The full May numbers are here.
Again, yes, this is beauty pageant info--advertisers don't spend $$ off of this, but they do reveal certain things:
A. What would KNBR be without the Giants?
B. KGO continues to fall into oblivion.
C. KCBS and KQED-FM are, for now, driving the market.
D. KBWF (the station Rich pushes) lost half of it's listeners over the past 2 months.
ReplyDeleteThe Oakland A's and perennial playoff team San Jose Sharks haven't helped the new FM sports station's ratings have they?
THIS BLOG IS TOO POWERFULL!..no.128. Since that brillant post lampooning Comcast/Giants ad featuring a scary looking Ashkon and thug friend,It's either been dropped or at the very least no longer in heavy rotation. What were the Giants thinking? That ad would make anybody go to ATT looking over their shoulder..
ReplyDeleteAnd speaking of commercials..Mike's Beer has a very Brian Wilson looking guy-with beard-and he's a pitcher- pushing it's product. Too bad its not a very funny satire. Sort of stale.
K-FOX making a move. Big Rick + simulcast = good 2 month bump.
ReplyDeleteHow the mighty have fallen. As a youngster I remember listening to KGO overnight with Al Collins, Bob Trebor, Chris Clark. The station was always number one in the Bay Area.
ReplyDeleteToday between the commercials, news and traffic updates, you're lucky to hear thirty minutes of Ronn Owens in any given hour, and he's still the best host they have.
I assume the young crowd had tuned out talk radio, but KCBS (my choice) is on top?
keep up the censorship...no one will take you seriously if you dont have the stones to post criticism
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ReplyDeleteWhat would KNBR be without the Giants? How is that different from the last 30 years? The Giants are the straw that stirs KNBR's drink.
i thought the ratings used to be a closely guarded secret within the industry and then i saw them posted on some radio forum a few months ago...
ReplyDeleteMaybe Ashkon can turn to another bay area great-Carlos Santana..I can hear it already.."I got a black and orange magic woman"...
ReplyDeleteMichael Krasny's show is a good listen on KQED-FM.
ReplyDeleteLieberman comments on Byrnes may or may not be echoed by Miller & Mathai. I flip-flopped channels during Bay Bridge Series Game #5, Game #2 at the Coliseum. I can see why Rich can't handle the unarticulate enthusiasm Eric Byrnesy displays. Jon Miller may be patient and willing to let Byrnes grow, but I sometimes wonder how long 'ol Mr. NBC Bay Area Raj can handle this. Because Mathai does have respect building-wide at his station, we'll see how KNTV & the Giants can stay strong together if Mathai starts to concur with the Lieberman view.
ReplyDeleteKGO has turned into nothing but a marathon of commercials. You may find some talk radio sprinkled in.
ReplyDeleteGood for them for getting so many advertisers (questionable as some of them are), but they've largely lost me as a 25-year listener, with the exception of Len Tillem and Gene Burns as I can.
KGO has a good product. However; AM radio doesn't have the sound quality of FM. KGO still has time to turn around in a FM world.
ReplyDelete"KGO has a good product. However; AM radio doesn't have the sound quality of FM. KGO still has time to turn around in a FM world."
ReplyDeleteKGO is talk. It doesn't need the fidelty that FM provides. No KGOs problems are a lot deep than sound quality.
I'm with Edge, there are more commercials than content. I grew up listening to KGO and I can't really listen to it anymore.
I, too, used to listen to KGO around the clock. Now, it's only Gene Burns for me. It had been so long since I listened at 9 am that when I turned on the radio yesterday morning I was trying to figure out who had replaced Ronn Owens. Copeland was filling in, but I thought maybe Ronn had given up the ghost. There are SO MANY commercials on his show that I just can't listen to it. The patch between 12 Noon and 7 PM is pathetic. I was driving to Sacramento last week and listened to Michael Savage at 3 pm because Gil Gross is so dang boring. Savage is a nut but I really wanted to listen to newstalk. Gosh, I still miss Pete Wilson!
ReplyDeleteKGO really needs to rethink their clock. The talk shows seem like they're being constantly interupted by spot clusters and untimely news updates. How can you seriously get any flow going when you break away for 7 minutes at a time? It's unlistenable.
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