June 2011, PPM Results

[1069_KIFR]

Holy Moley!!!! KREV 92.3, The Revolution, ties KITS, Live 105, with a 1.6!!!!! OMG!!!!

 

[DavidKaye]

Holy Moley!!!! KREV 92.3, The Revolution, ties KITS, Live 105, with a 1.6!!!!! OMG!!!!

Conclusion: People will listen to jukeboxes if they play the music they want to hear.

 

[weav]

Wow. I wonder what the billing's like...

 

[simonsez]

Have they done anything different in the past few months? Impressive jump after months of nothing.

 

[RadioJunkieMike]

Holy Moley!!!! KREV 92.3, The Revolution, ties KITS, Live 105, with a 1.6!!!!! OMG!!!!

Conclusion: People will listen to jukeboxes if they play the music they want to hear.

granted, I'm not the target demo, but they play it at my gym and it is quite literally the same 8 songs played over and over. "Rolling in the Deep" 40 times a day. I rarely hear a commercial -- will that change with this ratings leap?

 

[DavidKaye]

granted, I'm not the target demo, but they play it at my gym and it is quite literally the same 8 songs played over and over. "Rolling in the Deep" 40 times a day. I rarely hear a commercial -- will that change with this ratings leap?

There was a time in top 40 radio days when some stations ran the same hit song twice in an hour. And I remember in the waning days of the original KFRC when they played the "Footloose" theme about once an hour. Granted it was a great song, but I think it was overkill.

There are, of course, several ways to do the spot thing. They could run few spots and charge more for them or run many and charge less. It depends on how they think their advertisers would respond. Used to be that some stations prided themselves in running no more than 10 minutes of spots an hour, and they were able to charge more for this because less clutter meant longer TSL and a "classier" sound overall. In today's CPM world most stations couldn't get by with such premium pricing, but 92.7 is not a typical station and might not be selling CPM. He might be selling "premium".

 

[sfradio]

Have they done anything different in the past few months? Impressive jump after months of nothing.

maybe because of the addition of Brandi Garcia? also with the few commercial's they play has helped them. In a different note, KBLX is at all time lows, a 1.8

 

[Dick Skinner]

Holy Moley!!!! KREV 92.3, The Revolution, ties KITS, Live 105, with a 1.6!!!!! OMG!!!!

Conclusion: People will listen to jukeboxes if they play the music they want to hear.

granted, I'm not the target demo, but they play it at my gym and it is quite literally the same 8 songs played over and over. "Rolling in the Deep" 40 times a day. I rarely hear a commercial -- will that change with this ratings leap?

Is a 1.6 really a "ratings leap"?

 

[LKellerIII]

granted, I'm not the target demo, but they play it at my gym and it is quite literally the same 8 songs played over and over. "Rolling in the Deep" 40 times a day. I rarely hear a commercial -- will that change with this ratings leap?

There was a time in top 40 radio days when some stations ran the same hit song twice in an hour. And I remember in the waning days of the original KFRC when they played the "Footloose" theme about once an hour. Granted it was a great song, but I think it was overkill.

For a couple of years (74-75, IIRC), 1260/KYA ran an ultra-tight format that repeated the Top 5 songs every hour. The format was called "People Power," and there's at least one aircheck of it at Reelradio - the DJ was "Jimmy Jet." Truly wacky Top 40 radio with bells, whistles, sound FX... - and the comments section has some funny remarks by Ken Levine who was Beaver Cleaver at KYA during this era.

 

[RadioJunkieMike]

Holy Moley!!!! KREV 92.3, The Revolution, ties KITS, Live 105, with a 1.6!!!!! OMG!!!!

Conclusion: People will listen to jukeboxes if they play the music they want to hear.

granted, I'm not the target demo, but they play it at my gym and it is quite literally the same 8 songs played over and over. "Rolling in the Deep" 40 times a day. I rarely hear a commercial -- will that change with this ratings leap?

Is a 1.6 really a "ratings leap"?

well, I was kinda being sarcastic (should've added a "wink" I suppose) but considering they were at .6 not long ago...

 

[NoMoreLurking]

granted, I'm not the target demo, but they play it at my gym and it is quite literally the same 8 songs played over and over. "Rolling in the Deep" 40 times a day. I rarely hear a commercial -- will that change with this ratings leap?

Bingo! A person who goes to your gym has a meter and just entered the PPM panel. It could be 18-24 months before KREV's numbers go down again.

 

[sfradio]

Holy Moley!!!! KREV 92.3, The Revolution, ties KITS, Live 105, with a 1.6!!!!! OMG!!!!

Conclusion: People will listen to jukeboxes if they play the music they want to hear.

granted, I'm not the target demo, but they play it at my gym and it is quite literally the same 8 songs played over and over. "Rolling in the Deep" 40 times a day. I rarely hear a commercial -- will that change with this ratings leap?

Is a 1.6 really a "ratings leap"?

for a bad signal like 92.7, that is a big ratings leap

 

[DavidKaye]

For a couple of years (74-75, IIRC), 1260/KYA ran an ultra-tight format that repeated the Top 5 songs every hour. The format was called "People Power," and there's at least one aircheck of it at Reelradio - the DJ was "Jimmy Jet." Truly wacky Top 40 radio with bells, whistles, sound FX... - and the comments section has some funny remarks by Ken Levine who was Beaver Cleaver at KYA during this era.

Somebody, I think it was Brian Roberts, said that after a couple books it became clear that the "People Power" format was drawing mostly age 12 to 16, about 10 years younger than KYA wanted. Those wildtracks tend to attract younger folks, no doubt.

This "People Power" was not related to Jason Jennings' "People Power" format, by the way.

 

[Radical348]

Holy Moley!!!! KREV 92.3, The Revolution, ties KITS, Live 105, with a 1.6!!!!! OMG!!!!

Conclusion: People will listen to jukeboxes if they play the music they want to hear.

granted, I'm not the target demo, but they play it at my gym and it is quite literally the same 8 songs played over and over. "Rolling in the Deep" 40 times a day. I rarely hear a commercial -- will that change with this ratings leap?

Is a 1.6 really a "ratings leap"?

Why wouldn't it be a ratings leap? It's had around a 0.6 for the past year and only in the last 2 months jumped 0.9-1.2-1.6. Nobody is saying it's #1 or anything close, but this certainly qualifies as a leap in my book.

 

[Dick Skinner]

Holy Moley!!!! KREV 92.3, The Revolution, ties KITS, Live 105, with a 1.6!!!!! OMG!!!!

Conclusion: People will listen to jukeboxes if they play the music they want to hear.

granted, I'm not the target demo, but they play it at my gym and it is quite literally the same 8 songs played over and over. "Rolling in the Deep" 40 times a day. I rarely hear a commercial -- will that change with this ratings leap?

Is a 1.6 really a "ratings leap"?

well, I was kinda being sarcastic (should've added a "wink" I suppose) but considering they were at .6 not long ago...

Sorry, Mike...I forget sometimes that there are people as snarky as me on this board.

 

[weav]

Have they done anything different in the past few months? Impressive jump after months of nothing.

maybe because of the addition of Brandi Garcia? also with the few commercials they play has helped them. In a different note, KBLX is at all time lows, a 1.8

The couple hours I listened, they ran no commercials. Makes me wonder if they *still* don't have a sales manager - the first commercial station I've met that's been without one for 21 months...

It's a way to win in the ratings, I suppose, running CHR as a public service.

 

[DaveBayArea]

Well, this thread caused me to check them out for a bit. The 1st thing I noticed is that the audio is about the worst of any FM station I've ever heard. Has it always been that badly compressed & clipped?

Dave B.

 

[weav]

Well, this thread caused me to check them out for a bit. The 1st thing I noticed is that the audio is about the worst of any FM station I've ever heard. Has it always been that badly compressed & clipped?

Dave B.

Is it really worse than Wild and Now? From down here it's hard for me to tell.

 

[sfradio]

To me I think they sound better than Now and Wild, also 92.7 Party played no commercials for a while

 

[emprex]

Holy Moley!!!! KREV 92.3, The Revolution, ties KITS, Live 105, with a 1.6!!!!! OMG!!!!

Live 105 playing worst and worst and worst music everyday. Formerly (back in 2000) I listen 2-3 hours per day and now 0 hour. same song overplayed. Because Live 105 playing bad music, I rather listen to classic rock KFOX.