The Industry Dot Biz: Keep the pics coming Urban Radio we LOVE to promote our urban radio people and stations…..K
Jadakiss came thru yesterday (3-23-09) to promote his new album The Last Kiss coming out on April 7th. In the pic: Kenya Cabine MD/Midday Personality on E93 Savannah and Jadakiss
The Industry Dot Biz: Cox Enterprises Inc. said Monday it has made a tender offer for all the outstand ing shares of Cox Radio Inc. (CXR) for about $69.1 million. The offer for $3.80 a share, represents a 15% premium over Friday’s closing price. Cox Enterprises owns about a 78% stake in Cox Radio. If that figures reaches 90%, Cox Radio would become a wholly owned subsidiary of Cox Enterprises. The company’s operations include cable-television provider Cox Communications and television-stations and newspaper publisher Cox Media Group. Cox Enterprises has more than $15 billion of annual revenue and more than 77,000 employees.
The radio business has been among the harder hit mediums of the ongoing advertising slump. Cox Radio earlier this month reported its fourth-quarter net loss ballooned on surging write-downs and a 13% drop in revenue. Cox Enterprises President and Chief Executive Jimmy W. Hayes said as a privately held concern it “can take a long-term perspective, which is especially valuable in the current economic environment. Given how these economic challenges are affecting the radio industry, we believe that private ownership offers advantages that will assist Cox Radio in attaining its business objectives and managing its capital structure.” Cox Radio’s shares have been pummeled the past five years, falling from $25 to its recent all-time low of $2.90.
The Industry Dot Biz: Tom Joyner , host of “The Tom Joyner Morning Show (TJMS) ,” and other leading minority radio broadcasters held a congressional staff briefing on Capitol Hill yesterday to explain the adverse impact a performance tax would have on minority-owned radio stations in America. For those who don’t know what this is… there has been an ongoing debate for several months to determine if radio stations should pay artists to play their records. Considering the fact that if it was not for radio, many artists would have never had careers, the issue is of legitimate concern to radio corporations, owners and artists who feel they deserve to be compensated for their music. Panelists also discussed how the performance tax effort, led by the Recording Industry Association of America, would destroy diversity in the urban radio community and put many radio jobs at risk. The event, hosted by Tom Joyner and NAB, was moderated by David Honig, executive director of the Minority Media and Telecommunications Council (MMTC).
Panelists, included: (click pic for larger image)
Tom Joyner , Host, The Tom Joyner Morning Show (TJMS)
Susan Davenport Austin, Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, Sheridan Broadcasting Corporation
Ron Davenport, Jr., General Counsel and President, Radio Division, Sheridan Broadcasting Corporation
Cathy Hughes, Founder and Board Chairman, Radio One, Inc.
Alfred Liggins, President and Chief Executive Officer, Radio One, Inc.
Alex Snipe, President, Glory Communications
Charles Warfield, President and COO, ICBC Broadcast Holdings, Inc.
The Industry Dot Biz: For those of us who have worked in the music industry, we have seen many tragic stories like this of very young kids becoming stars then hitting rock bottom, especially black kids. Life may be pure hell to feel like you are washed up at 20 [/caption]
The Industry Dot Biz: Approximately 3 percent of African-American women in the District of Columbia carry the virus, 58 percent of whom were infected through heterosexual contact… those figures are the women who KNOW, experts think the number is actually much higher….
For the life of me, I cannot understand why urban radio is still ignoring this issue and failing a huge part of the listening audience… (scratching my head). If I was programming a station today without question, the station would be involved. I would not give a fat baby’s ass what people or the local black churches thought.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – “Who’s next for testing?” Nathalie Boittin asked on Tuesday in a crowded waiting room at the Whitman-Walker Clinic in northwest Washington.
A young black man rose and Boittin, a community health educator, led him to get tested for the AIDS virus.
Testing has spiked at this clinic and others in the U.S. capital since an official report this week showed that 3 percent of the city’s residents are infected with HIV. Officials believe the true figure is even higher.
“There are a lot of people who don’t know they are HIV positive because they don’t want to know or are afraid to know,” said Edward Harris, a 55-year-old man who gets care at the clinic. read the whole story here
The Industry Dot Biz: 101.9 RXP (WRXP) Å“The New York Rock Experience has announced that former 92.3 KRock afternoon personality Nik Carter will officially join the station in afternoons 3pm ” 7pm starting March 30th. The confirmation comes days after he appeared in the RXP shift as a Å“guest host on the day following KRockâ„¢s format flip to Top 40.
Å“It started last week when we invited Nik to come on the morning show with Matt Pinfield to say goodbye to his fans, and we twisted his arm into hosting afternoons that day! said RXP Program Director and Morning Show Co-host Leslie Fram. œEveryone in the building thought he sounded amazing so we willed it to happen ¦he’s the perfect pm drive host who knows the music and this city.” “Joining the station at this particular time in 101.9 RXP’s history is almost too good to be true! Said Nik Carter. œThe connection that the listeners feel to RXP is one that you donâ„¢t often see anymore and when you stand in that studio and talk to the audience and you really feel it… to be given stewardship of that daily is really an honor.” Nik Carter is an industry veteran who was most recently in New York at KRock since July 2005.  Prior to his shift at KRock, Nik was the afternoon drive host at Bostonâ„¢s WBCN for 9 years where he was also air talent on Westwood Oneâ„¢s Å“Nothing Sacred, a weekly 60-minute music interview program ¦as well as host of Ëœthe Move Loft on Bostonâ„¢s UPN TV affiliate WSBK. Prior to his years in the Boston area, Nik was on-air talent and music director in New York at WNYC AM/FM.
The Industry Dot Biz: Now I would have gone to this.. Do the TV One people know who I am? (bloggertantrum)(laugh). The photog was really good except no pics of John????? Somebody has to teach him how to cooordinate. (click for larger images)
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I might be the only person in the black community that has not watched Keyshia’s show but just heard from Jamie that Keyshia’s sister is going to have another kid. I thought I read somewhere that she just had a kid? Go here for the story…
The Industry Dot Biz: The woman who has been at the center of the Chris Brown controversy is his current or former (who knows) manager Tina Brown. Why does this woman look so familiar? Did she work for a label at one time?
The Industry Dot Biz: Lesson for new record executives like Jim Jones who has been appointed to a VP position at Koch… Have one of the 300 dudes you travel with get on the phone and check your credit card status before you try to check into a hotel…. Don’t go off and cuss out the clerk and call him a slew of names cause YOUR credit is fooked up. Cuss out your boy who didn’t check the sh… before you left the house. Jim is basically embarrassed (laugh) but the sh… happens to the best of us sometimes. In addition, did Koch provide Jim with a working credit card or was this his own credit. I have to GIVE credit to the dudes who he went off on they were basically laughing at Jim make a fooking fool of himself.
The Industry Dot Biz: Our friends over at Sister 2 Sister magazine got an exclusive on former Xscape and new Atl Housewife member Kand i Burruss.
Bravo has picked a new peach for the next season of Å“The Real Housewives of Atlanta. Kand i Burruss, formerly of the R&B group Xscape, will be joining fellow housewives NeNe Leakes, Lisa Wu-Hartwell, Sheree Whitfield and Kim Zolciak next season. Sheâ„¢ll be taking over for DeShawn Snow, who was booted from the cast. Kand i had a few reservations about being on the show because sheâ„¢s only engaged. Å“I had no idea that I would ever be on the show. ¦ When they first asked me, I was like, ËœIâ„¢m not married yet,â„¢ Kand i told S2S. Â She quickly got over that hesitation because there are unmarried women on the show in Atlanta (and other cities). Apparently, Bravo was looking for some single ladies because she beat out Angie Stone, Christina Johnson (Cee-Loâ„¢s ex-wife) and Ralph Tresvantâ„¢s ex-wife for the spot on the show read the whole story here
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We are hearing a couple of contacts are almost up at a very big station and it’s very possible management has backups in place to replace the current hosts. These hosts are in the process of negotiation…
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Sources have informed us that Clear Channel is going to be making more changes in the near future. We don’t know how that will affect Urban radio but time will tell.
The Industry Dot Biz: Looks like Clear Channel stations were shocked when the morning shows literally leaped one hour most likely due to daylight savings in several markets back east throwing the hosts off. We hear engineers are working feverishly to fix the problem.
