The whole thing is absolutely barmy - who came up with this and why?
Why? To save money, because the BBC English Regions have to slash their budget by 20% due to the license fee freeze.
The 1.30 bulletin is expensive because content has to be produced specifically for it. The 10.25 bulletin is cheap because it is almost entirely repeated content from 6.30.
So they extend the 10.30 bulletin, make a big thing of that, quietly reduce the 1.30 bulletin and they save some money.
This is one of those occasions where I don't agree with how they spend the licence fee. The budget for English Regions should be ring fenced. The savings from BBC3 could have gone there instead of the wooly 'more money for BBC1 drama' pledge which is hardly crying out for more money, on the face of it that particular genre seems to be doing quite well!
What are the 1.30pm regional bulletins like in the English regions? The Wales ones are not great: endless stories about ambulance response times, school league tables, then a live piece about the above, from the foyer of the Welsh Government building, a quick mention of rugby, then a weather forecast.
What are the 1.30pm regional bulletins like in the English regions? The Wales ones are not great: endless stories about ambulance response times, school league tables, then a live piece about the above, from the foyer of the Welsh Government building, a quick mention of rugby, then a weather forecast.
I have never thought that the regional news programs are that good but boy do they get ratings.
I have never thought that the regional news programs are that good but boy do they get ratings.
Yep, now just waiting for this Winter's snow-inflated rating! On one occasion a few years back, I'm sure combined they surpassed 8m on a Sunday or Monday evening...
You'll get into trouble with cylon for suggesting Alex Jones is a light-entertainment presenter. And to be fair, she did a better job at it than Gary.
There isn't much to do really, it is not that challenging even for her. Gary was more interested in his team getting a home game and was clearly like a fan focused on the results. Alex didn't care and was only reading out numbers which meant nothing to her. She probably thought she was doing the lottery
Channel: This Year (Last Year) C[HIGHLIGHT]H[/HIGHLIGHT]A[HIGHLIGHT]N[/HIGHLIGHT]G[HIGHLIGHT]E[/HIGHLIGHT]
BBC One: 23.5% (22.4%) +5%
BBC Two: 6.1% (7.1%) [HIGHLIGHT]-14%[/HIGHLIGHT]
ITV: 14.2% (15.5%) [HIGHLIGHT]-8%[/HIGHLIGHT]
Channel 4: 5.6% (6.1%) [HIGHLIGHT]-8%[/HIGHLIGHT]
Channel 5: 5.3% (5.0%) +6%
Improvements for BBC One and Channel 5, with the other three losing share, consistent with the year-to-date trends. BBC Two the biggest faller in week 3, minus The Great Sport Relief Bake Off stripped nightly at 8pm during that same week last year.
Meanwhile a particularly strong set of ratings for Celebrity Big Brother propelled Channel 5 to its best weekly share since August of last year, and narrowed the gap to nearest rival Channel 4 to just 0.3 share points.
Year-to-date Channel Shares
Channel: This Year (Last Year) C[HIGHLIGHT]H[/HIGHLIGHT]A[HIGHLIGHT]N[/HIGHLIGHT]G[HIGHLIGHT]E[/HIGHLIGHT]
BBC One: 22.4% (22.2%) +1%
BBC Two: 6.4% (7.0%) [HIGHLIGHT]-9%[/HIGHLIGHT]
ITV: 13.7% (15.1%) [HIGHLIGHT]-9%[/HIGHLIGHT]
Channel 4: 5.8% (6.2%) [HIGHLIGHT]-6%[/HIGHLIGHT]
Channel 5: 4.9% (4.8%) +3%
Channel 5 the most improved channel so far in 2015. BBC One also on the upgrade.
ITV narrowly the worst performer on this measure, just behind BBC Two.
Yep, now just waiting for this Winter's snow-inflated rating! On one occasion a few years back, I'm sure combined they surpassed 8m on a Sunday or Monday evening...
11m if memory serves on the infamous Snow Monday a few years back when the south east stayed at home all day.
It stayed above 9m for several days
The recent Christmas (2010?) when it snowed all Christmas, the teatime bbc1 bulletins were getting c9m all week
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What a night for BBC drama;9 million for Call the Midwife and 6.3million for Last Tango in Halifax. And these are shows continuing into their 3rd and 4th series.
Why? To save money, because the BBC English Regions have to slash their budget by 20% due to the license fee freeze.
The 1.30 bulletin is expensive because content has to be produced specifically for it. The 10.25 bulletin is cheap because it is almost entirely repeated content from 6.30.
So they extend the 10.30 bulletin, make a big thing of that, quietly reduce the 1.30 bulletin and they save some money.
So do you believe this "temporary measure" - like the introduction of income tax a few centuries ago - will in fact be permanent?
So do you believe this "temporary measure" - like the introduction of income tax a few centuries ago - will in fact be permanent?
They may well reduce the 10.30pm local news after the election- but will they reinstate the lunchtime bulletins to their full length- or will that be quietly forgotten?
I thought his tweet about ITV's "transfer window activity" re Pougatch on Friday was interesting and "knowing". Like someone itching to say more. If, as seems likely, ITV snatch the PL highlights then I can't see him staying at the BBC to front occasional FA Cup ties.
I didn't see anything strange about that tweet at all, it was him expressing his surprise that ITV have made the change and offering his best wishes to Mark Pougatch. He did, however, tweet that he had never said he was going to leave the Beeb if they lost the Premier League, and I don't know why you'd try and read something into other tweets and then ignore the one where he specifically mentioned it. Why would he have specifically said he wouldn't be leaving if he was?
The biggest shock in the fourth round last year was probably Fulham being beaten at home by Sheffield United, but given they were in the relegation zone at the time that was nowhere near as big a surprise as Chelsea's 4-2 defeat at the weekend, amongst others. And most if not all of the other results went the way you'd expect.
And as well that Saturday Liverpool, the biggest draw still in the Cup at that point as Man U were already out, had been live on ITV earlier in the day.
After thinking about it I do suspect the dropping of Chiles (just a few months into his new contract) and Townsend may have been to add credibility to their Premier league highlights bid. Their biggest problem is the amount of adverts they'll need to run.
How is dropping Chiles and Townsend "adding credibility" to a bid? I know the narrative is that the nation hates Chiles and Townsend but all football coverage has always been slagged off and ITV don't keep people around for five years or, in Townsend's case, over a decade, if they're actively driving away the public. And what does the Premier League care anyway? When they gave the live rights to BT in the last contract they didn't even have a channel.
Anything to get it high ratings. To be honest, it should be Gabby Logan doing the draw with him. It seems tokenistic to ask a female light entertainment presenter with no interest or clue about football
It's picking balls out of a bag! A few years back we had a brilliant draw in the FA Cup and it was done by Kate Garraway. And of course they want to get high ratings, they haven't bought the rights to the FA Cup out of the goodness of their hearts, they want to get big ratings out of it and use it to promote other BBC brands, like BT and Sky do. And Alex Jones was wonderful at it, as she always is at everything.
The annoying thing is that they did! Count Arthur Strong is a pre-watershed sitcom, and would have sat perfectly suited to take over SOAH slot when it finishes. I never will understand why they've just chucked it out at 10:35 . . .
Well, it's doing alright now but before the series began it had got under a million pre-watershed on BBC2, and in a slot where Miranda had got high ratings, so it would have been a massive risk.
Steve - it's noteworthy re Strong that they always showed trailers immediately before SOAH. I think they recognised the potential crossover and even if it had got 3m or less in the SOAH slot it could have been quickly moved to a less prime slot. I'm convinced it would be getting double its current audience at least. With ITV incapable of competing, BBC1 can afford to take some risks. And BBC1 is desperate to find a new comedy success.
UK TV Ratings @TVRatingsUK now
Tight between the two big 9pm dramas last night:
Broadchurch 5.58m/22.7%
Silent Witness 5.53m/22.5%
Broadchurch back in front then but only by a very narrow margin. Looks like there were slightly fewer viewers around than last week as Broadchurch was down 80k no last week (a minimal amount in fairness) but its share was identical. Silent Witness down 340k week on week.
Broadchurch seems to have stabilised at least and the reaction to last night's episode was better so ITV will probably be somewhat relieved this morning. There's only one more week of Silent Witness left too.
UK TV Ratings @TVRatingsUK now
Tight between the two big 9pm dramas last night:
Broadchurch 5.58m/22.7%
Silent Witness 5.53m/22.5%
I thought SW would be lower, very poor episode last night, slightly surprised that BC did not go up more. Last weeks BC official will be interesting. Are they out tomorrow?
I thought SW would be lower, very poor episode last night, slightly surprised that BC did not go up more. Last weeks BC official will be interesting. Are they out tomorrow?
People wouldn't have known it was a poor episode (if it was) until they tuned in though. If it was then I'd expect to see that reflected in tonight's or next week's numbers rather than last night's.
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Why? To save money, because the BBC English Regions have to slash their budget by 20% due to the license fee freeze.
The 1.30 bulletin is expensive because content has to be produced specifically for it. The 10.25 bulletin is cheap because it is almost entirely repeated content from 6.30.
So they extend the 10.30 bulletin, make a big thing of that, quietly reduce the 1.30 bulletin and they save some money.
I have never thought that the regional news programs are that good but boy do they get ratings.
Yep, now just waiting for this Winter's snow-inflated rating! On one occasion a few years back, I'm sure combined they surpassed 8m on a Sunday or Monday evening...
There isn't much to do really, it is not that challenging even for her. Gary was more interested in his team getting a home game and was clearly like a fan focused on the results. Alex didn't care and was only reading out numbers which meant nothing to her. She probably thought she was doing the lottery
Thanks for doing this. It broadly reflects Broadcast magazine's chart of overnight channel shares. Here's how it breaks down by daypart:
Year-on-year changes: week 1 / week 2 / week 3 / [highlight]year-to-date[/highlight]
Primetime (18:00-22:30)
BBC One: –9% / +4% / +7% / [highlight]+0%[/highlight]
BBC Two: –11% / +3% / –21% / [highlight]–10%[/highlight]
ITV: –15% / –9% / –12% / [highlight]–12%[/highlight]
Channel 4: +15% / –13% / –7% / [highlight]–2%[/highlight]
Channel 5: –9% / +5% / +6% / [highlight]+1%[/highlight]
Others: +15% / +3% / +8% / [highlight]+9%[/highlight]
Daytime (09:30-18:00)
BBC One: +8% / +2% / +4% / [highlight]+5%[/highlight]
BBC Two: –20% / –3% / +1% / [highlight]–9%[/highlight]
ITV: –12% / –1% / –1% / [highlight]–4%[/highlight]
Channel 4: –11% / –18% / –16% / [highlight]–15%[/highlight]
Channel 5: +14% / –5% / –4% / [highlight]+2%[/highlight]
Others: +3% / +2% / +1% / [highlight]+2%[/highlight]
Week one ran from Mon 29 Dec - Sun 4 Jan.
Week two ran from Mon 5 Jan - Sun 11 Jan.
Week three ran from Mon 12 Jan - Sun 18 Jan.
Coronation Street:
Mon: 8.73m [+1m] / 8.54m [+830k]
Wed: 8.6m [+1.14m]
Fri: 8.77m [+1.19m] / 8.26m [+800k]
Avg.: 8.58m [+992k]
EastEnders:
Mon: 8.31m [+860k]
Tue: 8.43m [+710k]
Thu: 8.31m [+780k]
Fri: 7.6m [+470k]
Avg.: 8.16m [+705k]
Emmerdale:
Mon: 6.97m [+430k]
Tue: 7.11m [+380k]
Wed: ?
Thu: 7.01m [+660k] / 6.68m [+500k]
Fri: ?
Avg.: 6.94m [+493k]
TOP 10 OFFICIALS W/C 12TH JANUARY:
Figures inc.HD and exc.+1
Source: Barb
seems sensible given that Selfridge looks like it's dead in the water already!
11m if memory serves on the infamous Snow Monday a few years back when the south east stayed at home all day.
It stayed above 9m for several days
The recent Christmas (2010?) when it snowed all Christmas, the teatime bbc1 bulletins were getting c9m all week
And there are 10 weeks of Selfridge. Lordy lordy.
Will Midsomer Murders kill off people's chance or will Churchill's farewell result in players welcoming high scores? Could Eat Well for Less result in people scoring more on the board and could The Magna Carta put some people Bang to Rights? The Great Sewing Bee could stitch up a few while others may make The Jump and crash land...
So what are you waiting for? Simply click [/highlight]HERE[highlight], hit reply, delete the quote marks and get predicting!
Best of luck and thank you to all those who take part.
So do you believe this "temporary measure" - like the introduction of income tax a few centuries ago - will in fact be permanent?
They may well reduce the 10.30pm local news after the election- but will they reinstate the lunchtime bulletins to their full length- or will that be quietly forgotten?
I didn't see anything strange about that tweet at all, it was him expressing his surprise that ITV have made the change and offering his best wishes to Mark Pougatch. He did, however, tweet that he had never said he was going to leave the Beeb if they lost the Premier League, and I don't know why you'd try and read something into other tweets and then ignore the one where he specifically mentioned it. Why would he have specifically said he wouldn't be leaving if he was?
And as well that Saturday Liverpool, the biggest draw still in the Cup at that point as Man U were already out, had been live on ITV earlier in the day.
How is dropping Chiles and Townsend "adding credibility" to a bid? I know the narrative is that the nation hates Chiles and Townsend but all football coverage has always been slagged off and ITV don't keep people around for five years or, in Townsend's case, over a decade, if they're actively driving away the public. And what does the Premier League care anyway? When they gave the live rights to BT in the last contract they didn't even have a channel.
It's picking balls out of a bag! A few years back we had a brilliant draw in the FA Cup and it was done by Kate Garraway. And of course they want to get high ratings, they haven't bought the rights to the FA Cup out of the goodness of their hearts, they want to get big ratings out of it and use it to promote other BBC brands, like BT and Sky do. And Alex Jones was wonderful at it, as she always is at everything.
Well, it's doing alright now but before the series began it had got under a million pre-watershed on BBC2, and in a slot where Miranda had got high ratings, so it would have been a massive risk.
Tight between the two big 9pm dramas last night:
Broadchurch 5.58m/22.7%
Silent Witness 5.53m/22.5%
Broadchurch back in front then but only by a very narrow margin. Looks like there were slightly fewer viewers around than last week as Broadchurch was down 80k no last week (a minimal amount in fairness) but its share was identical. Silent Witness down 340k week on week.
Broadchurch seems to have stabilised at least and the reaction to last night's episode was better so ITV will probably be somewhat relieved this morning. There's only one more week of Silent Witness left too.
Looks like Mel & Sue are still doing dismally looking at that gap between Pointless and The Chase. Tipping Point trounced The Link at 3pm.
I thought SW would be lower, very poor episode last night, slightly surprised that BC did not go up more. Last weeks BC official will be interesting. Are they out tomorrow?
People wouldn't have known it was a poor episode (if it was) until they tuned in though. If it was then I'd expect to see that reflected in tonight's or next week's numbers rather than last night's.
I believe so yes.