Talk:The National Anthem (Black Mirror)

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Differing viewing figures
Per Broadcasters' Audience Research Board's website it says the episode recieved 2.07 million, however The Guardian  says 1.9 million. Is there a reason for this discrepancy or am I missing something. Regards  Spy-cicle💥   Talk? 14:23, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
 * Yep, The Guardian is giving overnight figures but BARB is giving (I think) 7-day figures. Bit weird to cite The Guardians figure rather than just BARB, and I can't remember why I did that—should I up it to 2.07 million and change "overnight" to "7-day data"? — Bilorv ( talk ') 21:49, 30 July 2021 (UTC)
 * I am not very famliar with how TV rating like this work. So The Guardians figure of 1.9 million is those who tuned in live on the night of its first viewing (if so where did The Guardian get this data from?) whereas BARB's 2.07 million is from the live showing on the night + 7 day extra (are the extra 7 days from repeats of the show?). We could possibly include both but it at the moment just trying to figure out how these ratings work.  Spy-cicle💥 '  Talk? 12:20, 31 July 2021 (UTC)
 * The Guardian is getting its information from a subscription to BARB (here's broadly how BARB works), but using overnight figures. I think, based on this, that the extra viewers in the seven-day data are the people who recorded the programme and watched it back within a week (and not within the same day). It wouldn't count repeats of the same episode, which would be measured as separate programmes (but very rarely break the top 30, so you won't see them often in the free data).
 * I think both figures would be overboard, and either one is fine but maybe the seven-day data is preferable as it's more accurate (the main advantage of overnight data is that you can report on it less than a week after a programme airs). — Bilorv ( talk ) 16:30, 3 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Ah I see think I understand how it works now, thanks for explaining . I agree that the 7-day figure straight from BARB makes sense to use here (and would match the other C4 episodes) rather than the The Guardian for overnight figures, with the possibliltiy of having an efn with alternate figure to be "comprehensive". Regards  Spy-cicle💥   Talk? 16:00, 6 August 2021 (UTC)
 * Alright, I've just added the 7-day figure and removed the Guardian source. — Bilorv ( talk ) 19:03, 6 August 2021 (UTC)