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WQXR consistently in the bottom of the ratings
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It could be listened to by people in the far northern end of the Philly market.
It could be listened to by people who commute from Philly into NYC and gets registered that way.
I'm always suspect by some numbers (like WHYY-HD2 showing up in the cume when it hasn't existed in years). But this is plausible.
It could be listened to by people who commute from Philly into NYC and gets registered that way.
I'm always suspect by some numbers (like WHYY-HD2 showing up in the cume when it hasn't existed in years). But this is plausible.
Speaking of inaccuracies in the Nielsen Audio Ratings, in the New Orleans ratings table, the local jazz station is listed as WNOZ; however, the actual call sign is WWOZ, which stands for the Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
That is not an error from Nielsen. Nielsen gives raw data to publications who sign an agreement with them, and each publication formats the results in their own way, adding their format descriptor, the owner in some cases and even the owner logo in one pub. Any errors are at the publication level.
How do you explain Boston stations in the Trenton book, or people (or devices) in Philadelphia still listening to an HD2 that hasn't existed for more than a year, as previous posters have reported?
Clearly WQXR-FM cannot be heard over the air in the Philadelphia market. It's powered at only 610 watts, even though it is atop the Empire State Building. My guess is, with no full time Classical station in Philadelphia, some people are listening to WQXR's live stream.
WRTI is classical in the daytime but jazz at night.
WRTI is classical in the daytime but jazz at night.
People travel. My WZNT in San Juan, PR, made the NYC book many years ago. It was NYC Nuyoricans visiting family on the Island and registering the listening.
If a "dead" format or signal shows up in PPM it is always when a station engineer flipped an audio chain, complete with encoder, to another channel or even the simulcast partner. Encoders can not be field reassigned, I believe.
In the diary, people do strange things. When I programmed WIND in Chicago, I saw diaries credited to our Spanish language format for an English speaking personality who had been gone for a decade. Stranger things happen!
There is a WNOZ-LP at 95.3 in New Orleans that airs smooth jazz. The calls are close to WWOZ, but it is, in fact, a different station.
Thanks for the clarification. Then I guess WWOZ doesn't subscribe to the Nielsesn ratings.
Might have been tropo one day.
What are the chances that anyone would listen to a tropo invader long enough? David E.'s speculation that a PPM-wearing Trenton area family visiting Boston -- maybe even for a week or two -- dragged the Boston stations into the Trenton book makes more sense to me.
Trenton is only a diary market... it is even outside the top 100 metros.. market 149.
However, diarykeepers often write in stations from places they visit outside the Metro.
Obviously some of you haven't taken the time to look at the Trenton numbers in question. This isn't just a case of a Boston station showing with a 0.1. It shows 7 Boston stations with no ratings this book, but with numbers as high as a 6.6 for WKLB in Spring 2020. Clearly someone screwed something up here.
Or your source for the Trenton ratings messed up the data that Nielsen gives them.
Have you looked at Trenton ratings on another site? I looked at AllAccess and there are no Boston stations listed.
I was looking at ****************, so they must have been the ones to mispost the Trenton numbers.
I'd suggest https://radioinsight.com/ratings/ for the PPM markets. That's a site that works closely with this message board and Lance provides greater historical data than any of the other sites... a full 6 months of useful trending.
AllAccess is great for the others as well as the Eastlan data. You can easily register.
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