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National Radio Wires (10-25-2003)New Radio StarCOURT OF APPEALS RULES BROADCAST STATIONS MUST PAY PERFORMANCE FEES FOR NET SIMULCASTS! ...NAB'S DENNIS WHARTON ISSUES STATEMENT IN RESPONSE... The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia has upheld the ruling that local broadcast stations that simulcast their signals over the Net are subject to pay royalties to record companies the same as internet only stations. The Court also ruled that the broadcast stations would have to keep extensive records and go by rules that govern the amount one artist could be played in a given time period as well as other RIAA rules of programming. NAB Senior Vice President, Corporate Communications Dennis Wharton pointed out that broadcast stations already pay more than $300 million each year to music licensing organizations like ASCAP, BMI and SESAC to compensate songwriters and music publishers and issued this statement, "NAB disagrees with the court opinion, which we believe serves to stifle efforts by hometown radio stations to better serve listeners. We will be exploring all of our legal and legislative options to overturn this decision, which we believe misinterprets the intent of Congress."
insideradio.com: Is San Diego next? Los Angeles Radio Wires (10-25-03)!All Access (registration required)EMMIS Country KZLA/LOS ANGELES afternoon dude BILLY BURKE has decided to leave and pursue his acting career fulltime. This means there's a prime opportunity on the coast! Regardless of your format, rush T&R's to: R.J. CURTIS, Program Director, KZLA, 2600 W. Olive Avenue, 8th Floor, BURBANK, CA 91505. Parttimer LARRY SANTIAGO is filling the shift until a replacement is found. Roger Hedgecock Visits The El Cajon Zone (aka El Zono Loco) (10-25-03)!RogerHedgecockROGER continued his every Friday live Drive By broadcasts to hustle signatures to Stop The Car Tax and Repeal Illegal Licenses for Illegals. Friday, they visited Westfield Shopping Plaza - Parkway in El Cajon. Main entrance near Pat & Oscars restaurant, where they're serving free food Saturday and Sunday (their pizza beats Subway's crappy pizza anyday). They were inside cause itÆs real hot outside (summer gone overtime in October). ROGER subs for Rush on Monday and Tuesday next week, October 27 and 28. CHEAP DRUGSàWeÆve gotten hooked on this topic in recent months. Eyes tend to glaze over when we see headlines about federal legislation to add a prescription drug benefit to medi-care and see numbers like 400 billion dollars in tax loot tossed aroundàbut a whole ton of folks get real interested when ROGER does a radio segment about going to La Mesa and a place called Canada RXàto buy drugs from Canada at half of USA price. ThatÆs news we can use and folks are using the news. Even tho we are on the Mexican border and can drive south to a pharmacy in TJ or Tecate and buy drugs cheap, itÆs even better to visit La Mesa, and besides we tend to have a bit more confidence in Canadian stuff than Mexican (racist?). Anywho this topic has caught fire especially after the big drug companies and their lobbyists go on the attack to stop us from buying cheap drugs in Canada or elsewhere. Seniors have caught on, are saving a pickup truck load of money every year and donÆt want FDA or Eli Lilly or drug police to stop us from buying drugs at half price. In the days to come there will be a massive assault on the purchase of offshore drugs. If history is our guide, weÆll end up getting screwed. If you are 20 years old you may not give a poop about prescription drug costs, but get along a couple of decades and the matter takes on real household budget import. If you are senior class then the cost is serious enough to curtail your food budget. Enough Valentine, the point please. The point is you need to know more!! We offer again this flash a link to ôFollow The Money: The Pharmaceutical Industry - The Other Drug Cartel,ö a major report done by the Office of the Minnesota Attorney General. The report is biased. Toward consumers. You know youÆve been getting screwed by drug companies, you just didnÆt know howànow youÆll know: FOLLOW THE MONEY: http://www.ag.state.mn.us PAT & OSCARSàyÆall know by now that a bunch of folks got e.coli sick after eating at this restaurant chain in recent days. Seems that Pat & Oscars got some bad lettuce from a vendor (several school districts use the same vendor with same results-tho not sure if any kids got sick, they may have grabbed the lettuce right away). Well the day after the story breaks we suggest that maybe we get Pat & Oscars to provide some free food for Team Hedgecock. That idea went over like a lead balloon. But we are vindicated to learn that Free Food is exactly what Pat & Oscars plans as part of itÆs campaign to restore consumer confidence. We guess today and all weekend long you can eat free at Pat & Oscars. Of course the ponder sets in about why anyone would ever again eat at a place where folks got e.coli sicknessà.and the response is that it may be the safest place to eat in the county about now. WeÆd bet the horse that every safety reg in the book is being followed and food product is being microscoped lettuce leaf by lettuce leaf. ItÆs like whereÆs the best place to be in a rain stormàstand where the lightening just struck. As part of our original sales pitch about free food from Pat & Oscars we made reference to Jack In The Box. Got even worse publicity years ago when folks actually died from undercooked burger meat at this local chain. They cleaned out all their equipment, put in rigid sanitation regs and standards and policed the heck out of the entire operation. Today weÆre seeing Mercedes with that stupid Jack head on the antenna and weÆre chuckling like mad over the TV ad about how best to sell chicken BREASTS!! (the sour dough bacon cheeseburger is pretty good). My ponder isàthe person who did the Free Food idea for Pat & Oscars has got to knock down a hunnerd grand or more a year and get full health benefitsàI suggest the idea and get scoffed at and donÆt make squat. (I get sick and I have to drink Jack Daniels cause I canÆt afford meds). It just ainÆt fair!!
For Insiders Only (10-25-2003)A couple of San Diego-based radio stations are planning to stream their signals in the near future. Which two are they? Sorry, I'm gagged from revealing the answers. All will be revealed when the testing is finished and ready for a mass onslaught of listeners.San Diego Radio Wires (10-23-2003)Randy DotingaX marks rock station in trouble... Excerpts: Smack in the middle of its 20th anniversary celebration, alternative rock station 91X got the shock of its life last week. A competing station that's barely a year old blew past it in the ratings. According to the summer ratings report from the Arbitron people, 91X is stuck in 18th place. More than 40 percent of its audience has vanished during the past year, with most of the listeners apparently migrating up the dial to FM 94/9. Overall, listeners seem to like 94/9's heavy emphasis on music, its ban on annoying radio chatter and its refreshing refusal to talk over songs. Read more about it at Dotinga's website. Quickies: Look for a full radio ratings report in this space next week, including the winner of the XTRA Sports 690/Might 1090 sports talk face-off. (1090 beat 690 in last week's summer Arbitrons released last week, so Dotinga, it's old news to us)
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Backwaves: The Readers Strike Back (10-24-2003)From Pokaboo (no real name provided) Subject: Clear Channel San Diego Trying To Sabotage Own Station MIDDAY HOST SHAWN B FIRED! Since KHTS PD Diana Laird has added PD duties for former rival XHTZ, she has become notorious for slowly "eliminating" her former rival's employees! Her track record during her 1st year as Z90's PD speaks for itself. The list of full-time employees brought over to Clear Channel from Califormula Broadcasting during the transaction in May 2002: BILLY BLAST (moring show host) Demoted by Diana Feb. 2003 to nights. ERIC D (morning show co-host) Everyone agrees that he was wrongfully terminated by Diana after a Superbowl arguement Jan. 2003. Has since been rehired by Clear Channel Phoenix. MIA (morning show co-host) Recently forced to resign after being pressured by Diana. Filling in for now until a replacement is found. TRE (nights) Laid-off due to "budget cuts" Nov. 2002. Currently hanging on doing part-time late nights. SHAWN B (middays) Just terminated for not showing up to his club gig. First time incident; no warnings, no write-ups, no suspensions! Diana didn't even show up at his termination by human resources. He's looking for his next challenge. (619) 656-4843 or (619) 917-3366 shawnharmon@yahoo.com The morning show, middays, and nights; Diana has cleaned house on nearly an entire on-air staff, except afternoons. Afternooner Sonny "Boom Boom Loco" was Diana's former employee at KGGI. Interesting huh? Even more interesting is the fact that her KHTS staff has gone untouched, with the exception of a contract expiration for morning co-host Bridget. From Joshua Messex:, Radiogeek500, moderator for the Radio-info.com california radio boards Ah yes, good old wally George. Yes, he sure was an entertaning one. Even though I didn't agree with his views he surely was a funny kinda guy who confronted everything that was "supposed evil". He long had issues with Rick Dees and Howard Stern and wanted strippers and prostitutes and other wrongdoers to be changed of their evil ways. Like Weird Al says "You can find it all on UHF" and we sure did via KDOC TV-56! RIP Mr George. Random Access Radio Los Angeles 10-24-03!A weekly look at what's going on at the radio station websites. Visit them for further details.95.5 KLOS - Susan G. Komen RACE FOR THE CURE!...Help fight breat cancer by participating in the November 2nd event. 102.7 KIIS - Crypt Of Fear is back at Edison Field in Orange County and is scarier than ever! Find out why The Crypt is the scariest place to be! Join JoJo at the Knott's Halloween Haunt on Friday, 10/24. He'll be there from 7pm-11pm. Listen to win tickets! KEARTH 101.1 - "Back to The Beatles" with Jim Carson 8 - 9 AM Sundays! followed by "The Beatle Years" with Bob Malik 9 - 10 AM! 94.7 The Wave - Win a Trip Anywhere In The World!... The WAVE is now giving away a Trip-A-Day. Go ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD, you choose the destination! KROQ 106.7 - GET YOUR KROQ STICKER AND WIN ONE OF 1067 PRIZES... We can't make it much easier. Go to Del Taco, get your KROQ sticker, put the sticker on your car, win one of 1067 prizes Arrow 93.1 - Tickets To Haunted Mansion Holiday! Listen to Uncle Joe every morning this week 6a-10a for your chance to win tickets to experience Haunted Mansion Holiday, part of a frightfully fun new world at the Disneyland® Resort. Power 106 - stuff including the Pimp & "Ho"lloween Ball. KBIG 104.3 - Survivor Stories.
National Radio Wires (10-23-2003)rronlineClear Channel Adds RDS Technology To Top 50 Markets... Clear Channel's Los Angeles stations are already offering song title and artist information, the radio station's nickname, traffic information and other pertinent information to newer car radios capable of receiving LED read-outs sent via RDS, which uses a station's analog signal to transmit the data. Clear Channel now expands its use of the radio data system to 192 of its radio stations, located in the top 50 markets, by working with Aventura, FL-based Audemat-Aztec in installing RDS generators at Clear Channel stations across the U.S. Clear Channel hopes to have all 192 stations up and running by the end of next month. When asked by R&R how RDS rollout will progress with the impending push to HD Radio implementation by radio stations in the U.S., a Audemat-Aztec spokeswoman said a push is underway to develop RDS for digital radio on a domestic level; the company also offers RDS services to radio stations in Europe broadcasting in digital with the Eureka 147 system.
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Los Angeles Radio Wires (10-23-2003)insideradio.comMt. Wilson's antenna farm outside Los Angeles produces too much RF -- and now a $40,000 FCC fine... The FCC claims that KBIG, KKBT, KRTH and KWHY-TV aren't exceeding the limits for radiofrequency radiation (RF) on an individual basis -- but the "cumulative effect" is unsafe. It's fining Clear Channel, Radio One, Infinity and Telemundo $10,000 apiece -- in a decision that's sure to be controversial.
Nationwide Radio Wires (10-21-2003)All Access (registration required)The U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals in PHILADELPHIA has upheld the finding that local radio stations that stream music over the Internet are subject to copyright fees that would be payable to record companies and performing artists. This would be money above and beyond the amount that broadcasters pay each year to music licensing organizations like ASCAP, BMI and SESAC to compensate songwriters and music publishers for terrestrial broadcasts. The court also upheld a number of record-keeping requirements on radio stations that stream their signal on the Internet. Soon after hearing the decision, the NAB released this, their official response to the ruling: "NAB disagrees with the court opinion, which we believe serves to stifle efforts by hometown radio stations to better serve listeners. We will be exploring all of our legal and legislative options to overturn this decision, which we believe misinterprets the intent of CONGRESS." MT. WILSON BROADCASTERS Adult Standards KSUR-A-XESURF-A/LOS ANGELES-SAN DIEGO morning man GEOFF EDWARDS exits. The longtime LOS ANGELES radio vet left after FRIDAY's show.
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