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London Terror Incidents

(June 2017)

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AN
Andrew Founding member
From DS Forums:

Saturday overnights (Other channels):
1 BT Sport 2 - 07:00 PM Live Juventus v Real Madrid 1.783m 9.2%
2 BBC News - 11:45 PM BBC News 1.347m 15.3%
3 BBC News - 11:00 PM BBC News 1.252m 11.3%
4 BBC News - 12:00 AM BBC News 1.234m 16.6%
5 Sky News - 11:00 PM Sky News at 11 1.010m 8.7%
6 Sky News - 11:30 PM Sky News 982k 10.5%
7 BBC News - 12:30 AM BBC News 933k 15.5%
8 Sky News - 12:00 AM Sky Midnight News 932k 12.5%
9 Sky News - 12:30 AM Sky News 670k 11.1%
10 BBC Four - 09:00 PM Cardinal 622k 2.9%
Great ratings for Sky News and BBC News Channel.

I bet that means that loads more people were watching BBC News than BBC One.

This proves that people hear of something and then go straight to their news channel of choice, they don't wait for a terrestrial channel to come on air.
SP
Steve in Pudsey
That's the "Other channels" list, presumably BBC One would be on a mainstream channels (or somesuch) list?
PC
p_c_u_k
I think we're in the middle of a generational switch here.

For those who have grown up in the social media era, they'll have generally found out about it through Twitter and switched to a news channel as a result. However, for my parents' generation who have shown no interest in that side of things, the first they'll know is if they happened to go past a news channel or if there's been a newsflash. And given the average age of someone who watches TV is now over 60, we shouldn't forget this generation.

Accepted there's no way you could break into 800 different Sky channels (I suspect newsflash means something very different on Babestation) but ITV is one of the big two TV channels in a decent-sized country. It should have some capacity to at least throw a caption up to start with, and do news reports through the night if it's a big enough story.
Brekkie and mannewskev gave kudos
LL
London Lite Founding member
London Live have a 'We Love London' DOG up.

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TF
TellyFan
London Live have a 'We Love London' DOG up.

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That is no way to speak about the London Live reporter Wink
BR
Brekkie
Hope Manchester sues.
MA
mannewskev
From DS Forums:

Saturday overnights (Other channels):
1 BT Sport 2 - 07:00 PM Live Juventus v Real Madrid 1.783m 9.2%
2 BBC News - 11:45 PM BBC News 1.347m 15.3%
3 BBC News - 11:00 PM BBC News 1.252m 11.3%
4 BBC News - 12:00 AM BBC News 1.234m 16.6%
5 Sky News - 11:00 PM Sky News at 11 1.010m 8.7%
6 Sky News - 11:30 PM Sky News 982k 10.5%
7 BBC News - 12:30 AM BBC News 933k 15.5%
8 Sky News - 12:00 AM Sky Midnight News 932k 12.5%
9 Sky News - 12:30 AM Sky News 670k 11.1%
10 BBC Four - 09:00 PM Cardinal 622k 2.9%
Great ratings for Sky News and BBC News Channel.

I bet that means that loads more people were watching BBC News than BBC One.

This proves that people hear of something and then go straight to their news channel of choice, they don't wait for a terrestrial channel to come on air.


No it doesn't.
JA
JAS84
Yeah, that proves sod all, because the ratings for BBC1 and ITV aren't included. You'll find that news programmes on those channels scored much higher ratings.
LL
London Lite Founding member
AN
Andrew Founding member
JAS84 posted:
Yeah, that proves sod all, because the ratings for BBC1 and ITV aren't included. You'll find that news programmes on those channels scored much higher ratings.


Thanks to another forum, on Saturday night, the BBC News simulcast on BBC One at 23:30 got 900k, ITV News Special on ITV1 got around 300k.

I'm perfectly aware that that list was just the digital channels list, I'm not daft. The programme on previously on BBC One wasn't getting 1.4m so that's why I made that assumption, which turned out to be right.
AA
Aaron_2015
JAS84 posted:
Yeah, that proves sod all, because the ratings for BBC1 and ITV aren't included. You'll find that news programmes on those channels scored much higher ratings.


Um no, they didn't. ITV's special coverage got 0.37m (4.7%).

Before the news started on BBC One, Clique was getting 0.7m. The BBC News channel would have been higher before the simulcast started.
TV
TVNewsviewer
JAS84 posted:
Yeah, that proves sod all, because the ratings for BBC1 and ITV aren't included. You'll find that news programmes on those channels scored much higher ratings.


Um no, they didn't. ITV's special coverage got 0.37m (4.7%).

Before the news started on BBC One, Clique was getting 0.7m. The BBC News channel would have been higher before the simulcast started.


Do you have any figures for what the BBC News Channel got before the simulcast started?

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