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Article: BBC braced for new crisis after `black Wednesday' fiasco
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 12, 1999
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BBC BOSSES were last night preparing themselves for more ratings
trouble, this time over digital television.
A new report to be published next week will show that the BBC has
failed to corner this market and is trailing dismally behind other
digital television stations.
This news will be a further blow to the corporation's esteem,
especially in the wake of last week's "black Wednesday", when the BBC
recorded its worst performance since transmission began more than 50
years ago.
It will also cast gloom over the launch tomorrow of the BBC's
annual mission statement to licence payers.
At Wednesday's nadir, the BBC's viewing figures plummeted to 1.9
million, as people switched to watch ITV's Who ...