Newspaper Report: WUOM #1 In Ann Arbor

[Joseph_Gallant]

The Ann Arbor (Michigan) News has an interesting article on the popularity of a local NPR member station. I am posting a link to that article and comment on it here because Radio-Info.com does not at the moment have a Michigan or Detroit (near to Ann Arbor) board.

The article points out that when listening to noncommercial radio in Ann Arbor is added to the published Arbitron numbers for the Spring 2005 book, NPR member news/information station WUOM-91.7 was the top-rated station in Ann Arbor. Second according to the ratings once noncommercial stations were added, was Detroit's 50,000-watt talk blowtorch WJR-760.

With WUOM's signal reaching Detroit, I suspect the station also does well there, although probably not to the level of popularity the station has in Ann Arbor.

 

[mwebster]

WUOM would be number one in Ann Arbor, by a wide margin over WJR. It does not do as well in Detroit and ranks behind WXYT (and the Detroit public radio station WDET would rank between WXYT and WUOM). However, the combined 12+ AQH in Detroit of the two public radio stations would be close to three (a respectable but not outstanding number for public radio).

> The Ann Arbor (Michigan) News has an interesting article on
> the popularity of a local NPR member station. I am posting a
> link to that article and comment on it here because
> Radio-Info.com does not at the moment have a Michigan or
> Detroit (near to Ann Arbor) board.
>
> The article points out that when listening to noncommercial
> radio in Ann Arbor is added to the published Arbitron
> numbers for the Spring 2005 book, NPR member
> news/information station WUOM-91.7 was the top-rated station
> in Ann Arbor. Second according to the ratings once
> noncommercial stations were added, was Detroit's 50,000-watt
> talk blowtorch WJR-760.
>
> With WUOM's signal reaching Detroit, I suspect the station
> also does well there, although probably not to the level of
> popularity the station has in Ann Arbor.
>