premise: The radio audience measurement society is considering whether its quarterly figures for audience numbers should be released earlier to all radio companies but it is concerned to avoid share-price-sensitive information being leaked to the markets. The current situation involves the commercial stations receiving the results 12 hours later than the public channels. A number of commercial stations have questioned this practice, arguing that they too would like to receive the information earlier so that they could prepare press releases before the markets open. The issue has become significant because the commercial stations share prices tend to move sharply in the hours before the figures are released.
hypothesis: An alternative proposal would involve neither type of organization receiving the information early.