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All-News Scoreboard for Major Markets: October 2014

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Gregg.

This is the last time we list KROI Houston, which gave up the All-News format a few weeks ago after three years. Some will say it didn't have a full-market signal, although with more than 21,000 watts at 1700 feet above average terrain (taller than the Empire State Building) it wasn't a bad signal. One commentator said there wasn't the giant news story over the station's three year history, like a hurricane, that may have gotten Houston residents in the All-News habit.

I ask, what's wrong with Houston? Don't they care about news, weather and traffic? Do they want to be travelling outside of drive time and wind up stuck behind an overturned tanker truck? Do they want to dress their kids in the morning and have no idea what the weather will be? Yes, you can now get this info from personal devices. But you must seek it out. It doesn't just come out of your radio speakers while you're doing other things. And you shouldn't be using personal devices while driving. I just can't understand a large market with no All-News station, where you hope to catch a traffic report or weather forecast during a syndicated Talk show or if there's a live DJ on your music station. It makes no sense to me.


1. New York...WINS #8 ... WCBS #13
2. Los Angeles...KNX #11 tie
3. Chicago...WBBM/WCFS(FM) #2
4. San Francisco...KCBS/KFRC(FM) #2 ... KGO*^ #13 tie
5. Dallas...KRLD* #16
6. Houston...KROI(FM)^ #21 tie
7. Washington...WTOP(FM) #1 ... WNEW-FM^ #21
8. Philadelphia...KYW #8
9. Atlanta...No All-News Station
10. Boston...WBZ* #6
(11. Detroit...WWJ #4)
(13. Seattle...KOMO-AM-FM #16)
(25. Pittsburgh...KQV* does not subscribe)

* part-time All-News station
^ station started All-News in the last couple of years

All stations are owned by CBS except KGO (Cumulus), KROI (Radio One), WTOP (Hubbard), KOMO (Sinclair) and KQV (Calvary). In parenthesis, I include the ratings for the three All-News stations outside the top 10 markets.
 
Gregg. said:
I ask, what's wrong with Houston? Don't they care about news, weather and traffic?
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Sure they do. They also know, as we all do, that you can get all those things in other ways from other devices. No reason to sit around waiting for what you want to know to get reported. We are in an on-demand world. Tell me the traffic NOW, not on the 10s. Give me the weather NOW, not at your convenience. And tell me the news I care about, not what you think is important. That's the world we live in today.

The one common thing about all the news stations with bad ratings is they're all new to the format. The stations that have been doing all news for decades are doing OK.
 
The format continues to be strong in most major markets. For whatever reason, it didn't catch on in Houston and isn't present in Atlanta.

Thanks for compiling the rankings, Gregg.
 
To make it easier for everyone, here's the text from the next month's results post. This should make it easier to compare the prior month with this month to identify trends up and down, and make for easier discussion:

All-News Scoreboard for Major Markets: October 2014
The All-News format lost two stations in major markets, WYAY Atlanta and KROI Houston, over the last few months. Now it appears Cumulus is having second thoughts about KGO San Francisco. The station started running a Cumulus syndicated Talk show, John Batchelor, at 11pm, and reports are a new Talk host is being hired for early afternoons. This is how Cumulus slowly left the All-News format in Atlanta, by adding a Talk show here and there, while saying it wasn't changing format.

In Washington, WTOP stayed a strong #1 and in Chicago, San Francisco and Detroit, WBBM, KCBS and WWJ were solid in the #2 slot.


1. New York...WINS #8 ... WCBS #13 tie
2. Los Angeles...KNX #11
3. Chicago...WBBM/WCFS(FM) #2
4. San Francisco...KCBS/KFRC(FM) #2 ... KGO*^ #17
5. Dallas...KRLD* #15 tie
6. Houston...No All-News station
7. Washington...WTOP(FM) #1 ... WNEW-FM^ #21
8. Philadelphia...KYW #7
9. Atlanta...No All-News Station
10. Boston...WBZ* #8
(11. Detroit...WWJ #2)
(13. Seattle...KOMO-AM-FM* #13 tie)
(25. Pittsburgh...KQV* does not subscribe)

* part-time All-News station
^ station started All-News in the last couple of years

All stations are owned by CBS except KGO (Cumulus), WTOP (Hubbard), KOMO (Sinclair) and KQV (Calvary). In parenthesis, I include the ratings for the three All-News stations outside the top 10 markets.
 
Any idea why OP (Gregg) decided to re-post his original post with no new information, just an identical and duplicate post, as a new thread?
 
FredLeonard said:
Any idea why OP (Gregg) decided to re-post his original post with no new information, just an identical and duplicate post, as a new thread?
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I have no idea why he insists on always starting a new thread each month. I thought his naming it October again was only a typo. Since the new and old data was in two different threads, I didn't bother opening both to compare them side-to-side.
 
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