Archived News and Articles - October 2006
Archive Date - October 31, 2006
MORE ABOUT THE NET THAN THE BIRD
Frank Barnako – Market Watch
It's time for Howard Stern to podcast. Mark Ramsey, president of Mercury Radio Research and Hear2.0, firms which consult major radio broadcast groups, said today's freebie of Stern on the Net should be just the start. "If I were Sirius, I would treat Stern the same way Wal-Mart treats a very appetizing food item they want to sell a lot of," Ramsey said. "Don't put it in the freezer with a sign that says, 'Try this.' Put it out on a table with someone serving it up. You like it. You buy it."
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Archive Date - October 31, 2006
RCS SOFTWARE ADVISORY
Selector XV users - Older Versions of RCS Menu are Incompatible with Microsoft's New Browser
RCS Release
In a few days, Microsoft will be replacing their existing browser on millions of computers worldwide with their new browser, Internet Explorer version 7 (IE7). This new browser will be automatically added to your computer sometime after November 1st IF you have "automatic updates" enabled on your system.
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Archive Date - October 31, 2006
STREAMTHEWORLD LAUNCHES BRANDED PLAYER
RAIN
Montreal based broadcaster CKOI has teamed with webcast technology company StreamTheWorld to deliver a Flash-based branded Internet radio product sponsored by Canadian brewer Molson Dry.
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Archive Date - October 31, 2006
SOCAN ECHO SONGWRITING PRIZE
CNW
SOCAN (The Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada) proudly presented its first-ever ECHO Songwriting Prize, designed to identify emerging songwriters in independent music, and honour some of the most innovative, creative and artistic songs created in the past year by songwriters in Canada. The inaugural winner is Propagandhi - Chris Hannah, Todd Kowalski and Jordan Samolesky - for their song "A Speculative Fiction." The winning song was selected by online public voting, with thousands of people casting their vote for one of the five songs that had been nominated by an independent panel of eight music community taste-makers.
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Archive Date - October 31, 2006
WAL-MART SIGNS ON TO PROJECT APOLLO
Katy Bachman – Mediaweek
Wal-Mart Stores, the world's largest retailer, has signed a subscription agreement for the pilot panel of Project Apollo, the national marketing service being developed through a cooperative effort of Arbitron and VNU, the companies announced Wednesday (Oct. 25). Wal-Mart joins six other blue-chip advertisers, including Procter & Gamble, Pepsico, Pfizer, Unilever, Kraft, and SC Johnson.
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Archive Date - October 27, 2006
LABELS WIN LATEST ROUND IN SUIT AGAINST NAPSTER
All Access
A judge ruled WEDNESDAY (10/25) that investment firm HUMMER WINBLAD VENTURE PARTNERS improperly urged its employees to delete emails about NAPSTER, the LOS ANGELES TIMES reports. Labels and music publishers had claimed that two major investors -- HUMMER and BERTELSMANN -- had helped NAPSTER users violate copyright laws, and U.S. District Judge MARILYN HALL PATEL ruled that jurors will be allowed to infer that the deleted emails might have hurt HUMMER's defense if the 3-year-old suit reaches trial.
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Archive Date - October 27, 2006
MICROSOFT: WAITING FOR VISTA, ZUNE
The software maker again fell back on its strength in server software ahead of the release of the long-awaited Windows upgrade and music player
Business Week
For Microsoft, a quiet quarter isn't a bad thing. Especially when you consider that in recent months, the software maker caught analysts off-guard with unexpected expenses and on another occasion posted blowout results. The first quarter of fiscal 2007 was neither of those. "This was kind of a tame quarter," says Goldman Sachs (GS) analyst Rick Sherlund.
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Archive Date - October 27, 2006
CORUS Q4 & YEAR END RESULTS
CNW
Corus Entertainment Inc. announced fourth quarter and year end financial results today. Corus completed a very successful fiscal year with strong operating results and cash flows.
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Archive Date - October 27, 2006
WHAT YOU REALLY NEED TO KNOW
Mark Cavdar – Insider Media Group Online
Alan Cross, program director of 102.1 the Edge gets inside. The name Alan Cross means something to music enthusiasts. As program director of Toronto’s CFNY, better know as alternative rock station 102.1 the Edge, and the host of the weekly radio broadcast ‘The Ongoing History of New Music,’ Alan is a guru of the Canadian modern rock landscape.
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Archive Date - October 27, 2006
RADIO FIRM IN TALKS TO SELL ITSELF
Ken Belson and Andrew Ross Sorkin – New York Times
The Mays family, which built Clear Channel Communications into the largest U.S. network of radio stations through decades of acquisitions, is in negotiations for the company to be taken private by a consortium of investors for more than $18.5 billion, according to people involved in the talks.
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Archive Date - October 27, 2006
PUBLIC RADIO SEEKS RECALL OF FM DEVICES
Frank D. Roylance – Baltimore Sun
Citing widespread interference on broadcast frequencies used by its member stations, National Public Radio has asked the Federal Communications Commission to order recalls of millions of FM modulators that drivers use to play satellite radios and iPods through their car stereos. A field study by NPR Labs found that nearly 40 percent of those devices have signal strengths that exceed FCC limits, enabling them to break into FM broadcasts in nearby cars with unwanted programming. A separate investigation by the National Association of Broadcasters found that more than 75 percent of the devices it tested violated the power limits.
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Archive Date - October 27, 2006
ADS TEST PAYOLA CASE SETTLEMENT
Jeff Leeds – New York Times
Hardly more than a year has passed since the nation’s biggest record labels started agreeing to a series of measures that were intended to end the industry’s long history of employing bribes and other shady practices to influence which songs are heard on the radio.
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Archive Date - October 27, 2006
BYRNESMEDIA CLIENT WINS LACROSSE AWARD
Bayshore Broadcasting Release
Owen Sound Sports Director Fred Wallace will receive the Ontario Lacrosse Association's Media Award at a dinner November 11 in Niagara Falls. Wallace, who was nominated by Owen Sound Minor Lacrosse, is being honoured for his reporting on, and support of, the sport.
Archive Date - October 26, 2006
ASTRAL LOOKS TO BUY, NOT CONVERT
Broadcaster hopes to make an acquisition before it even considers an income trust
Grant Robertson – Globe and Mail
Astral Media Inc. is flush with cash and considered a prime candidate for an income trust, but the Montreal-based broadcaster said it's unlikely such a move will be contemplated ahead of a major acquisition.
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Archive Date - October 26, 2006
NAB CALLS FOR PROBE INTO SATCASTERS
FMQB
NAB President/CEO David Rehr has sent a pair of letters to the FCC, calling for investigations into XM and Sirius Satellite Radio. Rehr asks for a probe into the satcasters' troubles with ground repeater regulations, as well as the companies' recent free trial offerings of their programming.
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Archive Date - October 26, 2006
BOOSTING PROFILE OF MEDIA PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES
Broadcaster
The Government of Ontario today launched a new partnership aimed at raising the profile of people with disabilities in the Canadian movie, television and radio industry, announced Madeleine Meilleur, Minister of Community and Social Services.
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Archive Date - October 26, 2006
CAB WINS REVIEW OF COPYRIGHT BOARD'S DECISION
Broadcaster
Almost exactly one year after the release of the Copyright Board's decision on the SOCAN-NRCC Radio Tariff 2003-2007, the Federal Court of Appeal has granted the CAB's application for judicial review of the decision, and set it aside. The Board's decision had increased payments by private radio stations by up to 30%, a result the radio industry believed to be unjustified and profoundly unfair. The collectives may bring an application for leave to appeal to the Supreme Court within 60 days.
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Archive Date - October 26, 2006
BYRNESMEDIA CLIENT LAUNCHES NEW STATION
CJVR – Release
Radio CJVR Ltd. was very proud to launch Whitecourt's Brand New Country station CIXM-FM on September 18th. The Celebrations continued with a bang as XM 105 invited all their listener's to a free country concert with Country stars Brad Johner and Aaron Lines. It was a huge success as over 1500 people attended the concert!!
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Archive Date - October 24, 2006
AUSTRALIAN FREE SPEECH FEARS
Reuters
New media laws in Australia have sparked takeover activity many fear will lead to a concentration of ownership in the hands of Rupert Murdoch and Australia's richest man James Packer, eroding free speech and democracy.
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Archive Date - October 24, 2006
IS SATELLITE RADIO COMING TO IPODS?
Ken Tucker – Radio and Records
Is Apple considering integrating both terrestrial and satellite radio into its iPods? A variety of techies think so.
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Archive Date - October 24, 2006
BIG MEDIA TOO BIG FOR SMALL MARKETS
Jeffrey Yorke – Radio and Records
If the FCC loosens limits on media ownership, including limits on cross ownership, “local communities across the nation will be harmed, and will have fewer choices for news and views,” according to a series of reports released by the unincorporated, non-profit Media and Democracy Coalition on Thursday (Oct. 19).
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Archive Date - October 23 , 2006
BULLARD TO HOST SATELLITE RADIO SHOW
London Free Press
Sharp-tongued Canadian funnyman Mike Bullard is going the way of Howard Stern -- sans the raunchy stunts and fat paycheques.
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Archive Date - October 23 , 2006
CBS SETTLES WITH SPITZER OVER PAYOLA ALLEGATIONS
FMQB
CBS Radio has settled with New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer over payola allegations. The radio giant has agreed to pay out $2 million, which will be distributed through the Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, to not-for-profit entities to fund music education and appreciation programs in New York. The company has also agreed to undertake company-wide reforms, including immediately stopping the receiving of payment from labels for airplay and the discontinuing of the practice of using independent promoters. CBS will also hire a compliance officer to monitor its practices and implement a new, internal system to prevent any future troubles.
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Archive Date - October 23 , 2006
UNIVERSAL MUSIC SUES WEB SITES
All Access
UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP is suing the operators of two video-sharing web sites, claiming they illegally let users share music videos and other copyright material without permission.
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Archive Date - October 23 , 2006
COURT DENIES MOTION FOR PAYOLA SUIT DISMISSAL
FMQB
The New York State Supreme Court has denied Entercom's motion to dismiss Eliot Spitzer's payola lawsuit against the company. According to reports, Judge Ira Gammerman has denied the Entercom motion, which was filed in April and claimed that Spitzer's investigation was conducted improperly and that the Attorney General had not proven consumers were harmed by any deception from the radio company.
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Archive Date - October 23 , 2006
STERN TO PULL RADIO FANS VIA SATELLITE
Reuters
Ten months after leaving the commercial airwaves for subscription-based Sirius Satellite Radio, shock jock Howard Stern is out to attract a broad new online audience with his first-ever free internet broadcast.
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Archive Date - October 20 , 2006
LOWELL GREEN TO RECEIVE COMMUNITY SERVICE AWARD
CAB Release
The CAB is pleased to announce that Lowell Green, is the recipient of this year’s Gold Ribbon Award for Community Service by an Individual Broadcaster.
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Archive Date - October 20 , 2006
BCE DIES, BELL LIVES AS A TRUST
Catherine Mclean – Globe and Mail
Canada's biggest telephone company turned its back on a quarter-century of attempts to diversify Wednesday when it unveiled plans to turn its main asset into an income trust.
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Archive Date - October 20 , 2006
FCC SHOULD NOT ALLOW BROADCASTERS MORE STATIONS
San Antonio Business Journal
Clear Channel Communications Inc. officials may be lobbying the Federal Communications Commission to raise the cap on the number of radio stations a broadcaster can legally own. However, the results of a San Antonio Business Journal online poll show that a majority of survey participants don't agree with that move.
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Archive Date - October 19 , 2006
CAB ANNOUNCES BROADCAST HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES
CAB Release
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters is pleased to announce that nine distinguished Canadians will be inducted into the CAB's Broadcast Hall of Fame at a special luncheon ceremony on Monday, November 6, 2006 at this year’s CAB Annual Convention in Vancouver. 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 16 , 2006
INTRODUCING THE WEDNESDAY PODCAST
Broadcaster
Engaging encounters with the movers and shakers in the Canadian Broadcast and Music Industries - when you want them, where you want them!
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Archive Date - October 13 , 2006
MUSICRYPT SIGNS NEW INDIE LABEL
Broadcaster
Musicrypt Inc. the leader in secure digital media distribution, today announced the signing of an exclusive deal with Atlanta Ga. based independent label Mogol Music. Mogol Music will be using Musicrypt's patented DMDS technology to distribute its artist's hit songs to radio and broadcasters across North America.
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Archive Date - October 12 , 2006
ARBITRON FILES PATENT INFRINGEMENT SUIT
All Access
Today, the battle for electronic measurement supremacy took a legal turn as ARBITRON has filed a patent infringement suit against INTERNATIONAL DEMOGRAPHICS, INC. (D/B/A the MEDIA AUDIT), and the IPSOS entities, in US District Court in TEXAS. The complaint alleges that INTERNATIONAL DEMOGRAPHICS and IPSOS are infringing on three ARBITRON-owned patents, as it relates to its electronic measurement technology for PPM.
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Archive Date - October 11 , 2006
GOOGLE TAKES LEAD IN THE ON-LINE VIDEO REVOLUTION
Michael Liedtke - Associated Press
Google Inc. snapped up YouTube Inc. for $1.65-billion Monday in deal that catapults the Internet search leader to a leading role in the on-line video revolution.
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Archive Date - October 11 , 2006
SONY BMG APPEALS JOINT VENTURE ANNULMENT
Leo Cendrowicz – Billboard
Sony Corp. and Bertelsmann Thursday (Oct. 5) appealed against the European Union court decision last July that annulled the merger of their recorded music divisions in 2004.
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Archive Date - October 11 , 2006
EMMIS, CANWEST AMONG FM APPLICANTS IN UK
All Access
UK radio regulator OFCOM says it has received 11 applications for the new MANCHESTER FM license. The applications include two from CHRYSALIS (Classic Rock 106.1 THE ARROW and Talk GMBC), plus EMMIS ATLANTIC RADIO (AC-News MNR FM), GUARDIAN MEDIA GROUP (Talk-Rock ROCK TALK MANCHESTER), CANWEST GLOBAL (AAA ORIGINAL 106 FM), CN RADIO (AC MANCHESTER CITYLIFE), ASIAN SOUND RADIO (Ethnic 106.1 MANCHESTER SOUND), SUNRISE RADIO (Ethnic MASTI RADIO), EMAP (Talk PICADILLY TALK), UK1 FM LTD. (AC-Talk UK! FM MANCHESTER), and ABSOLUTE RADIO-COMMUNICORP (Adult Hits JACK FM MANCHESTER).
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Archive Date - October 11 , 2006
XM RADIO HITS SOME MORE INTERFERENCE
Satellite Firm Lags Rival in New Subscribers, Loses Director, Reports FCC Compliance Issue
Kim Hart - Washington Post
XM Satellite Radio Holdings Inc. reported new difficulties this week, adding to its year of problems with regulators and with growth in subscribers and revenue.
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Archive Date - October 11 , 2006
UNIVERSAL-BMG DEAL REVAMPED TO MAKE EU HAPPY
All Access
VIVENDI's UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP will restructure its deal to buy BMG MUSIC PUBLISHING to satify EUROPEAN UNION regulators, reports REUTERS. The original deal contained a provision known colloquially as the "hell or high--water clause" that guaranteed payment regardless of whether the deal gets approved by regulators, but the EU termed the provision unacceptable.
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Archive Date - October 10 , 2006
RADIO SECOND "MOST TRUSTED" NEWS SOURCE
All Access
Radio placed second to TV as American's most trusted source for news, according to a new LEXISNEXIS study. Radio was trusted by 42% of respondents, trailing TV but ahead of local papers, cable news and business networks, and print and broadcast media Internet sites.
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Archive Date - October 6 , 2006
FUTURE OF MUSIC IN MONTREAL
Broadcaster
As worldwide music promotion and distribution is moving to new digital platforms, the McGill University Schulich School of Music is hosting the Future of Music Policy Summit in Montreal this week.
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Archive Date - October 6 , 2006
BROADCAST HEARING CRTC 2006-571
CRTC Release
2006-571 My Broadcasting Corporation, Strathroy, Ontario. APPROVED – New English-language, commercial FM radio programming undertaking in Strathroy, Ontario. The licence will expire 31 August 2013.
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Archive Date - October 6 , 2006
TERRESTRIAL RADIO GETTING MORE INTERNET LISTENING
All Access
We believe terrestrial radio operators will continue to invest in online initiatives. According to the latest report by JP MORGAN analysts JOHN BLACKLEDGE and AARON CHEW, terrestrial radio operators experienced a 5% sequential increase in unique visitors to their websites in AUGUST 2006, while Internet-only radio operators were down 3.5%. In fact, terrestrial radio operators' share of unique visitors to Internet radio in AUGUST 2006 was 32% -- up from 18% in JULY 2005 and 30% in JULY 2006.
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Archive Date - October 6 , 2006
SURVEY 3 2006 BBM OVERVIEW
David Bray – Broadcaster
Summer has faded into Fall, but the race for ratings shows no signs of cooling down as demonstrated by the new radio BBM released today.
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Archive Date - October 5 , 2006
CANWEST PULLS PLUG ON IZZY ASPER'S COOL FM
Media company withdraws from radio
Grant Robertson – Globe and Mail
Izzy Asper's devotion to jazz led CanWest Global Communications Corp. to expand into Canadian radio three years ago. But a continuing struggle to enlarge those operations has prompted the company to pull the plug on domestic radio.
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Archive Date - October 4 , 2006
CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK CELEBRATES 25 YEARS
All Access
What began in 1983 as two day event to pay tribute to CANDADIAN Sound Recording, New Technology and Broadcasting in one convention is now a four day event with CANADIAN MUSIC WEEK set to run from WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7 to SATURDAY, MARCH 10, 2007 at the FAIRMONT ROYAL YORK HOTEL in TORONTO.
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Archive Date - October 4 , 2006
WSJ REPORT TRACKS PROGRESS OF "BLINK" ADS
All Access
How are CLEAR CHANNEL's "blink" two-to-five second spots faring on MADISON AVENUE? The WALL STREET JOURNAL says that they've been sold to about 12 national advertisers so far, at rates 18% to 21% of a standard 60 second spot for a 5 second "blink" (about $800, in a major market) and 10% for a 2 second "blink" (roughly $80.).
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Archive Date - October 3 , 2006
BRIDGE RATINGS REPORT: SATELLITE SALES SLOWING
All Access
The latest BRIDGE RATINGS study of satellite radio subscribers calls the retail market for receivers "sluggish" and notes that sales have been light enough in recent weeks that the company has had to use more locations nationwide to achieve its target sample of 4,000 respondents.
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Archive Date - October 3 , 2006
INTERNET BREAKS DOUBLE-DIGIT BARRIER
Joe Mandese – Media Daily News
The internet, which is poised to overtake outdoor as the fifth largest ad medium this year, is closing in on radio's fourth place ad market ranking, reports ZenithOptimedia in the latest quarterly revision of its ongoing global ad tracking study. The revision, released this morning, estimates that Internet ad spending will break the double-digit market share in at least two countries - the U.K. (12.9 percent) and Sweden (10.5 percent) - marking the first time online ad spending has held such a significant ad market share in any major market in the world. Other markets projected to break the double-digit online ad share barrier by 2008 include: Australia, Israel, Japan, Norway, South Korea and Taiwan. But despite ZenithOptimedia's projection of an 84 percent expansion in Internet ad spending between 2005 and 2008 (up from only a 76 percent rate of growth predicted in the agency's last forecast), the Publicis media agency doesn't expect it to break the double-digit barrier globally until 2011.
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Archive Date - October 3 , 2006
CAB ANNOUNCES 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 New Realities, New Rules the CAB’s 2006 Convention in Vancouver, November 5-7, 2006. The complete list of finalists is attached.
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Archive Date - October 2, 2006
UNIVERSAL MOVES AT CKEY
All Access
NIAGARA Top 40 CKEY/BUFFALO PD DAVE UNIVERSAL shuffles the lineup as ELLEN K (aka JEN PACK) moves from middays to afternoon drive replacing CHRIS BARNATT who heads to the same shift at sister Hot AC CFLZ. And crosstown ENTERCOM Top 40 WKSE parttimer KEITH KELLY takes middays at CKEY.
Archive Date - October 2, 2006
MORE THAN 80 PANELISTS CONFIRMED FOR CAB
CAB Release
The Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ 80th Anniversary Convention will take place this year in Vancouver, B.C., from November 5th to the 7th at the Westin Bayshore Hotel.
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Archive Date - October 2, 2006
WMG TO MAKE FRESH RUN AT EMI?
All Access
According to BusinessTimesonline, WMG chief EDGAR BRONFMAN, is preparing for a fresh bid for EMI by targeting the British group’s shareholders and emphasizsing the benefits of the deal. BRONFMAN was in LONDON meeting with EMI investors, recently, but WMG gave no details of the meetings. For more on this story, click here.
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Archive Date - October 2, 2006
MAKING THAT EMOTIONAL CONNECTION
Jeffrey Yorke – Radio and Records
Radio disc jockeys and the music they play have long been known to stir emotions and make their audiences feel connected to radio, but a study released today (Sept. 27) by the Radio Advertising Effectiveness Lab found that that emotional effect extends to radio advertising in a way that has not been fully understood until now.
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Archive Date - October 2, 2006
WE HAVE TO DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY
Radio Ink
Clear Channel CEO Mark Mays said Wednesday that the radio industry must embrace new methods of reaching listeners and populating new forms of media with its content if it hopes to compete in the widening world of consumer media.
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Archive Date - October 2, 2006
PROGRAM CONTAINED INAPPROPRIATE CONTENT
CBSC Release
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) today released its decision concerning an episode of the open-line program Doc Mailloux broadcast on CKAC (Montréal) on January 24, 2006 at 1:00 pm, which the CBSC Quebec Regional Panel concluded was in violation of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ (CAB) Code of Ethics.
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