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See, the problem I would have with scheduling for ITV is that I think NaT is failing and never will improve. I don't follow the idea of the two main channels running identical programmes against each other in this age and I think that in that situation the BBC will always win (partly due to being "1" and partly due to having no ads). With the BBC showing the News at 10pm, I think that slot is a huge opportunity going to waste.

Unfortunately, opening up the 10pm schedule to new drama/ comedy and other primetime shows isn't really an option when they can't even get the 9pm slot together. Hence I don't really know what they should do apart from commission better shows! (which is a tad simplistic!)

This is a request- does anyone know what the whole coverages of the Champions League Finals in 2005 and 2006 on ITV1 got in overnight ratings? Thanks in advanced.

I reckon a peak of 15-16m for the penalties, and an average from 7-11.15pm of just under 12m. Match itself, 7.45-10.30 probably will get about 13m.

Everyone keeps going on about News at Ten being on after BGT, but its only going to be on after Britain's Got Talent for 3 nights.

It needs more than 3 nights a year of good ratings.

My ITV1 schedule idea:

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You're allowed to hate it. Some fairly dramatic changes there

Champions League Final 2008 (ITV1):
Entire Broadcast: 9.6m (43%) - 50% of ABC1 Men
Match average: 11.1m (46%) - 54% of ABC1 Men
Peak: 14.6m (60%) at 22.30 - 64% of ABC1 Men

15 Minue Breakdown
ITV1:
19:00 - 4.28m
19:15 - 5.14m
19:30 - 7.06m
19:45 - 9.69m
20:00 - 10.74m
20:15 - 10.98m
20:30 - 9.95m
20:45 - 10.72m
21:00 - 10.98m
21:15 - 11.03m
21:30 - 10.75m
21:45 - 11.15m
22:00 - 12.71m
22:15 - 12.69m
22:30 - 12.50m
22:45 - 8.00m
23:00 - 4.19m

Entire Broadcast rated higher than the last 2 finals. Same peak as the 2005 final. It's the 5th most watched programme of 2008 so far. The above firgure does not include the people who watched on Sky Sports and the estimated couple of million people who watched in pubs and clubs.
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Previous Champions League Finals Overnight Ratings:
Champions League Final 2007 (ITV1):
Entire Broadcast: 7.7m (35%)
Match average: 9.6m (42%)
Peak: 10.3m (43%) at 21.00
Sky Sports Match Rating: 1.2m (6.57%)

Champions League Final 2006 (ITV1):
Entire Broadcast: 9.63m*
Match average: 11.2m (45%)
Peak: 12.2m (48%) at 21.00
Sky Sports Match Rating: 1.3m

Champions League Final 2005 (ITV1):
Entire Broadcast: 10.11m*
Match average: 10.8m
Peak: 14.6m at 22.30

Champions League Final 1999 (ITV1):
Entire Broadcast: 15.62m*
Match average: 10.8m
Peak: 19.9m at 21.30

*official figures

Can't stand Chelsea, but anything's better than United.
Anyway 14.6 is an improvement on what ITV are used to at 10:30.

Great share for ITV.

It would be interesting to see the figures for Sky Sports 1 to get an idea of how many people actually did watch it, not just the figures for ITV1.

little bit disappointing numbers though, shows how far TV viewing has declined.

even 5 years ago it'd be neared 20million peak.

so great for ITV, but shows the struggle terrestrial TV has in this age IMO I know theres SKY's figures to be added though.

Wednesday 21st May Overnights
BBC1
19.00- The One Show: 4.15m (25.2%)
19.30- RHS Chelsea Flower Show: 3.2m (17%)
20.00- Child Of Our Time: 2.4m (10.6%)
21.00- The Apprentice: 5.0m (19.6%) *peak 5.44m (21:50)
22.00- BBC News At Ten: 2.5m (10.3%)

ITV1
19.00- Champions League Final: 9.6m (43%)
* Match average: 11.1m (46%)
* Peak: 14.6m (60%) at 22.30

15 Minute Breakdown of Champions League Coverage:
19:00 - 4.28m
19:15 - 5.14m
19:30 - 7.06m
19:45 - 9.69m
20:00 - 10.74m
20:15 - 10.98m
20:30 - 9.95m
20:45 - 10.72m
21:00 - 10.98m
21:15 - 11.03m
21:30 - 10.75m
21:45 - 11.15m
22:00 - 12.71m
22:15 - 12.69m
22:30 - 12.50m
22:45 - 8.00m
23:00 - 4.19m

23.15- ITV News: 2.1m (21.9%)

Channel4 (inc. +1)
18.00- The Simpsons: 1.7m
18.30- Hollyoaks: 1.4m
20.00- Property Ladder: 1.4m
21.00- Secrets of the Austrian Cellar: 2.1m
22.00- Desperate Housewives: 1.5m
23.00- The World’s Tallest Woman and Me: 689,800

E4 (inc. +1)
19.00- Hollyoaks: 669,900
19.30- My Name is Earl: 249,500
21.00- Reaper: 402,800
22.00- Big Bang Theory: 408,300
22.30- The Inbetweeners: 240,500
23.00- Comedy Showcase: 107,500

More4 (inc. +1)
18.00- Deal or No Deal: 131,600
19.00- Grand Designs: 213,300
21.00- Dispatches: 63,100
22.00- Father Ted: 146,100
22.30- The IT Crowd: 114,000

Film4 (inc. +1)
13.00- The Vicious Circle: 32,700
14.30- The History of Mr Polly: 57,300
16.30- A Letter to Three Wives: 35,300
18.30- K9: The Widowmaker: 123,300
21.00- Clear and Present Danger: 238,900

All Hours Share According to C4Sales:
ITV1 – 31%, BBC1 – 17.3%, C4 – 7.8%, BBC 2 – 7.2%, Five – 3.9%, multichannel – 32.8%.

Is that the lowest ever rating for BBC Ten Clock News? I never seen it get lower than 3 million before.

Dunno. There probably is a time when it got lower; maybe the 2005 final?

It still beat ITV News though!

The Apprentice took a hit thanks to the football dipping below 6m for the first time in this series. I expect it will rise next week thank to the Holby City lead in but BGT will give it a run for its money. BTW how many episodes are left of this series?

Sky Sports will be somewhere near the 2.5m viewer mark.

Peak figure around what we'd expected although I did think the overall match average would be slightly higher. Did the ITV News really not begin until 11.15pm?! Such a long post-match show will have hurt that overall average pretty significantly. I must admit I only watched till the end of the penalty shoot-out itself - what time was the trophy handed out?

about 10.50

ITV made a slight mistake in the scheduling in my opinion.
I think they should have started at 7.00 (as they did), but named the show between 7.00-7.30 something like: "The Big Match Buildup". Then, from 7.30 name the show "Champions League Final". Then, the low ratings from 7.00-7.30 wouldn't have been included in the overall average. Also I think they should have finished at 11.00. The average from 7.30-11.00 was 10.6m. Doesn't really matter though, as the figures were very good anyways.

If ITV1 had done what you has suggested then I would have got 5 points in the Ratings Game!

While I like these ITV fantasy schedules that have been posted, is there any chance of someone like myself or any others doing a fantasy schedule for another channel like Five or ITV2 or is it jsut ITV1?

I was a bit surprised how quickly people turned off at the end. Looks like there was a bit of a delay actually getting the presentation underway and the viewers just petered out, negaiting any impact on the ITV News that some people had been predicting.

Thats what BBC1 did for the World Cup final 2006 and it did pay off.

1 WORLD CUP 2006: ENG V ECU (SUN 1600) 16.29
2 WORLD CUP 2006: POST-MATCH (SUN 1750) 13.45

10 WORLD CUP 2006: PREMATCH (SUN 1529) 7.44

If it was all in one name, BARB would have had rated the broadcast as 12.39 for the whole thing.

Was anybody else expecting more for the football? BBC 1 put in a very dignified performance The Apprentice held up very well and the BBC News managed to beat ITVs even with an astoundingly high lead in.

In a way I dont want Sky to have done well because I want Five US to have the top multichannel show of 2008. That would be a real turn out for the books. Is it likely the football will exceed 10m in officials? Could ITV not have scheduled it "Champions League- Extra Time" or something to hold that 14m.

I'm sure people would be interested to see your ideas and would contribute their own. I think people have just been focussing on ITV1 because thats really the channel thats seen the most changes in the past 6 months and where there is still the biggest debate. The BBC schedules are on the other hand, pretty settled, and relatively successful (when coupled with the right shows) too, so there's less of an incentive to change things around.

The BBC didn't do that from what I know. They had the whole coverage named under the same name.

But Barb always separate the pre-match, proper match and post-match official ratings for World Cup and European Championship matches. They even used to do it for FA Cup Matches and Rugby World Cup matches, but not anymore for some reason. I don't know why they don't do it for every football match, if they do it for WC and EC matches!