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Chapter 177: Those Classics

In May 1959, China’s first TV station, CCTV, was established. In 1964, Jiangsu Satellite TV, the second and first provincial TV station in China, was established in Jinling and subsequently began broadcasting. By 1971, there were more than 40 TV stations in China.

Since 1974, the state has invested heavily in the construction of cable TV networks. Later, many companies also joined the construction of cable TV networks. By the 1980s, cable TV networks had basically spread throughout prefecture-level cities.

At the same time, by 1980, there were more than 100 television stations in China.

In 1975, CCTV was the first of seven TV stations in China to be connected to the cable TV network. In 1982, CCTV became the first to be launched on satellite.

The following year, another 17 provincial satellite TV stations were launched nationwide. By 1990, the vast majority of provincial TV stations, as many as 40 provincial TV stations, had upgraded to dual-track cable and satellite live broadcasts.

Basically, before cable TV was connected, the ratings could only be counted through telephone interviews. However, telephones were not popular at that time, and the interview data was highly biased. Therefore, it is difficult to say that the data at that time was convincing.

It was not until the cable TV network was connected that the ratings statistics began to become simple and accurate. However, in the early days, the penetration rate of cable TV networks was not that high, so the ratings could only represent data for a small range.

Until 1983, there were 18 satellite TV stations in China, and the issue of audience ratings really became the focus of attention and attention of all television workers.

Before 1983, CCTV, due to its channel advantage, always occupied more than 50% of the domestic TV screens within the scope of statistics.

As the major provincial satellite TV stations were launched, major TV stations across the country began to compete with CCTV for ratings. Although some stations were getting better and better, while others never rose to prominence, it must be said that with more TV stations to choose from, audiences would inevitably be diverted.

Before 1983, it was normal for a TV series broadcast on CCTV to get a rating of 50, 60 or even 70 points. But after 1983, even for CCTV, it was difficult to get a rating of more than 50 points.

Especially when the time entered the 1990s, the television market further prospered, and even a strong TV station like CCTV had a 20-point audience rating, which had become a bottleneck.

It was from that time that the major provincial satellite TV stations began to challenge the status of CCTV. From time to time, one station or another would always come up with some programs or TV series with quite good ratings and start competing with CCTV.

The industry generally believes that it is from 1990 that the so-called ratings have become more and more meaningful and convincing.

Of course, CCTV is CCTV after all. Although it is difficult for them to exceed 20 points in ratings, it is still not something that anyone can challenge. For the provincial and municipal satellite TV stations across the country, their bottleneck is 10 points.

Bottleneck means evaluation criteria

If the ratings are over 20 points, it means that this TV series or program is a big hit nationwide.

A rating of less than 20 points, such as a dozen points, is already popular, but compared with the great classic TV series in the long history, it still lacks some persuasiveness.

Since the beginning of 2000, a full decade has passed. CCTV has produced one or two TV series with a viewership rating of more than 10 points almost every year, and even the occasional blockbuster can exceed 15 points.

As for the major provincial TV stations, the same thing applies: if it can get over 7 points, it is considered very popular, and if it exceeds 10 points, it is at the incredible level, it is a phenomenon!

That is why when”Legend of the New White Snake” resumed broadcasting on Monday and won 16.8 points in ratings, all the major TV stations in China went crazy, and even sent deputy station directors to Beijing in person, hoping to win the second round of this TV series. (To read the exciting novels, go to Feilu Novel Network!)

It even caused all the major TV stations to look for favors and use backdoors, and several deputy directors spontaneously went to visit Li Qi’s home. As expected, it is estimated that the ratings can climb a few points, and there is hope that it will approach or even break through 20 points, which means that this TV series has come close to or even reached the phenomenal level!

However, before the broadcast data on Tuesday night was counted, no matter how optimistic people were about the TV series and its ratings, they could never imagine that the TV series’s appeal to the Chinese people was no longer represented by the 20% ratings.

Again, this TV series not only has the best packaging among current domestic TV series, but most importantly, its core story directly touches the hearts of all Chinese people.

So, it has already won a viewership rating of 35.4 points after only the tenth episode.

In the ratings rankings of the past decade, it has jumped from outside the top 30 yesterday to the top 10, second only to”Journey to the West”.》、《”Romance of the Three Kingdoms”,”Water Margin” and”The Great Tang Dynasty” ranked fifth![]

And if we only count the ratings of provincial satellite TV stations, it has even surpassed the South Korean TV series”Dae Jang Geum” introduced by Mango TV, which was originally ranked first in history, and directly topped the list!

Therefore, at the end of the two to three thousand word post, the poster from the TV system concluded with great emotion: A 50-episode TV series, broadcast on a provincial channel like Blueberry TV, actually received a peak audience rating of 35.4 points in the tenth episode. This is definitely a miracle!

She admitted that before the TV series was aired, as a die-hard fan of Li Qi, she was extremely dissatisfied with Li Qi’s”unprofessional” decision to direct a TV series.

Because from the fact that Li Qi went to film a TV series, she sensed a very bad sign: it would be fine if Li Qi was not successful, but if the TV series really achieved some success, it would be very likely that he would go on to film the next one in the future. In that case, all his time would be spent on being a director, wasting such a good face and acting skills. For his die-hard fans, this is almost intolerable and something they are absolutely unwilling to accept!