Scheduling

The following are the different types of schedules that are shown on TV. They are written in order of when shown.
· Breakfast
· Daytime
· Children’s
· Prime or peck
· Post watershed

These obviously have different target audiences below is who is the target audiences for each.
· Children, working people and parents
· Older people and the unemployed
· Children and parent
· Families
· Adults and teenagers.

The most popular genres shown of TV are following:
· Sitcom
· Soaps
· Documentaries
· Film
· News
· reality TV

I then looked at who is the target audience for each channel
· BBC1- Everyone
· BBC2- Minority
· ITV1- Adults
· Channel 4- Minority
· FIVE- Everyone

Many channels show repeats so when then looked at what percentage on each channel are repeats
BBC1- 3%
BBC2- 50+%
ITV1- 3%
Channel 4 – 50+%
FIVE- 50+%

We then looked at what watershed is and what time it starts.
The watershed is from 9pm onwards were its issued children re in bed. It is for late teens and adults. However it is getting closer to 10pm because children are trying up later.

Enherative- put after an establishing programme to try and get their audience. E.g. Simpsons to family guy
Pre-echo – schuelding a programme before the popular programme.
Hammoening- Programmed put in-between two popular programmes.