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37° - overcast at 10amArbitron. Nobody seems to be happy with the ratings giant these days. Yesterday the trades reported on a letter sent to the company's Columbia headquarters by Clear Channel. Cox. Radio One and Cumulus - over PPM sample sizes. The letter - sent to key executives - opened with: "All of us have been vocal supporters of the concept of electronic measurement in radio for several years and we remain committed to the need for accurate high quality electronic ratings as a way to program and sell our stations. As of this writing the PPM system has been implemented in two markets for several months with one month of information available in New York. To date. PPM has not provided accurate or reliable data for all demographic groups." "The most immediate issue is sample size especially with regard to 18-34 year olds and ethnic groups. The situation is clear: To secure a legitimate representation of listener activity the number of people participating in the PPM survey must be increased." reports that the customers are demanding a larger sample - and to pay for it - they suggest eliminating the age 6-11 demographic and focus on the traditional 12+. They would also like to see the company "key in on a better sample for ages 18-54 where most advertising business is done." : Dave Lange on "Sample Sizes and PPM" - read. Earlier in the week - Arbitron was taken to task by Traverse City. MI GM Charlie Ferguson for sending survey participation invitations to two more staff members - plus one invite to "resident" at the station's address. As you may recall - the Traverse City spring book was reissued after it was discovered that two WSRT employees may have filled out diaries. Ferguson asked that Arbitron consider a database of station employee addresses and names to avoid future problems but reports that idea received a cold reception. Charlie was quoted in : "If my staff has gotten three separate invitations to fill out diaries how many of my competitors have received them as well? What if they didn't turn down the opportunity? We can't be the only stations whose staff is being contacted can we? Arbitron has a real responsibility to insure the integrity of the ratings and that radio station/company employees don't participate in the survey but the opposite would appear to be happening." "The sampling rate is so high in Traverse City that its inevitable that households with radio station employees get selected. With each survey approximately on out of every 45 households gets selected to be in our starting sample. And once the survey is done one out of every 129 people in the market ends up in our survey. Despite the odds of getting selected people in the radio industry are remarkably honest. It is an uncommon event for us to re-issue a report because of media affiliation." (On keeping a list of radio station personnel) "This would be a logistical nightmare and it raises significant privacy issues." Let's hope the folks at Arbitron can pull it together; the industry needs a source of credible data. And nobody likes it when the customers are screaming - no matter what business you're in.

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37° - overcast at 10amArbitron. Nobody seems to be happy with the ratings giant these days. Yesterday the trades reported on a letter sent to the company's Columbia headquarters by Clear Channel. Cox. Radio One and Cumulus - over PPM sample sizes. The letter - sent to key executives - opened with: "All of us have been vocal supporters of the concept of electronic measurement in radio for several years and we remain committed to the need for accurate high quality electronic ratings as a way to program and sell our stations. As of this writing the PPM system has been implemented in two markets for several months with one month of information available in New York. To date. PPM has not provided accurate or reliable data for all demographic groups." "The most immediate issue is sample size especially with regard to 18-34 year olds and ethnic groups. The situation is clear: To secure a legitimate representation of listener activity the number of people participating in the PPM survey must be increased." reports that the customers are demanding a larger sample - and to pay for it - they suggest eliminating the age 6-11 demographic and focus on the traditional 12+. They would also like to see the company "key in on a better sample for ages 18-54 where most advertising business is done." : Dave Lange on "Sample Sizes and PPM" - read. Earlier in the week - Arbitron was taken to task by Traverse City. MI GM Charlie Ferguson for sending survey participation invitations to two more staff members - plus one invite to "resident" at the station's address. As you may recall - the Traverse City spring book was reissued after it was discovered that two WSRT employees may have filled out diaries. Ferguson asked that Arbitron consider a database of station employee addresses and names to avoid future problems but reports that idea received a cold reception. Charlie was quoted in : "If my staff has gotten three separate invitations to fill out diaries how many of my competitors have received them as well? What if they didn't turn down the opportunity? We can't be the only stations whose staff is being contacted can we? Arbitron has a real responsibility to insure the integrity of the ratings and that radio station/company employees don't participate in the survey but the opposite would appear to be happening." "The sampling rate is so high in Traverse City that its inevitable that households with radio station employees get selected. With each survey approximately on out of every 45 households gets selected to be in our starting sample. And once the survey is done one out of every 129 people in the market ends up in our survey. Despite the odds of getting selected people in the radio industry are remarkably honest. It is an uncommon event for us to re-issue a report because of media affiliation." (On keeping a list of radio station personnel) "This would be a logistical nightmare and it raises significant privacy issues." Let's hope the folks at Arbitron can pull it together; the industry needs a source of credible data. And nobody likes it when the customers are screaming - no matter what business you're in.

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Somalia's transitional government has arbitrarily closed three independent radio stations in the past two days leaving the capital. Mogadishu with virtually no independent news outlets. It began by closing Radio Shabelle and a day later government forces raided the offices of Radio Banadir and Radio Simba ordering them to cease broadcasting. (Via ) I blink. Archant to regenerate subs with designers. Evidently the Norwich-based company - Britain's sixth-largest regional newspaper owner - is engaging in a "consultation" with staff at the East Anglian Daily Times and the Ipswich Evening feature to phase out... Of all the comments on my posting about subeditors. I was most drawn to Ilfalcone's tart response: "Media commentators - do we really need them?" In my/our defence there are not many of us. I do agree however with GarethI... I am surprised that there has been almost no comment on the journalistic ethics - or lack of them - that led to the resignation of Samantha Power as Barack Obama's foreign policy adviser. You may recall that she stepped... I am delighted that the McCann family has begun to get to grips with the scandalous story-telling in the Express titles following the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. It is all very well being obsessed by a story - that can... How about this for enterprise.. former Scottish Sun subeditor James McIvor has set up a business based around the composing of spoof front pages. He got the idea after designing mock pages for departing colleagues and for friends. He got... Guardian Unlimited © Guardian News and Media Limited 2008 Registered in England and Wales. No. 908396 Registered office: Number 1 Scott Place. Manchester M3 3GG ·

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Somalia's transitional government has arbitrarily closed three independent radio stations in the past two days leaving the capital. Mogadishu with virtually no independent news outlets. It began by closing Radio Shabelle and a day later government forces raided the offices of communicate Banadir and Radio Simba ordering them to cease broadcasting. (Via ) I act involuntarily. Archant to replace subs with designers. Evidently the Norwich-based company - Britain's sixth-largest regional newspaper owner - is engaging in a "consultation" with staff at the East Anglian Daily Times and the Ipswich Evening Star to phase out... Of all the comments on my posting about subeditors. I was most drawn to Ilfalcone's tart response: "Media commentators - do we really need them?" In my/our defence there are not many of us. I do agree however with GarethI... I am surprised that there has been almost no mention on the journalistic ethics - or lack of them - that led to the resignation of Samantha cater as Barack Obama's foreign policy adviser. You may recall that she stepped... I am delighted that the McCann family has begun to get to grips with the scandalous story-telling in the Express titles following the disappearance of Madeleine McCann. It is all very well being obsessed by a story - that can... How about this for enterprise.. former Scottish Sun subeditor James McIvor has set up a business based around the composing of spoof front pages. He got the idea after designing mock pages for departing colleagues and for friends. He got... Guardian Unlimited &write; Guardian News and Media Limited 2008 Registered in England and Wales. No. 908396 Registered office: Number 1 Scott Place. Manchester M3 3GG ·

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Spotify lets you create Pandora-like radio stations based upon a favorite artist. Instead of using the music genome to sight similar tracks as Pandora does and instead of using the wisdom of the crowds to populate their radio stations like last fm does they use the All Music 'similar artists' data to be their radio stations. Spotify makes good use of the AMG data too they show artist bios photos and album art. Spotify also has a genre/era based radio. You can choose from a set of 18 top level genres and narrow down the year of interest to give you a focused but artist independent radio displace. Any song that you see in Spotify you can play instantly. Apparently Spotify has (or is working on) arrangements with the labels to allow for this playback on demand. The playback was solid good quality audio with minimal dropouts. It compared well to my experience with other streaming services like last fm or Pandora. Spotify also lets you create playlists of tracks. Playlists are saved and you can play them back at anytime. Spotify may also be able to provide for songs.. something that the web has been needing for quite a while. The next generation of music services are going to be all about giving listeners music on bespeak. Services like no longer are constrained by internet streaming rules - you can play songs by any artist at anytime. Soon the more established services like last fm and Pandora ordain start to be old fashioned - as they change to the rather restrictive rules about internet radio enforced by SoundExchange. When they open it up to the public it will definitely become one of the most popular music apps. What's this?Feeds let you keep up to date with the latest information on a blog or website. Right-click on a feed link and copy the link's URL then paste it into your feed reader. Some browsers also allow you to move a feed link and subscribe directly.

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If you can say that question definitively then you can probably also tell us who it was that put the ram in the ram-a-lam-a-ding-dong. There’s little agreement on the definition of rock much less the more specialized genre of classic rock. move back and forth ‘n turn appears in many dictionaries but its definitions vary substantially. It’s important to make a distinction between Classic Rock and. Classic Rock grew out of a radio change that used to be called AOR — Album Oriented move back and forth. Classic move back and forth defines entire albums whereas the Oldies genre encompasses selected singles that were commercially successful. Is it the artist? Not automatically. While a group or artist may have released rock albums in the ’70s there’s no automatic guarantee that everything they ever recorded or will record is automatically classic. Is it radio airplay and preserve sales? Not exclusively. In 1979. The Knack had the top-selling single of the year. from an album that went platinum in less than two months. After two more albums that were received far less enthusiastically the group disbanded in the early 80s. Is it a particular musical style or lyric theme? Not so much. Led Zeppelin and The Beatles both recorded classic rock albums but they hardly performed the same kind of music or had the same musical call. Originally the term was coined to define a radio change that featured move back and forth music primarily from the 1970s. Later the format was expanded to include some ’60s and even ’50s rock. Today you’ll change surface hear and ’80s on classic move back and forth radio stations. Perhaps the best answer to the challenge lies in the evince classic. Virtually every available dictionary definition of classic includes a key evaluate. The most telling aspect of the adjective is that it describes something about which the same opinion has stood over a desire period of measure. People listen to it and conclude the same way about it today as they did when it was first recorded. When was it recorded? If it was within the past 15-20 years it hasn’t been around desire enough to be considered classic no be how big a hit it was or who recorded it. On the other transfer the mere fact that it was recorded 30 years ago doesn’t automatically convey it’s considered classic.

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I got to work Monday and my first move as usual was to stare out the window for a moment bleary-eyed. This day there was something different. A transport and crane were moving in to lift the KPQ three-apple neon write off the attach where it had sat and shone. I assume for at least half a century. Another local landmark disappears. I thought. The decades of sameness are done. I alerted the media (The World’s photo department) and soon people were dropping to look out on the historic event sign was gone by eat off for refurbishment and reinstallation at the new corporate radio headquarters down the street. The former radio displace building is now just a beige box with a big red-letter “AVAILABLE” sign facing the Mission Street traffic. There’s a big dumpster parked out front. Occasionally someone comes out of the building and tosses in a box of papers. That’s the only sign of life. The finality hit domiciliate. The announcement came months ago that the Colorado-based chain Cherry Creek Radio had bought KPQ from the Wallace family but the significance wasn’t alter until they took those three apples down. The sign was tattered and dated but it was move of the daily scene here. No more will a hot pink neon K-P-Q light the sidewalk at First and Mission giving us that we’re-almost-home beacon on misty winter nights. What happened to KPQ isn’t unusual not at all. The Federal Communications Commission once had a stiff thumb on radio-station ownership. No one could own more than two stations in one market or more than 40 nationwide. Congress lifted those rules with the Telecommunications Act of 1996 and unleashed the big buyout a pent-up conglomeration spree. Local radio stations were gobbled up one after another by corporate investors until the idea of local-station ownership seemed almost quaint. KPQ was a rare holdout. Cherry Creek already owned five stations in Wenatchee when it took over KPQ. It owns more than 60 stations across the West. By modern corporate standards that’s small. Clear Channel Communications one of the big players owns more than 1,200. There remains strong pressure to accept this media consolidation to accelerate. In 2003 the FCC proposed a major loosening of the rules including the elimination of the cross-media ownership ban that prevented newspapers from buying radio and television stations. The courts threw out the changes. Now they are on the table again. On Friday. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin held a public hearing on the issue in Seattle and suffered a ceaseless barrage of negative comments. Testifying against loosening the rules were an amazingly wide array of citizens not just usual activists. They ranged from Gov. Christine Gregoire to Attorney command Rob McKenna most of the state congressional delegation including Republican Dave Reichert and even conservatives desire King County Councilman Reagan Dunn and radio host John Carlson. They are right. Martin on Tuesday proposed a toned-down loosening of the rules to accept cross-ownership of newspapers radio and television only in the largest markets. change surface that is probably too much. We can see alter here at First and Mission what can happen when they just open the door a change.

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Onow com is a classified ad site from KMTV and its five radio stations. From :"It is its own brand and does not have the names/logos of the TV or radio stations on it. For now including pictures and videos for free. Eventually the place will rush for the pix and video but the text ads will be free."And there is a that highlights listing.

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many of the highlights for us had little to do with food or art. As I have written before the rickshaw draws a lot of admiration and comments. I am always inspired and excited when men talk to S2c about getting or making a rickshaw for the women in their lives. How many of them go on to do it is likely very low but I accept that the comprehend of the rickshaw inspires men to feats of chivalry and demonstrations of devotion all their own. There were at least three radio stations broadcasting live at the festival. One DJ saw us and made gave S2c kudos on the air! The DJ asked me if I was going to show him my appreciation later for my man's efforts. I smiled broadly and nodded. S2c ever the showman proceeded to demonstrate the richkshaw's manueverability rocking it back and forth - the crowd and the DJ went wild. At another radio station a young woman who appeared to be an assistant stared agog as we passed by several times. It seemed that if she did not undergo to stay where she was and bring home the bacon she would have high-tailed it out of that booth to see us up close and ask questions. In addition to her reaction the afternoon was filled with women giving me high fives or asking "where can I get one of those?" One of the food vendors was so impressed he simply gave me a large bouquet of gladiolas. I felt much the princess holding the gladiolas across my lap as S2c pulled me through the displace. As if we weren't already making a spectacle of ourselves! In acknowledgement of his gift we returned to get one of his decadent chocolate cover desserts. Lifestyle Domme and owner of slavekal who is my registered personal slave. In the bloggosphere he is known as slave2catwoman. I have been actively involved in the D/s lifstyle for four years. I've had dominant tendencies since I was six years old. By embracing my interests. I am happier and more fulfilled than I've ever been before. The greatest lesson I undergo learned is that the more I cater in everything I want the easier life gets. In the measure year or so. I undergo said to s2c that if things are this great now. I don't know if I can defeat any more pleasure. But I'm going to give it a try anyway.

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Internet radio has taken a lot of heat from the music industry recently but truthfully what doesn’t blackball Internet radio only makes it stronger. Despite the fact that some stations undergo been threatened by legal challenge many others have continued on in their course of broadcasting music online to the masses which is great to see. You may already have a number of preconceived ideas about what online radio is and how you access it but even though that may be so. I’m sure that you’ll be interested by the approach that is taking. One of the coolest things about this function is the sign flood of squares that you see once you bring home the bacon at the site. Each of these squares represents an online radio station and to get a sense of what these stations are like all you have to do is drag the orange beset around and you’ll hear the current circumscribe from the stations play through your speakers. The experience is very similar to using a radio dial and even though it’s online you’ll comfort feel old educate. The stations have a enumerate of songs that have been a part of their playlists and this means that you can search for an artist that you like and in turn you’ll find stations that undergo played music from that artist and you can see what else is on their playlists in order to find out if those stations are worth listening to. This is definitely a great way to sight new online radio streams. © 1996-2006. Lockergnome LLC. ISSN: 1095-3965. All Rights Reserved. gratify construe our and. Email newsletters powered by. Domain registered at and at CustomInk. Computer service from. Freeware useful Web sites original PC tips & tricks critical updates jargon definitions and command help for consumers. Tech support with a personal touch!

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