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Why the RHoNY Pay Stand-off is a $25m+ Gamble for Bravo Media

May 10, 2013 / / No comments
RHoNY Logo Square

Yesterday news broke of a ‘strike’ due to a RHoNY pay stand-off, by the six returning cast of The Real Housewives of New York as they attempt to wangle greater financial rewards from their paymasters Bravo Media. Since 2006 Bravo Media have built a cash generator of massive proportions with their mega-successful franchise and while it’s true that RHoNY last season fell to become the second lowest rated of the Housewives’ franchise (in the USA Anyway), it is still a huge cash cow for Bravo TV and their owners Comcast. Read more

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Bravo Ratings for Monday October 22nd, 2012 – RHoNY Lost Footage and WWHL

October 23, 2012 / / 3 comments
Andy Cohen, Jamie Lynn-Sigler and Scott Baio on WWHL after the RHoNY Lost Footage

Andy Cohen, Jamie Lynn-Sigler and Scott Baio
WWHL October 22nd, 2012
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Last night the longest RHoNY season of its five, wrapped up with off-cuts and some ‘off’ moments. Seemingly the audience was off as well, off watching the 3rd & final Presidential Debate, as just 933,000 viewers tuned in. With a 0.40 in the 18-49 demo, that means that this is the lowest rated episode for RHoNY since April 2008. While it’s true that Lost Footage episodes tend to score lower ratings, Season One’s had 1,063,000 viewers, and Season 3′s was watched by 1,440,000 (demo 0.60), under one million would never have been expected. Incidentally Season 2 and Season 4 didn’t have Lost Footage episodes. Embarrassingly for Bravo this also means that Jill Zarin’s appearance on WWHL last Monday had higher viewership than the final RHoNY episode of the season. Read more

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Bravo Ratings for Tuesday October 16th 2012 – Flipping Out & WWHL

October 22, 2012 / / No comments
Andy Cohen, Lauren Conrad & LuAnn Delesseps on WWHL after Flipping Out

Andy Cohen, Lauren Conrad & LuAnn Delesseps
on the set of WWHL 10/16
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Presidential & Vice Presidential debates can have quite a striking impact on Cable TV’s ratings and seemingly on Bravo’s in particular. When Barack Obama and Mitt Romney first took the stage their debate coincided with the debut episode of ‘Life After Top Chef’. Of the three episodes that have aired, the highest rated LATC episode was the one scheduled against the Presidential contenders. When the Veep debate took place, the downward spiral of RHoM was temporarily halted as its audience grew when compared with its prior week. Presumably this increase in ratings for Bravo occurs as the competing offerings on other networks is diminished, as over 10 channels including ABC, CBS, & NBC are all airing the same programming. Read more

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Bravo Ratings for Monday October 15th 2012 – RHoNY Reunion & WWHL Jill Zarin

October 16, 2012 / / 3 comments
Jill Zarin on WWHL after the RHoNY Reunion

Andy Cohen & Jill Zarin
Watch What Happens Live
October 15th, 2012
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As ratings information comes in we’ll keep updating this post.

Last night fired former Real Housewife of New York City was given an unprecedented platform that rightly or wrongly has made today’s Bravo story all about Jill and not the three new or three veteran RHoNY Cast members. If you’re a Jill fan you’ll love that, and if you’re a Jill foe, then you would be right to question what exactly was Bravo’s reason to provide this opportunity to her.

Here are the raw numbers and we’ll be adding analysis shortly. Read more

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Bravo Ratings for Monday October 8th 2012 – RHoNY Reunion & WWHL

October 9, 2012 / / One comment
Heather, Carole, Aviva, Andy Cohen, Ramona, Sonja & LuAnn - RHoNY Reunion Bravo Ratings

Heather, Carole, Aviva, Andy Cohen, Ramona, Sonja & LuAnn
RHoNY Reunion – Part 1 8th October 2012
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Last night the Real Housewives of New York City entered uncharted territory as, with a 19th episode airing, its fifth season became its longest. The first tranche of the RHoNY Reunion only managed to attract an audience of 1,700,000 (and a 0.80 in the 18-49 demo). Sadly, in overall viewers that’s less than the 2nd reunion episode from last season that Andy Cohen said caused the major recasting this season. What’s more, is that that viewer total is lower than even Season One’s reunion way back in 2008.

For the last 16 weeks Miss Advised and then Gallery Girls took the 10pm time slot after RHoNY, and as for RHoNY’s first two Season 5 episodes, this week RHoNY repeated with the repeat airing scoring an additional 1,012,000 viewers (18-49 demo 0.4). While this boosts the cumulative RHoNY audience, it also diluted the 9pm first airing’s ratings which might give Bravo PR some leeway to explain away the ratings decline. Read more

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