Friday, April 25,  2003

NJ DHTS Big Buy For NJ Stations Completed

Radio Stations all over the state have received big buys for the Division of Highway Traffic Safety’s “Click It or Ticket” campaign. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration gave the state almost half a million dollars for a radio buy for three weeks in May. The buy is to include major New York City and Philadelphia stations, as well as all of the stations in New Jersey that run the Division’s NCSA traffic safety announcements.   Originally, the NHTSA’s DC agency was proposing to buy New York City and Philadelphia stations only, however, NJBA reminded the DHTS that our NCSA contract called for NCSA stations to be bought, if there was any cash in the market.

NJBA was asked to plan a buy including NCSA NJ stations and to give it the other agency to purchase.  NJBA was then asked to execute its plan and make the buy. The buy was completed yesterday...all stations should have their orders.

 Programmers Look To The Future

Major company executives who were former programmers will be telling attendees at the 57^th annual Mid Atlantic States Conference how they went from the programming office to the executive office. This is a great opportunity for programming people to take a look at their long-term career paths and figure out how to get on the road to even greater successes. In addition, Elvis Duran and the entire Z-Morning Zoo crew from Z-100 FM, will be on hand to take show talent on a behind the scenes tour of the preparation involved in putting the show together and getting it on the air each morning. Not only will you learn, you will have the opportunity to ask all of the questions you want.   Register today, by snail mail or on line at njba.com.

NAB Wants FCC To Prohibit XM’s Localism

XM Satellite Radio Company has been going around the country setting up ground stations to “fill in” areas where the satellite signal has problems. The FCC has given them temporary authority for these ground stations. Meanwhile, XM has secured a patent on a process that would allow these ground stations to broadcast local programming. The satellite service was licensed by the FCC to be a national service only. The NAB has requested the FCC to issue permanent authority for these repeater stations with a prohibition forbidding local programming of any kind.

RAB Announces Conference Dates

The Radio Advertising Bureau has announced that its 2004 conference will be held in Dallas, TX, February 5-8, 2004.  The Adams Mark Hotel will be the site and registration will be the same as last year $425.00 for members and $825.00 for non-members.  This is one of the best meetings in the industry, year after year.

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