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WPTV’s Big Olympic Numbers

Author admin on 8/24/2008 in Local Media and ratings.

The Palm Beach Post notes that WPTV ranked No.1 station in the country for the Beijing Olympics with an 8.0 rating 0.2 ratings points ahead of KFOR-Oklahoma City and KSL-Salt Lake City which tied for number 2.

Then from 11 to 11:15pm on Saturday when Michael Phelps competed for his 8th gold medal WPTV had 50 share! As in 50% of Palm Beach and Ft. Pierce counties were tuned to Channel 5.

Unfortunately there may not be much fire in the “money demo”. The article quoted WPTV’s programming director Bernadette O’Grady who attributed the big ratings to large number of “elderly retirees”, “kids at home” and people home from work due to Tropical Storm Fay.

At any rate though No. 1 in the nation and half of your viewing area paying attention to you is not bad. No station would turn that down regardless of demo numbers, if only for bragging rights. Besides, those “elderly retirees” got all the cash stash anyway

0 Comments Tags: kfor, kls, Olympics, ratings, wptv.

Tropical Storm Fay Ratings

Author Alex on 8/19/2008 in Local Media and ratings.

Tropical Storm Fay ratings – Monday

                            NBC     WFOR   WPLG   WSVN

5am – 5:30am     2.0         1.7        1.0        3.5
5:30 – 6am          2.7         1.4        1.4       4.0
6 – 7am               5.5         1.1         3.3       9.4

Specials
4pm                  4.2          4.7         7.0      12.8
5pm                 5.2           5.8        7.0        10.5
6pm                  7.3          5.8         7.0        7.5
7pm                 6.1           4.8         8.0        8.5  
11pm             Not on       4.7        7.0       6.6
12am           11.6 down from a 17.3 during Olympics

Thank you to my e-mail tipster, and commenter “Please”

15 Comments Tags: Monday, ratings, Tropical Storm Fay.

NBC6 is number one?!

Author Alex on 8/11/2008 in Local Media and ratings.

Indeed they are… this week. NBC6 has been number one throughout the week with ratings between 15 and 26, thanks to the Olympics. On Friday night, NBC6 topped the ratings with a 26.0 rating. Then, at 11, NBC6 earned a 12.4 and beat everyone. The surprising thing is, the NBC6 weekend news did better. While NBC6 news at 11 with Jackie Nespral earned a 12.4 on Friday, and lost half it’s viewers, the weekend crew on Saturday went into the 6PM newscast with a 15.6, and came out with a 13.0. Then at 11, they did even better, starting the newscast off with a 17.0 rating, and coming out with a 15.0. I’m sure the weekend crew is very happy about this. Pat yourself on the back, John, Adam, and Joel. You deserve it.

28 Comments Tags: nbc6, Olympics, ratings.

Wimbledon Pumps WPTV Ratings

Author admin on 7/8/2008 in Local Media and ratings.

Palm Beach county was the 2nd highest metered market in US for the Rafael Nadal and Roger Federer’s tennis match.

According to TCPalm WPTV drew a 7.5/19 share rating, second to only St. Louis which had an 8.2/19 share.

1 rating point in Palm Beach equals to 7,753 homes

2 Comments Tags: ratings, wimbeldon, wptv.

Finaly May Sweeps Ratings for Miami/Ft. Lauderdale

Author admin on 6/2/2008 in Local Media and ratings.

The Sun Sentinel posted some of the final May sweeps Nielsen ratings. One ratings point equals 15,360 households

6pm – Monday-Friday Ratings
   
WPLG 7.0
WSVN 5.2
WLTV 4.9
WSCV 4.5
WFOR 3.4
WTVJ 2.7
   
Prime Time Rating
   
WPLG 7.0
WSVN 6.8
WFOR 5.5
WLTV 5.3
WSCV 3.8
WTVJ 3.4
WJAN 2.4
WSFL 1.9
WAMI 1.9

WBFS

 1.2
   
Late News – Monday-Friday Ratings
   
WPLG 6.9
WSVN – 10pm 6.0
WLTV 5.6
WSCV 4.8
WFOR 4.4
WTVJ 4.0
WJAN – 10pm 3.3
WSFL – 10pm 1.6
WBFS – 10pm 0.8
18 Comments Tags: may sweeps, may sweeps 2008, ratings.

Jim Berry Leaves Sports for News; New My33 Morning Show

Author admin on 5/22/2008 in Local Media and ratings.

Tom Jicha says Jim Berry is moving to ‘CBS4 News This Morning’ co-anchoring the newscast with Cynthia Demos.

From 7am to 9am Berry will be co-anchoring the CBS4 News on My33 with Jade Alexander.

The change takes effect June 16.

Little doubt this has something to do with WFOR’s ratings which weren’t so hot this past May sweeps. No word yet on the status of Jorge Estevez with WFOR

00:06 Update: Jorge Estevez stays with WFOR and will be reporting during the day Monday trough Friday. Marybel Rodriguez will solo anchor the weekend morning newscast.

Jim Berry and Jade Alexander will be anchoring a new My33 morning show that will be “essentially a show where morning radio meets morning TV. Viewers will still get the essentials: hard news, weather, and traffic.”

27 Comments Tags: cbs4, cynthia demos, jim berry, jorge estevez, marybel rodriguez, ratings, WFOR.

Almost Final May Sweeps Ratings

Author admin on 5/20/2008 in ratings.

Someone posted these on Tvspy
17 out of 20 sweeps days. Thursday the 22nd Tomorrow the 21st is the last day of May sweeps

6pm
WPLG 7.2 / 12.3 share
WSVN 5.2 / 8.9 share
WFOR 3.4 / 5.9 share
WTVJ 2.6 / 4.5 share
7pm
WPLG 8.1 / 13.2 share – Wheel of Fortune
WSVN 4.6 / 7.6 share – Inside Edition
WFOR 2.5 / 4.1 share – Entertainment Tonight
WTVJ 2.1 / 3.4 share – South Florida Nightly News
Late news 11pm
WPLG 6.4 / 10.1 share
WSVN 5.7 / 8.1 share @10pm
WFOR 4.5 / 7.1 share
WTVJ 4.0 / 6.3 share
WSVN 3.7 / 5.8 share @11pm
7 Comments Tags: may sweeps, ratings.

Joel Connable Stays With WTVJ

Author admin on 5/16/2008 in Local Media and ratings.

A TVSpy On The Move says Joel Connable has joined the N.S. Bienstock talent agency and re-signed with WTVJ as an anchor/reporter. So the rummormill was half right I guess.

Now it is wait and see where and if WTVJ moves him to.
Given how bad their ratings are based on a recent TVSpy post, I think at 6 they averaged 2.7(?) ratings points, (my windows Vista ate the file I had with the ratings so I can’t post them) we’ll probably be seeing changes soon.

In the 13 of 20 days ratings average from that post, 4 and 6 were at the bottom, Channel 10 was very strong number one at 6pm followed by WSVN.

Bienstock also represents some familiar anchors and reporters such as Adam Williams who left WSVN for WHDH Boston and is now anchoring the weekday morning newscast there, Jose Diaz-Ballard at Telemundo, CNN’s John Roberts, ABC’s David Muir and others.

13 Comments Tags: joel connable, ncb 6, ratings, WFOR, WSVN, WTVJ.

Rumor: Ratings Ultimatums for WFOR Bosses?

Author admin on 2/17/2008 in Local Media and ratings.

An anonymous tipster claiming to be speaking “on deep background” says alleges that if the current team at WFOR /the suits – ND, GM etc./ doesn’t nudge the ratings upwards by May sweeps one of the three in charge will get pink slipped. According to this tipster “most are saying that one of them won’t be there at years end…”.

/* sarcasm/ – WPLG must sucking away all the eyeballs.They’ll probably have a 30 rating at the end of sweeps this month. /* end of sarcasm*/

32 Comments Tags: ratings, WFOR, WPLG.

Sweeps Results: Good times for WPLG

Author admin on 12/1/2007 in Local Media and ratings.

The Sun Sentinel’s Tom Jicha summarizes the results from the November sweeps and it’s not looking so good for WTVJ.

According to Jicha WTVJ experienced a sharp drop in ratings in the 5pm to 6pm time slot compared to November 2006. Wich hurt their 6pm newscast. The relatively new South Florida Tonight at 7pm “produced only negligible improvement”.

WTVJ has also dropped at 11 p.m. coming in at sixth place, and lost 20% of its sign-on to sign-off viewers.

WFOR and WSVN are the only two stations, english anyway, that duke it out between 5pm and 6pm and 7 came on top.

Not surprisingly WPLG came out way ahead of everyone. Their ratings are so good they beat top Spanish station WLTV at 6 and 11pm. And were 1.1 ratings points ahead of WFOR during prime time.

Sign-on to sign-off WPLG was number one, WFOR and Spanish station WLTV tied for number two, with WSVN a tenth of a ratings point behind them in 3rd place. WTVJ came in fourth.

WBFS/My33 has lost a lot after the switch to MyNetworkTV they barely scratched the ratings. Their 10pm newscast is down to an average of 0.8 ratings points and 0.7 overall. Independent station WAMI beat them by 0.9 ratings points in prime time.

SunSentinel – WPLG dominates sweeps results
SunSentinel – Miami sweeps results

5pm Late News Sign-on to Sign-off Prime Time
WPLG – Dr Phil 7.8 WPLG 7.1 WPLG 3.8 WPLG 7.3
WLTV – News 5.8 WLTV 5.5 WFOR 3.4 WFOR 6.4
WSVN – News 5.1 WFOR 4.8 WLTV 3.4 WLTV 6.1
WSCV – News 4.7 WSVN * 4.5 WSVN 3.3 WSVN 4.5
WFOR – News 3.4 WSCV 4.4 WTVJ 2.4 WTVJ 4.3
WTVJ – Ellen 2.9 WTVJ 4.0 WSCV 2.1 WSCV 4.3
    WJAN * 3.6 WSFL 1.8 WJAN 2.7
    WSFL * 1.8 WJAN 1.0 WSFL 2.3
    WBFS * 0.8 WBFS 0.7 WAMI 1.9
            WBFS 1.0

* 10 p.m.

1 ratings point equals 15,386 homes

sign-on to sign-off is the time between 6am to 2am

25 Comments Tags: 2007 november sweeps, 2007 sweeps, november sweeps, sweeps.