Interesting.
I’m always surprised there’s not at least one other Chicago station in the top stations list for cume, given its relative metro area population of about 9M, vs Los Angeles (13M) and NYC (20M). The LA stations seem a bit overrepresented vs Chicago. Although Riverside/San Bernardino metro isn’t included in the 13M in LA metro so that would bump up the potential audience a bit more. Houston and Dallas metros are 4th and 5th in size with about 8M each.
Just terrible stuff for people who tuned in.
Looking at you, ARN.
Says something when even the most prolific suckhole of radio licences in the US is anti-AI voices and content. Bubble has to burst at some point!
US Cume and Share Leaders from the 48 PPM markets for the period of 16 Oct - 12 Nov. Next survey, we’ll start to see the impact of stations that go all-Christmas.
After a failed stint at FS1, he’s back. (Can I just say it’s a bit offputting for the evening show to be called “After Hours” when it’s the start of most sporting action - granted, it won’t air all 25 of its hours in any week, but…)
The move went down very well with the outside looking in, you can tell. /s
To answer that question: No.
(That “year high” was made 6.33am AEDT yesterday. Look at what happened since.)
22 (by the time this ends) years with SiriusXM. Not a small feat.
The 20-year anniversary will be held on January 9.
How to deal with the holiday season.
And introducing a pretty unique format, not seen since, I believe, XM’s Top 20 on 20.
They’re going to feed replays overnight? Really?
Not a problem if you are a full-time affiliate, but if you just want to plug the gap between the postgame and the morning show, you may want to look elsewhere.
Looking at you, Sportsnet.
I mean, ESPN Radio runs a loop of Sportscenter overnight, so the competition for stations isn’t much better. Good chance for Maller at FSR to pick up a bunch depending on what Audacy do now they have nothing to do with ISN/WWOSR. Is Yahoo/Sporting News Radio still around?
Still more relevant to what has happened the previous night (they at least stay live until West Coast is done). Replays could consist of “game previews” earlier in the day, which sounds so irrelevant when said games have concluded.
Gone last year. Its remaining affiliates now have VSiN sports betting format.
Also, apparently it won’t be called that. That’s way too easy.
So they make a misnomer instead.
Yesterday was day 1 of WW1S network. Content is subjective to varying tastes of listeners so I wouldn’t go into that.
But if it isn’t bad enough that they go into pre-recorded mode overnight, they somehow managed to make it jarring, too. The 3-6am ET replay is just a playback of the previous 3 hours, with all the “until 3am Eastern” references and caller solicitations kept in.
Keep in mind that West Coast action usually finishes around 1.30am ET, and around 1-6am ET is the timeslot the largest number of stations join the network.
And this replay nonsense will be done seven nights a week so that everyone can go to FSR instead, I assume.
Then it turns out the Audacy feed of the network is basically WFAN2, with the Infinity name still proudly blasting every TOTH ID. One would think that would be the first element to refresh.
The musical bed to rejoin the network after the ID sounds good though. Reminds me of a ramp with similar melodies. This one.
And then there was this incredible nugget following a mistimed commercial break. I’m pretty certain we’re not supposed to hear this.
US ratings are out now. Four days of material released in two.
You can tell why stations went all-Christmas. It usually paid off handsomely.
Jack FM in San Antonio is no more!
currently stunting with the default Cisco hold music
It will flip on Jan 6 to San Antonio’s 102.7 with slogan “We play anything for San Antonio”.
I guess the cost of bearing the Jack name no longer made sense. They’ll still have a wide-ranging playlist.
US Cume and Share Leaders from the 48 PPM markets for the December survey. Notice, because of Nielsen’s four-week survey periods, the “December” survey actually coveres 13 Nov - 10 Dec, with the “Holiday” survey taking place for four weeks before January starts. You can see the share leaders dominated by AC and Classic Hits stations. In fact, of the top 20 share leaders, 17 were in all-Christmas music mode during the survey.
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AI DJs have arrived in Iowa.
Not sure what that adds. Does someone really need the concept of Thunderstruck explained like that? It’s not showing connection to the music, it sounds like an essay.
The station imaging sounds fine and would carry it without the need for a “DJ”. Standard voice tracking delivers 100x the quality.
That said, if it saves active rock as a format, might almost be worth it.
Hate to break it to you but “she” has been on air for 2 years. Not something new.
Pretty positive reception, I’d say.
