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- From: ronaldd@cbnewse.cb.att.com (ronald.h.davis)
- Subject: Re: stern's ratings in chicago [was: Re: long island lolita]
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:25:44 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.022544.9420@cbnewse.cb.att.com>
- References: <1993Jan7.230348.28357@cbfsb.cb.att.com> <1993Jan8.195805.28344@cbnewse.cb.att.com> <1993Jan11.143616.17430@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <1993Jan11.143616.17430@porthos.cc.bellcore.com> jil@uts.uucp (Jamie Lubin) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan8.195805.28344@cbnewse.cb.att.com> ronaldd@cbnewse.cb.att.com (ronald.h.davis) writes:
- >
- >According to Howard, wait until he's there for a full ratings book (which is
- >not the case with these ratings).
- >
- i find this explanation a bit hard to swallow at face value since steve
- and gerry moved to their current timeslot on wlup-fm at about the same
- time stern came in on wlup-am; and s&g got higher ratings. as i recall,
- their ratings were higher than brandmeier got for that time slot.
-
- stern is a bit more widely known now than when he started in philadelphia
- [not my favorite town :-( ] so i would not expect it to take 4 years to
- catch on in chicago. i believe he claimed to have made it to #1 in la
- after being on for about one year.
-
- i'm not going to make any predictions about how stern is going to do in
- chicago [although i am curious as to how his tv show did] but i can't
- say that any of the explanations surrounding his initial chicago ratings
- are all that convincing. i'm starting to wonder if, with all the todo
- with stern given his celebrity status, expectations prior to his arrival
- in a new market are so great that the actual show is a bit of a letdown.
-
- personally, i think the show in syndication really blows, on wlup there
- are LONG periods of commercials during breaks and *stupid* gags during
- the wlup studio segments (for news, sports, traffic). when the breaks
- are done, the show is often rejoined when a segment is in progress; i.e.
- it doesn't appear that the end of the wlup break is synchronized with
- those on wxrk-fm in new york.
-
- btw, those of you in the eastern time zone who attempt to listen to wlup-am
- at 6:00am hoping to hear the stern show, you're somewhat out of luck.
- stern doesn't get picked up until 7:00am eastern time. i think that during
- this time they are still doing rebroadcasts of the previous day's jonathan
- brandmeier drive-time program.
-
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