Sunday, February 19, 2012
Thursday, February 16, 2012
37 Colorado Feb 16, 2012
Today I emailed and sent messages to:
37 Colorado
Feb 16, 2012
Wrote comment
on site.
http://krai.com/contact-us/ …krai@krai.com
http://www.kissfmcolorado.com/pages/contactinfo.html …chris@kissfmcolorado.com,
http://www.mix100.com/?successResp=true&prevUrl=9263550
.. wrote a message to PD
37 Colorado
Feb 16, 2012 Sent emails and messages to below:
dj@krfcfm.org,
carlos@kuvo.org, genmanager@kcme.org, chad@kbut.org, ken@ksut.org,
stasia@ksut.org, krai@krai.com, chris@kissfmcolorado.com, admin@kwuf.com,
stuhaskell@clearchannel.com, tony@997thepoint.com,
An Interest Article Regarding Recording Albums
Whitney Houston's Death To Earn Dolly Parton A Fortune
First Posted: 02/13/2012 1:54 pm Updated: 02/16/2012 7:58 am
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After the untimely death of Michael Jackson, his estate made a fortune due to a sudden renewed interest in his catalogue. According to insiders, however, the same will not happen with Whitney Houston.
"She was broke -- her label gave her advances," a record company insider told me. "And unlike Michael, you have to remember that Whitney didn't write any of those massive hits. They were songs that Clive Davis told her to sing and she did."
One of Houston's biggest hits, "I Will Always Love You," was actually written by Dolly Parton, who will receive the writer's and publisher's rates when the song undoubtedly gets a boost in radio and television performances.
"Whitney is only the singer," a successful songwriter told me. "She receives an advance from the record company based upon anticipated album sales. Figure that's around $2.00 per album. But all of the costs to record the album, promote the album, videos, etc. are all recouped from the artist's share."
As in Houston's case, it is very possible for artists to sell millions of records and end up owing the record label money. In fact, most artists don't make money from record sales, but rather from ticket sales -- a revenue stream that will no longer be a source of income for Whitney's estate.
"Whitney was living off of advances -- loans from the record company -- and had been [for] quite some time," the insider said. "Most likely the estate owes the record company a ton and future sales will be used to pay back that loan before any money goes to the estate. The songwriters, however, will make a bundle."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/whitney-houston-death-dolly-parton-estate-record-sales_n_1273323.html?ref=mostpopular
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Sent emails to 36 Wyoming Feb. 5, 2012 Sent
36 Wyoming Feb. 5, 2012
http://www.mybighornbasin.com/pages/8842450.php? … rgelder@bhrnwy.com
http://myhits106.com/ … klmi@myhits106.com
http://myhits106.com/ … klmi@myhits106.com
http://929theboss.com/contact_us.asp …rgrandpre@kfbcradio.com,
36 Wyoming Feb. 5, 2012 email sent to the radio stations below:
imixwyoming@gmail.com,
rgelder@bhrnwy.com, klmi@myhits106.com, ben@sheridanmedia.com,
rgrandpre@kfbcradio.com, donovanshort@townsquaremedia.com, alan@kyoy.net,
kmtnthemountain@gmail.com,
Many Pages About How Radio Works
How do Radio Stations Decide What to Play?
According to the Federal Communications Commission, there are 13,296 radio stations licensed as of September 20, 2002. Aside from the reports of "payola" through indies discussed in the previous section, how do those 13,296 radio stations decide what to play?
Playlists
Radio stations have playlists of songs, which can change weekly. These lists are put together by radio programmers (and others) who use information from many sources to "add" songs. Disc jockeys have not truly been making decisions on what to play for many years. The job falls to the program directors (PDs) who develop lists that direct the DJ on what to play and when to play it. In some cases, the decisions regarding what is played comes from higher up the ladder, especially since so many radio stations are owned by mega corporations. More and more programming decisions are now made by owners and/or regional program directors.
Tools program directors use to know their market
- Software applications that rank core audience performance of stations in the same format, same market, or nationally
- Software applications that tracks radio listening and trends in specific markets
- Audience-analysis software
- Arbitrends service, which delivers ratings updates between standard quarterly surveys
Deciding what to "add"
Knowing the audience is the key to a PD being able to identify the best music to add to playlists. To stay on top what their audience likes, PDs watch the charts and other stations' playlists. They may stay tuned to college radio stations, which often play new music that hasn't made it to the mainstream. They may also keep up with Radio & Records magazine's "Most Added" report, which it generates from data it collects from radio stations in major markets according to genre. In the past few years, many have also found new music on TV. In the 1980s, MTV changed the music scene; today, we have music-related TV series, traditional programs that use new music, cable channels, and even commercials that introduce new songs and artists.
Radio stations (sometimes working with recording companies, distributors, promoters, artist managers or retailers) also conduct market research to see what listeners either want to hear and/or are already listening to. They test new releases using focus groups or sometimes "call out" groups in Auditorium Music Tests (AMTs). AMTs are held in auditoriums with music played to a group that can then ask questions and make comments on the music. A newer version of this type of research involves Web surveys by which listeners can vote and comment on music.
Online peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are also influencing radio playlists. BigChampagne, owned by Clear Channel, is tracking the songs most frequently downloaded in the P2P networks such as LimeWire, KaZaA, Morpheus, and others. The program parses this data by geographic region and reports it to radio stations, giving the stations a more accurate feel for what is "hot."
Clear Channel also has a Web site (ClearChannel New Music Network) dedicated to new music. New groups can register and post their music for PDs and consumers to listen to. If PDs like it, there is always the chance they'll add it to their playlist.
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Radio News Today
Absolute billboard ads to have song info
Absolute Radio is to put ‘now playing’ track information on billboard adverts as part of a relaunch of its ‘Faces For Radio’ marketing campaign.
The station has worked with outdoor advertising firms JCDecaux and Clear Channel to take a live RSS feed from the studios and put it on the roadside.
The updated Faces for Radio campaign is being put on ad hoardings across London and the parts of the South East from this week, with the digital ones going live from 13 February.
Absolute Radio’s Marketing Director Clare Baker said: “The ‘Now Playing’ feature is designed to demonstrate the station’s core music proposition and is in line with our dynamic digital credentials. For this campaign we are targeting the roadside and in-car audience tempting them to trial the station immediately.”
As well as a homepage takeover at absoluteradio.co.uk, the ‘now playing’ feed is being used on web banner adverts which will run across third party sites with the Faces for Radio creative. The campaign has been planned and booked with JCDecaux, Clear Channel and Primesight by MEC and Kinetic, with creative by Albion.
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