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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 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

Bravo Ratings for Monday 24 September 2012 – RHoNY, Gallery Girls & WWHL

Andy Cohen, Sonja Morgan & Cat Ommanney on WWHL after RHoNY

Andy Cohen, Sonja Morgan & Cat Ommanney
on WWHL Monday Sept 24, 2012
Photo courtesy of BravoTV ©

Earlier today we tweeted musing whether the grab on Ramona Singer’s arm by the self-styled sexually aggressive old guy (Aviva Drescher’s father), would be sufficient to finally push RHoNY above 2m viewers for an episode this season. The 17th episode of this season’s RHONY not only didn’t exceed 2m viewers, but in fact dropped 289,000 viewers from last week’s season high, scoring an audience of just 1,700,000 people. Despite that 15% drop in total audience, the 18-49 demo held at 0.80 to mirror its demo percentage of the last four episodes. Interestingly enough these ratings represent exactly 50% of the audience of the previous night’s RHoNJ finale, which had 3,407,000 viewers and scored 1.60 in the 18-49 demo. Read more

Bravo Ratings for Monday 17 September 2012 – RHoNY, Gallery Girls & WWHL

Ramona Singer - RHoNY  & Liz Margulies - Gallery Girls - Proving that Blondes CAN wear White after Labor Day

Ramona Singer & Liz Margulies
Proving that Blondes CAN wear
White after Labor Day
Photo courtesy of BravoTV ©

Last night the RHoNY ‘wives may have physically returned from St Barths but emotionally they were very much still there as the fallout from the trip continued back in NYC. After three episodes spent in the Caribbean, none of which gained the magic audience total of 2m, it was unlikely that their return would reach that high, and so it proved, but only just as 1,989,000 tuned in for the 16th regular episode of this 5th season. This episode was the fourth consecutive week where RHoNy scored a 0.80 in the 18-49 demo. That total audience figure is a new season high but still short of the magical 2m mark. Read more

Bravo Ratings for Monday 10 September 2012 – RHoNY, Gallery Girls & WWHL

Monday Night’s on Bravo
RHoNY & Gallery Girls
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So last night was the finale on the RHoNY sojourn in St Barths, and disappointingly again it failed to attract an audience of over 2m viewers. Just 1,801,000 viewers tuned in (0.80 in 18-49 demo), which was a 6.6% drop on last week’s episode and was the lowest rated of the three episodes set in St Barths. To give these ratings some perspective the last TWO episodes of RHoNJ have had a combined audience of 6.07m and the THREE St Barth’s RHoNY episodes didn’t even match that with their combined audience of 5.552m. In our projections we’d hoped that RHoNY would finally break 2m, but gave a range of between 1.9-2.1m and it didn’t even make that, which is both surprising and disappointing. Read more

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