All-News Scoreboard for Large Markets: February 2014

[Gregg.]

More snow in February meant more listeners for most All-News stations in the East. Ratings for WCBS tied for the month Hurricane Sandy hit the Northeast and WINS was close behind. I read that in morning drive, WCBS and WINS were #1 and #2 in NYC. KYW Philadelphia, which had dropped down to #7 last fall, zoomed up to #1. WBBM Chicago, WTOP Washington and WWJ Detroit were also #1, as well as KCBS San Francisco. I wonder why WBZ didn't do better, despite a hard winter for Boston. KOMO Seattle also saw a nice a boost.


1. New York...WCBS #4 ... WINS #7
2. LA...KNX #12
3. Chicago...WBBM/WCFS(FM) #1
4. San Francisco...KCBS/KFRC(FM) #1 ... KGO* #19 tie
5. Dallas...KRLD* #16
6. Houston...KROI(FM)^ #21
7. Washington...WTOP(FM) #1 ... WNEW-FM^ #21 tie
8. Philadelphia...KYW #1
9. Atlanta...WYAY(FM)*^ #19
10. Boston...WBZ* #4
(11. Detroit...WWJ #1)
(13. Seattle...KOMO-AM-FM #14 tie)
(25. Pittsburgh...KQV* does not subscribe)

* part-time All-News station
^ station signed on last year

All stations are owned by CBS except KGO and WYAY (Cumulus), KROI (Radio One), WTOP (Hubbard), KOMO (Sinclair) and KQV (Calvary).

 

[umfan]

Pretty solid showing, even among the AM's. That band is a long way from dead.

 

[benale]

Very good month for all news and a down book for talk. Weather certainly was a major factor in helping many all newsers achieve stellar ratings. KCBS did quite well too.
I would imagine virtually every talk station does poorly on the weekend with a steady diet of paid programming,infomercials and specialty shows and that would contribute to the overall ratings for news stations. Still a struggle for WYAY,KROI and WNEW. Interesting that all three are on FM,where most of the listening is. WNEW, of course, has WTOP as their competition. Seems New York is the only market that can support two all news stations.