Archive for October, 2009
October 2009 Numbers
Thursday, October 29th, 2009As you may know, Boston is a metered market. This means that ratings data is delivered to stations daily, as opposed to diary markets where ratings information is only available following sweeps months. Today, as it so happens, is the start of the November “sweeps” period. However, WCVB has supplied viewership numbers for this past [...]
Leno Hurting Newsrooms?
Monday, October 19th, 2009We are now about a month into Jay Leno being on at 10 PM every weeknight on NBC, and NBC affiliates around the country are reporting drop offs in viewers for their late night news. Last week I contacted WHDH to see how their 11 PM newscast was faring after the new Leno lineup, but [...]
NECN, WMUR Win Murrow Awards
Wednesday, October 14th, 2009The national Edward R. Murrow awards were given out earlier this week, and NECN came away as a winner. Among large market stations, NECN won the “Investigative Reporting” award for its “Forgotten Fire” piece. That investigation looked into the potential of building and fire safety code violations in a deadly Newton office fire in 2000. Five [...]