Country Aircheck
 November 25, 2009

» San Francisco Treat: The fine folks at Entercom are searching for a killer jock to hold down PM drive while also serving as APD for new KBWF (The Wolf)/San Francisco PD Mike Krinik. Since Krinik is working for Capitol/Nashville through the end of the year and won't be fully in place until January, you can send your stuff to Entercom Dir./Country Programming Mike Moore here or to him at KWJJ, 0700 SW Bancroft St., Portland, OR, 97239.

» Better To Give: Here are some of the ways good folks around our industries are giving back this season:
  • Clear Channel's KNIX/Phoenix morning teamers Ben & Matt surpassed their month-long Million Can Crusade goal by half a million cans, with more than 400,000 donated this morning (11/25). The drive benefits the Society of St. Vincent de Paul, which serves 3,500 meals a day.
  • Simmons' KEGA/Salt Lake City raised $110,250 (8,000 turkeys) during its third annual Gift For A Gift campaign. The station encouraged listeners to donate $10 to all area Harmon's Groceries, to purchase turkeys for the Utah Food Bank.
  • Lincoln Financial's KYGO/Denver AM drivers Kelly & Rider hosted the station's ninth annual Feed The Need, which raised $22,875 for the Denver Rescue Mission. In five hours yesterday (11/24), KYGO collected enough money for 11,914 meals.
  • Rocky Comfort's Tracy Lawrence and friends fried 400 turkeys for the 4th Annual Tracy Lawrence Mission Possible yesterday (11/24). Lorrie Morgan, Darryl Worley, Burns & Poe, Trent Tomlinson, The Roys, Ash Bowers and Big D and Bubba were among those in attendance. Almost $10,000 and 600 turkeys were donated to the Nashville Rescue Mission.


» Radio Gold: Mercury is offering a Sugarland radio special with six tracks from their holiday album Gold And Green here. It runs 21:55 minutes and includes "Winter Wonderland," "Holly Jolly Christmas," and "O Come, O Come, Emmanuel." The duo will also perform one of the tracks with American Idol finalist and Oscar winner Jennifer Hudson when they appear on the Oprah Winfrey Show Monday (11/30).

» Not That Kind Of Eight-Track: Broken Bow's Jason Aldean released an eight-track digital download exclusively to iTunes yesterday (11/24). Sessions features stripped down versions of his hit songs "Hicktown," "Amarillo Sky," "Johnny Cash" and others. Download here.

» Fuzzy Math: Universal South's Phil Vassar and Red Roof are offering a $5 cash rebate to hotel guests who give a minimum $1 donation to Feeding America as part of the company's Red Roof Loves Country campaign. The per-stay rebate is available through Sunday (11/29). Details here.

» Mama's Ploy: Country programmers and marketers will be interested in a just-published Greater Media/Charlotte study called Millennial Moms: It's 2009, Do You Know Who Your Female Listener Is? The findings illustrate how women 25-54 are early adapters, fiercely independent, resistant to loud sales pitches and tech-savvy. Prepared by Coord./Affiliate Marketing Angela Snider, the PDF can be downloaded free via a sign-in form here.

» Life Note: Stroudavarious' Darryl Worley is doing well after undergoing a discectomy and cervical fusion to relieve neck pain. Worley blogged Sunday (11/22) on his MySpace to update fans on his progress. "I did my first show back from surgery night before last (11/20)," he writes. "Everything went well, but this has been a little more challenging than I thought."

» Programming Note: The Country Aircheck offices will be closed Thursday and Friday (11/26-27). We will return Monday (11/30). We hope you have a safe and very Happy Thanksgiving!


» Country Aircheck Today Top 5: Here are the Top 5 songs for Nov. 24:

  1. LADY ANTEBELLUM/Need You Now (Capitol) 2471 points
  2. LUKE BRYAN/Do I (Capitol) 2301 points
  3. REBA/Consider Me Gone (Starstruck/Valory) 2046 points
  4. CARRIE UNDERWOOD/Cowboy Casanova (19/Arista) 1943 points
  5. CRAIG MORGAN/Bonfire (BNA) 1757 points


All daily airplay data is from Mediabase 24/7.


» Country Aircheck Today Top 5 Downloads: Here are Play MPE's Top 5 for Nov. 24:

  1. CRAIG MORGAN/Bonfire (Christmas Version) (BNA)
  2. CARRIE UNDERWOOD/Temporary Home (19/Arista)
  3. WHITNEY DUNCAN/All I Want For Christmas Is You (Warner Bros.)
  4. ZAC BROWN BAND/Highway 20 Ride (Atlantic/Home Grown/Bigger Picture)
  5. KAITLYN MAHER/Away In A Manger (Grassroots)

» Tube Check Tomorrow (11/26): Reba, 83rd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (CBS); Billy Currington, 83rd Annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade (NBC); Carrie Underwood, CNN Heroes: An All-Star Tribute; Taylor Swift, People Of The Year (NBC).

Tube Check Friday (11/27): Lee Ann Taylor (former WKMK/Monmouth-Ocean, NJ APD/MD), 30 Second Pitch (CNN); Jack Ingram, Tonight Show With Conan O'Brien (NBC).

Tube Check Saturday (11/28): Martina McBride, Trace Adkins, Top 20 Country Countdown (re-air) (GAC).

Tube Check Sunday (11/29): Various Artists, 43rd Annual CMA Awards (re-air) (CMT).

Tube Check Monday (11/30): Sugarland, Oprah Winfrey Show (syndicated); Jeff Cook, Daytime (syndicated).

» Tomorrow's Birthdays (11/26): Linda Davis, Joe Nichols, Anne Buchman, Bob Frank, Steve Grisaffe, George Meeker, Jenell Parker.

Friday's Birthdays (11/27): the late Eddie Rabbitt; Darlene Starr.

Saturday's Birthdays (11/28): Kristine Arnold, Cheri Cranford, Gene Dries, Mike Kennedy, Clint Clifton.

Sunday's Birthdays (11/29): Jody Miller, the late Merle Travis; Ryan Bitzer; Kory James.

Monday's Birthdays (11/30): Jeannie Kendall, Mindy McCready, Teddy Wilburn, Jimmy Bowen, Adam Clark, Linda Engbrenghoff.


Luke Warm: Capitol's Luke Bryan (c) says hello to WCTK/Providence MD/middayer Jessica Tyler and morning host Tim Leary backstage Friday night (11/20).

Sister Assister: BBR's Jason Aldean and sister label Stoney Creek's Ash Bowers hang backstage at their show in Johnson City, TN this past weekend. Pictured (l-r) are SC rep Heather Propper, Bowers, Aldean, WXBQ PD Bill Hagy and BBR VP/Promotion Lee Adams.

Munchies Bunch: Republic Nashville's The Band Perry made a radio tour stop at KKBQ/Houston. Pictured (l-r) are TBP's Neil and Reid Perry, PD Johnny Chiang, label rep Weslea Bartholomew, MD Christi Brooks and TBP's Kimberly Perry.














































 



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