In the one-programming-stream-fits-many world of music radio, for decades we’ve been trying to find the balance point between playing just the most-beloved songs and minimizing tune-outs and fatigue from repetition. As we do regularly in client perceptuals, we told respondents in our 2016 NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study who were regular listeners of music radio stations…

As we’ve shown with our Ratings Prospect Studies for a number of years now, chief among the list of what motivates someone to consent to being part of the Nielsen Audio sample, either PPM or diary, is the modest stipend provided for their participation. But, lurking behind that something-for-nothing desire is the desire to have…

A few weeks back we looked at the TSL that terrestrial radio is leaking to internet radio players like Pandora.  We showed that the epicenter of the leakage isn’t among tech-savvy younger men, but rather among younger women.  So, as we face increasing competition from these pure-play competitors with minimal commercial presence and strong personalization,…

Today in Broadcast Radio, the lifeblood for most stations is connecting to ratings respondents. Stories abound about stations with flourishing audiences who were passionate about those stations, came to station events, called and wrote to the station, but perhaps didn’t participate proportionately as ratings respondents. Successful stations in the ratings have good programming and marketing…

One of our competitors has gotten on a soapbox to preach against the evils of non-local radio.  He cites Clear Channel and Cumulus “rapidly nationalizing” their programming.  Sure, “nationalization” would literally mean the government was taking the radio business into public ownership, but we understood what was intended.  He acknowledges that networking worked for talent…