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Latest developments on the portable people meter

The portable people meter (PPM) is a promising new media research tool that makes it possible to automatically track consumers’ exposure to the electronic media. An inaudible code is inserted into the audio signal of radio, television, cable and...

Catalogue: ARF/ESOMAR Worldwide Radio 2001

Authors: Robert H. Patchen, Brian Harris-Kojetin

Company: Nielsen

April 1, 2001

Development of a radio meter system

Radio Watch is a portable passive radio audience measurement meter with a unique design. Its main feature is to combine the ability to sample the environment whilst simultaneously monitoring radio broadcasts. The matching of this pair of samples...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1999: Radio On The World Stage

Authors: John Stockley, Wolfgang Werres

Companies: Ipsos MRBI, Burke, Inc.

June 15, 1999

Taking PPM out of the lab and into the field

Since 1992 Arbitron has been developing and testing a personal portable meter (PPM) system capable of detecting exposure to any audio medium both in-home and out-of-home. With this system an inaudible identification code is embedded into the audio...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1999: Radio On The World Stage

Authors: Robert H. Patchen, Ronald S. Kolessar

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1999

The Arbitron multi-media personal portable meter

In the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s Arbitron was a significant provider of formation in the field of audience measurement of television (diaries, set meters and people meters) and radio (diaries). In order to develop a Complete economical multi-media...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Seminar 1998: Electronic Media And Measurement Trends

Author: Ronald S. Kolessar

Company: Nielsen

June 15, 1998

The personal portable meter

Since 1992 Arbitron has been working on a Personal Portable Meter (PPM) program as an alternative to current audience measurement methods. This PPM program will provide each signal originator with an encoder which inserts an inaudible identification...

Catalogue: 2nd Radio Research Symposium

Authors: Ronald S. Kolessar, Carol P. Stowell

June 15, 1997

A presentation of the TV, radio and print applications of the first intermedia personal meter

The intermedia watch has been discussed since 1987 and it was often seen as a myth. However, the production of a wearable passive device for recording television, radio, and print audiences is finally ready for a technology demonstration. This...

Catalogue: ESOMAR/ARF Worldwide Broadcast Audience Research Symposium 1992

Authors: Lee Weinblatt, Stephen A. Douglas

June 15, 1992