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Guessing where WPHI's first book as KYW places
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I don't think it is going to continue to be listed separately. Generally, simulcasts are shown as "single line reporting" once any period of separate format overlap is finished.
That is pure laziness on the part of Neilson. It needs to be separated.
Then again, I always had a problem with Arbitron anyway...
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
Why, so Entercom can tell who’s listening on 103.9 vs 1060? What about people listening on WIP HD-2? Are they counted too? Would they encode the three different signals differently or just as one?
I’ve noticed in some hilly parts of ChesCo, going in and out of the Great Valley, 103.9 fades in and out a little. I definitely is not as strong as the other Philly FMs. I haven’t listened to it however since it was WDRE when I was much younger and living in South Jersey. Since I don’t have HD in my Ford Explorer, I do like hearing traffic on the 2s on FM without the static that comes with 1060. They need to rerecord the entire jungle and jam 1039 in where 1060 is instead of just saying it.
Yeaahhh, there’s no need for that
The station knows.
In Chicago, WBBM is listed as WBBM-AM, even though it is simulcast on WCFS 105.9. WCFS isn't listed in the 6+.
Same with WFAN, WSB, KCBS, and other stations that simulcast. But the station knows what percentage is AM & FM.
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Some HD channels show up in ratings.
Sure.
What about New York?
Who is listening to WCBS or WINS on an HD channel?
Even inside the tunnels, those AMs are heard.
To me, it is anecdotal. Most of them are receiving feedback from the advertisers by way of the sales personnel.
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
When it's a 100% simulcast, Nielsen doesn't split up the ratings. Same goes for WSB in Atlanta on a 50kw clear channel AM and a 100kw FM that they moved into the city. I'm sure management knows who is listening to what frequency, but only the payee gets to see that. I'm not sure how they would show it to the public if, for example, KYW decided to run different programming every once and a while on each frequency.
WDBO Orlando recently dumped their 100kw FM and moved the station back to it's old AM frequency with a translator. Apparently, it wasn't worth is as far as ratings (and, I assume, revenue) for them to be on that big signal.
WDBO Orlando recently dumped their 100kw FM and moved the station back to it's old AM frequency with a translator. Apparently, it wasn't worth is as far as ratings (and, I assume, revenue) for them to be on that big signal.
When stations are placed into "TLR" (total line reporting) status, even the subscriber only sees the combined number. A station may request a special report from Nielsen that breaks out the listening among the various simulcast components, but it is not readily available data.
The Spanish language format replaced the News/Talk on 96.5. It made sense as they wanted a piece of the audience of WRUM at 100.3.
The translators appear to be chic for N/T stations, for now, especially since the alot of the AMs are "dollar a holler" during most dayparts and those don't want to spend an hour for a Class C signal in many markets.
Jeff in Sa-ra-so-ta!
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