Debate Night now showing at 7pm on Wednesdays from 28/10. A much better slot, IMO.
Raiders of the Lost Archive was embarrassing both in terms of contributors and production. I appreciate that programme makers have had to find other ways to get people to record material in recent months but the audio quality here was poor.
Getting Hitched Asian Style ended its run below 40k. Its audience seemed to give up after episode two.
Inside The Zoo has been up and down but still healthy enough ratings wise, averaging around 100k.
Disappointed by the amount of crime docs that have popped up recently. It's not solely a BBC Scotland thing because ITV have been at it with Dennis Nilsen, the Wests etc.
There's always been something of a fascination, especially in the Glasgow area, with this sort of thing. The
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"newspaper" still sells well - people have an appetite for reading and hearing about the world of local crime bosses.
The fascination continues. Murder Case attracted 163k on the Tuesday then 165k the following night so it looks like more programmes like this will be commissioned.
Getting Hitched Asian Style ended its run below 40k. Its audience seemed to give up after episode two.
Inside The Zoo has been up and down but still healthy enough ratings wise, averaging around 100k.
Disappointed by the amount of crime docs that have popped up recently. It's not solely a BBC Scotland thing because ITV have been at it with Dennis Nilsen, the Wests etc.
There's always been something of a fascination, especially in the Glasgow area, with this sort of thing. The
Digger
"newspaper" still sells well - people have an appetite for reading and hearing about the world of local crime bosses.
The fascination continues. Murder Case attracted 163k on the Tuesday then 165k the following night so it looks like more programmes like this will be commissioned.
Guess that my commissioning crime programmes they will save this channel
There's always been something of a fascination, especially in the Glasgow area, with this sort of thing. The
Digger
"newspaper" still sells well - people have an appetite for reading and hearing about the world of local crime bosses.
The fascination continues. Murder Case attracted 163k on the Tuesday then 165k the following night so it looks like more programmes like this will be commissioned.
Guess that my commissioning crime programmes they will save this channel
They will bump overall figures no question but where the channel is succeeding most in this regard is the daily Covid briefings. These have outperformed some of the new prime time offerings.
Similarly, repeats of Still Game and Rab C Nesbitt have made ratings a bit more respectable, but where BBC Scotland go from when these end will determine the channel's long term viability.
There can be no excuses of "the channel is in its infancy" at this point.
I wonder if by constantly recommissioning Inside Central Station and Inside The Zoo, they are going to keep this channel operating?
I think they will want to keep the channel going mainly because jobs depend on it but realise they cannot afford to commission any more programmes that will fail. Inside Central Station is something people will watch, although one programme is not enough to sustain a channel.
They will need a high hit rate from now on for the channel to continue longer term.
I can't frankly see the need of such a channel, TBH, even if I'm not from Scotland
I'm talking in general terms, I don't think Scotland should've been treated "better" than the rest
Still, if the UK really wanted to do local TV correctly, I think something a lĂ "Die Dritten" like in Germany (or the autonomous channels of Spain), would've been much better : e.g. local channels all across the UK (not just Scotland), possibly funded both publicly and commercially
Something like Channel 4, but local
But it's too late especially in an era where linear TV is declining, it was too late to launch BBC Scotland, even more for local commercial channels
I also find it odd that ITV has local opt outs for Scotland, while there's none from BBC!
It should've been the opposite,really.. Scotland is relatively big enough to have its own regions, at least 2 or 3, at least for an opt out inside of Reporting Scotland
UK TV is great, but in general, it doesn't handle local TV very good..
"Weird stuff"for me is also Yorkshire TV covering not so Yorkshire areas, like eastern Midlands!
For Kunst's benefit, the root of the differences across the UK is the rather chaotic nature of local Government in the UK as a whole.
England has three styles of local Government. Metropolitain Councils in the major cities, Unitary Councils in some urban and rural areas and finally County bodies with third level councils below them
Scotland has its own Legislative Government with local councils below that
Wales has a similar structure to Scotland, but until recently couldn't prepare its own legislation as an Assembly only.
Northern Ireland also has it's own unique structure.
The broadcasting landscape simply doesn't reflect the UK structure, Arguably Scotland and the BBC Scotland channel does this job best, with the linguistic challenge fulfilled by BBC Alba. There is in my view a case for STV to operate a challenger channel in addition to their Channel 3 responsibilities.
Wales through S4C covers the Language issue there, there'd be a case for a full time English language Welsh channel too.
The population inbalance effectively makes the ITV and BBC National Channels English Local ones.
Northern Ireland is in my view the least served.
It's simply not an easy situation to say that one particular area is overserved and others underserved if you consider the Nations structures they're covering.
"Weird stuff" for me is also Yorkshire TV covering not so Yorkshire areas, like eastern Midlands!
When the franchise was originally awarded to the imaginatively-named* Yorkshire Television in 1967 (*see also London Weekend Television), the region consisted of only the Emley Moor transmitter area (broadly equating to the old West Riding of Yorkshire, plus certain northern parts of Derbyshire & Nottinghamshire). So, the YTV name was originally a reasonable choice.
The Belmont transmitter (Lincs, E Yorks, NW Norfolk) was re-allocated from the Anglia Television region in 1974, thus rendering the YTV name as geographically biased ever since - with around 50% of the physical region now being in non-Yorkshire counties.
That's probably why they kept the Calendar name for the news, instead of changing to a geographical name like HTV did after the regional names were scrapped. The name Calendar isn't biased like Yorkshire would be.