Press Release 4/18/06
Press Release 4/18/06
All of the stories were short "voiceovers" covering the highlights for the
story and likely incorporated a few seconds of footage from the Video News
Release uplinked via NASA-TV.
Both ABC and NBC fed the story to their broadcast affiliates. ABC included
the tease as part of its morning daybook.
Local broadcasts of this story are estimated to exceed 40 with an audience
in excess of 2.5 million.
Liz Smith and Stefanie Misztal produced the video file and worked with
Sylvia Stoyanova and Lynn Jenner on the portal site.
Markets and sample close caption information from our report:
- Market: Providence. RI-New Bedford. MA [PV] [51] HUT: 639,590 DMA%: 0.58
Date: 04/19/2006 Time: 6:00am Aired On: WJAR Affiliate: NBC Show:
Newschannel 10 Sunrise 6:00AM
Estimated Audience Number: 46,423 | Estimated Publicity Value: $2,101.56
Up next, nasa figures out a mathematical problem so complex it kept crashing
their computer programs. Well show you what they found out about black
holes. 6:37 A.m.
06:38:19.07 Scientists been trying for a nasa scientists been trying for a
while to determine what will happen when two black holes merge. It was so
complex the equations kept on crashing their computer programs. Newly
designed software allowed them to create these images. Wow, cool, stuff you
really cant beat science for cool stuff (TRT=01:13)
- Market: Sioux City. IA [SX] [143] HUT: 156,950 DMA%: 0.142
Date: 04/19/2006 Time: 6:00am Aired On: KCAU Affiliate: ABC Show:
Channel 9 Eyewitness News Morning
Estimated Audience Number: 2,224 | Estimated Publicity Value: $100.68
- Market: Albany-Schenectady-Troy. NY [AL] [55] HUT: 552,250 DMA%: 0.501
Date: 04/19/2006 Time: 5:00am Aired On: WNYT Affiliate: NBC Show:
NewsChannel 13 Early Today
Estimated Audience Number: 6,528 | Estimated Publicity Value: $295.52
And, a black hole breakthrough for nasa scientists. It revolves around new
software, allowing the scientists to simulate the gravitational waves of
merging black holes. In the past, the math calculations involved, based on
einstein's theory of relativity, were too complex and often caused computers
to crash (TRT=10:00)
- Market: Dallas-Ft. Worth. TX [DF] [7] HUT: 2,336,140 DMA%: 2.12
Date: 04/19/2006 Time: 5:00am Aired On: KXAS Affiliate: NBC Show: NBC
5 Today at 5 AM
Estimated Audience Number: 53,641 | Estimated Publicity Value: $2,428.32
05:21:01.32 NASA scientists are looking into a black hole break through. A
software that looks at the black holes. Before it was too complex and often
caused computers crash (TRT=00:14)
- Market: Cable [CA]
Date: 04/19/2006 Time: 2:30am Aired On: ESPT Show: Wire to Wire
Estimated Audience Number: 85,956 | Estimated Publicity Value: $3,891.22
- Market: Augusta. GA [AG] [115] HUT: 245,590 DMA%: 0.223
Date: 04/18/2006 Time: 11:00pm Aired On: WAGT Affiliate: NBC Show: NBC
26 News at 11 News
Estimated Audience Number: 7,280 | Estimated Publicity Value: $329.56
23:12:17.49 Nasa scientists are celebrating what they call a black hole
breakthrough. New software allows them to simulate the gravitational waves
of merging black holes. In the past, the math calculations were too complex
and often caused computers to crash (TRT=01:15)
- Market: Spokane. WA [SP] [78] HUT: 389,630 DMA%: 0.354
Date: 04/18/2006 Time: 11:00pm Aired On: KHQ Affiliate: NBC Show: KHQ
News 11 at 11
Estimated Audience Number: 22,298 | Estimated Publicity Value: $1,009.43
- Market: Salt Lake City. UT [SC] [36] HUT: 810,830 DMA%: 0.736
Date: 04/18/2006 Time: 10:00pm Aired On: KSL Affiliate: NBC Show:
Eyewitness News at 10
Estimated Audience Number: 122,291 | Estimated Publicity Value: $5,536.11
- Market: Fresno-Visalia. CA [FV] [56] HUT: 546,210 DMA%: 0.496
Date: 04/18/2006 Time: 5:00am Aired On: KFSN Affiliate: ABC Show:
Action News AM Live
Estimated Audience Number: 10,687 | Estimated Publicity Value: $483.80
- Market: Phoenix. AZ [PX] [14] HUT: 1,660,430 DMA%: 1.507
Date: 04/18/2006 Time: 5:00am Aired On: KNXV Affiliate: ABC Show:
ABC15 News at 5:00 AM B'up
Estimated Audience Number: 11,763 | Estimated Publicity Value: $532.51
- Market: Phoenix. AZ [PX] [14] HUT: 1,660,430 DMA%: 1.507
Date: 04/18/2006 Time: 5:00am Aired On: KNXV Affiliate: ABC Show:
ABC15 News at 5:00 AM
Estimated Audience Number: 11,763 | Estimated Publicity Value: $532.51
- Market: San Francisco-Oakland-San Jose. CA [SF] [6] HUT: 2,355,740 DMA%:
2.137
Date: 04/16/2006 Time: 6:00am Aired On: KGO Affiliate: ABC Show:
ABC 7 News Sunday (1/2)
Estimated Audience Number: 0 | Estimated Publicity Value: $N,/A
- Market: Los Angeles. CA [LA] [2] HUT: 5,536,430 DMA%: 5.023
Date: 04/11/2006 Time: 6:00am Aired On: KCBS Affiliate: CBS Show:
CBS 2 News (3/4)
Estimated Audience Number: 47,012 | Estimated Publicity Value: $21,28
