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NYC Radio Ratings: September 2013

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New York: http://ratings.****************/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb001

Overall age 6+ publicly released data for Nielsen Audio subscribing stations for the September 2013 survey period covering Thu. 8/15/13-Wed. 9/11/13.
Next survey period will be for October 2013 (covering Thu. 9/12/13-Wed. 10/9/13) with the data release date being Mon. 10/28/13.

AllAccess PPM Ratings Analysis with demo breakouts for September 2013 (scroll down for New York):
http://www.allaccess.com/net-news/a...rch-director-inc-presents-exclusive-sept-ppm-
 
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NYC embedded markets:

Nassau-Suffolk: http://ratings.****************/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb321
Middlesex-Somerset-Union, NJ: http://ratings.****************/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb413
 
Stations such as WKMK, WJLK, WWZY and WHUD apparently show up because they've subscribed to
the book of an embedded market, no ? If that's inaccurate, then how else would that work ?
WHUD gets the privilege of showing in the lower echelons in the Long Island book, for example. That's
pretty good for a station a few counties away.
My question is : which book does WHUD or Pamal buy? There is no more hometown Westchester
book for them (in which they'd fluctuate all over the place anyway). That recent Newburgh-Orange-etc
book seems like the obvious one by which to get mentioned, there and elsewhere.

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Interesting flipflop for hip-hop, as WWPR and WQHT trade places. There had been talk
-- just talk, gossip, really -- of putting spillover sports from WOR on 105.1 if Clear Channel
got the Mets. Any substantial muse of that sort now gets put on a back burner for the
Hot Stove season with the new WWPR showing, while the replay judges get a long new look
at the situation.

New #1 station on Long Island.
WCBS 880. It's a full half-point in front of WBLI, and has
to be the only AM station in quite some time to top that book.
 
Steve Green NEPA said:
Stations such as WKMK, WJLK, WWZY and WHUD apparently show up because they've subscribed to
the book of an embedded market, no ? If that's inaccurate, then how else would that work ?
WHUD gets the privilege of showing in the lower echelons in the Long Island book, for example. That's
pretty good for a station a few counties away.
My question is : which book does WHUD or Pamal buy? There is no more hometown Westchester
book for them (in which they'd fluctuate all over the place anyway). That recent Newburgh-Orange-etc
book seems like the obvious one by which to get mentioned, there and elsewhere.
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WHUD subscribes to the Arbit...er, Nielsen Hudson Valley and NYC books. There is no more Newburgh-Middletown book.
 
Thanks, Joe !

I only remember *reading* about the existence of Newburgh-Middletown
book not too long ago. What was its duration? Was it like our town here off the
interstate -- 'don't blink'?
To my knowledge, they have not taken ratings for the Sunbury-Selinsgrove-
Lewisburg book for quite some time.
In fact, they don't take ratings for here either, with 'Here' being Schuylkill
County PA. Only two stations from Metro Here showed at all in adjacent
books, near the bottom. That's out of six licensed Schuylkill stations. As
recently as ten years ago there used to be nine, plus three more with nice
signals from just outside the county. The six ones to go dark were all AM's,
needless to say : WMBT 1530, WISL 1480, WMIM 1590, WPAM 1450,
WHLM 550 (!), and WQIN 1290.

But all that is by-the-by. Lol -- I either need to spend more time or less time
on other forums. Thanks again for the mid-course correction, Joe.
 
While I didn't expect nsh to be a huge success in NYC the fall off and flat nyc proper ratings are surprising.
 
tjolsen said:
While I didn't expect nsh to be a huge success in NYC the fall off and flat nyc proper ratings are surprising.
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I don't understand why it is suprising. Country hasn't done well here in years and the city is more ethnic than the last time it was tried. Frankly I'm suprised it's doing as well as it is.
 
I still cannot get past the harsh sounding audio. It sounds overly compressed FM mono or a 24k web stream. I think they win the top spot for having the worst sounding audio of any NYC station. I am glad they did not turn Alternative considering I probably could not get past the audio quality.

As far as the programming maybe the problem is not with WNSH. I am a huge country music fan and can listen to anything from the 1920s right up to the late 90s. As far as the format I do not know what happened to the genre. I think Bluegrass sounds more like Country music these days. Maybe I would get used to it if the audio quality was not so bad.

The country artists now all seem very cookie cutter with similar sounding voices that to me seem like it may not play well in NY. They seem to try too hard to appeal to the Lite AC audience with a touch of urban which just sounds silly.
 
Agreed about the 1920-1990 sound, Mike. Today's Country is all tattoos and sneers and Stetsons and scandals. Even the male singers are doing the routine.

And the audio quality of today's Country is, of course, no accident. It's supposed to sound as wound-up as possible because, well,
that's the breast on which the tone-deaf music executives of today were fed.

Like Disney, and like ESPN, and like others, Cumulus now has their brand (pun intended) in NYC. As long as it's worth it for Cumulus to keep the spread landscaped for visibilty of their syndicated billboard, they don't have to worry that much about, well, you know, the actual music or ratings.
 
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