Where can you find TV ratings?

[Anorak 1960]

I've found it almost impossible to find terrestrial and satellite viewing figures online although I know they are published. I managed to find some daily figures once and found one calculation for Discovery Science averaged about 40,000 an hour I think while Sky One got about ten times that. Some like Discovery Kids was in four figures and has since folded. But besides daily ones which I have not found since anyway is there anywhere with viewing figures for programmes as well?

[CaptainWaggett]

BARB. Though you may have to subscribe to find the exact figures you want.

[Freddy]

Digital Spy give a run down of some viewing figures for soaps/new shows. It's not much but interesting nonetheless.



Freddy

[Anorak 1960]

Ah, I think we've hit (literally) the bottom line. I did find a couple of sites offering viewing figures (no idea whether they'd show what I wanted to see anyway) but at a cost. Considering I am basically in a few programmes here and one in the States which has probably been pulled, a monthly or annual subscription just to possibly find a maximum of three numbers and never return is a very poor ratio. I did email one of the TV companies to ask directly once but you can imagine the response I got.



The only free site I found a few years ago only gave daily figures and no specific programmes and wouldn't be at all surprised if that's what I'd find for the minor channels if I paid for it. I'll look in digital spy though in case someone has a way in directly as it would be nice to know how many/few people have watched me.

[CaptainWaggett]

Market research information is expensive to gather and rarely made available for free (why should it be?). Unfortunate if you only want a single piece of information but true. You could try the British Library or the BFI as they may have BARB subscriptions but I doubt if you're going to get the information for free on the net