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Nielsen Audio (formerly Arbitron) is a consumer research company in the United States that collects listener data on radio broadcasting audiences. It was founded as the American Research Bureau by Jim Seiler in 1949 and became national by merging with Los Angeles–based Coffin, Cooper, and Clay in the early 1950s. [2]
The A.C. Nielsen company, which continues to measure television ratings today, took over American radio's ratings beginning with the 1949–50 radio season and ending in 1955–56. [40] During this era, nearly all of radio's most popular programs were broadcast on one of three networks: NBC Red, NBC Blue, or CBS' Columbia network.
For over 30 years, from July 1978 to January 2009, KGO was the number-one station in the San Francisco Bay Area in the Arbitron ratings, a feat unmatched by any other station in the United States. [17] According to the 2010 Arbitron ratings, however, KGO had lost its lead to KCBS, with KOIT-FM as a close second, and KGO listing at third.
Listeners of San Francisco's KGO radio station woke up to a shock Monday. ... The station was ranked No. 1 by Arbitron in the Bay Area from mid-1978 through 2008, a period in which it was known ...
The concept was written off and forgotten, as Arbitron had larger issues in its competition with the Nielsen Company for television ratings. After losing to Nielsen Company, Arbitron went back to its core business—radio ratings. Dr. Cohen's idea lay dormant until 1992, when Dr. Richard Schlunt and Dr. Patrick Nunally approached Arbitron.
Current list of U.S. radio markets (ranked by size) 2001 List of U.S. radio markets (ranked by size) Arbitron Radio Workshop 101; Glossary of radio market terms; List of qualitative diary markets from Arbitron; US metro map from Arbitron
WCBS (880 AM, "WCBS Newsradio 880") is a commercial radio station licensed to New York, New York, owned and operated by Audacy, Inc. The station's studios are in the combined Audacy facility in the Hudson Square neighborhood of Lower Manhattan, and its transmitter site is located on High Island in the Bronx.
KSFO (560 AM) is a commercial radio station in San Francisco, California. It is owned by Cumulus Media and airs a talk radio format. The station's studios and offices are on Battery Street in San Francisco, along with five other Bay Area Cumulus stations. KSFO began broadcasting in 1925 as a station licensed to Oakland with call sign KTAB, on a ...