UK Ratings Thread

[Foxy]

A select number of people have BARB boxes attached to their televisions, and these people represent a cross ection of our society....not sure exactly how many people in the country have them, but basically they use these sample ratings and multiply them by....well, not sure exactly but they do something to them to gather the ratings. So basically, if you haven't got a BARB box, your viewing habits aren't counted anyway - therefore UK ratings pretty much mean nothing!

[grinch-girl]

thanks for the info Foxy... jeeeze i didnt think it would be like that ! is that the only rating site or are there other ones too? do the tv channels companies have any other way of knowing or do they rely on BARB?

[Foxy]

I'm no expert on this (as you can probably tell by my jumbled explanation of it! ).....but I believe BARB is the only 'ratings counting' agency.

[grinch-girl]

I'm no expert on this (as you can probably tell by my jumbled explanation of it! ).....but I believe BARB is the only 'ratings counting' agency.

lol well you see pretty knowledgable to me

and it wasn't a jumbled explanation, it was very enlightening hehe

[Susan Kennedy]

Rating update: Thursday, 16th Sep:

Channel Five

Home and Away logged 822k (5.1%) at 6pm, after

Channel Fiver

(first look) drew 405k (2.3%) at 6.30pm

[Susan Kennedy]

Friday, 17th September

Channel Five

Home and Away put in 842k (5.2%) at 6pm,

Channel Fivers (first look)

403k (2.3%)

[jodlebirger]

Friday, 17th September

Channel Five

Home and Away put in 842k (5.2%) at 6pm,

Channel Fivers (first look)

403k (2.3%)

Is this bad or good??

[alexx]

It's also got a strong afternoon following in the UK hasn't it? Another 500k or more?

[Skylover]

It's also got a strong afternoon following in the UK hasn't it? Another 500k or more?

I think it gets about another 2-300,000 for the 2.15pm showing. The ratings aren't brilliant, but Neighbours' hasn't been either recently. Still, they're both doing better than Hollyoaks percentage-wise.

[simmins]

EastEnders stormed past Emmerdale in the Tuesday night soaps ratings battle, according to overnight data.

Alfie Moon's EastEnders return to the Square was seen by:

8.86m (41.7%) on BBC One at 7.30pm

1.23m (6.1%) on BBC Three at 10pm.

Emmerdale: 6.42m (33.1%)

Hollyoaks 1.17m (6.5%) E4's 412k (2.1%).

Neighbours pulled in decent ratings, with 747k (11.9%) at 1.45pm, & 1.38m (10.1%) at 5.30pm.

Home and Away put in 366k (6.1%) and 970k (5.9%) at 2.15pm,

Fiver's first look for the Summer Bay serial grabbed 527k (2.9%) at 6.30pm.

taken from Neighboursfans.com