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Arina Borodina - that the viewers watched in 2014 and ten years ago: "Elephant"
In 2014, Russian viewers with a record over the past decade watched the news - first of all, the Time program. Among other television people of the year are the disappearance of the most popular programs of the New Year's “blue lights” from the ratings of the most popular programs. Journalist Arina Borodina in the Elephant special project analyzes the addictions of viewers in 2014-and compares them with the TVs of 2004.
Ten years ago, “Time” only twice became the most popular program of the week, in 2014 the final news program of Channel One headed weekly ratings 23 times and 16 times became the second. The first five most popular television projects of the year are associated with the Olympics - these are broadcasting the opening and closing of games in Sochi, a hockey match of the Russian national teams and the USA and the competition of skaters. If you do not take into account the Olympic broadcasts, one of the main television projects of the year was the series of the first channel “Smile of the Mockingbird”.
The shows of the movies completely disappeared from the ratings, Borodin notes - if ten years were one of the leaders of James Cameron's Titanic, now there is not a single film among the most popular television programs.
It is clear that the “Time” program owes the war in Ukraine with such a high popularity, what was happening in the Crimea, and then in the Donbass. Record numbers can be considered the result of effectively launched propaganda through television channels controlled by the state. But it is also obvious that during the days of tragedies and disasters news ratings are always growing - this is how the psychology of people is arranged: they rush to the TV to find out about what is happening “here and now”.