Viewers remember That's Life! as the Daily Record reports Esther Rantzen's death
The short report on the broadcaster and Childline founder drew far more views than anything else the Scottish paper posted the same day, including its account of the FlyDubai emergency landing.
Daily RecordStory of Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 79,427 views a day, 39 times a normal first day on this channel (2,030).
Dame Esther Rantzen dies aged 86
A new video on the Daily Record's channel usually draws around 2,000 views on its first day. The paper's short report on the death of Dame Esther Rantzen passed 43,000 in nine hours, on course for close to forty times that usual start.
The video, "Dame Esther Rantzen dies aged 86," sets out the career behind the news. She presented That's Life!, the BBC consumer affairs program, for 21 years, from 1973 to 1994. That work led her to set up Childline in 1986, a counseling service for young people. The description also mentions the charities she founded for older people, among them The Silver Line, a helpline for older people. It notes that in recent years she was a prominent voice in the campaign to legalize assisted dying in England and Wales.
Under the video, the comments return again and again to Sunday evenings. Viewers describe watching That's Life! as children, often with their parents, on the last night before school.
The same day, the Glasgow paper also posted a report on the FlyDubai flight forced to land in Saudi Arabia, two Planet Holyrood discussions about Andy Burnham and two Hotline Live debates after Scotland's home defeat to Switzerland. The flight report drew a few thousand views. The politics and football stayed in the hundreds.
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- Channel
- Daily Record
- Subscribers
- 173,000
- Channel views, pace per day
- 199,847 (on a normal day: 95,603)
- Video published
- September 30, 2026
- Video views so far
- 43,125 (less than a day online)
- Video views, pace per day
- 79,427
The numbers
The figures show a single news report drawing far beyond what the channel's videos usually reach on their first day.
