Radio audiences listening to RADAR Network affiliated stations is up year over year according to preliminary findings from Arbitron’s latest RADAR 101 Report to be released  Monday 6/22. Over the course of a typical week, more than 213 million persons age 12 and older tune to the more than 7,700 RADAR Network affiliated stations, up from 210 million listeners one year ago in RADAR 97.The new report also shows that radio reaches 92 percent of …

Arbitron’s RADAR 100 shows network radio’s cume jumped 2.5 million with listeners 12+ from the previous report issued three months ago. The Adult 25-54 demo, with an increase of 1.1 million, showed the biggest improvement. Arbitron VP Bruce Supovitz is crediting the increases to the rollout of electronic measurement (PPM) in more markets.

Phil Rosenthal recently spoke to an understandably upset Tom Joyner for an article in today’s Chicago Tribune. The nationally syndicated Joyner, who was unceremoniously replaced at Clear Channel WVAZ (V-103) after 13 years this past Monday, speaks candidly about his firing, the importance of being on in Chicago and how audience data revealed by Arbitrons new PPM methodology is impacting programming decisions. The article is a good read from a newspaper in a town that …

Dial Global’s Adult Power Network (2.7 rating) topped Arbitron’s latest RADAR 100 network audience report which measures the audience size of network radio audiences and commercials within programs aired on 58 national radio networks.Dial Global Contemporary Network remained at #2 (2.3-2.6), while ABC Daytime Direction Network was steady at #3 (2.3-2.3). Premiere Emerald Plus Network moves into the top 5 (1.9) followed by Dial Global Female Perspective (1.9). RADAR 100 saw an increase in the …

According to preliminary findings from Arbitron’s RADAR 100, radio reaches over 92% of listeners 12 and over each week, along with more than 94% of college graduates ages 25-54. 95% of adults 25-54 with a college degree and an annual income of $75,000 or more tune into radio over the course of a week. While the trend in radio shows fewer young listeners a

A Coleman Research study on the performance of News, Talk and Sports radio in PPM measured markets vs dairy measurement has some good news for spoken word radio. The study released today to coincide with R&R’s  Talk Radio Seminar in Los Angeles,  “Beyond the Rhetoric: The Truth About the PPM Performances of Spoken Word Stations”  reveals that the average spoken word-formatted station experiences a 12% improvement in the average quarter-hour (AQH) share Arbitron reports for …

Triton Media’s Dial Global menu of radio networks and Premiere Radio Networks dominated Arbitron’s Radar 99 report released today. Dial Global’s Adult Power network topped the list of December 2008 rankings for Persons 12+, Monday-Sunday 5a-12 midnight. Followed by Dial Global’s Contemporary Network, ABC Radio Networks’ Daytime Direction, Dial Global’s Complete FM Network, Westwood One’s WON I Network, Dial Global’s Female Perspective, ABC’s Prime Access, Dial Global’s Music and Entertainment, WW1′s News Day Network, and …

That’s according to preliminary numbers from the Arbitron Radar 99 Network Radio Audience Report released today. The Radar Report which measures 58 individual radio networks using PPM and diary respondents,  shows cumulative radio listening up slightly to 234 million in a typical week from the 232 million reported in last years Radar 94 report,  which was the last report to use diary only respondents. Network radio listening is a part of the up trend rising …

Arbitron just released it’s annual “Network Radio Today” report and it shows that network radio still has some significant reach, with nearly three-quarters of Americans 12 and older, and 74 percent of both 18-49s and 25-54s exposed to network radio each week. Other highlights from the report show that nearly two-thirds of the 18-plus audience for network radio is college-educated, and 70 percent of college graduates tune in to network radio every week. Seventy-five percent …

The just released September 2008 RADAR radio network audience report shows the Dial Global Contemporary Network at the top of the radio network rankings. During the RADAR 98 survey period, from June 28, 2007 to June 25, 2008, 72% of U.S. consumers ages 12+ heard one or more network radio commercials in the course of a week. Also according to the survey, which includes PPM data from Philadelphia and Houston, 73% of Persons 18+, 72% …