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[Smiths and Smittys]

No posting of any ratings on here anymore?

How long has it been since KE......ZEEEE stayed at the top of the heap this long. and BTW I still miss hearing Nancy Sherwood.

There was hope for Mother Hubbard's bastard step child Katy Kay Bee for a while but looks like that was not to be.

Also the once mighty 94.5 KOOL FM slowly fading
KNIX trouncing KMLE(Chandler, Phoenix) and KZZP(Mesa, Phoenix) leading K Live 101~5

The hopeless state of News and Talk radio of any kind between K-TAR fm and KFYI

 

[DrAkbar]

No posting of any ratings on here anymore?

How long has it been since KE......ZEEEE stayed at the top of the heap this long. and BTW I still miss hearing Nancy Sherwood.

There was hope for Mother Hubbard's bastard step child Katy Kay Bee for a while but looks like that was not to be.

Also the once mighty 94.5 KOOL FM slowly fading
KNIX trouncing KMLE(Chandler, Phoenix) and KZZP(Mesa, Phoenix) leading K Live 101~5

The hopeless state of News and Talk radio of any kind between K-TAR fm and KFYI

No one cares about 6+ monthlies...but we do get excited when the Old Gringo unleashes money demos. And btw..we all shop at ABCO, 'cause that's where Hal & Joni are!

 

[davideduardo]

No one cares about 6+ monthlies...but we do get excited when the Old Gringo unleashes money demos.

Is that a hint? (Without an emoji, it's hard to tell!)

25-54 rank: KSLX, KZZP, KUPD, KESZ, KMXP, KNIX, KYOT, KMLE, KALV, KOOL, KDKB, KMVA, KLNZ, KNAI, KMVP, KHOT, KBAQ, KOMR, KTAR. There #1 station has a 7.8 and the #20 station is below a 2 share.

While KNAI is listed as "AM" I think we know better and most of the listening is on the translator. Speaking of which, does anyone think that a "translator" for KNAI 860 gives you the same programming, but in English?

 

[Sammi Brie]

Is that a hint? (Without an emoji, it's hard to tell!)

25-54 rank: KSLX, KZZP, KUPD, KESZ, KMXP, KNIX, KYOT, KMLE, KALV, KOOL, KDKB, KMVA, KLNZ, KNAI, KMVP, KHOT, KBAQ, KOMR, KTAR. There #1 station has a 7.8 and the #20 station is below a 2 share.

While KNAI is listed as "AM" I think we know better and most of the listening is on the translator. Speaking of which, does anyone think that a "translator" for KNAI 860 gives you the same programming, but in English?

If you translate "booster" into Spanish on the Mexican side, you come out with "equipo complementario de zona de sombra". That's a mouthful! (The number of authorized shadows on FM nationwide is less than 15. Half aren't actually boosters, more like translators at long distances, but that's another story.)

The same term is used in TV, so I hacked it up into something that sounds a lot nicer: "shadow channel", from the fact that these are designed to fill in in areas shadowed from the main signal.

 

[davideduardo]

If you translate "booster" into Spanish on the Mexican side, you come out with "equipo complementario de zona de sombra". That's a mouthful! (

No more a mouthful than "Peligro Bajo las Olas" which was the translation given the theatrical release of "Jaws" when that movie originally was shown. That reverse translates to "Danger Under the Waves" in English.

Back in Puerto Rico, among bilinguals, a variant of the old party game of saying a sentence to the person next to you and passing it on was to say a sentence and the next person said it, but translated, to the next person, and then it was spoken to the next person, translated again. The outcome was often hilarious.

"Equipo complementario de zona de sombra" sounds like an episode from "Tales from the Crypt". I would imagine that it had to be a high ranking bureaucrat who came up with that one. It just flows off the tongue.

 

[johndavis]

Is that a hint? (Without an emoji, it's hard to tell!)

25-54 rank: KSLX, KZZP, KUPD, KESZ, KMXP, KNIX, KYOT, KMLE, KALV, KOOL, KDKB, KMVA, KLNZ, KNAI, KMVP, KHOT, KBAQ, KOMR, KTAR. There #1 station has a 7.8 and the #20 station is below a 2 share.

My takeaways:

1. If #1 6+ equates to #4 25-54, that means that those best of the 80s weekends must be popular in the Sun Cities.
2. If KBAQ outranks KTAR 25-54 and KFYI doesn't make the top 20, then the state of talk radio can be summed up as this: Yikes!

What's driving KZZP 25-54 compared to KALV? Morning show?

 

[TheBigA]

What's interesting to me is that in 6+, KNIX is "trouncing" KMLE.

But in 25-54, they are a lot closer, and KNIX is lower. Which tells me that KNIX has an older audience. Old Buck would be proud.

Confirming that is the news that KMLE is #5 18-34, while KNIX is lower.

The moral being that winning 6+ means nothing, especially if you can be Top 5 18-34.

 

[DrAkbar]

While KNAI is listed as "AM" I think we know better and most of the listening is on the translator. Speaking of which, does anyone think that a "translator" for KNAI 860 gives you the same programming, but in English?

hmmm..using that logic, then the translator for KXEG 12~Eighty gives you the same programming, but from the Devil's perspective. YIKES!!

 

[EricStein]

While KNAI is listed as "AM" I think we know better and most of the listening is on the translator. Speaking of which, does anyone think that a "translator" for KNAI 860 gives you the same programming, but in English?

I’m certain every AM with an FM translator has more people listening to the translator than the AM signal. What I’ve learned over the years I’ve observed and worked in radio is that people will listen to an inferior-programmed station if it’s the best signal in town over a decently-programmed rimshot or AM with translator.

 

[johndavis]

I’m certain every AM with an FM translator has more people listening to the translator than the AM signal. What I’ve learned over the years I’ve observed and worked in radio is that people will listen to an inferior-programmed station if it’s the best signal in town over a decently-programmed rimshot or AM with translator.

You can't be #1 if you can't be heard.

 

[Nathan O'Dan]

My takeaways:

1. If #1 6+ equates to #4 25-54, that means that those best of the 80s weekends must be popular in the Sun Cities.
2. If KBAQ outranks KTAR 25-54 and KFYI doesn't make the top 20, then the state of talk radio can be summed up as this: Yikes!

What's driving KZZP 25-54 compared to KALV? Morning show?

Jonjay and Rich supposedly have quite a successful morning show. So much that I know people who listen to them out of state via the iHeart Debt app. Funny that my friend in St. Paul listens to Jonjay and Rich over local Dave Ryan at KDWB while I cast aside Phoenix morning shows in favor of KCMP's Oake and Riley from St. Paul.

 

[Saladressing]

I cast aside Phoenix morning shows in favor of KCMP's Oake and Riley from St. Paul.

Good choice. Brian Oake is a fabulous broadcaster with a wealth of knowledge in many genres of music including good ol rock n roll. I believe he also hosted the morning show at the late great Rev 105 in Minneapolis back in the day.