Archived News and Articles - March 2006
Archive Date - March 30, 2006
MEDIA AUDIT RELEASES INFO ON HOUSTON
All Access
The Media Audit/Ipsos has released further information about their much-publicized Houston media tests, which are scheduled to take place in May, with test results shared with the industry later in the month.
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Archive Date - March 30, 2006
HD: STUMBLE OUT OF THE GATE?
Paul Marszalek – FMQB
I’ve saved up $500, but I want three toys. I want one of those new video iPods ($399), an international Treo-type phone ($299-$499), and a new HD Radio ($499 at the time of this writing). So I have a problem. I can only really afford one of these competing new technologies right now.
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Archive Date - March 30, 2006
BLUETOOTH ADOPTS RADIO TECH
Peter Svensson – Associated Press
The Bluetooth wireless standard used in cellphones and other small devices will take a leap in transmission speed, broadening its scope to enable high-definition video and files for digital music players like the iPod.
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Archive Date - March 30, 2006
TRUE NORTH'S STRONG SPIRIT
Bernie Finkelstein has championed Canadian music for 40-plus years – and he's about to be recognized for it
Alan Niester – Globe and Mail
Bernie Finkelstein is back behind his cluttered desk, where he belongs.
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Archive Date - March 29, 2006
NOBODY REALLY WANTS VARIETY
Mark Ramsey – All Access
"Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure," wrote the Italian poet Petrarch some 700 years ago. And to this day audiences will loudly proclaim their lust for variety and their disdain for its evil twin, sameness.
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Archive Date - March 29, 2006
BROADCASTING DECISION CRTC 2006-87
English-language FM radio station in New Glasgow
CRTC Release
In this decision, the Commission approves an application by Hector Broadcasting Company Limited for a broadcasting licence to operate a new English-language FM radio station at New Glasgow to replace its AM station CKEC, which is the only local commercial radio station in that market.
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Archive Date - March 29, 2006
BROADCASTING DECISION CRTC 2006-88
CHTN Charlottetown – Conversion to FM band
CRTC Release
In this decision, the Commission approves the application by Newcap Inc. (Newcap) for a broadcasting licence to operate a new English-language commercial FM radio station in Charlottetown at 100.3 MHz. The new radio station will replace Newcap’s existing AM station CHTN, and will offer a Classic Hits/Oldies music format.
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Archive Date - March 29, 2006
BROADCASTING DECISION CRTC 2006-89
CFCY Charlottetown – Conversion to FM band
CRTC Release
In this decision, the Commission approves the application by Maritime Broadcasting System Limited (Maritime) for a broadcasting licence to operate a new English-language commercial FM radio station in Charlottetown at 95.1 MHz. The new radio station will replace Maritime’s existing AM station CFCY, and will offer a Country music format.
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Archive Date - March 29, 2006
BROADCASTING DECISION CRTC 2006-90
English-language FM radio station in Charlottetown
CRTC Release
In this decision, the Commission approves in part an application by Newcap Inc. (Newcap) for a broadcasting licence to operate a new English-language, commercial FM radio station in Charlottetown. However, Newcap must, within three months of the date of this decision, submit for the Commission’s approval, an application proposing the use of another frequency and technical parameters that are acceptable to the Commission and the Department of Industry for use in the Charlottetown market.
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Archive Date - March 27, 2006
COMPETITION BUREAU COMMENTS ON REVIEW
Broadcaster
The Competition Bureau has filed a submission to the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to ensure that competitive factors are taken into consideration in the Commission's commercial radio policy review.
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Archive Date - March 27, 2006
NEWCAP BUYS SECOND WINNIPEG STATION
CNW
Newcap Inc., (a wholly-owned subsidiary of Newfoundland Capital Corporation) announced today that the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission has approved the purchase of CKJS Limited which holds the CKJS-AM radio broadcast licence in Winnipeg, Manitoba. This transaction is expected to close within 60 days.
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Archive Date - March 27, 2006
PRIVATE RADIO SINGS THE BLUES
Antonia Zerbisias – Toronto Star
When those that ride the private airwaves use their favourite word, it's Canadian culture that has to bend.
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Archive Date - March 24, 2006
STAND BY YOUR BRAND
Gary Begin – All Access
"Make one point." "Make it simply." "Make it something worth listening to."
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Archive Date - March 24, 2006
QUEBEC SHOCK JOCK ON INTERNET
Broadcaster
Shock jock Jeff Fillion will return to the radio microphone Friday, this time on the Internet, a year after leaving CHOI-FM.
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Archive Date - March 22, 2006
ROCK IS DEAD, THEY SAID
Paul Heine and Anthony Colombo – Billboard
2005 was a tough year for rock radio. Following a string of major-market format flips, questions arose about the format's health. The consumer press piled on with a spate of what's-wrong-with-rock-radio stories. Meanwhile, Jack and Hispanic formats grabbed most of the headlines. Rock was relegated to a sort of second-class radio citizen.
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Archive Date - March 22, 2006
OTTAWA'S "THE JEWEL” DEBUTS TODAY
Evanov Radio Group Release
If the sheer volume of phone calls and Emails thus far are any indication, “Good Morning Ottawa” will become a very popular catch phrase in the Nation's Capital. This morning former Majic 100 afternoon drive personality Saul Jacobson and co-host Marianne Zahoruk officially launched Ottawa's newest radio station, “The Jewel” at 98.5 FM.
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Archive Date - March 22, 2006
FLY FM’S FIND A CAR FAST CASH
CHUM Kingston Release
Over the past 6 weeks, 98.3 FLY-FM and Find-A-Car Kingston recruited listeners to pick up a Find-A-Car license plate bracket for the chance to win big cash! Throughout the weeks the staff of FLY FM and Find-A-Car scouted over 700 license plate numbers around the city of Kingston that had the Find-A-Car plate brackets on. Each plate spotted was entered into a draw.
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Archive Date - March 20, 2006
REGULATION OF CANADIAN RADIO
That was Then... This is Now… Technology Changes Demand Policy Changes
CAB Release
New consumer technologies, changing consumer habits and growing competition from unregulated services demand a bold new approach to how the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) regulates Canadian private radio. In one of the most comprehensive submissions ever filed with the CRTC, the Canadian Association of Broadcasters (CAB) proposes several measures aimed at strengthening Canada’s private radio as it meets the challenges posed by an increasingly fragmented and unregulated marketplace.
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Archive Date - March 20, 2006
MEDIA USE AMONG ETHNIC GROUPS
Traditional Measurement Shortchanges Advertisers
Solutions Research Release
As Canada’s population becomes more diverse, traditional media measurement tools are becoming inadequate in their ability to provide an accurate read of audiences, according to a new study by Solutions Research Group, a Toronto-based market research firm.
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Archive Date - March 20, 2006
HD RADIO PREFERRED OVER IPOD
Mike Boyle – Billboard
Mercury Radio Research has released the results of a survey of 1,000 people conducted in Jan.-Feb. about HD Radio and the iPod. Given the choice between the two technologies at the same price, better than 50% preferred HD over the iPod.
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Archive Date - March 20, 2006
COX TO ENCODE FOR SMART CELLS
All Access
Cox Radio's Bob Neil will do something for The Media Audit that he wouldn't do for Arbitron... encode the signals of his Houston stations for testing of The Media Audit's Smart Cell Phone electronic ratings device.
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Archive Date - March 20, 2006
OTTAWA RADIO ACQUIRES NEW FACILITIES
The Jewel has a new home - and a jewel of a building.
Broadcaster
Evanov Radio Group reports its recent purchase of an Ottawa heritage building located at 127 York Street in Ottawa's vibrant "Byward Market" area for its new Ottawa Radio Operation "98.5 FM The Jewel".
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Archive Date - March 20, 2006
RADIO FEELS IPOD HEAT
Simon Tuck and Grant Robertson – Globe and Mail
Conventional radio stations are losing their grip on the iPod generation as younger listeners shift to new technology, such as MP3 players, satellite radio and the emerging world of music-playing cellphones, the industry is warning Ottawa.
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Archive Date - March 20, 2006
ROLLING STONES CONCERT VIOLATION
CBSC Release
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) today released its decision concerning Q107’s (CILQ-FM, Toronto) broadcast of a Rolling Stones concert on August 10, 2005. The CBSC Ontario Regional Panel examined complaints about the broadcast and concluded that Q107’s failure to clearly indicate that the concert it aired was pre-recorded and not a broadcast of the live concert taking place that evening at the Phoenix Concert Theatre in Toronto constituted a breach of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ (CAB) Code of Ethics.
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Archive Date - March 20, 2006
HARSH INSULTS IN VIOLATION
CBSC Release
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) today released its decision concerning an interview on Bouchard en parle broadcast by CJMF-FM (le 93.3, Quebec City) on July 26, 2005. During the broadcast, the host of the morning show insulted his guest. The CBSC’s Quebec Regional Panel concluded that the broadcast had violated the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ (CAB) Code of Ethics.
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Archive Date - March 16, 2006
BROADCASTING DECISION CRTC 2006-66
English-language FM radio station in Perth
CRTC Release
The Commission approves the application by Norm Wright and Brian Perkin, on behalf of a corporation to be incorporated, for a broadcasting licence to operate an English-language commercial FM radio station in Perth.
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Archive Date - March 16, 2006
BROADCASTING DECISION CRTC 2006-69
English-language FM radio station in Ucluelet
CRTC Release
The Commission approves the application by McBride Communications & Media Inc. for a broadcasting licence to operate an English-language commercial FM radio programming undertaking in Ucluelet, British Columbia.
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Archive Date - March 16, 2006
BROADCASTING DECISION CRTC 2006-71
English-language FM radio station in Lacombe
CRTC Release
The Commission approves an application for a broadcasting licence to operate an English-language commercial FM radio station in Lacombe, Alberta.
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Archive Date - March 16, 2006
ARBITRON ROLLS OUT PPM
Katy Bachman – Mediaweek
Making good on its word to forge ahead with a portable people meter-based radio ratings service, Arbitron announced Tuesday it would begin rolling out PPM ratings to the top 50 markets beginning this July with Houston. The rollout plan calls for the top 10 markets by Fall 2008 and the rest of the top 50 by 2010-2011. Philadelphia, the site of the first PPM test, will be the second PPM market in the rollout.
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Archive Date - March 16, 2006
CAB RATIFIES NEW MEMBERS
Broadcaster
At the meeting of the Joint CAB Board of Directors in Ottawa on March 9, 13 new stations and services were ratified as full members.
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Archive Date - March 15, 2006
NEWCAP FOURTH QUARTER 2005 RESULTS
Period Ended December 31 (unaudited)
CNW
Newfoundland Capital Corporation Limited (the Company) today announces its financial results for the fourth quarter and fiscal year ending December 31, 2005.
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Archive Date - March 15, 2006
ARBITRON ANTES UP
Mike Boyle – Billboard
Arbitron has announced new initiatives to help bolster response rates and improve sample proportionality for young males in the company’s diary-based markets.
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Archive Date - March 15, 2006
SPONSORED PROGRAM IN VIOLATION
CBSC Release
The Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) today released its decision concerning an episode of the Health Show broadcast on CFRB (NewsTalk 1010, Toronto). The CBSC Ontario Regional Panel concluded that the station did not adequately identify the relationship between the sponsorship of the show and the guests on the program, who were employees of the commercial sponsor of the show on that day. The decision is the CBSC’s first on the issue of sponsored programming.
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Archive Date - March 14, 2006
BYRNESMEDIA CLIENT SELLING SNOWBALLS
CKDR Release
Dryden, Ontario received more than 10cms of heavy wet snow overnight (March 8), the kind that is perfect for making AND selling snowballs!
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Archive Date - March 14, 2006
COMMENTS ABOUT ASIANS IN VIOLATION
CBSC Release
Canadian Broadcast Standards Council (CBSC) today released its decision concerning comments made on the program Fun Radio broadcast on CKOI-FM (96.9, Montréal). One of the hosts made comments about Asian people, which a majority of the CBSC Quebec Regional Panel Adjudicators concluded were abusive and unduly discriminatory and thus in violation of the Human Rights clause of the Canadian Association of Broadcasters’ (CAB) Code of Ethics. A minority of Panel Adjudicators, however, considered that the comments did not violate that Code provision.
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Archive Date - March 14, 2006
RADIO GIANT IN PAYOLA LAWSUIT
Entercom Alleged to have Traded Air Time for Payoffs
Office of New York State Attorney General Release
Attorney General Eliot Spitzer today announced a lawsuit against one of the nation’s leading radio chains, alleging that company illegally traded "air time" for payments.
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Archive Date - March 10, 2006
TORONTO TO GET WI-FI
Jack Kapica – Globe and Mail
Toronto is set to join a small but growing club of North American cities that will offer municipal wireless Internet access.
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Archive Date - March 10, 2006
PRESSURE'S ON RIM
Simon Avery – Globe and Mail
Research In Motion Ltd. can breathe easier with that massive patent infringement suit behind it. But it can't relax.
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Archive Date - March 9, 2006
CWC ANNUAL AWARD WINNERS
Broadcaster
Canadian Women in Communications announced today the winners of its prestigious CWC Annual Awards, recognizing exceptional women in the Canadian communications industry and those who have helped women to advance. CWC is also pleased to announce the participants of the 2006 Jeanne Sauvé Professional Development Program, bringing together women from the private and public sector to participate in a program at the Department of Canadian Heritage, Industry Canada and the CRTC for an inside look at communications policy and regulation.
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Archive Date - March 9, 2006
XM PLACE ADS ON FOUR CHANNELS
Sven Philipp – Billboard
Sirius Satellite Radio may soon be able to claim that it is the only satcaster with 100% commercial-free music channels.
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Archive Date - March 9, 2006
CSR REACHES 50,000 SUBS
CNW
Canadian Satellite Radio Holdings Inc., the number one satellite radio service in the country, which offers superior radio signal coverage for Canadians, announced today that the XM Canada service has attracted more than 50,000 self-paying and trial subscribers since service launch, of which 44,000 are self-paying as of the end of its first financial quarter February 28, 2006.
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Archive Date - March 9, 2006
2006 MUSIC INDUSTRY AWARDS WINNERS
CMW Release
Music Director of the Year (Major Market)
Chris “Dunner” Duncombe, CFOX-FM 99.3 The Fox, Vancouver
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Archive Date - March 8, 2006
2006 CRYSTAL AWARD WINNERS
CMW Release
Performance
Groslsch Canada Inc. “Cottage Country”
Created by doug agency inc.
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Archive Date - March 8, 2006
2006 CRMA WINNERS
CMW Release
Best New Group or Solo Artist (Rock)
Arcade Fire - Neighbourhood #3 (Power Out)
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Archive Date - March 8, 2006
2006 INDIE AWARDS WINNERS
CMW Release
XM Satellite Radio Favourite Album
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
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Archive Date - March 7, 2006
BYRNESMEDIA STATION WINS 'CHR OF THE YEAR'
Z103.5 Release
CIDC FM, Z103.5 Today's HIT Music has taken home the esteemed CHR Station of the Year award at the Canadian Music Week Industry Awards celebration, held at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto on March 2nd, 2006.
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Archive Date - March 6, 2006
RMB ANNOUNCES NEW PRESIDENT
Broadcaster
Chairman of the Radio Marketing Bureau's Board of Directors Patrick Grierson is pleased to announce that effective March 1, 2006, Gary Belgrave will be the new President of the Radio Marketing Bureau.
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Archive Date - March 6, 2006
ARBITRON TERMINATION OF PPM JOINT VENTURE
All Access
Arbitron announced the termination of Nielsen Media Research's option, under a May 2000 agreement, to join Arbitron in a commercial deployment of the PPM radio and TV ratings service. Today's announcement allows Arbitron to shift its focus to creating a PPM ratings service for radio only. Nielsen has expressed interest in using the PPM for out-of-home TV measurement to their existing television ratings services.
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Archive Date - March 6, 2006
DMR RELEASES PPM WHITE PAPER
All Access
Broadcast consultancy DMR and the University Of Wisconsin-Madison's A.C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research unveiled the industry’s first-ever independent White Paper on the impact of the PPM on radio programming and marketing.
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Archive Date - March 6, 2006
CBS FILES SUIT AGAINST STERN
Ken Tucker – Billboard
As has been rumored, CBS Radio has announced that it has filed suit against Howard Stern, his company One Twelve, Inc., his agent Don Buchwald, his agent's firm Don Buchwald & Associates, Inc. and Sirius Satellite Radio.
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Archive Date - March 2, 2006
STERN ACCUSES CBS OF 'BULLYING'
Mike Boyle – Billboard
Howard Stern called a news conference in New York City Tuesday to express exasperation over what he termed “bullying” and “threatening” over the past few months by CBS, his former employer.
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Archive Date - March 2, 2006
PAMELA ANDERSON TO HOST JUNOS
International superstar returns home for Canada’s Music Awards
Juno Awards Release
Internationally renowned Canadian superstar Pamela Anderson has been named host of The 2006 JUNO Awards, Canada’s Music Awards, it was announced today by the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS) and broadcaster CTV. CTV and CARAS also confirmed today that The 2006 JUNO Awards will be broadcast on Sunday, April 2 from 7 - 9 p.m. ET on CTV, preceded by the half-hour Red Carpet pre-show eTalk at the Junos at 6:30 p.m. ET (check local listings).
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Archive Date - March 1, 2006
CANADIAN BIZ TO DEBATE CANCON
Larry LeBlanc – Billboard
Battle lines and unexpected alliances are forming ahead of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission’s review of its commercial radio policy in May.
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Archive Date - March 1, 2006
EXTRA TERRESTRIALS CUT DEEP
Katy Bachman and Todd Shields – Mediaweek
Although broadcasters say they did not form the HD Radio Digital Alliance because of a competitive threat from satellite radio, it certainly was a catalyst for a major part of the consortium strategy's launch: the rollout of hundreds of digital, commercial-free side channels.
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Archive Date - March 1, 2006
BDS AND MUSICRYPT EXPAND ALLIANCE
CNW
Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems (Nielsen BDS), the leading supplier of performance monitoring, has expanded its strategic relationship with Musicrypt Inc., the industry's leading developer of user-friendly and secure media distribution by offering secure song downloads directly from BDSradio.com charts and station playlists.
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