Nielsen\u2019s publishing guidelines, <\/a>I cannot report actual audience shares other than those for the full week (below). For mornings, middays afternoons and evenings, I can list only their rankings \u2014 not specific shares.<\/em><\/p>\nHere are Chicago\u2019s top 30 radio stations from 6 a.m. to midnight Monday through Sunday, as measured by Nielsen Audio from September 12 to October 9, followed by format and average quarter-hour share of listeners age 6 and older (with previous month\u2019s share in parentheses):<\/strong><\/p>\n1. WTMX 101.9-FM<\/strong> hot adult contemporary, 5.5 (4.2)
\n2. WVAZ 102.7-FM<\/strong> urban adult contemporary, 5.4 (5.7)
\n3. WDRV 97.1-FM<\/strong> classic rock, 5.2 (5.4)
\n4. WBBM 780-AM\/WCFS 105.9-FM<\/strong> all news, 4.9 (4.8)
\n5. WLS 94.7-FM<\/strong> classic hits, 4.8 (4.9)
\n6. (tie) WSCR 670-AM<\/strong> sports talk, 4.3 (4.3); WLIT 93.9-FM<\/strong> adult contemporary, 4.3 (4.2)
\n8. WXRT 93.1-FM<\/strong> adult album alternative, 3.8 (3.5)
\n9. WGN 720-AM<\/strong> news talk, 3.5 (3.2)
\n10. (tie) WRME 87.7-FM<\/strong> soft rock oldies, 3.4 (3.3); WSHE 100.3-FM<\/strong> adult contemporary, 3.4 (2.9)
\n12. WBEZ 91.5-FM<\/strong> public radio news talk, 3.3 (2.9)
\n13. WKQX 101.1-FM<\/strong> alternative rock, 3.1 (3.4)
\n14. (tie) WBMX 104.3-FM<\/strong> classic hip hop, 3.0 (3.2); WKSC 103.5-FM<\/strong> Top 40, 3.0 (3.5)
\n16. WOJO 105.1-FM<\/strong> Mexican regional, 2.9 (3.0)
\n17. WBBM 96.3-FM<\/strong> Top 40, 2.8 (2.9)
\n18. WGCI 107.5-FM<\/strong> urban contemporary, 2.4 (2.5)
\n19. WLS 890-AM<\/strong> news talk, 2.3 (1.7)
\n20. WUSN 99.5-FM<\/strong> country, 2.0 (2.7)
\n21. (tie) WLEY 107.9-FM<\/strong> Mexican regional, 1.8 (2.1); WMVP 1000-AM<\/strong> sports talk, 1.8 (1.6); WPPN 106.7-FM<\/strong> Spanish adult contemporary, 1.8 (1.7)
\n24. WVIV 93.5-FM<\/strong> Spanish contemporary, 1.4 (1.4)
\n25. WEBG 95.5-FM<\/strong> country, 1.3 (1.5)
\n26. WSSR 96.7-FM<\/strong> adult contemporary, 1.1 (1.0)
\n27. (tie) WCKL 97.9-FM<\/strong> contemporary Christian, 1.0 (1.1); WERV 95.9-FM<\/strong> classic hits, 1.0 (1.0); WMBI 90.1-FM<\/strong> Christian ministry, 1.0 (0.8)
\n30. (tie) WFMT 98.7-FM<\/strong> classical, 0.7 (0.8); WZSR 105.5-FM<\/strong> hot adult contemporary 0.7 (0.7)<\/p>\nHere are Chicago radio\u2019s top 10 morning shows from 6 to 10 a.m. Monday through Friday, as measured by Nielsen Audio:<\/strong><\/p>\n1. WTMX 101.9-FM Eric Ferguson, Melissa McGurren and Brian \u201cWhip\u201d Paruch<\/strong>
\n2. WSCR 670-AM Mike Mulligan and David Haugh<\/strong>
\n3. WBBM 780-AM\/WCFS 105.9-FM Felicia Middlebrooks and Pat Cassidy<\/strong>
\n4. WDRV 97.1-FM Brian Sherman and Steve Tingle<\/strong>
\n5. WVAZ 102.7-FM Steve Harvey<\/strong>
\n6. WGN 720-AM Steve Cochran<\/strong>
\n7. WLS 94.7-FM Dave Fogel and Kim Berk<\/strong>
\n8. WBEZ 91.5-FM \u201cMorning Edition\u201d and \u201cMorning Shift\u201d with Jennifer White<\/strong>
\n9. WSHE 100.3-FM Brooke Fox and Jubal Fresh<\/strong>
\n10. WKSC 103.5-FM Christopher \u201cFred\u201d Frederick and Angi Taylor<\/strong><\/p>\nHere are Chicago radio\u2019s top 10 midday shows from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, as measured by Nielsen Audio:<\/strong><\/p>\n1. (tie) WDRV 97.1-FM Bob Stroud;<\/strong> WLS 94.7-FM Greg Brown<\/strong>
\n3. WTMX 101.9-FM Lisa Allen<\/strong>
\n4. WVAZ 102.7-FM Bionc\u00e9 Foxx<\/strong>
\n5. WLIT 93.9-FM Robin Rock<\/strong>
\n6. WBBM 780-AM\/WCFS 105.9-FM Cisco Cotto and Rob Hart<\/strong>
\n7. WXRT 93.1-FM Richard Milne<\/strong>
\n8. WRME 87.7-FM
\n9. WLS 890-AM Chris Plante; Rush Limbaugh<\/strong>
\n10. (tie) WSCR 670-AM Dan Bernstein and Connor McKnight; Laurence Holmes;<\/strong> WSHE 100.3-FM Lisa Kosty<\/strong><\/p>\nHere are Chicago radio\u2019s top 10 afternoon shows from 3 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, as measured by Nielsen Audio:<\/strong><\/p>\n1. WTMX 101.9-FM Kevin \u201cKoz\u201d Koske and Jennifer Roberts<\/strong>
\n2. WDRV 97.1-FM Steve Seaver and Janda Lane<\/strong>
\n3. WVAZ 102.7-FM Joe Soto<\/strong>
\n4. (tie) WBBM 780-AM\/WCFS 105.9-FM Keith Johnson and Lisa Fielding;<\/strong> WLIT 93.9-FM Mick Lee;<\/strong> WLS 94.7-FM Ron Parker; Erin Carman<\/strong>
\n7. WXRT 93.1-FM Marty Lennartz<\/strong>
\n8. WSCR 670-AM Dan McNeil and Danny Parkins; Cubs baseball<\/strong>
\n9. WSHE 100.3-FM Jay Styles<\/strong>
\n10. (tie) WKQX 101.1-FM Tim Virgin;<\/strong> WRME 87.7-FM<\/p>\nHere are Chicago radio\u2019s top 10 evening shows from 7 p.m. to midnight Monday through Friday, as measured by Nielsen Audio:<\/strong><\/p>\n1. WVAZ 102.7-FM Chris Michaels<\/strong>
\n2. WSCR 670-AM Joe Ostrowski; Julie DiCaro; Cubs baseball<\/strong>
\n3. WLIT 93.9-FM Delilah Rene<\/strong>
\n4. WTMX 101.1-FM Chris Petlak<\/strong>
\n5. WBBM 780-AM\/WCFS 105.9-FM Mariam Sobh; Bob Conway<\/strong>
\n6. WLS 94.7-FM Brian Peck<\/strong>
\n7. WBEZ 91.5-FM \"Marketplace,\" \"The Daily,\" \"Fresh Air with Terry Gross,\" \"BBC Newsday,\" \"1A,\" \"BBC World Service\"<\/strong>
\n8. WRME 87.7-FM
\n9. (tie) WDRV 97.1-FM Phil Manicki;<\/strong> WGCI 107.5-FM DJ MoonDawg (Michael Muniz)<\/strong><\/p>\n(Copyright \u00a9 2019 The Nielsen Company.<\/em>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After falling to a tie for sixth place one month ago, WTMX 101.9-FM jumped back to the top spot in the Chicago radio survey released Monday. The Hubbard Radio hot adult-contemporary station known as 101.9 The Mix also finished first in mornings with Eric Ferguson, Melissa McGurren and Brian \u201cWhip\u201d Paruch, and afternoons with Kevin... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23259"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23259"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23335,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23259\/revisions\/23335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}