soaps continus good run despite world cup

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Posted: 18 years ago
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according to this article on radiosargam.com -kasam se is the no 1 zee serial 😛

With India virtually out of the Cricket World Cup, statistics prior to yesterdays match against Sri Lanka have proved that the soaps are still ruling Indian television. The ongoing World Cup has had minimal impact on viewership of prime-time soap operas on television.

Blame it on the Indian teams far from satisfactory performance in the ongoing World Cup saga, the stickiness of weepy saas-bahu serials or what you will, clearly the men-in-blue have their task cut out.

Television monitoring agency TAM Indias television rating (TVR) for week ending 17th March shows Hindi General Entertainment channels (GEC) holding on to their viewers, compared to TVRs for the preceding, non-World Cup week.

STAR Plus marquee K serials, Kyunki and Kahani have tackled the cricket googly pretty well, so far. While Kahani has seen a minuscule drop of 0.15 TVRs (from 7.82 pre-WC week to 7.67 for week ending March 17), Kyunki surprisingly has gained viewership (7.74 to 7.96) amongst 4 years plus in cable & satellite households in Hindi speaking markets.

ZEE TVs Saat Phere (1.6 to 1.59) and Kasamh Se (3.66 to 3.61) are stable, and Betiyaan has in fact gained new viewers (3.24 to 4.04).

Surprisingly, STAR Plus tactical programme to take on the World Cup on competing with Sony TV, Shah Rukh Khan-anchored KBC 3, have seen a substantial viewership erosion (7.01 to 5.53) due to the World Cup.

The reason for KBC getting impacted more than the prime time serials could be because viewers can always come back to KBC but followers of serials usually have more stickiness, says Lodestar Universal CEO Shashi Sinha.

While STAR attributes this slide in KBC ratings to an extent on cricket, the ongoing exam season is also having a rub-off on the overall viewership numbers of KBC according to STAR TV president, advertising sales & distribution, Paritosh Joshi.

The drop in ratings seems to coincide with the Cricket World Cup since there is a huge male orientation to KBC which could have slipped off to cricket, adds Joshi. Perhaps the only consolation for STAR here is that even Sony, the host broadcaster for the World Cup, too has lost out, with most prime-time programmes on the Sony GEC showing drop in TVRsboth Boogie Woogie and CID down, 0.91 (from 2.10) and 2.07 (from 2.35) respectively.

The first week ratings of the World Cup matches however, have otherwise been positive with the opening match between West-Indies and Pakistan garnering a 6 TVR compared to an 8.2 for the last World Cup opener (South Africa versus West Indies in 2003). The India-Bangladesh match did a 10 TVR.

Even the non-India playing matches, such as an Australia-Scotland encounter has done an average of 2.5 TVR. More than a couple of non-India playing matches have registered more than 2 TVR which is a good sign. Although, the ratings on SAB TV have not been encouraging, says Mindshare MD Sundar Raman.

Article from The Economic Times

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Posted: 18 years ago
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Is that so. Then why has it been rating lower than SP and Betiyaan for the past couple of weeks. Saath Phere's rating is definately not that low.

TFS! 😉
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Posted: 18 years ago
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Saat Phere and KS are zee's number 1 shows...SP has more viewers than KS...but KS has more I-F members than SP...but TRPS show SP is higher than KS.
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Posted: 18 years ago
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Originally posted by: *Reemz*

Is that so. Then why has it been rating lower than SP and Betiyaan for the past couple of weeks. Saath Phere's rating is definately not that low.

TFS! 😉


exactly! lolzzz...people ten to mix that up..because the SP forum isn't bluging like the KS one, doesnt mean KS is in fact the higher viewed show! according to TRPs, SP is viewed more religiously than KS. lolzzzz

However, KS jsut has more I-F members...that's all..it doesnt mean that KS is in fact THE number one show...because this is just one forum, you know??

Not intentionally meaning to hurt anyone's feleings!!! just, well stating the facts adn trying to clear misconceptions

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Posted: 18 years ago
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Saath Phere has been Zee's most sucessful and steady show in a long time. i dont watch it regulalry but it is definatey the channel's anchor. Kasam Se,Betiyaan and Dulhann follow. 😊

KS forum is really active because of the JB love story...that once existed. 😕
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Posted: 18 years ago
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Seriously,I don't like the concepts of Zee soaps,it sounds very old fashioned.KS is the only show i have watched on Zee.Come on Zee ,India has crossed generations still upholds traditions and culture and r modest in their thinking and we are known as the largest economic country in the world and so many thing have changed even in rural india aswell. When this is the case from past decade i wonder how can they come up with concepts like saat phere(story of dark skinned girl) and GKL(daughters vs sons-bias and some tortures on D-I-L).We have crossed all these long way back and sometimes I wonder what kind of people watch such shows to TV and how can TRP's in india be good for such shows and Is TRP chart the right one being put out without any bias.
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Posted: 18 years ago
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Wooow,,,thts awwwsome..! 😃 👏

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