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Election 1983 on BBC Parliament

This Friday (October 2006)

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SD
sir drinks alot
excellent only thing is i'm away please can someone put it on a faw dvds and send it to me pm me if you will
Smile
BA
baoren
Is it true that BBC Parliament's audience share is almost zero?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Parliament
TV
archiveTV
yaloh posted:
Is it true that BBC Parliament's audience share is almost zero?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Parliament



If you follow the link to the source of that info you will see that audience share is less than 0.1% and that the average viewer watched for less than 30 seconds a month.

http://www.barb.co.uk/viewingsummary/monthreports.cfm?report=monthgmulti

This compares with BBC1 which is watched for 23 hours 48 mins a month or News24 which is watched for 11 minutes each month
JO
johnofhertford
For the latest week of figures, weekly reach of 239,000 people, i.e. 239,000 people watched for at least consecutive viewers. Which is not surprising given that the vast majority of the British public is stupid.
SD
sir drinks alot
sir drinks alot posted:
excellent only thing is i'm away please can someone put it on a faw dvds and send it to me pm me if you will
Smile


Anyone ?
DV
dvboy
Do you not have a VCR?
LL
London Lite Founding member
Westy2 posted:
If 1983 has been shown before, did they show the London opt as well?

(I'm assuming if it was from the network feed, London was on there by default !)

Which previous Parly repeats included the (London) opt out?


In those days, it was the BBC South East version, which used to cover from Oxfordshire to East Sussex and Kent. A might region which was dreadful if you lived outside London. I remember London Plus/Newsroom SE would have a token Oxon story though.
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Westy2
Why didn't they show it at a weekend instead?


I've missed it because of work etc
DV
DVB Cornwall
Excellent - apart from the online feed breaking up this afternoon - I suppose the next opportunity for a re-run will be at Christmas / New Year.

II presume that they want to get BBC Parliament back on a Parliamentary Schedule again from Tomorrow and therefore showed the re-run today instead.
JW
JamesWorldNews
.....ah, so THAT was the year that Esther Rantzen was involved in this broadcast........I remember it well now. She was awful in this particular type of programme.
JO
johnofhertford
Well in fact she was so good that they brought her back four years later as well, to do the same role!
CY
cylon6
I love seeing these old election shows in their entirety it's interesting to see the graphics change and get more adventurous during the Dimbleby/Snow era.

My first election coverage memory is from 1979, it was David Dimbleby's first and the first to use that distinctive theme. The sets in 1979 & 1983 looked small compared to same previous and later election broadcasts. Did those shows come from Studio 1 at BBC Television Centre?

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