Financial Reports for Thursday October 24, 2013 (WEEK #7)

[proxio]

Below are your financial stats for your studio's network(s). They are released on Thursdays which is also attendance day in NITRO and payday and it always starts the new financial week or pay period which is why sweeps starts on Thursdays.

Your job is to profit off of your weekly budget and if your status is in red and it says not healthy then your network is in bad shape and needs to be worked on before the December 2nd deadline when NITRO Officials will cancel some of your shows for you and you don't won't that to happen. If it's in green obviously your all good and healthy and your network is profiting off of your weekly budget. These budget numbers will change more once you guys start purchasing actor's contracts and along with premium television programs, pilots, and movies on the Open Market.

Study this chart and compare your shows with the other network's shows so you can see where you need to be. If you're not making any money on certain shows then they might need to be cancelled. You can always use the end of this sweeps period to determine what shows will get a full season or get cancelled. Your studio will not have to pay off your budget losses until Black Monday on Monday December 2, 2013 so make as much as you can before that day or your studio will be in a dangerous financial situation.

This chart is based off your schedule for the week of October 21-27, 2013 and Thursday starts the first sweeps period of the season on October 24, 2013 where advertisers will pay your programming more money than usual during sweeps periods that's why networks usually go with special programming and big events during this period. The last night of November Sweeps will be on Sunday December 1, 2013.


Below are two set of scales that will let you know how much money your shows should be making. The first scale set will be for the pre-sweeps period from Monday-Wednesday then the second scale set is for the sweeps period from Thursday-Sunday. The numbers get bigger starting on Thursday so the expectations of how much your shows should be making goes up.


NATIONAL DIVISION ADVERTS PRE-SWEEPS SCALE (OCTOBER 21-23, 2013):

Very Bad: $0-$100,000
Bad: $100,000-$250,000
Average: $250,000-$400,000 (bubble shows) (goal is $400,000)
Good: $400,000-$1,000,000 million
Very Good: $1,000,000+ million (blockbuster shows and record ratings players)
Highest: $2,500,000 (record established on October 17, 2013 by Youth of Life on ICE)


FEDERAL DIVISION ADVERTS PRE-SWEEPS SCALE (OCTOBER 21-23, 2013):

Very Bad: $0-$100,000
Bad: $100,000-$200,000
Average: $200,000-$300,000 (bubble shows) (goal is $300,000)
Good: $300,000-$600,000
Very Good: $600,000+ (blockbuster shows and record ratings players)
Highest: $1,400,000 (record established on October 21, 2013 by Monday Night Football on PDN)



NATIONAL DIVISION ADVERTS POST-SWEEPS SCALE (OCTOBER 24-27, 2013):

Very Bad: $0-$200,000
Bad: $200,000-$400,000
Average: $400,000-$800,000 (bubble shows) (goal is $600,000)
Good: $800,000-$2,000,000 million
Very Good: $2,000,000+ million (blockbuster shows and record ratings players)
Highest: $5,119,000 (record established on October 24, 2013 by Youth of Life on ICE)


FEDERAL DIVISION ADVERTS POST-SWEEPS SCALE (OCTOBER 24-27, 2013):

Very Bad: $0-$150,000
Bad: $150,000-$300,000
Average: $300,000-$600,000 (bubble shows) (goal is $400,000)
Good: $600,000-$1,000,000 million
Very Good: $1,000,000+ (blockbuster shows and record ratings players)
Highest: $1,430,000 (record established on October 27, 2013 by Sunday Night Football on TSN)



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Your weekly budgets might go up next week so you guys need to make even more money during sweeps especially during this sweeps period. There will be extra opportunities to become a hustler for your studio and sell off your pilots, TV shows, movies, DVDs and making money at the box office so you can afford your actor's contracts and be able to payoff your weekly budgets on Black Monday on Monday December 2, 2013.


Remember the number below for how much money you need to make when the next financial reports are released for October 28-November 3, 2013:

ICE (Paramount)
Last Week: $55,616,000
Budget: $26,300,000
Profit Margin: $29,316,000 - HEALTHY

Next Week: $70,000,000



ROD (Sony)
Last Week: $23,467,000
Budget: $21,900,000
Profit Margin: $1,567,000 - HEALTHY

Next Week: $35,000,000



SBC (Universal)
Last Week: $17,520,000
Budget: $18,100,000
Profit Margin: -$580,000 - NOT HEALTHY

Next Week: $30,000,000



PDN (Paramount)
Last Week: $11,445,000
Budget: $10,600,000
Profit Margin: $845,000 - HEALTHY

Next Week: $20,000,000



TSN (Universal)
Last Week: $8,227,000
Budget: $8,700,000
Profit Margin: -$473,000 - NOT HEALTHY

Next Week: $15,000,000



TEN (Warner Bros.)
Last Week: $3,492,000
Budget: $5,200,000
Profit Margin: -$1,708,000 - NOT HEALTHY

Next Week: $10,000,000



RTN (20th Century Fox)
Next Week: $5,000,000

[beermoney]

damn ICE is making a shitload of money even with PDN as well

my major surprise here was with ROD as I thought they would make more money than that, there's a major gap between ICE and ROD right now and the good news for SBC is how close they are to ROD so ROD's gotta a lot of work to do as I think ROD needs a 2nd network quickly

too early to tell on TEN and RTV

[proxio]

Those were some good assessments there Beermoney.

Part of the reason why ICE makes so much money is because advertisers trust their programming to deliver huge ratings more than the other networks and this is all about trust between the advertisers and the networks. Like on Saturday there's two huge events for ICE in callbacks special for the New Girls in Town Pageant and the Tahj & Malena Sex Show, advertisers know a lot of eyes will be on those two programs so they don't mind spending all of that money.

ROD is actually in a good position they are slowly improving their network every week but they need to make more money during sweeps and gain more trust with advertisers or they will have trouble financially. ROD told me they are going to wait for that second network to launch because they really need to concentrate on making ROD stronger because ROD is too close to SBC right now. Speaking of SBC they are in a good position as well making extra money with TSN but the main network has a lot of holes that need to be taken care of as I think TEN or RTN can pass them up.

For TEN and RTN it isn't fair to analyze their financial situation yet because they are just getting started. I'd give them like 3-4 weeks maybe mid-November to see where they're at.

[proxio]

Your weekly budgets might go up next week so you guys need to make even more money during sweeps especially during this sweeps period. There will be extra opportunities to become a hustler for your studio and sell off your pilots, TV shows, movies, DVDs and making money at the box office so you can afford your actor's contracts and be able to payoff your weekly budgets on Black Monday on Monday December 2, 2013.


Remember the number below for how much money you need to make when the next financial reports are released for October 28-November 3, 2013:

ICE (Paramount)
Last Week: $55,616,000
Budget: $26,300,000
Profit Margin: $29,316,000 - HEALTHY

Next Week: $70,000,000



ROD (Sony)
Last Week: $23,467,000
Budget: $21,900,000
Profit Margin: $1,567,000 - HEALTHY

Next Week: $35,000,000



SBC (Universal)
Last Week: $17,520,000
Budget: $18,100,000
Profit Margin: -$580,000 - NOT HEALTHY

Next Week: $30,000,000



PDN (Paramount)
Last Week: $11,445,000
Budget: $10,600,000
Profit Margin: $845,000 - HEALTHY

Next Week: $20,000,000



TSN (Universal)
Last Week: $8,227,000
Budget: $8,700,000
Profit Margin: -$473,000 - NOT HEALTHY

Next Week: $15,000,000



TEN (Warner Bros.)
Last Week: $3,492,000
Budget: $5,200,000
Profit Margin: -$1,708,000 - NOT HEALTHY

Next Week: $10,000,000



RTN (20th Century Fox)
Next Week: $5,000,000

[BlueLick]

Our networks are in a good healthy position, I think some of the changes here and there and some of the November Sweeps events can get ICE to $70 million.

[beermoney]

Thanks Proxio as these financial reports gives us a really good chance to see where these shows are at

[rodshooter]

I like these financial numbers as it really gives us a good perspective on making these renewal and cancellation decision.

Ashley Greene (CEO): I feel like ROD is in a good position financially to make even more money in the coming weeks. I can't stand ICE though it's almost as if they taken most of the advertisers away from the other networks.

[dstiles]

These numbers are very accurate with the ratings as in most of these slots it plays out the same way in the television ratings so advertisers have a pretty clear picture on who they should trust I do worry next week about some of the Federal networks losing their money to Random TV next week.