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December 27, 2022
Research Director Inc., PPM Exclusive December ’22 Analysis For New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, S.F., Dallas-Ft. Worth
Our long day’s journey into night has finally brought us to the DECEMBER survey. The Ratings Experts from RESEARCH DIRECTOR, INC. – along with the magical elves from XTRENDS – are here with visions of sugar plums and the stench of pine … more »
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December 1, 2022
Research Director Inc., PPM Exclusive November '22 Analysis For Houston-Galveston, Atlanta, Washington DC, Philadelphia And Boston
In our previous episode, we postulated that the NOVEMBER survey would be marred by the stain of CHRISTMAS music. As it turned out, only one of the five markets analyzed had to deal with that painful CHRISTMAS SHOES song. Will that trend continue? This … more »
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November 30, 2022
Research Director Inc., Exclusive November '22 PPM Analysis For New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, And Dallas - Ft. Worth
The purpose of today’s TED talk is to parse the results of the so-called NOVEMBER survey. A curious thing about that. This book actually began on OCTOBER 13th (it did end on NOVEMBER 9th). That means the first three weeks (or so) of the survey were … more »
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November 1, 2022
Research Director Inc., PPM Exclusive October '22 Analysis For Houston-Galveston, Atlanta, Washington DC, Philadelphia And Boston
The Ratings Experts from RESEARCH DIRECTOR, INC. – along with our partners in data from XTRENDS – are back at it, slaving over a hot keyboard to bring you another thrilling round of ratings results and analysis. The OCTOBER survey began on … more »
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August 15, 2022
2022 Rising Through The Ranks Completed
It's a wrap for the RADIO ADVERTISING BUREAU, BMI and MENTORING AND INSPIRING WOMEN IN RADIO (MIW)'s 2022 RISING THROUGH THE RANKS program, which completed its 14th annual program on AUGUST 11th in NASHVILLE. The curriculum included sessions on … more »
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August 10, 2022
Research Director Inc., PPM Exclusive July '22 Analysis For Seattle-Tacoma, Miami-Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood, Detroit, Phoenix, Minneapolis-St. Paul
For a final time in this cycle, The Ratings Experts from RESEARCH DIRECTOR, INC. – in conjunction with the masters of the algorithm from XTRENDS – once again go boldly forward into the past. Our subject is the JULY survey, a month that gets … more »
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August 8, 2022
Research Director Inc., Exclusive July '22 PPM Analysis For New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco And Dallas-Fort Worth
To borrow and twist a horrible radio cliché – welcome to hump month! Yup, JULY is smack dab in the middle of the 13 “months” that NIELSEN has deemed survey-friendly. As with most of these predesignated periods, the actual dates … more »
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June 14, 2022
Research Director Inc., PPM Exclusive May '22 Analysis For Houston-Galveston, Atlanta, Washington DC, Philadelphia And Boston
As is our wont, The Ratings Experts from RESEARCH DIRECTOR, INC. – in close cooperation with the math wizards at XTRENDS – often ponder what songs pertain to the month we are reviewing. MAY is particularly vexing because it is not only a … more »
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June 13, 2022
Research Director Inc., Exclusive April '22 PPM Analysis for New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco And Dallas-Fort Worth
Welcome to our first look at the MAY survey. It was quite the month. There was MAY DAY, CINCO DE MAYO, MOTHER'S DAY and MEMORIAL DAY. Plus a bunch of non-HALLMARK kinds of “days.” Those were distractions for radio listeners and … more »
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February 22, 2022
Research Director Inc., Exclusive January '22 PPM Analysis for New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco And Dallas-Fort Worth
The JANUARY survey – which began on JANUARY 6th and concluded on FEBRUARY 2nd – is kind of like the zombie apocalypse but in reverse. For the previous three surveys, mindless radio listeners were roaming the audio landscape in search of the … more »









