sharing morning honors<\/a> last month with Eric Ferguson and Kathy Hart of Hubbard Radio hot adult-contemporary WTMX FM 101.9, the anchor team of Felicia Middlebrooks and Pat Cassidy on CBS Radio all-news simulcast WBBM AM 780 and WCFS FM 105.9 led the dawn patrol by themselves in the latest survey.<\/p>\nCubs baseball broadcasts helped boost Newsradio 780 to a tie for first place in afternoons with V103\u2019s Doug Banks.<\/p>\n
Among listeners between 25 and 54 \u2014 the key demographic prized by advertisers \u2014 The Mix remained No. 1 by a wide margin overall and in mornings (with Eric & Kathy), middays (with Lisa Allen) and afternoons (with Kevin \u201cKoz\u201d Koske).<\/p>\n
Here are the top 40 radio stations in the Chicago area followed by average share of listeners age 6 and older from 6 a.m. to midnight Monday through Sunday, as measured by Nielsen Audio from August 13 to September 9 (followed by previous month\u2019s share in parentheses):<\/em><\/p>\n1) WVAZ FM 102.7<\/strong> 5.7 (5.3)
\n2) WTMX FM 101.9<\/strong> 5.4 (5.6)
\n3) WBBM AM 780<\/strong> 5.3 (4.6)
\n4) WKSC FM 103.5<\/strong> 4.0 (3.8)
\n5) WGCI FM 107.5<\/strong> 3.7 (3.7)
\n6) WGN AM 720<\/strong> 3.6 (3.7)
\n7) WLIT FM 93.9<\/strong> 3.4 (3.3)
\n8) WJMK FM 104.3<\/strong> 3.3 (3.6)
\n9) (tie) WKQX FM 101.1<\/strong> 3.2 (3.2)
\n9) (tie) WOJO FM 105.1<\/strong> 3.2 (3.1)
\n11) (tie) WBBM FM 96.3<\/strong> 3.1 (3.6)
\n11) (tie) WDRV FM 97.1<\/strong> 3.1 (3.1)
\n13) WLS FM 94.7<\/strong> 2.9 (3.0)
\n14) WUSN FM 99.5<\/strong> 2.8 (3.1)
\n15) WSHE FM 100.3<\/strong> 2.7 (2.6)
\n16) WXRT FM 93.1<\/strong> 2.6 (3.6)
\n17) (tie) WBEZ FM 91.5<\/strong> 2.5 (2.1)
\n17) (tie) WLUP FM 97.9<\/strong> 2.5 (2.2)
\n19) (tie) WEBG FM 95.5<\/strong> 2.4 (2.4)
\n19) (tie) WPPN FM 106.7<\/strong> 2.4 (2.5)
\n21) WCFS FM 105.9<\/strong> 2.3 (2.1)
\n22) WSCR AM 670<\/strong> 2.2 (2.0)
\n23) WPWX FM 92.3<\/strong> 2.1 (2.1)
\n24) (tie) WJKL FM 94.3<\/strong> 1.7 (2.0)
\n24) (tie) WLEY FM 107.9<\/strong> 1.7 (1.7)
\n26) (tie) WMVP AM 1000<\/strong> 1.6 (1.4)
\n26) (tie) WRME FM 87.7<\/strong> 1.6 (1.8)
\n28) WIIL FM 95.1<\/strong> 1.3 (1.0)
\n29) (tie) WLS AM 890<\/strong> 1.2 (1.2)
\n29) (tie) WMBI FM 90.1<\/strong> 1.2 (0.7)
\n29) (tie) WVIV FM 93.5<\/strong> 1.2 (1.0)
\n32) WFMT FM 98.7<\/strong> 1.0 (1.1)
\n33) WSRB FM 106.3<\/strong> 0.9 (0.9)
\n34) (tie) WIND AM 560<\/strong> 0.7 (0.7)
\n34) (tie) WXLC FM 102.3<\/strong> 0.7 (0.5)
\n36) (tie) WCPT AM 820<\/strong> 0.6 (0.5)
\n36) (tie) WSSR FM 96.7<\/strong> 0.6 (0.6)
\n38) (tie) WCFL FM 104.7<\/strong> 0.5 (0.4)
\n38) (tie) WERV FM 95.9<\/strong> 0.5 (0.5)
\n38) (tie) WGRB AM 1390<\/strong> 0.5 (0.7)<\/p>\nMorning drive top 10<\/strong><\/p>\nHere are Chicago\u2019s top 10 morning shows followed by average share of listeners age 6 and older from 6 to 10 a.m. Monday through Friday, as measured by Nielsen Audio in September (with previous month\u2019s share in parentheses):<\/em><\/p>\n1) WBBM AM 780\/WCFS FM 105.9 (simulcast) Felicia Middlebrooks and Pat Cassidy<\/strong> 9.8 (8.3)
\n2) WTMX FM 101.9 Eric Ferguson and Kathy Hart<\/strong> 7.9 (8.3)
\n3) WVAZ FM 102.7 Steve Harvey<\/strong> 5.6 (5.9)
\n4) WGN AM 720 Steve Cochran<\/strong> 5.5 (6.6)
\n5) WKSC FM 103.5 Christopher \u201cFred\u201d Frederick and Angi Taylor<\/strong> 3.5 (2.7)
\n6) WOJO FM 105.1 Raul Molinar, Sylvia del Valle and Andres Maldonado<\/strong> 3.4 (3.7)
\n7) (tie) WBEZ FM 91.5 NPR Morning Edition; Morning Shift with Tony Sarabia<\/strong> 3.2 (3.2)
\n7) (tie) WSCR AM 670 Mike Mulligan and Brian Hanley<\/strong> 3.2 (3.2)
\n9) (tie) WDRV FM 97.1 Pete McMurray and Dan McNeil<\/strong> 2.9 (3.1)
\n9) (tie) WJMK FM 104.3 Dave Fogel<\/strong> 2.9 (3.0)
\n9) (tie) WKQX FM 101.1 Brian Phillips and Lou Lombardo<\/strong> 2.9 (3.0)<\/p>\nAfternoon drive top 10<\/strong><\/p>\nHere are Chicago\u2019s top 10 afternoon shows followed by average share of listeners age 6 and older from 3 to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday, as measured by Nielsen Audio in September (with previous month\u2019s share in parentheses):<\/em><\/p>\n1) (tie) WBBM AM 780 Kris Kridel and Keith Johnson; Cubs baseball<\/strong> 4.9 (3.9)
\n1) (tie) WVAZ FM 102.7 Doug Banks<\/strong> 4.9 (4.6)
\n3) WTMX FM 101.9 Koz (Kevin Koske)<\/strong> 4.8 (5.2)
\n4) WKSC FM 103.5 Brady Broski<\/strong> 4.6 (4.5)
\n5) WGCI FM 107.5 DJ MoonDawg (Michael Muniz)<\/strong> 4.0 (4.2)
\n6) WLIT FM 93.9 Mick Lee<\/strong> 3.5 (3.7)
\n7) WKQX FM 101.1 Walter Flakus<\/strong> 3.4 (3.3)
\n8) (tie) WBBM FM 96.3 Dougie Stylz and Justin Roman<\/strong> 3.3 (4.0)
\n8) (tie) WLS FM 94.7 Danny Lake; Robert Murphy<\/strong> 3.3 (3.3)
\n10) (tie) WOJO FM 105.1 Oswaldo Diaz<\/strong> 3.0 (2.9)
\n10) (tie) WUSN FM 99.5 Shila Nathan<\/strong> 3.0 (3.1)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corporate radio behemoth iHeart Media\u00a0again landed four of its seven Chicago stations in the top 10 rankings, including urban adult-contemporary WVAZ FM 102.7, which jumped back to the No. 1 spot overall. Nielsen Audio ratings released Tuesday showed the company\u2019s Top 40 WKSC FM 103.5, urban contemporary WGCI FM 107.5 and adult contemporary WLIT FM... 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\/8984"}],"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=8984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8988,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8984\/revisions\/8988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}