FACTSHEET 1 TV Output Oxford Media Convention March 2017 1
This factsheet has been compiled by Ofcom and provides some background to aid discussion at the 2017 Oxford Media Convention. It looks at the output of original UK programming on both the PSB channels and the multichannel sector in recent years. Figures are provided up to and including 2015, as data are collected from broadcasters on an annual basis and 2016 data are as yet not available. All data referred to can be found in Ofcom s PSB Annual Report 2016 or Ofcom s CMR 2016. 2
22,948 22,466 21,851 21,774 21,728 22,202 22,002 22,322 22,506 22,913 22,356 11,815 12,707 13,194 12,207 10,963 9,673 10,165 10,032 9,620 9,578 9,618 Market Context First-run UK originated content consists of programmes commissioned by or for a UK television channel which are then first shown in the UK on that channel. The majority of programme spend by the public service broadcaster (PSB) channels is on such programming. Such hours have been fairly stable at around 32,000 per year since 2010 across the PSB channels, which is down from the 36,000 broadcast in 2005 (Figure 1). The decline from 2005 to 2015 can mainly be attributed to the 19% decline in first-run UK hours from the commercial PSB channels. This compares to a 3% decline from the BBC over the same period. Figure 1: PSB hours of first-run UK originated content Hours 35k 35k 35k 34k 33k 32k 32k 32k 32k 32k 32k ITV/ITV Breakfast, C4, C5 BBC 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Source: Ofcom s PSB Annual Report 2016. BBC figures include BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, CBeebies, BBC News, BBC Parliament. 3 The analysis does not include S4C, BBC Alba or BBC HD. Figures exclude nations/regions programming. Output hours are based on slot times.
Market Context Since 2010, the BBC has seen a small increase in first run originated hours (up 1%), driven by a rise in BBC One hours, although offset in part by a decline for BBC Two and the BBC portfolio channels. Channel 4 and ITV/ITV Breakfast declined 7% and 4% respectively over the five year period, whilst Channel 5 broadcast 25% more first run originated content between 2010 and 2015. Figure 2: PSB hours of first-run UK originated content; by channel 2010 2014 2015 Hours of first-run originated output Change (hours) Change (%) 5 yr 1 yr 5 yr 1 yr First run hours as % of all output 2010 2014 2015 BBC One 5515 6666 6505 990-161 18% -2% 65% 79% 76% BBC Two 3793 2963 3190-603 22-16% 8% 47% 38% 40% BBC Portfolio 12894 13284 12661-233 -623-2% -5% 39% 40% 39% BBC Total 22202 22913 22356 154-557 1% -2% 45% 47% 46% ITV/ITV Breakfast 5244 4911 5056-188 145-4% 3% 62% 58% 59% Channel 4 3010 2965 2789-221 -176-7% -6% 34% 34% 32% Channel 5 1419 1702 1773 354 71 25% 4% 16% 19% 20% Commercial Total 9673 9578 9618-55 40-1% 0% 37% 37% 37% Grand Total 31875 32491 31974 99-517 0% -2% 42% 43% 43% Source: Ofcom s PSB Annual Report 2016. Note: Ofcom/broadcasters. BBC portfolio includes BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, CBeebies, BBC News, BBC Parliament. The analysis does not include S4C, BBC Alba or BBC HD. Figures exclude nations/regions programming. Output hours are based on slot times. 4
Market Context Figure 3 shows the genre breakdown of first-run UK originations broadcast by the PSB channels from 2005 to 2015. News and current affairs output makes up over half of the original hours, in large part down to the single-genre BBC News and BBC Parliament channels. Figure 3: PSB hours of first-run UK originated content; by genre Hours 34,763 35,173 35,045 33,981 32,691 31,875 32,167 32,354 32,126 32,491 31,974 3,645 3,978 3,601 3,530 2,843 2,845 2,406 2,903 2,467 3,144 2,488 2,901 3,967 4,599 3,376 3,089 2,484 2,932 2,992 2,912 2,836 2,861 4,786 4,781 5,318 5,674 5,619 5,783 5,809 5,587 5,673 5,556 5,720 19,106 18,402 18,033 18,193 18,086 18,013 18,363 18,341 18,548 18,587 18,615 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 Children's Sports Feature films Ent./Comedy Drama/soaps Factual Education Religion and ethics Arts/Classical music News/CA Source: Ofcom s PSB Annual Report 2016. Figures include PSB services: BBC One, BBC Two, BBC Three, BBC Four, CBBC, CBeebies, BBC News, BBC Parliament, ITV, ITV Breakfast, Channel 4 and Channel 5. The analysis does not include S4C, BBC Alba or BBC HD. Figures exclude nations/regions programming. Output hours are based on slot times. 5
Market Context Of the 1.73 million hours broadcast by the multichannels in 2015, 13% (or 217k) were first-run originations or acquisitions. Figure 4: Total and first-run originated/acquired hours of output in the multichannel sector: 2015 Proportion of hours 1,725,994 217,432 318,516 20,902 295,711 76,226 Proportion of hours that were first-run 7% 1% 30% Music Movies Sport 250,468 105,270 131,078 109,089 50,894 48% 2% 1% News Leisure Children's 483,739 57,803 5% 12% Factual Entertainment Total Hours First-run hours Source: Ofcom CMR 2016. Note: Broadcast hours exclude Sky Box Office and barker channels which promote TV content. First-run hours include firstrun in-house, commissioned and acquired content. 6