Editing Question Time (TV programme) (section)

===SMS contributions===
Viewers of the show can submit comments to the show via [[SMS]]; until October 2012 a selection of those comments was posted on [[Ceefax]]. Comments were edited and put to air by a team of four journalists based at Television Centre in London. The system displayed one message at a time, and usually showed several tens of messages throughout each hour-long episode. The system's popularity sprang from its mix of serious and light-hearted comments.{{Citation needed|date=November 2012}} On average, around 3,500 texts are received during each hour-long programme, although 12,000 texts were once recorded in one frantic programme in 2004. Quantity of texts is generally related to the composition of the panel.{{Citation needed|date=November 2012}}