23-02-2023, 10:30 PM
(23-02-2023, 09:47 PM)Stockland Hillman Wrote:It would be interesting how many of those 26% who watch the news channel are also part of the 53% who watch news on BBC1?(23-02-2023, 05:30 PM)DTV Wrote: I think that broadly on this forum (and its predecessors) there is a tendency to forget the absolute gulf in reach of network bulletins and news channels. The BBC News channel's better-performing hours (on an average news week) only get into the 100-150k bracket, while the BBC News at Six typically reaches 4-5m viewers. They are really incomparable beasts - literally orders of magnitude apart.
OFCOM report reach of BBC One news as 53% in 2022 down from 62% in 2018 (UK 16+) The BBC News channel reach is 24% down from 26% over same period.
So comparisons of individual shows isn't really a useful fact. Using phase 'orders of magnitude' is misleading ; and far from different beasts. More doberman and a staffie
It's notable the scheduled,fixed, inflexible bulletins suffer from a far faster fall in audience than rolling content. Constant the developed world all over. Netflix etc eat primetime viewing but a substantial audience still goes 'home' to linear around that viewing.