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(December 2009)

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dbl
Is there a reason why the ratings are much lower this year?
Last edited by dbl on 26 December 2009 9:47pm
RM
Roger Mellie
dbl posted:
Is there a reason why the rating are much lower this year?


Fewer people watching Wink
MI
Michael
Again we're seeing the impact of:

1) iPlayer - I'll be watching Gavin & Stacey, Dr Who and Royle Family over the course of the next few days in my own time, rather than interrupting the regular flow of Xmas Day to a schedule determined by the BBC.

2) PVRs such as V+, Sky+ and Freeview+ - my father PVR'd most of his Xmas viewing.

3) Repeats on digital channels / repeats on later days

4) Apathy

Oh - by the way TVForum Team - if I want to type XMAS, I'll type XMAS, without your software automatically changing it to Christmas. I can understand automatically changing ei to ie or should have to should have, but that's a little much, don't you think?
WH
Whataday Founding member
Catherine Tate is not a talkbackThames production, it is Tiger Aspect.


Corrected


And Gavin & Stacey is a Babycow Manchester production, not BBC Wales.
LM
Lee M
Again we're seeing the impact of:

1) iPlayer - I'll be watching Gavin & Stacey, Dr Who and Royle Family over the course of the next few days in my own time, rather than interrupting the regular flow of Xmas Day to a schedule determined by the BBC.

2) PVRs such as V+, Sky+ and Freeview+ - my father PVR'd most of his Xmas viewing.

3) Repeats on digital channels / repeats on later days

4) Apathy

Oh - by the way TVForum Team - if I want to type XMAS, I'll type XMAS, without your software automatically changing it to Christmas. I can understand automatically changing ei to ie or should have to should have, but that's a little much, don't you think?


The viewing figures for people watching BBC programmes on BBC HD are not combined with those watching on the standard definition channel, which, if you then do this yourself, gives some programmes a bit of a bump. Doctor Who, for example, was watched by approximately 350,000 more people on BBC HD, The Royle Family approximately 100,000 more people.

PVR's, DVD and VCR (heh) recordings will count towards the final consolidated figures, so will go up a bit more (the BBC HD figures will also go up because of this).

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