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| Queen's diamond jubilee: BBC takes TV ratings crown | Queen's diamond jubilee: BBC takes TV ratings crown |
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| The BBC may have faced a broadside of criticism for its Thames pageant coverage, but still ruled the waves ratings-wise over the Queen's diamond jubilee bank holiday. Monday's Diamond Jubilee Concert averaged nearly 15 million viewers – the biggest TV audience of the year so far. | The BBC may have faced a broadside of criticism for its Thames pageant coverage, but still ruled the waves ratings-wise over the Queen's diamond jubilee bank holiday. Monday's Diamond Jubilee Concert averaged nearly 15 million viewers – the biggest TV audience of the year so far. |
| BBC1's ratings highlights over the bank holiday included average audiences of 14.7 million viewers for Monday night's Diamond Jubilee Concert and 10.3 million for the much-maligned Diamond Jubilee Thames Pageant on Sunday afternoon. | BBC1's ratings highlights over the bank holiday included average audiences of 14.7 million viewers for Monday night's Diamond Jubilee Concert and 10.3 million for the much-maligned Diamond Jubilee Thames Pageant on Sunday afternoon. |
| On Tuesday, The Diamond Jubilee Carriage Procession averaged 6.2 million viewers and 41.9% audience share on BBC1 between 1.30pm and 3.45pm. | On Tuesday, The Diamond Jubilee Carriage Procession averaged 6.2 million viewers and 41.9% audience share on BBC1 between 1.30pm and 3.45pm. |
| Monday's concert was the most-watched TV show of the year so far in terms of overnight ratings. ITV1's Britain's Got Talent final in May averaged 11.88 million and a 48.4% audience share on overnight viewing. | Monday's concert was the most-watched TV show of the year so far in terms of overnight ratings. ITV1's Britain's Got Talent final in May averaged 11.88 million and a 48.4% audience share on overnight viewing. |
| Both Sunday's river pageant and Monday's jubilee concert from Buckingham Palace attracted more than half the available viewers in their timeslot – with audience shares of 55.9% and 57.4%, respectively – a relatively rare achievement in this multichannel era. | Both Sunday's river pageant and Monday's jubilee concert from Buckingham Palace attracted more than half the available viewers in their timeslot – with audience shares of 55.9% and 57.4%, respectively – a relatively rare achievement in this multichannel era. |
| The jubilee concert had a quarter-hour peak of 16.9 million viewers (65.4%) at its climax from 10.30pm, when the Queen and Prince Charles joined the performers on stage, with the heir to the throne delivering a speech in praise of his mother and hospital-bound father, Prince Phillip. | The jubilee concert had a quarter-hour peak of 16.9 million viewers (65.4%) at its climax from 10.30pm, when the Queen and Prince Charles joined the performers on stage, with the heir to the throne delivering a speech in praise of his mother and hospital-bound father, Prince Phillip. |
| Sunday's Thames pageant had a quarter-hour peak of 11.9 million viewers (61%) from 4.15pm, while on Tuesday the carriage procession had a peak of 7.4 million (45.4%) in the 15 minutes from 3.15pm, when the Queen appeared on the balcony at Buckingham Palace. | Sunday's Thames pageant had a quarter-hour peak of 11.9 million viewers (61%) from 4.15pm, while on Tuesday the carriage procession had a peak of 7.4 million (45.4%) in the 15 minutes from 3.15pm, when the Queen appeared on the balcony at Buckingham Palace. |
| On Saturday, the BBC's diamond jubilee coverage began with its final Derby before Channel 4 takes over responsibility for the horse race next year. Derby Day averaged 1.8 million viewers and a 20.1% audience share between 12.50pm and 4.30pm. | On Saturday, the BBC's diamond jubilee coverage began with its final Derby before Channel 4 takes over responsibility for the horse race next year. Derby Day averaged 1.8 million viewers and a 20.1% audience share between 12.50pm and 4.30pm. |
| Live coverage of the race itself averaged 3.3 million viewers and a 30.2% share in the quarter hour from 4pm. | Live coverage of the race itself averaged 3.3 million viewers and a 30.2% share in the quarter hour from 4pm. |
| BBC1's Derby coverage in 2011 averaged 1.6 million and 17.3%, with a quarter-hour peak of 3.2 million and 29.1% for live coverage of the race itself from 4pm. | BBC1's Derby coverage in 2011 averaged 1.6 million and 17.3%, with a quarter-hour peak of 3.2 million and 29.1% for live coverage of the race itself from 4pm. |
| BBC1, the UK's most popular TV channel with an audience share that normally hovers just above 20%, made hay between Sunday and Tuesday, averaging 34.8%, 36% and 28.3%, respectively. | |
| Other BBC1 diamond jubilee-related programmes included Tuesday's The Diamond Jubilee Service of Thanksgiving (9.15am-1pm: 4.5 million/40%), The Diamond Jubilee Concert Highlights (3.45pm: 4.1 million/26.1%) and Rolf Paints... the Diamond Jubilee (6.30pm: 4.2 million/19.2%). | |
| On Sunday, Gary Barlow: On Her Majesty's Service, a documentary about the Take That star's mission to record a special song celebrating the diamond jubilee, averaged 6.4 million and 27.7% from 7.45pm. | |
| Rival channels predictably took a hammering in the ratings over the bank holiday, with ITV1 dipping below 10% on Sunday, against its audience share for the year to date of about 16.5% (including ITV1+1 and ITV1 HD). | |
| On Sunday ITV1 did not cover the Thames pageant live and averaged a 9.8% audience share. | |
| ITV1 fared better on Tuesday, when it broadcast seven-and-a-half hours' continous live coverage of the diamond jubilee celebrations, averaging a 13.2% audience share for the day. | |
| In the morning ITV1's coverage averaged 1.4 million and 16.8% over two hours from 8.30am, the following hour attracted 1.5 million and 13%, and between 11.30am and 1.30pm ratings were 1.7 million and 13.3%. | |
| On Tuesday afternoon ITV1 averaged 2 million and 13.7% between 1.30pm and 4pm. | |
| Other ITV1 diamond jubilee-related programming over the weekend included Sunday's All the Queen's Horses: a Diamond Jubilee Special (6.30pm: 3.8 million/17.8%) and Monday's amateur footage documentary The Queen and I (8pm: 2.3 million/9.3%). | |
| On Sunday, Sky News's live coverage of the diamond jubilee pageant snuck into the bottom end of the top 20 most watched free-to-air multichannel shows, averaging 493,000 and a 3.9% share in the half hour from 1pm, and 479,000 and 4.3% in the preceeding half hour. | |
| All ratings are Barb overnight figures, including live, +1 (except for BBC and some other channels including Sky1) and same day timeshifted (recorded) viewing, but excluding on demand, or other – unless otherwise stated. Figures for BBC1, ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 generally include ratings for their HD simulcast services, unless otherwise stated | All ratings are Barb overnight figures, including live, +1 (except for BBC and some other channels including Sky1) and same day timeshifted (recorded) viewing, but excluding on demand, or other – unless otherwise stated. Figures for BBC1, ITV1, Channel 4 and Channel 5 generally include ratings for their HD simulcast services, unless otherwise stated |
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