NYC Metro Radio Ratings May 2022

[andreaj10]

Covering the period from Thu. April 28 through Wed. May 25.

New York

Nielsen Audio PPM Monthly Ratings New York City (Market #1) Population: 16,299,100 Black: 2,670,400 - Hispanic: 4,273,100 Average Quarter Hour Share for Persons

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WCBS-FM is #1 in age 6+ (WLTW is #2, WBLS is #3).

WCBS-FM + WLTW are tied at #1 in age 25-54 (WHTZ is #3).

WKTU is #1 in age 18-34 (it has moved from #12-#5-#1 over the past 3 surveys).
WHTZ is #2 and WCBS-FM is #3.

WHTZ is #1 in age 18-49 (WLTW is #2, WKTU is #3).

what on EARTH is WCBSFM playing that they are #1 6-plus?????????? OY VEY!

 

[ksradiogeek]

They should seriously bring back the 60s music!!! If Q104.3 can play the 60s-2000s, CBS-FM can make it work too!!!!

No, they shouldn’t. Different formats and target demos.

 

[CTListener]

what on EARTH is WCBSFM playing that they are #1 6-plus?????????? OY VEY!

Songs a lot of people like?

 

[davideduardo]

Songs a lot of people like?

And if we look at "cume share" we see what percentage of persons in the whole market listen at least once a week.

In 12+, CBS-FM reaches over 15% of all people, or about one in every 6 persons.
In 25-54, it is 13%
in 35-64 it is 18%.

 

[dcowboy7]

As I said, R&R was the most accurate resource in its day for radio programmers to predict "hits" because they were basing their charts on airplay rather than sales (and as David pointed out, Billboard was using mostly wholesale rather than retail sales, which further skewed the results).

But they didn't call them "hits" ... the late Joel Whitburn did, when titling his book.

Here's a link to the R&R Back Page (where the four main charts resided every week) for July 24, 1987. Do you see the word "hit" anywhere than in the industry term "Contemporary Hit Radio" as a format descriptor?

https://worldradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-RandR-IDX/IDX/80s/87/R&R-1987-07-24-I-OCR-Page-0088.pdf

And no, use of an industry format descriptor doesn't mean that R&R was calling the songs on the list "hits".

Your argument is therefore flawed and your definition of a "hit" is not aligned with what the radio industry defines it as. Given that this board is about radio and not record sales, I stand by my original statement that people need to eschew the Billboard Hot 100 as a definition, because the professionals here -- and even the more knowledgeable non-professionals -- will never agree with that as justification for calling a song a "hit" when it wasn't.

But where is the line of whats a hit ?
Z100 a "radio" station said they are NYs #1 hit music station & played "hooked on you" which only peaked at #23.

 

[davideduardo]

But where is the line of whats a hit ?
Z100 a "radio" station said they are NYs #1 hit music station & played "hooked on you" which only peaked at #23.

Again, you are going by a chart, not by what a major market station goes by: their in-house callout and music testing.

A "hit" is what my station's listeners like and want to hear. It may be brand new, from last year or from a decade or more ago. If my listeners want to hear it it is a hit... now.

 

[PTBoardOp94]

But where is the line of whats a hit ?

There is no line.

 

[K.M. Richards]

But where is the line of whats a hit ?
Z100 a "radio" station said they are NYs #1 hit music station & played "hooked on you" which only peaked at #23.

Mr. Cowboy, I think you should have taken your own advice:

This feels like alot of the convos ive been in over what constitutes a 1 hit wonder.
Aint going down that rabbit hole anymore.

The longer you continue to ignore what we are saying about the definition of a "hit" not having anything whatsoever to do with where a song charted as a current, and re-asking the same question on the same misguided basis, the more you look like a recipient of the "Einstein award".

Please, for everyone's sake, exit the rabbit hole and don't go down it again, just as you yourself said you weren't going to in the first place.

 

[dcowboy7]

The rabbit hole thing is really just about 1 hit wonders.

But songs are connected to the chart.
Like i dont remember Z100 every playing a song alot that wasnt a hit on the chart.
Likewise dont remember them ever not playing a song that hit the top 10 on the chart.

 

[K.M. Richards]

But songs are connected to the chart.
Like i dont remember Z100 every playing a song alot that wasnt a hit on the chart.
Likewise dont remember them ever not playing a song that hit the top 10 on the chart.

Then I politely suggest that your memory -- and most of us suffer from this from time to time -- is faulty in remembering what Z100 did.

And -- ONE MORE TIME -- songs are not "connected to the chart" for purposes of determining what today's audience wants to hear today. Get over that misconception, please. Pursuing that line of argument is not going to win (you should have seen that by now, TBH) and is not going to bode well for you in future such discussions.

 

[frankberry]

This thread has wander so far off subject that it's time to close it.