New Year’s Eve Ratings…
CNN’s Anderson Cooper hosted New Year’s Eve Special beat FNC’s Bill Hemmer/Julie Banderas hosted New Year’s Eve Special according to the following spreadsheet ICN received from CNN…
January 3, 2007
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AC’s New Year’s show was varied and really enjoyable.
Comment by Marty — January 4, 2007 @ 8:37 am
there is some confusion here - according to mediabistro (tvn) fox came out on top 1,024 to cnn’s 898. maybe cnn is fudging a little. wouldnt surprise me.
Comment by liz — January 5, 2007 @ 11:55 am
TVN uses a different ratings system than ICN does. This tends to cause confusion because the two sets of numbers don’t match.
Comment by Spud — January 5, 2007 @ 12:04 pm
spud - they sure dont match - maybe in fairness you should post both - it looks like you are being partial to cnn.
Comment by liz — January 6, 2007 @ 6:43 am
Look. Let’s not pussfoot around the issue. The central issue here is that there are more than one set of numbers floating around now. Read the Olbermann Watch in depth story on the way ratings data is getting parsed (yeah, it beats up on TVN but ignore that and concentrate on the data). I’m using the number set that’s been used for years and years by the networks. There are newer “sets” now, one of which may or may not be CNN’s numbers above. As they didn’t tell me what it sources to, I don’t know. I do know where TVN gets his numbers from and he uses one of the newer sets of numbers which not every network agrees with relying upon. TVN used to post the same numbers I did. That changed earlier in the year. Who is more right? TVN for changing or ICN for not changing? I don’t know.
The point is, this is all he said she said. Numbered statistics can be parsed and twisted seven ways from sundown. Don’t lose sleep over the fact that there’s more than one set of numbers out there and they don’t match because it’s out of your and my hands to do anything about reconciling them. I sure don’t lose sleep over it.
Ultimately the networks themselves need to agree to a uniform set of numbers to use. What we’re seeing is a period of transition and turbulence in the ratings data.
Comment by Spud — January 6, 2007 @ 10:51 am