TV Schedualing

Timing Schedual:

• Breakfast programmes - depends on the channel
• Daytime TV - the unemployed, students, retired people, housewives
• Childrens TV - children when they return from school before tea
• Family - for the family while they're eating tea
• Watershed - programmes for adults after their children have gone to bed

Tv's Most Popular Genre's

• Soap Opera's
• Comedy
• Gameshows/Quizs
• Films
• Talkshows
• Documentaries

Who are the Target Audiences for Each Channel:

• BBC 1 - mixed, aimed at everyone
• BBC 2 - aimed more at an educated audience, minorit audience
• ITV - mixed, aimed at everyone
• Channel 4 - teenagers/young adults, educated
• Channel 5 - mixed, aimed at everyone

What Percentage of Each Channel is Taken Up by Repeats:

• BBC 1 - 12%
• BBC 2 - 19%
• ITV - 5%
• Channel 4 - 15%
• Channel 5 - 9%

Which Channels Feature More Improted Shows:

Channel 4 and 5 feature more improted shows because they don't have as much money to make their own shows and it is cheaper to buy them from abroad.

What does the term 'Watershed' mean and when does it occur:

The watershed occurs at 9 o'clock. It is when the more adult programmes start and the channels 'shed' their younger audiences.

TV Scheduling:

• Inheritance - programme is schedualed after already popular programme to try and gain some of its audience.
• Pre-echo - programme is schedualed before already popular programme so the audince for it might see the last few minuets of the new programme.
• Hammocking - programme is scheduled between two already popular programmes to combine 'Inheritrance' and 'Pre-echo'.