| First issue | August 11, 2006 (19 years ago) (2006-08-11) |
|---|---|
| Final issue | June 5, 2009 (16 years ago) (2009-06-05) |
| Language | English |
| ISSN | 0277-4860 |
| OCLC | 815648421 |
R&R (also known as the "new"Radio & Records) was a weekly music trade publication that followed the radio industry and tracked the monitoring of current songs by format, station and audiencecumes. The magazine was a sister publication toBillboard magazine and was mostly available through subscription to people who work in the radio industry and music chart enthusiasts, as well as various record stores and newsstands. On June 5, 2009, parent companyAC Nielsen ceased operations onR&R just short of three years after acquiring the former independent trade periodical. When it ceased publication in 2009,R&R was the successor-in-interest of publications that traced their operations back to 1973.
R&R was a newly relaunched version of two different publications:Billboard Radio Monitor andRadio & Records, the latter where theR&R name was adopted from as the trade's "new" name. The move was a result of a merger betweenRadio & Records, the "originalR&R", andRadio Monitor after VNU Media acquiredRadio & Records on July 6, 2006.
On July 14, 2006,Billboard Radio Monitor, which originally started out in 1993 asAirplay Monitor, ceased publication with its final issue, whileRadio & Records, which originally started in 1973, published its last issue as an independent trade on August 4, 2006. Its first issue under the newly retitledR&R was August 11, 2006, beginning with the official monitored BDS charts ending the week of August 6, 2006.
On June 3, 2009, it was announced thatRadio & Records would cease all operations. The website closed down that date, and currently redirects to Billboard.biz. The reason for ending the publication was due to economic factors. Most of the articles and features that had been published inR&R were included inBillboard. Its final published issue was on June 5, 2009.
Among the features and articles that appeared inR&R, there were one for each format, "Street Talk" (which tracked the latest buzz in the radio industry), and daily news from radio and record industry in general. Those features were carried over fromRadio & Records.
It also featured the latest weeklyBDS monitored music charts and chart data information. Those features were carried over fromBillboard Radio Monitor, but it also included the addition of indicators for non-monitored radio markets and Canadian chart airplay that was part ofR&R. The overlapping of radio station reporters and format criteria from the formerMonitor andR&R were modified in the newR&R.
On January 17, 2008,R&R awardedBob Grant with the Talk Radio Lifetime Achievement Award.[1] Almost immediately, the award was withdrawn, apparently afterR&R received derogatory information about Bob Grant.[2] "R&R is sensitive to the diversity of our community and does not want the presentation of an award to Mr. Grant to imply our endorsement of past comments by him that contradict our values and the respect we have for all members of our community,"[3] butR&R then invitedAl Sharpton to speak, himself the subject of controversy.
The list continued using the BDS radio panels that was featured inBillboard Radio Monitor, but the names of the formats were changed after the conversion was completed.
The monitored radio panels are:
For articles about their predecessors: