The Sun Sentinel says Channel 10 swept the February sweeps. They were so on top they beat the spanish stations at 11pm. Way to fucking go Channel 10 people! More cake for you.
7 and 4 meanwhile are splitting 2nd place sign on to sign off. 7 has gotten some extra eyeballs thanks to Anna and Idol.
WTVJ … no dice. The single anchor experiment at 11pm has not worked for them and I guess they didn’t register well overall
Anyone got ratings numbers? If you do you can copy/paste in the tip box anonymously
SunSentinel
WPLG-Ch. 10 wins key categories in sweeps
Maybe TVJ should try NO anchors at 11 since 1 did not help.
WTVJ has terrible talent. Rose is the only one worth watching there
Rose is a dumb ex-jock, and Nespral is in the same league! Why did 10 win? Look who has the Lotto! 4 kept winning while they had it. It is a consistent predictor. |These O & O’s shied away from developing strong anchors because they might want to get paid if they got ratings success. Nespral is there because she has the biggest dollar figure, owed in part to her days at the network with Weekend Today. So absent any strong |Renick-Bishop type in the market, it looks like the eyes follow the |Lotto.
How many times a week do they have the lotto on? Can’t be every night
At this point, 10 simply has the strongest team @ 11.
4 is next in line, but Maggie needs to step it up a bit IMO. Seems like she’s either gotten too comfy or is just not interested anymore. Eliot is ok, but he’s just not an “11 o’clock” guy (feel free to interpret).
6 is just a non-contender. Jackie rushes through everything, and she seems like she’s been left out there to die. Rose belongs in a bar, not on TV.
7 is, well, 7. Belkys is just horrible. She sounds like a young Phyllis Diller (remember her?), and is even more obnoxious then Lonnie Quinn ever was.
I think Laurie Jennings and Dwight Lauderdale make a great anchor team. I think she is just radiant. No surprise why they are on top of the ratings. Channel 6 is really boring. I think they should have Joel (forgot his last name) do the weekdays. He’s pretty funny sometimes when I watch on the weekends. But I won’t watch Channel 6 for Jackie, I’m sorry. I’ll tune to CBS 4 for sports only. WSVN for Deco Drive.
Go Joel Connable! I agree with Charles. WTVJ/NBC6 top executives need to WAKE UP and move Joel to a weekday main anchor position. He will bring in the ratings for them like he does every weekend.
They need to get Tony back on the 5 6 and 11. If theyre going to keep the single anchor format – go with Tony. I know almost every 1 here hates Jackie, but I doubt shes going anywhere. Julia is a very good anchor but she’s not good at 5. Id rather watch Tony and Jackie at 5, Julia and Tony at 6 and Tony by himself at 11. Joell apparently doesnt want to be the main guy so he’ll stay doing his thing on the weekends. Does anyone know how Ivillage is doing instead of having news at noon,?
Why not just move Jackie back to 5 and 6 and put Joel on with Tony and/or Julia? With everyone trying two female anchors, why not buck the trend and go with two males? Isn’t the NBC lineup at 10pm stronger with women? Maybe a way to hang on to women after prime time…but Joe Rose is still a clown. Cefalo and Jim Berry leave him in the dust.
Ivillage barely gets 1 rating point. i don’t know if our 12 noon news did any better. But, I-village blows. As for Joel, there was a sighting of him with the Gm the other day. I wonder if they are tallking to him about anchoring more. Joel is a great guy. He really knows what news is and how to tell a good story. You are right, he is a funny anchor,
IMO the market as a whole is generally suffering from the same old rehashed personalities. Currently, Laurie Jennings is the only shining star out there. Everybody else simply pales by comparison. Except for Laurie, there is really no reason to tune in to any specific newscast. She actually _presents_ the news whereas others simply talk about it.
Until stations are willing to pay to bring in some decent, NEW talent, we will be stuck with the same old rehashed stuff.
In other news, people actually debate which local news team is the most professional/radiant/active in the search for Sarah Conner.
Way to Go 10! Although they did go overboard with Anna Nicole Smith, but all is forgiven.
Did anyone not go overboard for ANS? How much money was wasted on choppers for a motorcade from the coroner to the airport? Oh, and if these wizards want a story on taxes, figure out how much the police spent on a 35-mile motorcade, while Lauderdale Airport is around the corner from Perper’s office. Why didn’t someone tell ANS’ people, you fly her out of FLL or send her body by canoe to |Nassau? Didn’t Judge Larry have one of Huizenga’s jets available last week? Is anyone thinking in any of these bureaucracies? That matters more to me than where they bury this woman, no matter how sad the story. A legitimate valid news story is buried under all that silicone and lipstick.
why dont u call one of therir investigative tip lines? – im sure if ur sotry is good theyll investigate
It may not be a huge deal, but Channel 6 did do something no other station did. They held onto their audience. All the other stations loose tons of people when their news starts. Last week, Channel 10 had a 10.5 lead-in and a 6 newscast. That means people, lots of people turned them off. Channel 6 held onto their audience. Channel 6 always goes up. They actually won on the weekends with that Joel guy. Weekends may not matter, but management should notice that growth. I’ve never seen an anchor quite like Joel. He doesn’t wear that stuffed anchor shirt. he seems to be very comfortable and he is funny. I would say he is a good guy. I hope he stays in Miami.
Here’s the Monday to Friday 11:00 PM numbers
Stations Program Rating Share Rank
WPLG Local 10 News 6.26 10.8 1
WSCV Noticiero 51 5.12 8.8 2
WLTV Noticias 23 5.06 8.8 3
WFOR Ch 4 News 4.73 8.1 4
WTVJ So Fla Tonight 4.31 7.4 5
WSVN Ch 7 News 4.22 7.3 6
am i the only one that doesnt like that joel guy. i think he is so corny and not t.v type of person and sometimes i rather just not watch news when channel 6 is the only one giving news that time of the day on the weekends.
NBC insider you are wrong. NBC6 does not hold its audience.. but WPLG in fact increases audience at 11pm.
You need to look at the rating and share at 1045pm quarter hour and then at the 11pm numbers. WPLG consistently increases from 1045pm to 11pm. that’s a sign of strength. NBC however loses share from 1045 to 11pm.
Joel not a tv type person??? Lets see, he worked in Los Angeles and was one of the top reporters there. He used to be a paramedic in New York. He is an anchor in Miami. He is one of the best reporters we have. Rumor has it, they may want him to anchor the late news. He anchors one of the highest rated newscasts at our station. Gee, I guess our managers have no idea what good tv is. Juan Doe needs to go back to watching Telemundo so he can understand what news is. Ha!
Joel maybe a saint in person, but he doesn’t draw me in as a viewer.
No Elita admirer, we see where you loyalties lie – you get drawn in by two big T*ts. Way to go! It doesn’t seem like you would know good news if it hit you in your B**ls.
Thats just my damn opinion! And i dnt even speak spanish so Telemundo wont be an option for me and i wonder why your highest rated newscast is doing s0o0 well?! (sarcasm)
You don’t speak English very well either. I don’t produce for the late news. As for our highest rated newscast, NBC6 leads in the mornings. Channel 7 lies to people by saying they are number one but they average four hours together and they have no competition. In the mornings, it’s 6, 7, 10 and 4. By the way, NBC6 is about to cut more people. Reporter out, anchor out, producer out. I don’t know who.. yet.
7’s not lying.. 6 won that last couple rounds in the morning… guess they miss lonnie quinn because they fell to 2nd place…
WTVJ WSVN WPLG WFOR
5 – 6AM 1.7 2.0 1.7 1.2
6 – 7AM 3.0 4.4 3.0 2.0
7 – 9AM 3.8 4.4 3.0 1.3
(7 against network)
Oh crap! My bad.
NBC6 producer, mellow out.
I know its sad preaching to an empty church… but cut the coffee.
For many years NBC rode the programming lead in and won the newscast even though the product was terrible. Now the product is still terrible but the lead in sucks so there is no help.
Part of the equation is the talent, but even if the talent is great, like your Joel guy, the product is still bad. Bad reports, bad graphics, bad teases, bad PRODUCING.
When NBC learns to value talent, reporting and can figure out what a news story is, then maybe the numbers will come back up. ( Or just wait till your lead in gets better)
And I’m not upset about liking Elita…
You should focus more on your work.
NBC6producer, there is no one left to cut in the newsroom.
TVJ is no longer overflowing with anchors or reporters. The last hole in the producing ranks was just filled. No one is going anywhere right now unless it is their choice.
An NBC reporter will be gone in a few weeks. Guaranteed. We’ll see if I am right then.
NBC 6 tries to be like other stations with no crew power and it shows!!! They are last in everything and last to cover stories. It’s tooo bad, they have alot of hard workers there but the GM down to the producers need axed and built back up with strong news people. Not show offs trying to be like the other stations…..someday NBC will catch on?????
IVillage does horribly… barely registering any numbers… but it seems the network will be keeping them on for a while, since they have sales commitments. Their Noon show started out with really low numbers when it debuted… but was rapidly growing… and was at the point where some days it did better than 4th place, and was registering a 2 or higher.
What was with Joel and Patricia anchoring today – was that some sort of experiment??
Julia is in LA on assignment… Jackie was off for the afternoon shows. No experiment.
Francis – jackie was on at 6 though???? and if it wasnt an experiment – why not use Tony??? They had hi reporting from the stellite center – im sure Jackie was there at 5.
Jackie had a commitment in the afternoon. It ran late – so Patricia was asked to fill in at the last minute. Nothing more.. no experiments. Hate to see what happens on this board when people take a vacation. How the rumors must fly!! LOL.
i was just inquiring… i never stated that i had any facts- got that!!! This blog is useful because it stops the rumors b/c people that know the truth will inform other people that know. I repeat, i in no way attempted to start a rumor. I think Patricia did a great job and that they should put Joel and her togehter on a more permenant basis – after all they need to do something different – as i always said – put Tony back at 11. by the way, what was her commitment???
We don’t know what Jackie was doing. She was walking around the newsroom with the GM just before the 5pm. Patricia was asked to anchor at the very last minute for some reason. Joel was scheduled to anchor. I think Patricia and Joel were a great combo. I wih they would let Joel bring out his personality more. The 5 is a perfect place to have fun. On the weekends he has a lot fo personality and the ratings show people love it. NBC is so screwed up right now. They have no permanent weekend morning anchor and they will put anyone on the air on any show. There’s very little identity.
What’s wrong if it was an experiment? Patricia is beautiful and conveys far more between the ears than Nespral…we know Jackie can’t get numbers…so why not experiment? Patricia filled in over the holidays with Ari Odzer in the AM during the holidays and they were excellent together. Does Nespral have chemistry with anyone? She is just like Kristi Krueger and Sally Fitz in the old days at 7…they bring down whoever sits next to them.
I know, let’s protect Jackie Nespral cuz she’s a UM grad and a local girl. Yeah, better hang on to fourth place tight!
Everyone at the station has to attend a meeting held by all the department heads listing goals for the next year…. Jackie was at one of those meetings yesterday… it ran until 5pm… the show starts at 4:58pm.
get over it.
Well was Joel at that alleged department head meeting. I bet he would have made it better. I wonder if Joel is sitting on the cure for cancer? Or wait forget local news, JOEL FOR PRESIDENT in 08. Maybe Patricia can run for VP after all she is big into that Green is Green thing!!!!
lol
Carlos Verguerra is out. Wow! GOTTALUVIT must really be unhappy with his life to go after people like this. I love how you people know everything about tv news.
Carlos Vergara is a freelance reporter.