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-C2 Akron Beacon Journal Sunday, April 27, WMMS zone There's only one rock station in Radio Bob Vr Dyer official, Arbitron agreed, after negotiations with WHTZ, to print the station's figures on the condition that WHTZ was "flagged" and listed "below the line." Those are ominous-sounding terms, but represent a major retreat by the ratings company. By "flagging" the station, Arbitron means a notation will be made at the front of the book saying WHTZ personalities made on-air comments about the ratings. "Below the line" means that WHTZ will find itself placed below a dashed line used to indicate where local stations end and widely heard out-of-town stations begin. In other words, WHTZ won't be mingling in print with the rest of its normal competition, but will appear on every page of the book. Arbitron seems to have caved in to industry opinion that it was taking overly severe action against WHTZ, action that was not in keeping with the criteria for past delistings.

But the ratings company has at least sent a clear message that it is not about to take any comments about the ratings listed in the ratings book. But WBBG still tied for fifth (with WLTF). In the war between urban contemporary formats, longtime champion WZAK (93.1-FM) was knocked off by WDMT (107.9-FM). The two essentially switched positions as WZAK fell from eighth to 11th. 'ZAK also appears to have lost listeners to urban straggler WJMO (1490-AM).

WWWE (1100-AM) dropped to second among newstalk formats, as WERE (1300-AM) staged a. surprising takeover surprising because WWWE has the big ad budget and the high-priced personalities (Pete Franklin, Joel Rose, Merle Pollis). The 12-week winter survey generally is considered less important than the polls conducted during the spring and fall. But the top finishers still will pack their promotional kits with fancy numbers and undoubtedly manage to lure more advertisers. Arbitron ratings are conducted for Akron-area stations only in the spring and fall.

Three Akron stations did, however, show up near the end of the Cleveland survey: hot-hit rocker WKDD (96.5-FM), which last fall trailed album-oriented rocker WONE (97.5-FM) in Cleveland, moved slightly ahead of WONE. WDBN (94.9-FM) also made a token appearance In the Cleveland book this time around. Arbitron and New York's WHTZ, a Malrite Communications cousin of WMMS, have reached a compromise in their battle over on-the-air remarks about ratings. As reported here several weeks ago, Arbitron had announced it was "delisting" WHTZ removing the station from New York's winter book because of comments made by the station's disc jockeys. Arbitron said the comments could have caused listeners to distort the ratings in WHTZ's favor.

WHTZ said it was obvious the DJs were kidding, and promptly went to court seeking an injunction against the release of the ratings book. (A federal judge has net yet ruled.) Last week, according to a Malrite It's beginning to sound like a broken record. For the 10th consecutive ratings period, rock station WMMS (100.7-FM) has buried the competition in Qeve-land's radio race. The winter Arbitron survey, received by the stations late last week, again shows WMMS in a zone of its own. During a typical quarter-hour, the Buzzards drew 13.9 percent of all people age 12 and above who were listening to the radio in the four-county Cleveland Metro survey area (Cuyahoga, Lake, Geauga and Medina counties).

Although that figure represents a loss of about half a point, it keeps the station flying well above the next highest finisher, which again is easy-listening station WQAL (104.1-FM). "I would have liked to have gotten a 14," said WMMS operations manager John Gorman, feigning disappointment. After removing tongue from cheek, Gorman admitted he was "overjoyed." WQAL checked in at 8.6, a gain of nearly half a point. Another easy-listening entry, WDOK (102.1-FM), narrowed the gap with WQAL and placed third with a 7.4 share of the radio crowd. One of WMMS hottest competitors over the years, teen-oriented WGCL (98.5-FM), seems to have slipped a compact disc.

With a new program director at the helm, the station skidded still farther, losing half a share and dropping from ninth place to 10th. WMJI (105.7-FM) beat soft-rock rival WLTF (106.5-FM) for the second straight time since hiring morning man John Lanigan. WMJI gained just under a point and finished fourth. WMJI's sister station went in the other direction. Big-band WBBG (1260-AM) recorded the biggest drop a full point among the 26 stations Today CHANNELS UPDATES Classical music videos: RADIO ozart, Mahler and MTV Religion 98 1-WTOF-FM, Canton 103.3-WCRF-FM, Cleveland 104.9-wZLE-FM, Lorain 640-WHIO-AM, Akron 900-WTOf-AM, Canton 1000-WSUM-AM, Cleveland 1540-WA6O-AM, Cleveland Rock 92.3-wROC-FM, Cleveland 96 5-WKDO-FM, Akron 97.5-WONE-FM, Akron 98.5-WGCL-FM, Cleveland 100.7-WMMS-FM, Cleveland 101.1-WHOT-FM, Youngstown 105.3-WCLW-FM, Mansfield 105.7-WMJI-FM.

Cleveland 106.1-WVNO-FM, Mansfield 106.5-WLTF-FM, Cleveland 106.9-WRQK-FM, Canton 107.3-WBEA-FM, Elyria Urban Contemporary 93. 1-WZAK-FM, Cleveland 107.9-WDMT-FM, Cleveland 1490-WJMO-FM, Cleveland 1500-WGFT-FM, Youngstown Country (Cont.) 600-WSOM-AM, Salem 1140-WCLW-AM, Mansfield 1220-AGAR-AM, Cleveland 1350-WSLR-AM, Akron 1520-WKNT-AM, Kent Eaiylltttfllng 94. 1-WHBC-FM, Canton 94.9-WDBN-FM, Medina 96.9-WKBN-FM, Youngstown 102.1-WDOK-FM, Cleveland 104.1-WQAL-FM, Cleveland 1310-WFAH-AM, Alliance JlZX 90.3-WCPN-FM, Cleveland NewiTatkSportt 100.1-WNIR-FM, Kent 1100-WWWE-AM, Cleveland 1240-WBBW-AM, Youngstown 1300-WERE-AM, Cleveland 1590-WAKR-AM, Akron Oldltt 1150-WCUE-AMI, Cuyahoga Falls 1420-WHK-AM, Cleveland Adutt Conttmporary 92.5-WDJQ-FM, Alliance 57Q-WKBN-AM, Youngstown 850-WRMR-AM, Cleveland 930-WEOL-AM, Elyria 960-WWST-AM, Wooster 1990-WTIG-AM, Massillon V1060-WRCW-AM, Canton 1330-WELW-AM, Eastlake 1330-WHOT-AM, Youngstown 1390-WFMJ-AM, Youngstown 1480-WHBC-AM, Canton 1520-WNW-AM, Canton Big Band 1260-WBBG-AM Cleveland 1340-WNCO-AM, Ashland 1380-WRKG-AM, Lorain Classical 89.7-WKSU-FM, Kent 95.5-WCLV-FM, Cleveland Country 99.5-WGAR-FM, Cleveland 101.3-WNCO-FM, Ashland 104.5-WQKT-FM, Wooster 105. 1-WQXK-FM, Salem in a field appear before him. Suddenly, a musician playing the bass turns into a hooded executioner, a guillotine blade drops and Diemeckejs head is shown flying through the field searching for the alluring blonde, played by Cahn's wife, Ruth.

Cahn has been involved in the production of other music videos for a percussion group called Nexus, but the Berlioz was the first one he directed. The company has the music recorded and scripts ready for two more videos and has a dozen more on the drawing board, Cahn said. Some of the composers who will be featured include Mozart, Brahms, Wagner, John Phillip Sousa and Aaron Copland. "The possibilities are endless. We're talking about 500 years of music to choose from," Cahn said.

This is not the first melding of classical music and videotape, Cahn said. However, it is the first time classical music has been put in a television-style video using the musicians and conductor as actors. fourth movement of Berloiz's Symphonie Fantastique. Berloiz was 27 when he wrote the music younger than many of today's rock stars, noted Cahn, who described the piece as "a powerful musical description of romantic love, and rejected passion with undercurrents of ill-concealed hate." It was written in 1830 when composers believed their music should outline a story, so they included explanatory remarks in the form of a program that was given to the audience. "We've taken the ideas behind rock videos and basically applied them to what a 27-year-old was doing 150 years ago," Cahn said, adding that March to the Scaffold was used because it's short and exciting and tells a bizarre story.

"We thought it fit into some of the things being shown on MTV in terms of fantasy," said Cahn, who wrote and directed the video. Diemecke is shown tossing and turning on a prison bed, as visions of musicians shrouded in fog and a blond woman standing HIGHLIGHTS By Randolph PIcht Associated Press ROCHESTER, N.Y. A dozen musicians from the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra believe there is more to music videos than sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll. They've made a five-minute classical music video, starring themselves and featuring the music of 19th-century French composer Hector Berlioz. They hope it will be the beginning of a successful new business.

"This is very new and very different, but I think there's a market for it," said William Cahn, a percussionist in the orchestra and organizer of Rochester Classical Video. The video will be distributed first to European television stations because they regularly broadcast classical music. Cable television networks in the United States, such as Home Box Office and Cinemax, will also get a sales pitch. "Initially, we're trying to sell this as a short subject piece something to fill in the gap in programming," Cahn said in an interview. Though the Berlioz video hasn't been made available for retail sale or viewing on Music Television (MTV), Cahn sees it as a possibility if the project is successful.

However, the rock- and pop-oriented music channels aren't necessarily looking for classical videos. "We're always open to new things, but classical music is not the format of either VH1 or MTV," said Carole Robinson, a spokeswoman for VH1, a cable television music-video channel aimed at an adult audience, and owned and operated by MTV. "Each video is judged on a case-by-case basis and I couldn't say what we would do with it until we saw it," she said, adding that a video with classical music from the movie Amadeus has appeared on the VH1 channel. Cahn's video stars Enrique Ar-turo Diemecke, conductor of the Rochester Philharmonic, as an opium-intoxicated musician hallucinating about being in prison and yearning for a beautiful woman he once knew. The plot is based on the story from March to the Scaffold, the mmm in mum i i mum mjTOi.

i i. mm jm Wednesday 11 a.m.: Merle Pollis interviews B.D. Hyman, who is Betty Davis" daughter, and Margaret Schmidt of "People for the American Way," the anti-censorship group formed by Norman Lear, on WWWE (1100-AM). 6:30 p.m.: Christoph von Dohnanyi conducts the Cleveland Orchestra in works by Mendelssohn and Bruckner on WKSU (89.7-FM). 8 p.m.: Robert Shaw conducts the Cleveland Orchestra in selections by Martinu and Bach on WCLV (95.5-FM) Friday 3 p.m.: Joel Rose talks with Jack Burry, president and chief executive officer of Blue CrossBlue Shield.

8:30 p.m.: Keyboardist Pete Jolly is featured with Marian McPartland in piano duets and solos and conversation on WKSU (89.7-FM) Saturday 2 p.m.: Verdi's Othello with Placido Domingo will be broadcast from the Lyric Opera of Chicago on WCLV (95.5-FM). 3 p.m.: Andre Prevln conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 17 and Britten's Spring Symphony on WKSU (89.7-FM). 8 p.m.: In the first of three weekly specials, Tony Rice and Mac Martin are featured on the bluegrass program Hills and Home, on WKSU (89.7-FM). Sunday 7 a.m.: Teen-age suicide is discussed by Howard Sudak on WDOK (102.1-FM).

9 a.m.: Henry Purcell's ode, Love's Goddess Sure was Blind, composed for Queen Mary's 31st birthday in 1692, will be performed on Baroque Era on WKSU (89.7-FM) Noon: Erich Liensdorf conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra in Bartok's Violin Concerto No. 2 and Shostakovich's Symphony No. 10 on WCLV (95.5-FM). 3:05 p.m.: George Jones in concert on WKNT (1520-AM). 8 p.m.: Elton John is featured on Dick Clark's Rock, Roll Remember on WAKR (1590-AM).

9 p.m.: Interviews with and music from Tears for Fears on WGCL (98.5). 10 p.m.: Crosby, Stills Nash are featured on Pioneers of Rock on WONE (97.5-FM). Midnight: Interview with rock star Pete Townshend on WMMS (100.7-FM). Monday 3 p.m.: Joel Rose Interviews former Cleveland mayor Dennis Kucinich on WWWE (1100-AM). 8 p.m.: George Szell conducts Schubert's Rosamunde and Symphony No.

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