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In response to the lame response from Craig Russell if I read your brief response (which wasn't much) than I'm on the Internet. I told you on an earlier post that I met you when you were on WFGR, I thought you were good on the radio, and that you seemed like a nice guy. I believe that you are capa ...

In response to the posts of The Painted Horse, The Trophyhead, and JayWMI this is for you guys. I can concede I have repeated myself on some things when talking about the ratings and the G.R. marketplace but your responses are lame. I don't personally know you guys, your radio experiences, nor if ...

On my post I was brief and I only gave the facts regarding the September Nielsen ratings. I gave no commentary and I got no responses so now I will offer my commentary. First of all the top three stations always seem to remain the top three stations although the order of them varies each month. This ...

The September ratings came out and B-93 is number one once again with a 8.7% share. WGRD came in second with a 6.1& share. WCSG came in third with a 5.9% share. The top three generally are in the top three although the order may vary each month. WOOD was 4th with a 5.4% share. WLAV was 5th with a 5 ...

I noticed that half of the top ten stations in the market were owned by Audacy. Obviously "The Ticket" lead the ratings and there's nothing new about that. WOMC, WYCD,, and WWJ all made the top ten with their ups and downs yet nothing new about that. What is new is that WDZH-FM 98.7 otherwise known ...

B-93 is number one again although they went down slightly. WGRD and WCSG although in the top three went down quite a bit but I'm confident each of those two will bounce back next month. WSNX in fourth place was the top station to gain somewhat but only a slight gain as with WOOD in fifth place. I ...

What stands out to me is how WOMC jumped back into the top five after being down to number eight in July. Of the top ten stations Audacy had four with "The Ticket", WYCD, WOMC, and WWJ. I-Heart had three top ten stations WNIC, WKQI, and WMGC. Beasley also had three with WCSX, WRIF, and WMGC. Cumulus ...

One thing I didn't mention in my last post is that "Thunder Country" jumped up to a 2.6% share and for that station that is a high number. It went from a 1.9% previously and I really do think that was strange because none of it came from B-93 who increased by .4 from the last time. I believe that ...

B-93 is number one once again. As I said before B-93 has a loyal audience. I'd say the audience is too loyal for keeping the station highly ranked even though I-Heart stopped The B-93 Birthday Bash. While B-93 gained a little former number one station WCSG dropped to second place losing more than a ...

With WYCD at number three and as the best music station for Audacy in the market perhaps I-Heart should consider flipping WLLZ to the modern country hits. They could make it the B-93 of Detroit. That would make interesting compe- tition between I-Heart and Audacy for that audience. Also with I-Heart ...

I just saw that the new ratings came out for July and the top four are the same as in June. The top four remain WNIC,
The Ticket WXYT-FM, WYCD, and WCSX.

Besides being a smaller market than both Grand Rapids and Detroit the one thing that takes away from the fun ratings talk is that the Mac Donald stations don't participate. I said that before regarding Lansing as well as Flint and The Tri Cities markets. Someday I 'd like to see a new player in ...

I'll start out by mentioning that WNWZ making the top ten is good for them and that raises the question of when will a commercial FM station of at least 3,000 watts in G.R. go urban? When you think about it Muskegon, The Kalamazoo-BC area, and Lansing all have U/C on FM commercial stations as ...

What I said was that a full service station could have music fill in gaps between spoken word elements as a possible alternative to news/ talk if there isn't a worthy talk show. Again, if I were in charge I'd allow the personality the option of filling in with music but it wouldn't be a musically ...

Last month when I made my Detroit ratings comments I had mentioned that WYCD dropped significantly by a whole per- cent from April to May. This time they went up by .4 and now WYCD is in third place under WNIC and The Ticket. Although I didn't want to base the fate of WYCD on one negative month it ...