Air America investigated - threat against the Pres?

Stupid question time, but why does a radio station have to change it's entire format? Is Air America so full of it's lineup that you can snurp 3 hours here and 3 hours there?

Seems to me if they wanted to grow ratings faster they might put the 1 or 2 most popular shows out for... syndication (might be a different term). Hell in Kansas City, I'd listen with the same sense of comedy that I listen to the on-air 'talent' when the Sports station is blathering about fishing or golf.

Kulaf · Post by **Kulaf** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:57 am

Nice deflection Beek.

Post by **Relbeek Einre** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 11:58 am

Thanks Kulaf.

Oh, and yes, if Randi Rhodes really did that, she deserves to be fired. Period.

Embar Angylwrath · Post by **Embar Angylwrath** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:00 pm

The new Arbitron figures for Winter 2005, which covers January, February, and March, show that WLIB, the station which carries Air America in New York, won a 1.2-percent share of all listeners 12 years and older. That is down one tenth of one point from the station's 1.3 rating in Winter 2004, the last period when it aired its old format of Caribbean music and talk.

Post by **Relbeek Einre** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:07 pm

Portland's KPOJ AM had growth of 1000% in audience share, in conservative San Diego KLSD AM went up 73% and Denver's KKZN AM was up 300% all in the first full ratings periods. Other markets with similar success include: Boston, Seattle, Phoenix, Minneapolis, Sacramento and Columbus.

Post by **Ddrak** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:08 pm

1.3% isn't that bad for talk radio, and adjustments between 1.2% and 1.3% really aren't statistically significant.

For reference, Limbaugh gets around 4%.

Dd

Post by **Relbeek Einre** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:13 pm

In NY or nationwide?

Al Franken's been clobbering Limbaugh in several markets.

Trollbait · Post by **Trollbait** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:15 pm

I would call this Franken and Limbaugh battle a ............CRIPPLE FIGHT!

Embar Angylwrath · Post by **Embar Angylwrath** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:15 pm

Relbeek Einre wrote:In NY or nationwide?

Al Franken's been clobbering Limbaugh in several markets.

The numbers are just as striking when narrowed to the specific period from noon to 3 P.M., when Franken's program airs on WLIB opposite Rush Limbaugh on WABC. Even though Franken once claimed to be beating the conservative host in New York, in the Winter 2005 figures, his program attracted a 1.9-percent share of the audience to Limbaugh's 3.2 percent in the 25 to 54 age group.

Post by **Relbeek Einre** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:25 pm

You're looking at New York only, you know that right?

Rsak · Post by **Rsak** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:26 pm

Stupid question time, but why does a radio station have to change it's entire format?

It doesn't have to.

There is a local station here that is mostly conservative but it also has Alan Colmes on in one time block.

Post by **Relbeek Einre** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:27 pm

There is a local station here that is mostly conservative but it also has Alan Colmes on in one time block.

Bwahahahaha! Nothing to do with Rsak, but that line is funny as hell.

Rsak · Post by **Rsak** » Wed Apr 27, 2005 1:38 pm

So you call Alan Colmes a conservative?

I was not necessarily calling him a liberal, but he is not what I would call conservative by comparison to the others on that station.