Balloon Boy takes 9News' website numbers through the roof
Channel 9 president and general manager Mark Cornetta should give Balloon Boy Falcon Heene and his dubious dad Richard a couple of big, wet kisses. Richard called 9News first (hmmmmm), giving the outlet a head start on what turned out to be the biggest, oddest story of the day in these United States -- and he capped off the evening with an interview (on view below) revealing that the balloon in question was a prototype for future travel: personal blimps for all! And because Channel 9 has a relationship with CNN, not to mention an NBC bureau based in its building, its footage was on view in more places than Cornetta can even guess.
Courtesy of 9News "The Jiffy Pop has landed!"
The website numbers are equally spectacular. "To put things in perspective, our normal traffic on a day without any major breaking news or weather is usually anywhere from 750,000 to a million page views a day, and about 150,000 unique visitors," Cornetta says. "Yesterday, we had 4.6 million page views and 939,000 visitors. And between the hours of 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. alone, we had 722,000 unique visitors and 3.8 million page views."
So, Falcon, if you're planning another flight...
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The hoax angle was created and perpetuated by the local media affiliate of NBC (9news)in Denver looking for another angle. I think they expected for the kid to crawl out of the balloon waving an Obama flag or to be seriously injured. No meat to their story I guess so they decided to create another on. Rating wars are important to these media networks these days since there is no longer reporting or true journalism.
Posted On: Friday, Oct. 16 2009 @ 11:41AMwhat's more stunning is a blog like westword simply taking gm's word on their daily traffic as gosple. both compete and quantcast show a similar 450k average in monthly visitors... that would be about 1/10th of what they told you.
let's agree that everybody pads their visitor count and services like compete, quantcast and nielsen may not be perfect, but the gm telling you a figure TEN TIMES that and you repeating it?
sheesh!
Posted On: Friday, Oct. 16 2009 @ 2:19PMThis story is interesting - but shame on Westword for choosing the 'autorun' option for displaying the video on page load. Not only annoying and delaying the page to load, but talk about the appearance of padding visitor/video viewer numbers (sigh). Anyways, interesting article.
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