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Eastlan ratings coming to Houston
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Looks like the first book of Eastlan ratings is out!
I thought I read somewhere that it would show ratings for LPs and translators too??
There are some differences in the numbers and rankings between Nielsen and Eastlan. KODA is #1 in both, but the two show a 1.5 share difference. I wonder which one is the more accurate? Eastlan is 12+, instead of 6+, if that makes a difference.
Looks like the first book of Eastlan ratings is out!
Houston/Galveston
Nielsen Audio PPM Monthly Ratings Houston (Market #5) Population: 6,516,500 Black: 1,220,100 – Hispanic: 2,467,500 Average Quarter Hour Share for Persons 6+, Mon-Sun 6AM-Mid All ratings are Copyright © 2005-2024 The Nielsen Company. All rights reserved. Nielsen radio audience estimates and data...
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Are these numbers from diary entries? And are all the stations listed paying for these? The list includes KFNC which dumped Nielsen in early 2024. Also no KRBE.
KOYM-LP has been off the air for over two years. I last heard it around March 2024. Bogus number.
I thought it was off the air but I swear when I was nearby months ago I heard it on but very weak
Cumulus is the subscriber to Eastlan and KRBE sure is listed.. It's fourth overall. Eastlan lists all statons.
Without knowing for sure, it is quite possible the diary entry was for "99.7" and could've been one of the translators with no legal parent so Eastlan assumed it was KOYM-LP. But the station also has no silent STA. One person not hearing it does not a station being off the air make.
When on the air KOYM was audible along a good section of 290 between Beltway 8 and Loop 610, with peak signal around the Bingle intersection. Also had reception along I-10 in the Memorial City Mall area, as well as parts of Beltway 8 north of I-10. No sign of it the past two years in those areas, just a weak KVST. The KOYM signal only got out about two miles in the past.
I suppose I should drive by the alleged transmitter site to see if I hear anything, but if KOYM is on the air it is essentially at Part 15 power.
Eastlan does not use diaries. It uses the phone and "discovers" 24 hour listening in an interview. Here is the description of methodology.
Whoops, missed that while jumping around the posts and ratings links.
David Eduardo let us know that Eastlan uses phone interviews, and I suspect the frequency got mangled somewhere along the way. Many people have no grasp of radio station frequencies and just make things up. It could possibly been 91.7 which is Vida Unida, another Spanish language religious broadcaster.
No currently active Houston translators on 99.7. Any reception around Houston metro on that frequency is of KVST at varying levels depending on location. There is KLHG-LP in Galveston, but have not been down there recently to confirm if it is on the air.
You think LPFMs and other stations always file for silent STAs? KJOZ was off the air for 11 weeks. No Silent STA filing. In my part of NW Harris County K260DD has been off the air for over a year. No Silent STA filing.
I think there are quite a few LPFMs that simply close up shop and disappear, without any notification to the FCC.
I am fully familiar with the (former) coverage area of KOYM, and being the radio geek that I am, will do a quick check for it when in those areas. Nothing heard in over two years.
Read the description of methodology and you will see that vague responses are put through a series of questions, and it takes correct responses to several of them to register a "listening incident" that is not clearly identified.
But who uses a larger sample to determine their ratings?
Anybody can say anything over the phone without providing proof of what they listen to. At least Nielsen can accurately record in real time what's being listened to with a meter.
Anybody can say anything over the phone without providing proof of what they listen to. At least Nielsen can accurately record in real time what's being listened to with a meter.