Broadcasting Oct 31 - American Radio History

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Spot success filIM , National spot sales for the month of Septem- ber registered a 12.7% increase over the same period a year ago -climbing from $49,005,800 to $55,223,700, according to Radio Expenditures Reports Inc. The data is based on financial information supplied confidentially to RER by 14 leading rep com- panies. For the year -to -date (January through September), national spot dollars rose 11.7% -from $456,159,800 in 1982 to $509,712,800. Adjustment wanted The Daytime Broadcasters Association has asked the FCC to reconsider in part its decision authorizing expanded hours of oper- ation for AM daytimers (BROADCASTING, Sept. 12). hi a petition for partial reconsider- ation, DBA recommended that the FCC change the way diurnal curves are used to calculate protection requirements imposed on daytimers during the two -hour post -sunset period to take into account the effect of diurnal variation on the protected contour of Class I stations; to use the average post - sunset operating time of daytimers in enter- ing diurnal curves, "or some technique to -11111 i 1I , 1 '. ^ , II A mitigate the effects of the FCC's worst -case assumptions," and to permit daytimers to request waivers of the post -sunset power limitations. Free dishes Dallas -based Satellite Music Network has embarked on a promotional giveaway of 13- foot satellite receive -only earth dishes to radio stations that sign up for one of SMN's four formats before Dec. 15. "We are giving the dishes away to celebrate the introduc- tion of our fourth format, 'Rock America,' which will air on Jan. 2, 1984," said John Tyler, chairman and chief executive officer of SMN. The Satellite Music Network currently airs three formats in 49 states via Sat - corn III -R: StarStation (adult contemporary); Stardust (MOR) and Country Coast -to- Coast. "We now have 407 affiliates under contract with 270 on the air," Tyler noted. Country shortwave A .commercial shortwave radio station broadcasting country music to Mexico, Canada and Europe is planned for construc- tion in the San Francisco Bay Area by Ches- Anniversary activity. In celebration of the 50th anniversary of www(AMi Wheeling, W. Va.'s Jamboree U.S.A. program, the station dedicated a *Walkway of Stars" in front of the down- town Wheeling theater that is the home of the weekly live broadcast. The names of 50 country entertainers were engraved on bronze stars and embedded in the walkway. On hand for the ceremonies (at podium, I -r): J. Ross Felton, Jamboree vice president/general manager; John Price, president, Price Broadcasting, wwva§ owner, and William Muegge, Wheeling mayor. Also present for the festivities were country music stars Charley Pride, Billy (Crash) Craddock and Doc Williams, who were honored with stars, and Senator Robert C. Byrd (D -W. Va.) and Representatives Douglas Applegate (D -Ohio) and Alan B. Mollohan (D -W. Va.). Broadcasting Oct 31 1983 9a ter Coleman, chief executive officer of Broadcast Properties West, and Joseph Cos- tello, owner of WRNO -FM and shortwave WRNO Worldwide in New Orleans. Costello would own about 75% of the venture, with Costello retaining the balance. In an interview with BROADCASTING last week, Costello said the engineering studies for the 3- megawatt station have been completed and proposals have been submitted to equipment manufacturers. "We are about to finish the legal, technical and financial portions of the FCC application," Costello said. "We hope to submit [the completed application] before next summer. He pre- dicted the new station could be on the air by the end of 1985, "depending on processing time at the FCC." Unlike Costello's WRNO Worldwide, the proposed station would not simulcast portions of an existing AM or FM outlet. (The New Orleans station is currently on the air 12 hours a day, rebroadcasting WRNO-FM for much of that time.) The new station would, like WRNO Worldwide, broadcast in English. "We are exploring several different trans- mitter sites," Costello explained. "Cost of utilities is an important factor in making that decision. We're looking at that cost and the stability of that cost." Costello also disclosed that the United States Information Agency has approached WRNO Worldwide regarding possible pur- chase of air time for broadcasts to the Carib- bean of government- sponsored programing. "Our negotiations with them are entirely in the fundamental stages," he emphasized. "Until they receive funding for Radio Marti, etc., there is no money to proceed with it." Costello said the USIA is interested in the period from midnight until noon, local time, during which the shortwave station is off the air, "as another signal into the Caribbe- an basin." For the time being, he stressed, "all the coins are in the air. We don't know what's going to happen." More Olympic voices ABC Radio has added former heavyweight champion boxer Ken Norton and champion skier Suzy Chaffee to its roster of commen- tators for Olympic coverage over the six ABC Radio networks. Chaffee, who partici- pated in the 1968 winter Olympics and was ranked the world champion freestyle skier from 1971 -73, will provide color commentary next February from the 1984 winter Olym- pics in Sarajevo, Yugoslavia. Norton, who took over the heavyweight title from Mu- hammed Ali in 1973, will provide color during the 1984 summer Olympics from Los Angeles. John Naber, former Olympic swimming champion, has also been signed as a color commentator for ABC Radio's 1984 summer Olympics coverage from Los Angeles. ABC Radio Sports said last week it plans to pro- 1
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