In the Media Eye Last Month

The long list below will give you an idea of the media coverage the Ark Encounter received in December, as on December 1 the announcement was made that AiG would be building a full-size Noah's Ark in northern Kentucky. The list does not include several international media outlets (though a few are mentioned below), plus it does not list media coverage in January. (The December listing also does not include hundreds of blogs.) We praise God that even though a shovel has yet to turn over any dirt at the proposed Williamstown site off I-75, the media interest has already been phenomenal. You can only imagine what will happen in 2014 when the Ark Encounter opens!

Now, I don't expect all of you to read each listing below, but for each category, you might want to read the first few listings to see the more prominent media outlets. Here they are below, but remember, these are just the ones for December!

Ark Encounter Placements

A. Media running stories following the Dec. 1 press conference (169.3 million impressions):

New York Times—Circulation: 876,638; 17,753,300 vpm

MSNBC-TV Countdown with Keith Olberman

The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC

Conan O'Brien Show

Newsweek—Audience: 4,194,750 vpm

The Telegraph, England

The Independent, London

MSNBC-TV—Rachel Maddow Show

Forbes.com— 8,223,860 vpm

KentuckyPost.com—Audience: 81,643 vpm

HuffingtonPost.com—Audience: 12,889,300 vpm

ABCNews.com—Audience: 8,617,030

Indianapolis Star—Circulation: 182,933; 694,147 vpm

CNN.com—Audience: 270,567 vpm

Lexington Herald-Leader—Circulation: 91,518;

Louisville Courier Journal—Circulation: 159,275

Cincinnati Enquirer—Circulation: 172,536

NKY.com—Audience: 2,806 vpm

WTVQ Ch. 36 (ABC), Lexington

Cincinnati Business Courier— Circulation: 10,532

Business First, Louisville—Circulation: 23,680

WLWT-TV, Cincinnati

KFVS-TV, Ch. 12 (CBS), Cape Girardeau, MO

WEKU-FM (NPR), Richmond, KY

WAVE-TV, Ch. 3 (NBC), Louisville

WHAS-TV, Channel 11, ABC. Louisville

WFIE-TV, Channel 14, NBC. Evansville

WFPL-FM, 89.3, NPR. Louisville

Baptist Press—Audience: 1,000,000 combined Baptist publications/online

Slate website, Slatest.com—3,318,230 vpm

USA Today's On Deadline blog—18,116,300 vpm

MotherJones.com—710,768 vpm

Daily Mail Online, London, UK

WNCT-TV, Channel 9, CBS. Greenville, NC

MSNBC.com—Audience: 22,402,700 vpm

KTVZ-TV, Channel 21, NBC, Bend, OR

WBKO-TV, Channel 13, ABC, Bowling Green, KY

Miami Herald

Crosswalk.com— Audience: 375,610 vpm

Examiner.com—Audience: 8,791,340 vpm

WKRC-TV, Ch. 12, CBS, Cincinnati

New York Daily News—Audience: 7,497,240 vpm

ChristianPost.com—Audience: 234,644 vpm

Atlantic Wire

WRAL-TV, Channel 5, CBS . Raleigh—Audience: n/a; 864,034 vpm

The New Yorker blog—Audience: 924,369 vpm

Los Angeles Times Travel—Audience: 6,664,220 vpm

Bloomberg Businessweek—Audience: n/a; 4,156,880 vpm

CBS News Travel—Audience: 5,475,190 vpm

Baltimore Sun—Audience: 1,356,170 vpm

Religion News Service

Columbus Dispatch, Ohio

The Christian Telegraph, England

Christianity Daily (CA Chinese Christian publ.)

Belfast Telegraph, Ireland

Excite Netherlands

OneNewsNow.com—Audience: 1,269,297 visitors per month online

USA Today Travel—Audience: 18,116,300 vpm

Geo.tv, Pakistan

Baptists Today— Circulation: 10,000

South Bend Tribune—Circulation: 62,482

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette—Circulation: 181,058

Washington Post blog—Audience: 7,107,600 vpm

Washington Times—Circulation: 57,701

Cleveland Plain Dealer—Circulation: 252,608

Sarasota Herald Tribune—Circulation: 66,352

Houston Chronicle—Circulation: 343,952; 1,964,610 vpm

The Age, Melbourne—Audience: n/a

Al Mohler blog

St. Louis Post-Dispatch—Circulation: 207,154

Mladá Fronta DNES, Prague, Czech Republic

South China Morning Post

International Herald Tribune, France

El Mundo, Madrid, Spain

Il Messaggero, Rome, Italy

Western Recorder, Louisville

Unsere Kirche, Bielefeld, Germany.

The Guardian, London

Baptist Bulletin, Schaumburg, Illinois

NRB Today e-news

Die Welt, Berlin, Germany

Sky News, Sydney, Australia.

The Detroit News—Circulation: 146,962

Irish Independent

Daily Mail, London

The Jewish Chronicle, London

The Press, Christchurch, New Zealand

The Dominion Post, Wellington, New Zealand

Miami Herald—Circulation: 151,612

O Barriga Verde, Brazil

Haaretz, Israel

Time.com—Audience: 5,481,100 vpm

Stavanger Aftenblad, Norway

Der Standard, Vienna, Austria

Dakota Voice

Profile, Kiev, Ukraine

Salt Lake Tribune—Circulation: 109,703; 709,943 vpm

Neue Zuercher Zeitung, Zurich, Switzerland

B. After December 1 and 2:

ABC-TV World News with Diane Sawyer

The Economist (UK)—Circulation: 813,240

MSNBC.com—Audience: 22,402,700 vpm

WCPO-TV, Channel 9, ABC Cincinnati

WFPL-FM, 89.3, NPR

Louisville Courier Journal—Circulation: 159,275

Lexington Herald Leader—Circulation: 91,518

NKY.com—Audience: 2,806 vpm

Dayton Daily News, Ohio—Circulation: 95,365

AFR/OneNewsNow.com—Audience: 1,269,297 visitors per month online

Examiner.com

Odessa American, Odessa, TX

KDAZ Radio, Albuquerque

ChristianPost.com— Audience: 234,644 vpm

WDEL Radio, Delaware

Canadian Radio CBC As it Happens

BBC News Hour, London

PBS Online Need to Know

WTBN Radio, Tampa

Radio New Zealand Morning Report

Concerned Women for America Radio

Rheinische Post, Germany

Berliner Zeitung, Germany

Der Spiegel, Germany

Janet Mefferd Show—Salem Radio Network

Middletown Journal, Ohio

Attractions Management magazine

WorldNetDaily.com

CBNnews.com

C. Before December, word was leaking out about the Ark project:

Cincinnati Business Courier—ran preliminary article Nov. 19 on Ark Encounter, based on an anonymous source

WLWT-TV, Cincinnati— Nov. 19

Cincinnati Enquirer— Nov. 19

WCPO-TV, Cincinnati— Nov. 19

KentuckyPost.com— Nov. 19

WCET-TV, Cincinnati— Nov. 19

WLW Radio, Cincinnati— Nov. 19

WHAS Radio, Louisville, Kentucky— Nov. 19

YahooNews.com— Nov. 19, audience: 38,700,500 vpm

MSNBC.com— Nov. 19; audience: 22,402,700 vpm

WSCH-FM, Lawrenceburg, Ind.— Nov. 19

Grant County newspaper, Kentucky— Nov. 19

D. On November 30 and December 1, we sent a media alert indicating that a major announcement would be made December 1 about AiG's next major project; media outlets that covered this impending announcement included the following:

MSNBC.com

CNBC.com—Audience: 2,924,370 vpm

USAToday.com—Audience: 18,116,300 vpm

Cincinnati Enquirer—Circulation: 172,536;

Louisville Courier-Journal—Circulation: 159,275

NKY.com

WLWT-TV, Cincinnati

WLEX-TV, NBC Ch. 18, Lexington

Fox-19 TV, Cincinnati

Examiner.com—Audience:8,791,340 vpm

West Kentucky Star, Paducah, KY

WKRN-TV, Channel 2, ABC, Nashville, TN

Victoria Advocate, Victoria, Texas

The Republic, Columbus, Indiana

Lexington Herald Leader (KY)—Circulation: 91,518

WDRB-TV, Channel 41, Fox, Louisville

LATimes.com—Audience: 6,664,220 vpm

If you want to see a list of much of the media to date with web links just dealing with the Ark Encounter, then go to this website.

Thanks for stopping by and thanks for praying,

Ken