{"id":7301,"date":"2015-03-31T21:00:38","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T02:00:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robertfeder.com\/?p=7301"},"modified":"2015-03-31T21:29:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T02:29:03","slug":"wbbm-newsradio-still-among-top-10-moneymakers-nationwide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/2015\/03\/31\/wbbm-newsradio-still-among-top-10-moneymakers-nationwide\/","title":{"rendered":"WBBM Newsradio still among top 10 moneymakers nationwide"},"content":{"rendered":"
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<\/a> WBBM Newsradio<\/p><\/div>\n

The CBS Radio all-news combo of WBBM AM 780 and WCFS FM 105.9<\/a> not only was Chicago\u2019s top-billing station last year but again was the only local outlet among radio\u2019s 10 biggest moneymakers nationwide.<\/p>\n

With revenue of $39.2 million in 2014, WBBM Newsradio was down 6.5 percent from its 2013 revenue of $41.9 million. But it still ranked 10th in the nation, according to figures released by BIA\/Kelsey,<\/a> a Virginia-based media research firm.<\/p>\n

The No. 1 radio biller was iHeartMedia\u2019s Top 40 KIIS in Los Angeles, with revenue of $65.9 million, supplanting Hubbard Radio\u2019s all-news WTOP in Washington, D.C., which fell to second with $63.5 million. Except for Chicago\u2019s WBBM, the other stations on the top 10 list were from New York or Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

U.S. radio last year generated $14.9 billion overall, including $14.3 billion from over-the-air radio and $636 million from online advertising, BIA\/Kelsey reported.<\/p>\n

\u201cLocal radio stations continue to maintain an important position in the local media marketplace,\u201d Mark Fratrik, senior vice president and chief economist of BIA\/Kelsey, said in a statement. \u201cLast year, a slight decline in over-the-air revenues was offset by an increase in online revenues, resulting in steady overall revenues.\u201d<\/p>\n

That may be the case nationally, but in Chicago total radio revenue plunged more than 10 percent <\/a>in 2014. Income from all sources totaled $376.2 million \u2014 down from the previous year\u2019s $419.7 million, according to figures supplied by the station groups and compiled by the accounting firm of Miller, Kaplan, Arase & Co.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The CBS Radio all-news combo of WBBM AM 780 and WCFS FM 105.9 not only was Chicago\u2019s top-billing station last year but again was the only local outlet among radio\u2019s 10 biggest moneymakers nationwide. With revenue of $39.2 million in 2014, WBBM Newsradio was down 6.5 percent from its 2013 revenue of $41.9 million. But... 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\/7301"}],"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=7301"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7304,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7301\/revisions\/7304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}