The Project for Excellence in Journalism has issued the report with this title for 2007, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts. Lest you think it's all about news, it's also a goldmine of information on audience/readership, economics, ownership, etc. of various media that offer news products (of course, they would correctly argue that is all about news).
Just to highlight some interesting tidbits for the public broadcasting community to which I belong...
There are three charts (two here and one here) giving the footprint of the top commercial radio groups. Clear Channel has the most stations with 1,184, but if NPR-affiliated stations were a group, they would be #2, ahead of Cumulus Broadcasting's 300 stations. I don't know how many markets public radio reaches, but it must be close to Clear Channel's #1 ranking of about 190 (and, public radio reaches a number of places that aren't defined markets -- so let's claim #1 there). In revenues, Clear Channel and CBS Radio and #1 and #2, but public radio would come in a distant third, about 50% more than the next group, Entercom. So it's not poor little us -- just poor us (extrapolating to revenue per station).
The radio audience report is here. The local TV audience report is here. The whole Online report is full of good information.
Link: StateoftheMedia.org. Thanks to Gens Johnson of my staff for the link. --Dennis
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