Big tent sports-talk-news WTMJ-AM (620) finally reached the top spot on the Nielsen radio ratings for January, after playing second fiddle to country station WMIL-FM (106.1). WTMJ jumped 1.1 points to a 10.9 share, WMIL jumped a full point to a 9.8 share. WRIT-FM, which topped the holiday ratings book when it switched to all Christmas music, dropped 5.2 points back to its usual third spot with a 7 share.
The January book also marks the first appearance of Saga owned stations here – WHQG-FM (102.9) in eight place, WKLH-FM (96.5) in ninth, eleventh for WJMR-FM (98.3), and WNRG-FM (106.9) in fifteenth place.
The stations were not counted in the survey for the past six or seven years because Saga did not subscribe to the Nielsen, formerly Arbitron, service.
It was recently announced Nielsen and Saga reached agreement in a copyright infringement case against the broadcast chain. The settlement means Saga stations will now appear in the ratings data.
These ratings, provided courtesy of the radio industry newsletter Tom Taylor Now, represent a percentage of those listening to radio who are listening to a station in an average-quarter hour.
They measure listening by total audience, 6 years and older.
1) WTMJ-AM 10.9
2) WMIL-FM 9.8
3) WRIT-FM 7.0
4) WKKV-FM 5.4
5) WXSS-FM 5.0
6) WISN-AM 4.9
7) WMYX-FM 4.7
8) WHQG-FM 4.5
9) WKLH-FM 4.5
10) WLUM-FM 4.2
11) WJMR-FM 3.6
12) WLDB-FM 3.5
13) WLWK-FM 3.4
14) WRNW-FM 2.8
15) WNRG-FM 2.6
16) WHAD-FM 2.3
17) WUWM-FM 1.6
18) WSSP-AM 1.5
19) WYMS-FM 0.8
20) WZTI-AM 0.5
21) WOKY-AM 0.4
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