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Philadelphia radio PPM's November 2020
- Thread starter CassChopper96
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As has been true several times, it’s good to be Beasley in Philly at the moment.
Interesting to see the Breeze and B101 neck and neck again. We'll see if Christmas helps B as much as usual.
Also interesting to see Ben FM becoming the Classic Hits leader. Looks like WOGL's downturn wasn't just a month blip.
WDAS-FM with a sizeable drop, even though they're still tied for #1. Let's see which number looks more "normal" over the next few months.
iHeart's AMs still getting no love. In fact more people are listening to JJZ on 106.1-HD2 than to either the Gambler on 1480/102.5 or BIN on 610. (Although with numbers that low, all it takes it one person registering listening to shuffle that around.)
Also interesting to see Ben FM becoming the Classic Hits leader. Looks like WOGL's downturn wasn't just a month blip.
WDAS-FM with a sizeable drop, even though they're still tied for #1. Let's see which number looks more "normal" over the next few months.
iHeart's AMs still getting no love. In fact more people are listening to JJZ on 106.1-HD2 than to either the Gambler on 1480/102.5 or BIN on 610. (Although with numbers that low, all it takes it one person registering listening to shuffle that around.)
I've said it before and say it again, Bill Weston (Waterman) is doing an incredible job and has assembled an amazing staff.
Didn't their numbers already drop? Also, the drop usually kicks in around December and usually corresponds with a combination of Eagles playoff hopes (drawing listeners to YSP) and Christmas music drawing listeners to B101. The Eagles suck and are not driving passion this year and Christmas music not a factor with these numbers.
I would bet most of the numbers for 1310 and 1340 are due to the FM lators. These lators congest the FM band, they get out pretty far for 250w with makeshift antennas, 96.1 makes it to Lakehurst and the others are just as good, some better than local full power FMs, and they block out long time out of market signals most from the LV, which had a good presence in Philly. How is 1680 with only the AM daytime monster signal still breathing, that should be flipped to some English music format like the 1610 plus signals in the region, eg. one in Maryland and one North of NYC and a few more I receive at night.
Not by much. A tenth of a point is wobble. Usually the station loses a full point or more, to where observers wonder if the format will go away.
If you look at the engineering for those translators, you see nothing "makeshift". The antennas and gear are type accepted.
No signal on 1680 is a monster signal. With 10 kw daytime on that channel, it covers about the same as 200 watts at 560 AM. That is a midget, not a monster.
1680 going english would make as much sense as airing the sound of grass growing. Plus, as was already mentioned, 1680 is at the top of the dial, whereas 560 gets out somewhat like a longwave station would. 1680 is no monster, 560 is.
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