Boxcutters - An Australian TV Podcast - Latest Comments in Boxcutters Episode 75

Re: Boxcutters Episode 75

fourthof5 — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 03:35:43 -0000

The Greed Guide has an article on ratings this week.

Re: Boxcutters Episode 75

Brett — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 21:06:48 -0000

CAN comments in the blog be included under the heading of Letters to Boxcutters? Maybe just on a selective basis...

It's interesting to see that the Green Guide are continuing to follow our lead on issues. Just days after I question the interest in ratings and why we, as viewers, care about them at all, they dedicate a cover story to the matter.

This snippet from the breakout box story shed some light on the reality:
AGB Nielsen staff informed me that young families, tenants and people with lots of home technology tended to drop out most quickly while older people stayed the longest. Media and research professionals were not supposed to participate and non-English speakers were least likely to join. Busy people everywhere tend to be impatient with surveys.

I left the panel wondering about the collected personality types that might be neglected. If busy people, young people, those sensitive about privacy, high technology users, non-English speakers and media professionals were neglected, whose taste does Australian television represent?

Could I venture it's the boring, comfortable middle-class suburbanite white homowner, who requires an outlet to vicariously experience a more interesting existence?

I'm not now, nor on the show, suggesting Ratings: NO. I just want to encourage people to think for themselves about good television rather than looking at various, spun, viewer figures from each of the networks, seeing, for example, something like What About Brian not pulling 1.5mil and concluding that 7 have got to axe it or shove it into 11:30 Tuesdays.

Of course, this ignores the fact that they haven't necessarily got anything to put in there that's going to rate better unless they burn something like Shark, that's likely to be a peak prime-time winner later in the year.

Have a look at the Green guide today or read the stories online - Ratings Game - My life as a demographic

Re: Boxcutters Episode 75

Ross — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 04:44:36 -0000

If you write it Kerrie, rest assured Brett will read it out. Right now he is reading this trying to figure how to get on ep 76.

Glad it seems to be ratings yes - I find it all very interesting, especially at this time of year.

Re: Boxcutters Episode 75

kerrie — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:05:31 -0000

Ratings yes. Even though I find it completely bewildering, it's good to know what people are supposedly watching and how it affects the industy, the networks and the decisions they make. Maybe we should get a new chicken, though.

PS. That'll teach me to email my deepest, darkest secrets and dreams to the Boxcutters... Don't read out the one about the pushbike and the trapeze artist and the camembert.

Re: Boxcutters Episode 75

fourthof5 — Mon, 05 Mar 2007 18:39:28 -0000

Ratings - Yes, at least it tells you what people are not watching