KEXP

[InEar]

http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20051024/D8DEK3E02.html

[Dougee]

> http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20051024/D8DEK3E02.html
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This story seems to have hit everywhere. I've searched it and have seen it in little papers like the yakima herald, oregon live and the news tribune all the way up to USA Today, MSNBC, Comcast news, KOMO, King 5, Radio Milwaukee, and even a stripper/dancer supply site, hilarious. If you google "Seattle radio" KEXP is the first thing that comes up. Coincendence?

[The Original Larry]

> > http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20051024/D8DEK3E02.html
> >
>
> This story seems to have hit everywhere. I've searched it
> and have seen it in little papers like the yakima herald,
> oregon live and the news tribune all the way up to USA
> Today, MSNBC, Comcast news, KOMO, King 5, Radio Milwaukee,
> and even a stripper/dancer supply site, hilarious. If you
> google "Seattle radio" KEXP is the first thing that comes
> up. Coincendence?

In many places of the world, KEXP IS Seattle radio!......
>

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[AQH]

> > http://apnews1.iwon.com/article/20051024/D8DEK3E02.html
> >
>
> This story seems to have hit everywhere. I've searched it
> and have seen it in little papers like the yakima herald,
> oregon live and the news tribune all the way up to USA
> Today, MSNBC, Comcast news, KOMO, King 5, Radio Milwaukee,
> and even a stripper/dancer supply site, hilarious. If you
> google "Seattle radio" KEXP is the first thing that comes
> up. Coincendence?

It's called 'wire copy.'  Plenty of print or online news outlets just link it or copy and paste.  Some radio and TV outlets just rip and read.

About the internet search engine, it could be sorted on most recent articles.

The number that stood out to me -- 50,000 people listened online to KEXP.  The wording says that 50,000 people cumed KEXP on-line.

To put that in perspective, even bottom-of-the-barrel stations garner 50,000 in cume, just in Seattle.  And KEXP gets 50,000 worldwide?  And that's "on a roll?"

Comapring it to internet standards: Yahoo Music/Launchcast gets 1.9 million in cume.  AOL Radio gets a little over 1 million.

Probably doesn't matter to the KEXP folks, just as long as the checks come in.

[eldub]

> The number that stood out to me -- 50,000 people listened
> online to KEXP.  The wording says that 50,000 people cumed
> KEXP on-line.
>
> To put that in perspective, even bottom-of-the-barrel
> stations garner 50,000 in cume, just in Seattle.  And KEXP
> gets 50,000 worldwide?  And that's "on a roll?"
>
> Comapring it to internet standards: Yahoo Music/Launchcast
> gets 1.9 million in cume.  AOL Radio gets a little over 1
> million.
>
> Probably doesn't matter to the KEXP folks, just as long as
> the checks come in.

Where do you get your figures? The 50,000 an hour cume online blows any other online radio station out of the water. To quote the article "More than any other radio station in the country, according to Arbitron's Internet broadcasting service." Like it or not, KEXP is on the rise with zero advertising, zero TV commercials, nothing. All because of word of mouth. Not many stations can say that.

[AQH]

> Where do you get your figures? The 50,000 an hour cume
> online blows any other online radio station out of the
> water.

Here's your source (short of creating a page on my website) http://radio.about.com/od/ratingsfornetstations/a/aa091005a.htm


To quote the article "More than any other radio
> station in the country, according to Arbitron's Internet
> broadcasting service." Like it or not, KEXP is on the rise
> with zero advertising, zero TV commercials, nothing. All
> because of word of mouth. Not many stations can say that.

That's all fine and dandy....really.  Congratulations to them, they can do whatever and however they want to do.

What I am saying is that some people shouldn't be so naive to think that KEXP is making the big boys in Seattle radio nervous.  Stations adjusted to Jack, nobody has adjusted to KEXP.   They certainly play a different type, and people do like that.  Good for them.

But 50,000 listeners is a drop in the bucket compard to the other internet folks.

And of course, I don't believe for a moment they are "all about the music."  They are all about their pledges.