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WNEW Already Hurting WTOP In The Ratings?
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I suppose the title of this thread should be "WAMU Hurting WTOP In The Ratings": Latest numbers on DCRTV show the NPR station No. 1 again in front of WTOP. Meanwhile, people on DCRTV are reporting WTOP showed up to work yesterday wearing Hawaiian shirts and flip-flops. Which is ironic because if WTOP slides further from first place, somebody over there might be going "on the beach"... :-X
DToTheJ said:
Wow the DC Market is like the San Francisco Market in some ways KCBS would sometimes be in Second place and KOIT will beat them and KQED will beat KCBS in some months. But that 5.9 rating in the KCBS books shows that some of the listeners that left KCBS are testing KGO-AM News and Information.
I live in Massachusetts, but I grew up near DC part of my childhood.
I remember listening to WAVA all news 78/105.1 and also WTOP. WTOP was a first class operation
that presented itself as the more irudite newser. WAVA wasn't too shabby either.
WTOP has been through several ownership changes, and frequency changes, and their overall delivery has changed, and not nessesarily for the better. DC now has 3 distinctly different all newsers.
It's great for the listeners. I hope WNEW fixes it's sloppy board operations, and picks up another frequency in Northern Virginia, they otherwise sound good and should make all three very competitive.
Having one juggernaut causes the one station to become complacent.
I remember listening to WAVA all news 78/105.1 and also WTOP. WTOP was a first class operation
that presented itself as the more irudite newser. WAVA wasn't too shabby either.
WTOP has been through several ownership changes, and frequency changes, and their overall delivery has changed, and not nessesarily for the better. DC now has 3 distinctly different all newsers.
It's great for the listeners. I hope WNEW fixes it's sloppy board operations, and picks up another frequency in Northern Virginia, they otherwise sound good and should make all three very competitive.
Having one juggernaut causes the one station to become complacent.
WWBA in Tampa runs America's News Network during the day, augmented by local news and they sound pretty good. I wish there were other stations that would pick up the service. It would be a nice alternative to the sameness of Rush,Sean,etc.
WNEW sounds great. I wonder why there has not been any traction in their ratings. They do need an additional signal to get full coverage. They come in well in the Baltimore area,where WTOP doesn't. I wonder if they'll incorporate some Baltimore area news in the near future.
WNEW sounds like WINS and WTOP sounds like WCBS, and of course the New York all newsers complement each other. I hope CBS sticks with WNEW.
WNEW sounds great. I wonder why there has not been any traction in their ratings. They do need an additional signal to get full coverage. They come in well in the Baltimore area,where WTOP doesn't. I wonder if they'll incorporate some Baltimore area news in the near future.
WNEW sounds like WINS and WTOP sounds like WCBS, and of course the New York all newsers complement each other. I hope CBS sticks with WNEW.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifes...-bane-for-dc/2012/02/01/gIQANaiH4Q_story.html
Heres the Washington Post article on WTOP-FM and WNEW-FM
Heres the Washington Post article on WTOP-FM and WNEW-FM
Norm Rosen said:
What's the third one? WAMU and WMAL are news/talk, but aren't all-news.
recto101 said:
Apples vs. oranges. WTOP and WNEW are local radio stations, while ARNN is a network that doesn't air on any stations in D.C.).
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