Cleveland Radio Hol 24 Ratings

[delgriffith]

Which also begs the question of endless clusters of commercials. Guess it doesn’t matter the spot load.

 

[Gregg.]

It's always interesting when two major stations in a market flip to Christmas music and they finish #1 and #2 in the Holiday ratings. That also happened in Tampa (WDUV and WMTX) and Pittsburgh (WWSW and WSHH).

But it usually doesn't happen if one station has been doing it forever and the other just started. Case in point: Jacksonville. WEJZ is the veteran Christmas station. It had double digit ratings. WEZI hadn't done it for several years but decided to do it for 2024. It came in at #7. Better than the past two months but only a quarter of WEJZ's Holiday numbers.

 

[davideduardo]

K-Love plays basically the same stuff as The Fish, so music wise, it's a wash.

The difference is losing the local flavor, so if there's any major change in their ratings going forward under the K-Love banner, that would be the driving force.

To me, the driving force is the total lack of commercials on K love. Localism is an exaggerated positive in the case of many stations, and the K love format is extremely well executed.

 

[Yabadabado1]

Kiss is one of their signature brands. They use Kiss stations to promote their IHeart Music Awards.

They use every damn one of their stations to promote their crappy music awards. [Which I assume is run like this: "Hey, if you give us XXXX amount of money, we'll give you an award."]

 

[Yabadabado1]

This past Christmas season I was almost able to mark myself "Safe from hearing Maria Carey's "All I Want For Christmas" but like a dumb ass I tuned in to a station a little after noon expecting to hear the usual dirge of music and managed to plop right into the beginning of it. I recovered from the nausea, night sweats and excessive diarrhea three days later so I guess I got off lucky

 

[geoffpeters]

To me, the driving force is the total lack of commercials on K love. Localism is an exaggerated positive in the case of many stations, and the K love format is extremely well executed.

Hey David, Not disagreeing with you...but why do you think that local is exaggerated...is it a question of people being more interested in the music? I listen to out of market stations for that reason...I can find the weather myself...and with no commute most days...traffic to me means nothing

 

[radiofollower]

Amazing how many people complain about too much holiday music/too soon and then 105.7 crushes it...people must want holiday tunes more than they care to admit (not judging)...just find it odd

I think that some of the spike that we see around holiday music is that stores often have the Christmas music station playing for hours and hours for days and days which impact employees and customers who wear the people meter device.

 

[CTListener]

Kiss costs them literally nothing to run and gets PPM market clearance for Elvis Duran, On Air with Ryan Seacrest and American Top 40. That alone may be worth keeping it.

Kiss Cincinnati is in a nearly identical place ratings wise, as are many CHR stations around the country.

CHR is in such rough shape up here in my little market (Hanover-Lebanon-White River Junction) that the market's de facto CHR, Hot AC WGXL, is at 2.8 with a classic rock, two country stations, an NPR news-talker and a classical music station in front of it. Will the last under-55 person still listening to FM please turn out the lights on the way out in about five years?

 

[snowdog88]

They use every damn one of their stations to promote their crappy music awards. [Which I assume is run like this: "Hey, if you give us XXXX amount of money, we'll give you an award."]

Annoying that they run their iHeart Music Awards promos on WMJI, as the core audience of that station could care less about the music/artists within the last 30 some years.

I've never watched an iHeart Music Awards program, and the same applies to the Grammy's. They award an artist who has no natural talent, and needs to use autotune to sound good (or even worse). Then they award a song with repetitive, annoying music or beats that are enough to make my ears bleed. It just goes to show you that the music industry will give just about anyone out there a recording contract.

 

[thenetwork]

I avoided Mariah on the radio and in the retail stores (the latter is much harder to avoid) this year, but I got nailed one day in a doctor's office waiting room -- they were playing Mariah Carey's Christmas Concert on the TVs with the volume pretty loud as well!!!

 

[snowdog88]

I avoided Mariah on the radio and in the retail stores (the latter is much harder to avoid) this year, but I got nailed one day in a doctor's office waiting room -- they were playing Mariah Carey's Christmas Concert on the TVs with the volume pretty loud as well!!!

Unfortunately Mariah Carey's presence has been increasing on WAKR. The other day I heard "We Belong Together" from 2005, and way outside WAKR's 1970's - 1990's selection of songs. On top of that, the chorus hook has the tendency to get stuck in my head, and the overall composition of the song haunts me as well. A bit scary for Mariah Carey.😁

 

[radiofollower]

CHR is in such rough shape up here in my little market (Hanover-Lebanon-White River Junction) that the market's de facto CHR, Hot AC WGXL, is at 2.8 with a classic rock, two country stations, an NPR news-talker and a classical music station in front of it. Will the last under-55 person still listening to FM please turn out the lights on the way out in about five years?

That is exactly it. Most young people don't listen to the radio. I have three kids and none ever listen to the radio and don't even know the names of the local stations. And yes......Will the last under-55 person still listening to FM please turn out the lights on the way out in about five years?

 

[CleveRadioInsider]

For all the complaining about Christmas music it still is very popular. No surprise