Chapter 264: Chapter 264 All Confused Chapter 264: Chapter 264 All Confused Many in the audience asked with confusion, “What’s going on here? The ratings are actually starting to accelerate at this time slot?” “So strange, I’ve never seen this happen before.” “Yeah, look at the earlier programs, their ratings were all slowly dropping.”
The journalists were all dumbfounded, unable to make heads or tails of it: “Weird, is there something wrong with the ratings calculation? They’re accelerating during this time slot?!” “It obviously doesn’t seem right.”
Liu Gang frowned and said, “What’s happening? Are the ratings messing with us?”
As everyone was questioning, someone with sharp eyes pointed at the big screen and shouted, “It’s because the humor show on Liao Bei TV just finished broadcasting, that program ended at 10:32!”
After these words came out, the entire venue exploded!
“Yeah, it looks like the audience from that program has started to shift over here!”
“Awesome, that’s a shift of 0.4 points right there!”
“Insane, with this momentum, breaking 1.5 should be no problem!”
Liu Qisheng stared in disbelief—we’re talking about 1.5 points here! If it really breaks through…
Hahaha, I can rest easy now!
At this moment, the reporters in the venue finally began to get serious, and Liu Gang’s expression turned grave. Wei Ming, who was sitting in the corner, gaped—could this really be happening?! A shift of 0.4 points from one program directly to another?!
Soon, the venue quieted down, and as the fifth ten-minute period passed, the ratings data updated again—
[Dream Home Makeover… Ratings: 2.114%]
[Open Sesame… Ratings: 1.925%]
[Eastern TV Watches Drama… Ratings: 1.761%]
[If You Are the One… Ratings: 1.692%]
Ranking, fourth place!
The entire venue went wild, and all the members of Zhenan TV Station cheered—
“Hahaha! We broke through 1.5 points! Ranked fourth!”
“Unbelievable! Unbelievable! The rating shot up a whole point! Simply mind-blowing!”
“Today is just unbelievable; truly an eye-opener! Ratings nearing 1.7 at 11 pm, ranked fourth!”
Liu Gang sat bolt upright, staring at the big screen with disbelief in his eyes—how could ratings soar in the middle of the night?! Directly pulling nearly half of the audience from the just-ended program to ours?!
“This… this can’t be possible!” Wei Ming, sitting in the corner, almost had his eyes popping out!
What’s happening?! At this late hour, they’ve climbed 0.33 percentage points in just ten minutes?!
Damn, this must be cheating, right?! This has to be cheating?!
Lying across Xia Xueqi’s thighs, Wang Hao breathed softly, “Huff… huff…”
By this time, everyone below was speechless.
When the next ratings data came, it would be 11 pm, a time slot belonging to the midnight show when most people choose to sleep. Could the program’s ratings continue to rise?
At this moment, everyone fell silent—now the program was no longer important; what mattered was whether the ratings would go up or down in the next ten minutes.
Liu Gang sat in his chair, his eyes fixed intently on the big screen showing the statistical data, thinking to himself, “The program should have peaked by now. After all, it’s 11 pm, and the ratings can only go down from here, not up.”
Ten minutes passed in the blink of an eye, and soon the bell tolled for 11 pm, and the numbers on the big screen changed once more!
[If You Are the One… Ratings: 2.154%]
[Dream Home Makeover… Ratings: 2.073%]
[Open Sesame… Ratings: 1.742%]
Everyone sharply inhaled a breath of cold air!
They broke two! They actually breached two points in ratings at 11 pm on their first day of broadcasting! And during the same time slot, they ranked first in ratings!
“Heaven! The ratings just broke 2 percent! Now that’s impressive!”
“Yeah, yeah, it’s really not easy to have such an incredible debut nowadays!”
“It’s so freaking awesome that the ratings didn’t just hold steady, they actually went up!”
“We’re number one, hahaha! We’re number one!”
Sitting amidst the crowd, Meng Fei clenched his fists in excitement, “Two percent! Hahaha, two percent! I, Meng Fei, finally have a program that broke two percent! Brother Hao, from now on, you are my god, hahaha!”
Wang Hao: “Huff… huff…”
When the results came in this time, everyone was utterly shocked!
After the shock subsided, the mood of the crowd was distinctly different!
“With a rating of two percent at this time slot, I’m not sure what the retention rate is, but it better not get lower!”
“It must hold steady, it really has to hold steady! As long as the next batch of ratings doesn’t fall below two percent, we’ll have succeeded!”
Even the senior executives in the front were discussing, “A two percent start is impressive, let’s see the follow-up.”
Li Mingnan’s eyes bulged with disbelief, exclaiming, “Oh my god, the ratings have broken two percent at this time slot!”
“Hehe, let’s see what the retention rate is,” Zheng Qitian said with a smile. “The retention rate of the program is what’s most important because it indicates how many die-hard fans there are. Generally, only die-hard fans are most willing to buy advertising products.”
“How about that, I told you this show was good,” Xu Yingcai boasted proudly at that moment, “I ran over here the first thing after I saw it live. Heh, that’s what they call the early bird gets the worm!”
Sitting not far away, Liu Gang was also full of disbelief, “How is this possible? During this time slot, all other programs’ ratings are falling, yet his program is actually rising?!”
Wei Ming’s face turned ashen, “Eastern TV’s Transforming Star Residence has ended, and he’s snatched away another 0.4 points! We’re done for!”
By this time, many programs had begun to end their broadcast, officially entering the late-night slot where ratings plummet.
Soon, the next set of ratings was released.
[If You Are the One… Ratings: 2.617%]
In an instant, the whole place went silent.
Achieving a rating of above two percent at eleven o’clock at night was already a remarkable achievement, but unexpectedly, at this time slot, the ratings for If You Are the One actually began to climb rapidly! It had risen 0.45 percent in just ten minutes, reaching a rating of 2.6 percent!
After a brief silence, the entire studio burst into chaos!
“It’s the retention rate! Such a high retention rate!”
“Dear lord, it was 2.1 percent at eleven o’clock, and it’s gone up to 2.6 percent in just ten minutes!”
“It’s the late-night slot! This is the late-night slot! Will it continue to rise?!”
“The ratings are climbing , which means most of the audience must be stopping at this channel and not switching away!”
“It’s simply terrifying!”
At this moment, everyone was completely stunned. Nobody expected the program to start a counterattack at eleven o’clock at night!
By this stage, no one cared what the program was actually about anymore, all eyes were glued to the data on the big screen.
As people chatted and watched the TV, five minutes whisked by, and soon, the numbers on the ratings monitoring equipment changed again—
[If You Are the One… Ratings: 3.117%]
Everyone in the place was dumbfounded!
By eleven twenty at night, the overall rating had actually broken three?!
“Am I dreaming or what?! The ratings for this time slot have broken three percent?!”
“Yeah, it’s now eleven twenty, and the ratings have actually broken three percent and are still rising rapidly!”
Meng Fei was also stunned!
Originally, he thought that a rating of 2.5 percent would be more than enough for him to boast about for a lifetime, but now that number told him that 2.5 percent wasn’t the peak but merely the beginning, just the beginning!
Goodness me, this is the pace to obliterate all other entertainment shows! The late-night slot with a rating of 3.1 percent!
The program continued, and another ten minutes passed, and the numbers changed yet again—
[If You Are the One… Ratings: 3.824%]