How has geordie shore been doing?

Feb 19th 2013

Geordie Shore had 365k (2.1%) inc +1 overnight

But BARB official was 787k and 88k (+1)

Of course "Itv" (is this catching on then?) think it's worth it. They've been covering the tournament for many, many years. It won't be the first time a British team hasn't been in the final. It still attracts hard to reach viewers who would otherwise not watch the network which still makes them incredibly valuable to advertisers. I don't think there's a chance in hell they'd willingly let go of the rights

Sorry, I made a big mistake about Storville, it was on on Monday, not Tuesday. Could you get the ratings for BBC4 for Monday please?

Makes you wonder if your mates are atypical, but luckily for you, your anecdotal evidence goes along with your anti-football sentiment you've been constantly showing.

Who sells a season ticket three quarters of a way through a season, not exactly going to get good money for it is he?

Oh, will I? Er, I know they moved the news from 11pm because the ITC, as was, was expressing concern about the dropping ratings for ITV News, and it was definitely the ITC who used to demand the news started at 10pm in the nineties and before because there was that famous moment where they weren't allowed to show an extended episode of Cracker at 9pm on the Monday because it would mean the news starting after ten but were allowed to move the news to after ten two days later for football.

One reason they did that was I think that many of the regions put in their franchise submissions that they would show the news at 10pm so technically they would have breached their contracts. But Ofcom have no power over when ITV show the news these days, it's completely up to them when they show it. And even if it was up to Ofcom, a five minute or so delay wouldn't be an issue on a live programme.

What everyone forgets is that up until the mid-eighties, they didn't always do the News at Ten and if there was a big film or drama they wanted to show they would sometimes start the news at 9pm or 9.30 so they could run it uninterrupted. I've got some TV Times from the autumn of 1981 where they're showing films at 7.30 on Thursdays, followed by TV Eye at 9.30, but if the film was longer than two hours they'd just start TV Eye at 9.40 or 9.45 and the news would begin at 10.15.


It's also Sunday, so I doubt the pub will call for many. Is this another factor we have to bear in mind when compiling the ratings, like Halloween and Valentine's Day? Much like when you compile sports records and put "wind-assisted" after some of them, perhaps we should ask BARB to put "(but it was really cold that day)" in their reports.


Certainly I can't remember a time when there's been so much quizzing on daytime TV, back to the days when ITV had quizzes at 9.25 and 2.50 every day and BBC1 had one at 1.50.

As for the football, this has happened before and it'll happen again. It's certainly no worse for ITV than in the mid-nineties - 1995/96 was the first season when ITV had to show a match from every round regardless of whether a British team was in it, and in those days the British representatives always crashed out early, so they had to show things like Ajax vs Panathinaikos on primetime ITV. And in those days there was far less interest in foreign football. It's not ideal for ITV but it'll pull in similar audiences to the usual Tuesday fare, and substantially better demographics.

And anyone who says people are getting bored of football is wrong, wrong, wrong. I seem to recall during the Olympics everyone said people were going to stop watching football because the athletes were so inspiring. And on Saturday...
12:15 - Football Focus: 1.32m (17.1%)
14:30 - LIVE Athletics - European Indoor Championships: 965k (10.0%)
16:30 - Final Score: 2.03m (15.6%)
22:25 - Match of the Day: 3.68m (25.7%)

Most of them will no doubt have been watching on Iplayer like they do with The Dumping ground.

The Daily Mail would have something to say about that.

Yes you said....


So you were at the very least implying that itv had tape of an interview with Sir Alex before 10pm but because of "incompetence" did not broadcast it.


No again you were making the statement that it was itv's fault when it was not.

I appreciate you cannot admit you were wrong, but those are the facts.

Some might say they still don't have anything interesting to show at 10pm.

Could say the same thing about the BBC news at 10pm who at the start hadn't noticed Hug Chavez had died while Sky News was leading with it, slow off the mark there BBC.

Does anyone have numbers for Pointless this week? I wonder whether the size of the jackpot has an influence on viewing figures.

11million peak for yesterdays game

@TVRatingsUK: RT @johnplunkett149: Man Utd's controversial 2-1 Champs Lge defeat to Real Madrid watched by peak of 10.7m viewers (39.8%), ave 9m, 35.2%.

i remember seeing a 3.6 against the chases 3.3 inc +1 one day this week

I hope This puts an end to the talk about football ratings being down on ITV. It's all about who is playing and not the coverage. That always determines ratings.

When's the last time Itv got such a big rating on a Tuesday night? Bitter sweet for Itv though. If Manu could've won yesterday, Itv would've got a few more games getting big ratings. Now for the first time since 1996, no English teams will be in the quarters. Itv will still try to renew CL rights but BT could snatch away games from them.

of course it wont. Last night all the post match comment was about what the pundits on itv said. This was even on BBC 5 Live, Sky Sports and Talksport even though they had their own pundits at the game

Huge number there! Guessing May Day was below 4m...

unfortunately for ITV that's probably as high as it will get for the rest of CL coverage. That is unless Barca and overturn deficit and we end up with a Barca v Madrid final

for those that want it....
ITV
4350
6371
7841
8284
6838
7870
8284
8251
7552
4941
ITV HD
1171
1755
1944
2081
1753
2151
2323
2277
2036
1264

even post match ITV won the slot, which is very very rare for them

Mayday held its ratings from Monday - 4324

Mayday UP on Monday with 4.32m.

Lex Luthor says

Meh. Football is an idiots game played by idiots, run by idiots and watched by idiots

BT can't bid for the FTA rights. BT can try and get Sky's rights though.

Well, it's no Hollyoaks, I'll give you that.....

and there's lots of them.