by MarkLives (@marklives) See which were the most popular shows on South African TV for the week of 30 March–5 April 2015! Using data supplied by the new Broadcast Research Council of South Africa (BRC), this #SouthAfricanTVratings column is a weekly roundup of SA’s TV audience viewership.
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#SouthAfricanTVratings: 2–8 February 2015 (week 6)
by MarkLives (@marklives) See which were the most popular shows on South African TV for the week of 2–8 February 2015! Using data supplied by the new Broadcast Research Council of South Africa (BRC), this #SouthAfricanTVratings column is a weekly roundup of SA’s TV audience viewership.
NAB/SAARF fight will force more realistic readership measures for print
by Gill Moodie (@GrubstreetSA) What an illuminating morning I spent today at the joint South African Audience Research Foundation (Saarf)/National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) presentation on the way forward for TV research now that the NAB has given notice of its resignation from Saarf (effective 31 December 2014). Last month I wrote a piece about what lies behind the Saarf/NAB fight and after today’s frank question-and-answer time (the most interesting were the questions from media planners), I’m sticking with what I wrote earlier but can a bit more.
What struck me at their recent presentation in Cape Town is that:
1. The broadcasters are relishing their role of rocking the boat;
2. That they are genuinely pleased that TV market research is now going to be more comprehensive and more credible; and
3. That there’s a general smugness about that fact that it’s maybe time for print to get its comeuppance (though this was never stated).