Posts Tagged ‘WTMJ’

Packers Ratings Beat Olympics. Also, Sky Is Blue

Posted by Duane Dudek
rick

Milwaukee area TV households like their sports to be green and gold if Friday nights ratings are any indication. Also there is gambling in Casablanca.

The meaningless Green Bay Packer  pre-season victory against the Cleveland Browns on WMLW-TV beat NBC’s coverage of the Summer Olympics by a full 4 rating points or about 35,200 TV homes.

Weigel-owned WMLW won the night – the first time I’ve ever written that – with a 16.3 rating, or about 143,800 viewers.

NBC affiliate WTMJ earned a 12.2 or about 107,000 TV homes. A local rating point is the equivalent of about 8,822 TV homes.

Read More

Milwaukee Media Notes: May Sweeps Results

Posted by Duane Dudek
Unknown1

Some tech issues kept me from posting the local May sweeps ratings earlier today.

However they will not get in the way this afternoon, he said as the cursor flew across the screen.

Perhaps like Hillary I was hacked.

(Update: Genius Bar guy says my battery is “consumed” and I need a new track pad!)

So let’s keep this short and sweet.

– WITI-TV (Channel 6) won at 6 a.m. and 10 p.m. and WISN-TV (Channel 12) had the number one newscast at 5 p.m. and 6 p.m. WITI viewers get up early and stay up late, I guess. And WISN viewers are perhaps lunch bucket types who like a little news with their evening meal. And never the twain shall meet.

Read More

WTMJ-TV Expected To Name George Mallet Anchor

Posted by Duane Dudek
3287a38

LinkedIn photo

The longest job search in Milwaukee media is now its worst kept secret.

After almost a year of deliberation, WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) is expected to name former WTMJ reporter George Mallet as anchor of its 5 and 10 p.m. newscasts later this week.

He will most likely start during the May sweeps period, a year after the retirement of veteran anchor Mike Jacobs last May.

Mallet left WTMJ in 2010 to anchor the news at WPTZ-TV in New York state.

Mallet, a native of Philadelphia, was previously afternoon co-anchor and reporter at WTMJ.

Read More

February Sweeps Ratings: Who Won, Who Lost

Posted by Duane Dudek
Unknowns

So many numbers, so little time.

Here’s a brief breakdown of the February sweeps ratings results.

The survey was conducted Feb. 4 through March 2, and big events during this period included the Super Bowl on CBS and the Oscars on ABC, with the Grammy Awards on CBS somewhere in the middle.

Its only worth mentioning because such events can inflate or otherwise impact a station’s late news ratings.

And a little thing called the presidential debates generated considerable attention.

The local news ratings cited here reflect broadcasts Monday through Friday. In parenthesis are increase or decrease compared to the November 2015 and what that figure represents in net loss or gain of viewers. A local rating point is the equivalent of 8,822 television households.

Read More

Milwaukee Media Notes: Pudi, Petrie, Public Radio

Posted by Duane Dudek
nick

Time for another bunch of low hanging fruit from the Milwaukee media tree

Marquette University alum Nick D’Agosto has what Deadline Hollywood calls the “sought after lead role” in the upcoming NBC series pilot  described as a  “documentary style procedural comedy.”

It is a fish out of water tale about a New York lawyer defending a poetry professor played by John Lithgow accused of murdering his wife in a small Southern town.

D’Agosto, a Nebraska native, is currently appearing on “Gotham,” and previously appeared on “Masters of Sex,” “E.R.,’ “House,” “The Office” and “Six Feet Under.”

Read More

Milwaukee Super Bowl Ratings Beat National Average

Posted by Duane Dudek

Overnight ratings for Sunday’s telecast of Super Bowl on CBS earned a 50.6 average for WDJT-TV (Channel 58). That was higher than the national overnight rating of 49.

Local ratings grew throughout the course of the game peaking at 55.4 in the closing moments.

Overnight ratings are preliminary. In Sunday’s game the Denver Broncos upset the Carolina Panthers, 24 to 10. A local rating point is the equivalent of 8,822 television homes.

The national overnight rating was the second highest ever for a Super Bowl game, beating last year’s rating of 49.7 on NBC, according to MediaLife magazine.

Read More

Set Your DVR! It’s Finally Time For WTMJ’s “The Now”

Posted by Duane Dudek
IMG_3844

My DVR is telling me it’s finally time for “The Now.”

It wouldn’t be the first time a robot lied to me.

But the evidence suggests that “The Now,” a syndicated news-lite-infotainment format with contributions from E.W. Scripps stations, finally premieres on WTMJ-TV (Channel 4) Thursday at 6:30 p.m.

It will replace the “Wisconsin Tonight” news package weeknights. The show is also listed on WTMJ’s website schedule, so I guess its official.

It was originally scheduled to debut earlier this month.

Read More

Milwaukee Media Notes: “Now” What’s Going On At WTMJ?

Posted by Duane Dudek

Whither WTMJ-TV’s “The Now: Milwaukee?”

And what does its failure to launch tonight as originally scheduled say about the E. W. Scripps Co. station’s 10 p.m. anchor search?

“The Now,” a syndicated news-lite-infotainment format with contributions from local stations, currently airs on other Scripps stations. It will replace WTMJ’s “Wisconsin Tonight” news package at 6:30 p.m.

According to my – and your – cable guide it was scheduled to premiere tonight. I set my DVR accordingly.

Read More

WRIT Tops Holiday Radio Ratings For Milwaukee

Posted by Duane Dudek

Neither rain nor sleet nor hail, or a combination of all three, can keep A. C. Nielsen from releasing the Milwaukee holiday radio ratings for December.

The ratings are courtesy of the radio industry report Tom Taylor Now. They appear below analysis free.

Except to say: Winners appear to be WKLH, up 1.0 share, and WTMJ, up .8.

Losers include country music WMIL down 1.1 share point and WISN, down .9.

And Christmas music on WRIT did not gain it any audience, or lose any.

The ratings, provided by industry newsletter Tom Taylor Now, represent a percentage of those listening to radio who are listening to a station in an average-quarter hour and measure listening by total audience, 6 years and older.

Read More

Milwaukee Media Notes: WTMJ Anchors, Radio Vet Un-Retires, Ratings

Posted by Duane Dudek
Photo credit AllAccess.com

Bill Hurwitz photo credit AllAccess.com

So much for retirement.

After 40 years in Milwaukee Bill Hurwitz, who brought Martini Radio is mixing drinks in another market.

Just weeks after retiring as vice president and general manager of Milwaukee Radio Alliance stations WLUM, WLDB and WZTI, Hurwitz has joined KCXX in San Bernadino as GM.

According to Radio Insight the station switched formats Tuesday from alternative music to Rhythmic Hot AC.

It is also switching call letters as well to KHTI.

The station is owned by Former Green Bay Packer Willie Davis and Duane Davis’ All Pro Broadcasting.

Read More

©2017 The Dudek Abides
<