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R&R No more.

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This may be in the wrong place, but holy cow.


Radio & Records Closes Doors
It's The End Of An Era
By R&R Staff
Updated 0 Hour(s) 5 Minute(s) ago

The current state of affairs has left The Nielsen Company with no other alternative but to immediately cease all services, products and events related to Radio & Records. The magazine's final edition is the June 5 issue. Electronic products end today, the Web site will be taken offline soon.

R&R Editorial Director/Associate Publisher Cyndee Maxwell stated, "Everyone on this team has worked extremely hard to fulfill the vision of Radio & Records, and everyone can hold their heads high on this very sad day. We had a highly talented group of people that always worked hard and gave it their best -- especially in the recent past. I deeply regret that this day has come. The good news for some other companies out there is that we have many fantastic people who are now available to put their excellent talents, abilities and skills to work for someone else."
 
It's the end of an era in radio. It was only ten years ago that R&R was a coveted and tightly-watched resource around a station. I always had to ask the PD if I could borrow the latest issue, and PDs were always very reluctant to loan it out because it was such an essential source. It hasn't been the same since Nielsen took over. Now you can get most of R&R's essential info elsewhere.

When I was starting out in the '80s, the PD at KODA kept his copies of R&R and Billboard in a locked drawer in his desk.
 
Yeah. I remember a couple of past PDs who would keep them out of the control room for fear that the jocks would find a better-paying gig in the back pages and jump ship. Guess that's not a big concern, anymore, either.
 
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