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

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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

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

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

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

Jill Zarin on WWHL after the RHoNY Reunion

Andy Cohen & Jill Zarin
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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

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

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

Bravo Ratings for Monday 01 October 2012 – RHoNY, Gallery Girls & WWHL

Andy Cohen, Michelle Trachtenberg & Carole Radziwill  On the set of WWHL after the RHoNY & Galery Girls' finales October 1st, 2012 - Photo courtesy of BravoTV ©

Andy Cohen, Michelle Trachtenberg & Carole Radziwill
On WWHL’s set after the RHoNY & Gallery Girls’ finales
October 1st, 2012 – Photo courtesy of BravoTV ©

For the last 16 weeks, Monday nights have been the sole night each week where Bravo has aired two hours of original reality programming; RHoNY at 9/8c and first Miss Advised and then Gallery Girls at 10pm. Last night saw the season finales of both RHoNY & Gallery Girls, and this was the last chance for a regular season episode of RHoNY to break the 2m viewer mark, something that had alluded it throughout its prior 17 episodes of this season. Read more

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