David Gleason on the Web

David Gleason on the Web

Broadcast programming, management and research specialist for Latin America and U.S. Hispanic markets.

Section Links

	Hispanic Radio Formats	...Spanish language radio formats explained! Formats in found in the USA with music samples and descriptions. Click on the "1" to view.
	David Gleason's résumé.	...My biographical résumé and various features about radio in Latin America. Click on the "2" to view
	Radio History Archives	...PDFs of real historical issues of Broadcasting, Radex station lists, Whites Radio Log, Broadcasting Yearbook, etc. going back to the 1920's.
	Radio Audience Research	... Radio Music Research... does it work? - See how a real music test is done - See how perceptual testing is done.
	Radio in Latin America in 1963	...Pictures from my travels through Latin America. Mexico, Central America and Colombia in 1963. Includes towers, transmitters, studios and is a snapshot of the state of Latin American radio in the early 60's.

Radio's Virtual Library. Click on the cover of the Broadcasting Yearbook
above to see a listing of available PDF versions of 30 historic and vanishing yearbooks from the 40's through the 70's

FM in 1941
Stations on the air, FCC
rules, commentary.
Click to read about FM 25 years before it "happened!"

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Broadcasting
Magazine
Single Issues.

Click on the image of a 1930's issue of Broadcasting Magazine
to see a listing of available PDF versions of many issues of the magazine from the 30's to the 70's, most of which are not elsewhere easily accessible.

Arbitron Updates
"From Both Sides of the Fence"

Arbitron "Red Book" with maket population
Spanish Radio Still Peeved about PPM
AHAA Files FCC Petition
Wikipedia Article on PPM

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News and Ads
From Broadcasting Magazine
... it's Radio's
History.

Here is a sporadically updated item from Broadcasting Magazine from the 40's, 50's or 60's that covers one of radio's
timeless issues.

This Week's Feature

James Seiler founded the American Research Bureau in the 40's after doing in-house research for WRC in Washington, D.C.

Click on the thumbnail to the right and a high resolution readable PDF file will open for you find out more.

This is from November 30 1953 Broadcasting Magazine. Click to see the whole book.

Arbitron: The Beginnings

Click on this "picture" and see the details

Prior features:

KOWH grows in Omaha a year after "inventing" Top 40.

Arbitron's Early Ad
from the 60's

Metered Ratings...
...in the 30's

California's Sigalert System

Old FCC 3rd Restricted
License study guide

Watch for more!

Speaking of Earthquakes	You will hear part of a song, interrupted when the quake began. Then there are long seconds of silence while the generator turns on, followed by a live mike in the studio.
	Click on the quake icon to hear KHJ, Los Angeles, on the air during the January 14, 1994, Northridge quake

At XEMC 1589 AM
in Mexico City.

"Chime Time is..."

The mallet is to
hit the chime
and chimes were
still common in the 60's
in Latin America for
both time checks
and station IDs.

During Interview
at YSU 1050 AM
in San Salvador

YSU 1050 AM along
with YSU 720 and
YSKL 770 were the
three major news,
sports and radio
drama stations in
the 60's.

Inside one of the XEW
250,000 watt transmitters
on 900 AM in Mexico City

XEW had three of these
huge home-made
transmitters, and
alternated them in
two hour intervals.