From Chicagoland Radio and Media;


* * A bit more regarding the newly released September radio ratings... In the ratings contest between Chicago's three sports talk stations, both WMVP-AM/ESPN Chicago and WSCR-AM/670 The Score can claim victories, while WGWG-LP/The Game 87.7 can hardly justify its own existence, broadcasting to extremely few listeners and ratings at or just above 0.00 during much of the day. Despite there being three sports stations in town for most of this year, it is just a two-way race. In the all ages numbers, WSCR-AM wins with a 2.2 share over WMVP-AM's 1.3 share. WSCR-AM's cume is 601,800, while WMVP-AM's cume is 476,200. In the station's target demographic of Men 25-54, WSCR-AM narrowly wins overall, ranked at #12, over WMVP-AM, ranked at #14. For weekday mornings in that demographic, WSCR-AM's Mully & Hanley show is #4 with a 4.4 share, reclaiming the lead over WMVP-AM's Mike & Mike show which is #7 with a 4.2 share. WMVP-AM begins to take the lead in the Men 25-54 ratings in the later mornings and hold on to them through the midday. WMVP-AM's Colin Cowherd show in the 9:00am hour is #8 with a 3.7 share, while WSCR-AM's show with Matt Spiegel (and mostly a rotating collection of co-hosts during Dan McNeil's absence) was 12th with a 3.2 share. WMVP-AM's midday show with Carmen & Jurko were #7, while Spiegel and his fill-in co-hosts fell to #15. Even with decreased ratings, thanks mainly to fan disinterest in Chicago White Sox baseball broadcasts (which hurt the station even more in evenings with a heavy load of night games), WSCR-AM's Boers & Bernstein afternoon show once again takes the lead, coming in at #3 with a 4.3 share, just above WMVP-AM's Waddle & Silvy show which was #6 with a 3.9 share. As a side note, both afternoon shows for WMVP-AM and WSCR-AM individually beat every other talk station in Chicago's Adults 25-54 and Men 25-54 ratings. Traditionally, summertime ratings for sports talk radio stations are the lowest of the year, as it has been a very long time since any Chicago baseball team has given listeners a reason to talk sports and no other major sports are taking place. Both WMVP-AM and WSCR-AM are expecting much higher numbers in the coming weeks and months. WGWG-LP remains hopeful to somehow find any ratings number higher than that achieved by a weak-signal suburban college station.

Are there any streaming ratings? Or has that not been developed yet.

So I guess Frank will have to change his sig. Likely to get worse for W&S too now that Speigel has a permanent partner, there's no more White Sox and Bears season is in full swing.

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“How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” Donald J Trump - 4/10/25
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

0.00

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Meatpants is the only WSCR host to lose to WMVP...and he lost to Cowherd.

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CSFMB 2014 Nascar Pick 'em Champion

We don’t have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven’t taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much. — Ronald Reagan

Yeah, thats bad. That's like a 1 hr show? 2 hours?

More Host picking games, O/U's, etc......that will fix it...I like hearing Mannely break down a Bears game, it is like having a player tell you what they do, but after that, it's a guest host who won a silent auction.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

He'll be fine now that things have settled.
Beside - Aren't you the guy (apparently the only one too) that claims to regularly listen to The Game?

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“How do you get to be president and you’re stupid?” Donald J Trump - 4/10/25
When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn't become a king. The palace turns into a circus. - Turkish Proverb

I tried to GAME it, they have some work to make it a better station and not just the Scores distant cousin.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

15th for Spieges and Mannelly in September?

Well, I warned Mitch well before hand as soon as I heard the Mannelly rumors. But these PDs and GMs love their bad white Bears. Rozner was the only correct choice.

And it's only gonna get worse. Cuz this was 4 Bears games of sports talk. If he's 15th for that, then it can never get better.

I do hope someone at CBS calls Zimmerman and asks why the ratings drop? So he can explain his big savings move.

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

Do people really accept that being preempted once every two weeks actually damages B and B ratings. I know that is the popular explanation

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

I never bought that line of reasoning. It's spurious and a convenient excuse. If the team was playing well and ratings spiked, the station wouldn't discount the high ratings because of White Sox success.

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Back off, Warchild. Seriously.

so the game couldnt even get a bump from haugh and kaplan being on TV every day? they've been running ads on local tv too... how long do they get before wgn cuts ties with this money pit?

that explanation sure gets used often enough

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"That's what the internet is for. Slandering others anonymously." Banky
“Been that way since one monkey looked at the sun and told the other monkey ‘He said for you to give me your fuckin’ share.’”

B&B back on top, quite naturally.

love lift us up where we belong...

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How does WFMT keep bouncing from 0.9 to n/a? Do they just not pay for ratings some months? Is the PPM sample size so small that they can bounce between a niche audience and no audience? Weird.

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Tallest midget, all 5 '8.5" of him.

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Hawaii (fuck) You

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

It is only accepted by the show that lost in the latest ratings book.

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