Even though his was not one of the groups in the crosshairs Journal Broadcast Group president Carl Gardner felt the industry had been "vilified" by the recent Dixie Chicks hearings on Capitol Hill and that radio needs to take control of the debate to keep picking up new listeners.
Radio's bad rap came up at the group heads panel that kicked off the conference July.
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stay on top of what my listeners are about even down to the slang they're using in the streets." Bushman's career highlight to date was his Continued on page Produced & Arranged by Dann Huff & Wynonna N STORES AUGUST TH DON'T MSS WYNON The Tonight Show with Jay Leno NBC August TV Guide Channel week of August th / ABC August stĢ Matter RAD JULY ndies Chicks Spark Conclave ndependent promotion the Dixie Chicks and radio's ongoing PR problems were among the hot topics at Conclave : The Future Ain't What t Used to Be the annual industry seminar held July in Minneapolis. While change is always constant the same elements remain crucial. felt could make more of a difference on the air. " gave up the programming side of the business to come here from Greensboro N.C. rated night host at WJLB had no idea he would stay in the daypart for eight years. R&B WJLB 's Bushman has lost pounds in five months but still looms large in the Motor City. Airplay Monitor gathered four of the format's night jammers for a roundtable about working the night shift. The Dixie Chicks were cited by nearly half the respondents as a group recently ousted from the core a move PDs directly attribute to the listener Continued on page R&B Night Jocks: A Roundtable by Skip Dillard Long before other formats began looking for high profile personality in every daypart the night jock was often the staror at least the highest rated personalityof an R&B outlet n the night jock faces increasing challenges particularly as both R&B/hiphop and rhythmic leaning top s proliferate. Tied for ninth place are Hill and the Dixie Chicks although in both cases more respondents counted them among the artists who had dropped off their list than those who still included those acts among their core artists. Brooks & Dunn took sixth place followed by a tie between McBride and Twain for seventh. All five were named by or more of the survey's respondents. artist closely followed by George Strait Toby Keith Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw. Despite McBride's showing this poll by and large was not for the girls. Monitor asks programmers for their core artists every few years as a way of taking the temperature of the format.
Country Radio's Core Artists Shift by Phyllis Stark With smashes from country's female mainstays becoming fewer and farther between an Airplay Monitor poll of country program and music directors finds that Martina McBride has tied with Shania Twain and has overtaken the Dixie Chicks and Faith Hill among the format's core acts. 1 THS WEEK N MONTOR: Even More Records That Stunk p.
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