In the latest winter book in Chicago, both ESPN 1000 and 670 The Score had reason to celebrate. If the noise was a little louder inside 1000’s offices, there’s a perfectly good explanation for it. The station finished #1 overall during David Kaplan and Waddle and Silvy’s shows. It was Kaplan’s first time enjoying the top spot for an entire quarter. Waddle and Silvy on the other hand have been on fire, leading all of the market’s sports talk programs in the ratings for seven straight months.

Not to be ignored, Carmen and Jurko also delivered big for 1000, coming in 5th. Just twelve months ago the show was ranked 11th, which shows significant growth year to year. The station’s lone spot where it didn’t win head to head against The Score was in mornings where Mike and Mike came in 9th.

Meanwhile for The Score, Mully and Hanley continued their winning ways in AM drive, registering a 5th place finish. The popular local duo have consistently won the morning matchup against their national counterparts.

In middays and afternoons, both Spiegel and Parkins and Bernstein and Goff came in 7th, six positions away from 1000’s programs. This was the first ratings book for both Score shows. They were added to the weekday lineup in January following the retirement of longtime personality Terry Boers.

In sizing up the key demographic battles, ESPN 1000 earned wins against their local rival by placing 3rd M-F 6a-7p and 6th M-SU 6a-Mid. The Score was 6th M-F 6a-7p and 7th M-SU 6a-Mid.

Although it’s certainly a great time to be inside the hallways at ESPN 1000, The Score stands to benefit from Chicago Cubs baseball being back on its airwaves. That should help the station increase its cume next quarter and provide a few additional samples of the station’s new weekday shows.

http://sportsradiopd.com/2017/04/espn-1000-produces-strong-winter-ratings-book/

I don't understand why the Cubs go for Bernstein's bonus. Doesn't the station not consider the Cubs games as part of B&G's ratings?

Goff has hurt Dan's bonus based on these ratings. Better pick it up, Goffer. Dan is mad at you like he was at the White Sox.

I don't understand how 670 can celebrate the return of the Cubs when they led to $2MM more in revenue but $10MM more in expenses. What business celebrates a financial loss of $8MM on a product?

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score big voice guy has a few less reads to do

The clock is ticking for Goff,Spiegel and Larry...once Mitch the bitch gets canned, those bustouts are fucked.

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Spiegel should start planning a career change soon.

Bernsy will just need to cut back on his spending.

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Yeah, Bernstein will be content with making 150k, those other three are fucked.

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Spiegel will just do nights on the 3rd sports talker when it starts up, and if that fails he'll land at a music station, maybe trying the sports-rock fusion that Mac did (which never works, for whatever reason).

You have the Cubs on your station just coming off a WS victory 108 years in waiting and how can you not just win in the ratings but trounce the competition?

It must have been Murph that carried ESPN 1000 thru the winter.

It's not even that 1000 is good, it sucks..it's that the Score is even worse, it's unbearable.. The score has sucked for a long time, it just took Boers leaving and Mac leaving for old time listeners to say," I can't listen to this garbage".

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Boers was terrible the last 5 years too.

Agreed, maybe 7 even...but old time listeners still stuck around..they've left since his departure.

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When Mac left is when I gave up. I listen to Les from 4 am until 5am and that's pretty much it.

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Third station is looking at a transmitter out of Manteno.

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Does the tranmitter have AIDS or just some generic VD?

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Is that the transmitter that's for sale just off I-57?

Not sure, but that is just North of Manteno.

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