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Broadcasting Data for Journalists & Academics: 15 Ranked Sources
Broadcasting data for journalists: 15 datasets on one shelf. Every one delivered as API, files, or warehouse rows.
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API, files, or your warehouse. Daily, weekly, or hourly.
Which broadcasting datasets should journalists cite first?
We rank for citability: relevance first - seven of these 15 records hold this persona's maximum relevance rating - then Datadory's quality score inside each band. The wider inventory sits in our broadcasting data hub.
How do you fact-check what actually aired on television?
RabbitEars.info complements it with community-maintained detail on which stations and subchannels serve a market, though its accuracy caveats argue for confirmation before print.
Where does UK audience data come from?
The UK audience pair comes from BARB, the measurement the industry treats as its currency. Neither is a bulk-download record.
How fresh are these sources, and what should a citation include?
Seven of these 15 refresh at least once a day - five on daily cycles plus TVmaze and Hugging Face in real time - which suits deadline fact-checking. The FCC Open Data Catalog and data.gov.uk carry no committed cadence in our records, so date-stamp anything pulled from them. Catalog-wide, 22.6% of datasets.8% at least weekly.
Rows before rollout
Sample rows from any shelf entry — the field dictionary and coverage notes ride along. If the shelf misses what you need, say so; sourcing requests are half our job.
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