By the end of 2008 the radio industry will have experienced its second year of negative growth by tripling station revenue losses to -7 percent, according to the estimates of BIA Advisory Services.
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FCC could begin investigating the PPM Issue.
According to the office of Federal Communications Commissioner (FCC) Jonathan Adelstein, he has requested that FCC Chairman Kevin Martin to initiate a formal investigation into Arbitron’s launch of its Portable People Meter (PPM) service nationwide, based on accusations by minority broadcasters that the PPM short-counts the minority audience. According to Radio & Records magazine.
Nielsen in the Radio Ratings Business?
Cumulus Media Inc. and The Nielsen Company announced that starting in 2009 Nielsen will provide audience measurement and radio ratings in 50 small- and mid-sized US markets.
Muy Caliente: Payola probe turns up heat on Spanish Radio.
If you thought that the departure of Elliott Spitzer from the public scene might have put out the FCC’s fire for enforcement of the payola rules, think again. That fire is still blazing. In recent days the Enforcement Bureau has sent out letters of inquiry to a number of Spanish-language radio stations demanding responses concerning allegations of payola.
New Jersey AG announces lawsuit against Arbitron over ratings method.
Attorney General Anne Milgram announced today that the state is suing Arbitron, monopoly provider of audience ratings data to U.S. radio stations, charging that its use of a new, unaccredited system for measuring listenership harms minority consumers and violates New Jersey’s consumer fraud, advertising and anti-discrimination laws.
