Looking at today’s Charlotte Business Journal and they have the latest Arbitron ratings for Charlotte commerical radio. The biggest decline between 2005 and 2006 was for WFNZ – dropped 34%!!! Went from 2.2 in 2005 to 1.4 in 2006. Hmmm…
It’s so bad, that they now have to claim that they are #2 in Sports Radio in Charlotte.
Some kid named kd8ux is kicking their ass: [URL=http://cgi.ebay.com/AM-transmitter-kit-start-a-radio-station_W0QQitemZ200075153364QQcmdZViewItem]http://cgi.ebay.com/AM-transmitter-kit-start-a-radio-station_W0QQitemZ200075153364QQcmdZViewItem[/URL]
Looking at today's [I]Charlotte Business Journal[/I] and they have the latest Arbitron ratings for Charlotte commerical radio. The biggest decline between 2005 and 2006 was for WFNZ -- dropped 34%!!! Went from 2.2 in 2005 to 1.4 in 2006. Hmmm....
[COLOR=black][SIZE=2]For the spring quarter, which should have been a good one b/c the ACC teams and basketball, WFNZ drew a 1.0. Of 24 stations they were 21st. 22-24 were all Hispanic stations.[/SIZE][/COLOR]
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[QUOTE=ninerID;252871]…they were 21st. 22-24 were all Hispanic stations.[/QUOTE]
:lmao: says it all…
FNZ Needs to do something different in 3-7 time slot. Their current offering is stale. And please… not the Mac Attack.
The MSP works, I hope they don’t kill it.
I like Bill Razinski (sp?) but I’m not sure if he would do well in the drive time slot.
Perhaps if the 3-7 time slot actually had a show that followed LOCAL teams there would be more interest.
[QUOTE=ninerID;252871][COLOR=black][SIZE=2]For the spring quarter, which should have been a good one b/c the ACC teams and basketball, WFNZ drew a 1.0. Of 24 stations they were 21st. 22-24 were all Hispanic stations.[/SIZE][/COLOR]
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Panthers/NFL/college football will bring them back up.
This is just embarassing for them haha
FNZ Needs to do something different in 3-7 time slot. Their current offering is stale.Does Walmart sponsor that show? All 25 listeners probably shop there.
I wish I could say I’m surprised.
610/1660AM sucks. There is no other way around it.
MSP is the best thing they offer…and it is mediocre, at best.
From 12 noon until 7pm – 610am provides NOTHING BUT PURE BULL****. Those 2 shows make the worst nameless (& faceless) internet message board rants sound intelligent and well thought out.
I may be a little biased in my opinion, but if Mark Packer had any values, other than $$$$$, he would be embarrassed to accept a paycheck from them.
[QUOTE=somosdel;252887]This is just embarassing for them haha[/QUOTE]
Which them are you referring to…
a) WFNZ/WFNA?
b) the hispanic stations?
I do listen to 610 sometimes when driving. I hate to say this, but when Cornbread is on there, I have to turn it off. He just comes across as petty and shallow to me. I hate that I feel that way about a fellow niner. But I really never hear him mention U. of Charlotte, so I don’t know that he’s that in touch with the 9ers. Any insight from you guys?
[QUOTE=Johnny449ers;252903]I do listen to 610 sometimes when driving. I hate to say this, but when Cornbread is on there, I have to turn it off. He just comes across as petty and shallow to me. I hate that I feel that way about a fellow niner. But I really never hear him mention U. of Charlotte, so I don’t know that he’s that in touch with the 9ers. Any insight from you guys?[/QUOTE]
Trust me… you aren’t alone on that one.
[QUOTE=Johnny449ers;252903]I do listen to 610 sometimes when driving. I hate to say this, but when Cornbread is on there, I have to turn it off. He just comes across as petty and shallow to me. I hate that I feel that way about a fellow niner. But I really never hear him mention U. of Charlotte, so I don’t know that he’s that in touch with the 9ers. Any insight from you guys?[/QUOTE]
I’ve been told 2nd hand (from a typically reliable source) that Cornbread doesn’t give a damn about the University or its athletic department.
610 & 1660 are so bad that they make the Charlotte Observer sports page into an A+++ publication.
As much as I’ve been critical of Mike Persinger and his dept., they are 300 times more valuable to sports in Charlotte and the rest of North Carolina than anything that has ever been spoken on FNZ airwaves.
However, if I was Mike, I would ask his staff members to stop appearing on any FNZ shows. I think it takes away from their credibility as journalists, reports, columnists.
However, if I was Mike, I would ask his staff members to stop appearing on any FNZ shows. I think it takes away from their credibility as journalists, reports, columnists.
Judy should say the same to Bobby Lutz
Judy should say the same to Bobby LutzDo you mean Lutz Live, calling into FNZ, or both?
Do you mean Lutz Live, calling into FNZ, or both?
I mean the pacman show. Sorry.
FNZ is fine, i don’t like the level of support we get on all of the shows, but percentagewise i think its pretty close to what you find in Charlotte. However, the pacman show makes our program sound like a downright joke.
I've been told 2nd hand (from a typically reliable source) that Cornbread doesn't give a damn about the University or its athletic department.
Yeah, call the Athletic Department and ask how much money Cedric has contributed since he left school. He loves to say he put us on the map but other than show up to further inflate his big head by signing bobble heads, he hasn’t done squat. I guess he feels what he did in the late 70’s was enough.
[QUOTE=SilvioDante;252911]However, if I was Mike, I would ask his staff members to stop appearing on any FNZ shows. I think it takes away from their credibility as journalists, reports, columnists.[/QUOTE]
I seem to recall him saying that he didn’t like his guys on the radio… Am I remembering that correctly? Seems that it came up around the time of the whole David Poole stuff last year.
MSP is pretty good. Razinski (sp?) is also good. Mac Attack is awful. He isn’t funny and he lets the guests run the show. Pac Man is bad in every way. I dislike almost every regular guest (not ChiSox Sr., though). The Pac/QCB dynamic is nausiating. Kilgo is a cranky geriatric baby, Cornbread’s views are wrong on every topic, and the Whiner Line became old in 1998.
Other programming is hit or miss. Knights baseball is unlistenable. Some of the national evening shows are good. I don’t stay up late enough anymore, but I used to like rick Belu. Arnie the stinking genius is a flaming mongoloid. John Kilgo is the only voice on Davidson basketball, and he is awful. He’ll forget to mention names of the players for long stretchs… “he passes he shoots he scores…”
One more thing to mention in my ramble. Two weekends ago I drove up to Philly to see them beat the Pirates, and I heard two former WFNZ’ers on the air waves. Dave Jaegler was the color guy for the Washington Nationals radio broadcast. He was smooth and professional. He did not come off as a fanatic, as he used to do during Niner games. “What a bunch of thugs!” I also heard Sandy Penner at a 6am Sunday time slot in Philly. He spent the entire hour arguing with some guy about what if McNabb were to ask for more money. They kept going over the same points over and over and over. So Penner still sucks.