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FCC Chairman Kennard found some allies at an unprecedented meeting with a coalition
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Chancellor to link its supergroup with AMFMI 3
Radio's 01 cash registers were ringing loud 4
Dille, Hicks keep stations but pay fines for South Bending the rules 4
Katz Urban Dimensions finds it'sLPFM
to be Knox-ious 455
Exit poll clients: Arbitron results are "eyes only" 5
They're "Jammin- the airwaves in Philly. Hartford 5
On-line radio: A ho -hum for Yahoo! 5
Honig honing in on alleged NAB stall tacticsAAF goes after multicultural ad data
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Reverse evolution? Harris box takes digital TV back to analog 6
Journal journeys to CA desert: Bud's bud scores three in Beantown 6
IBOC manufacturers are doing the waveform] 7-11
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The urge to merge: Chancellor/Capstar wedding nears 12
Despite a squawk or two on Wall Street, Capstar is expected to easily fold
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Maximum's Randolph UT CP hopes to grow into SLC 12
Sunburst takes the Longview about move from Frankston to Tyler 12
Spin cycle: Jorgenson winds up with CCC's Jacksonville combo 12
Owning up: Who has a piece of Radio One? 13
Big City boosts revenue but cash flow not there yet 13
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Church leaders endorse non-comm LPFM
During the first meeting of its kind, a national coalition ofreligious leaders urged FCC Chairman Bill Kennard toauthorize low -powered FM (LPFM) stations and licensethem as widely as possible throughout the US. That is,with one catch: The new LPFM stations should be licensedas non-commercial broadcasters.
"In our view, the present concentration of control ofradio stations in a handful of powerful corporations is athreat to our democratic institutions. For commercialpurposes, audiences are deliberately segmented by age,sex, race and ethnic origin, even by political bias," said Rev.Dr. Joan Campbell, General Secretary of the NationalCouncil of Churches.
While all of the leaders present during the roundtablediscussions 5/13 in Washington, DC supported LPFM,
they cited varied reasons, including educational opportu-nities, community outreach to homebound citizens, net-working with other local denominations and providing localnews in languages other than English.
'We're finding fewer outlets, yet a greater need to conveyinformation," said Catherine Grincewich, Assistant Gen-eral Counsel, US Catholic Conference. "Low -power radiocould be that voice."
Though Kennard seemed thrilled to hear the positivecomments, he did say more details need to be worked out,such as non-commercial vs. commercial, how to licensethe stations and how to maximize their usage.
"We must do it [LPFM) in a way that protects existingbroadcast signals and does not impede the conversion todigital radio," said Kennard. "We need to work together, andtogether with existing broadcasters, to make this work foreveryone."-TS
Chancellor's AMFM Interactive:the detailsChancellor's (O:AMFM) Internet Cor-porate Initiative, AMFM Interactive(AMFMI-RBR 3/1, p.4), will be theInternet platform for all Chancellorradio properties, tying in all stationsby the end of the year. Capstar sta-tions are yet to be determined-theofficial merger should be done by Q3.Ultimately in charge ofAMFMI, Chan-cellor Media Services CEO SteveHicks is holding a board meeting on5/18 to determine many of the finaldetails. The formal announcement iscoming later in the week. Already,AMFMI Human Resources is hiringInternet Content Managers and Di-rectors in top 20 markets.
At this point, under the AMFMImodel, there will be little, if any, tra-ditional banner advertising opportu-nities for on -air advertisers to get onthe sites. Says Chuck Armstrong,
Chancellor's SVP, Entertainment andNew Media: "It's not going to be a tradi-tional ad model. Unless it's somethingthat makes sense for the listener, some-thing consumer -centric or value-addedthat can be tied to the radio station, itwon't come on the site-we won't allowit to be avalue-added promotional clear-inghouse for advertisers."
Great, but how can AMFMI be any-thing but a cost to Chancellor with-out banner ads (e -commerce fromonline CD sales won't do it alone)?The way revenues will materialize isthrough six major partners, includ-ing an Internet service provider (ISP),search engine, long distance carrier,music fulfillment house, movie/VHSfulfillment house and e-mail server.Not all of these partners have beendecided yet. Here's how Armstrongexplains the AMFMI revenue model:"We want to establish the value of thecompany first. The average cost percustomer for somebody like @Home
or RCN IISPsi is around $100 perperson. If we, through our active lis-tener database, can deliver 2.5M peopleout of the 66M metro/ 80M TSA to a co -branded ISP service that we do, thentake $100 X 2.5M and you get $250Min revenue, just from that one partner.People will pay us to drive traffic tothem, we aim to become their local on -ramp. It's $250M a partner over 18months, each-that's what it costs tobe one of the six partners."
Each station's site will offer cus-tomized content, live webcams in thestudio, a station database, e-mailbetween DJs and listeners, polling,interactive playlists, news, online yel-low pages, CD purchase links andmore. AMFMI's beta test sites in Phila-delphia are expanding this month toinclude Boston and New York sta-tions. Said Armstrong: "The real testis Philadelphia. We're rolling out allthe different functionalities. We had a
soft launch [early this month] withWIOQ-FM (www.q102philly.com) andWYXR-FM (www.star1045fm.com).We will have the rest of the sites upand kicking by the end of the month[WJJZ-FM, WUSL-FM, WDAS-AM/FM]." All Philadelphia stations willuse Real Networks' (O:RNWK)RealAudio and RealVideo players forthe live streaming test, appearing asstation -customized players.
AMFMI's vision is to be a networkof local "mini -portals," revolvingaround a central hub. Currently, fourInternet architecture companies arevying to be the system's backbone.AMFMI will employ a main distribu-tion point or hub, with all Chancellorstation Web sites across the countrylinked to this main host as spokes. Tokeep costs down and logistics in con-
trol, each format will have its ownplatform. Stations will plug in theirlocalized elements such as yellowpages and local entrants for nationalformatic contests. Armstrong notesthat using XML technology, stationscan "take those common elementsand make them uncommon" to giveeach station a customized look. Cen-tral content staff will create featureslike "CHR Artist of The Day," for pro-motional tie-ins with the stations andrecord labels. The Internet Contentand Marketing Directors at each siteworks in combination with the Mar-keting Director and PD on a dailybasis to co -develop in -market, artist -
based promotions.AMFM Radio Networks may get to
link its personalities' Web pages tostations where appropriate.-CM
Revenues keep Marchingon: 01 up 15%Double-digit revenue gains are continuingunabated in the early part of 1999. Localrevenues were up 15%, which, combinedwith a 10% gain in national business, re-sulted in an overall gain of 13% for themonth of March. Year-to-date, business isup 15%. This is an enormous gain overwhat is at the moment the highest -grossingradio revenue year ever, and it comes wellahead of an expected surge in advertisingexpenditures upon the advent of Y2K. Ra-dio sales forces are partying like it's 1999.
All five regions enjoyed double-digit gainsin local business, led by a 17% surge in theSoutheast. National business fared best onthe coasts (East up 15%, West up 12%),with more modest gains in the other threeregions (6%-8%).
"We're seeing sales figures from smallermarkets equaling or exceeding those frommany of the industry's larger markets," saidRAB President/CEO Gary Fries."These...results are ...additional evidencethat radio is growing on a strong founda-tion of enthusiastic support from listenersand advertisers alike."-DS
March 1999 Local National Jan. -Mar. 1999 Local NationalAll markets 13% 10% All markets 15% 14%East 13% 15% East 15% 21%Southeast 17% 6% Southeast 19% 10%Midwest 11% 7% Midwest 13% 110/0
Southwest 11% 8% Southwest 12% 120/0
West 14% 12% West 16% 12%
Local & Nat'l revenue March 1999All markets 13%
Local & Nat'l revenue Jan -Mar. 1998All markets 15%
Source: RAB
Dille and Hicks to keep licenses
An FCC administrative law judge hascleared the way for veteran broad-casters John Dille and David Hicksto keep their licenses after they wereaccused of misrepresentation to theFCC concerning Hicks' WRBR-FMSouth Bend, IN (Dille tried to financehis control of WRBR through hischildren's interest in the station).
Chief Administrative Law JudgeJoseph Chachkin has accepted thedeal proposed by the Mass MediaBureau (RBR 3/ 15, p. 3) under which
Dille's Pathfinder will pay a fine of$30K and Hicks Broadcasting $20K.The judge also ruled that the two arequalified to retain their broadcastlicenses.-TS
Katz gets Knox
Former Interep VP Marketing of theUrban Radio Format Network BrianKnox has joined Katz Media Group'sUrban Dimensions division.Dimension's President Bonnie Presssaid Knox "is one of the leaders in salesand marketing of Urban radio."-KM
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NAB's requestunfounded, says MMTC
It could be a political ploy, says theMinority Media and Telecommunica-tions Council (MMTC) of the NAB'srecent request to the FCC for more timeto complete technical studies of LPFM.
The current deadline for commentsis 6/ 1, but NAB President Eddie Frittshas complained that IBOC field testswill not be completed until 12/ 15 andat least 60 more days are needed (RBR5/3, p.3).
"The NAB's sudden interest in theserules disguises the NAB's real inter -
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est-inhibiting competition from newentrants," wrote MMTC Executive Di-rector David Honig in a letter to FCCChairman Bill Kennard. "An exten-sion of time will not add much usefulinformation to the record."-TS
AAF conducts benchmark survey
Last month it was a new committeeformed to examine multicultural ad-vertising practices (AdBiz 5/99,p.AB4). Now the American Advertis-ing Federation Foundation (non-profiteducational foundation of the AAF) isfollowing that up with a new survey.
Radio of the future? Nah.Yahoo! (O:YHOO) announced last week that it was adding ten channels of "radio" to its
Internet portal-streaming audio with traditional broadcast elements such as jocks and
spots.It was the first streaming project announced by Yahoo since it cut a deal (still pending)
to buy Broadcast.com (O:BCST), so we figured it ought to be worth checking out.
We went to the web site radio.yahoo.com expecting to sample the new "radio" offerings,
but instead encountered a single "button" for Yahoo!Radio. OK, that's dumb, we thought,but we clicked the button. Still no "radio," but rather a requirement that we sign up forYahoo's "personalized services" before we could even sample the new "radio" stations.
The sign-up form demanded, of course, that we select a user ID and password. Then
it asked for a bunch of personal and demographic information. We answered all of thequestions that we knew the answers to, then just made up the rest. Is this user friendly?Not a chance. Would any real -radio station dare to pull this kind of crap on its listeners?
No way.At long last, we were able to go back to the entry page and log -on. We checked out the
"Celtic" channel, "Alt.Rock," "Y!Jazz," "Electronica," "Y!R&B Jamz" and "Y!Country"
before we lost all interest.The Yahoo!Radio channel selector is just the usual Spinner console, using RealAudio. Not
surprising, since Spinner built the site. It shows the song title, artist name, album name and
the channel you are on as each song plays. Most of the tunes were very abbreviated versions,
just a single verse (or less), then a brief pause before the next song.We never did. hear an announcer (or an ad, for that matter, although there were a few
banners). It was just another boring Internet jukebox.If you want to check it out, but don't want to bother with the sign-up, feel free to use our
ID. The user name is "melkarmazin" and the password is "cbs."-JM
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The nations largest advertisers,advertising agencies, media compa-nies and AAF's corporate member-ship received survey packets lastweek. In total, 550 organizations willbe asked to provide information aboutminorities in their advertising andmarketing divisions. They will also beasked to describe on -going diversityinitiatives in their organizations.
An FCC study (RBR 1/ 18/99, p.3)had indicated a bias on the part ofadvertisers against minority -targetedand minority -owned stations. Thesurvey will set a baseline for evaluat-ing future advertising practices. Theresults will also help develop plansand policies to combat ad bias. TheAAF expects survey findings to be outno later than September.-KM
Arbitron goes "top secret"
New this Spring-Arbitron to con-duct ExitPoll studies in ten markets.This study will reinterview thediarykeepers of 89 stations in NewYork, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Fran-cisco, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Miami,Boston, Seattle and Phoenix. In theFall of 1998, some diarykeepers werealready asked to detail their attitudesand perceptions towards music -for-matted stations in six markets.
What's different about this ExitPollis that results of the survey will not bemade available to the press and con-sequently the public. "Image data di-rectly from diarykeepers is much dif-ferent than the quantitative and quali-tative data that Arbitron usually sells.ExitPoll clients don't want non -clientsto get insights from norms createdfrom the research that the ExitPollsubscribers invest in," said Bill Rose,VP Marketing, Arbitron Radio.
The study will also include, for thefirst time, the reinterview ofdiarykeepers of Spanish languagestations in New York, Los Angeles,Chicago and Miami.-KM
At deadline:Greater Media's WXXM-FM Philadel-phia (Modern AC) flipped to "Jammin'Gold 95.7," possibly beating any de-signs for Chancellor doing its now ubiq-uitous "Jammin' Oldies" in that market.CBS is also getting into the groove withWZMX-FM Hartford flipping to "Dancin'Oldies" 5/6.-CM
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Pittman building AOL TV
America Online (N:AOL) announcedfour partnership deals with TV com-panies that are supposed to movethe company toward Internet/broadcast convergence.
DIRECTV Inc. will colaborate withAOL on a new service which willcombine DIRECTV's satellite TV pro-gramming with what's called "AOLTV's enhanced interactive televisionInternet service."
*Hughes Network Systems will de-sign and build the dual purposeAOL TV/DIRECTV set -top box.
*Philips Electronics will produce anadvanced set -top box for AOL TV.
*Network Computer Inc. will pro-vide the software for AOL TV.
These partnerships "are majorbuilding blocks for AOL TV," saidBob Pittman, President, AOL.-JM
V -Chip to get a force of its own
The FCC is stepping up its commit-ment to the V -Chip (adopted lastyear) by establishing a task force tobe headed by Commissioner GloriaTristani. The V -Chip allows par-ents to block television program-ming they deem as harmful for theirchildren and is expected to be inevery television set by 1/1/2000.
According to Chairman BillKennard, the new V -Chip TaskForce will educate parents aboutthe technology, ensure that the V -Chip works and gather informationon the usage and effectiveness ofthe V -Chip.
"The V -Chip is a modern tool tohelp parents raise their children ina modern world," said Tristani. "Ilook forward to working with a vari-ety of industry and consumer groupsto make this technology availableand accessible to parents in thecoming months ."-TS
Harris to market DTV set top box
Offering TV viewers the ability lo watch local DTV broadcasts on their analogsets, Harris (N:HRS) is launching RCA's DTC100 set -top box in August($649 retail). The unit converts digital signals to an analog display. It canbe used with the DIRECTV satellite service, and delivers the same qualitypictures for local stations. "You would connect it the same way you connectany cable box, VCR or S -Video [satellite]. This also allows people to combinelocal broadcasts-analog and digital-with regular DIRECTV and DIRECTVHD channels," said Bruce Babcock, VP, DBS software and new productsplanning, Harris.
Consumers will still have to buy new HDTV sets to get that level of picturequality, however, the DTC100 can provide near HDTV quality pictures onhigh -resolution analog sets.-CM
TV deal news
*Journal Broadcast Group is paying $30M for KMIR-TV (Ch. 36, NBC) PalmSprings, CA, which will be the company's fourth TV property. Broker: Kalil & Co.*Boston University is selling its three commercial TV stations, all indepen-dent UHFs in the Boston market, to DP Media. That's Devon Paxson, sonof Bud, so you can guess what network they'll soon be carrying.*CBS (N:CBS) will be producing 12 to 14 hours of its prime -time shows inDTV next season, as well as analog, at an added cost of $10M. However, MelKarmazin and his fellow shareholders won't have to pay a dime. MitsubishiElectric has agreed to pick up the tab to convert the programs from film todigital in an effort to boost public demand for DTV sets. It's the first suchdeal between a receiver maker and a TV network.-JM
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Passing IBOC waveforms:an update on progress
As USADR continues to bring broad-casters on board as both investors (RBR1 / 11, p.2) and field testers (beginningthis Summer) of its AM and FM IBOCsystems, the latest phase involves work-ing with the equipment manufacturers.Through its technology and marketingdevelopment alliance program, manu-facturers offer equipment and resourcesfor testing and R&D. Harris, while notofficially a member of the alliance, hasdemonstrated its DX and Gates seriescan pass USADR's AM waveform; itsZCD FM series has passed the FM wave-form in the lab with minor adjustments.Nautel and QEI have signed on; Energy-Onix and BE have the contracts inhand. USADRmodels from each have successfullypassed IBOC waveforms in the lab (RBR4/19, p. 6). Continental says it will jointhe alliance soon (RBR 5/10, p.3).
USADR is working closely withmanufacturers, testing and analyzingtransmitters using its AM digital andFM hybrid analog/digital exciters thatwere co -developed with Xetron Labs ofCincinnati. Some are saying USADRmay offer a digital module/exciter unitthat will go into existing FM analogexciters. "The way we see the IBOCmarket developing is there is going tobe a generation of transmitters thatwill come out with integral exciters,exciters manufactured by Harris, QEI,BE, etc., that will all have a module ofthe USADR exciter in them-both AMand FM," said Jeff Detweiler, Salesand Marketing Manager, QEI.
All progress and breakthroughs fromeach individual company are keptunder non -disclosure agreements,therefore not all information is avail-able. However, manufacturers didshare common knowledge on passingthe waveforms, what they're doing toimprove linearity and efficiency, and
what air chain choices broadcastershave as IBOC becomes available.
How the alliance is working"I've been extremely impressed withthe level of expertise in the transmitterindustry and their ability to deal withinnovation and change necessary topass IBOC signals through FM trans-mitters," USADR VP Broadcast Engi-neering Glynn Walden told RBR."We've had modules in here from ma-jor transmitter manufacturers. We testthem and send them back the results.They further optimize those resultsand send their modules back for fur-ther analysis. In some cases, like Nauteland Harris, we've actually sent themsignal generators to generate the AMwaveform so they can test their trans-mitters. Harris and Nautel each havean exciter they can test with." Whileeveryone is excited about the prelimi-nary results, there still needs to be aformal certification process andUSADR is working with the manufac-turers to define that process.
With all the money flowing in frombroadcaster investments, USADR isemploying 30 engineers in-house and10 outside who directly or indirectlyprovide reports for manufacturerstesting and tweaking for IBOC."They've given me a combination unit,a hybrid [analog and] digital signalinto our amplifier [the SSA -1000CFM lk'W] and it works. It works withregard to performance on the digital,and it also works with regard to thebandwidth occupied," said BernieWise, President, Energy Onix. "I gotreams of data on what they did on thisunit. They have digital only throughthe unit and they have analog anddigital through the unit...this is theperformance and this is what themask would be on a combiner thathas this kind of ratios."
Newcomer to the IBOC arena, Con-tinental Electronics is now showinginterest in providing products of itsown. VP Engineering Dan Dickey istrying to dispel the consensus thatContinental's work with Eureka -147
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BE, like Harris, is clear in recogniz-ing that work with USADR isn't exclu-sive. Lucent Digital Radio and DigitalRadio Express are still in the picture,competing for the standard. Says BEVP, RF Systems Rick Carpenter: "We'reon -board, but we're paying attentionto all the proponents because you cannever tell exactly what's going to hap-pen here. USADR has certainly beenthe most aggressive in courting thetransmitter manufacturers, althoughwe certainly have had talks with Lu-cent and DRE. USADR is the one withthe program in place, and you workwith the people that are ready."
Passing AM IBOCWhile the numbers are soon to climb,only two manufacturers so far havepassed USADR's AM IBOC wave-form-Harris (the DX and Gates se-ries) and Nautel (the XL series). Theroadblocks to some transmitters areallowing for enough "headroom" forthe digital signal's peak power (bothAM and FM are multiples higher thanthe average power), its operationalnoise level and lack of stability, i.e. inexisting older tube transmitters. "Itall boils down to low distortion, low-
noise transmitters. AM transmittersgenerate the analog signal, the am-plitude modulation, directly in thetransmitter. Just add an AM IBOCexciter to some of the models like DXseries, Gates series, Nautel's XL 12and probably ND series, and youhave both generated from the sametransmitter," said Walden.
Manufacturers differ on whichmodulation techniques are superiorforAM IBOC signal integration-pulseduration modulation (PDM) or ampli-tude and phase modulation. Whatthey agree on, however, is many exist-ing AM transmitters will need at leastan upgrade. "A conventional AM platemodulator transmitter, or even anolder generation using single PDMmodulation, will have a very difficulttime producing the correct answer at
the output of the transmitter. With aconventional modulator, it's very diffi-cult to get the information in the ampli-tude part and the phase to come to-gether aligned in time correctly. This isbecause the AM modulator has a certaintime delay," said Harris' VP, AdvancedProduct Development, GeoffMendenhall. "If you go to higher -orderPDM, like we use in our lower -powertransmitters [one and five kWJ, we usefour phase PDM. Then the delay in thatmodulator is less and it's easier to dealwith. In our higher power [10kW-1-1 DXseries, we don't have a modulator, so theproblem goes away completely. We justtake the whole thing and put it togetherdigitally in the output of the transmitter.This is the differentiator with our DXtechnologies-we invented it."
Nautel, using PDM, designed its XLseries to accommodate IBOC in what-ever peak power level a future stan-dard might need. "There's several sys-tems out there and there's no stan-dard. So, when we developed the XL,we deliberately brought out a series oftransmitters which had more powerlevel headroom just to try and accom-modate whatever would be needed,"Nautel President David Grace toldRBR.
As Walden mentioned, the NautelND series is being tested for "IBOCcompliance," and is likely to pass,possibly employing minor modifica-tions. BE's Carpenter says his AMtransmitters are soon to be sent toUSADR for testing and approval.
Passing FM IBOCThe FM hybrid IBOC waveform thatUSADR is offering for testing haspassed through a handful of amplifi-ers/transmitter models so far-En-ergy Onix model SSA -1000C, QEImodel Quantum 600E, BE model FM500C1 and Harris' Z5CD. None ofthese models could pass the wave-form with existing Class C biasing,however changing the biasing of thetransistors to a less efficient, but morelinear class AB did the job.
Broadcasters are left with a num-ber of choices in upgrading to IBOC,choices best made in considering theircurrent power levels. One way is tocombine a digital transmitter with theexisting analog transmitter, losing 90-95% of the digital power going up tothe antenna. Combining the digitaland analog signals after each are
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amplified is inefficient. "Right now forFM, we're really talking about thesame debate that raged for years inTV, between separate aural and vi-sual amplifiers and combined auraland visual amplifiers. The equivalentof aural is the analog transmitters.The linear digital transmitter runs ata much lower average power. To com-bine those two would raise the powerbill that the station consumes con-siderably," said Dickey.
Wise sums this up with a roughexample of how the numbers couldcrunch for a station with an existing35kW transmitter: 'The average powerof an IBOC signal, to give you thesame coverage as an analog is 22dBdown, so it could be about 200 to 1with respect to the existing transmit-ter. So a 35kW transmitter divided by200 is 175 watts. So you need 175watts of average power. Let's say thepeak is four times that -700 watts.Now if I have 100% efficiency in thecombining, all I need is 700 watts.Let's assume I have a 10dB loss ofefficiency-then I have to generate7,000 watts-raise the power of theIBOC by 10 times."
Combining analog and digital is solossy because combining two differ-ent kinds frequencies-analog anddigital-is much more difficult thancombining two analog frequencies.Says Carpenter: "You can build loss -less combiners, but the problem yourun into is it would cost more thanbuying a couple more transmitters,and it would be maybe the size of yourliving room."
Another way to IBOC, and themethod USADR and manufacturersare working most toward is to corn-bine the digital and analog signals ina hybrid exciter. The downside isbroadcasters would have to buy amore powerful amplifier, or upgradethe existing amplifier, to keep the cur-rent analog power level. "Can I buy atransmitter today and know that I cando common amplification of DAB later?The answer is yes, but you will have tobuy a bigger transmitter than just forthe analog signal. And so the issueis-depending upon the particularsystem that's chosen, how far downthe DAB is below the analog, and whatthe peak -to -average ratio of the DABwaveform is-the transmitter ulti-mately has to put out more peak powerthan just an analog. Significantly more,up to twice," said Mendenhall.5/17/99 RBR
When all the digital carriers add upat certain instances of time, there's abig peak power spike, and that has tobe passed. "If you clip that, then youcause out -of -band distortion prod-ucts. So the transmitter, even thoughit's running at a fairly low averagepower, the peaks are going way up,"said Jim Woods, VP, Radio Broad-cast, Harris.
And to drive both signals throughone amplifier, the analog class C mode,efficient for FM analog's constant wave,has to be changed to a linear class AB."And efficiency drops dramatically [40-50%] when you do that. Also, themaximum power output that you couldget drops dramatically," saidMendenhall. "With a new Harris ZCDseries, they run the analog and IBOCexciters right into it. But in order to dothat, you have to drop the power of thetransmitter for the analog signal toaccommodate the digital and you alsohave to change the biasing."
To avoid efficiency losses from com-bining altogether, another choice isto use a completely separate digitalair chain-antenna and digital trans-mitter. This is the method DigitalRadio Express used in its San Fran-cisco tests with KSAN-FM's auxiliaryantenna (RBR 9/21/98, p.13). Find-ing another site could be real prob-lem, especially in large markets withalready combined signals. 'They usethese huge common antenna systemslike at the Empire State Building. Ifyou have to, then you have to put acombiner on the output transmissionline, and then you have to go throughthe expense of a higher power trans-mitter to compensate for the loss inthe combiner," said Wise.
Another option suggested was topolarize the DAB signal vertically, theanalog horizontally.
Efficiency improvementsUSADR and the transmitter manufac-turers are well aware that broadcast-ers are more likely to accept and adoptIBOC with lower upgrade costs and alow upgrade on the power bill. One keyto both is improving the efficiency ofcombining the digital and analog sig-nals into one amplifier. Right now, thethroughput efficiency is between 50-60%, which is not bad. Says Walden:"We don't want people to have to buya 20kW transmitter for a 10kW radiostation. We're working with the manu-
facturers to develop transmitters thatdo not have to be significantly largerthan the station's existing transmitterto pass the analog and digital signalssimultaneously."
"It looks like we're all kind of in thesame boat here. We're all using thesame devices, components and com-bining technologies, were all at aboutthe same level of throughput -50%.USADR has it fairly well figured outthrough the fine magic of pre -distor-tion or optimization, that we will beable to get the linearity we need andmake them all work. There are acouple of transmitters-fairly narrow -band, probably half -wave cavity trans-mitters-that might be difficult to getto play this, but the rest of themshould, including many of the tubemodels," says Detweiler.
The majority of advancement willcome from optimization in the USADRexciter and improved linearities [whatyou put in is what you get out-mini-mal degradation] in amplifiers. "Ampli-fiers are non-linear. By knowing whatthe non -linearity is, you can throw in acorrection. If you know you have thisamount of degradation going throughthe system, you can compensate (opti-mize) by pre -distorting the waveform atthe input, a pre -emphasis of the car-rier," said Detweiler. "The way that'sgoing to be accomplished is by doingsome form of characterization-in otherwords knowing what your amplifierdoes when a waveform goes throughit-and then compensating for thoseanomalies ahead of the system. If youknow it's going to be a -3 coming out,you put in a +3 to make it linear. Sowe're going to do an optimizationmethod by pre -distorting."
"We've been taking a look at that.One of the things that we have talkedto everybody about is the pre -distor-tion thing works the best if you canrun the feedback around the wholesystem. And so you have to have ac-cess to the exciter to make the bestimprovements. You can certainly dothe loop around the exciter and theloop around the transmitter, but itworks 10dB better if you can do anoverall correction of the whole sys-tem," said Carpenter. "USADR is in-terested in giving the manufacturerssome sort of [software] port-whetherwe end up writing our own pre -distor-tion codes or they write one for each ofthe manufacturers, and that could be25 or 30 if this thing goes worldwide."
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Chancellor Media (O:AMFM) s andCapstar (N:CRB) both reported record-
breaking Q1 results last week (5/12) asboth companies promoted their comingmerger as a win -win for shareholders.
In Chancellor's conference call withanalysts, Radio & Outdoor GroupPresident Jimmy de Castro took ex-ception to a questioner's suggestionthat he had been less than enthusias-tic about the merger, which has beenpending for nine months (RBR 8/31,p. 12). "I absolutely believe we needthat fuel," de Castro said, referring tothe added bulk of Capstar's stations.
Later, in what was likely Capstar'slast quarterly conference call, CEOSteve Hicks summed up what Capstarhad to gain from the merger that itdidn't already have as a sister com-pany to Chancellor: "The sister thingis like kissing your sister-it isn't the
same thing as being married."Hicks indicated that the share-
holder vote will be 6/30, with themerger closing shortly thereafter.Capstar approval is guaranteed, sinceHicks, Muse, Tate & Furst owns ma-jority control. Despite one analyst'srecommendation of a "no" vote, Chan-cellor shareholders are also expectedto approve the merger.
Chancellor reported Q1 revenuesup 50% to $350.3M. Operating cashflow gained 57.4% to $123.9M. On apro forma basis, radio revenues rose17.8% and cash flow 23.8%. Also proforma, radio/outdoor/rep revenuesrose 14.4% and cash flow 19.1%.
At Capstar, net revenues shot up121.6% to $142M and cash flow gaineda whopping 205.4% to $49.8M. On asame station basis, revenues rose11.8% and cash flow 20.1%.
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Bruce Buzil. Aaron Shainis and theirassociates are buying another move-
in signal, with yet another companycreated separately from their maingroup, Marathon Media. In this case,Maximum Broadcasting Company LLCis paying $1.5M for the constructionpermit to build KAIO-FM Randolph,UT. As it stands, the CP is for a ClassA on 102.3 mHz and wouldn't covermore than a few thousand people. Theprice tag betrays where the real valuelies-a pending upgrade to a full ClassC, which would make it a viable signalfor the Salt Lake City market. Maxi-mum has the right to cancel the deal if,for some reason, the FCC doesn't ap-prove the upgrade.
The seller, Randolph BroadcastingLLC, may not be familiar, but one of itsprincipals is-Vic Michael. He's beenout applying for new CPs and buyingup existing ones since filling his bankaccount by selling his Cheyenne, WYstations to Jacor two years ago.
Sunburst grabs a growing station
Nicol/Excel Broadcasting's KLIS-FMPalestine, TX is currently a Class Astation at 96.7 mHz, but it alreadyhas a CP to upgrade to Class C2. Inaddition, it has a rulemaking petitionpending to change its city of license toFrankston. That would allow the new50kw signal to city -grade a big chunkof the Tyler -Longview market, whichexplains why Sunburst Media is buy-ing the station for $793K. Sunburstalready has one AM and four FMs inTyler -Longview, but the relocated KLISwill have contour overlaps with onlythree of the FMs.
Jacksonville duo to Concord
Mark Jorgenson's Concord Media hasstepped up to buy WZNZ-AM & WBGB-FM Jacksonville, FL, the left-oversfrom Clear Channel's (N:CCU) spin-offs (RBR 2/15, p. 12) for the recentJacor merger. Concord will pay $4.3Mfor the pair, which is currently in thehands of Trustee Charles Giddens.
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Radio One's new ownersNow that Radio One (O:ROIA) has completed its IPO (RBR 5/10, p. 5) andbecome the newest radio stock on Wall Street, the nation's largest African -American -owned radio group is no longer a closely-held, family corporation. Of
course, the two family members who previously owned all of the voting stockstill own a lot of it-and the price has been running higher and higher on WallStreet, increasing their net worth.
At last Wednesday's (5/12) closing price of $39.50, founder Cathy Hughes'stock was worth $101M and son Alfred Liggins' stake was worth $136.7M.
Here is a look at Radio One's largest shareholders, post-IPO:
Class A* Class B* Class C* Equity VotingOwner, title Shares Shares Shares Pct. Pct.
Alfred Liggins III, CEO 33,040 2,010,308 1,419,646 19.8 49.9
Scott Royster, CFO - 49,191 0.3
Mary Catherine Sneed, COO 229,422 1.3 0.6
Alta Subordinated Debt
Partners III LP 1,419,795 8.1 3.5
Syncom Capital Corp. &
S.C. Venture Partners 1,184,318 6.8 2.9
Alliance Enterprise Corp. 587,971 3.4 1.5
BancBoston Investments 437,910 2.5 1.1
Fulcrum Venture Capital 273,420 1.6 0.7
Opportunity Capital Corp. 97,471 0.6 0.2
*Class A shares have 1 vote each, Class B shares have 10 votes each, Class C shares
are non -voting
Source: Radio One SEC Form 424B1 filed 5/7/99
Big City revenues up
Big City Radio (A:YFM) saw Q1 rev-enue growth of 40% at $3.4M. Butthe company is still struggling withnegative cash flow, which widened to$1.9M. compared to 81.1M last year.
Michael Kakoyiannis explained,"During first quarter, we introduced anew morning show at our Modern RockAlternative in Los Angeles and com-pleted the purchase of our second sta-tion cluster in Chicago, 92KISS-FM."
Big City continues to acquire sta-tions and attributes the red ink to
being in the early stages of develop-ment venture.-KM
Radio One cash flow up 40%
In its first report as a public com-pany, Radio One (O:ROIA) said Q1net revenues rose 48% to $11.8Mand cash flow gained 40% to $4.2M.On a same station basis, revenuesgained 28% and cash flow 46%. Thecompany said some dilution of itsfinancial results is expected as itworks to absorb a number of recentacquisitions.
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The Radio IndexTMsoared to a record highof 146.14 last Wednes-day (5/12). That was uptwo points from the one -day -old record and6.19 from a weekearlier.
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The deals listed below were takenfrom recent FCC filings. RBR's Trans-action Digest reports on all deals thatinvolve assignment of a station li-cense (FCC Form 314) and substan-tial transfers of control of a licenseevia a stock sale (FCC Form 315). butnot internal corporate restructurings(FCC Form 316). All deals are listed indescending order of sales price.
$58,000,000-* KESZ-FM Phoenixfrom OwensMAC Radio LLC (BuckOwens, Michael Owens, MAC AmericaCommunications) to Citicasters Co.(Lowry Mays), a subsidiary of Clear Chan-nel Communications (N:CCU). $2.8Mescrow, balance in cash at closing.Superduopoly with KNIX-FM, KMXP-FM & KZZP-FM. Broker: Blackburn & Co.
$22,000,000-KEDJ-FM & KDDJ-FM Phoenix (Sun City -Globe AZ) fromNew Century Arizona License Partner-ship (George Kriste) to Big City Radio -
Phoenix LLC (Michael Kakoyiannis, Stuart& Anita Subotnick), a subsidiary of BigCity Radio (A:YFM). $1.5M escrow, bal-ance in cash at closing. Note: These twosignals in the Phoenix market do notoverlap and this application was filedbefore Big City's subsequent purchasesin the Phoenix market. Broker: Star Me-dia Group; Gary Stevens & Co.
$11,249,001-WAHR-FM HuntsvilleAL, 100% stock sale of W.A.H.R.Inc. fromArnold Hornbuckle (59.4% before clos-ing) and William Lane (39.7% before) to
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$ 1 1 ,00 0,0 00-* WBZA-AM &WZHF-AM Washington DC (Alexandria -
Arlington VA) from OIA License LLC, asubsidiary of OIA LLC (John Douglas),to Mega Communications of ArlingtonLicense LLC, a subsidiary of Mega Com-munications (Alfredo Alonso, George &Adam Lindemann). $11M cash.Superduopoly with WKDV-AM, WKDL-AM & WINX-AM. LMA since 3/26.
$3,500,000-WORC-FM Worcester(Webster MA) from Chowder BroadcastGroup LLC (Eric Seltzer) to MontachusettBroadcasting Inc. (Robin Martin, JamesWilliams Jr., Susan Cochran, MelissaPhillips). $175K escrow, balance in cashat closing.
$2,050,000-WKCD-FM New LondonCT (Pawcatuck CT) from Saltaire Commu-nications Inc. (Lois & Gary Girard) to BackBay Broadcasters Inc. (Peter Ottmar, Estateof James H. Ottmar, David Ottmar, JohnMaguire, Barbara Ottmar, Brian Daisy).$102.5K escrow, $1.25M (less escrow) incash at closing, $800K note. LMA since 4/14. Note: No contour overlap with WWKX-FM Woonsocket -Providence RI. Broker: Me-dia Services Group
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The SportsLine Europe venture, introducedTuesday (5/11), will help the Internet mediacompany put people, servers and editorialbureaus in Europe, Levy said. With theseresources in place, SportsLine will seek outbroadcasting agreements that promote thecompany's Web sites during sports events.
SportsLine Europe was formed with thehelp of investments from Intel Corp. (0:INTC).MediaOne Group (N:UMG) and Reuters Plc(0:RTRSY). The unit will be based in London.
American Tower earnings morethan double in 01American Tower Corporation (N:AMT) an-nounced a big jump in 01 earnings. Com-pared to year ago figures, revenue was up$42.4M from $17.9M. Cash flow almosttripled from $6.4M in 1998 01 to $17.2M.
American Tower's Chairman and CEOSteve Dodge said demand for existingtowers remains strong and expects contin-ued growth in 1999. The Boston -based com-pany operates more than 3,400 towers in 44states and DC. -KM
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