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Newspaper president on the air

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dand5780

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I find it very interesting that the president of a local (Buffalo) rag was in studio and on the air at a true news radio station for an hour on Saturday. Some people here would make it sound like anyone listening should be locked up, but then of course this guy goes on the air.

Wasn't a bad show. Kind of boring. Certainly some inaccuracies. But I thought that was kind of ironic to hear this. I wonder if it was indirectly paid for by the rag? Wouldn't that be something.
 
dand5780 said:
I find it very interesting that the president of a local (Buffalo) rag was in studio and on the air at a true news radio station for an hour on Saturday.
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Are you talking about WBEN? A station that allows it's hosts to espouse demonstrably false information over the air to please a far right wing audience? If they allow THAT, then how can you trust the same management to be running an honest "news" department?

If the BN is a "rag", then WBEN is an electronic dung heap.

Stop being so naive.
 
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dand5780 said:
I find it very interesting that the president of a local (Buffalo) rag was in studio and on the air at a true news radio station for an hour on Saturday. Some people here would make it sound like anyone listening should be locked up, but then of course this guy goes on the air.
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What is most interesting is that the head of the newspaper would get up on a Saturday morning and drive to the radio station just to be heard by, perhaps, 4,000 people.*

*I am taking the PM Drive average persons (3 month rolling average) listening level as the base for Saturday morning listening.
 
DavidEduardo said:


What is most interesting is that the head of the newspaper would get up on a Saturday morning and drive to the radio station just to be heard by, perhaps, 4,000 people.*

*I am taking the PM Drive average persons (3 month rolling average) listening level as the base for Saturday morning listening.
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Not only did he do that, but his daughter called in from Missouri since her flight was delayed and spent the hour on the air as well.

I don't know about Saturday mornings, but Saturday afternoon is getting over 10,000 listeners. So, I'm thinking that 4,000 number may be on the very low side.

Can't tell you the reason, though. Can't even tell you why he was on a real estate show.
 
It's not wise to be a Jive Turkey so close to Thanksgiving.
Keep beating the Spin Drum for WBEN.

THE TURKEYS ARE HITTING THE GROUND LIKE SACKS
OF WET CEMENT. OH THE HUMANITY.
(Les Nessman)...
 
DavidEduardo said:


What is most interesting is that the head of the newspaper would get up on a Saturday morning and drive to the radio station just to be heard by, perhaps, 4,000 people.*

*I am taking the PM Drive average persons (3 month rolling average) listening level as the base for Saturday morning listening.
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Not sure where these numbers are coming from, but I heard that Saturday morning has about 30,000 listeners.
 
dand5780 said:
Not sure where these numbers are coming from, but I heard that Saturday morning has about 30,000 listeners.
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Whoever you heard that from is blowing smoke. WBEN doesn't get 30K listeners in the morning during the week, let alone on Saturday morning - even if you count the cemeteries.
 
SirRoxalot said:


Whoever you heard that from is blowing smoke. WBEN doesn't get 30K listeners in the morning during the week, let alone on Saturday morning - even if you count the cemeteries.
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The raw numbers of ears actually listening to the radio are always a lot less than people think, especially radio people.

The real numbers are usually quite humbling.
 
dand5780 said:
Not sure where these numbers are coming from, but I heard that Saturday morning has about 30,000 listeners.
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If you look at the topline Summer book data, M-F mornings had 18,000 AQH persons and 3,800 were in 25-54. It goes down from there, with the full week average at 9,500 persons of which less than a quarter are in 25-54.

My guess for Saturday is an extrapolation based on the fact that the programming is typical weekend talker fill and special interest (read "limited interest") programming.
 
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dand5780 said:
Not only did he do that, but his daughter called in from Missouri since her flight was delayed and spent the hour on the air as well.

I don't know about Saturday mornings, but Saturday afternoon is getting over 10,000 listeners. So, I'm thinking that 4,000 number may be on the very low side.

Can't tell you the reason, though. Can't even tell you why he was on a real estate show.
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Weekday afternoons does not average 10,000 listeners. Saturday stuff typically does much, much less.
 
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