Yes I’d heard black oriented stations were among those hurt by the new ratings method. The electronic device sounds like what I had for a couple years as a “Nielsen family” for TV
(you did had to confirm what you were watching every now and then to prove you hadn’t fallen asleep)
Now, how does one say “Yes We Can” in Chinese...?
It was said maybe moonbats will see this as a victory for
diversity, though it takes away from black-oriented radio here. As I mentioned on Twitter to someone, how did the moonbats feel when their two Air America stations in Boston,
AM 1430 and 1200, later changed the format to Spanish language music (Rumba)? Diversity, folks! Later an epic WIN
when one of them (1200) would change again, this time to...
CONSERVATIVE TALK. (Hey, this is Mass.; Conservatives are a minority group..)
My parents had that Nielsen box in their home for awhile.
They thought they were doing good and by participating could influence the quality of TV programming to improve. They ended up highly disillusioned, because clearly it has just gotten far, far worse.
The sale of the black format stations in Pittsburgh was quite controversial. To the point where the Catholic Diocese of Pittsburgh has taken steps to officially distance themselves from the people who bought those stations.