Clear Channel Communications--the nation’s largest owner of radio stations with nearly 1,200 outlets--is using its market muscle in an attempt to negotiate concessions in service and pricing from ...

COLUMBIA, Md. (AP) -- Radio audience ratings company Arbitron Inc. has named a public radio executive to its chief financial officer post, the company said Wednesday. Debra Delman, 54, recently was ...

An Arbitron PPM panelist of nine months reached out to RBR-TVBR and had a few things to say about the whole process. The panelist met all of the overall criteria of Arbitron’s placement—the person did ...

Do you have caller ID or a screening device on your phone? Do you gleefully hang up on obnoxious telemarketers? Then you're a big reason why radio broadcasters are furious with Arbitron , the New York ...

NEW YORK – Shares of Arbitron Inc. tumbled Thursday, a day after the radio ratings company said Nielsen Media Research would not join it in a joint venture to use a new technology for measuring ...

Dubbed PPM 360, the new sleeker device allows Arbitron to wirelessly upload listening data, rather than waiting for panelists to return home to dock the meter. By Mediaweek Arbitron is unveiling this ...

Margins matter. The more Arbitron (NYS: ARB) keeps of each buck it earns in revenue, the more money it has to invest in growth, fund new strategic plans, or (gasp!) distribute to shareholders. Healthy ...

Nielsen’s entry into the US radio ratings business has raised anew the question of how to recruit people to participate in a sample group for broadcast ratings. Arbitron has resisted calls to expand ...

Top 40 music outlet KIIS-FM (102.7) is the top radio station in the Los Angeles-Orange County market, according to summer ratings released this week, but critics aren’t just focused on the pop ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Nielsen Holdings N.V. (NYS: NLSN) , a leading global provider of information and insights into what consumers watch and buy, today announced that it has successfully ...

Shares of Arbitron Inc. tumbled on Tuesday after the radio ratings company said it would delay the rollout of a controversial electronic audience measurement system in nine key markets including New ...