National business "pacing significantly ahead" in 2010, says the Katz rep

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April looks to be up 17%, May 23% and June 21%, says Katz executive Stu Olds, who says “Every region and market segment” shows strong pacing in national business. Every region of the U.S. is up double digits in the first quarter and second quarter. By market size, the anecdotal evidence of a strong rebound in the largest markets finds statistical support from Katz, with an estimated 26% first-quarter gain for the top 10 markets. That’s stronger than in any other grouping, though the next tier (markets 11-25) did about 20% better in national business. Finally, Katz looks forward to political spending in the 2010 election cycle, especially from the new corporate advertising that was cleared by the Supreme Court in January.

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Programming & Music

Coast to Coast With Canadian Top 40 - Part I: St. John's to Ottawa

 
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To celebrate the Canadian Music Week conference, Radio-Info.com decided to take a virtual road trip through Canadian radio, listening to as many of the country’s major Top 40s and Adult Top 40s as possible. Part I of the trip begins in Newfoundland. Full Story

On the Mic

Five Fantasy Add Backs

 

Now that we see what striped down radio stations look like, here’s what I’d add back if money was no issue. And it shouldn’t be. Secretaries. The falsest economy is voice mail and email. Congratulations - you’ve turned the six figure executive into a clerk. A bad clerk. What happens when a six figure executive type mails, sorts, answers the phone, drops off the fed-ex and puts on their own stamps? They start thinking that stuff is important. Is it really a prudent, cost conscious use of management time to miss a call, leave a voice mail, miss the callback and then use email to schedule a phone call? How about re-hiring someone to just answer the phone that knows if a call is important? Full Story

Sales & Management

4As Top-Down Policy Will Bottom Out No Urban and No Hispanic Dictates

 

The setting: Board room of the New York headquarters of the American Association of Advertising Agencies. The Players are: Nancy Hill, CEO/ 4As, Marc Goldstein, CEO/Group M-North America, Samford Moore, Activist, Adonis Hoffman, SVP/AAAA, Alexis Cameron, SVP/Emmis, Frank Flores, SVP/Spanish Broadcasting, and Sherman Kizart, Managing Director/Kizart Media Partners. Background: Discuss the inequities that African American and Hispanic owned and targeted radio stations continue to encounter among the leading multibillion dollar media planning and buying agencies on Madison Avenue and across the country. Full Story

New Media

Patching Up The Boats

 
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Netscape founder and venture capitalist Marc Andreesen raised eyebrows recently by saying that traditional media must “burn their boats.” He was referring to the legend of Cortes, who removed any temptation of returning home to safer lands by burning his boats when he and his army landed in Mexico. Andreesen’s focus was on print media—he recommended that they completely eliminate their paper editions and totally embrace the web, burning their boats and removing any temptation to bolster a dying business. This thinking is relevant to the broadcast industry as well. Full Story

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