I was Listening to them Yesterday afternoon @ 400pm & they claimed they were number 1 in the Nielsen Audio Ratings. Number 1 when ? They aren’t in The February Ratings. When are they number 1?
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770 WABC Number 1 ?
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Whenever Cats says so
Ahhh. I’m not surprised by that
WNYC-FM | Talk | 3.7 | 5.2 | 4.9 | 693,200
They would probably argue that WNYC is NEWS Talk...
And the title of WABC's web site is "77 WABC New York News Talk Music Radio".
Can subscribing stations "see" the ratings before they are released in PPM? They might have won a demo or age group. Which one is the question. I guess we will see next ratings release.
They can say just about anything under the First Amendment. We have a smooth jazz station in Atlanta that claims to be "Atlanta's number one Smooth Jazz station". When 6+ they get beat .4 to .1 ot .4 to .2 by the Clark University station.
They can say just about anything under the First Amendment. We have a smooth jazz station in Atlanta that claims to be "Atlanta's number one Smooth Jazz station". When 6+ they get beat .4 to .1 ot .4 to .2 by the Clark University station.
Because the 536,400 listen longer on average than do the 693,200.
And because the people who listen to WNYC (and public radio in general) tend to have busy lives, so they're in and out more frequently. Because WABC appeals to largely older people, many of them set their radios on WABC and leave them there for long stretches (whether they're actually paying attention or not). It becomes background chatter.
On-air, WABC is just boasting "We're number one in New York", without any qualifiers such as "...among AM stations" or "...among Talk stations".
But to be fair, they're not even saying "...in the ratings" or mentioning Nielsen, so for all we know they could be saying they're number one in bloviation.
But to be fair, they're not even saying "...in the ratings" or mentioning Nielsen, so for all we know they could be saying they're number one in bloviation.
Trust me, that is EXACTLY what they are doing.
Where is the proof or verification for this statement?
Unverified, also. This is your personal opinion, and not substantiated.
In any case, the PPM does not measure "listening"; it measures "hearing". Whether a person was paying attention or not is conjecture.
It's hard to add an asterisk after a statement when said on the radio. So in print it would be: "WABC. We're #!!*"
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Surprised the cume is that high for a NCE talker. WKSU's ratings have ebbed and flowed since becoming Cleveland's sole NPR outlet, but they usually have fairly low cume, even for the books when they are neck-and-neck with WTAM.
Or there care giver turns the radio on for them in the morning and shuts it off at the end of the day
I knew elderly people (i.e. my grandpa) who kept the radio on all day. Never anyone asked them what station were they listening tho 
The chances of that situation becoming a "metered household" are minimal to none.