Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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Election debate seen by 50,000 online – Broadcast

19 April, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

    Election debate seen by 50,000 online – Broadcast

    Online viewing figures for first (main) party leaders election debate:

    "Nearly 50,000 people watched a live stream of the debate on itv.com, while a further 200,000 users expressed their views on the showdown in the commercial broadcaster’s biggest ever online chat. The web page hosting the stream received over 600,000 hits in total.

    […]

    The UK’s first television election debate peaked with 10.3m viewers (40% share) – with ITV1 holding on to an audience of more than 9m for almost all of its 90-minute running time from 8.30pm.

    The First Election Debate between Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg and David Cameron averaged 9.5m (37.3%), according to overnight figures from Attentional.

    It was well ahead of the slot average of 5.5 million (22%)."

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First prime ministerial debate as Wordle clouds

16 April, 2010 by Einar Thorsen Leave a Comment

The BBC has published the transcript of the first prime ministerial debates which were broadcast on ITV yesterday.

With a bit of hacking around the text I’ve put together a few Wordle clouds to visualise what the individual contributors said. Entirely unscientific and just for a bit of fun…

Alastair Stewart (ITV host)

Nick Clegg (Liberal Democrats)

Gordon Brown (Labour)

David Cameron (Conservatives)

Audience Members

All speakers overall

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