It
is hard to believe that the 18th
Annual NON-COMMvention is only a month away. May 15-18 several hundred Triple
A station folks, artists, managers and representatives of music companies will
converge in Philadelphia for public media’s most enjoyable conference.
The NONCOMM starts on Tuesday night (5/15) with an
opening party and music showcase and continues through a Free at Noon concert
at Noon on Friday (5/18).
All of the events happen at World Cafe Live, adjacent
to WXPN offices and studios.
The
folks at WXPN have produced a “must-see” video about the NON-COMM for YouTube:
Registration,
hotel information, featured artists, guest speakers and conference sessions are
available here.
WXPN’s KIDS CORNER IS NOT A KID ANYMORE
Dr. Demento |
WXPN’s
award-winning radio show Kids Corner is celebrating its 30th
anniversary with a concert on Sunday, April 22nd at World Cafe Live
featuring the legendary Dr. Demento.
Other artists who will perform include
Kids Corner favorites Trout Fishing in
America, Lard Dog, The Band of Shy and The Philadelphia Boys Choir.
Kids
Corner is heard Monday through Thursday at 7:00pm on WXPN.
Kathy O’Connell |
The show is America’s longest-running, daily
call-in radio show just for kids.
During the program, host Kathy O’Connell (known
as just “Kathy” to her listeners) has lots of fun music and a lively mix of
stimulating topics she discusses with kids.
A
program of this type is unusual for a full-time music station. Rather than
considering Kids Corner a programming “speed bump,” WXPN’s General Manager
Roger LaMay feels the show enhances the station’s commitment to independent
music. LaMay said in a press release:
“Kids Corner has sparked
the imaginations and provided safe harbor for a generation of children who have
grown up and have kids of their own who are now tuning in. Kathy is a national
treasure, and all of us in the XPN community applaud her impact.”
The
anniversary concert is being held in conjunction with KindieComm [link] a biennial professional gathering of people who work with independent kids’
music scene. KindieComm
[link] begins on April 20th.
More
information about the anniversary concert is available here.
PHILLY NIELSEN RATINGS:
WHAT IS HAPPENING AT WRTI?
Today
must be “WXPN Day” at Spark News.
According to Nielsen Audio’s February 2018 PPM ratings, WXPN has increased its
estimated weekly listeners by over 12% compared to data from February 2017.
WXPN
also has a large number of listeners in Harrisburg and Allentown, Nielsen Diary
markets.
Dual-formatted,
Classical and Jazz station WRTI continued to lose weekly listeners in the
February book. Nielsen reports that the number of estimated weekly listeners
fell by 26% since February 2017. I know that some people at WRTI read Spark News. Please let me know (off the record)
if you know the reasons for this loss.
We’ve
written quite a bit lately about Educational Media Foundation’s (EMF) two
national formats K-Love and Air1. Philadelphia
stations with these formats lost large numbers of weekly listeners in the past
year.
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