But was it a meaningful one or a show designed to boost Channel 5's ratings?
The reality show helped boost Channel 5 ratings, but predictably failed to hit the highs of when it aired on Channel 4. Industry insiders said Ford had decided it was time to go after more than two years under Channel 5's new regime.
Speculation that Desmond would quickly snap up Big Brother, which finished its decade-long run on Channel 4 earlier this month, to boost Channel 5's sagging ratings has been rife since the owner of Express Newspapers completed a £103m takeover of the broadcaster in July.
The amount of programming airtime that Big Brother delivers, with spin-offs including Celebrity Big Brother, and the viewing numbers – even at the reduced level of its final years on Channel 4 – would boost Channel 5's viewing share.
When the shows began in April, they continued to attract about two million viewers on average, boosting the channel's prime-time audience over all.
Fox executives have been particularly pleased with "Hannity's America," his Sunday night series, which began in January 2007 and has boosted the channel's weekend ratings.
In 2009, Glenn Beck's show, which débuted the day before Obama's Inauguration, helped boost the channel's ratings and fuelled the Tea Party movement.
Our questions can be answered with these experiments: access networks with small area coverage will boost the channel availability (CA).
In fact, the T&D scheme is an approximation of the zero-forcing equalizer (ZFE), which is known to boost the channel noise in this case [12].
Massive multi-input multi-output (MIMO) [1 3] is one of the key technologies in 5G, which can greatly boost the channel capacity, spectral efficiency, and connection density by utilizing a large number of antennas at the base station (BS).
