{"id":527,"date":"2010-08-07T12:45:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:45:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=527"},"modified":"2010-08-07T12:49:33","modified_gmt":"2010-08-07T16:49:33","slug":"shark-week-entertaining-and-educational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2010\/08\/shark-week-entertaining-and-educational","title":{"rendered":"Shark Week: Entertaining and Educational"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by JEFFREY L. ROTMAN\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The first three nights of Discovery Channel’s Shark Week are tracking as the most-watched outing of the annual event in three years.<\/p>\n

From Sunday through Tuesday, Shark Week is averaging 2.6 million viewers per night — up a steep 24% from the first few nights of 2009.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s “Ultimate Air Jaws” started the week off strongly with 3.5 million viewers, followed by Monday’s considerably less popular “Shark Attack Survival Guide” (1.8 million), and then perking up a bit with “Sharkbite Beach” (2.3 million).<\/p>\n

Mixing docudrama-style narration, heart-stopping footage and educational content, the series has since become a summer-television staple with a cultish following.<\/p>\n

It is now cable’s longest-running event as well as one of its most watched.<\/p>\n

Every year since 1995, the series has pulled in an audience of more than 20 million, and in 2008 it drew its highest audience ever, with 29 million viewers.<\/p>\n

Below, you’ll find a funny take on Shark Week:<\/p>\n

[youtube]634BWmkKAsc[\/youtube]<\/p>\n

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Discovery Channel’s Shark Week, a week-long series of feature television programs dedicated to sharks, exposes many interesting facts about sharks… like: Did you know you’re more likely to get bitten by another person than a shark? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[53,21,52],"class_list":["post-527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-diving","tag-educational","tag-sharks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}