I expected WCSG, B-93, WSNX, WGRD, and WOOD to be top ranked stations. The top five are run professionally with loyal audiences. What seemed interesting is how Star 105.7 FM didn't decline that badly after Christmas and still is in the top ten. What also seems interesting is that "The Big 101.3 FM" ...

Whoever is in charge of Cumulus in G.R. should first and foremost get rid of that "Thunder Country" on 107.3 FM. Over the past few years I have repeated myself that it is insane to allow the modern major label country hits to be played on a station that the people constantly ignore. B-93 is enough f...

The April ratings came out and "The Ticket" is number one overall once again. It also jumped up to a 9.2% share from the March ratings. I realize Detroit is a big sports market but still that amazes me that "The Ticket" jumped that high. No music format of any kind comes close to that impressive rat...

As I said before I think that WLAV should make changes on their playlist. I think they should drop many of the songs that were big top 40 hits in the late 60''s and 70's which were hits on the old top 40 WGRD AM & FM. Examples of these are "Black Betty" by one hit wonder Ram Jam and "Taking Care Of ...

In the March ratings WLAV dropped down to 14th place while their sister station "Hot FM" was number 12. This was a different situation where another Cumulus station did better than WLAV. Considering that there were no top ten stations owned by Cumulus and their WLAV dropped so low that makes me wond...

I saw the March ratings and discovered WLAV declined down to a 2.7% share. As I said earlier I believe that a new and better classic rock FM station that is 50,000 watts could and would beat WLAV but neither I-Heart nor Town Square are willing to do that. A new company would have to buy a 50,000 wat...

Here's how many stations each company had in the top ten stations of the March Nielsen Ratings: Company Amount of Stations Which stations and their ranking Audacy 4 #2 The Ticket, #4 WYCD, #7 WOMC, and #9 WWJ I-Heart 3 #1 WNIC, #3 WKQI, and #8 WMXD Beasley 3 #4 WCSX, #5 WRIF, and #10 WMGC Cumulus 0 ...

As much as I would love to have somebody with a commercial FM station of 50,000 watts compete with WLAV with a better classic rock station I know that would require another company in the market to purchase an already existing sta- tion. Without that happening it looks to me like classic rock on G.R...

In the February ratings WGRD came in number 6. I still say that WGRD plays the best variety of rock with their active rock format. The fact that significant 70's classic rock is included in the format of WGRD is probably the main reason why Town Square wouldn't consider flipping WLHT to classic rock...

I thought that was strange that somebody reacted to the January ratings with one of my comments instead of saying something about the new February ratings. As I was saying according to Nielsen WCSG is number one overall with their non commercial Christian format. WCSG went up by 1.3% while B-93 drop...

If I saw the new February ratings I thought for sure that one of our regulars would have posted the link and given some commentary. All I can say is I found it interesting that the ratings came out on Good Friday and that the non commercial Christian station WCSG beat out all of the commercial stati...

Although in earlier posts I said that WYCD would move up in the overall ratings I really didn't expect WYCD with a higher number than WRIF, WCSX, and WMXD. Without WDRQ as competition I thought that the people who like the modern coun- try hits would make WYCD a higher rated station. Since WLLZ went...

WLHT did improve to a 4.!% share in the last ratings therefore I don't expect Town Square to give up their "Hot A/C" format. What I'm still in favor of is somebody with a 50,000 watt commercial FM station competing against the declining WLAV. Now under the system of three basic commercial radio comp...

Although WLHT jumped up to 8th place with a 4.1% share I still think that they should drop that awful format. I don't have a problem with them playing nothing before 2000 but I do have a problem with the music they do play from 2000 onward. First of all the format is suppose to be "Hot A/C" but to m...

I was pleased to see the January ratings came out and again B-93 and WCSG were on top once again. Both of these stations are run professionally and have loyal audiences. With WOOD coming in third it shows that I-Heart can do the news/ talk format better than the other commercial radio companies in G...