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Headline of the latest Arbitron-Edison “Unending Dial” – a 30% jump in weekly online present audience.

This is the 20th edition of a study of new media that dates way back to 1998, when there wasn’t even an accepted vocabulary for some of the behavior. (Arbitron employed to refer to streaming radio listeners as “streamies.”) The latest matter confirms the rapid rush toward broadband at home (now in 70% of homes), increasing faith on the Internet (46% say it’s “the medium most essential to my life”), and the adoption of smartphones. Arbitron’s Bill Rose and Edison’s Tom Webster also take pains to train a designate out that old media isn’t going into the dumpster. One of their bullet points – “Broad usage of one medium is not necessarily associated with less time with other media.” Americans’ ordinary daily time with AM/FM radio is 2 hours and 7 minutes.

Source: Satellite Radio Playground

by herculodge

(Re-employment)

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by Dave

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