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  • 2011: A Very Good Year for Country Music

    • 12/22/2011
    • Posted by: Mike O'Malley
    • Category: country music, ratings
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    This was a good year for current country music. Actually, it was one of the best – at least when talking about year-end test scores.  Across our metrics, nearly all scores were better than 2010’s and some were the best since Albright and O’Malley began year-end analyses in 1998. Songs in the top third of course score better

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  • #accjms11: Smart, Passionate People Talking Radio

    • 12/09/2011
    • Posted by: Mike O'Malley
    • Category: radio
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    Fill a hotel ballroom with smart people and have them talk about a shared passion for radio for 2 ½ days and you can be guaranteed there will be good take-aways. Here are some of mine (paraphrased) from the just-concluded Arbitron Client Conference and Jacobs Media Summit for 2011 in Baltimore.   Tripp Eldridge, President/CEO dmr

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