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Milwaukee Radio Ratings For January

Posted by Duane Dudek
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Below find the radio ratings for the Milwaukee market during January.

WRIT-FM lost 5.7 share points from the so-called holiday book during which it played all Christmas music. But it still held a comfortable 2.1 point lead over second place WTMJ-AM.

Third ranked conservative talker WISN-AM seemed to benefit from the noisy Republican presidential contest, climbing 1.2 points.

Ratings dropped for only five stations – WMYX, WKLH, WJMR, WSSP and WOKY.

The survey was conducted between Dec. 31 and Jan. 27.

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Oscar Nominee “Son Of Saul” Riveting And Repellant

Posted by Duane Dudek
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At their best Holocaust films can never adequately capture the horror of concentration camps.

At their worst they fetishize a culture of death.

Then there’s “Son of Saul,” which is like an episode of “The Office” set in Hell.

It’s about a slaughterhouse where people are murdered in assembly line fashion. Management wears uniforms but slave labor does the dirty work.

Prisoners themselves, called Sonderkommando, herd Jews off trains like cattle and into changing rooms where wary but hopeful people undress with promise of soup and showers, the latter of course a euphemism for the Final Solution.

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Don’t Be Afraid Of Sundance Winner “The Witch”

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The essence of “The Witch” is below the surface, just like the fears and anxieties that rattle around our subconscious despite rational evidence to the contrary.

It is not a routine don’t-go-in-the-basement or -woods-style horror tale, its  perhaps misleading title aside. Rather the Sundance Film Festival award winner finds its escalating tension in the unknowable.

This portrait of how superstition and conspiracy is used explain away anything people don’t understand is set at a time when not much was understood.

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Michael Moore’s European Vacation

Posted by Duane Dudek
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In the documentary “Where To Invade Next” Michael Moore channels at least three of this election cycle’s presidential candidates with his Trump-style bluster, Sanders-type slogans and Christie-like girth.

The last, size, matters only because the veteran liberal provocateur has been the face of his films from the very first and now at the risk of judging a book by its cover looks frail and unhealthy.

That said the globetrotting Moore gamely takes a European vacation and cooks up a revealing and entertaining recipe for ways to make America great again.

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WDJT’s Lance Hill Reportedly Recovering From Stroke

Posted by Duane Dudek
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Photo credit WDJT

WDJT-TV (Channel 58) meteorologist Lance Hill is on a medical leave of absence from the station.

Sources said he is reportedly recovering from a stroke.

Hill, 45, who joined the station in 2011 has been off the air since November. He was meteorologist on WDJT’s morning newscast.

Until recently his replacements said they were “filling in” for Lance.

Hill’s absence has been noticed and commented on by viewers and members of the local broadcast community.

In a statement Hill confirmed that he had “a medical issue.”

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Milwaukee Super Bowl Ratings Beat National Average

Posted by Duane Dudek

Overnight ratings for Sunday’s telecast of Super Bowl on CBS earned a 50.6 average for WDJT-TV (Channel 58). That was higher than the national overnight rating of 49.

Local ratings grew throughout the course of the game peaking at 55.4 in the closing moments.

Overnight ratings are preliminary. In Sunday’s game the Denver Broncos upset the Carolina Panthers, 24 to 10. A local rating point is the equivalent of 8,822 television homes.

The national overnight rating was the second highest ever for a Super Bowl game, beating last year’s rating of 49.7 on NBC, according to MediaLife magazine.

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It’s A Steven Avery TV Weekend

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Interest in “Making A Murderer” the Netflix series about the decade old Steven Avery murder trial has reached the mainstream media. WTMJ-TV anchor Susan Kim dubbed it “Making A Murderer Mania.”

In a front page story entitled “Netflix Viewers Streaming Fury Into Wisconsin,” the New York Times reported on the hostile feedback received by the police and sheriff’s departments, city hall and “pretty much anywhere else with the name Manitowoc attached to it.”

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Can’t Get To Sundance? Try The UWM Cinema

Posted by Duane Dudek

You don’t have to travel to Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah to celebrate independent film.

Milwaukee’s version Sundance can be found at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee Union Cinema, which has been presenting art house, experimental, documentary, narrative and alternative feature and short films for as long as I can remember.

It was one of 23 theaters in the US recently recognized by the Sundance Institute for “high standards including: quality programming, deep involvement with their local communities, strong financial standing and recognition from their peers.” It was the only theater in Wisconsin named.

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All Christmas Music WRIT Gets Ratings Gift

Posted by Duane Dudek
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Only in the world of radio are there 13 months.

How? If every month had 28 days, 364 days would be the equivalent of 13 months. That’s how.

So not only is there a December ratings book, and a January ratings book – there is a holiday ratings survey conducted between them.

The results of that survey for the Milwaukee area are below.

They show that the all Christmas music format on WRIT-FM earned a huge rating, up 5.6 share points from, um, December to 14.4.

The Christmas book, as it is called measures listening Dec. 3 through 30th.

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Sundance Doc On Marquette Alum James Foley on HBO

Posted by Duane Dudek

The murder of Marquette University alum James Foley announced Isis to the world.

Foley, a 1996 graduate of Marquette University, was beheaded by then little known Islamic terrorist group ISIS in Syria, in August of 2014.

But the documentary “Jim: The James Foley Story” shows than he was more than that single tragic act.

The film has its premiere at the Sundance Film Festival on Saturday. The singer Sting, of The Police, will appear at the screening to perform “Empty Chair,” a song he composed for the film.

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