All Digital Focus articles – Page 37
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RatingsFighting for attention
Violet Elizabeth Bott screamed and screamed until she was sick, but still William Brown would take no notice.
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RatingsSunday soccer scores for Sky
The top two spots in the digital chart went to Sky Sports’ Super Sunday.
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FeaturesFunny debuts still fractured
In this, The Jetsons age of multichannel, push VoD, MobileMovies and fingernail DVD (I made that one up), digital channels might seem to have the advantage when connecting with those prepared to experiment.
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RatingsMore 4’s food for thought
The nature of digital channels is that they are focused on a specific audience, and this obviously determines programme strategy. But there are times when that pesky free-thinking audience confounds things.
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FeaturesReap rewards from re-runs
Acquired programmes play a significant role for digital channels. They are able to buy programming in at a relatively cheap rate compared with terrestrial networks and can play the stuff many times in a week to squeeze out value.
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FeaturesDigital repeat contenders
When Galileo first gazed at the stars through his telescope 400 years ago, he probably said: “Crikey, there’s a lot.” He might have said the same about digital channels; frighteningly, there are well over 300 channels measured by Barb.
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FeaturesTalent attracts older viewers
The Hoff factor was in full force for ITV2 at the weekend, with the finale of America’s Got Talent drawing 911,000 viewers in a tough Friday 9pm slot.
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FeaturesBBC3 hits its youth target
Harry Lansdown, BBC3’s factual commissioner, may think there is more to BBC3 than just being a “youth channel” (see page 12), but those viewers are its core audience.
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RatingsE4 wins battle for key 16-34s
E4 has consolidated its position with 16- to 34-year-olds, overtaking both Five and BBC2 in targeting this commercially important group.
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RatingsShare up for new Virgin 1
The rebranding of general entertainment channel Virgin 1 has helped grow its audience share by 39% year on year.
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FeaturesLaughter is Paramount
Viewers have seen the funny side of Comedy Central since it changed its name from Paramount Comedy earlier this year with its audience jumping by 50% year-on-year.
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RatingsBBC3 exceeds weekly share
A programming diet that included live football and coverage of Glastonbury helped BBC3 to its highest ever weekly share - 3.3%.
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RatingsDining show hits the spot
More 4 had its highest-rating Sunday of the year so far thanks to Come Dine with Me, which helped the digital channel to an all-hours share of 2.6%.
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RatingsD-Day landing BBC4 viewers
BBC4’s D-Day themed programming to celebrate the 65th anniversary of the Normandy landings brought the channel its best-ever Saturday performance.
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RatingsFinal ratings hit for ER
The last-ever episode of ER ended on a high for More 4 as the medical drama equalled the channel’s highest audience of the year so far.
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RatingsFilm 4 pulls in more viewers
Film 4 had its best week among its target audience of viewers aged between 16 and 34 since 2007 as the channel expanded its hours.
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TV lovers' ups and downs
There were mixed fortunes ratings-wise for some of TV’s star-crossed lovers this week.
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BBC4's better sort of viewer
Critically acclaimed US drama Mad Men has hardly been a ratings goldmine for BBC4 but it has delivered in other ways.