Episode 369 Discussion: 5th Sept 2013

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Originally posted by: river123

After a long time, I felt somewhat cheerful (albeit with a dose of cautious optimism!!) while doing the TRP charts this morning. MB TRPs were approx. 2.65, a 15% improvement! (TVTs went to 5,329 from 4,646 the week prior.) TRPs are at their highest in almost three months. Quite an achievement. Now the challenge is to retain the momentum over the next few weeks. For anyone who missed the events of the week (😆), last week marked the end of Sultan. The show is now at #8 (since there were two # 7s), a nice improvement from last week's #11!

Weekly TRP trends are below (note: data converted from TVTs to TRPs so that we could have consistent comparison points. This is a rough inexact conversion and may not match to the second decimal place with other estimates due to minor differences in conversion methodology)

Note: Data converted from TVTs to TRPs from week 31 onwards. Does not take into consideration impact of adding new markets at various points. Size of these markets, viewing patterns, demographics, level of digitization etc. of those markets would impact TRPs. Also, hard to judge IPL's exact impact.

The two charts below show: 1) Top 10 shows TRPs and 2) TRP increase/drop for those shows, compared to the week prior. The blue bars on the second chart are the ones that did better, the red are the ones that did worse, and the no bars are the ones that were the same.

Something to note - all the shows that are better than MB have TRPs in the 3+ range. MB is 2.65. Still a little way to go before playing in that zone, all depends on how the momentum is maintained over the next few weeks. Most of the other top 10 had TRP/TVT increases compared to the week prior, MB had one of the highest improvements.

PS: all my usual caveats apply - this is a rough analysis etc. etc. Feel free to point out the holes (I freely admit there's probably some!)

Data Source: http://scrutinybykhimaanshu.blogspot.com/2013/09/tvttrp-gvtgrp-ratings-from-25th-august.html