Strong May for WEEI

[raccoonradio]

via Mark of BRW\twitter
http://www.boston.com/sports/touching_all_the_bases/2012/06/strong_may_for_weei_in_ratings.html?camp=misc:on:twit:tatb
Men 25-54 WEEI second, Sports Hub 6th

C's strong playoff run.B's season ended day before ratings period

and in 12 plus
http://ratings.radio-online.com/cgi-bin/rol.exe/arb013

[pjc1961]

http://www.radio-info.com/markets/boston

Publicly released age 6+ overall rankings for the May 2012 survey period covering Thu. 4/26/12 - Wed. 5/23/12.

The next survey period will be for June 2012 covering Thu. 5/24/12 - Wed. 6/20/12 with the report release date being Wed. 7/11/12.

[raccoonradio]

Mark of BRW noted it wasn't so much that WEEI rose (maybe a little bit) but Sports Hub..fell. Comments to Globe story mention it

[ArtSpooner]

It must have killed Chad the Sports Hub cheerleader to write that article.  And now I know why we haven't heard from kalendar.

[Fenway1912]

What leaps out at me is the cume numbers where EEI is showing a lead of 300K.

I would think that is Red Sox play by play driven as there are still many who would never listen to sports radio but will listen to a baseball game. But WRKO did not show a spike on days they carried the Sox on overflow so maybe not. That said I still think baseball and football are much bigger radio properties than hockey and basketball.

EEI did not have the option under Arbitron rules to put the Sox on 850 when the Celts were playing as to have both 93.7/850 to be reported as one signal it must be 100% simulcast.

Felger's bashing of the Celtics didn't help either. WEEI made the same mistake with the Bruins for years and it burnt them last spring but Glenn bringing Jack Edwards in appeased the hockey crowd.

[Will]

as there are still many who would never listen to sports radio but will listen to a baseball game.

(raises hand)

When Jon Rish comes on during a rain delay, I change the station.

[ScottBurns]

Yes, Rish comes off as overly condescending to the callers.

[whdh1920]

its the Celtics plain and simple the sports hub will be back where they belong next ratings period!!

[reelyreal]

its the Celtics plain and simple the sports hub will be back where they belong next ratings period!!

That argument would have more credibility if WEEI had seen a large gain and WBZ-FM had seen a large loss... Instead, WBZ-FM just saw a loss and WEEI held its ground.

[ArtSpooner]

Most of the Sox and Celtics games are played at night.  The ratings show 'EEI leading during the daytime shows (I still maintain that T&R isn't a sports show) along with evenings.  Why are the games given as the main reason?

As far as being condescending to callers, I think that if you are one of the weirdos that call radio shows that you are fair game.  I cannot imagine being anthing but condescending to Danny from Quincy or Steve from Fall River or Tony from Bridgewater or a dozen more of the usual suspects.  I find it entertaining when they get humiliated.  How many times has Steve from Fall River been blown up?  Yet he keeps calling back, doesn't he?