from fmqb.com
April 29, 2004
FMQB reporterd earlier on dramatic increases for Stern stations in New York, L.A., Chicago, Boston, and Cleveland. Other stations experiencing the Stern affect* include:
FM Talker KLLI/Dallas: 2.7 (13T) - 3.9 (7)
Active Rock KISW/Seattle: 4.1 (5) - 5.7 (2T)
FM Talk WXYV/Baltimore: 3.1 (10) - 4.5 (8)
Active Rock WBZX/Columbus: 5.9 (7) - 7.2 (4)
Rock WBUF/Buffalo: 6.8 (4T) - 7.2 (4)
* Ratings cited above are 12+ morning drive, Fall to Winter.
But not all of Stern's stations trended up in the Winter. Modern Rock KITS/San Francisco slipped from fourth (4.2) to fifth (3.6) in mornings. Ditto WAQZ/Cincinnati: 3.6 (12) - 2.9 (13T).
from DCRTV
March 30, 2004
D&M Take A Dive, TOP Flies High, ERQ & POC Top Baltimore - 3/30 - WJFK-FM's Don and Mike (right) continue to sink in the latest Arbitrends. Down to 14th place (from last spring's 3rd) in PM drive among all listeners. And, they plunge to a 6th place tie (from last spring's 2nd) among the age 25-54 crowd. WTOP's AM team of Mike and Richard and PM team of Shawn and Diane continue to dominate the DC radio kingdom among age 12+ers and 25-54ers. Over at WMAL, Andy and Grandy rank a lowly 15th among 25-54ers in mornings. Here are the overall age 12+ numbers.
Full week: 1) WMMJ, 2) WPGC-FM and WTOP, 4) WGMS, 5) WKYS, 6) WHUR and WASH, 8) WJZW, 9) WMAL, 10) WMZQ, 11) WBIG and WRQX, 13) WIHT, 14) WWDC, 15) WJFK-FM, 16) WARW, 17) WBZS/WBPS, 18) WWZZ/WWVZ, 19) WTEM, 20) WAVA and WHFS.
AM drive: 1) WTOP, 2) WMMJ, 3) WPGC-FM, 4) WKYS, 5) WRQX, 6) WMAL, 7) WGMS, 8) WWDC, 9) WASH, 10) WMZQ, 11) WHUR, 12) WJFK-FM, 13) WBIG and WJZW, 15) WIHT, 16) WARW, 17) WAVA, 18)WBZS/WBPS, 19) WWZZ/WWVZ, 20) WOL and WFRE and WTEM.
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Baltimore, full week, age 12+: 1) WERQ and WPOC, 3) WLIF, 4) WBAL-AM, 5) WWIN-FM, 6) WQSR, 7) WWMX, 8) WSMJ, 9) WIYY, 10) WCAO, 11) WHFS, 12) WCBM and WZBA, 14) WXYV, 15) WWLG, 16) WRBS.
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from The Baltimore Sun
March 12, 2003
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All male, all the time
Infinity's Baltimore Radio Group has abandoned its hip-hop programming at 105.7 FM in favor of a raunchy talk radio format featuring Howard Stern, Don Geronimo and Mike O'Meara of Don & Mike, among others. It has been rechristened "Live 105.7." Sister station WJFK-AM (1300 AM) has been converted into an all-sports station, featuring Tony Kornheiser, Dan Patrick and a roster of ESPN Radio programs.
"This gives us a male-focused product on FM," says Bob Philips, senior vice president for Infinity's radio group here. "Howard Stern has the No. 1 program in the country. And we felt we were in a unique position to cover all sports in a single station."
Executives and hosts on rival Radio One stations attributed the move to their company's longtime roots in Maryland and Baltimore. "With the command that Radio One has in this market, people are going to try to chip away at the prize," says Troy Johnson, a host on WERQ (92.3 FM), the chief competitor for hip-hop radio audience. "It didn't work out."
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from dcrtv.com
March 7, 2003
from the NY Daily News
November 13, 2002
Ever wondered how many other people in America are actually listening to, say, Howard Stern at the same time you are?
Tony Sanders, who crunches national numbers for the trade publication Inside Radio, says it's around 1,490,000.
Standard radio ratings, designed for advertisers, use a figure called "cume," which is the cumulative number of persons who tune to a given show or station at some time during an average week.
That's obviously a much higher figure. The national weekly "cume" for Stern has been estimated by the trade mag Talkers at "8 million-plus."
By comparison, Rush Limbaugh is rated at 14.5 million-plus per week, Sean Hannity at 10 million-plus and Dr. Joy Browne and Imus at 5 million-plus.
The numbers of people listening to those hosts at any one time presumably are proportionate to Stern's numbers.
Stern's numbers also mean more than 10 times as many people are listening to him at any given time than are, say, watching cable news channels on television.
Sanders has also tracked Stern's ranking in all of his markets for summer 2002 - though this is just based on his share of the total audience. Like most hosts, Stern scores higher among his specific target audiences, which for him includes younger men.
Overall, Stern is No. 1 in New York, Orlando, Phoenix, Syracuse and York, Pa.
In other cities, it goes like this: Philadelphia, second; Washington, D.C., fourth; Los Angeles, seventh; Baltimore, 16th; Cleveland, second; Buffalo, fourth; Chicago, 10th; Dallas, 11th; Detroit, ninth; Hartford, sixth; Las Vegas, second; Boston, second; San Diego, third; Pittsburgh, third; Seattle, fourth; Rochester, seventh; Miami, fourth; San Francisco, fifth.
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from the Radio Business Report
August 8, 2001
from dcrtv.com
April 26, 2001
The Baltimore market Arbitron radio ratings for winter 2001, released on April 26, 2001.....
[Ed. - Howard is on WJFK - 1300AM.]
Age 12+, full day:
1. WERQ - 92.3 FM - urban contemporary - 10.4 share
2. WPOC - 93.1 FM - country - 7.6 share
3. WWIN - 95.9 FM - adult urban contemporary - 6.4 share
4. WBAL - 1090 AM - talk/news - 5.7 share
5. WLIF - 101.9 FM - adult contemporary - 5.2 share
6. WQSR - 105.7 FM - oldies - 4.9 share
7. WXYV - 102.7 FM - contemporary - 4.7 share
8. WWMX - 106.5 FM - hot adult contemporary - 4.1 share
9. WHFS - 99.1 FM - alternative rock - 3.5 share
10. WIYY - 97.9 FM - rock - 3.2 share
11. WCBM - 680 AM - talk - 3.0 share
12. WCAO - 600 AM - religious gospel - 2.6 share
13. WOCT - 104.3 FM - classic rock - 2.5 share
14. WRBS - 95.1 FM - religious - 2.0 share
15. WPGC - 95.5 FM - urban contemporary - 1.7 share
15. WWLG - 1360 AM - nostalgia - 1.7 share
17. WWDC - 101.1 FM - alternativve rock - 1.5 share
18. WJFK - 1300 AM - talk - 1.3 share
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from The Baltimore Sun
May 3, 2000
WERQ-FM (92.3) remains the king of Baltimore's radio ratings, but its court was rearranged a little over the first three months of 2000.
Second place for the quarter went to WPOC-FM (93.1), which climbed 1.1 share points over its fall 1999 position, adding almost 4,000 listeners in an average quarter-hour. WBAL-AM (1090) finished third, its numbers unchanged from fall 1999, while WWIN-FM (95.9) dropped from second to fourth, losing seven-tenths of a share point and roughly 2,400 listeners in an average quarter-hour.
WPOC received even more good news with its morning drive-time numbers, where Laurie DeYoung overtook perennial champion Rouse and Co. on WQSR-FM (105.7) for first place among listeners 25-54 years old. WERQ finished third.
Among all morning listeners, WBAL finished first, by half a share point over WERQ and six-tenths of a point over WPOC.
Here are the Arbitron ratings and audience shares for listeners 12 and older for Baltimore's top 10 radio stations. Each share point represents about 3,600 listeners in an average quarter-hour.
1) WERQ-FM (92.3), 10.1 2) WPOC-FM (93.1), 7.5 3) WBAL-AM (1090), 6.1 4) WWIN-FM (95.9), 5.7 5) WLIF-FM (101.9), 5.3 6) WQSR-FM (105.7), 5.0 7) WWMX-FM (106.5), 5.0 8) WXYV-FM (102.7), 4.0 9) WIYY-FM (97.9), 3.8 10) WCAO-AM (600), 3.5
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from The Baltimore Sun
WERQ-FM, which just three months ago appeared in danger of losing its top spot among Baltimore's radio stations, has re-entrenched itself as the king of the local airwaves.
For the final three months of last year, the flagship of the Cathy Hughes radio empire attracted 30,000 listeners during an average quarter-hour period. That represents a 1,200-listener increase over July-September 1999 and -- more importantly -- 8,300 more listeners for October-December than runner-up WWIN-FM (95.9).
Those numbers give 92-Q substantially more breathing room; the station's lead had dipped to 2,200 listeners, or six-tenths of a share point.
And the news gets even better for Hughes and Radio One: they also own second-place WWIN-FM. The best a non-Radio One station could do was WPOC-FM (93.1), which finished in a tie for second place, with an average of 8,400 listeners fewer than WERQ.
"We are ecstatic to have the No. 1 and 2 stations," says Pam Somers, general manager for Radio One's Baltimore stations. "We're all going to happy hour soon."
The latest ratings also suggest WERQ has scored a hit with its morning team of Marc Clarke and Troy Johnson, which took over the crucial drive-time slot in September. Among listeners 12 and older, 92-Q's "Big Phat Morning Show" finished first with an average of 38,100 listeners, followed by WBAL-AM (36,300), WQSR-FM (35,500), WPOC-FM (33,800) and WWIN-FM (28,100).
Here's the Arbitron ratings and audience share for listeners 12 and older for Baltimore's top 10 radio stations. Each share point represents about 3,600 listeners in an average quarter-hour.
1 WERQ-FM (92.3), 8.9 2 WWIN-FM (95.9), 6.4 (tie) WPOC-FM (93.1), 6.4 4 WBAL-AM (1090), 6.1 5 WQSR-FM (105.7), 5.4 6 WWMX-FM (106.5), 4.8 (tie) WLIF-FM (101.9), 4.8 8 WXYV-FM (102.7), 3.9 9 WHFS-FM (99.1), 3.8 10 WIYY-FM (97.9), 3.7
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