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Tue Mar 25 21:29:33 CET 2003

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From:                   Cees Binkhorst <cees at binkhorst.xs4all.nl>
To:                     "fert 6565" <fert6565 at hotmail.com>
Subject:                Re: Waarom krijgen musici _en_ luisteraars geen fair
deal?
Date sent:              Tue, 25 Mar 2003 21:28:29 +0100

"fert 6565" <fert6565 at hotmail.com> schreef:
> Mij is niet geheel duidelijk wat voor bedrijf "radioactive" is? Dat
> "radioactive" diensten levert waardoor clearchannel op een bepaalde
> manier uit de wind blijft of goedkoper aan dingen komt lijkt me voor de
> hand liggen, alleen de zon gaat voor niets op, maar geef me een
> aanwijzing
> mvg, l c de wit

Google: radioactive "randy michaels" - Eerste hit:
John Hogan says he'll be "flying commercial", not using Randy
Michaels' plane.Former Clear Chan-nel Radio CEO Randy Michaels owns a

plane under the company name of "Radioactive." It was used by
CCexecs, and CC was billed for that usage (says the L.A. Times). The
paper says CC paid Radioactive$447,100 for "consulting and
transportation" last year. And notes that's close to Michaels' base
salary of$506,471. (Of course Radioactive was paying the costs of
maintaining the plane and fuel. And there's noindication of anything
improper.) But Hogan tells the paper that Clear Channel will no
longer be renting Michaels' plane: "I'll be flying commercial." If
so, he'll be standing in line at the airport more than some
otherradio execs. A popular thing - especially since 9/11 - is buying

a "share" in a private jet, entitling you to aspecific number of
flight hours. At least one radio CEO we know of recently signed such
an agreement

Details van huur van jets liggen niet voor het oprapen, maar ik kan
je verzekeren dat voor USD 450.000 je heel wat vlieguren kan maken.
Bovendien lijkt het me raar dat een bedrijf als Clear Channel, met
dochters van Zuid-Amerika en Europa tot Australie, geen eigen
vliegtuig heeft.
Bovendien waarom zou Clear Channel een van zijn divisie-hoofden nog
extra betalen voor 'consulting?'

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Cees Binkhorst" <cees at binkhorst.xs4all.nl>
[knip]
> Meer informatie over dit bedrijf op http://www.clearchannelsucks.org/
> Waar ook o.a. bericht wordt over deals van b.v. USD 400.000:

> Clear Channel has recently given exclusive access to their urban market
> stations to three independent promoters, who have in turn raised
> promotional rates to record companies more than 50%. This is a stark
> difference from what Clear Channel President Mark Mays' position has
> been recently, siding largely with the record labels on the problems
> with the independent promotion system. Reportedly, Randy Michaels,
> former CEO of the Clear Channel Radio division, was ousted because of
> bad relations with the music industry.

> De LATimes schrijft daar o.a. dit over (voor restant bericht moet
> worden betaald): [John Hogan] also said Tuesday that he would
> discontinue the radio division's use of Radioactive, a private company
> owned by [Randy Michaels]. Through Radioactive, Michaels billed Clear
> Channel when company executives flew aboard his privately owned plane.
> Last year, Clear Channel paid Radioactive about $447,100 for
> "consulting and transportation"--an amount approaching Michaels' base
> salary of $506,471.
> Waarom zou CC dit soort kadootjes weggeven?

Louis,

Mij valt op dat je elke keer de 'verkeerde vraag' stelt :).

In plaats van in te gaan op de 'extra kosten' voor de
platenmaatschappijen die veroorzaakt worden door inhalige
radiostations, ga je in op exotische details van een inhalige
radioman.

Ik heb dus maar weer antwoorden gezocht op vragen die jij niet hebt
gesteld:

Van:Balecox (balecox at aol.com)
Onderwerp:Sweetland's latest column -- good stuff

View this article only
Discussies:rec.music.country.western
Datum:2002-03-20 00:27:35 PST

MAJOR SHAKEUPS AT EMI AND CMT; DEALING WITH THE CLEAR CHANNEL
GESTAPO; CHAD BROCK LEAVES WB; TONY STAMPLEY'S ALBUM HOT AS A
FIRECRACKER

By Phil Sweetland

We sent out a wake-up call to Music Row with last week's column,
which posited that many of the biz's deepest-seeded assumptions and
ways of doing business were cock-eyes. Capitol Records Nashville's
courageous president MIKE DUNGAN said he really enjoyed the column.
SCOTT BORCHETTA at DreamWorks SKG couldn't stand it, and both men
must be heard because they are two of the sharpest cats in this town.

DUNGAN said at CRS in the now-famous "Nashville Incorrect" seminar
that "OUR BUSINESS SIDE ON THE LABEL SIDE IS COMPLETELY BROKEN. It
just doesn't make any damn sense anymore. There's a lot of factors
contributing to it, largely the cost that we have to introduce and to

sustain airplay at radio with promotions that we're doing, the shows
that we're doing, that's the biggest contributor. But THE POINT IS
THE MODEL'S BROKEN. So we're at a CRISIS POINT in this industry. And
you can go one of only two ways: You can play it safe and sell
300,000-400,000 records and in all honesty you won't break even. The
break-even point on most records is between 400,000-500,000 units,
because of all the costs built into it now. ARTISTS THAT HAVE GOLD
RECORDS ARE GOING TO START LOSING THEIR DEALS BECAUSE IT DOESN'T MAKE

ANY SENSE."

Indeed, the business side is fractured. The hottest country act - THE

DIXIE CHICKS - is suing its own label with no end in sight. Country
radio must be dragged kicking and screaming into playing a country
record ("O Brother") that has sold 5 million copies because playing
it (and "Man Of Constant Sorrow" is showing up on playlists) is a
frank admission that their vaunted testing methodology has major
flaws. And sources tell us that overall, 90 percent of all albums
today (not just in country) lose money.

As brutally hard evidence of the turmoil, check out these TWO
HEADLINES FROM VARIETY overnight. Since 1905, Variety has been the
bible of show business but I would venture to say that only a handful

of Row people read it:

Headline No. 1: "FALTERING VH1 A TOP PRIORITY FOR MTV PREZ: Sykes
switches channels to CEO of Infinity Radio . . . MTV NETWORKS has
engineered a shakeup in the executive ranks, elevating Judy McGrath
to president of all of the cable music networks while JOHN SYKES GIVE

UP HIS POST AS PRESIDENT OF VH1 AND COUNTRY MUSIC TV (CMT) to become
chairman and CEO of sister company INFINITY RADIO."

Ask yourself, why would John Sykes bag a TV job for a radio job? Used

to never happen because the money was all in TV, but in massively
merged corporate radio in the post-Telecommunications Act of 1996
world it seems like the real cash is at radio and not TV.

En Louis, het bericht begint dus met de 'Clear Channel Gestapo' en
ergens middenin staat iets over een 'gebroken model' (waar geen
modepop in stukken mee wordt bedoelt :).

Lijkt me dus dat de beslissing in 1996 om de markt voor radiostations

in de VS vrij te geven niet zo verstandig was.

Groet,

Cees Binkhorst - cees at binkhorst.xs4all.nl

Een paar recente uitspraken:
'Als de VN relevant willen zijn, moeten ze precies doen wat ik zeg.'
'Ik weet dat ik tegen de wensen van de Security Council en de tekst
van het VN-verdrag in ga, maar ik doe het wel om een VN-resolutie
uit te voeren.'
Een oude uitspraak van Thomas Paine uit 1795 "Every man must
finally  see the necessity of  protecting the rights of others as the

most effectual security for his own"
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Groet,

Cees Binkhorst - cees at binkhorst.xs4all.nl

Een paar recente uitspraken:
'Als de VN relevant willen zijn, moeten ze precies doen wat ik zeg.'
'Ik weet dat ik tegen de wensen van de Security Council en de tekst
van het VN-verdrag in ga, maar ik doe het wel om een VN-resolutie
uit te voeren.'
Een oude uitspraak van Thomas Paine uit 1795 "Every man must
finally  see the necessity of  protecting the rights of others as the

most effectual security for his own"

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