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By Adrian McCoyPittsburgh Post-Gazette

Pittsburgh has a new No. 1 station, according to the Fall 2005 Arbitron book. WDVE-FM bypassed longtime ratings winner KDKA-AM for the No. 1 ranking among overall listeners. The two stations had tied for first place in the Winter 2005 Arbitron book, and WDVE has had several No. 1 books in terms of the cumu-lative ratings, but this marked a significant turn for the longtime rock station, which gained nearly two percentage points in its aver-age quarter-hour ratings.

There should be plenty of terri-ble towels waving over at WDVE studios, because the Steelers season played a role in boosting the station. But there were other factors in the market that could have helped. WRRK-FM’s switch from classic rock to the Bob vari-ety hits format in November may

have steered some disenfran-chised rockers to WDVE.

WDVE operations manager John Moschitta says those fac-tors all contribute, but, he adds, “People could turn the radio off after the football game. We like to think it’s something we do here, too — the music and the fun stuff. The other stuff doesn’t hurt, either.’’

KDKA made some sweeping programming changes in recent weeks with the firing of three of its talk hosts, but that won’t be reflected until the next quarterly book comes out in April.

WAMO-FM made some gains — moving to eighth place from 12th the previous fall.

In morning drive, KDKA continues to top the list, followed by WDVE. Syndicated Howard Stern, heard on WRKZ-FM, rebounded a bit from his previ-ous drop-off in the summer rat-ings, as he closed out his final

chapter in Arbitron — and terres-trial broadcasting — history, and made the move to Sirius Satellite Radio. With Stern out of the equa-tion next quarter, there could be

more interesting shifts in the morning drive market ahead.

Among 25- to 54-year-olds, the top 10 stations were: WDVE, WDSY-FM, WPGB-FM, WWSW-

FM, WRKZ, WZPT-FM, WRRK, WAMO and WSHH-FM tied for eighth place, WKST-FM and WLTJ-FM. The top five morn-ing drive programs among this

audience: WDVE, WRKZ, WDSY, WPGB and KDKA.

Adrian McCoy can be reached at amccoy@post-gazette.com.

Photographer turns poet for his ‘Emigrant Lake’ exhibit By Mary Thomas

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

“Emigrant Lake: Photographs by Jeff Krolick,” the Fellow-ship 2005 exhibition at Silver Eye Center for Photography, is a handsome fit to the upscale sophisticated look of the newly renovated gallery.

Krolick was selected for the $5,000 award and solo exhibition from 264 national and interna-tional entries by juror Lesley A. Martin, executive editor, Aper-ture Books, New York (she’ll lecture here Friday).

His 22 square-format colored photographs were taken over four seasons in a boggy, thatched area that fringes the Oregon lake, but they are more abstraction than landscape.

Krolick locates composition within sprawling brambles and legions of dried plant stems, inte-grating natural color as a painter would, sometimes subtly and sometimes stridently. Without horizons or other indicators of perspective, the images at first seem to occupy a flat plane, but soon draw the eye past countless layers of clearly defined detail into their centers.

In January, maroon seed clus-ters dangle from arched branches that droop toward mats of gray withering foliage, each occupy-

ing half the frame and filling it with washes of color. March brings monochromatic patterns of limbs, twigs and dry grasses.

Most painterly are the summer scenes taken at placid water’s edge, enlivened with the vibrant shapes and colors of unusual plants and sunspots, where shad-ows and reflections play optical tricks in amber depths, and trunks dissolve into thick and thin black brush strokes.

Occasionally Krolick breaks format. The viewfinder lifts to include a trail and distant shrubs, producing an image that reads like an Impressionist painting. A vivid blue puddle in another shot is reminiscent of an Andy Goldsworthy intervention.

Learning that “Emigrant Lake” is not a pristine environ-ment nestled in a mountain val-ley accessible only on foot, but, rather, an artificial lake that attracts hordes of recreational traffic annually, only heightens Krolick’s accomplishment.

Within this context, the signif-icance of his, and concomitantly all, discovery is heightened: The poetic enhancement of daily life is in the hands (eyes) of the beholder.

Honorable MentionHonorable mentions were

awarded to 10 photographers, and each is represented by one image

selected by Martin from those submitted. Whereas the Fellow-ship imagery is of a natural envi-ronment, all of these show man’s presence.

While some are potent on their own, others would benefit from presentation as part of the series they were conceived and shot within.

Yvonne Venegas and Rania Matar, for example, pursue fas-cinating issues of women and culture that are difficult to grasp in one picture. Seeing others of Deana Lawson’s series would reveal whether the paper doll cut-and-paste aspect of the figure in “Frances” is repeated and thus part of the photographer’s state-ment. Christine Gatti’s visual journal appears somewhat trite, even at 144 montaged images, but would gain intensity alongside more of the 20,000 she took.

In comparison, Susan Bank’s Cuban farm wife has a timeless quality that speaks volumes about age and rural life, while Christo-pher Sims’ “Homefronts” series image of American soldiers vari-ously dressed as Afghan fighters has gut-wrenching immediacy borne of daily headlines.

Exotic locales further enhance Elaine Ling’s dramatic diptych “Gobi Interior, Gobi Desert, Mon-golia” and Howard Henry Chen’s fanciful Vietnamese amusement park. Also included are Jessica Todd Harper’s sumptuous ad-like depiction of the jaded middle class and Steven B. Smith’s atypi-cal Vegas scape.

‘Emigrant’ programsTomorrow, 7 p.m., Gallery

tour (free). Friday, 7 p.m., Lesley Martin on “50 years of Aperture” ($15, members $10, reservations recommended). Saturday, Mar-tin reviews portfolios (fee, wait-ing list). Jan. 27-28, Workshop on publishing photography by Pittsburgh Magazine’s Richard Kelly and David Rohm (fee, reser-vations required). Jan. 28, Poets Samuel Hazo and Richard St. John read excerpts from recent work. In collaboration with Pitts-burgh Poetry Exchange (free).

Members’ GalleriesThe Members’ Galleries hold

unsung treasures. At Silver Eye through Feb. 4 are Richard Stoner’s black and white studies of “Swift Water, Slack Water” and John Chakeres’s abstract renderings of colorful Mexican out buildings. Five other artists exhibit at the online version on the Silver Eye Web site.

“Lake” continues through Feb. 4 at 1015 E. Carson St., South Side. Hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednes-day through Saturday and until 9 p.m. Thursday. Admission is free. Information: 412-431-1810 or www.silvereye.org.

Art critic Mary Thomas may be reached at mthomas@post-gazette.com or 412-263-1925.

For his “Emigrant Lake” show at Silver Eye Center for Photography, Jeff Krolick took photos over four seasons in a boggy, thatched area that fringes the Oregon lake.

WDVE replaces KDKA as No. 1 in overall ratings

art review

Source: Arbitron Inc.

AQH share Cume

1. WDVE 10.0 462,0002. KDKA 9.0 379,3003. WDSY 7.0 335,2004. WWSW 5.3 333,4005. WSHH 5.2 252,5006. WPGB 4.8 182,5007. WKST 4.6 333,0008. WAMO 4.5 212,0009. WJAS 3.5 149,80010. WXDX 3.2 200,100

AQH share Cume1. KDKA 9.8 381,3002. WDVE 8.3 398,6003. WDSY 6.6 307,0004. WWSW 6.2 308,9005. WSHH 5.5 281,2006. WPGB 4.8 (t) 320,200 WKST 4.8 (t) 240,3007. WJAS 4.3 153,1008. WXDX 3.9 213,7009. WRKZ 3.8 243,90010. WZPT 3.4 219,400

Radio ratings among listeners 12 and overMonday through Sunday, 6 a.m. to midnight:

FALL 2005 FALL 2004 AQH share Cume1. KDKA 13.5 257,0002. WDVE 10.3 213,4003. WDSY 6.3 178,3004. WPGB 5.9 104,2005. WRKZ 5.6 104,3006. WSHH 4.9 128,6007. WWSW 4.5 133,1008. WKST 3.9 161,2009. WAMO 3.2 94,20010. WJAS 3.1 73,700

AQH share Cume1. KDKA 13.7 241,9002. WDVE 7.6 191,0003. WPGB 7.0 104,6004. WRKZ 6.2 138,6005. WDSY 6.0 165,5006. WWSW 5.0 (t) 132,100 WSHH 5.0 (t) 131,2007. WKST 4.6 176,5008. WJAS 4.2 82,7009. WZPT 3.5 112,60010. WXDX 3.0 93,900

Morning drive, from 6 to 10 a.m.:

FALL 2005 FALL 2004

• (t) denotes tie• The average quarter hour (AQH) rating is the average number of persons listening to a particular station for at least five minutes during a 15-minute period, expressed as a percentage of the population being measured.• The cume, or cumulative figure is the estimated number of different persons who listened to a station for a minimum of five minutes in a quarter-hour within a reported daypart.

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