Archived News and Articles - October 2005
Archive Date - October 31, 2005
RECORD PROMOTION… A LOST ART?
Fred Deane – FMQB
Why can’t we all just get along? Okay, let’s get right to the punch line… the government is taking all the fun out of record promotion. Plain and simple! Just when labels thought it was safe to promote directly to radio, along comes an investigation by the New York State Attorney General’s office of epic proportions. The investigation picked up steam early this year, altering a relationship that had already been dramatically reshaped in the preceding twelve to fifteen months by the radio and music industries distancing themselves from independent promotion firms.
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Archive Date - October 30, 2005
SPRINT RACES INTO MOBILE MUSIC
A new wireless download deal with Groove Mobile puts the telecom into the hot market now dominated by Apple
Steve Rosenbush – Business Week
Wireless giant Sprint Nextel has signed a deal with music distributor Groove Mobile and plans to begin marketing a wireless download service on Monday, Oct. 31, BusinessWeek Online has learned. Coming just two months after Cingular started selling Motorola phones loaded with Apple's iTunes software, the agreement will let Sprint customers get music onto their mobile phones wirelessly.
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Archive Date - October 30, 2005
MUSIC SITES, DEMOS AND ADS
Jack Loechner – Center for Media Research
A deeper drill-down into music sites, demographics, ad types, sizes and delivery.
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Archive Date - October 30, 2005
BYRNESMEDIA CLIENT ANNOUNCES NEW PD
Wild 101 Release
Wild 101, CKEY-FM, Niagara/Buffalo is pleased to announce the following promotion.
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Archive Date - October 30, 2005
NIAGARA DAREDEVILS PARTNER WITH WILD 101
Wild 101 Release
Niagara DareDevils announced today a strategic partnership between themselves and Wild 101. The partnership allows for a wide variety of cross promotions between the station and Niagara's Professional Basketball Team. Beginning on October 23rd, 2005 the DareDevils and Wild 101 will begin an aggressive marketing campaign promoting the launch of the DareDevils 2005/2006 Season.
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Archive Date - October 30, 2005
CHUM KICKS OFF A NEW YEAR OF CHUMWORKS
Weekly homework club in partnership with Frontier College and St. Mary's School, now in its 4th year
CNW
CHUM Limited is pleased to embark on another year of its popular and successful CHUMWorks program. Now entering its fourth year, the homework club, in association with Frontier College and St. Mary's Catholic Elementary School in Toronto, pairs CHUM employees with inner-city students once a week throughout the school year to provide tutoring assistance and foster positive mentoring relationships. Participants meet Thursday evenings beginning tonight at the CHUM Building.
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Archive Date - October 30, 2005
CANADIAN MUSIC BIZ CAUGHT IN WEB
Hollywood Reporter
Canada's recording industry in 2003 faced bleak sales thanks to illegal Internet downloading of music product, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday.
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Archive Date - October 30, 2005
SIRIUS TO LAUNCH ALL SPORTS SAT RADIO
CNW
Standard Broadcasting and Score Media today announced a partnership to bring Canada its first 24-7 all sports satellite radio channel The Score to SIRIUS Satellite Radio. The Score is the first Canadian sports station on the SIRIUS Canada channel lineup, with an exciting programming format that will deliver on the high expectations which have been set by The Score on television.
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Archive Date - October 30, 2005
RABINOVITCH TO COMMITTEE ON HERITAGE
CBC
Madame Chair, CBC/Radio-Canada is a unique institution. It promotes Canadian unity, it bridges our differences, it recognizes our linguistic duality. No organization is better suited to serve this crucial nation-building function. And that is, indeed, the role CBC/Radio-Canada seeks to play.
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Archive Date - October 30, 2005
SKYWORDS LANDS IN MARITIMES
Skywards Release
Skywords Traffic is pleased to announce the launch of their Maritimes operation. Last week, Skywords Traffic hit the airwaves in Moncton, Saint John and Halifax giving listeners the best concise traffic information.
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Archive Date - October 28, 2005
TALENT OVER HYPE
Martin Scorsese's recent Bob Dylan documentary offers a fascinating glimpse of an anti-marketer whose outstanding music won fans anyway
David E. Gumpert – Business Week
Top entertainers are also entrepreneurs, and the most successful ones have long employed sophisticated branding and promotional techniques to entice fans to pay big bucks for their concerts and their CDs and DVDs. Elvis Presley made soppy love-story movies, the Beatles held cutesy press conferences, and the Rolling Stones initiated seemingly endless glitzy world tours. Advertisement
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Archive Date - October 28, 2005
PRIVATE THOUGHTS WITH PARIKHAL
Steve Rivers – Music Biz
In the past 10 or more years, John Parikhal of Joint Communications and I have worked together on numerous projects. We share the same birthday, but we are very different. John is far blunter than I am and he will be among the first to tell you that either you will agree with his comments and thoughts, or you will not. His thinking and strategies are based on careful analysis that is then presented in strong metaphors. It's designed to get your attention by surprising you and challenging habitual thinking. As a tool, it works best with those who want to grow and learn fast.
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Archive Date - October 28, 2005
CORUS Q4 AND YEAR END RESULTS
Broadcaster Magazine
Corus Entertainment Inc. announced fourth quarter and year end financial results today. Corus completed a very successful fiscal year with significant increases in advertising revenue and net income. As well, the significant increase in free cash flow resulted in a net debt reduction.
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Archive Date - October 28, 2005
BBM APPOINTMENTS VP OF RESEARCH
Broadcaster Magazine
Jim MacLeod, President and CEO of BBM Canada is pleased to announce the appointment of Ricardo Gomez-Insausti to the position of Vice President, Research.
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Archive Date - October 28, 2005
NOMINATIONS OPEN FOR INDIE AWARDS
CMW Release
Canadian and International independent recording artists may now apply for the 2006 Independent Music Awards, or “The Indies”, to be held in Toronto on Wednesday, March 1, 2006 as the official kick off to Canadian Music Week (CMW) festivities.
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Archive Date - October 27, 2005
STRONG NATIONAL PERFORMANCE IN 2005
Broadcaster Magazine
The 2005 broadcast year ending August 31, 2005, saw strong growth in some new national categories and continued dominance in spending by the top five advertisers. Canadian radio outperformed its U.S. counterpart and the 25-54 demographic gained further share of market, according to Canadian Broadcast Sales, a national sales firm representing approximately 60% of all Canadian radio stations.
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Archive Date - October 27, 2005
INFINITY UNVEILS STERN REPLACEMENT
All Access
Finally, Infinity announces its "Howard Stern Replacement Strategy,' and as All Access was first to confirm, the station is relaunching several stations as FM Talk "Free FM." As part of the new strategy, David Lee Roth and Adam Carolla have been officially announced as Stern's replacement in New York and Los Angeles, respectively, starting January 3. Stern will have his last broadcast on the Infinity stations December 16.
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Archive Date - October 27, 2005
INFINITY TO MARKET STERN REPLACEMENTS
Paul Heine – Billboard
Infinity plans to aggressively market the new morning shows it’s launching in 27 markets after Howard Stern says sayonara on December 16. “We’re going to be out there, all over the place,” Infinity chairman/CEO Joel Hollander told reporters during a telephone press conference after the company unveiled its Stern replacement strategy.
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Archive Date - October 27, 2005
CC POSTS REVENUE DIP, TSL GAINS
Tony Sanders – Billboard
The good news is much better than the bad news. Clear Channel radio revenues dropped 4.3% during the third quarter (ended Sept. 30) but the company's radio stations managed to keep listeners in three different demos tuned in longer, according to the company’s own analysis of Summer ratings results for 30 Arbitron markets.
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Archive Date - October 26, 2005
FACING THE FUTURE HEAD ON
Glenn O’Farrell, CAB President and CEO to address the Canadian Club in Winnipeg
Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005
CAB Release
On the eve of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ 79th Annual Convention, CAB President & CEO Glenn O’Farrell will address the unprecedented changes affecting Canadian private broadcasting before the Canadian Club of Winnipeg, at 12 pm, Wednesday, November 2, at Winnipeg’s Delta Hotel (350 St. Mary’s Avenue).
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Archive Date - October 26, 2005
AD BUDGETS RECEIVE Q3 BOOST
Keith McArthur – Globe And Mail
It was a busy summer for Procter & Gamble Inc., with several major new product launches including the Tide To Go instant stain remover.
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Archive Date - October 25, 2005
CAB HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
CAB Release
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters is pleased to announce that twelve distinguished Canadians will be inducted into the CAB's Broadcast Hall of Fame at this year’s CAB Annual Convention in Winnipeg. The Hall of Fame recognizes Canadians in private broadcasting or related industries who have achieved outstanding success in helping raise industry standards from a material or humanitarian standpoint.
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Archive Date - October 25, 2005
BLUEPRINT FOR CBC RIGHT BEFORE OUR EARS
Antonia Zerbisias – Toronto Star
It's not really clear exactly what hauling CBC's top management before the House of Commons Heritage Committee Thursday will accomplish.
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Archive Date - October 24, 2005
BYRNESMEDIA AND PATTISON PARTNER
ByrnesMedia Release
ByrnesMedia, Canada’s fastest growing broadcast consultancy, has partnered with The Jim Pattison Broadcast Group LP to consult stations in Kamloops, Cranbrook, and Prince George, B.C. along with Red Deer, Lethbridge, and Medicine Hat, Alberta. Chris Byrnes, President of Byrnesmedia says “we are proud to partner with the Jim Pattison Broadcast Group because it is Canada’s largest private western-based radio and television group.”
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Archive Date - October 24, 2005
COPYRIGHT DECISION UNREASONABLE
Rate-setting board should set rates, not policy
CAB Release
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) is astonished by the departure from well established rate-setting principles demonstrated in the October 14 decision of the Copyright Board on two commercial radio tariffs. Rather than just approving rates based on the value of music, this panel’s decision seeks to appropriate a cultural policy making role, and establish its own economic order for the distribution of cultural subsidies.
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Archive Date - October 24, 2005
ROGERS WIRELESS TITLE SPONSOR FOR CMW
Montreal's The Sins garner first showcase spot in open contest for the Rogers Wireless Canadian Music Week Festival 2006
CNW
Continuing its commitment to the Canadian music industry, Rogers Wireless today announces its title sponsor ship of Canadian Music Week taking place March 1st-4th, 2006 in Toronto. Now in its 24th year, Canadian Music Week is the single longest running and premiere conference, awards show and new music festival.
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Archive Date - October 24, 2005
NAB'S NEW CEO TAKES HELM DEC. 5
Tony Sanders – Billboard
The NAB made it official this afternoon: David K. Rehr, 46, will succeed Eddie Fritts as the organization’s president and CEO. Rehr has signed a multi-year contract with the NAB and, prior to this, has been the president of the National Beer Wholesalers Association.
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Archive Date - October 24, 2005
SOFTWARE MAKE FCC IRRELEVANT?
Daniel Fisher – Forbes
Columbia Law School Professor Eben Moglen wants to destroy the Federal Communications Commission. Not as some kind of terrorist act, but because technology is rapidly making it irrelevant.
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Archive Date - October 24, 2005
RATE INTEGRITY
Marc Kalman – All Access
Over the past months, I have written quite a bit about pricing. This includes how to price everyday, how to price for share, and why to price differently as the management team watches the calendar change.
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Archive Date - October 24, 2005
THE JOY OF SLOW CHANGE
Philip Humbert – All Access
Most people want success NOW! Or at least they want to achieve their goals and enjoy the fruits of victory as soon as possible. Wiser heads, however, understand that sometimes change takes time.
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Archive Date - October 21, 2005
SOFTWARE TO TRACK IN-STORE RADIO
Steve McClellan – Ad Week
Now that in-store radio networks have expanded to the point where some in-store audiences surpass that of the largest mainstream radio network, one company will begin tracking reach and frequency in an effort to bring ad sales up to speed. Interactive Market Systems, a media planning software provider, this week will begin measuring in-store radio's effectiveness--something media planners and ad agencies have been without.
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Archive Date - October 21, 2005
JOHN HARDING TO 'SIGN OFF' FROM RMB
Broadcaster Magazine
John Harding, President of the Radio Marketing Bureau, has advised its Board of Directors that he will not seek renewal of his current contract when it comes due in spring 2006.
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Archive Date - October 21, 2005
COUNTRY LEADERS UPBEAT
Ken Tucker – Billboard
Despite softer-than-hoped-for sales for record companies and flat revenue for radio, country music industry leaders are generally upbeat about their respective businesses.
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Archive Date - October 20, 2005
'MIXED PICTURE' IN SUMMER ARBITRONS
Tony Sanders – Billboard
Bear Stearns analyst Victor Miller sees a “mixed picture” for publicly-traded radio groups in Summer 2005 Arbitron results released Monday (Oct. 17) for New York, L.A. and Chicago. Miller’s report focused on the adults 25-54 “money demo” and did so by evaluating the ratings—rather than evaluating the shares—that some public radio groups command in these three markets.
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Archive Date - October 19, 2005
CAN RADIO SAVE ITSELF?
Christian Hoopes – Underground Online
Long a friend of truckers, unhappy people in cubicles, and sports talk show hosts, radio was the dominant media of the 20th century, aside from books, movies, TV and the Internet. Radio still exists, though it's finally beginning to morph into XM. Still, as MP3 player sales skyrocket, one has to wonder if radio can save itself, or at least stick around long enough to fill the void in our cars until they can invent some kind of horizontally-shaped auto Pez dispenser.
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Archive Date - October 19, 2005
AUDIENCE EROSION STUDY 2005 UPDATE
Bridge Ratings Release
Where Are My Listeners Going?
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Archive Date - October 19, 2005
JANIK TO PROGRAM CANADIAN SIRIUS CHANNEL
Coming soon on SIRIUS, new all-music channel will feature current Canadian artists and profile up and coming Canadian talent
CNW
Standard Radio Inc., a subsidiary of Standard Broadcasting, today announced the appointment of Canadian music industry leader Liz Janik to the position of Program Manager for its all-Canadian commercial free music channel soon to be available on SIRIUS. In her new role, Janik will oversee music programming and play a key role in the management and operation of the station.
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Archive Date - October 19, 2005
TORONTO TRACKED BY MEDIA MONITORS
Media Monitors Release
Media Monitors, LLC has expanded its radio monitoring service in Canada to provide its audio recognition technology to broadcasters and media watchers in the Toronto Metropolitan area. Media Monitors offers customers online capabilities to verify commercials and songs aired on the city's radio stations, providing its service for local broadcasters and broadcast representatives, print outlets, ad agencies, media researchers and media analysts.
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Archive Date - October 19, 2005
JACK GETS SACKED
John Mainelli – New York Post
New Yorkers have officially — and loudly — rejected "Jack," the controversial format that replaced Cousin Brucie and beloved oldies on WCBS-FM (101.1).
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Archive Date - October 18, 2005
CANWEST NZ REPORTS 11% INCREASE
CNW
CanWest Global Communications Corp. announced today that its 70% owned New Zealand media operation, CanWest MediaWorks (NZ) Limited, reported consolidated earnings before interest, income tax, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA) of NZ$68 million for the year ended August 31, 2005, an 11% improvement compared with pro forma combined EBITDA for the same period last year. Consolidated revenues increased by 9% to NZ$250 million compared to pro forma combined revenue of NZ$229 million in the same period last year.
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Archive Date - October 17, 2005
"SAD DAY IN THE RADIO BUSINESS"
Joe Mandese – Real Media Riffs
That's what we heard from not one, but several people yesterday when it was learned that radio giant Infinity Broadcasting shorted out its research transistors. The truth is that it's an even sadder day on Madison Avenue, because the decision signals that radio - or at least one major radio player - doesn't seem to take the ad industry's push for accountability seriously. Ultimately, that will prove to be a sad next year, or an even sadder year after that for radio broadcasters, as begin receiving a new frequency from the ad community: not the kind for frequency associated with reach, but an increasingly distant and weak signal that will begin to fade as marketers lose faith in the efficacy - and ultimately, the efficiency - of radio as an advertising medium.
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Archive Date - October 17, 2005
RADIO REVENUES REBOUND
Center for Media Research
According to the latest report from the Radio Advertising Bureau, radio revenues returned to positive growth in August:
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Archive Date - October 17, 2005
BBM RESULTS - SURVEY 3, 2005 - CLICK HERE
Archive Date - October 17, 2005
DUFF ROMAN TO MUSIC INDUSTRY HALL OF FAME
Canadian Radio Legend to be inducted at CMW 2006
CMW Release
Neill Dixon, president of Canadian Music Week (CMW), announced today that Canadian broadcasting icon Duff Roman will be inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame as part of CMW 2006, taking place March 1st – 4th at The Fairmount Royal York Hotel in Toronto.
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Archive Date - October 17, 2005
SATELLITE WILL PHASE OUT CANCON
Simon Tuck – Globe and Mail
Canada's broadcasters have asked the federal broadcast regulator to put its review of conventional radio on hold for up to three years, arguing it would be pointless to assess the industry when it's under siege by new technology and facing a massive overhaul.
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Archive Date - October 17, 2005
CSR LAUNCHES XM CANADA BRAND
Broadcaster Magazine
Canadian Satellite Radio Inc. today announced the launch of the new XM Canada brand. XM Canada is poised to deliver commercial-free music and premier news, sports, talk and entertainment to Canadians' cars, homes, boats and everywhere else Canadians choose to tune in to this year's hottest consumer-electronics product – XM Satellite Radio. XM Canada receivers will be available to Canadians through GM dealers, leading retailers and online in time for the 2005 Christmas season.
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Archive Date - October 17, 2005
BROADBAND GROWTH AHEAD OF U.S.
Nearly 50% of Canada on high-speed compared to 34% of U.S.
CNW
Almost half of households (49%) in Canada are now connected to the Internet via high-speed broadband, as the U.S. lags significantly behind - only 34% of U.S. households have a high-speed Internet connection. These are among the key findings of two studies conducted by Toronto-based Solutions Research Group, among more than 2,800 randomly-selected Canadians and Americans in May/June 2005.
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Archive Date - October 17, 2005
CC DISMISSES TWO FOR PAYOLA
Ken Tucker – Billboard
Clear Channel has announced the results of an internal investigation into allegations raised within a legal settlement between New York State attorney general Eliot Spitzer and Sony BMG. The settlement alleged that some Clear Channel programmers engaged in illegal pay-for-play activities.
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Archive Date - October 17, 2005
BIG MEDIA RUSHES TO STAKE PODCAST CLAIM
Sarah McBride and Nick Wingfield – Wall Street Journal
Bruised by earlier failures to embrace new technologies, big media companies are rushing into the two-year-old field of podcasting -- audio programs for downloading onto computers or portable music players. The high-stakes goal: grab young listeners, even at the risk of cannibalizing existing audiences or wasting time and money on a technology that may never go mainstream.
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Archive Date - October 17, 2005
NETTWERK AND PALM CANADA DIGITAL DEAL
Companies to Deliver Free Digital Content by Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies, and Others via Multimedia-Rich Treo 650 Smartphone and LifeDrive Mobile Manager
CNW
Nettwerk Records and mobile computing leader Palm Canada today announced a digital music alliance that will allow select Palm customers to download free digital music, screen images and videos by more than ten Nettwerk artists, including Sarah McLachlan, Barenaked Ladies, Swollen Members, and The Be Good Tanyas.
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Archive Date - October 12, 2005
REQUEST FOR DEFERRAL OF RADIO REVIEW
CAB Letter to the CRTC
1. The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) is the national voice of Canada’s private broadcasters, representing the vast majority of Canadian programming services, including private television and radio stations, networks and specialty, pay and pay-per-view television services.
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Archive Date - October 12, 2005
JAYS' VOICE FALLS SILENT
Broadcaster called team's first pitch in 1977 and didn't miss a game for 27 years
Larry Millson – Globe and Mail
Tom Cheek was always modest about his long uninterrupted string of Toronto Blue Jays broadcasts. When he was asked how many consecutive games he had done, invariably someone would have to figure it out for him.
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Archive Date - October 12, 2005
RADIO IS HIP TO NEW TECHNOLOGY
Tony Sanders – Billboard
“People have a perception of radio as a dinosaur when it comes to adapting new technology,” says News Generation researcher Lynn Metcalf, “but that’s obviously not true.” Metcalf told Billboard Radio Monitor that a study released by her firm backs up that point and shows that terrestrial-based news/talk radio stations are using streaming to a great degree to help retain current listeners and attract new listeners as well.
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Archive Date - October 11, 2005
CHUM REQUESTS CHANGES TO RADIO LICENCE
Simon Tuck – Globe and Mail
CHUM Ltd. has requested dramatic changes to the subscription radio licence that it was awarded just three months ago, and says it will let its business plan die if the federal broadcast regulator rejects the new proposal.
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Archive Date - October 7, 2005
IS YOUR ADVERTISING WASTED?
Mark Ramsey – All Access
Awareness yields listenership yields preference, right? You have to know about the station in order to sample it, right? That's the conventional wisdom. And it's dead wrong.
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Archive Date - October 7, 2005
RADIO STATION BLOGGING
Tom Webster – Edison Media Research
Recently I attended the Blog Business Summit (BBS) in San Francisco, a gathering of both current and would-be corporate bloggers seeking to enrich their understanding of this hydra-headed beast. If you have dipped your toe into the world of blogging (either personally or commercially) you know that it can be a potentially scary space, with spammers, scammers and crackpots accompanying the lions, tigers and bears. Many of the genre’s current “A-List” bloggers spoke at the BBS and encouraged would-be corporate bloggers to just start blogging—“you’ll figure it out as you go along.” This is actually better advice than it sounds, though you might want to start off with training wheels and airbags by keeping your corporate blog safely tucked away behind your firewall until you are comfortable that you have found your voice and are, indeed, ready to drop your drawers and become a more transparent entity to your customers.
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Archive Date - October 7, 2005
HOW TO DISPLAY HD CHANNELS
Kurt Hanson – RAIN
If there's any additional evidence needed that HD Radio is a broadcast engineer-driven "solution" looking for a problem, it's this: After something like 15 years of development, when stations are finally actually on the air and some radios are actually for sale in stores, broadcasters are just now starting to think about the user interface that should be presented to consumers!
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Archive Date - October 7, 2005
MOST CBC WORKERS BACK TUESDAY
Terry Weber – Globe and Mail
The CBC is expected to be back in full service next Tuesday, but a deal between management and the union representing locked out workers has also paved the way for Hockey Night in Canada to return to the airwaves before then, the Canadian Media Guild said Wednesday.
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Archive Date - October 7, 2005
WHICH LOST MOST, RADIO OR TV?
Guy Dixon – Globe and Mail
From editorials to comments by neighbours, the sentiment seems the same: What people missed most during the lockout was their regular CBC Radio.
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Archive Date - October 7, 2005
BACHMAN/CUMMINGS TO CAB HALL OF FAME
CAB Release
Veteran Canadian musicians Randy Bachman and Burton Cummings will be recognized by Canada’s private broadcasters at this years’ CAB Annual Convention in Winnipeg. Bachman and Cummings will be inducted into the CAB Hall of Fame in the Music Star category at the Gold Ribbon Awards Gala on Tuesday, November 8th.
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Archive Date - October 7, 2005
MESSAGE FROM CAB CONVENTION CO-CHAIRS
Broadcaster Magazine
The CAB's 79th Annual Convention - The Future Summit - will deliver a wealth of up-to-the-minute information on the unprecedented changes affecting Canada's private broadcasters.
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Archive Date - October 7, 2005
DIGITAL MUSIC SALES UP, PHYSICAL SALES DOWN
FMQB
A new study from the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) says that global sales of digital music have tripled over the first half of 2005. According to the IFPI's figures, digital music accounted for six percent of total sales, adding up to $790 million worldwide. However, sales of physical CDs continue to decline, dropping from $13.4 billion last year to $13.2 billion this year.
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Archive Date - October 7, 2005
ROGERS GUESTS FOR ATLANTIC LAUNCH
Premier Bernard Lord to attend Moncton station launch on October 11th
CNW
Rogers Media announced today the presence of some very special guests for the launch of their new radio stations in Moncton, Saint John and Halifax on Tuesday, October 11th, 2005. Rogers was awarded the licences for the news/talk radio FM stations by the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission, (CRTC) last November.
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Archive Date - October 7, 2005
BROADCASTING PUBLIC NOTICE CRTC 2005-94
CRTC Release
Application by CHUM Limited, on behalf of a corporation or a partnership to be established, to amend the licence of its terrestrial subscription radio undertaking.
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Archive Date - October 5, 2005
CBC, UNION HAMMERING OUT PLAN
Terry Weber – Globe and Mail
The CBC and the union representing locked out workers were hammering out details of a plan Monday to get workers back on the job starting this week, and observers say the looming spectre of Saturday's Hockey Night in Canada broadcast has added increased urgency to the talks.
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Archive Date - October 4, 2005
CBC REACHES SETTLEMENT WITH CMG
CNW
CBC/Radio-Canada and the Canadian Media Guild (CMG) reached a memorandum of settlement after 16 months of negotiations. The memorandum represents the framework of an agreement that will be formalized over the coming days and submitted to the CMG membership for ratification.
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Archive Date - October 4, 2005
CAB FINALISTS FOR GOLD RIBBON AWARDS
CAB Release
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) today announced the finalists for the prestigious Gold Ribbon Awards, honouring excellence in private broadcasting. The awards will be presented during The Future Summit, the CAB’s 2005 Convention in Winnipeg, November 6 -8, 2005. The complete list of finalists is attached.
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Archive Date - October 4, 2005
FILE-SHARING CLAIM 'WRONG HEADED'
Jack Kapica – Globe and Mail
The Canadian Recording Industry Association's claim that file-sharing is hurting the industry is "wrong-headed," says a legal group established by the University of Ottawa's Faculty of Law.
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Archive Date - October 4, 2005
RECORDING INDUSTRY RESULTS OF TWO POLLS
Younger Canadians aged 12-24 comprise just 21 percent of Canada's population but account for 78 percent of illegal downloading - Canadians who have downloaded illegally are more likely to engage in other unethical activities such as making illegal copies of software programs (36 percent vs. 16 percent) and cheating on exams (18 percent vs. 7 percent) - At least 14 illegal files downloaded in Canada for every legal one
CNW
The Canadian Recording Industry Association (CRIA) today launched a national campaign to protect and promote 'products of the mind' in advance of public hearings this fall on Bill C-60, the new federal copyright legislation. New national polls by POLLARA Inc. and Environics Research Group were released today in support of the campaign.
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Archive Date - October 3, 2005
LINK BETWEEN REALITY TV AND MORNING RADIO
FMQB
Reality TV shows often provide controversial moments and other interesting fodder for morning radio shows, and Arbitron has released a new analysis of the television and radio audience in Houston that does indeed show a link between viewers of reality shows and the morning radio shows they listen to the day after. With the help of the Portable People Meter (PPM), Arbitron can simultaneously track radio listening and television viewing among Houston consumers. The latest study shows that nearly one out of three listeners to the morning show of Contemporary Christian station KSBJ watched the finale of Big Brother 6 on CBS the night before. However, So You Think You Can Dance on Fox and Dancing With The Stars on ABC brought in different kinds of listeners. The finale of Dancing With The Stars garnered the largest morning after share of radio listeners to Country station KILT, and the premiere of the Fox dance show was tops in share among morning listeners on Top 40 station KRBE.
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Archive Date - October 3, 2005
REASONS YOU'RE WORKING SO HARD...
...and what you can do about it
Michael Mandel, Steve Hamm, Carol Matlack, Christopher Farrell, and Ann Therese Palmer – BusinessWeek
Honk if this sounds like you: While much of America is watching Jon Stewart, Letterman, or Leno, you're stumbling out the office door into a car-service Town Car or groping for the clicker to the BMW in the company parking lot. Once home, you slug down a beer or the last of a bottle of white wine on the door of the fridge, stuff some leftovers in your mouth, and collapse into bed beside your sleeping spouse. A half-dozen hours later, you crawl to the shower, throw on a clean shirt, pour some coffee down your throat, maybe drop a kid or two at school, and jump back on the frenetic work treadmill that you can't shut off.
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Archive Date - October 3, 2005
HOW TO TAKE A VACATION
Ann Therese Palmer – BusinessWeek
Jay Henderson of PricewaterhouseCoopers knows how important quality time off can be. So he offered employees some guidelines
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