Basics in Broadcasting: Best Practices & Success Metrics

Best practices refer to a set of proven approaches, techniques, or methodologies that are widely accepted as the most effective way of achieving a particular goal or solving a specific problem. 

Examples of best practices:

• Agile project management: An iterative approach to project management that focuses on delivering high-quality products while adapting to changing requirements, while also involving the client/customer in every step of the process, ensuring transparency and collaboration.

• Customer relationship management (CRM): A set of practices and strategies used to manage interactions with customers and potential customers. These practices include automating sales and marketing processes, collecting customer data and feedback, and analyzing customer behavior to improve engagement and retention.

• Search engine optimization (SEO): A set of techniques and strategies used to increase the visibility and ranking of a website or web page on search engines like Google. It involves optimizing keywords, creating high-quality content, and building backlinks to improve organic search results.

• Human Resource management: A set of strategies to attract, retain and manage employees. These practices might include recruiting, selecting, training, compensating, and performance management.

• Risk management: A set of practices used to identify, assess, and manage risks to a project, an activity, or an organization. Risk assessment, mitigation, and monitoring are critical activities in risk management.

• Information security: A set of practices, policies, and procedures used to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information. Ensuring secure authentication, authorization, and access control, as well as proper encryption and auditing, are all critical best practices in Information Security.

• Storytelling: A technique that involves presenting information, events, or messages in a narrative or engaging format to capture the audience’s attention and maintain their interest.

• Program scheduling: The practice of strategically scheduling programs to attract and retain viewers in the most possible time slots. The highly rated programs should be assigned to primetime, when the most viewership rates are at their highest.

• Audience engagement: The practice of engaging viewers through social media and other digital channels, incorporating audience feedback, and incorporating viewer-generated content into shows to increase ratings and maintain viewer loyalty.

• Adapting multi-platform strategies: A practice that involves creating content and distributing it through multiple channels such as television, social media, and web platforms to increase viewership and expand the reach of the content.

• Conducting Research: A practice of carrying out viewership analysis and market research to gain insights into audience preferences, viewing behavior, and other factors that can influence programming strategy and determine ad rates.

• Production practices: Using cutting-edge equipment and technology, high-production standards to create captivating visual and audio content to capture and retain audience attention.

Typically, best practices evolve over time through a process of experimentation and observation, and they represent the strategies, methods, or tools with a track record of success in a particular field. Best practices are industry-specific and can apply to different areas of business, such as marketing, sales, HR, customer service, and IT, and Broadcast Production. They are often documented and shared within organizations to help guide decision-making and ensure consistency in operations.

Success Metrics 

Success metrics are measurable indicators that organizations use to evaluate the effectiveness of their strategies, tactics, and initiatives. They are quantitative or qualitative measurements of performance that help organizations understand how well they are achieving their goals and objectives. 

Examples of Success Metrics:

• Audience Ratings: Quantitative measurements that show the number of people who are watching a television program. Ratings can be measured through a variety of methods, including live ratings, time-shifted ratings, and VOD ratings.

• Share of Viewership: A metric that provides insight into how much of the available audience is watching a particular program or channel.

• Social Media Engagement: Qualitative measurements that track user activity, sentiment, shares, and mentions across social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

• Ad Revenue: Quantitative measurements of the income generated through advertising.

• Reach: A metric that describes the number of individuals who are exposed to a particular message or ad, determined by the total number of viewers divided by the total population.

• Web Analytics: Qualitative and quantitative measurements of website traffic, page views, demographics, time spent on site, and other factors that impact digital presence.

• Viewer Feedback: Qualitative feedback gathered directly from viewers through surveys, focus groups, or social media platforms, to measure satisfaction and gauge attention to the programming.

Broadcasters use these metrics to measure the effectiveness of their strategies, tactics, and initiatives, based on which they may adjust their programming and promotional priorities to optimize their results.

Success metrics can vary depending on the nature of the initiative or goal, and they should be aligned with the overall vision and mission of the organization. Examples of success metrics could include revenue growth, customer satisfaction rates, employee retention, website traffic, social media engagement, and many others. By using success metrics, organizations can track progress, identify areas for improvement, and make data-driven decisions to achieve their desired outcomes.

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Caller ID Spoofing

A clever, albeit annoying, example of caller ID spoofing recently hit Delaware’s largest city, Wilmington. Caller ID spoofing can range from pesky marketing calls to far more serious confidentiality breaches that could result in identity theft and the associated financial pain — not to mention the laborious chore of clearing your name. Spoofing can even lead to serious bodily harm and death. Let’s start with the pesky phone calls.

For those of you who are too young or not up on all the one-hit wonders of the 80s, there was a little song by Tommy Tutone called Jenny, perhaps more commonly known as 867-5309.  More than 20 years later, Jenny started placing some calls of her own in the wee hours of the morning in Wilmington. Those who answered Jenny’s call were met with a recorded message from a mortgage refinancing company.