APRIL 21, 2006 MEET DAVID REHR MARKETING Four months ago David Rehr was PARTNERSHIPS named President/CEO of the NAB. Guest columnist Michelle England "I thought it would be a very tells how a demo of your station can exciting job, but it's probably 400 have a significant impact on growing times more exciting than I thought your business. With the ability to it would be," he says. "I don't think wield the power of the audio ad in a I've ever been more energized in targeted, focused, imaginative way to my life!" Learn more about Rehr in this week's Publisher's Profile on listeners, radio must use the creative THE INDUSTRY'S NEWSPAPER when selling to clients. www.radioandrecords.com Page 84. Page 50 AND MY GANG ME 11111/lItI//A Lyric Street artists Rascal Flatts sold an astonishing 721,747 units of Me and My Gang in its first week in the marketplace, cementing their place as CBS/Chicago Realigns Top Managers Bortnick Becomes VP/GM country superstars. Lyric Street By Sarah Vance President Randy Goodman and VP/ R &R Staff Reporter Of New York City's WFAN svance@radioandrecords. com Marketing Greg McCarn tell R &R CBS Radio /Chicago has re- Nashville Editor Chuck Aly about the Will resign as Westwood One COO for new post aligned its management team. world of Rascal Flatts. Rod Zimmerman, already Sr. By Al Peterson We're fortunate to VP /Market Manager of the dus- Page 44 R &R News/Talk/Sports Editor [email protected] be able to count on ter and VP /GM of News WBBM- CBS Radio has Chuck's expertise AM, will add GM duties at Talk named Chuck Bort- to guide one of the clustermate WCKG (Free FM) nick VP /GM of company's most on May 1. In addition, Peter Zimmerman Bowen Sports WFAN/New important proper- Bowen has added VP /GM du- York, effective May ties." ties at the cluster's Adult Hits WJMK (Jack FM); he retains his 8. Bortnick will re- Bortnick joined GM duties at CHR /Rhythmic WBBM -FM but relinquishes his sign as COO of Metro Networks in cluster Director /Sales role. See Page 11 Westwood One and 1993 following 17 CHICAGO assume a post that's years in various ra- Bort nick dio management been vacant since Named R &R DC Bureau Chief Lee Davis exited WFAN roles at stations in Hous- Yorke for a position with Cox Ra- ton, Miami and Cleveland. R &R has officially tapped Jeffrey Yorke as Wash- dio late last year. During his tenure at Metro ington Bureau Chief, effective immediately. He has ACTIVE ROCK "Chuck has extensive ex- he held several executive been filling in on an interim basis since March 13. GODSMACK the sta- positions and was named York first worked for R &R from August 1996 Speak (Universal Republic) perience on both tion and network level, President in 1996. He was through April 2002, then joined the NAB as Direc- CHR/POP having success at some of named to his most recent tor /Media Relations. He was with the NAB until SEAN PAUL Temperature (VP /Atlantic) the best brands in the busi- role, as COO of Westwood October 2005, when he left to join his family busi- CHR/RHYTHMIC ness," said CBS Radio Sr. One, in 1999, when the com- ness, Yorke Property Management. Yorke was also POEM FRANCHIZE BOYZ Lean Wit... (So So DefNirgin) VP /Regional Manager Les pany merged with Metro. the radio columnist and a staff writer /reporter at the URBAN Hollander. "His winning "I am extremely excited Washington Post for 13 years before joining R &R. 7.I. What You Know (Grand Hustle/Atlantic) record also includes work- to return to the station side "We have a long history with Jeffrey, and it's Yorke URBAN AC ing with top radio talent. BORTNICK See Page 11 wonderful that we can welcome him 'home' with MARY J. BLIGE Be Without You (Geffen) even more knowledge and experience than when he left," said GOSPEL YORKE See Page 11 BYRON CAGE I Will... (Gospo Centric/Zomba Label Group) ,COUNTRY RASCAL IFLATTS What Hurts The Most (Lyric Street) .kSMOOTH JAR KDAY/L.A. Flips Hess Adds OM } "PAUL BROWN Winelight (GRPNMG) Arbitron, Edison Look To Urban Format Duties At CC's JAMES You're Beautiful (Custard/Atlantic) BLUNT By Dana Hall At 'Infinite Dial' Washington AMs ,HOT AC R &R Urban/Urban AC Editor [email protected] DANIEL POWTER Bad Day (Warner Bros.) Bill Hess has been named Styles Media on Monday Radio not losing TSL to new media, study says 11äC11 OM of Clear Channel Radio's PEPPERS flipped CHR /Rhythmic KDAY/ By Brida Connolly '`RED HOT CHILI Dani California (Warner Bros.) AM AM stations in Los Angeles and simulcast part- R&R Technology Editor available only on and . Washington, DC, ALTERN ner KDAI/Riverside to Urban [email protected] FM, is now entirely unbound. RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS Dani California (Warner Bros.) Arbitron and Edison Me- That's why we are referring overseeing pro- under the guidance of newly gramming and hired consultant Steve Heg- dia Research on April 13 re- to this new world as the 'infi- 7f J. JOHNSON Upside Down (Brushfire/Universal Republic) leased "The Infinite Dial nite dial.' One can now 'tune' operations for wood. Styles Media Group Chief Sports WTEM, NCHRISTIAN CHR Programming Officer and KDAI Radio's Digital Platforms," to an unlimited number of ?BARLOWGIRL I Need You... (FervenVCurb/lNamerBros.) News/Talk WTNT & KDAY PD Anthony Acam- the latest in a series of joint re- options for 'radio. "' and Talk WWRC. CHRISTIAN AC pora has exited to concentrate on search reports on Internet - For this study, Arbitron AARON SHUST My Savior My God (Brash) He will also con- his radio consultancy, Radio- media usage that dates back and Edison conducted phone Hess 5 tinue in his cur- ROCK crunch. to 1998. As the title suggests, interviews with 1,925 people FLYLEAF All Around Me (SRE/Octane) rent position as PD of AC In weeks, KDAI & this time around the study fo- 12 and older between Jan. 13 recent clustermate WASH-FM. Hess INSPO KDAY had been playing more cuses on the ever-expanding and Feb. 12. Most of the re- C. CROWNS Praise You In... (Beach Street/Reunion/PLG) replaces Tod Castleberry, who gold and recurrent R &B and hip - possibilities for audio enter- spondents were fall 2005 is now VP /Programming at hop. With the flip, the stations are tainment, in particular Inter- Arbitron diarykeepers, with a /'CONJUNTO PRIMAVERA Algo De Mí (Fonovisa) crosstown Red Zebra Broad- predominantly mainstream Ur- net radio, podcasting, satellite few additional respondents _.,SPANISH casting. CONTEMPORARY ban and focusing on current titles. radio and HD Radio. reached by random -digit di- 'M'MANES Lo Que Me Gusta A Mí (Universal) "We are very fortunate to al- r Hegwood is a veteran Urban Arbitron and Edison write, aling in areas where no ready have a Talk radio veteran TROPICAL programmer and the principal "The radio dial, which was sample of diarykeepers was YANKEE Se Le Ve Bill staff," Clear A. MONTANE? I/D. (SGZ/Univision) once limited to what was available. like on the owner of On Top Communica- Channel Regional VP Dave kLATIN URBAN tions, which owns Urban stations sanctioned by the FCC and See Page 21 (`DADDY YANKEE Rompe (El Cartel/Interscope) HESS See Page 8 KDAY See Page 8 www.americanradiohistory.com "We have long suspected that all the national media interest in satellite radio did not reflect what was going on with the American consumer." -- Ed Seeger, President & CEO, American Media Services So late last year, we decided to ask consumers, despite all the hype, how much attention they are really paying to satellite radio. On January 13, 2006, we launched the first AMS Radio Index, a scientifically conducted national survey of 1,008 American adults, which revealed important and fascinating information about our most important constituency, the consumer. For one thing, we learned that 64 percent of the respondents said they were listening to radio as much as, or more than, they were five years ago. While ratings for the former Big Three television networks and circulation figures for daily newspapers continue slipping, commercial radio is demonstrating, yet again, that despite the ongoing changes we are seeing in the world of technology, our medium continues to be relevant to the 21st Century consumer. The initial AMS Radio Index generated so much interest that we have decided to commission at least two national surveys a year. The results of our second index will be available soon on our newly redesigned website (www.americanmediaservices.com), and we invite you to visit. In addition, our new website has a "blog," which we are calling "Industry Viewpoints," and we hope this will be the beginning of provocative and timely discussions about radio's future. At AMS, we continue to be bullish about radio, and we want to get the word out. We invite you to join us. See you in Vegas. fig American Media Services, ac American Media Services would welcome the opportunity to talk with you about your developmental engineering or brokerage needs during your visit to the NAB Convention in Las Vegas. Call us at 843 -972-2200 to arrange an appointment. www.americanradiohistory.com CONTENTS GREEN APRIL April 21, 2006 NEWS & FEATURES Radio Business 4 Opportunities 80 Management/ Marketplace 81 Marketing/Sales 16 Publisher's Profile 84 Street Talk 22 FORMAT SECTIONS News/Talk/Sports 12 Smooth Jazz 55 CHR/Pop 30 Rock Formats 58 CHR/Rhythmic 35 Triple A 64 Urban 38 Americana 68 The boys of Universal Motown band Blue October did a special acoustic performance last week for MTV, onty a week after Country 43 Christian 69 their new album Foiled hit stores.