Post by Teddy Bear on May 6, 2015 18:09:39 GMT
Guido Fawkes comments on a recent Guardian article:
Here's the Guardian article he refers to. Worth noting how the BBC overrates itself and this programme in their estimation of it.
BBC’S HEAD IN HANDS OVER VICTORIA DERBYSHIRE SHOW
Surely whoever chose this thumbnail for the iPlayer website isn’t having some fun at the Victoria Derbyshire Programme’s expense?
The BBC’s new poundshop Kilroy managed just 39,000 viewers last Thursday, rounded down to zero in the overnight ratings. It has averaged just 73,000 viewers so far. She’s no Oprah Winfrey, that’s for sure…
Surely whoever chose this thumbnail for the iPlayer website isn’t having some fun at the Victoria Derbyshire Programme’s expense?
The BBC’s new poundshop Kilroy managed just 39,000 viewers last Thursday, rounded down to zero in the overnight ratings. It has averaged just 73,000 viewers so far. She’s no Oprah Winfrey, that’s for sure…
Here's the Guardian article he refers to. Worth noting how the BBC overrates itself and this programme in their estimation of it.
Victoria Derbyshire's BBC2 show pulls in just 39,000 viewers
News and discussion show, which also airs on the BBC News channel and online, draws its smallest audience so far – fewer than Channel 4’s Four in a Bed
It was touted by BBC News chief James Harding as the “centrepiece of domestic daytime TV news” but former Radio 5 Live presenter Victoria Derbyshire’s new BBC2 show has suffered the dreaded “zero rating”.
The news and discussion show, described by the BBC as the first “digital first” TV news programme, drew just 39,000 viewers on Thursday morning, which is rounded down to zero in the overnight ratings.
The programme, called Victoria Derbyshire, has averaged just 73,000 viewers in its first 10 outings, around a third of the typical audience of its Channel 5 rival, The Wright Stuff, presented by Matthew Wright.
It is also beaten by repeats of US comedy Frasier and bed and breakfast reality show, Four in a Bed, on Channel 4.
The award-winning Derbyshire left her acclaimed 5 Live morning programme last September and began her BBC2 show, which airs between 9.15am and 11am, on 7 April this year.
It is also broadcast on the BBC News channel and online, so its overall audience will be higher.
The Derbyshire programme is something of a trailblazer for the BBC, understood to be the first time a daily programme commissioned by the BBC News channel has run on network television.
The BBC declined to reveal its viewing figures on the BBC News channel but said in a statement the programme had “reached more than 2 million viewers across BBC2 and the News channel”.
“Victoria Derbyshire is an innovative programme with a digital first strategy in which the reach through social media is as important as TV viewing,” it said.
“We are very pleased that last week we reached more than 2 million viewers across BBC2 and the News channel.
“Just as importantly we have been achieving impressive digital figures, one of our stories reached 2.6 million people on Facebook alone and other individual stories have received more than a million views via the BBC News site.
“In a long-planned schedule change, the Victoria Derbyshire programme was not on air on BBC 2 on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday because of the snooker. On Thursday we saw an increase in our reach on the BBC News channel.”
The show’s BBC2 audience has yet to top 100,000 viewers. It launched with an audience of 61,000 and peaked with 99,000 on 13 April.
It is now taking a break as BBC2 devotes much of its daytime schedule to the World Snooker Championship. It is due to return after the snooker final, which takes place on 4 May.
Thursday’s rating of 39,000 viewers was its lowest to date, a 0.9% share of the audience watching at that time.
It was beaten by Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff, which drew 223,000 viewers between 9.15am and 11.10am.
It also lost out to the last 10 minutes of Channel 4’s Frasier, with 172,000 viewers, Four in a Bed, which drew 98,000 viewers between 9.25am and 10.30am, and Come Dine With Me, watched by 89,000 viewers between 10.30am and 11am.
ITV’s Jeremy Kyle Show pulled in 1.1 million viewers between 9.25am and 10.30am, while BBC1’s Homes Under the Hammer, between 10am and 11am, drew 1.2 million viewers.
Announcing the programme in January this year, Harding said it would be the “centrepiece of domestic daytime TV news”.
“In the year ahead, on the most important stories – the future shape of the UK, the health of the global economy – our audiences will rightly expect us to be at the very top of our game,” he said.
“With these new programmes, and their commitment to bringing new perspectives and powerful storytelling, we will be very well placed to meet this challenge.”
Derbyshire said the programme would “experiment with innovative ways of telling original stories, and give our audience a genuine opportunity to be at the heart of a TV news programme”.
News and discussion show, which also airs on the BBC News channel and online, draws its smallest audience so far – fewer than Channel 4’s Four in a Bed
It was touted by BBC News chief James Harding as the “centrepiece of domestic daytime TV news” but former Radio 5 Live presenter Victoria Derbyshire’s new BBC2 show has suffered the dreaded “zero rating”.
The news and discussion show, described by the BBC as the first “digital first” TV news programme, drew just 39,000 viewers on Thursday morning, which is rounded down to zero in the overnight ratings.
The programme, called Victoria Derbyshire, has averaged just 73,000 viewers in its first 10 outings, around a third of the typical audience of its Channel 5 rival, The Wright Stuff, presented by Matthew Wright.
It is also beaten by repeats of US comedy Frasier and bed and breakfast reality show, Four in a Bed, on Channel 4.
The award-winning Derbyshire left her acclaimed 5 Live morning programme last September and began her BBC2 show, which airs between 9.15am and 11am, on 7 April this year.
It is also broadcast on the BBC News channel and online, so its overall audience will be higher.
The Derbyshire programme is something of a trailblazer for the BBC, understood to be the first time a daily programme commissioned by the BBC News channel has run on network television.
The BBC declined to reveal its viewing figures on the BBC News channel but said in a statement the programme had “reached more than 2 million viewers across BBC2 and the News channel”.
“Victoria Derbyshire is an innovative programme with a digital first strategy in which the reach through social media is as important as TV viewing,” it said.
“We are very pleased that last week we reached more than 2 million viewers across BBC2 and the News channel.
“Just as importantly we have been achieving impressive digital figures, one of our stories reached 2.6 million people on Facebook alone and other individual stories have received more than a million views via the BBC News site.
“In a long-planned schedule change, the Victoria Derbyshire programme was not on air on BBC 2 on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday because of the snooker. On Thursday we saw an increase in our reach on the BBC News channel.”
The show’s BBC2 audience has yet to top 100,000 viewers. It launched with an audience of 61,000 and peaked with 99,000 on 13 April.
It is now taking a break as BBC2 devotes much of its daytime schedule to the World Snooker Championship. It is due to return after the snooker final, which takes place on 4 May.
Thursday’s rating of 39,000 viewers was its lowest to date, a 0.9% share of the audience watching at that time.
It was beaten by Channel 5’s The Wright Stuff, which drew 223,000 viewers between 9.15am and 11.10am.
It also lost out to the last 10 minutes of Channel 4’s Frasier, with 172,000 viewers, Four in a Bed, which drew 98,000 viewers between 9.25am and 10.30am, and Come Dine With Me, watched by 89,000 viewers between 10.30am and 11am.
ITV’s Jeremy Kyle Show pulled in 1.1 million viewers between 9.25am and 10.30am, while BBC1’s Homes Under the Hammer, between 10am and 11am, drew 1.2 million viewers.
Announcing the programme in January this year, Harding said it would be the “centrepiece of domestic daytime TV news”.
“In the year ahead, on the most important stories – the future shape of the UK, the health of the global economy – our audiences will rightly expect us to be at the very top of our game,” he said.
“With these new programmes, and their commitment to bringing new perspectives and powerful storytelling, we will be very well placed to meet this challenge.”
Derbyshire said the programme would “experiment with innovative ways of telling original stories, and give our audience a genuine opportunity to be at the heart of a TV news programme”.