User blog comment:David the Wavid/Coronation Street - A history in numbers/@comment-762160-20130304111001

Some great analysis in there - one minor correction - figures between eps 632 and 647 in Jan/Feb 1967 were affected by the BBC transmitting Till Death Us Do Part opposite Coronation Street and I do wonder if the coach crash eps in Oct/Nov 1969 lead to the upswing then? I do have to laugh at people who say that more channels has fractured the overall viewing figures for BBC1/ITV1 these days. Even if you added all of the figures together for all of the channels, you still wouldn't get the audience that TV got 10-15 years ago. I know lots of people who have all but given up on television as a recreational past time as its dull, repetative, etc etc. I rarely watch myself but the apologists don't seem to accept the fact that the medium is in an all-time nadir.