The Best Little Radio Station in Mass.

[Laurence Glavin]

I thought that Arbitron ignores the non-coms (didn't they used to, anyway?).

I don't know if they used to, but they rate them all now. The difference is that they don't publish all the non-comm ratings to the general public, so to see all of them, you have to be a subscribing station.

There is a site where the public can see the 12+ ratings for Arbitron subscribing non-comms only, [url]http://www.rrconline.org[/url] and click "Arbitron Data". It doesn't list non-subscribing non-comms such as most student-run college stations, though they are also rated. (It also tends to lag behind the sites that publish the commercial station ratings by a number of weeks).

The boston ratings at that site do not include WGBH-FM.

 

[Eli Polonsky]

There is a site where the public can see the 12+ ratings for Arbitron subscribing non-comms only, [url]http://www.rrconline.org[/url] and click "Arbitron Data". It doesn't list non-subscribing non-comms such as most student-run college stations, though they are also rated. (It also tends to lag behind the sites that publish the commercial station ratings by a number of weeks).

The boston ratings at that site do not include WGBH-FM.

WGBH-FM WAS included on that site (and also their Cape/Islands affiliates), until just this last seasons book. Then, they disappeared. Maybe they let their Arbitron subscription lapse.

 

[ZRXOA 5248]

I am a huge fan of WATD, and have been for over 30 years now, Ed Perry and Family, and all the people at WATD are great folk.
Radio the way it should be done... locally owned ,operated, and focused.

WUML (formerly WLTI, WJUL) has a great Blues show on Saturdays, it is also streamed on the website for those of you outside the Merrimack Valley... John G. has been doing it for 30 plus years now. 3 to 6 PM give it a listen. (listen in and sometimes I am there in studio!)