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NAB has a “dialog” with the labels – not “negotiations.” • Liberty Media has put $21 million into Chapter 11-bound WorldSpace satellite radio. • “Is the Arbitron PPM the Toyota of Radio Research”? Mickey Luckoff bugs Arbitron again.
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“Station guys caused this unwelcome evolution in the rep business.” • Infomercials for Roex “infrared sauna” lead the FTC to distribute $3 million in refunds. • Oklahoma’s “K-98 Jamz” is knocked off the air by a burglary.
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RadioTime and the iPhone become the link to IP radio in the car, starting with MINI. • Broadcasting’s recovery is still “fragile”, says Saga CEO Ed Christian. • Where’s the pricing power in national business?
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Entercom bumps off 12-year smooth jazz KSSJ, Sacramento. • There’s money in Toyotas – if you’re creative. • Gonzo weekly PPMs all-news stations from “Blizzard week.”
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To counteract Dionne Warwick, it’s lobbying time for the NAB on Capitol Hill. • More courthouse activity – Ex-Entercom staffer Scott Mahalick countersues. • Now playing on YouTube – Saga's video of how hurricane-force winds tore up the roof in Manchester, NH.
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Arbitron promises Congress in-person recruiting of blacks and Hispanics in top 25 PPM markets. • Oaktree Capital to take over Regent through a friendly-sounding Chapter 11 re-org. • As usual...it’s business as usual in bankruptcy re-org.
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Larry Wilson – “I am pissed off at Entercom” for its “indentured servitude contracts.” • NFL Miami Dolphins move their games to Clear Channel’s WINZ (940) and “Big 105.9” WBGG. • Would-be Florida radio pirate is electrocuted.
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Radio One balks at moving its corporate offices back into D.C. • Attendance is up at this year’s Country Radio Seminar. • The Native American elders were right – the unwelcome broadcast tower on their sacred land did fall.
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Moonves will be running CBS until at least 2015, when he’s 65. • Entercom and Alpha Broadcasting’s Larry Wilson are at war. • Janet Jackson’s 2004 Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction” is argued again in court, and C-SPAN Radio should carry it.
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Early read on trends from CRS-41 – Country radio fans crave new media. • “Country radio could and should be the backbone of rebuilding domestic car sales.” • Taylor Swift surprised Country Music Radio Hall of Fame inductee Mike Hammond last night.
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With new support in Congress, the Performance Royalty may get pushed back to 2011. • Bruce Williams, a founding father of modern talk radio, decides to sign off. • Salem co-founder Stu Epperson, Sr. accepts another pay cut.
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Radio’s “Grand Total” for 2009 – RAB says revenue slipped 18%, to $16 billion. • “Flat in December” is a great way to enter 2010, says the RAB. • New York-market radio revenues improved 9% in January.
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“I’ve had it with all the complaining about the PPM being unfair to ethnic broadcasters.” • The latest Chapter 11 plan for NextMedia is filed. • CBS Radio “will be showing plus-signs in the first quarter”, says boss Les Moonves.
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If you bought stock in Sirius XM a year ago, your money has grown 8-fold in a year. • SBS escalates the rhetoric over PPM – “Arbitron treats its customers with disdain.” • Expect Arbitron and SBS to hit the courtroom in mid-April.
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Jeff Smulyan’s not running for the Senate…but what if he made a play for all-sports in Chicago? • CBS breaks up a country simulcast in California to become “High Desert Sports Radio.” • "Neo-Soul" WENN hits Birmingham on AM and a new FM translator.
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