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feb 2012 PPMs!

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xmusicmatt

Nothing to exciting... About the same for most stations.. WNCI recovering.. ODC still holding some of the highest shares it's seen since sign on (outside of Christmas) .. Blitz still flat .. 106.7 seems to found some room for improvement with the Alternative format. Jack's above a 2.1 share (I predict it will keep climbing).. apparently the change was good for R1. WTDA 103.9 and WNKK 107.1 time to change formats..

Still no shows.. 1580 WVKO-A .. WCRS-LP 102.1/98.3...
 
Yes, that sums it up well.

Right now Rewind, X106.7 and Mix all have about twice as many weekly listeners (cume) as Jack-FM, yet their shares are only one-tenth to one-half point higher. So Jack really needs to focus on building cume.
 
xmusicmatt said:
Still no shows.. 1580 WVKO-A .. WCRS-LP 102.1/98.3...
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Hey, if I had the equipment that apparently is required for the PPM to register our frequencies when they're heard, and I knew how to install the crap, then I'd do it! I'm as curious to know if we're in the 14's as everyone else is.
 
Power is doing well with the new PD.
Mix's numbers look to be back on track.
Rewind is a great station, and well deserving of a much better signal... same with Mix.

Looks like X finally found its niche.
 
WCLT-FM narrowly edged out WHOK. I think that's a first.
 
xmusicmatt said:
Still no shows.. 1580 WVKO-A .. WCRS-LP 102.1/98.3...
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Dose 1580 WVKO-A even have the equipment installed to to be rated by PPM? Surely WVKO-AM has many listener because they are already running many ads for a for a progressive minded stales team.

Personally, I wish WVKO-AM would hire some people to do local news, sports and weather. They
are not doing local news anymore these days. I don't care for more ads, I want to hear local
news, sports and local traffic on that station. WVKO-AM did not even air the tornado warnings for Columbus last Sunday Afternoon. It looks like they don't care.. If there is a tornado waring, I personal want to know about it!

Last but not least, sure hope they have a local talk show on M-F. :p

Also, a sure way to drive off your local listeners is to preempt the Stephanie Miller show like WVKO-AM did today for H.S. basketball. She is the highest rated show on that station.
 
gabigley1, I hate to be the grammar police but...

Dose - noun
1. a quantity of medicine prescribed to be taken at one time.
2. a substance, situation, or quantity of anything analogous to medicine, especially of something disagreeable: Failing the exam was a hard dose to swallow.
3. an amount of sugar added in the production of champagne.
4. Physics.
a. Also called absorbed dose. the quantity of ionizing radiation absorbed by a unit mass of matter, especially living tissue: measured in gray or rad.
b. exposure dose.
5. Slang . a case of gonorrhea or syphilis.

verb (used with object)
6. to administer in or apportion for doses.
7. to give a dose of medicine to.
8. to add sugar to (champagne) during production.

Does - verb - a 3rd person singular present indicative of do
 
Meant to say Does 1580 WVKO-A even have the equipment installed to to be rated by PPM?

Now, I can see The Ohio Media Watch editor reaching for the medicine cabinet. Just a mental
block that very hard for me to break.. Sorry about that Ohio Media Watch... Spell check hasn't been able to break me of this very bad habit of misspelling Does. :-[

del_griffith said:
WCLT-FM narrowly edged out WHOK. I think that's a first.
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Looked at the ratings and I believe this is the case and its' a first. Maybe WCLT could be a competitive station if it was programed towards Columbus and on a stick closer to Columbus.

As far sister WNKK 107.1, they said they are going to stay the same. Saw the WNKK 107.1 van downtown a couple of weeks ago and asked that question... "WE are going to stay the same"
they told me. They don't appear to care about the ratings for some reason. :eek:
 
gabigley1 said:
[WVKO-AM did not even air the tornado warnings for Columbus last Sunday Afternoon. It looks like they don't care.. If there is a tornado waring, I personal want to know about it!
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Seemed to me that many -- perhaps most-- of the local stations failed to issue the tornado warning. And that includes stations that did issue flash flood warnings. I like to consider myself a radio partisan, but these days that's frankly not the medium I feel most comfortable depending on for weather warnings, especially on weekends.
 
jakej said:
xmusicmatt said:
Still no shows.. 1580 WVKO-A .. WCRS-LP 102.1/98.3...
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Hey, if I had the equipment that apparently is required for the PPM to register our frequencies when they're heard, and I knew how to install the crap, then I'd do it! I'm as curious to know if we're in the 14's as everyone else is.
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it's there, jakej
 
Then why isn't WCRS and/or WCRX listed in the ratings chart? Seems to me that if the equipment has been installed, then we should at least show up somewhere in the table. Dozens of stations are listed towards the bottom of it that don't have a rating, just a "-". Can't we at least join that crowd? Did you install the stuff yourself, knowbetter?
 
jakej said:
Then why isn't WCRS and/or WCRX listed in the ratings chart? Seems to me that if the equipment has been installed, then we should at least show up somewhere in the table. Dozens of stations are listed towards the bottom of it that don't have a rating, just a "-". Can't we at least join that crowd? Did you install the stuff yourself, knowbetter?
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Maybe the stations that are listed with a "-" are those that have shown up at some point in the past as a 0.1 or higher in the Columbus metro. Maybe it also includes any stations that actually registered some listening, but it was less than a .05 share, i.e. it rounds down to 0. Regardless, Radio-Info has the only ratings I've seen that include stations with nothing but "-" across the periods being covered. They even include calls that haven't existed for quite awhile, like WJZA.
 
jakej said:
Then why isn't WCRS and/or WCRX listed in the ratings chart? Seems to me that if the equipment has been installed, then we should at least show up somewhere in the table. Dozens of stations are listed towards the bottom of it that don't have a rating, just a "-". Can't we at least join that crowd? Did you install the stuff yourself, knowbetter?
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No I didn't, but it seems to me that since there could not be two stations with the same call nationally, there was something strange with the reported call...is there something in the rating that doesn't fit, something with xx in it?. I think the original box was something ??XX. I go back and check my notes.
 
jakej said:
Then why isn't WCRS and/or WCRX listed in the ratings chart? Seems to me that if the equipment has been installed, then we should at least show up somewhere in the table. Dozens of stations are listed towards the bottom of it that don't have a rating, just a "-". Can't we at least join that crowd? Did you install the stuff yourself, knowbetter?
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Hmmm...could it be that no one (or at least no one with a meter) is listening? ???
 
Has anyone else noticed that since the holiday book WTVN has been over a 9 share (7.9 in the holiday book)? Guess BC leaving WTVN has not hurt them at all!
 
Not directly related to ratings, but Sunny 95 has started back playing AC currents/more recurrents, and some of the choices are quite liberal by a lot of AC standards. They've also cut back the 70s music. Good moves.
 
I remember quite a few times when WCLT beat out WHOK in the ratings. Those beatings caused CBS radio the owner at the time to switch them from mainstream country to Country oldies as Country Legends K95.5. I don't know why Wilks won't try nothing new on 107.1 because taking that flanker in a new format might help WHOK out. But then again WCLT and WCOL might just end up benefiting more. North American Broadcasting could always try something new on 103.9 but they might have to move the Steelers to 99.7 or AM 920. But like everybody says the pd like rock and roll. Now that it getting warmer atmospheric conditions will start causing headaches for listeners of Mix 107.9 south of I70. I've talked in numerous posts about Mix 107.9 getting interference from a religous station in Huntington West virginia when listening in a car on the south side of town. That will take toll on the ratings.
 
Speaking of WHOK, I notice that "Country Legends" remains a prominent part of their current format, even though it's now mixed with newer stuff. This is no typical 2012 mainstream country format. They still play 70s country like Waylon Jennings' "Luckenbach, TX."
 
talkers said:
Has anyone else noticed that since the holiday book WTVN has been over a 9 share (7.9 in the holiday book)? Guess BC leaving WTVN has not hurt them at all!
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Same ratings. Fraction of the cost.

And I thought I read that Joel would tank em. Yeah, I know it's still a bit soon. But where are they, the listeners, going to go for something similar?

With the success of station and with the savings with BC's departure, Corby's agent better be priming the pump with some great spin.
 
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