NYC Radio: Santa Spins WLTW To #1

As expected Santa delivered an early present to WLTW 106.7 FM as LiteFM station surged 5.6—7.7 on the strength of Christmas music during the December PPMs.  The iHeartMedia outlet returned to the market’s #1 position 6+ and 25-54 (AQH) .   

Also expected, CBS Radio’s Classic Hits WCBS 101.1 FM, which had been #1 for the past three months, fell.  However, WCBS-FM has got to be pleased with its 7.1—6.9 performance against the Holiday hits. It also was #1 in Cume.

   

iHM Top 40 WHTZ 100.3 FM Z100 was up again posting its best share since May 5.5—5.6, good for #3.   SBS Tropical WSKQ 97.9 FM was up 5.1—5.4 and ended up in the #4 position.  Emmis UrbanAC WBLS 107.5 FM rebounded 4.9—5.3 for the #5 spot.

25-54:  WLTW…WCBS-FM…WHTZ…WBLS…WSKQ

18-34:  WHTZ…WWPR…WQHT…WSKQ…WLTW

18-49:  WLTW…WHTZ…WCBS-FM…WSKQ…WWPR

Cume:    WCBS-FM 3,691,500...WBMP-FM 3,172,700...WWFS-FM 3,127,600...WAXQ-FM 2,829,400...WWPR-FM 2,515,000

Noteworthy: WFAN began its 28th year on the air this fall with one of its strongest ratings quarters in recent memory, averaging more than 7 percent of the audience among men ages 25-54 for its three key shows from Sept. 11 through Dec. 3, according to Newsday.

Joe Benigno, Evan Roberts

The most pleasant surprise for the station was the performance of the midday show featuring Joe Benigno and Evan Roberts, which averaged a 7.6 share and ranked first in the New York market for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. -- a WFAN first.

Mark Chernoff, the station's operations manager, praised the team for being "on target" with their discussions. He also credited popular regular football guests such as Antrel Rolle, Muhammad Wilkerson, Carl Banks, Terry Bradshaw and Michael Irvin.

"They are the stars of this book," the station's afternoon host, Mike Francesa, said of Benigno and Roberts.

WFAN's morning team of Boomer Esiason and Craig Carton averaged a 7.9 share, second in the market to Z100 and nearly double the 4.0 for ESPN's national show featuring Mike Golic and Mike Greenberg.

Benigno and Roberts more than doubled the 3.1 for ESPN New York's programming between 10 and 1.

Mike Francesa finished first in his 1 to 6:30 p.m. slot with a 7.2 share, well ahead of ESPN's 3.8 during that time period.

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L-A Radio: Holiday Hits Help KOST Surge

iHeartMedia’s KOST 103.5 FM surged 5.2—7.0 (6+ AQH) to regain the #1 spot (also #1 2-54 and 18-49), after starting with Christmas tunes one week into the ratings month.  The station actually bettered last year’s same month 6.3 share performance.  Clustermates KIIS 1027 FM dropped to the second spot, after losing share 5.3—4.9 and KBIG 104.3 FM MyFM was flat 4.7.—4.6 and claimed the #3 spot.

CBS Radio’s Classic Hits KRTH 101.1 FM moved 4.2—4.5, good for #4 and Emmis’ Top40 KPWR  105.9 FM was off 4.3—3.9 and ended up at #5.

25-54:  KOST…KIIS..KBIG…KRTH…KLVE

18-34:  KPWR…KIIS…KOST…KBIG…KRTH

18-49:  KOST…KIIS…KBIG…KPWR…KRTH

Cume:  KOST-FM 3,780,100…KIIS-FM 3,688,100…KBIG-FM 3,509,600…KAMP-FM 2,804,100…KRTH-FM 2,736,300

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Chicago Radio: WLIT Returns To A Familiar December Spot

A year later, iHearthMedia’s WLIT 93.9 FM MyFM has returned to the #1 spot thanks to a dramatic 3.7—7.7 December PPM performance (6+ AQH).  MyFM also outperformed last year’s December share of 6.5. 

iHM clustermate UrbanAC WVAZ 102.7 FM V103 made a great move 5.9—7.3 to end up at #2.  

CBS Radio News WBBM 780 AM / 105.9 FM was up 5.7—6.2, but dropped to the #3 spot. 

Hubbard’s  HotAC WTMX 101.9 FM MIX fell to #4 5.2—4.9   iHM’s Top40 WKSC 103.5 FM KISS was flat 4.3—4.3 to finish at #5.

25-54:  WVAZ…WLIT…WTMX…WKSC…WOJO

18-34:  WGCI…WLIT tied WKSC…WVAZ…WBBM-FM

18-49:  WVAZ…WLIT…WTMX…WKSC…WBBM-FM

Cume:  WLIT-FM 2,427,500…WKSC-FM 2,385,400…WTMX-FM 2,206,100…WBBM-FM 2,175,300…WBBM-AM 1,654,800

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Philly Radio: Classic Hip-Hop Scores

Classic hip-hop turns in its best debut yet in Philadelphia, according to InsideRadio.

In its best ratings performance yet, the fledgling classic hip-hop format finished top five among persons 18-34 and 25-54 in its first full month on the air in Philadelphia.  After initial success in Houston, Radio One quickly duplicated the red-hot format in Philly on “Boom 107.9” WPHI, which dropped urban on November 8, two days into Nielsen’s December survey.

The station has since doubled its 6+ share (1.9-3.8), while lurching into the top five in 18-34 (4.0-6.5) and 25-54 (2.3-5.5). The ratings are especially remarkable given WPHI’s class A signal.  The station apparently most negatively affected is sister R&B oldies “Old School 100.3” WRNB, which tumbled 4.0-3.3.

In Dallas, “Boom 94.5” KSOC grew 2.8-3.4 in 6+ to finish tenth without the benefit of a full survey just yet in the throwback format.  The station, which launched November 14, tripled its 18-34 shares (1.0-3.4) to rank 13th and moved 3.1-4.0 in 25-54 to rank eighth. The gains appear to have taken a sliver away from Service Broadcasting urban “K-104” KKDA (4.0-3.6) and Radio One rhythmic CHR “97.9 The Beat” KBFB (3.6-3.3)   Cumulus Media’s KLIF-FM, which had a two-week fling with classic hip-hop after rebranding in October as rhythmic CHR “Hot 93.3,” had the largest 6+ percentage increase in Dallas, vaulting 1.8.-2.6.

Back in Houston, “Boom 92” KROI came close to matching its explosive 3.2 debut in November with a 2.9 in December.  But it slipped from tenth to 12th in persons 25-54 (4.0-3.7)  and fell from sixth to ninth (5.1- 4.3) in adults 18-34.

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Nielsen Releases December PPM Data for Top Markets

Nielsen Monday released the first batch of December PPM results.  Markets released were:

1 New York City  

2 Los Angeles  

3 Chicago  

4 San Francisco  

5  Dallas-Ft. Worth  

6 Houston-Galveston  

8 Philadelphia  

9 Atlanta 

20 Nassau-Suffolk (Long Island, NY) 

26 Riverside-San Bernardino CA 

36 San Jose CA 

41 Middlesex-Somerset-Union NJ

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Alpha Media To Acquire Shreveport, Tyler Stations

Alpha Media of Portland, OR, has agreed to acquire Access 1 Communications' nine radio stations in Shreveport, LA and Tyler-Longview, TX.

Included in the deal are Shreveport stations:

• KBTT 103.7 FM The Beat 
• KOKA 980 AM The Light
• KDKS 102.1 FM 
• KLKL 95.7 FM  Classic Hits
• KTAL 98.1 FM Rock

Tyler-Longview, TX stations:

• KKUS 104.1 FM Classic Country
• KOOI 106.5 FM Sunny
• KOYE 96.5 FM Regional Mexican
• KYKX 105.7 FM Country

Alpha Media will begin operating the Access 1 stations under an Local Marketing Agreement (LMA), beginning January 1. AM's portfolio currently includes seventy stations and when all pending deals are complete, the station count will reach 83.

Alpha Media Chairman Larry Wilson said, "I've known Chesley Maddox-Dorsey for a long time. She's a great person with superb integrity and it's a tremendous honor for us to be buying stations from Access 1. I've been continually impressed with the quality of people I've met and their passion for the industry. It fits right in our sweet spot for live and local radio and we are very much looking forward to the acquisition."

Access 1 Communications President/CEO Chesley Maddox-Dorsey said, "Larry Wilson continues to display the dynamism that has earned him the best in class title for our industry. With our sale to Alpha Media, our employees, listeners and advertising partners in East Texas and Shreveport, Louisiana will have the opportunity to work with a visionary group of media professionals with a demonstrated track record of success. We are thrilled that we could pass our baton to this incredibly imaginative company that will maintain that intimate connection with listeners and advertisers that we have come to cherish."

'Robin Williams' Was Google's Most Searched In 2014

The death in August of Robin Williams made the actor the top trending search term of the year both in the US and globally, says Google in its 2014 Year in Search report, marking the third consecutive year that the passing of an iconic figure was the top trending search topic.

Charlotte Radio: Layoffs Reported At Beasley Stations

Beasley Broadcast Group, which acquired seven Charlotte radio stations this month from CBS Radio, has shed about a dozen or more jobs at the operation in a wave of layoffs that began Friday, accoridng to The Charlotte Observer.

Bill Schoening, Charlotte market manager for Beasley, said Monday he could not comment on the reports, and calls and messages to Beasley executives at its Naples, Fla.-headquarters were not returned. But some of the affected workers said Monday they were surprised to learn a week before Christmas that their jobs were being eliminated.

None of the layoffs appear to have hit the top talent ranks at the stations, which include three of the city’s best-ranked stations, Urban WPEG 97.9 FM Power98,  UrbanAC WBAV 101.9 FM and Country WSOC 103.7 FM.

Beasley also operates sports-talk stations Sports WFNZ 610 AM the Fan and WBCN 1660 AM and pop stations WKQC 104.7 FM and WNKS 95.1 FM Kiss95.1.

On Dec. 1, Beasley took over the Charlotte stations, part of a transaction with CBS Radio that also included station transfers in Tampa, Miami and Philadelphia. CBS had operated radio stations in Charlotte since 1997, but traded them to gain operations in larger cities where there was synergy with other broadcast properties. When the deal was consummated, Beasley wound up with 53 radio stations in 12 cities, including 12 stations it already operated in Eastern North Carolina.

St. Louis Radio: Dave Adams Named New PD At KLOU-FM

Dave Adams

iHeartMedia/St. Louis has appointed Dave Adams as Program Director for heritage Classic Hits KLOU 103.3 FM, effective January 12.

Adams joins KLOU after 4 years of programming stations at iHeartMedia/Milwaukee, including Oldies WRIT 95.7 FM  and WRNW 97.3 FM Radio Now. His programming experience also includes WBNQ-FM/Bloomington and WHZZ-FM/Lansing, MI.

"We are thrilled to have Dave's leadership to help bring KLOU and its staff to a new level of ratings and revenue success," said Regional Market Manager and iHM/St. Louis Market President Beth Davis.

"Dave Adams brings a strong set of skills that will elevate not only KLOU but the group as a whole to help continue our cluster's success in St. Louis," said Regional Program Manager & iHM/St. Louis Director of Operations Steve Stewart. "I'm excited to work with Dave and I'm confident he will be a great addition to our team."

"I'm really excited to be a part of the St. Louis team in such a great city and station with heritage call letters as KLOU," said Adams. "A special thanks to Carl Anderson, Beth Davis and Steve Stewart for this great opportunity."

WA Radio: Pot Advertising Can Be Tricky

The citizens of Washington state may have voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use by a margin of 56% to 44% back in 2012, but that doesn’t mean state regulators have to make it easy for consumers to find or merchants to sell, according to Mediapost.com.

Last week, the state’s Liquor Control Board, which has authority over the marijuana trade, issued strict new ad guidelines limiting marketing and promotional efforts by marijuana vendors.

Among other limits, according to the new guidelines, no marijuana advertising or labeling on marijuana or marijuana-infused products may claim that marijuana has any curative or therapeutic effects. Marijuana ads are banned from public property and transit vehicles, and merchants are forbidden from using giveaways, coupons, or branded merchandise to promote their products.

However, they are permitted to establish a separate business to sell merchandise (e.g. t-shirts and hats) promoting their marijuana store — but this merchandise can’t be sold in the store itself.

Although the new rules don’t explicitly forbid radio and TV advertising, the LCB warns that such ads may well run afoul of the law in neighboring states or the Federal government, as “Television and radio… carry across state lines as well as places where children can see or hear.”

Bumper stickers promoting the brand are illegal, and advertising with vinyl-wrapped vehicles is “risky,” because such vehicles could easily come within 1,000 feet of a school or other restricted areas. For the same reason, retailers should think twice about putting their brand on delivery trucks.

Wounded Meteorologist Doesn't Know Assailant

Patrick Crawford

Television meteorologist Patrick Crawford, who was shot in his station's parking lot, thanked doctors and others who helped him right after he was shot last week.

The 35-year-old, spoke to the media for the first time since the shooting on Monday.

According to USAToday, Crawford, a KCEN-TV weatherman, is still recovering at Baylor Scott & White Hospital in Temple, Texas.

Crawford was shot at 11 times with a semi-automatic handgun Wednesday as the morning show meteorologist was leaving the station, owned by Gannett Co. Inc., after his shift.

Crawford was shot in the stomach and shoulder and a bullet grazed his head, but he managed to drive off along the I-35 frontage road. He stopped his car near construction workers who offered aid and called for help.

"Things are improving. I'm slowly getting better," Crawford said. "It's been a long process with a lot of pain."

The unknown suspect fled on foot.

"There was no interaction whatsoever," Crawford said. "He just started shooting at me as I was leaving the parking lot of KCEN TV station. So there was no interaction. I did not know him."

CA Radio: Richard Trejo Retiring From KDAR Oxnard

Richard Trejo

Salem Communications announced today that Richard Trejo is retiring at the end of December. He has managed KDAR 98.3 FM  in  Oxnard, CA during his 14 years with the company.

Trejo's radio career started in 1981 as an Account Executive with KUZZ FM / KKXX FM Bakersfield, CA. He went on to hold positions as GSM for Buck Owens Broadcasting, GM for The Park Lane Group, and General Manager at KDAR during his 37 yrs. in radio.

Richard's next job assignment? "Full time grandfathering to our 9 grandkids," he quipped.

Salem VP Operations Manager, Terry Fahy, had this to say about Trejo's departure: "I tried to talk him out of it!  But when he played the 'grandfather card' I knew it was time for Richard to leave us to enjoy the fruits of his labor. His faithfulness, creativity and love of Christian formatted radio will be deeply missed."

AP's Top News Story for 2014: Death Of Unarmed Blacks

The police killings of unarmed blacks in Ferguson, Missouri, and elsewhere — and the investigations and tumultuous protests they inspired — was the top news story of 2014, according to The Associated Press' annual poll of U.S. editors and news directors.

In a year crowded with dramatic and often wrenching news developments around the world, the No. 2 story was the devastating outbreak of Ebola in West Africa, followed by the conflict in Iraq and Syria fueled by the brutal actions of Islamic State militants.

Among the 85 voters casting ballots, first-place votes were spread among 15 different stories. The Ferguson entry received 22 first-place votes, Ebola 11 and the Islamic State story 12.

The voting was conducted before the announcement that the United States and Cuba were re-establishing diplomatic relations and Sony Pictures' decision to withdraw its film "The Interview" in the wake of computer hacking and threats.

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R.I.P.: Casey Kasem Finally Laid To Rest In Norway

Casey Kasem

Almost six months after his death, radio icon Casey Kasem has been laid to rest.

A rep for the legend's daughter Kerri Kasem confirmed to ABC News that he was buried by his wife Jean in Norway last week without consulting his children.

“Jean buried him without telling the kids," Kerri Kasem's rep Danny Deraney told ABC. "She does not have to tell them since she is the conservator over his remains.”

Kasem, who was married twice and has four children, died at the age of 82 on June 15. He wed Jean, 60, in 1980.

In recent years, the radio personality's health declined and in 2013, his daughter Kerri said he was suffering from a form of dementia.

Kerri and the other children were not happy their father was buried outside of Glendale, California, where Kerri had said in late June on "The View" was were he requested his remains be.

“Clearly the family is not happy, but they are also at peace knowing that they got to spend his final moments with him," the rep added.

December 23 In Radio History

In 1922...the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) broadcast the first orchestral concert, the first program of dance music, the first radio talk program, and the first regular bulletin of general news from London.


In 1947...In what would be a major development for radio and other electronics, the transistor is invented by three scientists at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey. The trio would win the 1956 Nobel Prize in for their discovery.





In 1987..."Good Morning, Vietnam," starring Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Bruno Kirby, and J.T. Walsh, opened in U.S. and Canadian movie theaters.

Stan Brooks

In 2013...Stan Brooks, longtime newsman at 1010 WINS died.

He was 86, and had worked until a month before his death, delivering his last report from City Hall on Nov. 20, according to The NY Times.

Brooks joined WINS, 1010 on the AM dial, as news director in 1962, when it was still one of the dominant Top40 music stations in the country, with a lineup of popular disc jockeys including Murray Kaufman, known as Murray the K.

When Westinghouse Electric Corporation, the station’s owners, decided to make WINS an all-news operation soon after Brooks’s arrival, he helped assemble the staff and lay the groundwork for one of the first all-news radio stations in the country — and the first in the city.




The switch took place on April 19, 1965. The blackout on Nov. 9 that year, which plunged most of the Northeast into darkness, put Brooks’s news team on the aural map.

By tapping into a transmission line based in New Jersey, WINS was one of the few radio outlets that managed to stay on the air. From a 19th-floor studio in Midtown Manhattan, Mr. Brooks and his reporters broadcast news and information throughout the night.

After several years as an executive and then a national correspondent for the Westinghouse Broadcasting radio station system, Mr. Brooks became a local reporter at WINS in 1970. His voice has been on the city’s airwaves almost every day since.

In understated dispatches between 30 seconds and one minute long, he reported on plane crashes, race riots, municipal near-bankruptcies, the tall ships, the Son of Sam, the Attica prison uprising and every mayoral administration from John V. Lindsay to Michael R. Bloomberg.

He liked the precision of short-form journalism. “When you’ve got 35 seconds, you’ve got to tell people what they need right away,” he said in an interview last year. “You want to get to the spine of the story.”

R.I.P.: Singer Joe Cocker Dead At 70

Joe Cocker

Legendary "With A Little Help from My Friends" singer Joe Cocker has died at age 70 after a long battle with lung cancer, Sony Music said in a statement Monday.

The British-born crooner died at his home in Colorado, accoridng to the NY Daily News.

“It will be impossible to fill the space he leaves in our hearts,” his agent Barrie Marshall told the BBC.

Cocker rose to fame in 1964 and recorded 40 albums while touring into his 60s.

His cover of the Beatles' "With A Little Help from My Friends" vaulted to No. 1 and lifted Cocker to stardom. Cocker's "With A Little Help From My Friends" also was also the theme song for the wildly-popular television series "The Wonder Years."

He won a Grammy for "Up Where We Belong," a 1982 duet with Jennifer Warnes. Other Joe Cocker hits include "Feelin' Alright,""You Are So Beautiful" and "Unchain My Heart."

He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2007 for his music achievements.

NYC Radio: Jim Ryan Gets Promoted, New Deal From CBS Radio

Jim Ryan

Jim Ryan has been named Senior Vice President, Programming, CBS Radio, it was announced today by Chris Oliviero, Executive Vice President, Programming, CBS Radio. The appointment is effective immediately.

In this new position, Ryan will serve as a source of programming expertise and develop key initiatives and strategies for all of CBS Radio’s music stations across the country. He retains his title as Program Director for New York stations WCBS 101.1 FM and WWFS 102.7 FM as part of his contract extension with CBS Radio.

“Jim is universally recognized as one of the premiere music programming minds in the industry and he surely has the ratings’ resume to back it up,” said Oliviero. “This well-deserved expanded role will allow our stations and programmers to benefit from his world class experience and knowledge. I am thrilled that Jim will be helping us craft the future of our industry leading brands and shaping the sound of our stations for years to come.”

Ryan joined CBS Radio in April 2010 as Program Director of WWFS-FM and Vice President, Adult Contemporary Programming. He will also continue in the latter role, and add oversight of the division’s Classic Hits stations to his responsibilities as well. In June 2012, Ryan was named Program Director of WCBS-FM, the most listened to station this year in New York whose audience has increased by more than 30% since the beginning of 2014.

Before joining CBS Radio, Ryan was head of his own consulting company, Jim Ryan Media, where he advised many top radio stations, including market leaders in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Houston, and syndicated national personalities, in addition to providing Arbitron PPM analysis to influential clients in the talk radio industry.

From September 1996 to April 2008, Ryan worked for iHeartMedia’s WLTW, 106.7 Lite-FM. During his time at the station, Ryan programmed and served as Director of Adult Contemporary Programming, went on to become Vice President of AC Programming and was later elevated to Senior Vice President of AC Programming. Furthermore, he consulted Premiere syndication directed at the adult female audience, including notable talent such as Delilah and Casey Kasem. Over the years, Ryan was responsible for helping WLTW become one of the most listened to and top billing radio stations in America.

Prior to working in New York, Ryan played an instrumental role in establishing WBEB in Philadelphia as a market leader. Additionally, he programmed and then became an equity partner in a Portland, Oregon radio property (KXYQ) forming an acquisition company with the band Van Halen. Ryan is a native of Long Island where he began his broadcasting career, and later went on to work in Denver, Pittsburgh, Miami and Detroit, before his first group programming job in 1981 overseeing stations in Michigan, Wisconsin and Florida.

Report: 3Q Radio Ad Spending Drops 6.2 Percent

Total advertising expenditures increased 0.3 percent in the third quarter of 2014 to $33.7 billion, according to data released today by Kantar Media.

During the first nine months of 2014 ad spending grew 2.2 percent. “After a relatively robust first half when spend grew by 3.1%,the pace of ad spending slowed during Q3 and a principal cause was Top 100 marketers becoming more restrained with their budgets,” said Jon Swallen, Chief Research Officer at Kantar Media North America.

“In contrast, mid-sized advertisers, who are the core of the ad market, continued to supply foundational support and grew their total spending by 6-7 percent during the quarter.”

Measured Ad Spending By Media Television ad spending increased 6.5 percent in the third quarter and was the only sector in the analysis with year-over-year growth. Spanish Language TV rose 23.7 percent and was fueled by the final two weeks of the World Cup tournament in July.

Spending on Cable TV networks was up 7.9 percent in the period with roughly one-third of the gain attributable to increased commercial time. Political spending was the primary contributor to the 5.2 percent rise in Spot TV.

Collectively, these three TV segments were responsible for an estimated $700 million of growth and offset the weaker results from Network TV (+0.2 percent) and National Syndication (+1.6 percent). Q3 Internet display spending fell 1.7 percent due to fewer page views by desktop PC users, which in turn led to fewer ad impressions. (Mobile internet display spend is not included in this analysis.)

Outdoor expenditures declined 2.7 percent on cutbacks from the Restaurant, Financial Service and Media categories. Print media experienced further losses in the period. Total expenditures in Newspaper media fell 13.0 percent and reflected commensurate reductions in volume of space sold.

Consumer Magazine spending dropped 4.6 percent as lower budgets from CPG and Auto advertisers erased encouraging gains from the Apparel and Pharmaceutical categories. Ad expenditures in Sunday Magazines fell 11.7 percent on lower demand from Direct Response marketers, a bellwether category for the segment.  (Note that these figures are based on print channels only and do not include activity on websites or other properties operated by print brands).

Radio media also dipped during the third quarter. Local Radio ad spending on English language stations was down 6.2 percent and on Spanish language stations it fell 6.6 percent. National Spot Radio fared no better with a decline of 5.3 percent. A common outcome for each of these segments was lower spending by retail, financial service and restaurant advertisers.

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