Nielsen today issued this notice:
On Tuesday, July 11th, Nielsen released a Product Notice to clients in Houston-Galveston indicating that a Total Line Reporting (TLR) station combinations, KQQK-FM and KQQK-IF, and KTJM-FM and KTJM-IF, were ineligible for TLR in the June 2023 survey period, and that we reported that station combination separately in the Houston-Galveston June 2023 Radio Market Report.
Nielsen has also determined that the same TLR station combination was ineligible for TLR in survey periods prior to June 2023. Reporting these station combinations separately results in material changes to Houston-Galveston estimates in the March 2023 through May 2023 Radio Market Reports.
Total Line Reporting means that stations that are 100% simulcast for nearly all hours of the month can choose to have their ratings combined in one line.
Nielsen says about TLR:
To be eligible for TLR, stations must broadcast the same programming and commercials for at least 95% of all quarter-hours during the report period/survey. In PPM markets, TLR partner stations may break simulcast for up to 134 quarter-hours during a 28-day survey and remain eligible for TLR under the following circumstances:
On Tuesday, July 11th, Nielsen released a Product Notice to clients in Houston-Galveston indicating that a Total Line Reporting (TLR) station combinations, KQQK-FM and KQQK-IF, and KTJM-FM and KTJM-IF, were ineligible for TLR in the June 2023 survey period, and that we reported that station combination separately in the Houston-Galveston June 2023 Radio Market Report.
Nielsen has also determined that the same TLR station combination was ineligible for TLR in survey periods prior to June 2023. Reporting these station combinations separately results in material changes to Houston-Galveston estimates in the March 2023 through May 2023 Radio Market Reports.
Total Line Reporting means that stations that are 100% simulcast for nearly all hours of the month can choose to have their ratings combined in one line.
Nielsen says about TLR:
To be eligible for TLR, stations must broadcast the same programming and commercials for at least 95% of all quarter-hours during the report period/survey. In PPM markets, TLR partner stations may break simulcast for up to 134 quarter-hours during a 28-day survey and remain eligible for TLR under the following circumstances:
- The stations break simulcast to broadcast different programming and different commercials and
- Each simulcast break is at least one hour and
- No single simulcast break is more than 12 continuous hours