A massive 9.1 million switched on to BBC One at 7.30pm to watch the swimming finals in the aquatics center (43.2% of the audience share). Viewers were in for a treat as GB’s Michael Jamieson raced to silver in men’s 200m breaststroke.Apart from swimming, the rowing finals and the cycling time trials were also popular… Continue reading TV Overnights: 9.1 million tune in to watch swimming

Freeview set to revamp programme guide and will bring in 20 HD channels along with more changes.

Sky’s Now TV has been launched on iPhone and iPad to compete against LoveFilm and Netflix’s iOS services.

Hotmail is to be dropped by Microsoft in an attempt to relaunch Outlook as their new webmail service.

BBC One’s coverage of the Olympics once again swept the board with total dominance, with the exception of ITV1’s Emmerdale at 7pm and BBC Two’s Eastenders on at 7.30pm.

28% of people think that Pepsi is an official sponsor of the London 2012 game, despite Coca-Cola spending upwards of £100 million to be the only official drinks sponsor, according to a recent Toluna Global Omnibus survey.

Emmerdale and Coronation Street managed to pull the peak audience away from BBC One last night, if only for a short time.

A new record has been set for online catch up services, with 1.7 million people watching the London 2012 opening ceremony on BBC iPlayer.

The House of Lords suggested on Thursday that all TV channels should now be transmitted through the internet, in order to free up much needed spectrum for other users.

Connect TV claims that its service now provides more channels to domestic viewers than Freeview, and is on target to doubling the number of channels available through Connect TV by the end of the year.The service enables content owners to have their own live TV channel, with its own channel number on the Freeview EPG,… Continue reading Connect TV beats Freeview in number of channels available