Anyone happen to know where I can find the most recent Rating Data for the various RTV affiliates?
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RTV Affiliate ratings?
- Thread starter mysticnitekatt
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You want per-station granularity? You'll almost certainly have to contact Nielsen and pay big money. The best you could find for free would be a national number for a certain night, if you could even find that.
They'll only be released when Luken actually has something to crow about, like Me-TV is doing to hammer in that their Milwaukee station is creaming the CW and MyNet affils in daytime. Until RTV can say that 15 year-old Crook & Chase in LA reruns are beating anything, including the AccuWeather loop down the dial, we will never hear a peep about them ratings-wise at all, whether at the corporate or the local affiliate level. Their programming is abysmal, and the only good news they get now is in B&C puff pieces reminding stations they still exist. They just lost Miami to WeatherNation, and that was among their few guaranteed full-power affils.
Is it possible to have ratings in the negative numbers? :
gregg75 said:I think I have them there ratings.......
at 8PM on the 16th
20 people were watching in Atlanta
17 in Chicago
10 in Dallas
8 in Miami
15 in San Francisco
Those numbers are faulty; those were the number of people trying to tune in RTV, failing and moving on because they can't tune into low-power signals with the output of a dollar store nightlight
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mrschimpf said:gregg75 said:I think I have them there ratings.......
at 8PM on the 16th
20 people were watching in Atlanta
17 in Chicago
10 in Dallas
8 in Miami
15 in San Francisco
Those numbers are faulty; those were the number of people trying to tune in RTV, failing and moving on because they can't tune into low-power signals with the output of a dollar store nightlight
I'm really surprised the San Fran affiliate didn't drop them last month when Me-TV became available -- that would've been an upgrade. (Me-TV ended up on KOFY's subchannel)
A serious question and you folks become a bunch of wise-guys! I've seen in the past local stations mention ratings for the sub-channels and just looking to see if the data for RTV might be floating around someplace.
Most of RTV's low-power affiliates transmit at the full 15kw range. Chicago is moving it's transmitter to Downtown Chicago.
Bridgeport,Boston and San Fran are full-power affiliates on the main channel. (Why do people think that The SF affiliate would switch to Me-TV? Me-TV doesn't allow for infomercials and SF has 12 hours of those daily)
Folks are watching RTV - even if the current programing isn't your cup of tea. Gee, you folks like nothing more than to piss all over RTV.
I've seen in the past local stations mention ratings for the sub-channels and just looking to see if the data for RTV might be floating around someplace. Most of RTV's low-power affiliates transmit at the full 15kw range. Chicago is moving it's transmitter to Downtown Chicago.
Bridgeport,Boston and San Fran are full-power affiliates on the main channel. (Why do people think that The SF affiliate would switch to Me-TV? Me-TV doesn't allow for infomercials and SF has 12 hours of those daily)
Folks are watching RTV - even if the current programing isn't your cup of tea. Gee, you folks like nothing more than to piss all over RTV.
mysticnitekatt said:
For good reason. It used to be a good network; now it's just a shell of its former self, having lost so many good libraries from which to draw programming. Equity's financial problems really killed this network, and I don't know if Luken is going to be able to recover. Luken's purchase of a bevy of LPTV stations from MMTC (to whom TBN had donated the stations) didn't help the network's reputation, as the value of the stations is questionable at best. Case in point: K38CX in Shonto, AZ. Located in the middle of nowhere, and serving virtually no one. With a 30-mile limit in place for moving stations, it would take years to get the station moved into Flagstaff, and then to still serve at most 100K residents. Too many TBN stations were like that; all of the big cities have full-power stations.
Besides, the crew here is still gentler on RTV than they've been on TVLand.
gregg75 said:
I know that - I've been here long enough to keep up - why do you think I posted this question about the affiliates and ratings.
It's easy to say they are "pissin' on themselves" - but does anyone really know that is going on over at RTV? Even Ron the GM at WSAH Bridgeport (Who hopefully will still have a job when the station is sold) has only posted the odd post or two regarding RTV once they became an affiliate again.
What is really known? They've lost a handful of affiliates, the conflicting reasons WHY they lost-no longer have the NBC/Universal Catalog,and there was some behind the scenes "stuff" that led Neil Ardman to leave/be fired from RTV.
I'm not even going to play the blame game for the lost affiliates to Me-TV - there's got to be more to that than is know. (As for the Tribune and Local TV LLC station, that's a given they would drop RTV when AntennaTV went on the air)
People forget that The Gained San Fransisco, switched stations in Bosie ID to a FULL-POWERED station (with only a couple of weeks break) from an ANALOG LP station that became a CW affiliate!
and as mentioned previously by myself, the Chicago affiliate becoming class A,going to 15kw and moving the transmitter to downtown, which will greatly improve things.
Should I mention PBJ which now has 3 affiliates, or Luken's continued plans to buy up to 400 or so LP/LD/CA/Repeaters to build a network? So there might be the odd station in the middle of nowhere (or on tribal land) purchased as part of a larger group of stations/repeaters/building-permits/licences. - considering all he's buying up, that is to be expected.
Besides, the crew here is still gentler on RTV than they've been on TVLand.
Well, TV LAND (and Nick@Nite) DESERVE IT
gregg75 said:
They haven't updated the website - They've been on the air for several weeks now.
mysticnitekatt said:
And they are being offered on the "SkyAngel" Service!
There is a possibility of it going on 62.2, but since that's now a simulcast of 62.1 it's not carried by Comcast. If Comcast does pick it up it will be in the 280-299 range with the other subchannels. The main channel is on basic cable at channel 20, down with the other local stations.
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