The publicly released overall (ages 6+) PPM data for August 2009 (covering Thu. 7/23/09-Wed. 8/19/09) that became available on 9/10/09 can be viewed on the www.radio-info.com Boston Ratings Grid.
The next monthly survey period will be for September 2009 (covering Thu. 8/20/09-Wed. 9/16/09) with the publicly released overall (ages 6+) PPM data to be released on Thu. 10/8/09.
Note: the WBCN/WBZ-FM/WBMX format/frequency swap started from just after midnight on Wed 8/12/09 & ended on the afternoon of Thu. 8/13/09, thus only 7-8 days of the new frequencies/formats are included in the August survey period.
As has been pointed out on other threads for the Boston market, there are typos/errors on the ratings grid, the major one being that the August 2009 figures for WEEI-AM & WEEI-FM were inverted/transposed. This unfortunately happens often on the ratings grid pages for any market that has an AM & FM station that share the same call letters. The corrections are:
Station Est % Cume Format Owner
WEEI-AM 4.5 555,400 Sports Entercom
WAAF-FM 2.2 484,500 Rock Entercom
WEEI-FM 0.8 121,500 Sports Entercom
On the grid, the month-to-month shares/cume listed for WBZ-FM & WBMX-FM follow along with what was on the particular dial position/frequency rather than the "intellectual property"/format. To follow along by format (& disregarding the frequencies), here's how they'd look month-to-month:
June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 Format Owner
Station Est % Cume Est % Cume Est % Cume
WBMX-FM-98.5 (to 104.1) 3.8 1,012,600 3.9 1,098,200 3.3 991,500 Hot AC CBS Radio
WBCN-FM-104.1 (to 98.5 HD2) 1.9 557,800 1.9 550,600 ? ? Rock CBS Radio
WBZ-FM-(00.0 to) 98.5 --- ------- --- ------- 0.6 136,800 Sports CBS Radio
??: If anyone has the data for the 1st three weeks of the August 2009 survey period for WBCN-FM-104.1, hopefully they'll post it here. I couldn't find a separate August 2009 listing for WBCN on this (or other) websites. It would be interesting to see if they got any uptick in shares/cume during Week 3 of August 2009 when they ran "farewell" programming for 4 days leading up to the signoff.
EDIT: After posting, I saw where Eli Polonsky summed up the above in postings to the previous threads. Kudos!!!
The next monthly survey period will be for September 2009 (covering Thu. 8/20/09-Wed. 9/16/09) with the publicly released overall (ages 6+) PPM data to be released on Thu. 10/8/09.
Note: the WBCN/WBZ-FM/WBMX format/frequency swap started from just after midnight on Wed 8/12/09 & ended on the afternoon of Thu. 8/13/09, thus only 7-8 days of the new frequencies/formats are included in the August survey period.
As has been pointed out on other threads for the Boston market, there are typos/errors on the ratings grid, the major one being that the August 2009 figures for WEEI-AM & WEEI-FM were inverted/transposed. This unfortunately happens often on the ratings grid pages for any market that has an AM & FM station that share the same call letters. The corrections are:
Station Est % Cume Format Owner
WEEI-AM 4.5 555,400 Sports Entercom
WAAF-FM 2.2 484,500 Rock Entercom
WEEI-FM 0.8 121,500 Sports Entercom
On the grid, the month-to-month shares/cume listed for WBZ-FM & WBMX-FM follow along with what was on the particular dial position/frequency rather than the "intellectual property"/format. To follow along by format (& disregarding the frequencies), here's how they'd look month-to-month:
June 2009 July 2009 August 2009 Format Owner
Station Est % Cume Est % Cume Est % Cume
WBMX-FM-98.5 (to 104.1) 3.8 1,012,600 3.9 1,098,200 3.3 991,500 Hot AC CBS Radio
WBCN-FM-104.1 (to 98.5 HD2) 1.9 557,800 1.9 550,600 ? ? Rock CBS Radio
WBZ-FM-(00.0 to) 98.5 --- ------- --- ------- 0.6 136,800 Sports CBS Radio
??: If anyone has the data for the 1st three weeks of the August 2009 survey period for WBCN-FM-104.1, hopefully they'll post it here. I couldn't find a separate August 2009 listing for WBCN on this (or other) websites. It would be interesting to see if they got any uptick in shares/cume during Week 3 of August 2009 when they ran "farewell" programming for 4 days leading up to the signoff.
EDIT: After posting, I saw where Eli Polonsky summed up the above in postings to the previous threads. Kudos!!!