Chicago Tribune article re: AAR kicking Rush's cyst in NYC

[HootieMcBoob]

I know it's been talked about before but now there's an article linked that everyone can marvel at:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0405270273may27,1,6621136.story?coll=chi-business-hed&vote12246958=1

[PROGRESSIVE1]

1. Can you post the highlights for us. I'm not registered.

[aquart]

2. Here. Tee hee.

From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., a period that includes Franken's show, WNTD pulled in 3 percent of 25-to-54-year-old listeners in Chicago. That number puts the fledgling network in the same league as WGN-720 AM, which scored a 2.1 percent share of the same demographic, according to the extrapolation of April figures. WLS-890 AM, which airs Rush Limbaugh during the same period, beat WNTD with a 4.8 share.

But in New York, where Air America still broadcasts over WLIB-1190 AM, the network beat Limbaugh's station, Disney-owned WABC, among both 25-to-54-year-olds and 18-to-34-year-olds during the 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. period. In the 25-to-54 demographic, WLIB garnered a 3.4 share to WABC's 3.1; among 18-to-34-year-olds, WLIB won sevenfold with a 2.9 share to WABC's 0.4.

[alcuno]

12. And now WNTD in Chicago is back to Chinese language or some

such thing. A complete waste of air space.

[HootieMcBoob]

4. sure...

Despite ongoing financial woes, Air America Radio appears to have garnered a significant audience during its first month on the air, particularly among the younger listeners sought by advertisers.

An analysis of recently released figures from Arbitron, the radio ratings service, showed that in New York Air America beat Rush Limbaugh's station among 25-to-54-year-olds during the period that Limbaugh and Al Franken, the host of the flagship show "The O'Franken Factor," go head-to-head.

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"If this is how we're doing now, imagine what things will be like when we actually know what we're doing," Franken said.

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...in New York, where Air America still broadcasts over WLIB-1190 AM, the network beat Limbaugh's station, Disney-owned WABC, among both 25-to-54-year-olds and 18-to-34-year-olds during the 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. period. In the 25-to-54 demographic, WLIB garnered a 3.4 share to WABC's 3.1; among 18-to-34-year-olds, WLIB won sevenfold with a 2.9 share to WABC's 0.4.

[LittleApple81]

5. here

Franken factors in younger listeners
Air America radio network does well among group that advertisers covet

By John Cook
Tribune staff reporter
Published May 27, 2004

Despite ongoing financial woes, Air America Radio appears to have garnered a significant audience during its first month on the air, particularly among the younger listeners sought by advertisers.

An analysis of recently released figures from Arbitron, the radio ratings service, showed that in New York Air America beat Rush Limbaugh's station among 25-to-54-year-olds during the period that Limbaugh and Al Franken, the host of the flagship show "The O'Franken Factor," go head-to-head.

In Chicago, even though the network was available for only 28 days in April, Air America increased the average share of 25-to-54-year-old listeners on WNTD-950 AM from a 0.1 percent share in February to a 2 percent share in April.
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"We're actually doing very well despite everything we've managed to do to ourselves," Franken said on Saturday in an address to the Talkers Magazine New Media Seminar in New York. He was referring to the network's failure to meet payroll earlier this month and the departure of no fewer than six key executives in its first eight weeks on the air.

"If this is how we're doing now, imagine what things will be like when we actually know what we're doing," Franken said.

snip...

But in New York, where Air America still broadcasts over WLIB-1190 AM, the network beat Limbaugh's station, Disney-owned WABC, among both 25-to-54-year-olds and 18-to-34-year-olds during the 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. period. In the 25-to-54 demographic, WLIB garnered a 3.4 share to WABC's 3.1; among 18-to-34-year-olds, WLIB won sevenfold with a 2.9 share to WABC's 0.4.

[LowerManhattanite]

6. The mainstream press doesn't want to run this story...

...but it's been the talk of the radio insiders since the ratings book numbers were released late last week. WABC-770's Program Director Phil Boyce is allegedly still rupturing a blood vessel over the "fluke" (his alleged word for the ratings anomaly where Franken beat Rush).

The joy of it all is being close to the action and seeing the reactions to this situation.

P.S. Best to all for the kind e-mails from yesterday.

[NewJeffCT]

8. Not a fluke at all...

From what I have heard, radio tends to gain audiences slowly over time. So, I expect Franken's ratings to go up bit by bit every ratings book - 3.4 now, maybe 3.5 or 3.6 next time, then a bit more after that.

[rumguy]

3. the human garbage over at freepville are pretending

that AAR's ratings suck. They are posting from biased sources like Worldnetdaily and gloating over what they think will be AAR's eventual collapse. The sources have no actual facts in them, just propaganda to keep the freeptards happy and in line.

Little do they know they are being played for fools.

Goddamn - it's impossible for me to even put into words the depths of my contempt for freeper scum.

[tridim]

7. Just like last Friday

FR was gleefully reporting that "Randi Rhodes has quit AAR", based on her joke late last week. If it's to their benefit the freeptards will take any sliver of information or disinformation they hear and instantly extrapolate the result as fact even before the information is confirmed, yet they still refuse to discuss the torture at Abu Gharib. If FR were your only "news" source you'd never even know the torture occurred. It's hilarious to watch the meltdown over at FR.

[David__77]

9. I hope they refuse to acknowledge bad news.

Then they cannot correct actions in a timely manner and will suffer as a result. Progressives must be critical and self-critical as well.

[rumguy]

10. very astute observations

you have the freeps pegged dead to rights....

[Generator]

11. Who will be dancing singing in the streets the day that Scumbaugh is

FIRED? I really despise that piece of trash. I really do. He's been around far too long.