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Atlanta TV News Ratings

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chrisbarrett

I have looked online for ratings for the 5, 6, 7, 10 and 11 pm news hours and have come up short. Does anyone know where to find such ratings?

I am a huge 11alive fan and am wondering how they are doing in the ratings at 6, 10 and 11 against WSB and WAGA?
 
tvnewsspecialist said:
Here a link that I found for you. However, this is last year ratings, but I don't think they change that much.

http://atlanta.daybooknetwork.com/story/2006/10/27/1338oct-2006-sweeps.shtml
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Thats right. It will always be WSB, WAGA, WXIA/WATL, and WGCL, in THAT order (unless several WSB vets move to WXIA, which happened in the 80's, causing WXIA to beat WSB at times).

WSB always cleans house in the news department, and always will. The other stations could fold, and no one would notice.

When people want news in Atlanta, they think Cox (AJC, WSB Radio, WSB-TV).
 
I am a huge 11alive fan. I was very shocked by 11alive News Today's ratings. I love Jill Becker, but agree that it is time for 11alive to do something for its morning newscast. Their noon ratings were horrible as well. I wonder how CBS 46's new morning show is doing.
 
Rodney ran an item on the morning shows a few weeks back. The stat that jumped out was WSB had 100,000 viewers for their morning news; WGCL had less than 5,000.

I get weekend Nielsens sent to me because of a TV project I'm involved in, and the dominance that WSB has in weekend mornings - no matter what they're airing - is astonishing. They'll do a 6+ HH rtg for morning news and none of the other 3 affiliates do better than a 1.
 
See, I love Channel 11 in the morning. I don't think they should make a change. I can't understand how someone wants to hear about blood, death and crime throughout the morning. Yes, Ch. 11 does cover the breaking news, but they break it up with live sports (I love Randy Waters), school stuff, and joke around. Does Pam Martin even have a sense of humor? (Arum is probably the only one that does, but is squelched by the WSB upper management). WAGA does a decent job as well.


Just an opinion.
 
See, I love Channel 11 in the morning. I don't think they should make a change. I can't understand how someone wants to hear about blood, death and crime throughout the morning. Yes, Ch. 11 does cover the breaking news, but they break it up with live sports (I love Randy Waters), school stuff, and joke around. Does Pam Martin even have a sense of humor? (Arum is probably the only one that does, but is squelched by the WSB upper management). WAGA does a decent job as well.


Just an opinion.

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I agree that 11 Alive's local news prior to the Today show is the best on during that time. Nice to have an actual sports anchor in Randy Waters. Good Day Atlanta is excellent as far as a local version of the network's news programs in the mornings. Channel 2 seems to be weak during the weekday morning local news, but very watchable on the weekends.
 
I agree that 11 Alive's local news prior to the Today show is the best on during that time. Nice to have an actual sports anchor in Randy Waters. Good Day Atlanta is excellent as far as a local version of the network's news programs in the mornings. Channel 2 seems to be weak during the weekday morning local news, but very watchable on the weekends.
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WSB-TV wins because they are hard news all of the way. People apparently love to hear about shootings and fires.

Fox 5 does hard news 5-7 AM, and Good Day 7-9 AM, with the same anchors. The balance seems to work out alright for them.

11 Alive goes a little soft in the mornings..and it works for them. They get all of the hard news in, and have time left for banter. Randy Waters was the sports director in the 80's during the John Pruitt/Chuck Moore/Johnny Beckman "Hello News" era, but was demoted to mornings during the Greg Dubrow bloodbath at WXIA in 1994 (Dubrow is now Gannett's CEO).

WGCL...let's not go there. Four letter word that rhymes with hell (sell).
 
Does anyone care about CBS 46's "Better Mornings" show? I don't.
 
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