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Channel 4 Achieves Highest Ever Weekly Share

Channel 4 Achieves Highest Ever Weekly Share

Monday night’s episode of Eastenders has for only the third time out-performed the Tuesday and Thursday editions. The episode, which featured the return of Sam Butcher to Albert Square after ending up in bed with David Wicks, attracted 12.60 million viewers.

Channel 4 has achieved its highest ever share of viewing with 13%; programmes such as Stephen King’s Tommy Knockers (which had over 4.6 million viewers for its Tuesday and Wednesday episodes) helped beat its previous best of 12.5% from the week ending 19/03/95.

Television viewing for the week as a whole has fallen by 6.3% when compared to the same week last year. Channel 4 is the only terrestrial channel to improve on last year’s figures, gaining an extra 5 minutes which is a percentage increase of 3.1. The top programme for the week was watched by 11% less people when compared to last year’s top programme (Coronation Street in bothcases.)

Latest Weekly Viewing Figures, Hours of Viewing, Audience Share and Reach

Hrs Mins % Share Ave Daily Reach% Weekly Reach %
ALL TV 20:28 100 75.1 92.9
BBC1 * 06:25 31.3 59.6 89.4
BBC2 02:12 10.7 31 73.9
TOTAL BBC 08:37 42.1 63.7 90.5
ITV * 07:19 35.7 58.7 88.3
C4/S4C 02:40 13 36.4 76.9
TOTAL ITV 09:59 48.8 64.6 90.3
OTHERS 01:52 9.1 12.5 20.6

Source: BARB * = Includes Breakfast TV

Rank Top Programmes w/e 6/8/95 Origin Millions
1 Coronation Street (Mon) GRAN 14.09
2 Coronation Street (Wed) GRAN 13.63
3 Eastenders (Mon) BBC1 12.97
4 Coronation Street (Fri) GRAN 12.75
5 Eastenders (Tue) BBC1 12.61
6 Eastenders (Thur) BBC1 12.05
7 National Lottery Live BBC1 10.42
8 The Bill (Fri) CARL 9.57
9 Emmerdale (Tue) YORK 9.37
10 Emmerdale (Thur) YORK 9.24
11 Laughter By Royal Command LWT 9.2
12 Wycliffe HTV 8.86
13 One Foot In The Grave BBC1 8.81
14 The Bill (Tue) CARL 8.07
15 Heartbeat YORK 8.06

Source: BARB

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