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Radio Wars: June ratings show KNBR maintaining comfortable lead over "The Game"
The latest Arbitron numbers were released yesterday afternoon, giving us a look at a year of ratings for the San Francisco market! Here are the numbers updated through June (numbers on demographics or specific shows aren’t available to the general public): San Francisco April May June Station AQH% Reach AQH% Reach AQH% Reach Owner KNBR-AM 4.8 […]
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Bay Area sports radio war rages on: May ratings
The May Arbitron numbers were released. So, dear readers, that means you get your monthly fix of sports radio ratings. This feature is called “Radio Wars” but with the current ratings it is less a war and more of a massacre. With baseball in full swing, the Giants playing pretty well, KNBR has become a ratings […]
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Bay Area sports radio war rages on: April ratings edition
The April Arbitron numbers were released. So, dear readers, that means you get your monthly fix of sports radio ratings. With baseball on the radio, KNBR has regained it’s dominant position in the sports “Radio Wars” and can comfortably call themselves “the sports leader,” while 95.7 “The Game” treads water. While it is hard to […]
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Bay Area sports radio war rages on: March ratings edition
The big news that rocked the Bay Area sports radio was Ralph “The Razor” Barbieri getting axed from KNBR. Unfortunately, because of the lag in the reporting of the ratings, it won’t be until next month that we can see what effect that news has on the sports radio landscape. Even then it might be […]
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Ralph Barbieri fired: what a post-Razor world could mean
Now that it’s official that Ralph Barbieri was let go by KNBR, let’s take a look at what this huge change will...
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Bay Area sports radio war rages on: February ratings edition
The winter months have been hard on the ratings for our local sports radio stations, and this February’s ratings show that the...
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How important is local talent on sports talk radio?
It’s difficult — no, impossible — to come up with a formula for the perfect sports talk radio host in the Bay...
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Bruno tweets he’s going on with Radnich, KNBR goes with Ned Colletti instead
Another day, another awkward sequence takes place between 9 and noon on KNBR 680. Last night, @TonyBrunoShow tweeted an announcement that excited...
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Hanging out in a luxury suite with Rod Brooks
With the advent of fantasy sports, I’ve suffered the indignity of rooting against my favorite team, albeit indirectly. I admit, I’ve purposely...
