Market

[dtbanchor]

I need help!

Is there a website I can look at that ranks the television news stations in the individual markets?

[Jane Craig]

Nope. Sorry -- you have to investigate market by market. Nielsen data are proprietary to subscribers. Besides, "overall market standing," unless one station is dominant everywhere, is open to interpretation in terms of dayparts and such.

Good luck -- but you aren't going to find a single-source source that's reliable.

[TVNewsSpy]

Markets update once a year... tvjobs.com is pretty much on top of it. Here's the link: http://www.tvjobs.com/cgi-bin/markets/market2.cgi

The market rankings are public knowledge. Stations pay for rating info, which is for the most part private. But market rankings are no secret.

In fact they are also listed on Nielsen's website at www.nielsenmedia.com

[Jane Craig]

Nielsen's market rankings are of market SIZE by # of TV HHs and have nothing to do with the individual stations in a market. I may have incorrectly interpreted the question, but I thought the poster was asking for how the stations ranked in ratings within their markets. Nielsen does not publish that.

[Roy Hobbs]

Some stations in some markets are more rank than others.

[The Mockingbird]

http://summit.innovatenow.us/wdkm_in/wcm/resources/images/5243_1026914_52000/bill_moller_sm.jpg

Are you going to sniff EVERYONE in this newsroom, Roy?

[ewink]

Nielsen's market rankings are of market SIZE by # of TV HHs and have nothing to do with the individual stations in a market. I may have incorrectly interpreted the question, but I thought the poster was asking for how the stations ranked in ratings within their markets. Nielsen does not publish that.
I think you got it right.

As to the OP, she's right. Unless you subscribe, there is no way of seeing the actual ratings. You could call the stations. You can always tell which one is last because they will tell you 'Ratings aren't important to us. What is important is delivering a top notch news cast that informs and educates, like we do.'

[Obewon]

It would take you approximately five minutes per market to research this by going to the local newspaper and searching for the latest ratings story. They all do it on the day after the sweeps end.

[The Mockingbird]

Awww come on, Roy, that was funny. :whistle:

[vuphinder]

High Point has furniture MARKET every year. #1 market for furniture sales!

[The Mockingbird]

What if I put Bill Moller in the St. Patrick's Day Hat?

http://img181.imageshack.us/img181/4869/billmollersm3fd9.jpg

[Roy Hobbs]

Hey cut me some slack...been busy working a new job and hadn't seen this thread yet.

Plus I got pics of me with an Aurelio's Pizza for ya last night Mockingbird...AND the goods on how to ship one to DC.

And just to show there's no hard feelings...everybody CALL IN tomorrow afternoon to talk to Bill Moller on The Money Show on WGN...he's a great guy on the phone :shifty:

http://chenzhen.files.wordpress.com/2007/05/church_lady.jpg

Those new stain glass windows at WGN are really sumpin'...my downtown office is right next door.

"Are you going to talk to EVERYONE in the newsroom? Yeah...well...send a tape to the news director, it's not appropriate for me to talk to you." SLAM
- Sept. 15, 2004

[The Mockingbird]

Ooh, how do I get an Aurelio's pizza shipped to DC?