Chicago Arbitron Radio Ratings: June 2012

[pjc1961]

Chicago: http://www.radio-info.com/markets/chicago

Publicly released age 6+ overall rankings for the June 2012 survey period covering Thu. 5/24/12 - Wed. 6/20/12.

The next survey period will be for July 2012 covering Thu. 6/21/12 - Wed. 7/18/12 with the report release date being Mon. 8/6/12.

Note: stations that do not subscribe to Arbitron in certain markets will not show in those markets.

[CrazeeCarroll1]

WOW!!! WGN below a 4 share!!!!!

[Torgo Johnson]

WKQX-FM      1.0    426,600    1.9    733,700   Alternative   Merlin Media
WIQI-FM        0.4  311,800    0.3    223,900   News/Talk   Merlin Media

Congratulations, Merlin. The format that you replaced at 101.1 and then put on a low-power "Franken FM" at the beginning of the dial (which some radios cannot even pick up) is getting over 6 times the AQH and over 3 times the cume of your full-power news station.

[DavidEduardo]

WOW!!! WGN below a 4 share!!!!!

It's unusual for WGN to decline in baseball season, as they usually increase, particularly in 25-54. But they have not done that this year.

In 25-54, they have been at 20th or below for a year.

[recto101]

WBBM-Am 4.3

WLS-FM 4.7

[cyberdad]

It's unusual for WGN to decline in baseball season, as they usually increase, particularly in 25-54. But they have not done that this year.

Well, it's also unusual for the Cubbies to be as bad as they've been during the early going this year.   

Back to the other point about Merlin....not only is WIQI losing to Merlin's revival of the format they ditched for their low-power signal, but their numbers are also worse than what was on the low-powered signal ("smooth jazz") before Merlin took it over.

On top of that, they're getting beat by the WCPT Lib-talk AM and rimshot FM combo....along with a few other rimshots, religious, etc.

[DavidEduardo]

Well, it's also unusual for the Cubbies to be as bad as they've been during the early going this year.   

You are not saying that the Cubs have never had a bad season before, are you?