TV
Sky News Jackson coverage peaks with 761,000
Published Friday, Jun 26 2009, 10:02 BST | By Neil Wilkes
WENN
According to early ratings figures, the Sky News audience peaked with 761,000 viewers - a 7.8% share - at 11.30pm last night, around ten minutes after Jackson's death was confirmed.
At 11pm the audience had doubled from 203k (1.6%) to 401k (3.3%) in minutes as news of Jackson's condition began to spread.
After the peak, Sky News kept an audience of more than half a million for the following hour.
BBC News experienced a similar spike in the ratings but peaked lower, with 606k (8.9%) at 11.55pm.
US station Fox News, which is broadcast in the UK through Sky, reached a peak audience of 85k (1.3%) at 11.55pm.
BARB ratings data supplied by Attentional
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