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May 2015 Ratings: There's a new #1, and it's not even close
- Thread starter deepstblu
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And the station that will "always be number one" is sixth in AQH and ninth in cume.
Apparently people are putting in their 22 minutes, two, three, four times a day.
And Julius' favorite radio station is only out of the cellar among Philly stations because XPN is doing even worse.
Apparently people are putting in their 22 minutes, two, three, four times a day.
And Julius' favorite radio station is only out of the cellar among Philly stations because XPN is doing even worse.
J
Jul
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Stunned that WOGL is number 1 and not WBEB 101.1 FM. I have no words on why this happened . WBEB has been a number 1 station for a long time. I didn't see this coming. As for my former favorite radio station, 1210 AM WPHT staying flat is not a good thing IMO. Gained 3,000 listeners in cume (Phillies related and not the talk shows carrying the ratings IMO). As I said before, time for some much need changes at 1210 AM. 1210 WPHT being last out of the 6 CBS radio stations in town in ratings, cume and perhaps revenue for a long time now, is not a good thing. I will leave it at that. . KYW dropping in the ratings again. Time for some much needed changes at 1060 AM IMO. Nice jump for WXTU.
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Well, gee, if you own six stations, one of them is always going to be sixth. in and of itself, that stat means nothing. Much like 6+ numbers themselves.
WOGL seems to know its audience and meet its expectations quite well. Consistent sound, slowly updating the playlist to stay relevant (note the new "Philadelphia's Greatest Hits" tag line, replacing "The Greatest Hits of the 60s, 70s and 80s) and having an organic Philadelphia sound. The morning show flows, Holiday sounds as good as ever in middays and Cadillac rounds out the lineup nicely.
What I'd love to see is how their A-Z countdown helped them in this surge. I think the last few days of the book covered this time period. Certainly wouldn't account for a huge surge like that for an entire month, but I wonder if it had any effect.
What I'd love to see is how their A-Z countdown helped them in this surge. I think the last few days of the book covered this time period. Certainly wouldn't account for a huge surge like that for an entire month, but I wonder if it had any effect.
J
Jul
Guest
May ratings period covered April 23 - May 20. June ratings come out on 7/7/2015. June ratings period will cover May 21 - June 17. For All Access link to the ratings and cume: http://www.allaccess.com/nielsen/q/market/89/philadelphia-pa
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atrainradio
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Damnit, WDAS-AM JJZ is again off the charts. I love that station. Why is it sucking so much?
Because it's a format few listen to on FM, let alone an unlistenable AM?
@ A-Train :
Tape or record the heck out of them ...... put it on CD, or onto the new thing called 'cassette'. I've done this in these parts with WCNR 930 Bloomsburg (Oldies at the time), WFBS 1280 Berwick (Oldies with what I suspect was WCNR's old library), and with WWSM 1510 with their old-line C&W.
That's the only available way to deflect any frustration in days to come. If you're on a car trip and am tired of what the radio offers (if it offers anything), pop in the memories.
I have about a half-dozen cassettes from WHAT, circa 1990, that one day I'll find some time to transfer to more modern enjoyment form. I really enjoyed that late-afternoon show 'Night Flight' (? name).
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It might not be too much off-topic to report that I got WDAS 1480 up this way on two occasions -- in the day.
http://www.radio-locator.com/info/WDAS-AM
We're a half-inch southwest of Hazleton via that map. The two times that WDAS came in, broad daylight, had to've been on what DXers call 'the Mid-Winter Anomaly'. But the music was terrific. Stylistics, Hall & Oates, Spinners......
Go get 'em on your files while they're still there! They don't take radio ratings for here in Schuylkill County per se, so neither WCNR nor WFBS nor WWSM ever made too many books themselves.
Tape or record the heck out of them ...... put it on CD, or onto the new thing called 'cassette'. I've done this in these parts with WCNR 930 Bloomsburg (Oldies at the time), WFBS 1280 Berwick (Oldies with what I suspect was WCNR's old library), and with WWSM 1510 with their old-line C&W.
That's the only available way to deflect any frustration in days to come. If you're on a car trip and am tired of what the radio offers (if it offers anything), pop in the memories.
I have about a half-dozen cassettes from WHAT, circa 1990, that one day I'll find some time to transfer to more modern enjoyment form. I really enjoyed that late-afternoon show 'Night Flight' (? name).
* * * * * * *
It might not be too much off-topic to report that I got WDAS 1480 up this way on two occasions -- in the day.
http://www.radio-locator.com/info/WDAS-AM
We're a half-inch southwest of Hazleton via that map. The two times that WDAS came in, broad daylight, had to've been on what DXers call 'the Mid-Winter Anomaly'. But the music was terrific. Stylistics, Hall & Oates, Spinners......
Go get 'em on your files while they're still there! They don't take radio ratings for here in Schuylkill County per se, so neither WCNR nor WFBS nor WWSM ever made too many books themselves.
I have started to notice a surge in the ratings with their throwback thursday. I think it is something fresh and new. They are able to incorporate more 80s and even some early 90s on that day. I have also noticed an uptick in the 25-54 and 18-34 audiences. I think they should play more of this music during the week and slowly cut back on the 60s to about 1 an hour.
I do hear you on that..and wish I'd done the same with Jerry Blavat's WPGR which I discovered tuning around here in Manhattan on a late summer afternoon in 1990. The station was marginal signal at best and only during critical hours (unless I was at Rockaway Beach where it was an easy catch on my Westinghouse 1965 transistor).
Among the lineup were Georgie Woods, "lady Love" (who later sued Jerry for sexual harassment. He was 54) And, of course Jerry whose delivery was unlike anything we had in NYC in decades.
During the early 1990's I made frequent weekend trips to Philadelphia picking records at Shiveley's and hitting as many flea markets at possible. Philly was still in the afterglow of its rep as a Music City and the local radio showed it. Even the large corporates like 'OGL had "that sound".
Funny how a radio station and a city that I'd had no history with could become so resonant with me.
LCG
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atrainradio
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Steve, roger that I shall begin recording that now!
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