June 2024 Ratings

[nowradioguy]

I legitimately hope that this is the worst thing that ever happens to you in your lifetime.

Read carefully: I wrote it was "a dark day", not "my darkest day".

I also think, MusicMan, that the best music is from the 60s and 70s.

 

[TheBigA]

CapCities didn't run ABC Radio into the ground the way Citadel almost did. Just my $0.02-worth.

No but Disney did. The minute Disney bought ABC they sought to sell radio.

 

[BostonRadioListener]

Capital Cities Broadcasting operated WPRO-AM/FM in Providence, where I grew up, and ran those stations, among others they owned, rather well. And CapCities didn't run ABC Radio into the ground the way Citadel almost did. Just my $0.02-worth.

Good ole Cap Cities. They made money because they never wasted a nickel. The guy who started the company, Tom Murphy, had only the 2 sides of a radio station building that faced the road painted. Why waste paint? Had a couple neglected small stations, grew it a bit and merged with ABC then Disney.
I know this is OT but it’s a pretty amazing story.

 

[nowradioguy]

No but Disney did. The minute Disney bought ABC they sought to sell radio.

I agree! All that mattered to Disney was their "Radio Disney". To hell with ABC Radio, a classy operation that was affiliate-oriented.

 

[philsirkin]

I agree! All that mattered to Disney was their "Radio Disney". To hell with ABC Radio, a classy operation that was affiliate-oriented.

That's not all that mattered to them. They were *determined* to make go.com happen, too.

 

[MassMusicMan]

That's not all that mattered to them. They were *determined* to make go.com happen, too.

It doesn't do this anymore, but for many years after that flop, web browsers still went to espn.go.com after you typed in espn.com.

 

[Fenway1912]

It doesn't do this anymore, but for many years after that flop, web browsers still went to espn.go.com after you typed in espn.com.

ABC News still goes

ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

Your trusted source for breaking news, analysis, exclusive interviews, headlines, and videos at ABCNews.com

abcnews.go.com

 

[TheBigA]

WEEI is on a death spiral. Even with the Red Sox having the best 2 months in the MLB—their numbers other than AM Drive have gone from pathetic to near asterisk territory. This is one of the most stunning declines in a category we havee ever witnessed in local radio history . WEEI was a category killer. It OWNED this format. It’s now an afterthought.

Then you'll love this story posted today on Inside Radio:

Milestone Season Ahead For Patriots Programming On WEEI-FM Boston.

Audacy sports WEEI-FM Boston will enter its 30th season as the radio home of the New England Patriots under a new multi-year broadcast extension. The agreement includes the continuation of

www.insideradio.com

I saw the headline and thought it was a mistake. Then I read the article. Very misleading.

 

[raccoonradio]

Indeed even before reading I knew Sports Hub has play by play but EEI has those shows.
There was a liner EEI had where Jim Cutler called them "the home of Celtics basketball...(pause)...talk" or maybe Patriots...talk...
as if it were added to a previous liner.
Not the play by play home, but....

One of my favorite places to visit is Pittsburgh where the local MLB team has its flagship station, by co incidence, on a 93.7 signal owned by Audacy. (KDKA-FM The Fan)

 

[MassMusicMan]

Then you'll love this story posted today on Inside Radio:

Milestone Season Ahead For Patriots Programming On WEEI-FM Boston.

Audacy sports WEEI-FM Boston will enter its 30th season as the radio home of the New England Patriots under a new multi-year broadcast extension. The agreement includes the continuation of

www.insideradio.com

I saw the headline and thought it was a mistake. Then I read the article. Very misleading.

That article is like bragging to someone who's had sex with Sydney Sweeney that you saw Sydney Sweeney naked in a movie.

 

[CTListener]

Then you'll love this story posted today on Inside Radio:

Milestone Season Ahead For Patriots Programming On WEEI-FM Boston.

Audacy sports WEEI-FM Boston will enter its 30th season as the radio home of the New England Patriots under a new multi-year broadcast extension. The agreement includes the continuation of

www.insideradio.com

I saw the headline and thought it was a mistake. Then I read the article. Very misleading.

Rights to everything but games. Yeah, big "get" for EEI-FM, lol. And another big fail for online "journalism."

 

[CTListener]

Read carefully: I wrote it was "a dark day", not "my darkest day".

I also think, MusicMan, that the best music is from the 60s and 70s.

'80s and '90s for me. That's the 1780s and 1790s, when Mozart and Beethoven started their careers. Let's see who's still playing "Louie Louie" or "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" in 300 years.

 

[MassMusicMan]

'80s and '90s for me. That's the 1780s and 1790s, when Mozart and Beethoven started their careers. Let's see who's still playing "Louie Louie" or "Bad Bad Leroy Brown" in 300 years.

I've wondered aloud for years, "When does early classic rock become a non-comm format like jazz did?"

 

[BostonRadioListener]

Then you'll love this story posted today on Inside Radio:

Milestone Season Ahead For Patriots Programming On WEEI-FM Boston.

Audacy sports WEEI-FM Boston will enter its 30th season as the radio home of the New England Patriots under a new multi-year broadcast extension. The agreement includes the continuation of

www.insideradio.com

I saw the headline and thought it was a mistake. Then I read the article. Very misleading.

100%. I read an article to that point as well—it was ALSO very deceiving. THAT is newsworthy? Lol