The chart illustrates daily viewing figures for Chanel One News over 12-month period. They are shown 4 times a day, thus there are four lines corresponding to 1 pm, 6 pm, 9:30 pm and 11 pm show times. Y axis corresponds to the size of the audience in millions per day.
To begin with, 1 pm is the most stable slot in the schedule; it captures between 1.2 and 1.5 million people by the screen throughout the year every day. However, the most popular are 6 pm news. Despite quite big fluctuation of viewers and slight decline towards the end of the year it reaches between 5 and 3.5 million people everyday.
More interesting phenomena is happening with 9:30 pm and 11 pm news. 11pm slot is being introduced from May only. The popularity of late time news hits its peak in August, impacting 9:30 pm news contrariwise. At this point 4 million people prefer 11pm news to 9:30 pm news, which audience is shrinked to 1 million viewers per day. For comparinson, In May, 9:30 pm news are at it’s peak with 4 million people by the screens every day.
