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Originally Posted by gmn2k
To correct you the `nightly daily highlight show' is not the `Best Bits' how can it be when many scenes are cut, it is exactly what it says `Highlights'
This show also shows highlights from the previous day, NOT from the day it is being broadcast, which results in many viewers missing out on the action as it happens, and on many occasions not getting to see parts of the show at all, while sky viewers get to watch 24/7.
Channel 4 could have got better ratings and recieved many more revenues if they gave cable viewers the same viewing rights as sky
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Of course 'highlights' and 'best bits' means the same thing! What you're arguing about is whether any of the best bits/highlights are actually never broadcast at all due to the restrictions of limited live bradcasts on e4 and a daily half-hour programme on c4.
Having actually watched a little of the e4 live feed, I can say with certainty that what is cut is not 'best bits' at all. And as further proof, I offer the fact that in just about all previous years, Marcus Bentley has on more than one occasion been forced to narrate the words: "two fourteen pee em. Aul the hawwsmehhts have gun back ta bed." Why on earth would they
choose to cut a juicy conversation and slot in footage of people sleeping instead? Answer: They have no choice. What they show in that half-hour nightly slot on C4 is the pick of the action (and yes, I know it's 24 hours out of date). It's precisely because 24 hours in the house provides barely 24 minutes of interesting footage that they have tried to make the programme edgier this year.
As for ratings and reviews - well, the c4 show is getting 3 or 4 million a night and that's a free-to-air channel on analogue and digital. I can't imagine that e4 is ever getting more than a couple of hundred thousand (and I suspect that's a generous estimate). In terms of additional ratings and revenue, I don't expect Channel Four is losing anything at all by not providing the continuous stream to the barely 3 million homes (out of 30 million in the UK) that actually have cable TV.