The timeshifted viewing cycle of Miscellaneous television programmes after their Jorge Gallardo-Camacho linear broadcast in Spain http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3790-5105
[email protected] Universidad Camilo José Cela Abstract This research examines the timeshifted viewing cycle of television Javier Sierra Sánchez shows in Spain after their (traditional) linear broadcast. Two http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8572-7564 hypotheses guide the study: H1: the timeshifted viewing cycle of
[email protected] TV programmes depends on the genre and it is shorter in the case Universidad Camilo José Cela of programmes dealing with news and current events; H2: the timeshifted viewing of fiction shows is the most distributed after Eva Lavín their day of broadcast and this justifies extending of measurement http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8663-8632 of viewership beyond the eighth day. The study is based on the
[email protected] Universidad Rey Juan Carlos analysis of the 10 shows with the highest timeshifted audience in Spain of every day for nine months, which yielded a sample of 2,750 units. The results confirmed both hypotheses and led us to Submitted March 7th, 2018 conclude that the timeshifted viewing of all genres decreases as Approved the days pass by, and that this decrease is faster for current- November 6th, 2018 events-based genres and non-existent for children’s programming. We propose improvements for the current © 2019 audience measurement system in Spain. Finally, the general Communication & Society objective of the research is to analyse for the first time the ISSN 0214-0039 E ISSN 2386-7876 evolution of the timeshifted TV audience according to genres, doi: 10.15581/003.32.2.29-43 taking into account that the data provided by Kantar Media www.communication-society.com registers audience over an eight-day period: the day of broadcast (VOSDAL: Viewing On The Same Day As Live) plus the following 7 2019 – Vol.