Portland Ratings

Dan Strassberg dan.strassberg@att.net
Wed Aug 10 18:59:10 EDT 2005


Certainly superior at night (although not in MetroWest or parts of the North
Shore). Decidedly inferior to the 1200/1430 combo nearly everywhere in the
market during the day.

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Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@att.net
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Laurence Glavin" <lglavin@lycos.com>
To: "Daniel Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>; <bri@bostonradio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 10, 2005 4:57 PM
Subject: Re: Portland Ratings


> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Daniel Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>
> >To: bri@bostonradio.org
> >Subject: Portland Ratings
> >Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 20:46:02 -0400
>
> >
> > Who says AM is dead?  In Portland, WGAN is #1 12+.  That hasn't
> > happened in how long?  Maybe 25 years.
> >
> > Frank is #2 but numbers are down slightly.
> >
> > Who says Oldies are dead?  A good book for WYNZ.  It must be Chuck
> > Igo's good work.
> >
> > Saga has 3 of the top 5 stations.
> >
> > Right wing talker WLOB, with a lineup mostly of Fox hosts, had
> > ratings 150% higher than the local Air America station.  And that
> > is with competition from WGAN.
> >
> > The Air America station tied with WBZ and Bob Bitner's WJTO --
> > which got a whole number in the ratings!
>
> Alternative right-wing yakkers don't always fare that well;
> Boston's WTTT-AM 1150 has yet to show any kind of number to
> the right of the decimal point after YEARS of fairly
> well-know syndicated hosts (Praeger, Bennett, Medved,
> Reagan, Schlessinger, etc). Many have posted on this
> site about AM 1150's signal shortcomings, but it IS
> a full-time 5,000 watt station below the police calls...
> thus somewhat superior to the WXKS-AM/WKOS duo.
>
>
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