Does anybody know if there is a source for viewing figures that pre-date BARB, which only seems to go back as far as the early 2000s? I'm writing a paper for uni that's focusing on the rivalry between BBC and ITV in the 60s and 70s, and I was hoping to find some numbers that could back up my information. Any help will be much appreciated.
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A former member
Trying using the internet archive on site site since there did have such details going back to the 1960s
Every online source seems to have different figures. Also a lot of books seem to vary. I'm sure the body before Barb lost/destroyed the info, which might be why.
However Broadcast used to publish them every week. I have a few of those and they're obviously the definitive ratings as they were printed at the time. Hopefully Broadcast has an archive of all their publications, although I don't know if any library stocks such items.
The TVS/TV Times book 40 Years of British Television at the back has figures from 1955 to 1992. That should be in a library, again however it varies to other sources but does list a month by month figure for the top 20 programmes.
