M&M Gives State - By -State Breakdown German Stations See Pages 12-14 d Europe's Music Radio Newsweekly . Volume 9 . Issue 26June 27, 1992. 3, US$ 5, ECU 4 NAB RADIO MOOTREUX WDR4 Tops Montreux Message: MA German Ratings A Local Focal Point Pubcaster WDR 4isonce Perhapstheonlycommon again the most listened -to sta- by Jeff Green ground during the three days of tion in Germany, according to the Media Analyse radio rat- Ifasingleconclusionabout management, programming, mar- Europe could be drawn from the keting and engineering sessions ingsforthecountry.The firstNationalAssociationof was found during the preceding Cologne -based MOR/Schlager Broadcasters (NAB) Radio two-day DAB conference. It was station now has an average of Montreux International Sympo- here, among the corps of techni- 1.39millionlisteners(aged sium and TechnicalExhibition cal engineers and advisers, that 14+) per hour, up 5% from June 10-13, it was that there is no pan-Euro support for the Eureka - 1.32 million in 1991. 147satellitedigital technology Theprivatestationsin OF MICE & MEN - NAB president/CEO Eddie Fritts (I) and Euro Disney consistency or uniformity from continued to move forward. Funkkombi Nord (which in- CEO Robert Fitzpatrick say "cheese" "with Mickey Mouse as part of Euro one country to the next in terms A delegation of 100 US broad- cludes FFN/Isernhagen, Radio Disney's sponsorship of NAB Radio Montreux's official dinner June 12. of regulations, programming approacheS and technical devel- casters joined nearly 800 others Hamburg, Radio RSH/Kiel, opment. The wide discrepancies from 37 countries representing OK Radio/Hamburg, Klassik among territories leave broadcast- westernandeasternEurope, Radio/Hamburg, Antenne Elton's "The One" ers seeking clues to solving pan- Africa, the Far East and Australa- Niedersachsen/Hannover) and Europeanstrategieswiththe sia to inaugurate what the NAB NDR Plus (NDR2 & Alster- assignmentofstudyingeach hopes will be at least a bi-annual Radio) both ranked second as with 1.1 million lis- Crossing Borders nationindividuallyto discover event. a group potential compatibilities. (continues on page 26) teners). Public national music/ news -oriented station Bayern lems in programming these tracks 1 in Munich i'sin third place by Robbert Tilli during the daytime. Personally, I with 1.05 million listeners, up Elton John's the one this month expected a littlebit more from Radio HamburgReturns As City's fromlastyear'sfigureof in European radio, and the release this giant." of his new album The One is For Chiltern Network head Private Ratings Lader 990.000. Top of the league of the pri- turning into a major event for of music Clive Dickens it is one (continues on page 20) broadcasters. After BBC Radio 1 of John's best albums of the last (Niedersachsen,Schleswig-Hol- by Miranda Watson exclusively premiered the artist's 12 years. "We will concentrate on stein,BremenandHamburg) 35th album on June 12-out on Runaway Train,the duet with EHR-formattedstationRadio climbed from 400.000 to 600.000, an increase of 50%. PhonogramwiththeRocket Eric Clapton, plus Simple Life Hamburg has returned as the pri- No. 1 in EUROPE Country.Elton vate ratings leader in Hamburg Pubcaster NDR still holds the imprint-therestofEurope andWhitewcish European Hit Radio jumped on it. John isvery important for us. accordingtoInfratest's Nord biggest share of listeners in Ham- its ELTON JOHN For all stations the first single, One of our stations covers Wat- 1992 ratingsin Germany. The burg, however, with EHR/news-talk-formatted NDR2 The One thetitletrack,isanobvious ford where he originally comes survey shows that 20% of the choice, at number 1in M&M's from. For them he's a local boy city's population (aged 14+) listen network remaining the most pop- (Rocket) dailytoRadioHamburg,an ular of the four stations with a EHR Top 40 this week. Howev- who made it big." Eurochart Hot 100 er, stations in other markets are Along with Capital Radio/ increase of 5% from last year's 27% share. The combined NDR1 KRIS KROSS adding a wide variety of songs London, Chiltern is co -promoting figure. In Hamburg, the station programmes Welle Nord, Ham- Jump from the album. the three upcoming concerts at now commands a 38% share of burg Welle and Radio Nieder- (Columbia) BRMB FNUBirmingham lead Wembley on June 26,28. the14-29 age -group compared sachsen scored 20% down from of music Robin Valk has chosen Althoughatpresstimenot with 24% in 1991. 27% in 1991. NDR3 and NDR4, minoritylistening European Top 100 Albums to feature album tracksEmily, every station on mainland Europe In last year's Infratest ratings, cateringfor groups, remained at 4% and 3%, LIONEL RICHE UnderstandingWomen, White- had received the June 15 -released Radio Hamburg slumped by 8% Back To Front washCountryandRunaway album, reactions to the record are from its 1991 peak. The number respectively. Train. "It's a nice AOR album," mostly favourable. 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However, Outer Rhythm's Associate Publisher/Editor-In-Chief: Jeff Green by Stephen Leigh Senior Editor: Machgiel Bakker firsttwosingles,from Tricky Managing Editor: Steve Wonsiewicz Rhythm King Records closed Disco and LEO, did chart. Outer Features Editor: Mary Weller down all their subsidiary, singles - Music Editor: Robbert Tilli and Inner Rhythm went on to sell Staff Reporter: Miranda Watson led, labels on Monday June 15, close to 600.000 singles in 1991 Associate Editor: Julia Sullivan winding up Outer Rhythm, Inner and early1992, scoring notable Station Reports Manager: Pieter Kops Rhythm and S'Express headman chart successes with Moby's Go Chart Processor: Raul Cairo Classical/Jazz Editor: Terry Berne Mark Moore's own Splish label. (OR), Human Resource's Domi- The imprint has also chosen not nator and Congress' Forty Miles PRODUCTION to renew its successful licensing (IR). Production Manager: Rim Ederveen DTP: Pauline Witsenburg, deal with Belgium's R&S" label, Current releases, such as What Will van Litsenburg despite scoring a Top 60 success Have You Done and Splish's Free Printer: Den Haag Offset less than two weeks ago with Jam by Wolfman will be fully support- Design: Peter van Seuren & Spoon's The Complete Stella. ed by Rhythm King. ACHTUNG! PolyGram -PolyGram PublishingInternational has com- ADVERTISING Only Transglobal, the imprint "The future may be less bleak", pleted a major deal with U2, giving the company exclusive international Associate Publisher/Sales Director: Ron Betist for Sheep On Drugs will continue. says Dunsdon. "I'm sure Splish Advertising Executives: Irit Harpaz, rights to the band's existing catalogue of songs and to those of the next Sonya Dunsdon, spokeswom- willkeepgoing,butnoton Christianne de Bruijn three albums. U2 are already signed to a worldwide recording contract an for Outer Rhythm and the Rhythm King." Sales Coordinator: Inez Landwier with PolyGram's Island Records. Pictured (k) are: (back row) Adam Clay- newer Inner Rhythm says, "It has Just last month Moore was ton (U2), Paul McGuiness (U2 manager), David Hockman (chief executive), MARKETING been very sad. A decision was bullish about thefuture