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- Newsgroups: alt.fan.howard-stern
- Path: sparky!uunet!walter!porthos!uts!jil
- From: jil@uts.uucp (Jamie Lubin)
- Subject: Re: stern's ratings in chicago
- Organization: Bellcore, Piscataway, NJ
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 14:28:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.142806.26731@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
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- In article <1993Jan12.022544.9420@cbnewse.cb.att.com> ronaldd@cbnewse.cb.att.com (ronald.h.davis) writes:
- >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.
-
- Today, it was announced that after his 1st full ratings book in Dallas, they
- went from #14 to #4. Yesterday, it was announced that it was #1 in Wash, D.C.
- & you may know that it's #1 in NY, Philly & L.A. Yes, I know, "but that's
- not Chicago." Let's see how the show is doing after about a year. It was
- also mentioned today that there'll be a new station "in the south" starting
- Monday, I believe.
-