (For a full list of families? Nope. The greater chunk wading pools and Hooters girls on award winners, see next commercial that drags on of the morning and afternoon were rollerblades delivering free wings. week's GAVIN). and on. Few people care devoted to consecutive remotes at These sales promotions Everyone loves a party about this guy's financing. serve an a drugstore and a car dealership. additional role in getting the station and that, in part, is what Nobody cares about his made this event the "Who buys a car on the Fourth of out to meet people who might at "friendly sales staff." Mandalay Bay Resort in July?!" I screamed.