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Is Nielsen’s Diary Service Headed for a Major Overhaul?

What Nielsen is proposing is both radical and evolutionary at the same time.

America 250 Is a Moment That Sports Radio Was Built For

"America 250 shouldn't be viewed as another marketing campaign or corporate initiative. It should be viewed as an opportunity to remind audiences what great local sports radio does best."

What Pizza Hut and Heinz Can Teach Classic Rock Radio Programmers

"Your station can do something Yum Brands and Heinz can't"

Is Your Radio Station Preparing to Change Formats? Watch for These Signs

"Sometimes the clock simply runs out."

CBS Sports, FOX Sports Post Massive NFL Week One Viewership Figures

"CBS has not drawn an opening-week national window this strong in more than 25 years, and FOX’s single header still topped anything seen in the past eight"

Radio Ratings Metrics At Nielsen Are Outdated — Here’s What Needs to Change

Any update to the system must take advantage of all data available today and some data that may not exist yet.

NFL YouTube Debut Draws Average Viewership Of 17.3 Million

"The audience size helped set a record for the most concurrent viewers of a live stream on YouTube"

Classic Rock Radio’s Mid-Year Report Card

"Let’s look at some notes from the first half (or seven months) of the year and see what, if any, conclusions we can draw."

What Music Radio Can Learn from the NFL’s Winning Playbook

With the new season, here are ten reminders of what makes the league so successful — and RockTernative can steal every one of them.

Why It’s Time for Nielsen and the Radio Industry to Reimagine Ratings

When your career prospects are contingent on whether someone wears a watch on a given day or a near-illiterate draws a line in a paper diary, that’s an unusual way to make a living.

NFL Questions Nielsen Ratings Accuracy as Season Kicks off Thursday

"There are millions of viewers that we believe they are systematically undercounting"

Nielsen 101: Share vs. Rating and What It Really Means

Why Your Share Doesn’t Equal Sales.

Nielsen Channels Lynyrd Skynyrd With ‘Gimme 3 Years, Gimme 3 Years, Mister’

Until Nielsen discovers that “it ain’t no fun staring straight down a forty-four” (figuratively, not literally), I expect we’ll be seeing Nielsen back at The Jug again, looking for more ways to cut costs.

Can Nielsen Fix Its Data Processing Problems?

This is troubling, and in my view, Nielsen owes the industry an explanation.

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America 250 Is a Moment That Sports Radio Was Built For

"America 250 shouldn't be viewed as another marketing campaign or corporate initiative. It should be viewed as an opportunity to remind audiences what great local sports radio does best."

What Pizza Hut and Heinz Can Teach Classic Rock Radio Programmers

"Your station can do something Yum Brands and Heinz can't"

Is Your Radio Station Preparing to Change Formats? Watch for These Signs

"Sometimes the clock simply runs out."

How Radio Can Own the Taylor Swift Wedding Weekend

"Just in case we're only weeks away from America's royal wedding, let's get prepared!"