18-03-2023, 03:52 PM
(18-03-2023, 01:28 PM)Dadeki Wrote: While £31.9 million is a respectable total, it's not exactly a good one either. In fact, reading Wikipedia for previous years' totals it appears to be the lowest amount raised since 1997, which saw £27 million. 1999 saw £35 million being raised and that's not accounting for inflation, either. The donations have also been dropping year on year since 2011, which saw a record £108 million being donated. Compared to last year's total of £42 million, over £10 million being lost in the space of a year alone is not something I would be boasting about and should instead raise serious questions about the continued relevance of the fundraiser. Yes I know there is a cost of living crisis, but even the 2009 total (which was in the height of a recession) was higher.That £108m figure wasn't on the night, but at £74m there is still a huge drop in the on the night figure. That said when you look at how ratings have fallen the donation per viewer has almost doubled from roughly a fiver to a tenner.
It just needs somebody to show it a bit of love again in the way the BBC have treated Eurovision over the last 12 months. The big thing is to make Red Nose Day itself a huge focal point - the big celebrity challenges have somewhat distracted from that in recent years. If they do another big celeb thing it needs to feel new, not another mountain trek or danceathon.