The Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML) expects Sky’s growth to continue, despite the overall TV market slowing in this “tough consumer environment”.

Facebook may be free, but its value has been revealed by new research from advertising agency McCann London, which shows that more than one in three (37%) British users place a value of more than £50,000 on the service.

Microsoft has announced partnership deals with BBC, LoveFilm, 4oD, VEVO and Blinkbox for the Xbox 360.

The BBC is set to cut almost 2,000 jobs in a bid to save £670 million a year by 2016/17.

The European Union’s ruling that it is not illegal for individuals to buy set-top box decoder cards from foreign broadcasters is “no risk to Sky”, which will maintain its ‘buy’ rating, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML).

MAGNAGLOBAL has revised down its year-end 2016 forecast for DVR subscriber households to 57.5 million (48.7% of TV households), from 63.1 million in its July 2011 forecast (and compared to 41.2 million – 35.5% of TV households – as of the end of Q2 2011).

In a Toluna QuickSurveys and Newsline poll of 558 football fans in the UK (337 with a Sky subscription and 239 with ESPN), 69% admit that they would consider buying a foreign decoder card to watch football.

Apple has launched its latest iPhone – the iPhone 4S, a slimmed-down, faster version of last year’s iPhone 4.

Online has bucked wider advertising trends, growing at a rate of 13.5% to £2.26 billion for the first half of the year, according to new research by the IAB.

A pub landlady has won the latest stage of her fight to air Premier League games using a foreign TV decoder.