98.5 The Sports Hub continues reign atop Nielsen Audio Ratings

Within the spring Nielsen Audio Scores, 98.5 The Sports activities Hub reigned, with its “Toucher and Hardy” morning present posting a big share and its afternoon-drive “Felger and Mazz” program taking the highest spot as normal however falling off from final spring.

The Sports activities Hub completed with an 11.6 general within the males 25-54 demographic, protecting April 3-June 25. WEEI was seventh with a 4.9 share.

Final spring, The Sports activities Hub was first with a 15.4, whereas WEEI was ninth (3.6). The Sports activities Hub, the flagship station for the Celtics and Bruins, was buoyed to a sure diploma final spring by the Celtics’ championship run. Boston sports activities radio listenership general was down from final spring.

In afternoon drive, The Sports activities Hub’s long-dominant “Felger and Mazz” completed first with a 12.2 share to the WEEI afternoons’ 3.1, which tied for tenth.

However it’s notable that “Felger and Mazz” fell from an 18.4 share final spring.

Their rankings had been additionally down within the winter, from a 19.8 from January-April 2024 to a 15.7 this 12 months over the identical span.

Summer season rankings don’t matter a lot, but when the rankings slip continues within the fall, when the Patriots are again, it is going to be a regarding pattern for a present that has set the rankings bar staggeringly excessive for greater than a decade.

In morning drive, The Sports activities Hub’s “Toucher and Hardy” took first with a robust 17.7, adopted in second place by WEEI’s “The Greg Hill Present” (7.8).

In middays, The Sports activities Hub’s “Zolak and Bertrand” present claimed first with a 12.5 share, with WEEI’s “Jones and Keefe” program ending tied for third at a 5.9.

From 6-7 p.m., 98.5’s “The Baseball Hour” tied for second with a 7.7. WEEI, which normally has Crimson Sox pregame in that hour, tied for seventeenth (1.8).

At night time 7-midnight), The Sports activities Hub — with Joe Murray’s present and Celtics and Bruins video games — took third with a 6.8. WEEI, which has Christian Arcand’s present and the Crimson Sox at night time, was tied for tenth (3.7).

Chad Finn

Sports activities columnist

Chad Finn is a sports activities columnist for Boston.com. He has been voted Favourite Sports activities Author in Boston within the annual Channel Media Market and Analysis Ballot for the previous 4 years. He additionally writes a weekly sports activities media column for the Globe and contributes to Globe Journal.