BH
BillyH
Founding member
No, not Windsor. BARB, the people who measure the ratings, have put up a neat site up here:
http://www.barb.co.uk/25Years/index.php
By clicking on the year buttons, you can find out TV events, the top ten highest rated programmes, and the amount of reported channels from every year from 1981 onward.
Interesting to see the development of multi-channel TV. It starts slowly, kicks off in about 1996, and then explodes following the launch of Sky Digital. And the ratings obviously show a steady decline over the years - in 1982, the top rated programme got 22.90 million, while in 2005, only 14.36 million. In fact, the last programme to get over 20 million (discounting 2004's England v Portugal match) was the 2001 Christmas special of Only Fools and Horses!
http://www.barb.co.uk/25Years/index.php
By clicking on the year buttons, you can find out TV events, the top ten highest rated programmes, and the amount of reported channels from every year from 1981 onward.
Interesting to see the development of multi-channel TV. It starts slowly, kicks off in about 1996, and then explodes following the launch of Sky Digital. And the ratings obviously show a steady decline over the years - in 1982, the top rated programme got 22.90 million, while in 2005, only 14.36 million. In fact, the last programme to get over 20 million (discounting 2004's England v Portugal match) was the 2001 Christmas special of Only Fools and Horses!