CKY Newshour still the top TV news show in city area
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This article was published 10/01/2002 (8766 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
CKY Newshour remains the most popular supper-hour TV news show in the Winnipeg area, according to the latest survey by the Bureau of Broadcast Measurement.
The 6 p.m. local news show anchored by Gord Leclerc and Janet Stewart drew an average of 111,000 viewers aged 18 and up this fall, trouncing its nearest competitor by more than 72,000 sets of eyes.
“I think there was a greater interest in news after Sept. 11. I don’t have any data to back that up, but that’s my impression,” said Steve Vogelsang, CKY’s news director.
“For us in particular, the biggest factor is we have a better newscast than we had last year. A year ago, we had a rookie news director, a rookie managing editor and two rookie reporters.”
CKY Newshour, Winnipeg’s top-rated newscast since the mid-1990s, increased its audience this fall from 103,000 adults last year to its current 111,000.
CKY’s closest rival, Global TV’s 5:30 p.m. local newscast, garnered 38,700 viewers this fall, up from 38,000 in 2000.
The half-hour local component of CBC Television’s Canada Now ranked No. 3, attracting 33,000 news junkies in its 6 p.m. slot. That represents a drop of 6,000 viewers from its fall 2000 audience of 39,000.
Finally, A-Channel News at 6 p.m. finished fourth, garnering 14,300 viewers, a modest rise from 14,000 the previous year.
The audience numbers were derived from a viewership survey of Winnipeg-area viewers aged 18 and up, conducted from Oct. 18 to Nov. 21, 2001.
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