Boston Radio Ratings November 2021

[vmorrison99]

On the other hand, Kuhner did shine in his unscripted, impromptu interview with Lin Wood when Wood called unannounced into Kuhner's show a couple weeks ago. (Despite what one may think of Lin Wood is irrelevant, how Kuhner was able to engage in a 30+ minute interview with no prep is a testament to his true abilities, which we see too little of in exchange for the low-brow stuff).

Regardless of Kuhner's drama queen antics, funny voices and low-brow commentary (all of which I think detract from his show to cater to a lowest-common-denominator), its aspects of his show, like that (the Wood interview and subsequent analysis/commentary), which make me a regular listener. I've often stated Kuhner's political analysis and commentary is quite good (other than the constant calls to IMPEACH! IMPEACH! for every slightest thing, which is nothing more than his equivalent of throwing red meat to his local listener base), its the antics/etc which I think he does to cater to local audience which hold him back from "going national, baaaay-beee"

The Lin Wood interview was quite interesting. However, with every interview he begins to many questions with' Let me ask you this" or "let me ask you a question". Just ask the question. Following the Wood interview he said " We just made national news" "This is going to go EVERYWHERE." Except for the WRKO site not one news outlet mentioned the interview.
He may have a grasp of international events but he should avoid any and all topics about local and state politics. With those subjects he has no idea what he is talking about 90% of the time.

 

[MarkW]

As I said in another thread, when you compare the playlists of WBOS with WZLX, it's obvious which station has more listeners.

Completely agree.

 

[wcozBoston]

Going back through all of the posts on this thread and looking at the ratings, Entercom should have traded WEEI-FM instead of WBZ-FM. Beasley might have considered doing a deal for WEEI-FM but Beasley would not have swapped that for WMJX. Maybe WROR if WEEI-FM was shifted to 103.3 and 93.7's license back to Entercom? One has to hand it to Beasley however, getting WBZ-FM from Entercom then re-tooling WROR with more 80's music that went after WMJX. Just look at the numbers.

 

[nowradioguy]

Beasley might have considered doing a deal for WEEI-FM but Beasley would not have swapped that for WMJX. Maybe WROR if WEEI-FM was shifted to 103.3 and 93.7's license back to Entercom?

Huh? VERY confusing wording. Try again, please.

 

[Methuselah]

The Lin Wood interview was quite interesting. However, with every interview he begins to many questions with' Let me ask you this" or "let me ask you a question". Just ask the question. Following the Wood interview he said " We just made national news" "This is going to go EVERYWHERE." Except for the WRKO site not one news outlet mentioned the interview.
He may have a grasp of international events but he should avoid any and all topics about local and state politics. With those subjects he has no idea what he is talking about 90% of the time.

To be fair though, the Tucker Carlson interview w/ Rittenhouse didn't really go anywhere. That story pretty much fizzled and died after a day or so.

I do tend to agree about local vs national commentary. I do not think Kuhner has the extensive political contacts in the state to reliably analyze and report on state politics. I listen to Howie for that, he at least has the experience and contacts from working at a newspaper for eons. Instead, K0000nah seems to attract the lunatic fringe, looking for an outlet for their nuttiness... Case in point, that loon Ploss.

 

[AceBiscuits]

Going back through all of the posts on this thread and looking at the ratings, Entercom should have traded WEEI-FM instead of WBZ-FM.

I always felt this should've been the case, but I suspect the regional simulcast was not something they wanted to give up. Although it would've been very easy to flip them all to WBZ-FM simulcasts.

 

[Deleted User]

remember not only were they up against the # of stations owned in the market, but the % of market revenue they could control (40% ??) and that was the part of the whole equation of what they kept/swapped

 

[wcozBoston]

Did Entercom have 40 % market with their original post merger cluster of WODS, WEEI-FM, WBMX, WAAF and WEEI-AM before they did the WBZ-FM-WMJX exchange? Would retaining WBZ-FM instead of WEEI-FM bring them over the 40% cap?

 

[Retro]

remember not only were they up against the # of stations owned in the market, but the % of market revenue they could control (40% ??) and that was the part of the whole equation of what they kept/swapped

I believe that as someone stated here in the past, Entercom actually had some ironic loyalty to there pre-existing O&O stations. Therefore, divesting WEEI was not in their interest at all.