Vancouver Spring 09 S2 BBM 12+

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Re: Vancouver Spring 09 S2 BBM 12+

Postby jon » Fri May 29, 2009 3:40 am

CBC AM holds and gains radio listeners
By Marke Andrews, Vancouver Sun
May 28, 2009

METRO VANCOUVER -- For the second straight ratings period, CBC AM leads all Vancouver radio stations in listeners, and has increased its edge over CKNW.

The Bureau of Broadcast Measurement (BBM) spring ratings for March and April, released on Thursday, show CBU with a 12.4-per-cent share of listeners ages 12 and older, up from the 11.0 share it had in the last ratings, released in April. CBU programming consists of CBC Radio One’s news, current affairs and cultural shows.

AM talk station CKNW, which until this year was the perennial leader in listeners, sat second at 10.7, up from the 10.1 share it had in the last ratings, but well behind CBU. QMFM was third, although its 7.8 share was a full point below its audience share of the last rating.

Besides CBC AM’s share gain of 1.4, the next biggest gainer was CFMI, a.k.a. Rock 101, which jumped from 5.3 to 6.4, good for fifth place. CKWX dropped 1.3 points, from 5.6 to 4.3, and CKLG, aka Jack FM, fell from 6.1 to 4.9.

In the all-important 25-54 age demographic, both QMFM and Virgin Radio led in the female category, each with an 11.1 share, while Rock 101 led in male listenership with a 13.5 share, way up from the last book’s 10.0 percentage.

CBU’s The Early Edition with host Rick Cluff continues to dominate the 6 to 8:30 a.m. timeslot, gathering a record 18.2 per cent of listeners, almost three full points above his share one year ago. CKNW’s mix of talk and news was at 14.9 for the same time slot.

However, the CKNW Morning News with Philip Till increased its audience by more than 24,000 listeners to 216,432 and, according to CKNW program director Tom Plasteras, actually outdraws Cluff on CBC by about 2,000 listeners during its time period.

The CBC numbers are definitely trending upward.

“I attribute this to the passionate and dedicated programmers we have,” said Johnny Michel, managing director of CBC British Columbia.

“There’s been a lot of change in the market in terms of format and on-air talent, and whenever that happens people tend to sample other services,” said Michel.

“People who tune in to CBC like what they hear, and they tend to stick with it.”

Nationwide, Radio One has picked up 100,000 new listeners since the fall.

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Re: Vancouver Spring 09 S2 BBM 12+

Postby mightymouth » Fri May 29, 2009 7:23 am

sparky wrote:This 104.9 thing is nowhere near as good as CISL was. What a boring miserable excuse for a radio station. Even my local Parksville station has more variety.


Right on Sparky. Just think, "The Greatest Hits of All Time" All time is a long time, and a lot of music under the bridge. Two ways to back up your claim. 1. Get in there and get your hands dirty by digging up all the hits of the past 40 to 50 years even. Slot them in the lineup for flow, and no repeats for at least a year and a half. or 2. Buy some lame package from some company in the States, and push the play button. Too bad they chose number 2.
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Re: Vancouver Spring 09 S2 BBM 12+

Postby flange » Fri May 29, 2009 9:36 am

104.9 could be a KILLER...but the trouble is - all the radio and music guys have been blown out and have left the business.

You know you are in trouble when the best you can come up with is a morning man nobody has ever heard in Vancouver, and you have a guy in Toronto yelling liners all day.

They need jocks and a HUGE rotation of tunes, LOCAL, LOCAL, LOCAL - and some consistency.

I would fire up 20/20 news.....get Cam McCubbin and some of the great news readers...and pretend it's the Big 8.

The consultants and the PD should have been gunned a long time ago.

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