A station with a 6 value has six times the impact on the chart than a station with a 1 multiplier. Thus, big stations chart positions are worth more. Often, however, several small stations without much clout are bullied into charting records to approximate the value of a large station. The point here is to create chart positions. It goes without saying that a record doing very well at KCRW has at least 50 times the impact of it getting played on as many WGKR s, but that s not the point.
Charts are what make the boss happy forget sales.
These numbers are dated, as CMJ has gone through a revision of the values assigned to stations. Nonetheless, highly valued stations probably got higher values, and lower stations probably didn t get much. Also, not all values could be found. So, if your station is not included below, find a station that is pretty darn similar to yours, and its value may correspond. Rankings updated as of 1998 in this blue color.