Posts Tagged ‘ ratings ’

Out of Time

October 24, 2011
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Out of Time

Each year, the anticipated fall premiere television season is followed by an equally exciting period: fall cancellation season. The failures of The Playboy Club and Pan Am raise the question of why we turn to period TV, especially post-Mad Men.
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BET’s Got Game

January 11, 2011
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BET’s Got <em>Game</em>

Tonight, The Game, a sitcom originally produced for and aired on The CW, premieres its fourth season on its new home, BET. The story behind that move leaves me wondering about the future of "diversity" (whatever that might mean) on broadcast television.
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Losing SOAPnet

May 31, 2010
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Losing SOAPnet

Disney’s announcement that it will be replacing cable channel Soapnet with a new preschool channel has generated serious concerns for U.S. soap viewers.
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The Empire Strikes Back?: NBC at the 2010 Upfronts

May 23, 2010
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The Empire Strikes Back?: NBC at the 2010 Upfronts

The upfronts may seem like a vestige of a dying regime. However, given that this is also an era of brands - i.e., hot shows, and in theory, hot networks - the upfronts also serve to launch anticipation on multiple fronts. Derek Kompare takes a look at the NBC upfronts in this media context.
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Nielsen’s One-Stop Shop for Media Audiences

May 14, 2010
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Nielsen’s One-Stop Shop for Media Audiences

Nielsen's planned return to being publicly traded is the latest significant change for a company that has become much more than the primary source of television ratings, but rather has evolved into the primary arbiter of media audiences of virtually all types.
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What Does It Mean To Care About The Grammys?

February 1, 2010
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What Does It Mean To Care About The Grammys?

Clearly, people are once again watching the telecast, even if one cannot be certain that most viewers ‘care’ about the popular artists and their music in the same way that they did in days gone by.
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Ratings Pet Peeve #32 – Are Ratings a Good Measure of the Popular?

December 12, 2009
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Ratings Pet Peeve #32 – Are Ratings a Good Measure of the Popular?

Popularity is also about cultural salience, about a show’s place in popular culture, and about whether it really matters to people
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Aren’t Ratings Meant to Go Up During Sweeps?

December 1, 2009
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Aren’t Ratings Meant to Go <i>Up</i> During Sweeps?

With the first sweeps weeks of the television season now behind us, the numbers suggest that it was a pretty lousy month. Indeed, far more shows experienced their lowest ratings of the season than did better.
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Ratings Pet Peeve #45: Pundit Wars and Politics

November 18, 2009
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Ratings Pet Peeve #45: Pundit Wars and Politics

Today’s pet peeve: how some pop critics and observers try to read cable news ratings as a sign of which political philosophy is in the ascendancy, or even of which outlet is trusted.
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