LA's KIIS-FM was the U.S. revenue leader for 2009, but it dropped 17%, says BIA

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It’s the home of Ryan Seacrest and also the home of the most revenue for a single radio station in 2009. Clear Channel CHR KIIS-FM (102.7) brought in $55 million for 2009, down from $66.3 million in 2008. Bonneville’s all-news WTOP-FM, Washington (103.5) was second nationally, with $51.03 million, down slightly from 2008’s $51.75 million. WTOP was also the only station in the top-10 that isn’t located in New York, Chicago or Los Angeles, according to the Washington Business Journal. Following WTOP were New York City’s CBS-owned WCBS-AM (880) & WINS-AM (1010). The two all-news stations brought in $43.6 million and $42.9 million, respectively, for 2009. Rounding out the top-10 list of revenue champs: #5, CBS-owned KROQ-FM (106.7) in Los Angeles, #6, Clear Channel’s adult contemporary WLTW-FM (106.7) in New York. #7, Clear Channel talk outlet KFI-AM (640) in Los Angeles. #8, CBS’s WBBM-AM (780) in Chicago, #9, Clear Channel CHR WHTZ-FM (100.3) in New York. And #10, Chicago’s Tribune-owned talk station WGN-AM (720).

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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

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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

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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

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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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