Oh no not until it gets down to a 0.01. 😁
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Buffalo & Rochester June books
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Check out this article from Alan Pergament from August 2001:
ALL-SPORTS STATIONS PLAY LEAPFROG IN RADIO RATINGS
This is what I’m thinking: After losing its sports leadership to WNSA-FM in the spring Arbitron ratings book, WGR-AM is into spin control and suggesting that WNSA’s victory may be
WNSA had a 4.7 share at one point in Spring 2001. That was attributable to the Sabres. After the arrests of the Rigases in April 2002, the fortunes of both WNSA and the Sabres began to tumble. But at its start, WNSA was giving WGR a run for its money.
Agreed, there’s little interest in national sports talk. As this article notes, both WGR’s and WNSA’s ratings plummeted between the end of the Sabres season and the start of Bills training camp. KB, as a 24 hour affiliate of ESPN Radio, never attracted much of an audience. But local fans love talking about the Bills AND Sabres. And make no mistake. Once the Sabres are good again — and that will happen — WGR’s spring ratings will be healthy.
I don’t know where you live tbolt. I’m a lifelong Buffalonian. So, I‘ve been here for the Sabres successes. And this town was going absolutely bonkers when the Sabres were going deep into the playoffs in 1998 and ‘99 and again in 2006 and ‘07. In ‘06 and ‘07, Sabres talk on WGR was huge. In fact, the Bills were deep in their drought, and the NFL draft was playing second fiddle to the Sabres playoff run each of those springs. When this young Sabres team makes the playoffs in the next two to three years, fans will be talking about it. And they’ll be doing that on WGR.
Another interesting tidbit from this article. Pergament predicted Mike Schopp would soon be heading to a bigger market. I agreed at the time. I, too, clearly preferred Schopp over WGR’s Dickerson. But after the Rigas debacle, Schopp saw the writing on the wall and left WNSA to join Dickerson as co-host on WGR. That created quite a stir! And 21 years later, Schopp is still here talking Bills and Sabres on WGR’s afternoon drive.
It's a shame GR has no competition. It has become so stale. Bulldog? Please.WNY deserves better.
Buffalo's not a big enough market to profitably support 2 sports/talk stations. If there were 2, they both would be splitting the billing WGR currently does.
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