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The following is a list of most watched programmes, excluding sporting events and news coverage. The mid-1980s introduction of in-week repeat showings accounts for six of the top ten programmes. On this measure, the 1996 Christmas edition of Only Fools and Horses is, not including figures for repeats, the most-watched non-documentary programme ...
The data is collected overnight and published as overnight ratings at around 9.30 the following morning for use by TV stations and the advertising industry. The following week, final figures are released which are a combination of the overnight figures with "time-shift" figures (people recording a programme and watching it within a week).
TV 1, Prime, Sky Sports, Maori TV 4 Boxing: Lennox Lewis vs. David Tua World Title Defence 1,841,230 12 November 2000 TV 3 5 One News special – Death of Diana, Princess of Wales 1,703,310 31 August 1997 TV 1 6 2000 Summer Olympics opening ceremony: 1,654,310 15 September 2000 TV 1 7 One News special – Funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales ...
Top 10 most watched Christmas Day TV shows. Gavin & Stacey 12.32m. Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl 9.38m. The King (BBC, ITV, BBC News and Sky News) 6.82m (not including other channels)
The top three biggest TV audiences of the year so far are all for live events.
The TV parental guidelines were first proposed on December 19, 1996, as a voluntary-participation system—in which ratings are determined by participating broadcast and cable networks—by the United States Congress, the television industry and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), and went into effect by January 1, 1997, on most major ...
Television ratings are expressed as a percentage of the potential TV audience viewing at any given time. TVR's measure the popularity of a television program or advertisement by comparing the number of target audience viewers who watched against the total available as a whole.
Nielsen, best known for delivering TV ratings, is getting ready for a future when it gauges a lot more than what people are watching on TV. The media-measurement giant plans to launch a new system ...