A closer look at PPM 360
Now that Arbitron has unveiled the next generation of its Portable People Meter (PPM) technology, PPM 360, where is it heading? RBR-TVBR spoke with the point-man for the technology, Arbitron Chief Technology Officer Taymoor Arshi. For years we
Radio host J.D. Hayworth trips over TV ad
The resume of Arizona’s J.D. Hayworth, who is currently challenging John McCain for the right to represent the Republican Party for the US Senate...
Rush Limbaugh remembers tougher times
RBR-TVBR Publisher Jim Carnegie has a long history with Rush Limbaugh, a/k/a Jeff Christie, having pink-slipped him from KQV-AM Pittsburgh on orders of the General Manager and then hiring him at
Arbitron buys IMMI technology
Arbitron announced late Monday (6/21) it has acquired the technology portfolio, patents, and trade name from Integrated Media Measurement Inc. (IMMI), now renamed Audience...
Columbus OH AM backs down from Phoenix travel giveaway
The mayor of Columbus OH stirred the pot by decreeing that there would be no travel by municipal staff to Phoenix AZ in protest...
FCC collars three Massachusetts pirates
A $10K Notice of Apparent Liability issued to a trio of individuals who had been plying the FM waves without a license from towns...
Charlie Tuna gets automated
Black Card Radio and MrMaster Content Delivery have partnered with Savannah, GA Classic Hits WGCO to pioneer a syndicated product: The new Charlie Tuna Daily...
Emmis renews radio rights to Indiana Pacers
The NBA Indiana Pacers and Emmis Communications announced that they have entered into a new long-term agreement for radio broadcasts of all Pacers games....
Arbitron introduces no-docking station PPM
Arbitron is taking its Portable People Meter (PPM) system wireless. The new PPM 360 meter uses cellular telephone technology to send in its data, so panelists will not have to dock the device at night for data to be transmitted via a landline phone
Dennis Miller selling California home
Comedian and Westwood One personality/Fox News commentator Dennis Miller has listed his Montecito, CA estate for $17.5 million, reports WSJ. The home was designed...
Underwriting at California noncom FM strays into commercial territory
The broadcast of four underwriting announcements that got too descriptive has landed the National Farmworkers Service Center and its nomcom KUFW-FM Woodlake CA in...
Mayor Bloomberg using some salty language on WOR-AM
The NY Daily News reports Mayor Bloomberg is normally guarded about using profanity in public, so his use of the salty phrase
Clear Channel
The Federal Election Commission declared that the radio show formerly hosted by Arizona Republican Senatorial primary contender J.D. Hayworth on KFYI-AM Phoenix did not constitute an in-kind
WAMU's HD-2 Bluegrass Country ranks in May Arbitrons
WAMU-FM DC’s Bluegrass Country (is the second HD Radio multicast station in the nation to place in an Arbitron monthly report, ranking 47th overall...
Appleton-Oshkosh AM driver seeking office
Jonathan Krause, part of the morning team at Cumulus Media’s WOSH-AM 1490 in the Appleton-Oshkosh Arbitron market has announced a run for the Wisconsin...