In Memoriam...
Veteran media researcher Gale Metzger has died at the age of 83. He was the retired co-founder and president of Statistical Research Inc., based in Westfield, N.J., which created and provided a number of media and consumer research services and played a key role in the development of computer-assisted telephone interviewing and random-digit dialing. He received the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) Research Award, the NAB Hugh Malcolm Belville Award, the Advertising Research Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award and was inducted into the Market Research Council Hall of Fame in 2000.
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