Arbitron News

July 10, 2009: Arbitron will be sponsoring the Chairman of the Board Reception at the NAACP's Centennial Convention, to be held July 11-16 at the New York Hilton Hotel.

Arbitron has filed a comment saying the FCC does not have jurisdiction over radio ratings and therefore has no right to exert authority over its PPM radio measurement service.

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TT Torrez's influence on the Richmond market Since coming to WCDX in February 2008, TT Torrez has helped the station's midday ratings and average time spent listening increase significantly.

July 2, 2009: The PPM Coalition, which includes Spanish Broadcasting System, Univision, Entravision, ICBC Broadcast Holdings, and the Association of Hispanic Advertising Agencies, is responsible for the FCC notice of inquiry on the PPM and its effect on minority radio, having filed an emergency petition for a full FCC investigation into the PPM ...

July 2, 2009: Arbitron has filed its comments in the FCC's notice of inquiry on whether to launch a formal investigation of the Portable People Meter and the technology's effect on minority radio, saying flatly that the FCC has "absolutely no authority to impose regulations upon Arbitron's exciting new technology for more reliably measuring ...

This week's eQB speaks with MTV's Sway, and features Programming To Win, Hot Shots and This Week in FMQB History.

Saturday, June 27, 2009 You have to hand it to Arbitron . Many of their client stations and groups complain that they don't listen or act on suggestions which seem quite sensible, but whether that's true or not, the company certainly does a very impressive job of telling clients and consultants on a consistent basis what they are working on and ...

Arbitron has released further data from last week's RADAR 101 report , showing cumulative audience estimates for the 58 RADAR affiliated networks.

Overnight radio program Coast to Coast AM with George Noory is now heard on 525 stations, a record for the program, which is syndicated by Premiere Radio Networks.

June 24, 2009 by Erik Sass This week's news from Univision might be categorized as "the good, the bad, and the ugly," as the national Hispanic TV network announced new, expanded deals for carriage with Cox Communications; projected more revenue declines in the second quarter, but smaller than previously feared; and escalated its high-profile ...

Out-of-home digital networks are expected to help keep negative growth of the outdoor industry to a minimum this year, but lack of sufficient measurement is said to be holding the medium back to some extent.

Arbitron said Tuesday that it would use its Portable People Meter technology to launch a new service tracking exposure to out-of-home video networks.

With Arbitron now issuing radio ratings monthly instead of quarterly, the changes in rankings tend to be more incremental and less dramatic.

What will happen to the Miami radio market when as much as 20 percent of the audience simply disappears from the ratings? That's the scenario advertisers face July 16 when Arbitron publishes its first portable people meter ratings in Miami, San Diego, and Phoenix, three top Hispanic markets where Univision Communications has not subscribed to the ...

This week's eQB features WKTU/New York PD Rob Miller, along with Programming To Win, Hot Shots and This Week in FMQB History.

Arbitron has informed its subscribers in the Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater market that it will be releasing revised Arbitrend data for Spring Phase-1. The household of a local radio station employee sent in seven diaries, which are being removed from in-tab data.

Senior Arbitron executive brings years of people meter insights to the radio broadcast clients of media consulting firm ROI Media Solutions to expand agency and advertiser outreach in new people meter markets LOS ANGELES, June 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Jay Guyther, a long-time Arbitron executive, is joining ROI Media Solutions, Inc., the full-service ...

Two marketing companies are opening offices in Greater Baltimore. Jay Guyther, a former executive at Columbia's Arbitron Inc., is opening a local office of a broadcast consulting firm.

Nielsen Radio, set to release its first ratings in August, continues to chip away at the Arbitron-dominated radio ratings business by signing more of its customers.