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Boston PPMs December 2011

reelyreal

reelyreal

The December book Runs November 11 - December 7, which includes the first couple weeks of Christmas. Here's what I find interesting: WODS saw the normal bump 4.3 to 6.6, over 2 shares. However, WROR actually went down 5.4 to 5.0. Weird?
 
reelyreal said:
The December book Runs November 11 - December 7, which includes the first couple weeks of Christmas. Here's what I find interesting: WODS saw the normal bump 4.3 to 6.6, over 2 shares.
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Must be a mistake or a conspiracy.
How could WODS gain that much with all the people taking the station off their presets once Christmas music starts.
 
Because for the few who complain about Christmas music starting around Veteran's Day and pledging to take the station of their presets, there are a lot more who will put it on.

For all those who complain about various WEEI or WBZ-FM talkers whenever the Globe or Herald
do an article about the "sports radio war", there are many more people who actually DO listen to them.

And remember that writer who said, "I don't know how Nixon got re-elected. Nobody I knew voted for
him." (Guess what: there were a lot more people out there, folks she didn't know, who DID vote for him...)
 
raccoonradio said:
Because for the few who complain about Christmas music starting around Veteran's Day and pledging to take the station of their presets, there are a lot more who will put it on.

For all those who complain about various WEEI or WBZ-FM talkers whenever the Globe or Herald
do an article about the "sports radio war", there are many more people who actually DO listen to them.

And remember that writer who said, "I don't know how Nixon got re-elected. Nobody I knew voted for
him." (Guess what: there were a lot more people out there, folks she didn't know, who DID vote for him...)
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The quote is attributed to Pauline Kael, fillum critic of the New Yorker magazine, but editors there can't find that exact quote in her writings.
 
whdh1920 said:
nice to see the sports hub up way above weei!! :)
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Why is that nice? Do you work for them? Or is 98.5 what all the cool kids are listening to?
 
Right on Kael--it's mentioned in Mark Steyn's latest book.

Good to have 2 strong sports stations, battling it out...sometimes competition can be a good motivator.
A station can get complacent but once they get a competitor, things can change!
 
raccoonradio said:
Right on Kael--it's mentioned in Mark Steyn's latest book.

Good to have 2 strong sports stations, battling it out...sometimes competition can be a good motivator.
A station can get complacent but once they get a competitor, things can change!
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Good that you're reading a book, but you're already a right-winger. Read something more broadening. I'm at page 100 of "1493" by Charles Mann. Learning something new in every chapter. Yikes...when slavery started in the South, the white settlers bought "Indians" who had been enslaved by other "Indians", not Africans. I did not know that. Or the two strains of malaria in England that were instrumental in vast societal changes there.
 
I am pro choice on abortion, support gay rights, support _sensible_ environmental policies, etc. I am
what some call a "classical liberal", an anti-statist. Government can provide many services but it can
run amok, too; btw I was actually listening to Mr Steyn's book via audible. Will consider the Mann book;
btw Bill O'Reilly co-wrote, and reads the audiobook version of The Killing of Lincoln, very interesting
(also got from audible). Enjoyed, and it puts things in perspective re: the horrors of the Civil War,
the very lax security at the White House ("petitioners" slept in the hallways...picture Occupy-ers
or Tea Partiers doing the same these days in the Executive Mansion). The guard who left his
post at the entry to the presidential box at Ford's Theater to have some drinks was not punished.
Still, it was tough to listen to O'Reilly without thinking of that famed "meltdown"
he had back in the Inside Edition days. We'll do it live!
It's on YouTube.

The other day Dennis Miller's radio show* had a rerun in which he was talking to O'Reilly about the
Lincoln book...what say you, Miller?

*--WRKO runs Miller on Sundays, but I can hear it via WZAN 970 Portland which comes in across the water

Bill and Dennis..
http://images.dennismillerradio.com/imagesproc/L2ltYWdlcy9nZW5lcmFsL0Rlbm5pc0JpbGwuanBn_H_SW469.jpg
 
i just find the sports hub to be better then weei as of late,yes im in the younger demographic!!
 
whdh1920 said:
i just find the sports hub to be better then weei as of late,yes im in the younger demographic!!
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That still doesn't explain why you think it's "nice". Do you feel that if your favorite station is ahead in the ratings that it makes you one of the cool kids?

There are people on this board who work for Entercom, (not me) who may not find that so nice. As racoonradio said there were also people who didn't know anyone who voted for Nixon in 1972. In your similarly narrow circle do you brag about your radio station's ratings? If they go down will you still be a cool kid? These are questions you must ask yourself, grasshopper.
 
No i grew up with weei when i was younger, and i feel the content is much better right now. But things could change i don't feel I'm one of the cool kids!! I just feel maybe because i'm younger and in their demo i find it more attractive to listen right now,and its nice too see weei challenged for once!!
 
ArtSpooner said:
whdh1920 said:
i just find the sports hub to be better then weei as of late,yes im in the younger demographic!!
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That still doesn't explain why you think it's "nice". Do you feel that if your favorite station is ahead in the ratings that it makes you one of the cool kids?

There are people on this board who work for Entercom, (not me) who may not find that so nice. As racoonradio said there were also people who didn't know anyone who voted for Nixon in 1972. In your similarly narrow circle do you brag about your radio station's ratings? If they go down will you still be a cool kid? These are questions you must ask yourself, grasshopper.
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I think sports hub ratings being up is nice. It's great to have competition in the market. I actually think due to the competition that Ordway sounds better now than 5 years ago. Competition is good for both stations, and the sports hub may have cut into the ratings of WEEI, but it also showed that there were more Boston sports listeners than originally thought as both stations are doing well....of course, not as well as WZLX 8)
 
Art, what is wrong with a person being happy that a station they like is doing well in the ratings? I enjoy 98.5 as well and I think it is NICE that they're doing so well. The better they do, the less likely they are to change things. I like what I'm hearing so it is NICE that they're doing well. Sorry that WHDH1920 enjoys a radio station.

Mule
 
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