Tv Scheduling

Schedule caterogries
breakfast
daytime
childrens
peak time
adults

Target audience for these

breakfast - people who work and children
daytime - housewives and people who are unemployed
childrens - children
peak time - family
adults - young adults and adults


Popular genres
soaps
documentaries
talkshows
gameshows
sitcoms
films


Target audience for each terrestrial channel
bbc 1 - everyone
bbc2 - mature adults
itv - everyone
channel 4 - teens and adults
five - everyone.


Pertcentage of each chanels schedules taken up by repeats
mainly daytime tv and its cheap.

Import programmes - channel four mostly has imported shows because it does not have the money like the other channels so its cheaper to import programmes and most of the programmes are either american or austrailian.

Watershed - a cut off time which is normally 9-10pm where adult content and more mature themes can be played e.g. swear words , nudity and violence.