Re: Ratings Out..

["Don MacMillan" <dmacmillan@mailandnews.com>]

For those who would like to peruse the ratings....they are available at

http://www.rronline.com/Subscribers/Ratings/Homepage.htm

And select Boston...


DM



----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Hopfgarten" <hopfgapr@sprynet.com>
To: <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 9:35 PM
Subject: Ratings Out..


> Any comments on ratings?
>
> I see that WTTK is a winner and WKLB takes a big hit. (Think the fact the
> Country Chrismas songs may be too 'twangy' for Boston?)
>
> It seems that WBZ and WTTK suceeded in gaining on the Florida election
> fiasco more than WRKO.
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > [mailto:owner-boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org]On Behalf Of Dan
> > Billings
> > Sent: Friday, January 12, 2001 8:13 PM
> > To: Sven Franklyn Weil; boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org
> > Subject: Re: WJIB-740-CHWO
> >
> >
> > The people?  The way I see it is that people, represented by the
ratings,
> > decide what gets on the air in this country.  If a format gets a large
> > audience of "the people" it's on the air.  If not, it's gone.
> >
> > The idea of a government agency deciding what someone should broadcast
is
> > downright scary to me.
> >
> > -- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Sven Franklyn Weil" <sven@gordsven.com>
> > > The good thing about Can-Con is that it provides an effective outlet
for
> > > great artists that otherwise would be ignored thanks to the USA
> > pop-music
> > > juggernaut.
> > >
> > > Also, the idea of a licence specifying what kind of programming will
be
> > > broadcast does sort of encourage a format diversity of sorts.
> > >
> > > I don't see anything wrong with it, considering that the airwaves are
a
> > > limited resource and are (at least in theory) owned by "the people"
> >
> >
>