By Alex Weprin
But comparisons to 2008 skewed by election coverage, economic crash
Cable's latest attempt for a fall land grab from the broadcast networks has so far come up fruitless. A Horizon Media analysis of broadcast premiere-week ratings (beginning Sept. 14) showed that primetime viewership of ad-supported cable networks as a whole declined year-over-year from 53.1 million viewers in 2008 to 49.9 million in 2009. While that drop is skewed because of the strong ratings generated by last year's coverage of the election and the economic crash, cable is still basically flat from last year.
The corresponding week in 2008 came during the heart of the …
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