What effect did the month of Anca Alexandrescu's election campaign have on the audience of Realità Plus. Surprises in the news television rankings
An election poster of Anca Alexandrescu. Inquam Photos / Octav Ganea
The news station controlled by the family of businessman Maricel Păcuraru decreased the most in November, according to the data published by PaginadeMedia. This is the month in which the station's star was in the race for the Capital City Hall. And he was not far from winning it.
In the news section, the station controlled by Sebastian Ghiță, Romania TV, maintained its leading position at the national level and in the urban environment, with increasing figures, writes the quoted source. However, it should be noted that among the young audience, the station is surpassed by Realitatea Plus.
This television, however, entered a downward trend, recording the second largest drop in audience among all televisions, not just the news ones. First on the drop list is Pro TV.
At the same time, Antena 3 CNN is in 3rd place, far behind Digi24 and with an audience four times larger than B1 TV.
The news station owned by Adrian Sârbu had a national average audience of 1,800 people.
What audiences did the news stations have? at the national levelaccording to PaginadeMedia data:
Romania TV: 324,000 (+17,500)
Reality Plus: 190,000 (-23,000)
Antena 3 CNN: 177,000 (-7,600)
Digi 24: 75,000 (-5,500)
B1 TV: 46,000 (-4,000)
TVR Info: 13,100 (-1,400)
Euronews Romania: 4,600 (-400)
Prima News: 2,500 (-60)
Aleph News: 1,800 (+410)
The same hierarchy is maintained in the top audience in cities, while in the urban commercial audience, aged between 21-54, Realitatea Plus surpasses Romania TV.
November, election campaign month for Anca Alexandrescu
Anca Alexandrescu came second in the race for the Capital City Hall, the elections being won by Ciprian Ciucu. Credited in some polls even in first place at one point, Alexandrescu (independent, supported by AUR) obtained 128,405 votes, i.e. 21.94%. During this period, Anca Alexandrescu no longer moderated the prime time show of the Realitatea Plus station. However, he returned after losing the elections.
