Latest Chicago Radio Ratings

[TheBigA]

The other thing to consider is WRME doesn't stream. While that might only attract a .2 share, it is significant at a time when more people are listening at home. And again, it wasn't a factor in February before all this began.

 

[davideduardo]

None of this receiver-trouble speculation explains a sharp erosion in 6+ over a six-month period. What if WRME is up 0.7 in the next book? Would that mean a significant number of PPM wearers traded in their Fords for some other car with a radio capable of reception on 87.7?

Remember that what Nielsen releases are shares, not ratings.

Share is a percentage of radio listeners. It will always sum "100".

"Rating" is the share of all people ("the universe"), whether listening or not. That shows increases or decreases of total radio listening. But rating data is not released.

 

[MarkW]

Lite FM skewing older and playing more & more AC standards has likely caused some erosion in MeTV-FM's numbers in recent months.

Let's face it - WRME's audience skews elderly. They are more vulnerable than many to the health risks associated with COVID-19. I suspect a good portion of those folks - when they do have their radio turned on - are listening to the news & talk stations instead of WRME.

 

[davideduardo]

Lite FM skewing older and playing more & more AC standards has likely caused some erosion in MeTV-FM's numbers in recent months.

Let's face it - WRME's audience skews elderly. They are more vulnerable than many to the health risks associated with COVID-19. I suspect a good portion of those folks - when they do have their radio turned on - are listening to the news & talk stations instead of WRME.

I live in a market that is over 50% over 55, and many friends are in their later 60's and 70's. While it is a small sample, they don't listen to talk and news radio at all. What they do is watch a lot more cable news, whether MSNBC or Fox or even things like the BBC channel on cable.

Anyone in that age group who can is avoiding leaving the home. No car radio listening, a lot of Instacart instead... or getting younger family members to do "drive by" pickups.

Radio usage in 55+ is off more than in the under-55 groups.

 

[MarkW]

Makes perfect sense.

My parents are in their mid 60's and watch cable news very frequently. I believe the median age of CNN, MSNBC and Fox News viewership is within a bandwidth of 65 to 70, if I remember correctly.

 

[Gregg.]

While the ME-TV FM station in Chicago does not stream, 99.1 WMYX HD2 Milwaukee does stream, with what I think is the same ME-TV FM playlist.

https://www.radio.com/metvfmmke/listen


There's also a ME-TV FM station in the Plattsburgh NY-Burlington VT market. It uses the ME-TV branding and cross-promotes with the local ME-TV outlet, found on a subchannel of NBC affiliate WPTZ 5 Plattsburgh. But I'm not sure if this FM station follows the format faithfully.

http://metv.fm/wxzo

 

[TheBigA]

While the ME-TV FM station in Chicago does not stream, 99.1 WMYX HD2 Milwaukee does stream,

I think this has been discussed before, and the reason the Milwaukee station streams is because radio.com is paying the royalties.

If they did it in Chicago, Weigel would be responsible.

 

[radioman148]

While the ME-TV FM station in Chicago does not stream, 99.1 WMYX HD2 Milwaukee does stream, with what I think is the same ME-TV FM playlist.

https://www.radio.com/metvfmmke/listen


There's also a ME-TV FM station in the Plattsburgh NY-Burlington VT market. It uses the ME-TV branding and cross-promotes with the local ME-TV outlet, found on a subchannel of NBC affiliate WPTZ 5 Plattsburgh. But I'm not sure if this FM station follows the format faithfully.

http://metv.fm/wxzo

Good to know they stream, thanks!

 

[cyberdad]

Good to know they stream, thanks!

It's on the Radio.com app. Just search for MeTV fm, and you get the Milwaukee station. Pretty much a clone of the original.

You can also check out one of my go-to stations.

I've written about it before. 2CH from Australia. The pros: Similar music mix to MeTVFM but without obscure album tracks. Most of the music is familiar American and British stuff. The audio is also noticeably better than the MeTV fm stream.

The cons: A little more clutter than MeTV fm. Mostly due to hourly newscasts (24/7) and (usually) live jocks.

There's also an online re-creation of KNX-FM as it was in the 1970s. I only recently discovered it. "The Young Sound" a CBS creation that additionally ran on WBBM-FM. As well as CBS FM stations in Boston, Philadelphia, and a few other cities starting in the late '60s IIRC. A mix of "chicken rock" hits with a fairly large dose of soft rock album cuts.

 

[CTListener]

It's on the Radio.com app. Just search for MeTV fm, and you get the Milwaukee station. Pretty much a clone of the original.

You can also check out one of my go-to stations.

I've written about it before. 2CH from Australia. The pros: Similar music mix to MeTVFM but without obscure album tracks. Most of the music is familiar American and British stuff. The audio is also noticeably better than the MeTV fm stream.

The cons: A little more clutter than MeTV fm. Mostly due to hourly newscasts (24/7) and (usually) live jocks.

There's also an online re-creation of KNX-FM as it was in the 1970s. I only recently discovered it. "The Young Sound" a CBS creation that additionally ran on WBBM-FM. As well as CBS FM stations in Boston, Philadelphia, and a few other cities starting in the late '60s IIRC. A mix of "chicken rock" hits with a fairly large dose of soft rock album cuts.

The Boston CBS station, WEEI-FM (now Rhythmic CHR WODS), flipped to that format in the mid-'70s. A memorable series of billboards promoted it: "The Eagles. Without the turkeys." "Joni. Without the baloney." "Linda Ronstadt. Without wondering what just blue bayou." I was passing through Philadelphia in the summer of 1977 and heard the same format in place on WMGK.

 

[radioman148]

It's on the Radio.com app. Just search for MeTV fm, and you get the Milwaukee station. Pretty much a clone of the original.

You can also check out one of my go-to stations.

I've written about it before. 2CH from Australia. The pros: Similar music mix to MeTVFM but without obscure album tracks. Most of the music is familiar American and British stuff. The audio is also noticeably better than the MeTV fm stream.

The cons: A little more clutter than MeTV fm. Mostly due to hourly newscasts (24/7) and (usually) live jocks.

There's also an online re-creation of KNX-FM as it was in the 1970s. I only recently discovered it. "The Young Sound" a CBS creation that additionally ran on WBBM-FM. As well as CBS FM stations in Boston, Philadelphia, and a few other cities starting in the late '60s IIRC. A mix of "chicken rock" hits with a fairly large dose of soft rock album cuts.

I've checked out 2CH thanks to you--very good. I remember "The Young Sound" very well in the early 70s on WBBM-FM. Steve King and Bob Sirott worked there then. Sirott first used the name Robert R Bradley.

 

[cyberdad]

The Boston CBS station, WEEI-FM (now Rhythmic CHR WODS), flipped to that format in the mid-'70s. A memorable series of billboards promoted it: "The Eagles. Without the turkeys." "Joni. Without the baloney." "Linda Ronstadt. Without wondering what just blue bayou." I was passing through Philadelphia in the summer of 1977 and heard the same format in place on WMGK.

Those slogans are pretty cool. I don't remember them on WBBM-FM, but they still seem vaguely familiar. Actually, I didn't listen all that much. I spent a lot of the '70s living out of the area. And by the mid 70s there were stations with a more contemporary music starting up on the FM band. On top of that, the WBBM-FM signal in the suburban fringe, where my home town is, wasn't very good. Very prone to hiss and distortion.

 

[radioman148]

I like those slogans too, but unless they continued to change them I might have gotten tired of them quickly.

 

[CTListener]

I like those slogans too, but unless they continued to change them I might have gotten tired of them quickly.

IIRC, they were never used on the air, just on billboards and 15-second TV spots, and the ad campaign was just an introductory thing, not something that ran until the end of the format on EEI-FM.

 

[radioman148]

IIRC, they were never used on the air, just on billboards and 15-second TV spots, and the ad campaign was just an introductory thing, not something that ran until the end of the format on EEI-FM.

Thanks for the clarification.