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RADIO 92-9 EARTHFEST CONCERT

looks more like 30,000 if you go to their website slide show. Still impressive but not 100K they were predicting.
Wonder how many people knew that WBOS switched format...

It also begs the other question...do you think this festival will help their numbers?
 
inthewolf said:
It also begs the other question...do you think this festival will help their numbers?
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Not significantly. The crowd at the festival is still only a very small fraction of the Boston metro listening audience, and any minor effect it may have will be short-term at best. In the long run, people continue to listen to a station because they like what they're hearing, not because they put on a festival months ago.

As for other concert sponsorships, I'm glad to see WXRV "The River" stepping in to sponsor some fairly high-profile area concerts in the "mellower", older adult (boomer-age) AAA format that WBOS dropped, such as the sold-out Steve Winwood concert at the Berklee a few weeks ago, and the sold-out Robert Plant/Alison Krauss concert at the BoA Pavilion this summer. WBOS in their old format would've been all over those. Good to see WXRV doing something to take advantage of 'BOS's change, and stepping up to fill the hole 'BOS left open for them. Too bad they can't legally do anything about getting that 92.5 signal any closer to Boston.
 
I have always failed to understand how playing music in front of a crowd, be it small or large or in-between, does anything to help the Earth. It is the height of arrogance for anyone to believe his or herself to in any way have a say over nature. Shame on you, Earth Day Concert-goers!
 
inthewolf said:
looks more like 30,000 if you go to their website slide show. Still impressive but not 100K they were predicting.
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I will take the word of the "official estimates" over your interpretation based on photos (photos could have been taken earlier in the day when people were still showing up). The lowest number I saw was 40,000. The highest was 125,000. Let's average it out and call it 82,500.
 
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