All articles by Stephen Price – Page 103
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RatingsCup runneth over to HD
Share to all the satellite channels during major events on terrestrial TV usually declines, reversing the perpetual upward trend.
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RatingsCompeting for attention
As the World Cup parps on in South Africa, BBC2 and Channel 4 can defend and define themselves with their own events: Wimbledon and Big Brother. BBC2 even had the additional bonus of a new series of Top Gear.
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RatingsPirates find TV treasure
World Cup bobbing and weaving can be seen in the digital world as broadcasters strive for alternative audiences. BBC3, for instance, used Pirates Of The Caribbean: At The World’s End, twice, to deflect football on two different channels.
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RatingsITV’s Cup gamble pays off
The first two England games on ITV1 secured huge ratings as viewing skewed towards football.
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RatingsSuccess away from football
This week Channel 4 and BBC2 saw success at the two ends of the anti-World Cup spectrum - Big Brother for younger viewers and Springwatch for the discerning older crowd.
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RatingsITV Talent flattens everyone
Although overall audiences were down, a stretched-out BGT dominated the week’s ratings.
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RatingsRepeats make longer game
EastEnders, clobbered this week by ITV1’s BGT, was found by much of its missing audience via the BBC3 catch-up; a manner of viewing now completely familiar and, along with +1 channels and PVRs, forcing the ratings ‘winners and losers’ debate into a longer game.
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RatingsFamiliarity beats novelty
With a whopping week on a bigger rival what do you play against it? A familiar schedule? Or is it an opportunity to try something new?
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RatingsTV Janitor clears ITV schedule
Weak series endings for All At Sea and Marco as ITV prepares for BGT week and World Cup.
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FeaturesFrom strikers to tenors
Prior to 1990, if anyone had said that opera and football would be synonymous they’d have been thought barking mad.
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RatingsBBC1 keeps share as overall volume rises
Wintry weather helped increase the total audience in early 2010 but commercial broadcasters lost out. Stephen Price reports.
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FeaturesAt last, a decisive outcome
Drama makes way for the election endgame as BBC1’s live news coverage steals the show
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FeaturesViewers vote for bankers
During a week of indecision, ratings stalwarts provided some stability in an uncertain world.
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FeaturesFamiliar feel at the summit
The usual suspects sit atop the table - talent, football and, of course, Glee. Elsewhere, detectives continue to show their worth, while screaming the answer might have had a rather echoing quality.
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FeaturesBig Football wins again
This week BBC2 went all clever, with science and comedy mixing it with Bombay; Channel 4 got its chefs doing Scandinavian horror and Five demonstrated, again, the impact of Big Football.
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FeaturesPolitics seen off by Talent
Election fever is no match for a different contest in which votes will be just as keenly fought over.
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FeaturesBrighter weekend for ITV1
But the channel must offer more than just Joanna Lumley to shine in its weekday programming.
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FeaturesWorldwide TV tour a winner
This week, Lagos, Spain, the Hebrides, India and London - featuring cooking, hospitals, football, trains, hospital trains and wildlife rangers - bestrode our screens like a tall, er, geography teacher.
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FeaturesDebates keep public hooked
Sky News and BBC News, both spending their time scrapping for the prettiest girl in the playground, have probably never noticed plucky little Sky 3.