CapeFish Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 RADIO WLYF hops to No. 1 BY CARY DARLING [email protected] Adult contemporary WLYF-FM (101.5) broke the hip-hop hold on South Florida radio by nabbing the No. 1 spot among listeners age 12 and over in the summer Arbitron ratings book. The previous No. 1 station in the spring book, rhythmic contemporary hit station WPOW-FM (96.5), slipped to No. 3 while urban contemporary WEDR-FM (99.1) nudged up one place to No. 2. A hip-hop or urban station had been No. 1 since 1998. Despite WLYF's triumph, South Florida's love of hip-hop isn't fading as the other big news is that urban contemporary WMIB-FM (103.5) zoomed from eighth to fourth place, tying with the Spanish-language WCMQ-FM (92.3) which had been No. 6. Meanwhile, urban adult contemporary WHQT-FM (105.1) fell slightly from fifth to sixth place, Spanish-language WAMR-FM (107.1) slipped from fourth to seventh place and smooth-jazz WLVE-FM (93.9) made it into the Top 10, moving from No. 12 to No. 8. Spanish-language talk WAQI-FM (710) dipped one point to No. 9 and oldies WMXJ-FM (102.7), which had tied with WAQI in the spring book, fell to No. 10. Beneath the top 10, contemporary hit WHYI-FM (100.7) edged up from No. 13 to No. 12 and there was a four-way tie for the 14th spot with talk WQAM-AM (560) sailing from No. 22, alternative rock WZTA-FM (94.9) moving up from 18, and classic-rock WBGG-FM (105.9) moving from No. 17, and country WKIS-FM (99.9) falling from No. 13. Classical-music WKAT-AM (1360), which recently underwent a tweaking of its format, moved up from 25th to 23rd place. I wonder how much the Marlins had to do with WQAM beating WIOD in the books for the first time ever? WQAM Sucks! WQAM without Marlins = Nothing! :marlins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CapeFish Posted October 18, 2003 Author Share Posted October 18, 2003 In 2005, the Marlins can ask for all the money they want. $2-3 million from WQAM isn't enough for that kind of jump. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest marlins02 Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 i hear 99 jamz was having bad ratings and thats why they fired the people on their morning show and i think they changed their 10:00 format from R&B to straight hip-hop which i really dont like because i feel like listening to slow stuff at that time good to hear that the Marlins are actually affecting ratings rankings in a good way Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishFan24 Posted October 18, 2003 Share Posted October 18, 2003 Glad to see the Marlins moving up in the world! No team deserves it more!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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