Just wondering what is the order of this list, as it does not match the first sentence ?
Well, Chris, the list of stations in this order is based on the amount of shares on Nielsen’s recent PPM rating update. And Glen is right.
During the holidays, 106.7 Lite FM, WLTW was at 13.1 with over 4.1 million cumulative listeners, while 101.1 CBS-FM was at 4 with 2.1 million. That’s almost behind WNEW and Z100. (You can verify this through the ‘ratings’ section of Radio Insight.)
I assume this was the consequence after Scott left CBS-FM in the mornings (cuz, retired) and Audacy’s past major “changes” with the larger classic hits stations. Especially since they replaced JAM jingles with the ReelWorld ones… Yeah, after that, many older listeners were very, very mad. But what can they do now when the advertisers and larger corporations only care about the younger demographic when they know Metallica and Kate Bush only because they heard it on an episode of Stranger Things? (among other things…)
No slandering about, but.. had Audacy cared about the older people and kept those JAM jingles along with the oldies that they stopped playing in the mid-2010s, then CBS-FM would still have thrived in this day and age, even with the older over 40s or 50s demographic who still remembers the station as the “Home of Motown, Soul and Rock ‘n Roll”. (at least before the doomed Jack FM era happened…)
This is my opinion, by the way. No slandering intended.
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