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Why is lottery draw on so late ?

(March 2005)

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IS
Isonstine Founding member
ITV/ITN used to flash up the numbers straight away - usually during Blind Date back in the day and then would a "Lottery Update" would follow after the programme.
AL
Allan100
anyone know the viewing figures for the lottery. Do BBC1 saturday viewers decrease when "jetset" is on?
BT
Baroness Trumpington
Wk ending 13th March, Jet Set got 5.2 million. That's more than Stars In Their Eyes (4.75) and Tomorrow Never Dies (the ITV Bond film 4.19) but less than Fat Friends (5.6) and Life Begins (6.99).
SP
Steve in Pudsey
broadband cowboy posted:
Who needs fatty holmes anyway ? All we want to see is the balls going in and coming out of the bloody machine. Put it on earlier BBC!!!!
Evil or Very Mad


Because they need to make it long enough to register on the ratings - BARB only do a head count for programmes longer than a certain time (10 or 15 mins IIRC)
IS
Inspector Sands
North East posted:
broadband cowboy posted:
Or better still give it to itv?

ITV probably wouldn't want to pay for it, its hardly a ratings winner anymore.


I don't think ITV are allowed to show the lottery
DV
DVB Cornwall
There have been a number of occasions that the midweek lottery has been recorded and transmitted later. The results were on the NL website BEFORE transmission.
NE
North East
Inspector Sands posted:
North East posted:
broadband cowboy posted:
Or better still give it to itv?

ITV probably wouldn't want to pay for it, its hardly a ratings winner anymore.


I don't think ITV are allowed to show the lottery

Shocked for what reason?
R2
r2ro
What happened to the National Lottery Daily Play that used to be updated after Breakfast? It hasn't been on all week - and Breakfast has been finishing early at 9.11 as well.
NW
nwtv2003
r2ro posted:
What happened to the National Lottery Daily Play that used to be updated after Breakfast? It hasn't been on all week - and Breakfast has been finishing early at 9.11 as well.


The Daily Play draw is now being shown live nightly at 9pm on Challenge TV, so it might have something to do with that.

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