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There is serious concern about the drop in viewers for CBBC's afternoon slots apparently; last week only three programmes in the slot had more than 200,000 viewers under 16 and this is raising questions as to what might be going wrong with CBBC.
"6-12" clearly isn't working...
Because the age range is 6-12, the controllers think they have to patronise the viewers, although I don't believe this is necessarily true. When I was younger, I didn't like to be patronised on TV and watching CBBC; even after the age of about 11; had a certain stigma attached to it. I really do think CBBC has to go back a year or two to sort itself out. 0.2m viewers under 16. That is shocking. Something has to be done. CBBC is no longer destined to get over 1m viewers, but it really shouldn't be going below 0.5m.
Thats another case, what the hell happened to the games? It used to be fun to interact and plays the games live on TV. I agree about the past presenters not being patronising as well. It's unsurprising there's threads like this, from kids complaining that CBBC is ruined and gone all baby-ish:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbcbbc/F2697944?thread=4747554
They also used to have a lot of celebrity guests coming in as well, now since it's gone all broom cupboard they rarely have that instead it's storylines from script writers.
Do you remember when they used to have CBBC version of the weather forecast? lol
And there are threads on there complaining that some of these filler shows 'Thumb Wrestling Federation' is boring/crap.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbcbbc/F2697944?thread=5284507
Somehow I think they need to listen to their audience, they don't want to be treated as babies.
I remember the weather forecast that they used to do because even if you were out of the target audience the channel was still OK to watch. I think if CBBC carries on the way it is going, viewers will jump ship to T4 before their time as this in some way resembles the old CBBC presenting format, and what the kids might want. At least when they initially changed the links output they had other live interactive formats to rely on such as TMi and Smile. TMi will probably return but there is nothing on CBBC atm which is live and interactive in that way.
tvarksouthwest posted:
There is serious concern about the drop in viewers for CBBC's afternoon slots apparently; last week only three programmes in the slot had more than 200,000 viewers under 16 and this is raising questions as to what might be going wrong with CBBC.
"6-12" clearly isn't working...
Because the age range is 6-12, the controllers think they have to patronise the viewers, although I don't believe this is necessarily true. When I was younger, I didn't like to be patronised on TV and watching CBBC; even after the age of about 11; had a certain stigma attached to it. I really do think CBBC has to go back a year or two to sort itself out. 0.2m viewers under 16. That is shocking. Something has to be done. CBBC is no longer destined to get over 1m viewers, but it really shouldn't be going below 0.5m.
dbl posted:
Thats another case, what the hell happened to the games? It used to be fun to interact and plays the games live on TV. I agree about the past presenters not being patronising as well. It's unsurprising there's threads like this, from kids complaining that CBBC is ruined and gone all baby-ish:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbcbbc/F2697944?thread=4747554
They also used to have a lot of celebrity guests coming in as well, now since it's gone all broom cupboard they rarely have that instead it's storylines from script writers.
Do you remember when they used to have CBBC version of the weather forecast? lol
And there are threads on there complaining that some of these filler shows 'Thumb Wrestling Federation' is boring/crap.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/mbcbbc/F2697944?thread=5284507
Somehow I think they need to listen to their audience, they don't want to be treated as babies.
I remember the weather forecast that they used to do because even if you were out of the target audience the channel was still OK to watch. I think if CBBC carries on the way it is going, viewers will jump ship to T4 before their time as this in some way resembles the old CBBC presenting format, and what the kids might want. At least when they initially changed the links output they had other live interactive formats to rely on such as TMi and Smile. TMi will probably return but there is nothing on CBBC atm which is live and interactive in that way.
