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RJR NewsFocus Jury Hits CC With $66M EMI Restructuring Picks Up Steam ON THE WEB Verdict In Infringement Suit Satellite Radio Audience The latest wave of restructuring at EMI Music blew hard through the Grows By 500,000 A federal court jury in Lufkin, Texas, has hit Clear hallways ofVirgin and Capitol Records as the two labels' promotion Channel with a judgment for patent infringe- departments coalesced under Capitol Music Group executiveVP of pro- Howard Stern remains king of all satellite ment, awarding Grantley Patent Holdings $66 motion Greg Thompson. Sources say Thompsonthe former execu- radio, according to Arbitron's National million. Grantley claimed that Clear Channel, tiveVP at Island DefJam Music Group who joined CMG in February- Satellite Report released April 24. Stern's through its unit LAN International, made a rev- has been elevated to the corporate level and will lead promotion efforts Howard 100 and Howard 101 channels on enue management tool called Viero and sold it to across all U.S. labels, with the exception of EMI Christian. Sirius Satellite Radio the broadcast and cable industries. One of the first departures was Virgin VP of promotion Dave attracted 1.2 million Thompson Billy Shane Fox, founder/co-owner of Reynolds, best-known for a 12 -year stint at Universal Records.Also and 501,100 weekly Grantley, invented and patented, from 2000 out are Virgin director of promotion operations Jordan Rosenblatt, Capitol senior man- listeners in the to 2005, four systems of multistation ager of promotion operations Jen Kelly, Capitol national director of crossover promotion report, based on inventory management and revenue projec- Glenn Aure and Capitol regionals Amy Kaplan (Chicago) and Ric Austin (Southeast), alongArbitron'sfall 2007 tion that Grantley claimed Clear Channel's with Virgin Boston regional James MacDonald. diary -based survey. Viero infringed. Clear Channel is expected to The Caroline/Astralwerks division was particularly hard hit. Exiting are national director Other than Stern, Stern file an appeal.-Susan Butler, Billboard of rock promotion Mike Jakubow, national triple A rep Jenni Sperandeo and regionals Tom hit -driven channels Bobak (Mid -Atlantic), Jason Greenberg (Midwest) and Holly McCormack (Northwest). scored highest for both satcasters. Hyper - Jeffries PD At San Manhattan/Back Porch national director of promotion Jason Fisher was also let go. tight CHR 20 on 20 is XM Satellite Radio's In January, details of EMI's restructuring were announced, including the layoff of 2,000 most listened -to channel with 1 million lis- Fran's Star employees and the breaking down of label walls into three groups: anA&Rgroup, a teners, followed by'90s -based modern Andrew Jeffries is named PD of Clear global music services group and a support services group. The restructuring is expected rocker Flight 26 at 741,600. XM's '80s, '70s Channel hot AC KIOI (Star 101.3)/San to be implemented by June.-Kevin Carter and '60s era channels each racked up cumes Francisco. Jeffries, a New Zealand native who greater than 500,000. Sirius Hits 1 and sis- has been working with London broadcasters ter channel New Country drew cumes of for the past eight VERCR\C 584,800 and 468,300, respectively. years, replaces Stacy The survey, which sampled persons Cunningham, who 12+ and excludes PPM markets Houston continues to program and Philadelphia, showed thatsatellite urban sister KMEL. radio listeners jumped by 500,000 over "We had Stacy 209,100421,100 338,100 the spring 2007 report, bringing the total [overseeing] two sta- The average daily cume for The average daily cume for The average daily cume for number of listeners to 17.5 million. tions, and as we persons 6+ during the month WCBS-AM among the station on April 2 -Alexandra Cahill Jeffries moved into 2008 and of March (Monday -Friday, 6:30 persons 6+ on April 1 (6:30 p.m. -10:30 p.m. -10:30 p.m) for news (6:30 p.m. -10:30 p.m.), the date of looking forward, we wanted to make sure we WCBS-AM/New York, according p.m.), the date of the the second game of Hispanic Ad Agencies had someone 100% focused on our two great to Arbitron's PPM. New York Yankees' the home series. stations," OM Michael Erickson says. regular season home Form PPM Council opener. With Jeffries' appointment, Star APD/ Followingconcernsraisedduringits MD/afternoon host Darren McPeake exits, recent semiannualconferenceinSan as his position has been eliminated. Antonio, the Assn. of Hispanic Advertising -Keith Berman Broadcasters Big And Small Agencies has formed an advisory council toaddressthepotentialimpactof More AGs Suggest Free Reject FCC's Localism Plan Arbitron's PPM ratings service on the Satellite Service Small- and large -market broadcasters have given the FCC a thumbs down on its proposed local- Hispanic marketplace. ism rule changes, suggesting that they could suffocate the very thing the FCC seeks to inspire- AHAA chairman JoséLópez-Varela Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gensler localism. "Small companies need the benefits of economies of scale to achieve financial stability," says the association believes the PPM is the and attorneys general from Connecticut, noted some 20 small broadcasters in their FCC filing. "Requiring small broadcasters to build mul- right path to take. "Our goal is to ensure Ohio and Washington have asked the FCC to tiple, duplicative main studios in the same market would not increase public access to their locally that the methodology and design of the block the proposed merger of Sirius and owned and operated stations" and could force broadcasters out of business, the companies said. Hispanic sample is executed in the most XM, citing anti -competition and harm to In its 256 -page filing, the NAB rejected the FCC's apparent notion that broadcasters are not representative way," he adds. consumers. However, if the FCC approves in touch with their communities' needs. Broadcasters understand that "serving the needs of AHAA Touchpoint committee chair- the merger, the AGs urge it to require the their communities is the cornerstone" of the business, the NAB wrote. Without local program- woman Isabella Sánchez, who also serves as combined entity to lease some spectrum to ming and services, "broadcasters will lose viewers and listeners and thus the advertisers that VP/managing director for multicultural ad a separate company that would offer are the lifeblood of their business, especially in today's highly competitive media marketplace." agency Tapestry, was appointed to chair the diverse programming for free. The directive, The NAB added that the FCC "has no factual or legal basis to turn back the clock to rein- council, which will also include represen- sent to the FCC April 24, mirrors a March state a myriad of regulations that the agency found ineffective and unnecessary in the less tatives from Hispanic broadcasters and 27 letter sent by 10 other state AGs. competitive media marketplace of the 1980s." advertisers. Jackie Madrigal The only entity that has made a pitch to lease It appears as if commissioner Robert McDowell is on the same page as broadcasters. In satellite spectrum is Georgetown Partners, a pri- an April 23 address at the National Press Club he questioned reinstating the old rules. "The NEWS UPDATES AROUND THE CLOCK: www.RadioandRecords.com vate equity operation. Jeffrey Yorke potential Orwellian implications of such policies are chilling," McDowell said. Jeffrey Yorke MAY 2, 2008 24/7 NEWS ONLINEa www.RadioandRecords.com3 WWW.RADIOANDRECORDS.COM: INDUSTRY AND FORMAT NEWS, AS IT HAPPENS, AROUND THE CLOCK. CBS Commits To Posting,Arbitron's Patchen Apologizes ForMOVERS Unveils Digital Network Gap Broadcasting 'Off -The -Cuff' Cume Comments Group appoints Daniel In an effort to improve credibility with J. Wilson CFO. Wilson While the April 25 Arbitron PPM conference call and webinar was meant to advertisers, CBS Radio says it has com- will serve as CFO of mitted to posting ratings for its clients. update clientsandpress on the status of panel installment in new markets GAP and Denver - The company made the announcement as well as sample performance versus benchmarks, what transpired during based offshoot GAP - April 24 in front of roughly 475 clients in the Q&A portion of the meeting is what might most be remembered.