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How real people deal with real PPM's

We finally have some answers to questions that people have been asking about Arbitron’s Portable People Meter measurement system since well before the first PPM markets began operation...

iBiquity Digital announced significant momentum in the expansion of HD Radio content for HD2/HD3 multicast channels, including new audio formats and groundbreaking consumer data services ...

Arbitron officials were facing criticism on two fronts yesterday at the NAB Radio Show. In a session on PPM, WBLS-FM New York General Manager Deon Levingston complained that not a single agency...

RadioTime buys RadioSherpa

RadioTime, Inc., a developer of technology for finding and listening to radio online, today announced it has acquired RadioSherpa, which provides a real-time program guide ...

WWI/CBS Radio will air Palin interview

CBS News anchor Katie Couric scored a big “get,” an interview with Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin (R-AK), and the CBS family will make the ...

Westwood One re-engineers Metro Traffic

Emulating successful broadcast weather operations, Westwood One is going to pull its Metro Traffic service from 60 local operations to 13 regional hubs. That will ...

Under questioning at the NAB Radio Show in Austin, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin acknowledged angst among broadcasters who think the Commission’s pending proposal to bring ...

Radio Business Report (RBR) and Radio Guide Magazine today announced an agreement to make the broad range of news and information from both publications available to readers...

He didn’t quote Spiro Agnew’s criticism of "nattering nabobs of negativism” as Saga CEO Ed Christian had done a few hours earlier, but NAB President and CEO David Rehr warned against...

Bonneville uses HD to bring WorldBand to DC

Washington DC is a multilingual community, and Bonneville International is going to take advantage of an HD side channel on its Newser WTOP-FM to reach ...

KLBJ selects ConvoCast for audience-powered content

KLBJ AM 590 Austin, TX, an Emmis station, announced a partnership with ConvoCast, a voice-enabled audio community company that has created an innovative platform for ...

Content Factory adds “Into the Night With Tony Bruno”

Veteran sportscaster Tony Bruno will add to the growing roster of The Content Factory. Tony's career spans two decades including stints with ESPN and Fox ...

The Laura Ingraham Show adds WBAP, KVI

Yet more of the show's 17 New M-F stations being announced: Talk Radio Network Enterprises' The Laura Ingraham Show debuts September 22 on Citadel/ABC's 50,000 ...

Radio’s red plague continues

Who woulda thunk that CL King’s Jim Boyle was overly optimistic the other day when he predicted that radio was going to drop 8%-9% year-over-year ...

“We need some structural relief,” said Cumulus Media CEO Lew Dickey. But given the current anti-consolidation mode on Capitol Hill, no one was predicting that further deregulation will come anytime soon. With so much talk about digital initiatives...

CL King analyst Jim Boyle thinks that when the Radio Advertising Bureau releases its revenue results for month of August, it’ll be talking about a decline of -8% or -9%. That actually would come in...