R&R Is Closing
LOS ANGELES -- June 3, 2009: Venerable and much-loved industry trade Radio & Records is no more, with parent Nielsen Business Media making the decision to cease publication immediately. The website has already come down, and about 40 people lose their jobs. The June 5 issue of R&R will be the last.
R&R employees were told in a specially called meeting Wednesday, with Publisher Howard Appelbaum saying it was a "tough decision" but the magazine's "macro did not work" in the current economy.
Some parts of R&R, such as some airplay charts, will move to sister publication Billboard, but no R&R staff will be kept on. Appelbaum told staff that some attempts had been made to "salvage" the brand, including talks with some prospective buyers.
R&R's longtime publisher and president, Erica Farber, departed in January, and the magazine saw severe staff cutbacks earlier this year.
Nielsen Business Media bought R&R about three years ago.
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(6/8/2009 1:58:21 PM) As an independent artist I believe this to be a further condemnation of the atrocious behavior of rampant music executives and the karma they have built up towards their own destruction. Greed and technology is always a formidable foe to overcome when you are constantly plotting new ways to profit from those who gain nothing. SHAME on you radio executives who played the game so masterfully with arrogance in your every stinking breath. SHAME on those hit records you ignored because there was nothing in it for you. And I laugh now as I see you in line at the unemployment office as I drive by you in my Porsche convertible tempted to beep an "I told you so" as I pass you by...but you already know. I am sure there are plenty of jobs available for Chief Executive Manipulators & Executive Vice Advantage Takers...aren't there??? Oh...my bad! Dre Allen |
| - Dre Allen |
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(6/3/2009 10:18:13 PM) Sign of the times for sure. I got laid off/let go, whatever you consider it almost 2 years ago and the death of radio continues. I never considered that I was working in the last days of radio when I did. Sad ... R & R was a good publication! I never found a job in the jobs section! |
| - Scott Hammer |
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