November 2018 Sweeps Results

[Greggo 358]

BIG problems in DFW. WFAA failed to win a single time slot in November. First time that's happened in a bit. Even KTVT manages a win -- at 10p in total viewers. Tegna-itis strikes again.

http://unclebarky.com/dfw_files/b75082ab02efdd059ef776da9b911c18-4322.html

 

 

[dman748 1256]

31 minutes ago, Greggo said:

BIG problems in DFW. WFAA failed to win a single time slot in November. First time that's happened in a bit. Even KTVT manages a win -- at 10p in total viewers. Tegna-itis strikes again.

http://unclebarky.com/dfw_files/b75082ab02efdd059ef776da9b911c18-4322.html

 

 

Unfortunately, poor management decisions made on the part of WFAA is what's doomed Channel 8.

[Georgie56 3318]

44 minutes ago, Greggo said:

BIG problems in DFW. WFAA failed to win a single time slot in November. First time that's happened in a bit. Even KTVT manages a win -- at 10p in total viewers. Tegna-itis strikes again.

http://unclebarky.com/dfw_files/b75082ab02efdd059ef776da9b911c18-4322.html

 

 

Time for WFAA -- and TEGNA -- to do some soul-searching. If you're TEGNA, losing viewers and coming up empty in every timeslot in your biggest market is embarrassing.

[DetroitTVNews 66]

Once again, business as (almost) usual in Detroit in November...but it looks like some problems may be brewing at WJBK. They actually virtually tied with WDIV at 6 AM for the first time in the past 15 years. If you deemphasize investigative reporting and have in the past few years dumped veterans such as Murray Feldman and Alan Lee, you will be losing viewers.

https://www.clickondetroit.com/station/november-ratings

[Breaking News 836]

10 minutes ago, DetroitTVNews said:

Once again, business as (almost) usual in Detroit in November...but it looks like some problems may be brewing at WJBK. They actually virtually tied with WDIV at 6 AM for the first time in the past 15 years. If you deemphasize investigative reporting and have in the past few years dumped veterans such as Murray Feldman and Alan Lee, you will be losing viewers.

https://www.clickondetroit.com/station/november-ratings

WXYZ once the top dog in the market have some third place finishes WOW!  Scripps and their interference. tsk,tsk, tsk!  Marla Drutz applied for the top job at WXYZ, but she ended up at WDIV.  Hmmm-

[GoldenShine9 1514]

Watching the posts in Out and About so post market results here.

[Samantha 2898]

32 minutes ago, GoldenShine9 said:

Watching the posts in Out and About so post market results here.

I took the five posts about sweeps from there and put them here.

[GoldenShine9 1514]

New Orleans: WVUE has opened up ground as the market leader; WDSU appears to be #2 overall and WWL down to #3. (WGNO remains in no man's land; even national news is a distant fourth).

https://www.nola.com/entertainment/2018/11/wvue-fox-8-overtakes-wwl-in-new-orleans-local-news-ratings-race.html

[Georgie56 3318]

6 hours ago, GoldenShine9 said:

New Orleans: WVUE has opened up ground as the market leader; WDSU appears to be #2 overall and WWL down to #3. (WGNO remains in no man's land; even national news is a distant fourth).

https://www.nola.com/entertainment/2018/11/wvue-fox-8-overtakes-wwl-in-new-orleans-local-news-ratings-race.html

What a fall from grace for WWL. Sad.

[tyrannical bastard 4019]

Hopefully WVUE keeps up their momentum once Gray takes over, otherwise it's WDSU's chance to dominate the market for the first time since the 70s.

 

Between Dallas and New Orleans, we're starting to see the gripping effects of TEGNAitis.... I'm dreading the day it drives WKYC into fourth place or knocks WBIR out of top place in Knoxville....

[NEOMatrix 1305]

10 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Hopefully WVUE keeps up their momentum once Gray takes over, otherwise it's WDSU's chance to dominate the market for the first time since the 70s.

 

Between Dallas and New Orleans, we're starting to see the gripping effects of TEGNAitis.... I'm dreading the day it drives WKYC into fourth place or knocks WBIR out of top place in Knoxville....

Or worse...WTSP is competing for 5th place with WTOG and KXTV is behind KQCA in ratings.

[Georgie56 3318]

23 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Hopefully WVUE keeps up their momentum once Gray takes over, otherwise it's WDSU's chance to dominate the market for the first time since the 70s.

 

Between Dallas and New Orleans, we're starting to see the gripping effects of TEGNAitis.... I'm dreading the day it drives WKYC into fourth place or knocks WBIR out of top place in Knoxville....

I don't think there's such a thing as Gray-itis. Most of their stations are successful.

[Glimmer 283]

Another strong sweeps showing for market leaders WISN and WITI; WISN takes 5pm (which is also the top-rated newscast altogether in the market) and 6pm, while WITI is tops at 10pm.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/entertainment/television-radio/2018/11/26/wisn-tv-has-milwaukees-2-top-rated-newscasts-during-november-sweeps-nielsen/2107750002/

[TVIntheDesert 185]

5 hours ago, NEOMatrix said:

Or worse...WTSP is competing for 5th place with WTOG and KXTV is behind KQCA in ratings.

I can see KPNX battling out with KAZT for 10pm shares. They spent a lot of money to be the exclusive pre-season station of the Arizona Cardinals, just to see the team become the laughingstock of the NFL. Is it Tegna-itis, or just the curse of Bob Sullivan (he did to TEGNA what he had done to Scripps before bailing to Bob "GoDaddy" Parsons' TV studio here in Phoenix).

[CLETVFan 367]

WJW Fox 8 is number one in all time slots with all of its newscasts, according to one of the anchors on social media.  It was a sheet cake picture.

17 hours ago, Greggo said:

BIG problems in DFW. WFAA failed to win a single time slot in November. First time that's happened in a bit. Even KTVT manages a win -- at 10p in total viewers. Tegna-itis strikes again.

http://unclebarky.com/dfw_files/b75082ab02efdd059ef776da9b911c18-4322.html

 

 

"Sister Circle" and "Daily Blast Live" are really dragging down WFAA's late afternoon and early evening newscasts.  With a lot of new syndicated programming coming into the marketplace next year, those two shows would be easy to dump.

[Eat News 4745]

8 minutes ago, CLETVFan said:

WJW Fox 8 is number one in all time slots with all of its newscasts, according to one of the anchors on social media.  It was a sheet cake picture.

Both WOIO and WKYC staff got cakes also...

[Rusty Muck 4390]

1 hour ago, Eat News said:

Both WOIO and WKYC staff got cakes also...

There's always the Bart Simpson "At Least You Tried" cake...

[GoldenShine9 1514]

1 hour ago, CLETVFan said:

WJW Fox 8 is number one in all time slots with all of its newscasts, according to one of the anchors on social media.  It was a sheet cake picture.

"Sister Circle" and "Daily Blast Live" are really dragging down WFAA's late afternoon and early evening newscasts.  With a lot of new syndicated programming coming into the marketplace next year, those two shows would be easy to dump.

I wonder how WOIO will do under Gray. It's long been Raycom's weakest station, but could new management - and inept competition - finally be what they need? It's a real wild card, since Gray has no experience with major market stations (although they do well with their mid-market stations; I believe WVLT is the market leader in Knoxville now?)

[Rusty Muck 4390]

18 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

Time for WFAA -- and TEGNA -- to do some soul-searching. If you're TEGNA, losing viewers and coming up empty in every timeslot in your biggest market is embarrassing.

The problem with TEGNA is that they are thinking WAYYYY too hard and creating a ton of problems that shouldn't exist. A station like WFAA could still hold their own in DFW if they weren't micromanaged to the nth degree.

Of course TEGNA won't let up on the micromanaging because it's something that they have invested so much time and resources into.

[Rusty Muck 4390]

16 minutes ago, GoldenShine9 said:

I wonder how WOIO will do under Gray. It's long been Raycom's weakest station, but could new management - and inept competition - finally be what they need? It's a real wild card, since Gray has no experience with major market stations (although they do well with their mid-market stations; I believe WVLT is the market leader in Knoxville now?)

Toledo is a sorta mid-market, obviously in the shadows of Detroit, but still. And Gray has WTVG, which is not only a durable #2 in that two-station market, but as so many have said, still looks and feels like an O&O long after ABC sold it. To SJL and Gray's credit, that culture has been kept in place.

Raycom wanted to scrap the Action News style from WOIO so badly after Bill Applegate retired that it rendered them as Just Another Station. 19 Action News never dominated the market, but they had offered something no other news operation on 19 had done before, or since, and that was... a reason to watch.

[DetroitTVNews 66]

37 minutes ago, Myron Falwell said:

And Gray has WTVG, which is not only a durable #2 in that two-station market

Actually apparently according to what I've seen on recent WTVG ads and elsewhere on the internet, they are (or at least recently have been) #1 in the Toledo newscast ratings. Of course, all this time, WTOL  is still claiming themselves as "Toledo's news leader"...

[GoldenShine9 1514]

2 hours ago, Myron Falwell said:

Toledo is a sorta mid-market, obviously in the shadows of Detroit, but still. And Gray has WTVG, which is not only a durable #2 in that two-station market, but as so many have said, still looks and feels like an O&O long after ABC sold it. To SJL and Gray's credit, that culture has been kept in place.

Raycom wanted to scrap the Action News style from WOIO so badly after Bill Applegate retired that it rendered them as Just Another Station. 19 Action News never dominated the market, but they had offered something no other news operation on 19 had done before, or since, and that was... a reason to watch.

Had Sinclair got their grubby hands on WJW, then Cleveland would be a free-for-all right now, but we know now that, barring a trade, they are locked out of the Cleveland market...and WJW should be clean and clear for a while.

[dman748 1256]

43 minutes ago, GoldenShine9 said:

Had Sinclair got their grubby hands on WJW, then Cleveland would be a free-for-all right now, but we know now that, barring a trade, they are locked out of the Cleveland market...and WJW should be clean and clear for a while.

 

Just in general had Sinclair got their hands on several of the dominating stations (like WGN, KFOR, and others) imagine what impact would that have in the ratings had the Sinclair/Tribune deal went through

[tyrannical bastard 4019]

12 hours ago, Georgie56 said:

I don't think there's such a thing as Gray-itis. Most of their stations are successful.

I think it remains to be seen how Gray does with larger markets and if they're ready to play with the big market owners.  Look what happened with WCMH under Media General.
They have their work cut out for them in Cleveland with WOIO, since Raycom has or is in the process of gutting that station of any value whatsoever.  Action News / Bill Applegate and their poaching of veteran talent in the market is what even put them on the map.  This is all before WKYC and WEWS began their gradual declines under their owners....

Hopefully they maintain their good momentum, especially in Charlotte, where WBTV claims to have unseated WSOC.

Like any successful station acquired, if it ain't broke....don't fix it!

[TVIntheDesert 185]

29 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

I think it remains to be seen how Gray does with larger markets and if they're ready to play with the big market owners.  Look what happened with WCMH under Media General.
They have their work cut out for them in Cleveland with WOIO, since Raycom has or is in the process of gutting that station of any value whatsoever.  Action News / Bill Applegate and their poaching of veteran talent in the market is what even put them on the map.  This is all before WKYC and WEWS began their gradual declines under their owners....

Hopefully they maintain their good momentum, especially in Charlotte, where WBTV claims to have unseated WSOC.

I'd like to see what happens to Sarasota's WWSB under Gray. Does the Tampa/St. Petersburg market need two ABC affiliates, even if it's super-serving a particular region of the market?

 

29 minutes ago, tyrannical bastard said:

Like any successful station acquired, if it ain't broke....don't fix it!

Not TEGNA's slogan. They're already meddling with San Diego market leader KFMB.