Surprised nobody's mentioned this...June Ratings

[jabba17]

http://ratings.****************/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb047

and V-103 is all the way down to #3 in 6+! When was the last time V-103 wasn't #1?

Cox urban man crush at Digital White Columns continues, as WALR is still #2 to Radio One's WAMJ.

B98.5 has a 6.3, Q100 has a 5.0, Star has a 3.8, and Power 96 is down to a 3.1.

River is up to a 6.5, and Rock is up to a 2.3. Radio is up to a 3.6 (when was the last time alt had those kinds of ratings?)

AN is steady at a 1.8.

Patron has dropped almost in half over the last 4 books...down to a 1.4.

The Game and The Zone are tied with a 0.5...same as Game's sister WAOK and Q100 20.

The Walk goes from an 0.1 to "N/A".

 

[ATLRadioFan]

Would love to see what would happen in Atlanta if we only had one country station. Would that one country station be #1? Kicks and Bull seem to be beating each other up.

Biggest drop goes to Fish/104.7. Down an entire share. Looks like maybe B98.5 and Bull may be stealing some audience?

 

[R2D2onthe air]

Looks like WSB AM has lost some luster. Several people here suggested it was a post-election dip for them. I think AN 106.7, the retiring of Boortz, cutting back Clark Howard and the continuation of Herman Cain has taken some of the wind out of their sails.

 

[electroboy73]

Power 96 is down to a 3.1.

UUUURRRGGH.... So, annoyed! If Power would take their top 5 or 6 songs down from playing at 130-140 times a week to about 95 or 100, people would hear SLIGHTLY more of the variety of songs that they actually play...(average listeners just don't hear them)! Well, damn....guess another decent Atlanta Top 40 station will be gone again soon. It'll PROBABLY go more urban (as they always do) and then, maybe go back to rock. : Guess, we'll see!

If Power doesn't make it then I'm FINALLY going with Sirius-XM! Personally, I hate that the only "WINNING" CHR station here leans way too HOT-AC! I mean....if it works, it works. But, I'll be done with terrestrial radio...for good!

 

[BarryATL]

It is interesting that AN106.7 is stagnant at 1.8. In the last three or four weeks there has been a huge ramp-up of cross promotion between AN106.7 and Fox 5. Maybe it will show up in the next book. I will say that when I mention AN106.7 to my friends, most don't know what I am talking about.

WQXI continues to decline.

 

[acheron1982]

I smell a radio 105.3

 

[RadioFreak69]

98.9 The Walk is officially D.E.A.D.! I wonder when the next format switch will be?

 

[Wildstyle K]

Power 96 is down to a 3.1.

UUUURRRGGH.... So, annoyed! If Power would take their top 5 or 6 songs down from playing at 130-140 times a week to about 95 or 100, people would hear SLIGHTLY more of the variety of songs that they actually play...(average listeners just don't hear them)! Well, damn....guess another decent Atlanta Top 40 station will be gone again soon. It'll PROBABLY go more urban (as they always do) and then, maybe go back to rock. : Guess, we'll see!

If Power doesn't make it then I'm FINALLY going with Sirius-XM! Personally, I hate that the only "WINNING" CHR station here leans way too HOT-AC! I mean....if it works, it works. But, I'll be done with terrestrial radio...for good!

WiLD achieved better with a worse signal twice. Once before the PD from another station messed it up, then again when the South Carolina PD stepped in. Power was probably a mistake. They should've just put WiLD on 96.9 during the time they had their peak format ratings. I notice that throughout all the tweaks of WiLD, there were only TWO versions of the rhythmic format that received higher ratings, and those two ratings periods were higher than Power has been for a while. Not sure what they were thinking when they started giving up on WiLD and decided to start over with A WHOLE DIFFERENT FORMAT on Power as WiLD began to fall. But I'm not surprised that this happened in Atlanta.

If I were the owners, I'd at least try to keep things the way they were while things were going well at WiLD instead of f*cking things up or letting people who were hired to operate the station mess up what was going good while it was going good. Why let WiLD mess up twice - and then start over with Power on top of that? I will never understand how the first local PD at WiLD was allowed to get away with the things he did for as long as he did in the first place before someone thought to let him go and find someone else. And if the person/people who were responsible for fixing WiLD's format and bringing it back up for a second time after a long period of chaos couldn't stick around, then I wouldn't have started a new top 40 station in addition to keeping the rhythmic one that just lost what may have been their best PD (unless, of course, that good PD who brought WiLD back up was transferring to the new top 40 station on the new signal).

It's almost like ClearChannel is not even trying, or just doesn't know what's going on. Their Atlanta station must not be as important to them. It seems to pretty much be "just there" for now.

 

[Wildstyle K]

Not sure what to say about Star. Maybe Radio and Q100 together with B98.5 takes care of the AC / Adult top 40 side of things?

And yes, I did say "WHOLE DIFFERENT FORMAT." WiLD and Power are not and were never the same.

 

[ShawtyBlack_ATL]

Wow, look at the Urban war! I saw this coming as far as V103 being knocked out of #1, but how long will it last? Moving SiMan to afternoons on MAJIC 107.5/97.5 was a good look after Michael Baisden departed because Skip Murphy was horrible. Does anyone have a breakdown amongs MAJIC, V and KISS?

 

[secondchoice]

It's almost like ClearChannel is not even trying, or just doesn't know what's going on. Their Atlanta station must not be as important to them. It seems to pretty much be "just there" for now.[size=10pt]

With Slight editing the best description of CC / Atlanta I have heard in a years.

 

[RoddyFreeman]

Clear Channel might have a dilemma with Power 96-1 because Elvis Duran and Ryan Seacrest need an Atlanta affiliate to help get higher advertising rates for the network. Yet those two shows might be holding Power back locally.

 

[secondchoice]

As long as the commercials are aired on a station with good ratings, I don't think the national advertisers really care which "show" it is heard.

 

[jabba17]

It's almost like ClearChannel is not even trying, or just doesn't know what's going on. Their Atlanta station must not be as important to them. It seems to pretty much be "just there" for now.[size=10pt]

With Slight editing the best description of CC / Atlanta I have heard in a years.

+1

 

[jabba17]

Clear Channel might have a dilemma with Power 96-1 because Elvis Duran and Ryan Seacrest need an Atlanta affiliate to help get higher advertising rates for the network. Yet those two shows might be holding Power back locally.

It wasn't ever a dilemma for Rush and Hannity...

 

[kal30005]

Power 96 is down to a 3.1.

UUUURRRGGH.... So, annoyed! If Power would take their top 5 or 6 songs down from playing at 130-140 times a week to about 95 or 100, people would hear SLIGHTLY more of the variety of songs that they actually play...(average listeners just don't hear them)! Well, damn....guess another decent Atlanta Top 40 station will be gone again soon. It'll PROBABLY go more urban (as they always do) and then, maybe go back to rock. : Guess, we'll see!

If Power doesn't make it then I'm FINALLY going with Sirius-XM! Personally, I hate that the only "WINNING" CHR station here leans way too HOT-AC! I mean....if it works, it works. But, I'll be done with terrestrial radio...for good!

I think Powers problems have a whole lot less to do with music and everything to do with voice talent. I have said from day one that Power would not succeed in Atlanta with a syndicated morning show. They need to ditch Elvis Duran and Ryan Seacrest and bring in somebody local.

But Roddy makes a good point. CC may not be able to remove those shows because they may need the Atlanta market to legitimize those shows. But if they don't add local drive time talent, I don't think it makes any difference what they do as far as tweaking the music, Power will fall further and further behind Q100 and Star 94 until they are irrelevant.

 

[yup]

I am not surprised V103 has fallen. The Ryan Cameron show is not what people expected and the addition of his two sidekicks just made matters worse. The music is more hip-hop driven even during the mid-days. Some of the part-time talent should not be on air at all. Uggghhh. As for Magic and Kiss they are consistent with playing good music and having good talent on all of the time.

 

[sagebasics]

Looks like WSB AM has lost some luster. Several people here suggested it was a post-election dip for them. I think AN 106.7, the retiring of Boortz, cutting back Clark Howard and the continuation of Herman Cain has taken some of the wind out of their sails.

R2D2ontheair. I agree with you. I think it has everything to do with Boortz retiring, sticking with Herman Cain, and their insistence on airing Sean Hannity in the PM with Erick Erickson in between. I would dump the talk from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. and ramp up the news.

 

[sagebasics]

I will say that when I mention AN106.7 to my friends, most don't know what I am talking about.

I have had the same experience. No one talks about the station. When WGST was heavy news in the mid to late 1970's, people talking about, and listened to, the station. WSB-AM was still the dominant AM station then, but 'GST took away listeners. Interestingly enough, in the early 1980's, the most listened to station for awhile was WPCH-FM 94.9, when they were a "beautiful music" station.

 

[RoddyFreeman]

Clear Channel might have a dilemma with Power 96-1 because Elvis Duran and Ryan Seacrest need an Atlanta affiliate to help get higher advertising rates for the network. Yet those two shows might be holding Power back locally.

It wasn't ever a dilemma for Rush and Hannity...

Rush and Hannity are a whole different story. They add to the ratings.