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Boston Radio Ratings December 2020

DavidEduardo said:
No, this is done because 13 4-week periods "loses" one day a year. So every 7 years, Nielsen has to add a week to Holiday to normalize things again. In 2021, the survey periods will come closer to matching the calendar months.

What they do not want is days from a prior year being carried into the next year. It causes some significant internal issues. Since the Holiday book is hardly used at all for sales except for the maybe 45 or so all Christmas stations in those markets, it is the "adjustment period" for each year. And, of course, the panel decays badly in those weeks, sometimes well over 10% falling off.
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Sorry, BigA, I really meant for my post to be in reply to CTListener, to make aware of the schedule not just for the period we are in now, but for the upcoming year of 2021. Plus, the link is updated in the Autumn of each year for the upcoming year.
So, (provided link stays the same) at this time next year it should have the info for 2021-2022.
 
DavidEduardo said:
No, this is done because 13 4-week periods "loses" one day a year. So every 7 years, Nielsen has to add a week to Holiday to normalize things again. In 2021, the survey periods will come closer to matching the calendar months.

What they do not want is days from a prior year being carried into the next year. It causes some significant internal issues. Since the Holiday book is hardly used at all for sales except for the maybe 45 or so all Christmas stations in those markets, it is the "adjustment period" for each year. And, of course, the panel decays badly in those weeks, sometimes well over 10% falling off.
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You are absolutely correct.
What I meant to say was: to have one day of "Actual Calendar December" show up as a date within "PPM Calendar December".
In other words: for example, to not have a December PPM survey period that covers the dates November 3-30, which would be awkward and confusing.
That actually occurred for the 4-week December 2016 PPM Survey which was remedied by the 5-week Holiday 2016 PPM Survey.
 
"As for WEEI, a competitive Red Sox team playin"

I see improvement in the Hill Show. Whether they can cut in to male demo, to be continued. But it's a good show in morning drive.
 
Motown said:
It is amazing that WRKO is the sixth most listened to radio station in Boston! Who would have bet it beat out Kiss 108! I know these are overall numbers but it is still amazing. Moving Jeff back to mornings was a great move and Howie in the afternoon makes for a solid station base. With WBZ AM beating out the FM, there is life in AM radio after all. We know Howie is an institution but any factual thoughts as to why Jeff is doing so well?
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likely due to the election. I predict RKO will drop to its usual mid-2's rating once all the hooplah about the election has passed us by.
 
I’m kinda surprised K-Love isn’t subscribed here or Detroit. Do they usually take awhile to subscribe or do they really have that few listeners?
 
chrocket87 said:
I’m kinda surprised K-Love isn’t subscribed here or Detroit. Do they usually take awhile to subscribe or do they really have that few listeners?
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In many markets, they never subscribe. EMF has been on 106.9 WCCC Hartford for a few years now and hasn't shown up in the Nielsen's yet.
 
CTListener said:
In many markets, they never subscribe. EMF has been on 106.9 WCCC Hartford for a few years now and hasn't shown up in the Nielsen's yet.
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They are not listed as a Hartford subscriber. They seem to only subscribe in a few markets which they use as indications of station movements in different kinds of markets... like one in a larger and one in a smaller Southeastern market and so on.
 
dumber than a box of hair said:
Try door number three: They have no interest in ratings, because their business model depends on donations.
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True, but EMF does subscribe to Nielsen in Atlanta and New York. And most NPR stations subscribe to Nielsen ratings (such as WBUR and WGBH), and well as several other non-coms (WERS and WUMB), primarily for the research it provides on their listeners.
 
dumber than a box of hair said:
Try door number three: They have no interest in ratings, because their business model depends on donations.
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As BigA indicates, they do subscribe for program guidance. But EMF does not require data from every market... just information on a small sample of markets that gives them programming guidance . So they cherry pick a few stations from each size market in each region of the country for guidance.
 
TheBigA said:
And most NPR stations subscribe to Nielsen ratings (such as WBUR and WGBH), and well as several other non-coms (WERS and WUMB), primarily for the research it provides on their listeners.
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WUMB is also an NPR affiliate. It airs some NPR syndicated music programs including World Cafe and Mountain Stage.
 
freqlost said:
https://ratings.****************/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb013

WROR #1

Very odd why Christmas music did not win.

Kiss still falling and trails WRKO.
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Someone told me Matty is doing the show from Florida is that at C19 thing or was he doing from there before the pandemic?
 
Yes pre pandemic he was done there to golf in winter, but would come back around mid March.

Now it is full time down there pretty much.

I don't know if he came back this summer for a few weeks this year or not.
 
Both BZ and WBBM --All-news AM's--Chicago check in with same 6.8 numbers.
I think BBM does a live overnight at hours end though.
 
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