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Part Five Developing the Integrated Marketing Communications Program<br />

Belch: Advertising and<br />

Promotion, Sixth Edition<br />

Figure 11-3 Top 10 regularly<br />

scheduled syndicated<br />

programs 2001–2002 Season<br />

V. Developing the<br />

Integrated Marketing<br />

Communications Program<br />

11. Evaluation of Broadcast<br />

Media<br />

© The McGraw−Hill<br />

Companies, 2003<br />

First-run syndication refers to shows produced specifically for the syndication market.<br />

The first-run syndication market is made up of a variety of shows, including some that did<br />

not make it as network shows. Examples of popular first-run syndication shows include<br />

talk shows such as Live with Regis & Kelly and The Jerry Springer Show, entertainment<br />

shows such as Inside Edition and Entertainment Tonight, and dramas such as VIP.<br />

Advertiser-supported or barter syndication is the practice of selling shows to stations<br />

in return for a portion of the commercial time in the show, rather than (or in addition to)<br />

cash. The commercial time from all stations carrying the show is packaged into national<br />

units and sold to national advertisers. The station sells the remaining time to local and<br />

spot advertisers. Both off-network and first-run syndicated programs are offered<br />

through barter syndication. Usually, more than half of the advertising time is presold,<br />

and the remainder is available for sale by the local advertiser. Barter syndication allows<br />

national advertisers to participate in the syndication market with the convenience of a<br />

network-type media buy, while local stations get free programming and can sell the<br />

remainder of the time to local or spot advertisers. Recently, the straight barter deal has<br />

given way to more barter/cash arrangements, where the station pays for a program at a<br />

reduced rate and accepts a number of preplaced bartered ads. Top-rated barter syndicated<br />

programs include Wheel of Fortune, Jeopardy, and The Oprah Winfrey Show.<br />

Syndication now accounts for more than a third of the national broadcast audience<br />

and has become a very big business, generating ad revenue comparable to any of the<br />

big-three networks. Syndicated shows have become more popular than network shows<br />

in certain dayparts, such as daytime, early prime time, and late fringe. In some markets,<br />

syndicated shows like Wheel of Fortune draw a larger audience than the network news.<br />

Many national advertisers use syndicated shows to broaden their reach, save<br />

money, and target certain audiences. For example, off-network syndication shows<br />

such as Friends, Seinfeld, and X-Files are popular with advertisers because they reach<br />

the highly sought after, and often difficult to reach, young-adult audience (age 18 to<br />

34) and are about 15 to 20 percent lower on a cost-per-thousand basis than network<br />

shows. 21 Figure 11-3 shows the top 10 syndicated programs in 2002.<br />

Syndication has certain disadvantages, such as more commercial time and thus<br />

more clutter. The audience for syndicated shows is often older and more rural, and<br />

syndicators do not supply as much research information as the networks do. Syndication<br />

also creates more problems for media buyers, since a syndicated show may not be<br />

seen in a particular market or may be aired during an undesirable time period. Thus,<br />

media buyers have to look at each market and check airtimes and other factors to put<br />

together a syndication schedule.<br />

Methods of Buying Time<br />

In addition to deciding whether to use network versus spot advertising, advertisers<br />

must decide whether to sponsor an entire program, participate in a program, or use<br />

spot announcements between programs. Sponsorship of a program and participations<br />

Rank Program Rating (%)<br />

1 Wheel of Fortune 9.5<br />

2 Jeopardy 8.0<br />

3 Friends 6.9<br />

4 Seinfeld 6.3<br />

5 Entertainment Tonight 6.1<br />

6 ESPN NFL Regular Season 5.9<br />

7 Judge Judy 5.8<br />

8 Oprah Winfrey Show 5.8<br />

9 Everybody Loves Raymond 5.6<br />

10 Seinfeld (weekend) 5.0<br />

Source: Nielsen Media Research.

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