A dramatic irony

Article Abstract:

ITV has been placing strong emphasis on drama programming, and this approach has begun to attract the attention of the Independent Television Commission. This organization reports that ITV broadcast 26% more drama in 1997 than in 1993, mainly as a result of giving more airtime to soap operas. ITV mainly uses first-run drama series to ensure that its share of peaktime audiences remains larger than that of BBC1. Some observers believe that ITV should now try to allocate more airtime to comedy.

Management

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ITV's all time top 40 hit programmes

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UK television broadcaster Independent Television has been showing programmes since 1955, although it did not become popular until the end of the decade. The most watched programme shown on the channel during its tenure is the James Bond movie Live and Let Die, with an audience of 23.5 million, followed by Jaws, with 23.3 million and The Spy Who Loved Me, with 22.9 million viewers. A brief history of ITV is presented, plus a table of its 40 most successful programmes.

Commercial TV Stations, History, Statistics, Television programs, Commercial television stations

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Winter warnings

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UK television viewing figures reveal the average person dropped 10 minutes of viewing time during the first 4 months of 1998 compared with the first 4 months of 1997. Satellite viewing figures rose to 12.9% of total viewing audience from 11.4%, with an average viewing time of 10 hours and five minutes per week. Peak time viewing audience share gave BBC1 an average 35.7% of the total share, BBC2 had 11%, ITV had 40.9%, Channel 4 had 8.6%, while Channel 5 got 5.8%.

United Kingdom, Evaluation, British Broadcasting Corp., Channel 4, Channel 5

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