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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: Doctor Who Ratings DISASTER | Episode 5 Loses 500,000
 Viewers with Ncuti Gatwa's Return!
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2024 14:54:07 -0000 (UTC)
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Daniel70 <daniel47@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:
> Blueshirt wrote on 6/6/24 11:02 pm:
>> Daniel70 wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey, Aggy, back in "the good'ol days' of 'Doctor Who', you
>>> used to Quote the BBC ratings or some other BRITISH
>>> organisation.
>> 
>> He quotes the BARB figures. Which are the official compilers of
>> British television ratings.
> 
> That's the BRITISH organisation I was trying to recall. Thank you.
> 
>>> Are the figures you quote now still those same BBC/BRITISH org
>>> figures or are they Disney+ figures or something entirely
>>> different??
>> 
>> It's still BARB and they are for the UK only.
>> 
>> Disney haven't released any official streaming figures for the
>> worldwide territories where they stream Doctor Who on Disney+.
>> 
> Hmm! So might it be the British Whovians (with Disney+) have deserted 
> the BBC, so deflating the BARB figures .... but, eventually, inflating 
> the Disney+ figures??

No. The viewing numbers shown are for the U.K. only and come from an
independent agency called BARB (originally British Audience Research Bureau
but just BARB now).

The first figures shown are “overnights” or VOSDAL figures. These figures
include those watching on live TV (including +1 channels where these exist
- the BBC doesn’t have them but some commercial channels still do) and the
increasingly tiny number of viewers who record the show and watch it later
the same night.

They DON’T include any viewers using iPlayer - including those who use the
iPlayer app on their TV or broadband box to access the show EVEN IF they
are watching at the same time as the live broadcast. This also means that
anyone who comes in a minute or two late and presses the green button on
their TV to “watch from start” who also get transferred onto iPlayer don’t
get counted.

So more than a third of all viewers now first appear in the “+7 days
consolidated” figures which do include streaming numbers. The universal
existence and vast use of TV apps like iPlayer and ITVX (and All4, and My
5) is why the overnight figures have become increasingly useless to all
broadcasters.

Disney+ don’t publish audience numbers. Ireland won’t show under either set
of numbers even if they were - you’d need RTEPlayer figures to capture the
audiences. I don’t know if the Irish version of BARB even monitors BBC
viewing.

-- 
“Most of the Universe is knackered, babes.”  - The Doctor