I would like to comment further on the number four station WLAV that improved to a 5.4% share. I still say that they need classic rock competition badly. I think that Town Square should flip WLHT (which isn't light at all ) to classic rock and then you would have a 50,000 watt competitor to WLAV. Wh...

Jay was right they did come out on April 28. I was right that the top two would be WCSG and B-93. Both had an increase in listenership. WGRD still remained third although their number went down slightly. If anyone cares to link up to it they will see what I'm saying. The biggest highlight is that WL...

It's April 25 already so and no March overall ratings yet. I'm looking forward to what March looks like. Will WCSG remain number one? Will B-93 regain the number one position? Will there be any unexpected station besides WCSG and B-93 in the top two? My guess is that both WCSG and B-93 will be in th...

The first thing I have to say is that I couldn't believe the top 40/CHR station WKQI was number one overall. To their credit they not only lead the pack but gain a whole percentage point from a 7.3% share to a 8.3% share while the inferior classic rock station WLLZ dropped a whole percentage point d...

When I posted the news of the February ratings I naturally discussed the top stations. One thing that I found peculiar about the other stations is that their was no available number for the classic hits station WFGR. I really don't understand why the Town Square sister stations have numbers listed w...

The February Nielsen ratings came out on the last day of March for the Grand Rapids market. I was amazed to see that WCSG as a non commercial christian station was number one overall. Although WCSG does well in the ratings them at number one seems high even in what's a so called conservative radio m...

The February Nielsen ratings have come out on line for the major markets including Detroit. WCSX is number one with a 7.4% share. WCSX went slightly up while its classic rock competition WLLZ remained with a 3.8% share. WCSX deserves to be number one for sure and I still say Beasley is the only radi...

Every St. Pats Day I play old tapes of when I was a volunteer at what was the "real community station" WEHB that later became WBYW. One of the many ethnic formats that we had was Irish/Celtic music. Although our power was low, it was all volunteer, and mono during most of its existence up until abou...

I think a better idea for CMU Public Radio if they choose to run NPR news/ talk would be to have it on in the daytime until 7:00 pm. I would put classical music on from 7- 11 pm each night followed by Nightside from 11:00 pm to 5:00 am. That way the classical people and the listeners of Nightside wh...

I'm glad to see that the ratings for Grand Rapids in January have been released on line. The top two in this book are most impressive not only because they dominate over all others but because B-93 went up from a 7.5% share to an 8.5% share and WCSG went from a 6.3% share to an 8.0% share. The third...

I know that we have seen both holiday and January ratings on line for the major markets such as Chicago and Detroit. Here it's March already and the last G.R. ratings were the December ones. The ratings for G.R. usually come out each month but at a later date than Chicago and Detroit. I wonder why t...

I didn't think WNIC would maintain it's number one position after Christmas. I noticed that its share was 7.7% after returning to their A/C format which was about half of an audience drop from 15.7% with Christmas music. Even with losing about half of its audience WNIC still remains the number one s...

I noticed the holiday period ratings for the Detroit area were available on line now and that the same three stations are on top as they were in the December ratings. WNIC with Christmas music however jumped to a 15.7% share. Besides WNIC remaining number one with a bigger share than the previous su...

I was sorry to hear about Aris and he certainly was a legendary music radio host. If you were in the Grand Rapids area during 1971 Aris with his band Phlegathon had the number one hit with their song "Last Voyage Home". If my memory serves me correctly it was number one on all of the top 40 stations...

The last on line Nielsen radio ratings has the wrong formats for both Stax 92.1 and WLMI. Between this mistake with the two weak stations between the non commercial band and B-93 as well as no participation in the ratings from the Mac Donald stations the Lansing area book can't be considered accurat...