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November 2017 Boston Radio Ratings.
- Thread starter freqlost
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The baseball (Red Sox) season ended.
Actually, it does seem like "lotta good splitting up that waaf frequency". WKAF is up significantly and the ratings together of 99.7 and 107.3 are higher than when there was a simulcast. That being said, these are 6+ numbers that are really just bragging rights and don't reflect how they can be marketed and sold to the advertiser.
The ownership details here are a bit interesting.It's said Entercom owns WBZ AM and FM as well as WZLX.All are being run as LMAs before ownership changes are approved; it's been said Entercom "owns Sports Hub while Beasley operates it" (@bostonradio on twitter).Ditto WMJX which is listed as Beasley.Read somewhere that WRKO is in a kind of trust and can't go to iHeart till WKOX is sold.
WRKO's regular website is still up while the iHeart page for it has no listen live link (and RKO isn't on iHeart app yet) and it says "station logo" but the logo itself is absent.WBZ's iHeart site is active with link, though, and they are on the iHeart app.
WKAF is listed as Entercom but they have an iHeart site and a listen live link and it says copyright iHeart.
https://977rnb.iheart.com
WRKO's regular website is still up while the iHeart page for it has no listen live link (and RKO isn't on iHeart app yet) and it says "station logo" but the logo itself is absent.WBZ's iHeart site is active with link, though, and they are on the iHeart app.
WKAF is listed as Entercom but they have an iHeart site and a listen live link and it says copyright iHeart.
https://977rnb.iheart.com
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WAAF and WXLO are dropping a good amount, huh? Never seen the two of them this Low in my life. Hopefully the boosters (and a potential format change at 104.1?) will increase WXLO's ratings significantly, but WAAF can really only get worse from here, unfortunately (unless they, too, apply for boosters).
Its been good for wkaf I agree with that. Now waaf not so much i assume thats because of the signal coverage?
Hopefully the iHeart app is more stable that the POS app RKO is using now. On my android when I attempt to listen to howie on the way home, at least 50% of the time their current app just "hangs" with a spinning indicator when I attempt to press the play button.
I assume it's the product....and that the product (format) is out of favor right now.
No format change for Mix unless Amp Radio is a lot cheaper to run.
You can try this out--3 of Howie's affiliates are iHeart and should be on the app--WPOP Hartford, WHYN Holyoke and WXTK on the Cape. Try one of those and see if that happens.
I’ve been streaming through his web site for the hour-long afternoon commute. I work on the south coast and live in the 495/95 vicinity so I can catch the show part of the way on the New Bedford affiliate, but once I get into Taunton, it drops off quickly and RKO’s signal is virtually non-existent this time of year.... so its easier to stream and not deal with attempting to flip stations. But I’ll have to check out those streams on the iHeart app as a backup, thanks.
Check out how much better the playlist of New York's Alt 92.3 is. What a fresher-sounding station. Every time I tune into WBOS, I tune out; it sounds so stale. There's no sense of delight in the music.
CBS merged with Entercom so currently Entercom owns all the properties. However due to FCC limits and DOJ negotiations Entercom had to spin off several stations. But if you remember Entercom and CBS had put the stations in trusts before the details of the divestures and swaps were even announced. So the properties were able to be LMA'd very quickly with Entercom going over the FCC limits for a limited period of time. LMA's allow the future owners to operate them before FCC approval which takes some time before the licenses are actually transferred. iHeart has to get WKOX established in a trust before they can legally operate WRKO as it puts them over the AM limit. The sale of WKOX can take longer as long as it's in a trust. So yes Entercom currently owns the licenses of all the former Entercom and CBS Boston properties until the FCC approves the transfers. However they have entered into agreements to let the future owners operate them as LMA's where they can.
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