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Jeffries On Cumulus Roles Personnel changes in the top echelon of Cumulus’ programming ranks prompted an email to Sr. VP/Programming Jan Jeffries to sort out what all this might mean for the company’s Country outlets. To recap, Cumulus Montgomery, AL Market Manager and Country Format Dir. Bill Jones exited the company on 10/4. And we told you on multiple
September PPM Analysis:Shares Rise, But Cumes Fall Ten new currency markets – Austin, Charlotte, Columbus, OH, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Nashville, Norfolk, Orlando, Providence and Raleigh – joined the PPM ratings service this month, and now 43 metros are meter-measured. Collectively, these markets represent two-thirds of ad revenues measured in all rated markets. There are 54,000 PPM panelists being tabulated on a daily basis, and nearly 71,000 participate each month. After two straight months where more Country stations declined in PPM than improved, September was considerably better: Of the 83 stations (including those now in currency) with generally a 1.0 or better, gainers led decliners 43-37, with three unchanged. However, on the cume side: Among the 172 stations in PPM metros, a majority (56.4%) lost audience, as decliners led gainers by a 97-75 margin. Only five of the top 20-cuming stations added listeners. Collectively, these stations generated a cume of 39,288,300, down about 500,000 from August and 2.8% below July’s peak of 40.4 million. Among the September highlights: KASE/Austin and KEEY/Minneapolis were No. 1 for the third month in a row, joined this time by WSOC/Charlotte and WFMS/Indianapolis.
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Buy Buy Birdies: The International Entertainment Buyer’s Association’s 40th annual conference keynote speaker Charlie Daniels and execs revel in the success of the record-breaking event. More than 600 attendees participated, with Fran Romeo named Entertainment Buyer of the Year, Live Nation named Promoter, BLA’s Kevin Neal tagged as Talent Agent, Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena named Venue, CMA Music Festival honored as Event, Jim Morey taking the Industry Achievement Award and Variety Attractions’ Todd Boltin joining Romeo as Chairman’s Awards recipients. Pictured (l-r) are Barry Jeffrey, David Corlew, Steve Hauser, Daniels, Gayle Holcomb and Paul Moore.
platforms beginning late last night (10/10) that KILT/Houston APD/MD Greg Frey would be joining the Cumulus Corporate Programming ranks as of Oct. 25. Jeffries tells Country Aircheck that Frey will oversee the majority of Cumulus’ Country stations in medium markets, while Jeffries continues to oversee KPLX (The Wolf)/Dallas, WFMS/Indianapolis and WSM-FM (The Wolf)/Nashville. In effect, Frey will join Jim Mahanay (News/Talk), Emily Boldon (various formats) and Maurice Devoe (Urban) as “Corporate Programmers,” according to Jeffries. Rounding out the group are VP/Rock Val Garris and Sr. Dir./Label Relations John Kilgo.
New PPM Panelist Participation Limits In an effort to smooth spikes in participant turnover, Arbitron is changing the length of time PPM panelists stay in the sample. In the old rule, the initially selected basic sample expired between 18-36 months, with the alternate sample and ongoing basic sample expiring at 24 months. Under the new rule, the initially selected sample expires between 18-30 months, while the ongoing sample expires between 18-24 months. The change will be implemented for Miami, Minneapolis, Phoenix, Seattle and San Diego starting in November, and all other markets starting in March 2011.
Radio News• Arbitron’s popular Radio Today 2010 annual study is now available free at www.arbitron.com. The report is a comprehensive profile of radio listening across America including numerous format studies. We’re pleased to report that Country is the nation’s No. 1 format.• WXXK/Lebanon, NH OM/PD/PM driver Justin Tyler moves to mornings tomorrow (10/12), where he’ll team with Amy Kenney. She had been doing mornings since February with Dru Johnson, who left the station today (10/11). Tyler is looking
for a new afternoon personality; Airchecks and resumes to him at [email protected].• According to the Gainesville Sun, the
My Tunes: Music ThaT shaped My Life
Savannah Music Group CEO Ed Salamon discusses his five most important albums, singles or concerts:1. Garth Brooks, Unistar Suite (CRS), Nashville, 1989: The first time radio saw Garth perform. For four nights he did solo acoustic versions of James Taylor and Don McLean songs, as well as songs that would become Country radio staples. If I said I knew then all that he’d become, I’d be lying.2. The Isley Brothers, Jolly Green Giant, Pittsburgh, 1964. I never missed an Isley
Brothers show in my hometown. This time they had a flashy guitar player who played behind his head. I stood right next to the stage and will never forget seeing those solos close up. A couple years later that band member moved to England and changed his name from Jimmy to Jimi.3. Skyliners/Since I Don’t Have You (1959): When we Pittsburghers saw this local group on Dick Clark’s Saturday Night Beechnut Show, we realized that people like us could be successful. The Skyliners were much older than me then, but now we are about the same age and friends. I was honored when they asked me to write the liner notes for their 40th anniversary CD.4. Glen Campbell/Rhinestone Cowboy: This came out the same month I joined WHN/New York as PD and it went straight to No. 1 at the station. Written by Brooklynite and current Nashville resident Larry Weiss, that song will always represent to me the spirit of WHN and its New York area listeners, who made it the most-listened-to Country station of all time.5. Joe Diffie/Ships That Don’t Come In: It’s on everyone’s list of the greatest country songs of all time. I now get to work with the writer, Dave Gibson, at Savannah Music Group, and I know his guitar has a few more tunes like this ready to come out.• A highly regarded song or album you’ve never heard: Susan Boyle’s I Dreamed A Dream album. I think I get it from the single. • An “important” piece of music you just don’t get: I have never developed an appreciation for classical music. I know it is important, but it just doesn’t move me.• An album you played or listened to incessantly: Local Pittsburgh disc jockey Porky Chedwick’s collection of oldies. I listened so much I wore it out and bought another. I started collecting records because I wanted to have everything Porky played. • One obscure or non-country song everyone should listen to right now: Nolan Neal’s “Crazy Girl.” Find it on MySpace. I guarantee you will be cursing me for giving you an earworm, but in a good way.
Concert And Art Auction Event Oct. 23. Additional artists will be announced closer to the event date. More than 70 pieces of art created from flood-damaged instruments will be up for bids during the charity auction, which will benefit uninsured musicians through MusiCares and the Nashville Musicians Association. Details here. Gloriana have posed for the sp[OIL]ed photographic movement to raise awareness and funds for Louisiana’s oil spill relief efforts. Details here. DigitalRodeo.com will produce a 26-episode series following Australian duo O’Shea’s rise to prominence. The show will begin airing on Australia’s Country Music Channel Oct. 23.
Chronicle Heartfelt condolences are extended to Sony/Nashville’s Skip Bishop on today’s (10/11) unexpected passing of his mother Grace Bishop in Alabama. We’ll pass along arrangement info as it becomes available.
The Week’s Top Stories Access full coverage in the archives at www.countryaircheck.com.• Former Cumulus/Montgomery, AL MM and Country Format Dir. Bill Jones was named PD for The Country Network. Jones left Cumulus Oct. 4. Reach him here. (CAT 10/7)
University of Florida is flipping Rock WRUF-FM/Gainesville to Country as “Country 103.7 The Gator.” The flip is expected this week. Read more here.• Independent artist Travis Rush co-hosted a one-hour show on hometown station KUPL-FM/Portland, OR recently. Check it out here.• Envision Radio Networks’ AmeriCountry prep service has added KAMS-FM/Springfield, MO as an affiliate.• Envision’sThe Country Oldies Show has added WSIG-FM/Harrisonburg, VA as an affiliate. • CountryMusicIsLove.com is offering stations a free weekly news segment. Contact the company here.• The Arbitron Client Conference/Jacobs Media Summit will be held Dec. 7-9 at the Hyatt Regency Baltimore. This year’s theme is Positioning, Digital/Mobile and Ratings Strategies For Today And The Future. Registration is $124 for Arbitron or Jacobs Media clients, $349.99 for non-clients. Details at www.arbitron.com/movingup.
Chart Chat Congrats to Josh Turner, Van Haze, Royce Risser and the MCA and UMG teams on scoring this week’s No. 1 single with Turner’s “All Over Me.”
Artist News Black River Music Group’s Due West have signed with Catapult Management and GrassRoots Promotion for management. EMI Nashville has launched Troy Olsen’s official website, which also hosts his “T-Birds” fan club. Details here. CMT’s Katie Cook has partnered with Chocolate.com to plug weekly chocolate offerings through her Twitter account. Tennessee residents can enter “KC” for a discount at the online candy store’s checkout. Follow Cook here. Justin.tv will stream a live Bo Bice concert from his home studio Wednesday (10/13) at 8pm ET. A fan Q&A will also be featured. Details here. Anthony Smith, Eddy Raven, Kentucky Thunder and Jeremy Lister will perform the ReTune Nashville Benefit
• KHKI/Des Moines PD and 18-year station vet Andy Elliott was named Midwest promo rep for New Revolution Entertainment. He replaces Joe Schuld, who is leaving to co-manage Arista-Sea Gayle/Nashville artist Jerrod Neimann. (CAT 10/7)• Entravision’s KNTY/Sacramento middayer Kelly Symone was promoted to MD, with weekender Chad Johnson rising to take the midday shift. Reach Symone at 916-648-6037 or here. (CAT 10/7)• Promotion vet Tony Morreale was hired in-house at Average Joes Entertainment. Reach him at 615-595-2523 or here. (CAT 10/7)• The 2010 CMA Music Festival yielded a record $2,924,936 in charity funds to support Nashville music education and to aid flood relief. (CAT 10/6)• Pamal RVP/Programming Kevin Callahan was named PD for Lincoln Financial’s KSON/San Diego. Reach him here. (CAT 10/5)• Entercom’s KKWF/Seattle Fitz In The Morning show will be heard in the same time slot on sister Wolf KBWF/San Francisco as Ken Anderson and Corey Foley exit. (CAT 10/5)• Pamal/Gainesville Market Manager Ben Hill was named SVP/MM for CBS Radio/West Palm Beach, which includes Country WIRK. (CAT 10/5)• Clear Channel/Little Rock GSM Kevin Waltman was promoted to Market Manager for the company’s five-station Tallahassee, FL cluster, which includes Country WTNT-FM. (CAT 10/5)• Ken Fearnow was named SVP/Operations for Payne Radio Group’s six stations in eastern Oklahoma. (CAT 10/5)
September PPM (continued from page 1) Twelve stations set 6+ share records: KASE; KVET-FM/Austin; WKLB/Boston; WHOK/Columbus, OH; WFMS; Milwaukee Classic Country stations WOKY-AM and WZBK; WSM-AM/Nashville; WUSH/Norfolk; WCTK/Providence; and WMZQ/Washington, DC. WUBL/Atlanta gained for the eighth straight month and set a new share record for third month in a row. Meanwhile, KWOF/Denver and KWNR/Las Vegas both improved for the third straight session. New share rank records were set by KVET-FM, WCTK, WHOK, WMZQ, WOKY-AM, WSM-AM, WSOC, WUBL, WUSH and WZBK. Cume records were broken by KASE, WKLB (top 10
nationally for the first time), WKKT/Charlotte, KYGO/Denver, Nashville’s WSIX, WKDF and Classic Country WSM-AM, WPCV/Lakeland in Orlando, WFUS/Tampa and WCTK/Providence in Boston, which gained audience for the eight month in a row, a PPM record among Country radio nationally. New cume rank peaks were achieved by WCTK/Providence in Boston and WUBL. The largest one-month gain (1.1) was posted
Trace Adkins The Definitive Greatest Hits: Til The Last Shot’s Fired (Capitol) This double-disc compilation spans 28 hits from Adkins’ Capitol catalog including “You’re Gonna Miss This,” “(This Ain’t No) Thinkin’ Thing,” “Ladies Love Country Boys” and “I Left Something Turned On At Home.”
The Band Perry The Band Perry (Republic Nashville) Lead single “Hip To My Heart” and on-the-cusp-of-top-10 “If I Die Young” are featured on this 11-track debut. Kimberly, Neil and Reid Perry wrote and co-wrote nine songs. Brett Beavers, Jeff Cohen and American Idol’s Kara DioGuardi are among the co-writers. Nathan Chapman, Matt Serletic and
Paul Worley produced.
Lady Antebellum A Merry Little Christmas (Target) The trio updates classics “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” “Blue Christmas,” “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” and “Silver Bells” and adds original “On The Winter’s Night” on this Target exclusive.
Darius Rucker Charleston, SC 1966 (Capitol) Inspired by the title of Radney Foster’s Del Rio, Texas 1959, Rucker’s 13-track sophomore release pays homage to his roots. “I was born and raised in the greatest city in the world,” Rucker writes in the liner notes. “I love Charleston, SC, and I feel it is embedded in my music.” Rucker co-wrote all cuts.
Brad Paisley appears on “I Don’t Care” and bluegrass pickers John Cowan, Sam Bush and Béla Fleck guest on “Love Will Do That.” Frank Rogers produced.
by WCTK in its home market, followed by KUBL/Salt Lake City (0.9), and then WMIL/Milwaukee, KUPL/Portland, KFRG/Riverside and KCYY/San Antonio (0.8 each). WFMS holds the largest 6+ share in PPM with a 10.9. The 6+ format lead changed hands in two markets: KMPS/Seattle broke away from a tie with KKWF, while KCYY/San Antonio reclaimed that metro’s 6+ format crown from KAJA.
Legend: A “+” indicates a Classic Country oulet, a “^” designates Country stations in the same market owned by a single operator, a “t” indicates a tie and a “*” indicates a record high showing for the station in that particular category.
Country Aircheck Top Point GainersTIM MCGRAW/Felt Good On My Lips (Curb) 2088 4RODNEY ATKINS/Farmer's Daughter (Curb) 1356 4TOBY KEITH/Bullets In The Gun (Show Dog-Universal) 1274 4TAYLOR SWIFT/Mine (Big Machine) 1070 4JASON ALDEAN/My Kinda Party (BBR) 1011 4TRACE ADKINS/This Ain't No Love Song (Show Dog-Universal) 983ZAC BROWN BAND f/A. JACKSON/As... (So. Ground/Atlantic/BPG) 855BRAD PAISLEY/Anything Like Me (Arista) 854KEITH URBAN/Put You In A Song (Capitol) 801REBA/Turn On The Radio (Starstruck/Valory) 711
Country Aircheck Top Spin GainersTIM MCGRAW/Felt Good On My Lips (Curb) 707RODNEY ATKINS/Farmer's Daughter (Curb) 516TOBY KEITH/Bullets In The Gun (Show Dog-Universal) 438TAYLOR SWIFT/Mine (Big Machine) 414JASON ALDEAN/My Kinda Party (BBR) 402TRACE ADKINS/This Ain't No Love Song (Show Dog-Universal) 390ZAC BROWN BAND f/A. JACKSON/As... (So. Ground/Atlantic/BPG) 342KEITH URBAN/Put You In A Song (Capitol) 322BRAD PAISLEY/Anything Like Me (Arista) 289REBA/Turn On The Radio (Starstruck/Valory) 270
Activator Top Point GainersTIM MCGRAW/Felt Good On My Lips (Curb) 649 4TOBY KEITH/Bullets In The Gun (Show Dog-Universal) 456 4RODNEY ATKINS/Farmer’s Daughter (Curb) 406 4KEITH URBAN/Put You In A Song (Capitol) 322 4TRACE ADKINS/This Ain't No Love Song (Show Dog-Universal) 284 4BRAD PAISLEY/Anything Like Me (Arista) 263TAYLOR SWIFT/Mine (Big Machine) 248LADY ANTEBELLUM/Hello World (Capitol) 204BILLY CURRINGTON/Let Me Down Easy (Mercury) 202CHRIS YOUNG/Voices (RCA) 199
Activator Top Spin GainersTIM MCGRAW/Felt Good On My Lips (Curb) 369TOBY KEITH/Bullets In The Gun (Show Dog-Universal) 294RODNEY ATKINS/Farmer's Daughter (Curb) 268KEITH URBAN/Put You In A Song (Capitol) 191TRACE ADKINS/This Ain’t No Love Song (Show Dog-Universal) 178BRAD PAISLEY/Anything Like Me (Arista) 176TAYLOR SWIFT/Mine (Big Machine) 163BILLY CURRINGTON/Let Me Down Easy (Mercury) 154LADY ANTEBELLUM/Hello World (Capitol) 150CHRIS YOUNG/Voices (RCA) 145
Country Aircheck Add LeadersTOBY KEITH/Bullets In The Gun (Show Dog-Universal) 26LADY ANTEBELLUM/Hello World (Capitol) 25BILLY CURRINGTON/Let Me Down Easy (Mercury) 18CRAIG MORGAN/Still A Little Chicken Left... (BNA) 18TIM MCGRAW/Felt Good On My Lips (Curb) 13BLAKE SHELTON/Who Are You When I'm Not... (Reprise/WMN) 11BRETT ELDREDGE/Raymond (Atlantic/WAR) 10JERROD NIEMANN/What Do You Want (SeaGayle/Arista) 9SARA EVANS/A Little Bit Stronger (RCA) 9UNCLE KRACKER f/KID ROCK/Good To... (Top Dog Atlantic/BPG) 8
CMTJEWEL/Ten (Valory)THOMPSON SQUARE/Are You Gonna Kiss Me Or Not (Stoney Creek)
CMT PUREADAM BRAND/Ready For Love (Arista)JEWEL/Ten (Valory)STEALING ANGELS/He Better Be Dead (Skyville/Nine North)DOOBIE BROTHERS/Nobody (HOR)MCCLYMONTS/Save Yourself (Executive)
GACADAM BRAND/Ready For Love (Arista)ASHLEY GEARING/What Do You Think About Us (Curb)
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ADAM BRAND/Ready For Love (Arista) Moves 49*-47*; 648 points, 276 spins 5 ADDS: KCYY*, KIZN*, WMIL, WOKQ*, WYNK GARY ALLAN/Kiss Me When I’m Down (MCA) Debuts at 48*; 570 points, 211 spins 5 ADDS: KATM*, KDRK, KHKI*, KTEX, WDXB JAMES OTTO/Soldiers And Jesus (Warner Bros./WMN) Debuts at 49*; 539 points, 241 spins 1 ADD: WYRK* STEALING ANGELS/He Better Be Dead (Skyville/Nine North) Stays at 50; 510 points, 232 spins No adds
TRAILER CHOIR/Shakin’ That Tailgate (Show Dog-Universal) 309 points, 144 spins No addsAircheck Activity includes the top 15 songs that rank 45-50 on this week’s chart or are those that are not charted and have a minimum of 300 airplay points and have shown growth in two of the past three weeks. (* indicates auto adds)
Country Aircheck Top Recurrents Points
LADY ANTEBELLUM/Our Kind Of Love (Capitol) 9090BLAKE SHELTON/All About Tonight (Reprise/WMN) 7984LITTLE BIG TOWN/Little White Church (Capitol) 7642BILLY CURRINGTON/Pretty Good At Drinkin' Beer (Mercury) 6676UNCLE KRACKER/Smile (Atlantic/Top Dog/BPG) 6200LEE BRICE/Love Like Crazy (Curb) 5877KEITH URBAN/I'm In (Capitol) 5229MIRANDA LAMBERT/The House That Built Me (Columbia) 5166JERROD NIEMANN/Lover, Lover (Sea Gayle/Arista) 4888LUKE BRYAN/Rain Is A Good Thing (Capitol) 4876
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