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Little changes for Montreal radio

June 17, 2009 – 7:09 pm| Posted in Montreal, Radio
"Reach" (listening at least one minute a week), in thousands, for Montreal radio stations.

"Reach" (listening at least one minute a week), in thousands, for Montreal radio stations.

Astral Media, which owns CJFM (Virgin Radio 95.9), CITE (Rock Détente 107.3), CKMF (Énergie 94.3), CHOM (97.7) and CJAD (800), has put together some graphical representations (PDF) of the latest ratings for Montreal radio stations. (via RadioInMontreal)

In terms of "reach", which counts the same if you listen to a station for five minutes or six hours, Cogeco's CFGL Rythme FM 105.7 still leads all others in the city, thanks mostly to huge numbers of female listeners (CKOI leads among young men) and CJFM has leapfrogged into second thanks, I guess, to non-stop Katy Perry and Lady Gaga that have put the 18-24 bracket in a trance. Otherwise, the rankings are about the same as they were three months ago.

Anglo market share: CJFM, CHOM, CFQR, CJAD, CKGM

Anglo market share: CJFM, CHOM, CFQR, CJAD, CKGM

On the anglo side, this "commercial market share" graph (which doesn't include CBC - Radio One and Two would be fourth and fifth on this graph), CJFM holds its commanding lead among adults 18-49, with a stronger showing for its morning show (CBC Radio One says it's a strong second in the morning, ahead of CJAD)

Demographic map of radio stations: X axis for age, Y axis for gender

Demographic map of radio stations: X axis for age, Y axis for gender

I particularly liked this chart, which shows what demographics the stations are tuned to. There's a huge chunk in the older women category, while the rock stations appeal to younger men. Note CJFM and CFGL sitting pretty much alone targetting younger women listeners. Perhaps there's a lesson there.

Q92 relaunch didn't change much

Looking specifically at CFQR, because this is a pretty good before-and-after with their relaunch in April, there's not much to say. They've improved, but only to keep pace with everyone else:

  • The morning show and Terry DiMonte's phoned-in nooner have slightly improved numbers, perhaps showing that not doing anything is the best thing to do (UPDATE: Apparently not good enough, DiMonte's show has been cancelled)
  • Late morning and early afternoon are failing to keep pace after shuffles
  • Adding Donna Sarker to Ken Connors's afternoon drive-time show has helped it gain considerable ground on CJFM, but CHOM improved as well to stay in second
  • It's the most improved of the big four anglo stations on the weekend (Leta Polson hosts on weekend afternoons), but it's still in fourth place
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Virgin Radio branding hasn’t helped CJFM’s ratings

March 13, 2009 – 2:18 am| Posted in Radio

Virgin 96

Though everyone at what used to be Mix 96 was really excited about owner Astral Media stripping out their (admittedly lame and generic) branding to replace it with one they bought form the British, ratings figures since CJFM's new brand launch in January have shown little change for the station.

BBM figures for Dec. 1 to March 1 (PDF) using their new fancy-shmancy portable people meters show it has 16% of the anglo Montreal market, putting it behind powerhouse CJAD but ahead of its direct competition. Over the past few years, CJFM's share of the anglo market has drifted between 13% and 20%. There was a slight uptick compared to figures from before the relaunch, resulting in about 8,000 more daily listeners, or an increase of about 1%. But that's still well within the usual margin for error in radio ratings.

If Astral expected an audience jump from the change, it didn't get one. But there wasn't a widespread abandonment of the station either. When it comes down to it, people don't care about the branding, so long as the music is the same.

For the French side of the recent radio ratings, Le Devoir has the numbers.

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Anyone listening?

October 7, 2008 – 4:50 pm| Posted in Business, Radio

Congrats to CBC Radio One in Quebec City (104.7FM), who has cornered 0.3% of the listening audience for 12th place out of 13 stations.

Fortunately for them most of their programming is produced out of Toronto and Montreal.

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Why is CBC Montreal’s News at Six sucking a bit less?

May 17, 2008 – 2:35 am| Posted in Montreal, TV

The Suburban crunches some numbers in the evening TV news race here, and theorizes that Frank Cavallaro's move from CTV to CBC had something to do with the latter's 25% jump in viewership over last year, prompting Inside the CBC to wonder if weathermen are the magic ticket to success.

I think we should take a step back here. 25% seems large, but only represents about 6,000 actual viewers. CBC Montreal's news audience is still an order of magnitude smaller than CTV, which has dominated the race since CBC gutted Newswatch.

Though I'm sure Cavallaro has a loyal audience, the numbers probably have more to do with people slowly trickling back to CBC after the network decided to bring back a local one-hour newscast. And the station still has plenty of ground to make up. It needs a new studio (well, actually, it needs its own studio), a graphics department, and other things that only money can buy.

Meanwhile, The Suburban notices that Paul Graif, a victim of Global Quebec's job cuts, is now at CTV. Another example of why we have one local news program here and two pretend local news programs.

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Metro is now No. 1 paper in Montreal (kinda)

March 7, 2008 – 5:19 pm| Posted in Media, Montreal

Yesterday's issue of Metro (PDF) sang from the heavens about the latest NADbank ratings report which showed that the paper gets 244,700 daily readers, just passing the Journal, La Presse and 24 Heures for the top spot on the island of Montreal.

(The figures are for the island, not the metropolis, since Metro is only distributed in the city's core.)

The figures seem to represent a national trend, as free dailies are seeing huge increases in readership, and that increase, along with modest gains from the Globe and Post, are helping to raise the overall average of newspaper readership in Canada.

So call this one a victory for bite-size news with no analysis, and newspapers with no few journalists spewing out wire copy by the cheap.

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