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Cleveland Radio Feb 23 Ratings
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More people care about East Palestine now after the train derailment. It's become a national story and a leading topic on train safety.
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For sure and how many health issues people are having over there. It really makes you think about where you live and how close a train may be near your home and the possible hazards that go with that.
If you look at that, you find that a huge percentage of Americans live closer to trains than you think. Where I live, the Coachella Valley / Palm Springs market, nearly none of the over 400,000 permanent residents is more than about 12 miles from one of the busiest rail routes in the nation... ports of LA and Long Beach and LA in general to the east through our valley towards Arizona and the rest of the US.
There are both east and west bound trains about every 5 to 15 minutes apart, usually over 100 cars and some around 150 with 3 engines in the front, two in the middle and a couple at the rear. There are a number of sidings for slower trains to wait for others to go by, and apparently there are on-the-fly maintenance crews, too... from what I have seen.
When you have so many and such large trains, they become invisible to you. Even when one stalls or breaks down, it is not a news item and nobody covers it. I suspect anyone living nearer to a rail line becomes quite oblivious to the sounds and smells of trains after a few months or years.
East Palestine is about 85 miles away from me in Cleveland. With all of toxins, etc...It let into the Environment -- Believe me, I care.
Once again, looking at the ratings, it is all older demo oriented stations which are the most listened to. It is pretty much the same in every market. Young people in their teens and twenties generally don't listen to terrestrial radio.
Yes, although I'm not quite sure what the difference is.
Yes, but look at the numbers. WQAL (which is "Hot AC" but still an Adult Contemporary derivative) is #11 and WAKS (a full up Top 40/CHR) is #13. Neither in the Top 10. And look what the leading stations are. All adult formats. The difference between Hot AC and full CHR is that Hot AC tends to emphasize the current hits without the more radical stuff making the station more palatable to adults.
WAKS plays more hip-hop/Rap than WQAL. At least that's what appears to me as an occasional listener.
I assume WENZ plays hip-hop/rap. Their format is Urban.
Correct. Being more focused on, specifically, Hip Hop and R&B, they go deeper into the genre than WAKS.
Cleveland proper hasn’t had a true CHR since Jammin’ 92.3 flipped to the Jammin’ Oldies format when Infinity Broadcasting bought them out. Their ratings tanked after that move.
Q104 has always had a soccer mom sound to them. 96.5 just never felt like a true Cleveland station or has had a strong presence in the city.
Q104 has always had a soccer mom sound to them. 96.5 just never felt like a true Cleveland station or has had a strong presence in the city.
Moreover, the town is not even within WKSU’s scope; WYSU (a hybrid classical/public format) is Youngstown’s NPR station of record.
I suspect WKSU is covering it because WYSU didn’t have the resources. An internal networking effort among Ohio NPR stations exists allowing stations to contribute to each other. WESA in Pittsburgh has also filed reports regarding the derailment to NPR News.
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