Competition in the industry is bound to reduce the amount of time made available on weekdays to traditionally low -
rating religious programs, even on religious stations.
A wider national exposure could easily have made it one of the largest -
rating religious programs.
The Roman Catholic program, «Insight,» for example, was the third largest -
rating religious program in the areas in which it was broadcast.
Not exact matches
Furthermore, the highly
rated CBS
program Touched by an Angel and the DreamWorks animated film Prince of Egypt have demonstrated a friendlier attitude by studios toward
religious and family themes.
Some network
religious specials also
rate as high as or higher than the syndicated paid - time
programs.
As will be seen in more detail subsequently, Nielsen figures for 1979 show only five syndicated
religious programs that were able to gain equal to or greater than a
rating of one.
During the 12 year period from l970 to l981, the NBC - TV series of
religious specials had an average Nielsen
rating of 2.31 or an average audience of slightly more than 3 million persons for each
program.
Therefore, even when
religious programs are on semiprime time, the number of viewers per set is probably no more than about 1.8 — the viewers - per - household figure widely used by the
rating firms themselves.
Their
rate of
religious program viewing is high, 191 percent.
Their
rate of
religious program viewing is 154 percent, although they are heavy users of television in general both for entertainment and as a means of keeping informed about the world in which they live.
Because most
religious programs are lower -
rating programs, to place them in prime - time could have a detrimental effect on the audiences for
programs before or after the
religious program
Their
rate of
religious program viewing is 164 percent.
Audience figures presented in detail in the next chapter suggest that these syndicated
programs have displaced higher -
rating network
programs, which may also result in a smaller audience for
religious programming on television.
Religious programs are low in the overall
rating of syndicated
programs in the country.
The group Mixed: News and Information, which had a
religious program viewing
rate of 154 percent had an average interest factor for religion of -.29.
Nielsen survey figures show that in 1981 there were only five syndicated
religious programs that had a national
rating of one or better.
Frank and Greenberg suggest that their high
rate of
religious program viewing of 164 percent satisfies their need for social integration because of separation from other adult companionship.
The Nielsen Company, for example, each November produces a «Report on Syndicated
Program Audiences» which lists not only audience sizes for the various syndicated
religious programs, but also age and sex variables, national and DMA
ratings, and syndication information.
Males: Money and Nature's Product, which had a
religious program viewing
rate of 136 percent had an average interest factor for religion of -.26.
This high
rate of
religious program viewing matches their expressed interests and their needs to overcome loneliness and to lift their spirits.
The high
rate of viewing in this group is reflected in their dominance in the overall
religious program audience.
On the one hand, the top university
programs in religion have not been interested in
religious practices or practical theology, in fact, most first -
rate university religion departments are militantly nonconfessional and operate in an ethos of objective research.
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program, which provides students who decide to leave some of the state's lowest -
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religious schools.