17. A system for ranking a plurality of video articles, the system comprising: means for, for each of the plurality of video articles, determining video-oriented characteristic data of a video article, the video-oriented characteristic data describing one or more characteristics of at least one broadcast of the video article, wherein each video article has metadata describing the video article; means for, for each of the plurality of video articles, determining a rank score based at least in part on the video article-oriented characteristic data and based at least in part on the metadata of the video article; means for determining an order for transmitting the plurality of video articles to a client, the order of transmission based on the rank score for each of the plurality of video articles.
19. The system of claim 17 , wherein the video-oriented characteristic data is rating data of the video article, wherein the rating data of the video article describes how the video article is rated based on a video rating criterion.