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I think even Labour forget it and won't want to be reminded of it.
It's very big news. Makes you wonder about the Euros and World Cup on free to air TV. http://www.barb.co.uk/whats-new/287 Of the 12m watching England v Paraguay on a Saturday afternoon, just 24,000 or 0.2% were watching via UKTV G2. |
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The great thing about sport is I do believe on FTA viewers will follow it wherever. Remember how big BBC Three became during the 2012 Olympics. Obviously that was a very special one for us, but it hit 5.7% share in the weekly ratings, a channel not even normally 24hrs, about five times what they normally get. And that was showing secondary events as opposed to the main ones. So if the Olympics can have that effect on BBC Three, you can bet your bottom dollar they would utterly transform the ratings of ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Even with adverts.
That's not to say a non-BBC Olympics could ever reproduce the highs experienced on the BBC, of course it couldn't. Just that I've long believed sport viewers are more open-minded than most, and it would hold up better than most things would if they moved channels. Most viewers won't want to miss out on it, whether Auntie is covering it or not. |
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The great thing about sport is I do believe on FTA viewers will follow it wherever. Remember how big BBC Three became during the 2012 Olympics. Obviously that was a very special one for us, but it hit 5.7% share in the weekly ratings, a channel not even normally 24hrs, about five times what they normally get. And that was showing secondary events as opposed to the main ones. So if the Olympics can have that effect on BBC Three, you can bet your bottom dollar they would utterly transform the ratings of ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Even with adverts.
That's not to say a non-BBC Olympics could ever reproduce the highs experienced on the BBC, of course it couldn't. Just that I've long believed sport viewers are more open-minded than most, and it would hold up better than most things would if they moved channels. Most viewers won't want to miss out on it, whether Auntie is covering it or not. |
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Plebs makes it's first appearance on ITV tonight at 10.40pm. I wonder if ITV are trying it out on the main channel with a view to showing the third series there rather than ITV2.
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The Olympics have (also) been broadcast on Eurosport in the UK for as long as I can remember. Hasn't the deal always been with the EBU and then EBU and BBC? The BBC statement makes me think they are confident of sharing UK FTA rights with Eurosport.
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The great thing about sport is I do believe on FTA viewers will follow it wherever. Remember how big BBC Three became during the 2012 Olympics. Obviously that was a very special one for us, but it hit 5.7% share in the weekly ratings, a channel not even normally 24hrs, about five times what they normally get. And that was showing secondary events as opposed to the main ones. So if the Olympics can have that effect on BBC Three, you can bet your bottom dollar they would utterly transform the ratings of ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5. Even with adverts.
That's not to say a non-BBC Olympics could ever reproduce the highs experienced on the BBC, of course it couldn't. Just that I've long believed sport viewers are more open-minded than most, and it would hold up better than most things would if they moved channels. Most viewers won't want to miss out on it, whether Auntie is covering it or not. Even if FTA, they wouldn't hunt down the Eurosport FTA freeview channel, they just won't watch. Granted we are talking from 2022 here, 7 years off. |
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Interesting points, but sports that have largely abandoned FTA like cricket and boxing have seen their popularity really diminish as not everyone wants or can afford Sky Sport and BT Sport. I do think golf will take a major hit after next year and the ECL and EL could see their ratings fall big time from August, although the last two seasons didn't exactly deliver stellar ratings for ITV and the EL is a bit of a long drawn out tin cup.
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But, what will Channel 5 show without it?
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Better programmes with new ideas from new people, Instead of Ben Flow.
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BARB have finally updated.
Some consolidated figures: Black Work (21 June) - 7.48m/8.06m (+1.67m/+1.85m) Humans (21 June) - 4.45m/5.11m (+1.78m/+2.04m) |
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EDIT: Beaten to it.
Very strong audiences for both dramas there. |
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Its all about money and greed.
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This is bad news for the BBC and bad news for TV in general. It is a must that the BBC a should have full exclusive rights to the Olympics and be able to use those rights in every way they want.
Showing some events on another FTA channel miles down the EPG will mean viewers won't watch. The BBC having to do deals debating which events to show and which to not will just deminish the whole event. |
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BARB have finally updated.
Some consolidated figures: Black Work (21 June) - 7.48m/8.06m (+1.67m/+1.85m) Humans (21 June) - 4.45m/5.11m (+1.78m/+2.04m) |
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It was the LAST EVER Top Gear with Clarkson. How is it not disappointing ?
That said, there was something oddly low key about the whole thing. I guess the BBC had no incentive to ensure it was massively successful. By comparison when Top Gear 2.0 launches you won't hear the end of it across BBC TV and radio, so noisy will the push be. |
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It is disappointing. Top Gear has some real dedicated followers but the rest of viewers couldn't care less about it. The whole sacking thing was overhyped.
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BARB have finally updated.
Some consolidated figures: Black Work (21 June) - 7.48m/8.06m (+1.67m/+1.85m) Humans (21 June) - 4.45m/5.11m (+1.78m/+2.04m) |
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Top Gear is an ok rating, saying it should have done better because its the last in the current format, rather ignores the fact there is a reason its the last in the current format for a reason, its not a end people are celebrating, or even just 1 or 2 of the presenters leaving for pastures new.
JSaMN on the other end, I am glad it stayed above 1 million, true they failed to restore English magic, but its been a good watch, and im dissapointed by its ratings Quote:
Hopefully now the BBC will learn that this is more of a BBC4 drama, and the public hates toff crap.
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Another strong rating for Black Work last night. It's a really good drama and Sheridan Smith puts in a fine performance. She is very popular amongst the casual audience at the moment.
Disappointing for Top Gear, but I think more people will be curious about the reboot to the show. It would be nice to see Humans not drop any further. It's still timeshifting well, but it would be nice to see a big drama hit for the channel in overnight figures. Shed of the Year dropped on last week. I thought this would be a grower and one of those unexplained monster sized hits, like Bake Off has becomes for the BBC. |
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An ITV drama getting 8m in June is fantastic. Also excellent for Humans.
Game of Thrones (2.27M) - best rating since the opening episode Japan's Enchanted Islands (3.14M) - some great counter programming from BBC2 Woman's World Cup (1.89M) - not bad for a 10pm midweek game |
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And a special mention for Clangers on Cbeebies. 967k!
Consolidated: 967k from 17:34 to 17:45 Some of the increase from the overnight will have been a tape-checking adjustment, but it probably had some decent pure timeshift too. We'll see on Thursday if it makes Broadcast's top 30 timeshifters' chart. |
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Some other consolidated ratings worthy of mention -
... Japan's Enchanted Islands (3.14M) - some great counter programming from BBC2 ... |
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Well I am glad the Wimbledon highlight programme isn't on at 20:00 this year
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Well I am glad the Wimbledon highlight programme isn't on at 20:00 this year
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Moving The Olympics from the BBC would be like MTV getting the rights to BGT, ratings would slump and sports like judo and taekwondo, which rely on the games for exposure( as they are almost never shown at other times on terrestrial), would probably suffer. I do hope some kind of compromise is made, as The Olympics are a hugely popular event and the last ones delivered the sort of ratings only the death of a monarch, or England winning the world cup, would get.
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