{"id":6207,"date":"2012-12-18T17:49:10","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T22:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6207"},"modified":"2012-12-18T17:49:10","modified_gmt":"2012-12-18T22:49:10","slug":"goodbye-arbitron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=6207","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Arbitron"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nielson (the TV folks) are buying Arbitron. Several of the major radio groups refuse to buy their ratings service (Cumulus for one) and the PPM device has exposed what advertisers suspected all along about the lack of accuracy of the old diary system.<\/p>\n

As we approach the financial cliff and things firm up, look for a ton of merger and acquisition deals snd bankruptcies \/ restructuring announced in the next 10 days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nielson (the TV folks) are buying Arbitron. Several of the major radio groups refuse to buy their ratings service (Cumulus for one) and the PPM device has exposed what advertisers suspected all along about the lack of accuracy of the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collapse-of-america","category-radio-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6207"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6208,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6207\/revisions\/6208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}