Insider says: last night’s half hour special on WPLG, from 8pm to 8:30pm, of Hurricane Wilma was the highest rated half hour in all of primetime. It got 9 or 10 ratings points. In contrast local anglo stations get 5-6 ratings points at most for a newscast. One ratings point for Miami/Ft. Lauderdale is equal to about 15,229 households.
“we all laughed about them going all out for a storm that’s 5 days away. GO FIGURE!That gives everyone more reason to break into programming and go wall-to-wall on hurricane stuff. The proof’s in the ratings.”
Next time watch all stations go apeshit over a hurricane 10 days away from us. I hope not. I know some will probably say that people tuned in to watch George Lopez and stuck with the station waiting for the coverage to end, but I doubt that’s the case. WPLG got a lot of calls from people complaining about pre-empting regular shows and asking about Lost and Invasion which aired as scheduled.
I guess people like having the same stuff repeated to them 😀
one rating point is equal to 17,000 households…. i guess all the viewers with boxes watch the george lopez show..yikes!
Nielsen list Miami/Ft Lauderdale as 1,522,960 households so 1% is 15,229 not sure how you got 17,000
They won the 6pm and 11pm too! What do you think is drawing viewers too WPLG? The Meteorologists? Anchors? Style of coverage?
Maybe it’s because of their “Loco” (crazy) obcession with rrepetition.
Funny, this epispde reminds me of the South Park season opener: We told you about Global warming (Hurricane Wilma) and you did not listen. Then a mantra for we did not listen begins.
Could it be that ABC had nothing more interesting to show?
Professionals have already touted Wilma as the “strongest storm ever” because of a pressure reading some several days ago. It would seem the strongest storm ever should be the pressure at landfall – not when it is out to sea and eating up very small islands.
Channel 10 played in to the hype, and the people came.
It is funny how money drives…if the ratings are there stations in Miami will start coverage 10 days out now. As far as why 10 won the REGULAR newscasts, Noe and Aric cover the storm without all the scare tactics, unlike 4 and 7. They tell it like it is. Much improved weather graphics in the last year for 10 as well.
Anyone know how the ratings have been stacking up the last 24 hours, specials and/or regular newscast?
True what you say about Noe and Aric. But it’s so damn repetative. Why do they need both on at the same time, repeating each other in the span of a couple minutes?!
10 only did that to get ratings and pull viewers ,B/C no other station wasn’t doing full coverage at the time ,but i bet as WSVN-TV (7) started there rating fall!