And the iHeartRadio Madness Continues...

[JMW]

NBC to Televise the First iHeartRadio Music Awards on May 1st

NEW YORK, N.Y. and UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Feb. 26, 2014 — NBC and Clear Channel Media and Entertainment announced today that NBC will televise the first-ever iHeartRadio Music Awards May 1 (8-11 p.m. ET/PT) from the historic Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.

The three-hour iHeartRadio Music Awards will showcase this year’s biggest artists and songs and feature live performances, never-before-done duets and collaborations, celebrity guest appearances and live award presentations. The show, which will feature performances from other Los Angeles venues, will also broadcast and stream live the audio across all participating Clear Channel radio stations and their websites, and on iHeartRadio.

It's also been announced that there'll be a iHeartRadio countdown show:

Clear Channel also today unveils the iHeartRadio Countdown, its new two-hour weekly program that highlights the top 20 Contemporary Hit Radio (CHR) songs in the iHeartRadio Chart. The new show will be co-hosted each week by a major artist and iHeartRadio’s own Romeo on the Radio, airing on all Clear Channel Top 40/Contemporary Hit Radio (CHR) stations on Saturday or Sunday. The iHeartRadio Countdown will also spotlight songs outside the top 20 each week with special features such as Most Social Song, the iHeartRadio Most “Thumbed Up Song,” iHeartRadio exclusives, along with premieres and sneak peeks from that week’s guest host.

“What’s unique about the iHeartRadio chart, countdown and awards is that all three are squarely focused on what the listener wants,” said Tom Poleman, President of National Programming Platforms for Clear Channel Media and Entertainment. “For the first time, these three interconnected programs have shifted the power of how we measure an artist’s success — and, in turn, what’s heard on the radio and celebrated with awards — to the critically important listener.”

I expect world domination next.

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I'm surprised by the countdown. I kind of feel Seacrest is already hosting it. As an aside, I think that means we can probably kiss the dual versions of AT40 goodbye in my market. Can't imagine FLZ playing two different shows if they don't have to.

[mkarns]

The iHR countdown is already airing in many markets, including mine, where it's heard on WIHT on Sundays at 5 PM; AT40 is on at 8 AM (CHR version--the Hot AC one isn't played locally to my knowledge, a reversal of the later Casey years.)

This double-bunking of countdowns is likely to be a feature common to most Clear Channel stations, which is to say so many of the largest CHR's. I don't know why an extra half-length countdown was needed (many of the features described above are also present in some form on AT40), but there are worse ways to fill time on weekends.

[Mike]

Simple. What better way to guarantee over-playing of the current top hits in the land?

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Imagine if AT20 was still playing in 2014. Would it be Casey, Shadoe, or Ryan?

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Feb 26, 2014 15:08:54 GMT -5 @mikaelaarsenault said:

Imagine if AT20 was still playing in 2014. Would it be Casey, Shadoe, or Ryan?

This makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

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If AT20 was still playing this year, who would be the host?

[mkarns]

Feb 26, 2014 16:24:13 GMT -5 @mikaelaarsenault said:

If AT20 was still playing this year, who would be the host?

Presumably Ryan, who also hosts the Hot AC AT40 which is similar to the last show entitled AT20, unless someone new was auditioned and hired.

As is discussed elsewhere on the board, Casey retired in 2009 and is sadly in no condition now healthwise to host anything even if he wanted to, and I don't think Shadoe wants to return to a weekly countdown after his often frustrating tenure with AT40.

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Frustrating tenure? Did Shadoe not like doing AT40 or something?

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There is a book on the topic! READ IT!!

[BrettVW]

Feb 26, 2014 12:55:10 GMT -5 @paul said:

I'm surprised by the countdown. I kind of feel Seacrest is already hosting it. As an aside, I think that means we can probably kiss the dual versions of AT40 goodbye in my market. Can't imagine FLZ playing two different shows if they don't have to.

FLZ does air both, and both AT40's remain. The iheartradio countdown (which is awful btw) airs Sundays 8-10am on FLZ. Seems to me the Clear Channel CHR stations all air both now. AT40 is, without question, the superior product.

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Really? Tells you how much I listen to them on Sunday. If I listen to local radio Sunday morning it's either Mix 100.7 or 620.

[BrettVW]

I really don't understand why they are producing this show. They obviously still love Seacrest. The show is primarilyna voiceover guy reading liners introducing the songs. And all of their stations run, and continue to run, AT40 with Seacrest

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I believe it's all about getting the brand of I Heart Radio out there as much as possible. I've come to think that service is what CC thinks is going to lead them out of the debt incurring money loser their radio stations have primarily been for years now. Thing is, I don't know what else they think they can do to push it. True On demand to everything Premiere distributes along with an archive? And I mean of everything from AT40 to Limbaugh. The only other thing I feel like they could add would be live pbp of sporting events but I cannot imagine the $$$ they'd have to throw the way of the NFL, NBA, etc to make them even consider it.

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Feb 27, 2014 9:15:48 GMT -5 @paul said:

There is a book on the topic! READ IT!!

I can't afford the book. It costs too much money.