While international heterogenity is definitely on the decrease, on an intra-national basis it's increasing. The number of people watching any one channel has dropped significantly over the last twenty years - when Doctor Who was cancelled for low ratings it had much the same audience figures as are now lauded as incredible.
The options for people are now much higher than they were before and the splinter channels, appealing to only a few thousand people here and there are now much more viable.
If you're one in a million then there are 6000 of you worldwide, a viable distributed community; in ye olden days you'd have been stuck with whatever entertainment was available at 6PM on the BBC (which is why the audience share used to be higher - there wasn't any alternative).
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Date: 2006-05-17 12:02 pm (UTC)While international heterogenity is definitely on the decrease, on an intra-national basis it's increasing. The number of people watching any one channel has dropped significantly over the last twenty years - when Doctor Who was cancelled for low ratings it had much the same audience figures as are now lauded as incredible.
The options for people are now much higher than they were before and the splinter channels, appealing to only a few thousand people here and there are now much more viable.
If you're one in a million then there are 6000 of you worldwide, a viable distributed community; in ye olden days you'd have been stuck with whatever entertainment was available at 6PM on the BBC (which is why the audience share used to be higher - there wasn't any alternative).