In my previous post, Byron Media’s Dr John Morse captured the year-to-year subscriber losses for a selection of U.S. Cable / Satellite channels. Nat Geo Wild and Smithsonian gained subscribers, though from smaller footprints than the major networks. Read the full report here. Lost Revenues: What is the revenue impact of these subscriber losses? Basic …
Best British Documentaries, Factual, Lifestyle & Current Affairs, 1H 2018. UK Ratings #1-100
The “Best of British” is one of my most popular posts that lists the year’s highest-rated unscripted programs in the UK. For a different look at 2018 through June 30, I combined the Documentary, Factual, Lifestyle & Current Affairs categories. My expanding coverage of Audience Analysis is sponsored by Parrot Analytics. Watch out for more …
PBS Science Audience: Top 5 Non-NOVA Series & Specials, 2015-17
PBS commissions Science specials and series in addition to the NOVA pipeline. Top 5 Non-NOVA Science: Update “Farthest – Voyager In Space” is a standalone special produced by HHMI Tangled Bank Studios for PBS, and not a Secrets Of The Dead episode. Context: PBS’s average primetime rating is 1.41. That translates as an audience of 2,116,000 …
PBS & Natural History Programming: A Ratings Snapshot for the Jackson Hole Wildlife Film Festival.
Wildlife programming is an area of strategic focus and growth for PBS: Natural History appeals strongly to PBS’s core audience. And the genre is bringing in new and younger viewers. Ratings Revealed: Is the PBS audience for Natural History as big as many claim? How old are the viewers? Who originates the programs? How many …
AIDC #2: Australia’s Documentary Conference Was A Winner / Updated
Here are 6 reasons why the 2017 edition showed AIDC as rising towards the top tier of documentary conferences. “The Australian International Documentary Conference Board is delighted to announce that Alice Burgin, who programmed a very successful 30th anniversary conference in Melbourne earlier this year, has been appointed to the role of AIDC Director.” (May 1, 2017) …
MIPDoc Takeaways: A Video Interview for China’s Unscripted Marketplace
Content China‘s Carrie Huo sat down with me in Cannes to chat about trends in the Unscripted video sector worldwide. The Mandarin-subtitled interview was aimed at China’s documentary and reality producers. The video is distributed on the ad-supported Media Plus China platform. It is worth a look just for the production value and ad load! Topics covered …
AIDC VOD Takeaways (1/2): The VOD Boom and ABC Australia
“DEMYSTIFYING VOD” was the ambitious goal for our featured panel at this month’s excellent AIDC in booming Melbourne. The sparkling panelists were: Rebecca Heap, Head of Strategy and Digital, iView / ABC Australia Sharon Ramsay-Luck, Head of Sales & Business Development, ABC Commercial Roger Jackson, Co-founder and COO, Kinonation, Los Angeles The feedback was that it was ‘mission accomplished’ for …
