Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Viewing Figures of Soap Operas

Here are the figures for BBC1 for the week ending 12th September 2010. Eastenders has the most viewing rates at 10,087 viewers for the week. This shows us the popularity of the programme, also the fact it is most popular on a Friday evening. This follows the demographic audiences that target those who will be at home in the evening.








These are the figures for ITV1 for the week ending 12th September 2010. In comparison to BBC1, Coronation Street is lower in viewing figures, with the highest viewing figure reaching 9,075. If we are to compare the Friday night showing with the Eastenders Friday night showing, the figures are significantly less at only 8,044. Emmerdales viewing figures are at the lowest here at 7,597. This shows us that their audience isn't as wide as Eastenders for example.





These are the figures for Channel 4. Here we can see that Hollyoaks isn't on here at all. So this shows us either that it wasn't as popular during this week or that it isn't as popular at all. From this we can gather that Hollyoaks is more of a niche programme but the figures for when it is a major storyline, or Christmas, goes up tremendously.



This is the Christmas figures for 2009 for BBC1. We can see that the figures for EastEnders is much more than any other time. From this could look at the story lines which generate the most viewing figures. We can replicate a version of these story lines to make ours popular and create thousands of viewing figures.

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