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8/10/2019 TV Scheduling Notes

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TV Scheduling notes

Q1, the schedule for each day can be broke up into clear segments.

How would you categorise these segments?

Time Segment Audience

6am-9am Breakfast Television Working Class, People in

education.

9am-3pm Daytime Television Unemployed, ill people,

retired and the elderly,

housewives, people

who work nights.

3pm-7pm Family Afternoon

Television

Everyone. This is when

TV is most watched

because its appropriate

for almost everyone.

7pm-11pm Prime Time Television Adults, working class,

retired, unemployed

etc.

11pm-6am Night Time Television Students, people

working very long

hours.


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Q2, what would you say are the most popular genres on

television?

Soaps- Emmerdale, Coronation Street, EastEnders,Doctors, Hollyoaks

D

r

amas- Downton Abbey, Broadchurch, Greys Anatomy,

Homeland

Sitcom- Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother,

Scrubs, Rules Of Engagement


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Reality- The Only Way is Essex, Made In Chelsea, Jersey

Shore, Geordie Shore


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Game shows- Pointless, The Chase, Family Fortunes,

Countdown


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Q3, who is the target audience of each terrestrial channel?

Give examples of scheduled programs to

support your views.

BBC 1 is the main channel, it was the first channel created

and it is paid for by television licensing. This channel along

with ITV have the biggest target audience of all the main

channels, this is because they cater for every audience,

meaning there target audience is everyone. A prime

example of them doing this is doctor who, this can be appealing to families

because its lack of violence, teenagers because of the story behind it all and

overall everyone can watch it and enjoy it, without changing the channel or

being offended.

BBC 2 is the brother channel to BBC1, however it features

more cultural programmes and documentaries. With this it

therefore attracts typically, an older audience. They cater

to this by making all their programmes very formal and

making sure they are relative to older peoples interests, for

example Antiques roadshow.

ITV 1 is the main competitor to BBC1 and is an

independent channel, meaning its funded by

advert revenue and investment. This channels

audience is very similar to BBC1s, they have a

range of programs that target everyone, meaning

they overall also target everyone. It differentiates

in a way from bbc in that it shows what people want to watch and what gets

the highest ratings, making it the more popular channel.

Channel 4 is different from the other channel mostly, but it

still does cater for all ages. It mainly focuses its content at

teens and above though, the channel aims to challenge the

typical convention of television. They show content

exported from other countries and often edgy

documentaries and dramas to push the boundaries and gain

a lot of attention doing so.


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Channel 5 is the least popular of all the channels in

my opinion because it usually shows programs that

have previously been elsewhere, such as bigbrother. It again targets everyone but just doesnt

succeed at doing so like all the others, this is due

to poor ratings and therefore not enough funding

to produce high quality programs. However

sometimes they do have highly popular exports

such as The Walking Dead and Under the Dome.

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