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• Audience Composition Report - Determine Median Income Demo Group
  

• New Version 9.6 ACT 1 PC System Software
  
• New Tabular Export Option
• New Planner Application Features
  

• Turnover
  
• Comparing Lineups
  

• New Version 9.5 ACT 1 PC System Software
  
• New "Live" Planner Application (Proposals & Buy-Sheets)
  

• Audience Report - Three Ways to Hide Times/Schedule
• Audience Report - Combine Duplicate Stations Across Multiple Lineups
• Coverage Percentage Explained

• New Version 9.4 ACT 1 PC System Software
  
• New Beta Planner Application (Proposals & Buy-Sheets)
  
• New Adjustment Percentages Feature in Affiliate System
  

• Research - Composition Report
  
• Research - Ranker Report with "Index to Market"
  

• Finding All Lineups in which a Station Appears
• Displaying Additional Station Information in Lineup Manager
• Fixing Blurry Text in ACT 1 Software in Windows 10
• Rounding vs. Precision (Manually Computing Numbers vs. ACT 1 Results)
  

• Creating/Saving Custom Lists of Dayparts (in the Daypart Summary report) for Use in Future Reports

• Creating/Saving Custom Lists of Demos for Use in Future Reports

• A Report that Shows Stations in Both Home Market and Spill-In Markets
• How to Transfer the Settings and Input of One Report to Another Report

• Coverage Population and Coverage Percentage

January 2016 Issue - Download PDF

• Automatically Sort Lineups by Date (Most Recent at the Top)
• How to See the Latest Call Letter Changes
• How to See an Individual Station's Call Change History
• TSL, 'AQH Share' and 'Percent of Total' in the Lineup Analysis Report
• 'Percent of Total' and 'Station Count' in the Market Summary Report
• Saving Sets of Demos for Use in Future Reports (Without Re-Input)
• Showing 'Lineup Schedule' and 'Percent of Total on the Overview Page
  

• Understanding Population Index, Audience Index, and Market Index
  

• Lineups Containing Repeated Stations (Aggregated Results)
  
• Lineups Containing Non-Repeated Stations with Multi-Segment Dayparts (Averaged Results)
• Using Dayparts with Less than All Five Weekdays
• Identifying Repeat Stations in Lineups
  

• New Version 9.2 ACT 1 PC System Software
• Time Zone Support: Automatic Time Zone Shifting for Live Shows, Group Audience by Time Zone, Export Time Zone to Counterpoint, Etc.
  
• Displaying the Schedule on the Overview Page in Affiliate System Reports
• Enhanced Import of Multi-Segment Dayparts From Text Files
• Changing the Order of Custom Summaries
  

• Entering Spot Costs in Audience Report (to View CPP, CPM, etc.)
  
• Showing Group Formats on Overview Page & Detailed Formats for Stations
  

• Importing Market Lists From a Text File Into Affiliate System Reports
  
• Saving or Retrieving Market Lists Internally Within Affiliate System
  

• Lineup Management: Archiving and Activating Lineups
  
• Showing Total Station Audience Within a Market or Across All Markets (Regardless of Station Duplication Across One or More Lineups)

• Calculating the Median of Total Listeners for Multiple Demographics
  

• Quick Access to DMA and Metro Populations
  
• Showing Multi-Week Cume in Station Analysis
  

• New Version 9.1 ACT 1 PC System Software
• New "Check for Updates" Feature to Automate Data & Software Updates
  
• New "Look Forward" in Affiliate System Trend Report for Secondary Books
  

• Showing Total Listening for a Station Across All Markets
  
• Quickly Comparing Differences Between Two Lineups

December 2014 Issue - Download PDF

• Changing the Default Lineup Sort for Selecting Lineups (Pick from List)
• Tips to Fit the Demo Summary Report on a Single Page

• Exporting/Transform Research Ranker or Trend Reports in "Tabular" Format
  
• Recent Hot Swap Call Letter Changes: Use Old Calls or Current Calls?
  

• Time-Saving Daypart Entry Tips in Lineup Manager
• Printing Dayparts, Spots and Spot Costs from Lineup Manager
  

• New Version 9.0 ACT 1 PC System Software
  
• Changes Related to New DMA Minimum Reporting Standards (MRS)
• Custom Home Metro Assignments for Dual-Metro Stations

July 2014 Issue - Download PDF

• Using the Audience Report to Show "Spill-Out"

May 2014 Issue - Download PDF

• Exclusive Cume and Percent Exclusive Cume in Research
• Time Spent Listening in Lineup Analysis & Research (Ranker & Trend)
• Showing Total Spots Nationally (Per Lineup & Across All Lineups)
  

• New Version 8.9 ACT 1 PC System Software
• Summary of Key Enhancements to the Lineup Manager in v8.9
• Summary of Key Enhancements to the Affiliate System in v8.9
  
• Revised and Expanded Table of Multi-Week Cume Adjustment Factors

February 2014 Issue - Download PDF

• Back Up the MKTN Folder Often! (Protect Your Lineups & Saved Work)
  
• Entering Fractional Spots (5.3 spots) or a Spot Rate (3 spots per 1 day)
  
• Using a Spot Factor to Multiply the Number of Spots in a Stored Schedule
• Filter Stored Schedules "On The Fly" to Keep Only Specified Days or Times
  

• Saving & Retrieving Market Groups, Demo Groups or Daypart Groups
  
• Translator Stations
  
• Flight and the Multi-Week Cume Factor Sliderule
  

• Spill Search Report: How to View a Station's Home versus Spill-In Markets
  
• Details on In-Tabs (Useable Diaries)
  
• How to Show Multi-Week Reports (Flight) Using Station Analysis

• New Version 8.8 ACT 1 PC System Software
• Summary of Key Enhancements to the Lineup Manager in v8.8
• Summary of Key Enhancements to the Affiliate System in v8.8
  
• Revised Accuracy Expectation & Methodology Guide Documents

• How to Set Up a .CSV Text File to Import a Lineup into Lineup Manager

• How to View Persons Using Radio (/PUR) in a Research Hourly Report
  
• How to View Local Arbitron Populations in a Market Summary Report
  
• Three Subtotal Stats for Audience Reports (Cov Pct, Pct of Total, Index)
• How to View Which User Last Modified a Lineup
  

• Population Summary, Coverage Summary and Overview Pages
  
• Coverage Percentage Explained
• Coverage Population Totals: Excluding Markets if All Stations are Unreported
  

• New Version 8.7 ACT 1 PC System Software
• Summary of Key Enhancements to the Lineup Manager in v8.7
• Affiliate System Enhancement for Editing Lineup Code Prefixes
• Date & Time Stamps for Saved Input Lists (Demos, Dayparts, Markets, etc.)

• Using Lineup Manager's "Group Management" Feature to Organize Lineups and/or Assign Lineups to Specific Clients, Users or Departments.
  

• Exporting Audience Report Schedules for Use in Excel or Other Software
  
• Using Lineup Manager's "Count" Feature to Display Station Counts, Stored Time Counts, Stored Spot Counts, and Market-Related Counts.
  
• Checking What Arbitron Data is Installed at Your Location
  

• Specify a Total Spot Value to be Automatically Spread Proportionally Across Multiple Instances of a Repeated Station.
  
• Averaging More than Five Dayparts for a Single Station

• New Version 8.6 ACT 1 PC System Software
• Summary of Key Enhancements to the Lineup Manager in v8.6
• Affiliate System Enhancement for Flagging of Arbitron Nationwide Data
  

• Showing the Average of Multiple Dayparts
• Viewing Quarterly PPM Averages Before All Markets Are Available
  

• The Two Methods of Exporting Lineups in Lineup Manager
  

• New Version 8.5 ACT 1 PC System Software
  
• Summary of Key Enhancements to the Lineup Manager in v8.5
  
• Site Manager Enhancement for Installing From Alternate Folders in v8.5
  

• Don't Lose Your Saved Work - Backup your MKTN Folder
• Sort by Station Rank, Call Letters or Fields in Research Trend, Ranker & Composition Reports.
  

• How ACT 1 Calculates AQH Share Average in a Trend Report
  

• Creating Lineups Based On Station Attributes
  
• Station Composition Ethnic Method

• Rearranging Lineups
  
• Format Group Names
• Audience Report - Unreported & Station Grouping
  

• Using Total Cost with Multiple Dayparts to Calculate Cost Per Spot
  
• Viewing and Using Your Historical Custom Ranks
  

• Software Updates & Nationwide Data Are Now Downloadable
  
• MSL Report - Station Counts Supports Total Combined & Unique Combined

• Show a Summary of Station Rankings In Each Market and Across All Markets
  
• "Latest Book" Versus Latest Monthly PPM Release
  
• Trend Report - Showing Only Multi-Book Averages
  

• Including Spot Cost Usage in Audience Reports
  
• Modifying Spots Per Station in Lineup Manager
  
• Learning Which Call Letters Changed from Month to Month
  

• Adjusting For Time Zones - Stored Schedules In Lineups
  
• Shortcut - Entering 15-Minute Dayparts
• Finding Help - Software Guide & Methodology Guide
  

• Entering Spots - Weekly, Total, or as a Rate, Fraction or Factor
  
• Stored Schedules - Qualifying the Daypart with a Filter
  

• Flight - Audience Report with Reach Utilizing Multi-Week Schedules
  
• Overview Page - Audience Report Summaries
  

• What's New in Version 8.3
  

• Selecting multiple items
• Creating Composite Lineups

• All About Spill-In

• Percentage of a Demographic in a Lineup

• What's New in Version 8.2

• Copy Markets to Summary Subtotals
• Customer Summary Pages
• Hide Lineup Code Explanation

• All About the Jump Button
• All About Preview and Page Options

• How to get ACT1 support
• Save Lineups & Schedules
• Input Complex Schedules
• Cut & Paste Schedules