On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 7:50 PM PGage <[email protected]> wrote: > “Washes its face”? Is that a Britishism I have not run into yet on Britbox > or Acorn? > > I hadn't thought of it as colloquial British, but checking references, it seems they're mostly UK. Basically it means that it covers its costs but not much more - i.e it breaks even. I've no idea what the phrases etymology might be. You tend to hear it in the commercial world.
The best I could find was this from 1953 in a Scottish dictionary: "There'll be nae profits. The book'll be lucky if it washes its face." > I can’t recall the last time I listened to the radio - probably if there > was a breaking news story and I was in car for a long trip. I used to be > able to say I listened to the radio a lot for SF Giants games (baseball is > a sport that is as good or better on radio than television), but now I do > access all my baseball on demand thru streaming TV. I bought a new car this > year which came with a free six month subscription to Sirius (just expiring > this week) and I never used it once. > > I am Spotify or Audiobooks when driving or walking. I listen to a lot of > music while working (I have a lot of writing to do), all Spotify. > > But I guess someone is listening to the radio… > > Beware the sample size of one :-) According to Edison Research, who produce a regular "Share of Ear" survey on all forms of audio consumption in the US, 36% of time spent listening to any audio, is to AM/FM radio. Streaming music accounts for 18%, using YouTube for music is 14% and podcasts account for 10%. Audiobooks are just 3%. https://www.edisonresearch.com/solutions/share-of-ear/ It's kind of like Yellowstone having way more viewers than Succession. But I only watch(ed) the latter, and it got vastly more coverage in the things I read than the former. I also like to check out the UK TV ratings body, BARB, who do measure several of the big streamers in the UK alongside all the broadcasters in their weekly Top 50. It obviously varies by week, but hardly any Netflix, Amazon or Disney shows appear on the list. In the most recent data, running up to Christmas Eve, just a single Netflix film (the Chicken Run sequel, which is essentially a British animated film) made it into the top 50 shows... at #50. That said, it was also the sole streaming show/film the previous week when it premiered at #17. But my point is that even the biggest Netflix/Amazon/Disney shows barely make an impact compared with those on linear broadcast TV. https://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/most-viewed-programmes/ I think it's enlightening that although Netflix recently offered up their 18,000 row data dump of viewership, it did not break out the data by country. That would really show just how few people are watching most of their shows. Adam -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/CAD_sJGAoXsW7Nq20xrENA%3D-C2yfP%3D8_TrDQ8VUcO6EMj307oYg%40mail.gmail.com.
