[BC] Arbitron

[Rich Wood]

------ At 08:26 PM 7/23/2009, Jim Tonne wrote: -------

>I see that setting the contraption on a table during
>dinner effectively turns it off.
>
>I see that feeds via satellite are ignored.

I'd check further on that. If you enjoy reading in bed listening to 
radio and the charger is on a nighttable it'll record the listening. 
I do believe there's a movement sensor that turns it off, assuming 
the research subject is away and has forgotten to "suit up" for a 
thrilling day of radio listening. Long periods of no movement assumes 
the person who's supposed to be wearing it isn't or its at a nudist 
event with no painless means of attachment.

I don't understand how satellite listening would be ignored. Networks 
don't encode. You're not listening to the satellite. You're listening 
to the satellite feed after it's been run through the station's audio 
chain. No station in its right mind would want nearly 100% of their 
programming ignored. It monitors the encoded signal generated at the 
station and doesn't care about its source.

Rich