I've no access to overnight figures, but strongly suspect ITV's version of a ten o'clock news bulletin attracted more viewers than BBC1 last night. The BBC stuck to their published schedules, which, in the middle of a pandemic and Brexit negotiations, shunted the main evening news back to 22.35, in favour of the King Gary Christmas special.
ITV were also bolder than the BBC (when they got round to it), leading with 'We're on the verge of a Brexit deal', handled by two ways, in ever-increasing volume, with James Mates, Joel Hills and Robert Peston. For the BBC, the impending deal was after a whole range of Covid headlines, and the full-ish report on Brexit started 11 minutes in.
Today, the 'evening' BBC1 bulletin is at 3.50pm, with the main news even later than yesterday, at 11.30pm.
Even if you turned to BBC News Channel at 10pm last night all you got was something on World News aimed at the US. Pitiful.
ReplyDeleteAnd the UK news which followed at 10:35 on BBC1 was even more pitiful as they bottled out of leading with Brexit as ITV had done.
If you want a running order written properly, look to ITN. Always has been the case, always will be.