WFAN's afternoon show wins the April ratings over ESPN New York
Evan Roberts sits in WFAN's newly redesigned studio for the "Carton and Roberts' simulcast on SNY on its debut on Monday, May 24, 2021. Credit: Corey Sipkin
WFAN’s afternoon show starring Craig Carton and Evan Roberts handily won its head-to-head ratings battle with ESPN New York’s “The Michael Kay Show” in April, the first month of the quarterly spring ratings period.
Among men 25-54, Carton and Roberts averaged 6.9% of the listening audience — second overall in the market — from 3 to 6:30 p.m., when the shows go head-to-head.
Kay averaged 3.7%, which ranked 10th overall, according to data released on Monday by Nielsen Audio and obtained by Newsday from an industry source.
The gap was far larger than the one by which Carton and Roberts won the full winter book, 5.7% to 4.5%.
All data includes both over-the-air and streaming audiences but does not include the show’s TV simulcasts.
WFAN had a strong month overall. From 6 to 10 a.m., Boomer Esiason and Gregg Giannotti finished first overall with 10.0% of the audience, compared to ESPN’s 2.3% for 15th.
From 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., Tiki Barber and Brandon Tierney finished fourth at 5.3 and ESPN 17th at 1.8.
Neil Best first worked at Newsday in 1982, returned in 1985 after a detour to Alaska and has been here since, specializing in high schools, college basketball, the NFL and most recently sports media and business.
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