Drama far more popular than news on TV

Drama is way more popular than news on television, according to a survey by the Broadcasting Authority.

The authority said today that according to its audience assessment for October 2015,  the average amount of hours that TV viewers spent watching television reached 1.98hrs every day, an increase of 5.4 minutes over in the previous assessment during July 2015 and slightly lower than the two hours registered  in October 2014.

An average of 191,200 persons, or 49.3% of the population aged 12 years and over, stated that they had listened to radio in October, while an average of 240,800 persons [62.2%] followed at least one TV station during this month.

Data was collected by the National Statistics Office.

TVM remained  the most popular station with 39.1% followed by ONE [14.9%] and Net TV [8.7%]. Overall 65.4% of all viewers followed a local station while the other 34.5% followed a foreign station with Canale 5 [5.7%], Rai 1 [4.8%] and Italia 1 [4.1%] being the most popular stations.

As in other previous surveys, TV audiences tended to peak between 7:30pm and 10:00pm

TV programme preferences

The study also investigated the most popular television programmes as indicated by...