Scheduling notes
- 2. The schedule for each day can be broken down into clear segments. How would you categorise these segments? Morning Afternoon Evening Late
- 3. Who are the target audience for these segments? Morning - Majority Afternoon - Unemployed, housewives, retired people Evening - Families (early), Adults (late) Late - Adults
- 4. What would you say are the most popular genres on television? What would you say are the most popular genres on television? Drama Soap Opera Gossip/Celebrity Reality
- 5. Who is the target audience of each terrestrial channel? Give examples of programmes to support your views Who is the target audience of each terrestrial channel? Give examples of programmes to support your views BBC 1 + ITV - Elderly - News, Interviews The One Show, BBC News BBC2 - Adults/Elderly - Documentaries Elephant Diaries, Oceans 4 - Young Adults/Teenagers - Sitcoms - The I.T Crowd, The Big Bang Theory Five - Adults - US Dramas/International CSI: New York, Neighbours
- 6. Roughly, what percentage of each channel's schedules is taken up with repeats? Why do you think this is? BBC 1 - 32.5% BBC 2 - 49.8% ITV1 - 50% So that the channels can be running constantly.
- 7. Which channels have more imported programmes in their schedules? Why do you think this might be? Channel 4 + 5 as BBC and ITV take most of the british shows because they are part of the British Commercial Television Broadcasters.
- 8. What do you understand by the term ‘the watershed’ and where does this occur in the schedules? After 9'o'clock more explicit things can be shown on TV (swearing, nudity, drug use etc...)