New York Metro Radio Ratings: December 2023

[MVB13]

It's interesting how Classic Rock does better with 18-34 than 25-54. Are the latter simply burned out from hearing "Free Bird" and "Hey Jude" every day for the past 27 years?

Classic Rock is Foo Fighters, Green Day, Nirvana, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, and Linkin Park. Nothing wrong with Free Bird and Hey Jude.

 

[Always interested]

Lite’s Christmas format whacks CBS-FM every year during the December and Holiday books - since before the pandemic, the latter station has always fallen out of the top 5 P25-54 during this period. CBS-FM was also off slightly last month, but overall, they performed quite well during 2023 and I expect that they’ll return to their normal range in the new year.

Thank you for all that great info I appreciate it 😊

 

[CentralFL]

Remember, 880 has a considerably better suburban signal than 1010, so there could even be a simulcast if AM is of any future importance to the news outlet.

Not really. When a sale brought Infinity's KFWB into an excess station situation due to the Viacom purchase of KCAL_TV. KFWB, the considerably inferior signal, was put into a trust pending a future sale... which took quite a long time to occur. In the meantime, they implemented a less expensive talk format.

Prior to that, both KNX and KFWB were dividing about a 3 share of news listening, so it made no sense to continue having two news stations in the market.

Are you saying that you think Audacy might move its AM signal from 1010 to 880? Realistically, there is no place that receives 1010, but not 92.3. On the flip side, 880 fully covers everywhere 92.3 serves and considerably beyond that. Advertisers probably don't care about the most far-flung suburbs and rural areas, but it is still useful to some listeners.

 

[davideduardo]

It's interesting how Classic Rock does better with 18-34 than 25-54. Are the latter simply burned out from hearing "Free Bird" and "Hey Jude" every day for the past 27 years?

No, it’s a different cause: a large portion of 18-34 listeners are using streams so the only folks left are outliers who like some of the traditional formats.

 

[RadioGuy1864]

No, it’s a different cause: a large portion of 18-34 listeners are using streams so the only folks left are outliers who like some of the traditional formats.

I'm confused. Are you saying that 18-34 listeners are using the Station's stream to listen to Classic Rock, or they are using other streams to listen to whatever they want, including classic rock?

 

[pjc1961]

In the sports format competition,
WFAN finishes well ahead of 98.7 ESPN NY for the Fall 2023 ratings quarter (covering Sept. 14-Dec. 6).
All demos cited are for age 25-54 Males:

WFAN Closes Out 2023 With a Strong Fall Ratings Victory

"New York's leading sports station enjoyed wins across all dayparts as well as year-over-year growth in multiple dayparts."

barrettsportsmedia.com

In mornings, DiPietro + Rothenberg's local program has improved substantially
over the previous national ESPN show (Keyshawn, JWill and Max).
In middays, 98.7 is a little better than a year ago.
In afternoon drive, the Michael Kay Show (on 98.7) has bumped up a couple of positions and is up 0.7 shares from a year ago
while Evan + Tiki (on the FAN) have lost 0.9 shares.