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Nielsen: Music Sales Down 4.6% for First Half of 2013, Nielsen Entertainment Releases 2013 Mid-Year Music Industry Report 
For the first six months of 2013, sales of albums and track equivalents were down 4.6% vs. the first six months of 2012. Digital albums are up 6.3 percent and Digital tracks were down 2.3 percent. CD sales declined 14.2 percent and Vinyl LP sales were up 33.5 percent. Nielsen SoundScan and Nielsen BDS reveal 2013 mid-year U.S. music sales figures for the six-month period of December 31, 2012 through June 30, 2013. Nielsen SoundScan measures U.S. point-of-sale of recorded music product. Nielsen BDS tracks U.S. radio airplay and music streams. "Overall sales are down slightly in the first half of 2013, but there continues to be encouraging growth in digital album sales," says Nielsen Entertainment Digital SVP David Bakula, noting that albums now comprise 43 percent of all album sales, up from 38 percent at this time last year. Also, while a small percentage of the overall album sales, Vinyl LPs continue to be an amazing growth story with sales up over 33 percent over last year’s record-setting pace.” “Streaming continues to be a tremendous growth story with over 50 billion audio and video streams in the first six months of 2013,” says Bakula. “Not only are we seeing massive volume of streams, but we continue to see growth on a comparable provider basis, with stream volume up 24 percent over the same period last year.” For the first six months of 2013, digital track sales were off 2.3 percent from 2012, to 682.2 million from 698 million a year earlier. Overall album sales "with track equivalent albums" were down by 4.6 percent, from 220.3 million to 210.2 million. Total album sales fell by 5.6 percent to 142 million, CD sales were down 14.2 percent to 78.2 million and digital album sales grew 6.3 percent to 60.8 million. Total streams of music, including audio and video, grew by 24 percent to 50.94 billion. Nielsen notes the percentage change only reflects activity of providers who reported data for the same six month period in 2012 and 2013.
David Paterson Officially Joins New York's '970 The Answer' 
Former New York Governor David Paterson has been co-hosting the 5-7pm show at Salem's News Talk "AM 970 The Answer" WNYM-AM, New York, alongside Curtis Sliwa. As "Curtis and the Gov," the duo has been doing it for about a month on a "temporary basis" in a tryout for Paterson. Now Salem Communications announces that David Paterson officially joins WNYM-AM, and the show will continue longterm. Sliwa also hosts "The Answer" morning show solo, which he will continue. After his time as New York Governor, Paterson began his Talk Radio career at crosstown WOR-AM, but then exited when Clear Channel bought the station from Buckley.
Keith Allen Named Greensboro 'Now' and 'Buzz' Program Director 
Clear Channel Media and Entertainment Greensboro announces that Keith Allen will join the cluster, effective August 5, as Program Director for Rhythmic CHR "105.7 Now" WMKS-FM and Active Rock "100.3 The Buzz" WVBZ-FM. Allen has been at Clear Channel Birmingham for the past seven years, and has overseen the programming of "103.7 The Q" WQEN-FM, "104.1 The Beat" on FM translator W281AB, and "103.1 The Vulcan" on W276BQ. Says Allen, "I want to say thank you to Kim Pyle, Rich McMillan and Bruce Logan for the opportunity to join the Greensboro team. I am very excited to be a part of 105.7 Now and 100.3 The Buzz. I'm looking forward to working with the entire team." CCME Greensboro Opeations Manager Rich McMillan tells us, "Keith has enjoyed great ratings successes in Birmingham. We’re excited to bring enthusiasm and winning experience to our outstanding cluster here in the Piedmont Triad." Cumulus Oklahoma City Keeps OKC Thunder 
San Francisco's KGO-AM Extends U of Cal Football, Basketball 
Cumulus News/Information KGO-AM, San Francisco, signs a five-year deal to continue broadcasting University of California football and basketball. The California Golden Bears and Cumulus Media Bay Area station extend one of the longest sports broadcast partnerships. Cal football will return to KGO-AM for a 40th consecutive year under the new agreement between Cumulus and IMG College, the multi-media rights holder for Cal Athletics. We're told that there's some new programming with the new deal that lasts through the 2017 football season and 2017-18 basketball campaign. The Bears games have aired on KGO-AM since 1974, while Cal men’s basketball is making a return to the station for the first time since a 13-season run ended in 1992. Each football game will start with a ome hour pregame show followed by a 60-minute postgame program, while men's basketball games will have 30-minute pregame and postgame shows. The weekly “Inside the Locker Room,” which features interviews by host Todd McKim with Golden Bear coaches, student-athletes, alumni and athletic department staff, will join the KGO-AM lineup this year. During the fall, the program will air from 7-8pm each Wednesday starting August 28. "Cal football fans have been able to enjoy the strong KGO signal for nearly 40 years, and now our men’s basketball followers will experience the same benefit," says Cal Director of Athletics Sandy Barbour. "With a partnership lasting four decades, many of our fans and alumni know KGO as the only station for Cal football, and I’m excited to see that we are extending our association together even longer.” The High Cost of Moving (A Radio Station Without Authorization) 
Radio personalities who regularly move from one part of the country to another know moving expenses can be costly. But how costly is it for a radio station itself to move? That's without FCC approval. The Commission says that Fellowshipworld must pay $8,000 for moving its noncommercial WFWO-FM (at 89.7) 36 miles from Medina, New York, to Buffalo. An NAL (notice of apparent liability) says, "On the morning of October 18, 2012, in response to a complaint, an agent from the Enforcement Bureau’s Philadelphia Office (Philadelphia Office) used radio direction finding techniques to determine if the Station’s transmitter was operating from its authorized location, and the agent determined that it was not. The agent found that the transmitter was operating, instead, from the Fellowship Christian Center, located at 1420 Main Street in Buffalo, New York, which is 36 miles from the location authorized in its license. The agent also measured the field strength of the signal on 89.7 MHz to determine if the transmitter was otherwise authorized to operate under Part 15 of the Rules, and confirmed that it exceeded the maximum permitted level of 250 μV/m at 3 meters for non-licensed devices and, therefore, required a license to operate. A review of the FCC database revealed that there was no license to operate the Station on 89.7 MHz in Buffalo. In the evening of October 18, 2012, the agent also determined that no station was operating on 89.7 MHz from the transmitter site authorized in the Station WFWO authorization, which further confirmed that the Station’s transmitter had been moved." Fellowshipworld principal John Young told the FCC that he didn't know the transmitter had been on at its "new" location, blaming his children for turning it on. That attempted deception resulted in the Commission doubling the fine from the base $4,000. Yes, it just keeps getting more expensive for radio people to move! Read the FCC NAL here. Virginia 'Classics Radio' Stations to Go Silent 
Educational Media Corporation says its two simulcasting Virginia Classical radio stations -- "Classics Radio" WWED–FM (89.5), Fredericksburg, and WWEM-FM (91.7), Lynchburg -- will go off the air by August 1. The nonprofit stations will continue as a webcast on ClassicsRadio.org. General Manager Pete Stover says that a lack of financial support in the Fredericksburg and Lynchburg areas is behind taking the two on-air stations silent. The stations solicit donations on ClassicsRadio.org and the Classics Radio Facebook page. The monthly operating budget for the 24-hour non-commercial All Classical music webcast is $10,000. WWED-FM, launched in 2005, and joined by WWEM-FM in 2007, tried several different formats, including Christian Preaching, Praise and Worship, Gospel, Bluegrass, and Christian AC. WWED-FM switched to a Classical format in February 2012. Educational Media Corporation (EMC) is a Virginia-based Religious non-profit, and is not related to EMF (Educational Media Foundation), also known as EMF Broadcasting, a not-for-profit organization that operates the "K-Love" and "Air1" radio networks. EMC was established in 1983 and incorporated in Virginia. CRN Digital Talk Radio Adds Joe Morgan Show 
CRN Digital Talk Radio tells us that baseball hall of famer and former ESPN analyst Joe Morgan's sports radio program "Conversations with Joe Morgan" has been added to its CRN 2 lineup.
ESPN Radio Readies NFL Regular Season Kick-Off 
ESPN Radio's first season of broadcasting Sunday afternoon NFL games will kick off with an AFC matchup of Tennessee at Pittsburgh on opening Sunday, September 8. This season ESPN plans to broadcast 17 regular-season NFL games, one each week. Sean McDonough, Bill Rosinski, Marc Kestecher and Ryan Ruocco will provide play-by-play. Herm Edwards, Bill Polian, Damien Woody and Shaun O'Hara will serve as analysts. NFC North rivals Minnesota and Chicago also meet on September 15. Two Giants games -- at Carolina September 22 and hosting NFC East rival Philadelphia October 6 -- and one Steelers game (vs. Minnesota from Wembley Stadium in London on September 29) round out the early season lineup. ESPN Radio's first NFL broadcast will be the New York Jets at New York Giants pre-season tilt Saturday, August 24. The remainder of the schedule will be announced throughout the season. Swell Radio App Maker Receives $5.4M Funding 
Concept.io Inc. has received $5.4 million to continue building its Swell Radio mobile app, which aims to revamp the way people consume talk radio, podcasts and other informative audio streams. Existing investor Draper Fisher Jurvetson led the Series A round at a valuation around $19 million. Existing investor Google Ventures also participated along with new investors Correlation Ventures, Draper Nexus Ventures and InterWest Partners. Swell, which launched last month, is a News Talk app that gives listeners a Pandora-like experience, but with spoken word content rather than music. Content comes from NPR, American Public Media, ABC News, the BBC, TED Talks, and others. Swell streams a mix of the content from those providers personalized to a listener’s interest.
Behind the Microphone: The Ins and Outs of Radio Kwame Dankwa is now doing weekends at CBS Radio's "103.3 Amp" WODS-FM, Boston, starting this weekend. That's in addition to his weekday gig at Pamal Broadcasting's CHR-Top40 WZRT-FM, Rutland, Vermont, where he's PD/Brand Manager ... Veteran programmer Tony Waitekus exits as Brand Manager at Midwest Communications CHR-Top40 WIFC-FM, Wausau as the position is eliminated. Waitekus had been with the station for five years. Derek Moran, Operations Manager and Brand Manager of Country sister WDEZ-FM will be handling WIFC-FM's programming ... "98.7fm - L.A.'s Alternative" KYSR-FM, Los Angeles, has unveiled its "Morning Music Marathon" -- offering over three hours of non-stop music starting at 9am ... Clear Channel Country WMZQ-FM, Washington DC, "The Boxer Show" morning co-host and Executive Producer Mark Lavin exits ... Garrett Michaels is on the move from Program Director and morning host at Contemporary Christian "Positive Hits" WPER-FM, Fredericksburg, Virginia, Contemporary Christian "Life 102.5" WNWC-FM, ()/Madison, Wisconsin, as Listener Development Director and morning host ... News WMNI-AM, Columbus, Ohio, returns to Adult Standards as "America's Best Music" featuring music primarily from the 1950s, 60s and '70s by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Barbara Streisand, Nat King Cole, The Beatles, Tony Bennett and Barry Manilow. WMNI-AM flipped away from Adult Standards about a year ago to simulcast the All News format of WMNI-FM, which had switched from a Classic Hits format as WTDA-FM. With the AM flip-back, Jeff Rollins returns in mornings and Carl Hampton is back in afternoons.
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From Mark Harris Broadcast Consulting
Friday, July 19, 2013
Friday's Radio & Media News - July 19, 2013
"I am ecstatic at the prospect of returning to talk radio at AM 970 The Answer and co-hosting with one of the living legends in the business, Curtis Sliwa," says Paterson. "Working with Curtis, as opposed to being a solo host, gives me a wider berth to air my opinions and strike up an interesting back-and-forth with an outspoken and articulate critic on everything." Says WNYM-AM VP and General Manager Jerry Crowley, who hired Paterson at WOR-AM, "There was no more beloved or recognizable figure in talk radio than the Gov. It's amazing how fast he became skilled behind the microphone. He created quite a buzz when he first started reading commercials and our clients simply loved it. He was a big part of our success."
The weekly two hour show airs Saturdays at 5pm ET, featuring Morgan talking with well-known sports figures from the present and the past. Guests previously have included basketball greats Bill Russell and Julius Erving, basketball coach Mike Krzyzewski, former baseball starts Tom Paciorek and Jesse Orosco. "Not only did Joe have amazing skills on the baseball field but he is equally as talented in a studio," says CRN Digital Talk Radio President and CEO Michael Horn. "'Conversations with Joe Morgan' is entertaining not just for sports fans but talk radio enthusiasts. He is skilled in the art of conversation."
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