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Deon Levingston Appointed to NAB Radio Board 20-year industry vet Deon Levingston, VP/GM of ICBC Broadcast Holdings, is appointed to the NAB Radio Board of Directors. Levingston will represent District 1 (New York and New Jersey) NAB radio members. Levingston currently oversees WBLS-FM and WLIB-AM/New York. Prior to joining ICBC Broadcast Holdings, Levingst More

AURN to Sponsor Urban Knight Awards at NAB Show American Urban Radio Networks (AURN) will sponsor its ninth annual Urban Knight Awards at the NAB/RAB 2010 Radio Show September 29-October 1 in Washington, DC. The awards, initiated in 2002 to honor individuals and companies for their efforts in reaching an Urban audience, will be presented at the Urban Knight receptio More

Coleman Re-Releases Online PPM Panelists Study Coleman Insights announced Thursday that the online presentation of "Real PPM Panelists Tell All," the company's 2008 study that provided radio pros with insights into the perceptions and behavior of Arbitron's PPM panelists, has been re-released on its website. Visitors to ColemanInsights.com can now access a self-gui More

Wharton Responds to Radio-Capable Cell Critics NAB Executive VP/Communications Dennis Wharton (pictured) has issued what he calls a "fact-based response to the critics of radio-capable cell phones." Wharton notes that radio's audience is growing as the most recent report from Arbitron shows that radio reaches more than 239 million American listeners ages 12 and older. That's More

Arbitron Announces 10-Cent Quarterly Cash Dividend Arbitron's board of directors has approved a quarterly cash dividend of $.10 (ten cents) per common share ($.40 per share on an annualized basis). The dividend will be paid on or about October 1 to shareholders of record as of the close of business on September 15. As of July 31, there were about 26,837,000 shares outstanding. More

Arbitron to Re-issue Spring 2010 Book in Nashville Arbitron will re-issue its Spring 2010 book in Nashville after learning that four Nashville metro diaries were returned from a household whose participation in the survey was disclosed to persons in the media. The diaries, which were in-tab for spring 2010, will be removed. A revised Spring 2010 book for Nashville is set for rel More

Arbitron Sponsors ANA 2010 Multicultural Awards For the second year, radio will be included as a category in the Arbitron-sponsored Association of National Advertiser's (ANA) 10th Annual Multicultural Excellence Awards. The category recognizes the best work in the Hispanic, African-American and Asian categories for reaching multicultural consumers through radio. The dea More

Insurance Covers Most of Arbitron's $9M Legal Bills Arbitron has revealed its legal costs for the last two years in a 10-Q filing with the SEC. The ratings firm said it spent $9.1 million in two securities suits in 2008, and various "interactions" with state and federal governments over the commercialization of PPM. Arbitron said that over half of the costs were covered by insura More

University of South Florida Buys WSMR-FM/Sarasota University of South Florida, headed by Dr. Judy Genshaft, has agreed to acquire Christian WSMR-FM (89.1)/Sarasota, FL, for $1.2 million from Northwestern College Radio Network, headed by Dr. Alan Cureton. Sarasota is ranked #73 by Arbitron and the station is 50,000 watts and 463 feet HAAT. Greg Guy of Patrick Communications brok More

Arbitron Releases Midseason Pro Baseball Report Arbitron has released the first mid-season report of radio audience listening for pro baseball. The Mid-Season 2010 Arbitron Sports Report covers in game, play-by-play estimates for the first half of the 2010 professional baseball season (April 4-June 23) and includes 28 teams in 25 markets where the Portable People Meter servic More

Arbitron to Reissue Fall 2009 Watertown Results Arbitron will throw out two Fall 2009 Watertown, NY, metro diaries after it discovered that they returned from a media-related household. The diaries, which were in-tab for Fall 2009, will not be included in the in-tab sample scheduled for release on August 4, when Arbitron's Radio Report is re-issued as a combined Spring 2010/F More

Arbitron Q2 Revenues Up 1.8%, Earnings Rise 8.7% Arbitron reported second quarter revenue of $88.3 million, up 1.8% from $86.8 million in 2009. Costs and expenses increased by 2.1% to $87.7 million from $85.9 million, due primarily to the continued rollout of the Portable People Meter (PPM). During Q2, Arbitron incurred a one-time expense of $1.5 million relating to its previo More

Vision Hispana to Acquire KSOX/McAllen for $250K Vision Hispana Inc. has agreed to acquire Sports KSOX-AM (730)/Raymondville, TX (McAllen-Brownsville, Arbitron market #59) from Border Media Business Trust, headed by Larry Patrick, Trustee, for $250,000 in cash at closing. BMP moved all 22 of its owned and operated stations to the Border Media Business Trust, overseen by More

Pittsburgh Penguins Sign Multi-Year PPM Agreement Arbitron inks the National Hockey League's Pittsburgh Penguins for custom Portable People Meter ratings in Pittsburgh. They're the first NHL team to sign for custom PPM ratings. As part of the agreement, the Pittsburgh Penguins will receive individual game and season estimates along with pre-game and post-game estimates. R More

Arbitron Releases 2010 Public Radio Today Report Arbitron has released the 2010 edition of "Public Radio Today," an analysis of audience demographics and listening patterns of the nine most popular public radio formats: News/Talk, News/Classical, Classical, News/Music, AAA, Jazz, News/Jazz, Variety Music and News/AAA. News/Talk captured nearly half of all public radio listenin More

Citadel Names Davidson Director of Media Strategy Citadel Broadcasting appoints Jeff Davidson as Director of Media Strategy. In this newly-created position, Davidson will supervise all research projects across Citadel's terrestrial radio, network and digital platforms. He'll report to VP/Programming Scott Shannon, beginning July 6. Davidson most recently served as National PPM More

Arbitron Announces Changes to Its Executive Staff Arbitron has restructured its executive leadership team. The new management structure is designed to build a stronger partnership with its customers and to continue to enhance Arbitron's focus on the value of its services. "Over the past several months I have made it a top priority to meet with many of our customers and ot More

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