Boston’s WEEI posted the highest rating among sports radio stations for the fall 2005 period, according to recently released Arbitron data from Sept. 22 through Dec. 14. WEEI’s mark, however, was down 12.7 percent from the mark it posted in fall 2004, when the Boston Red Sox won the World Series. Arbitron ratings represent the average quarter-hour shares (percentage of households tuned to a specific station) in a given market.
| Rank | Station | Listening market (rank*) | Owner | Avg. rating | Change |
| 1 | WEEI/
WEEI-FM | Boston (11) | Entercom | 6.2 | -12.7% |
| 2 | WWLS/
WWLS-FM | Oklahoma City (53) | Citadel | 4.8 | +14.3% |
| 3 | WFAN | Nassau-Suffolk, N.Y. (18) | CBS Radio | 4.3 | 0.0% |
| 4 | KFAN | Minneapolis-St. Paul (16) | Clear Channel | 3.9 | +62.5% |
| 5 | WIP | Philadelphia (6) | CBS Radio | 3.7 | +8.8% |
| 6 | KHTK | Sacramento (26) | CBS Radio | 3.5 | +21.7% |
| 7 | WHB | Kansas City (29) | Union Broadcasting | 2.9 | +16.0% |
| 8 | WFAN | New York (1) | CBS Radio | 2.7 | +12.5% |
| 9 | WBNS | Columbus (38) | Radio Ohio | 2.6 | -18.8% |
| 10t | WEAE | Pittsburgh (23) | ABC Radio | 2.4 | +50.0% |
| 10t | WSAI | Cincinnati (28) | Clear Channel | 2.4 | +26.3% |
| 12t | KJR | Seattle (14) | Clear Channel | 2.3 | -4.2% |
| 12t | WDAE | Tampa-St. Petersburg (19) | Clear Channel | 2.3 | -4.2% |
| 14t | KNBR | San Francisco (4) | Susquehanna | 2.2 | +15.8% |
| 14t | WTEM | Washington (8) | Clear Channel | 2.2 | +22.2% |
| 14t | WFNZ/
WFNA | Charlotte (35) | CBS Radio | 2.2 | +15.8% |
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| * Ranking based on Arbitron measure of number of households in the market. |
| Notes: Stations are AM frequency unless otherwise noted. More than one station on a line indicates a simulcast. Additional station ratings are available via our sister publication, SportsBusiness Daily. |
| Source: Arbitron |
| Research by Katherine Johnson-Reid, SportsBusiness Daily |
