In what was a poor set of results for London stations, only six stations in our analysis (out of 17) recorded a QoQ increase, while just three stations witnessed an uplift compared with the same period last year.
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The latest RAJAR figures for Q2 2012 show that All Radio’s reach has dropped slightly compared with the same period last year, keeping it just below the 47 million listener mark, which it hit for the first time ever in Q1 2011. However, All Radio’s reach is up 0.2% QoQ.
Total Global Radio (UK) heads up the nationals and networks once again, though it recorded a -3.4% YoY decline in reach to 19.3 million. It was up 1.0% QoQ.
Oddbins.com has seen a 22% increase in traffic to its site during the period Monday 24 July to Wednesday 25 July (compared to Monday 16 July to Wednesday 18 July) following on from it’s anti-Olympic campaign.
Sky has announced a new wholesale distribution agreement that will allow TalkTalk to offer its YouView customers a wide range of Sky’s standard definition entertainment, sports and movies channels in the UK.
BSkyB has released its results for the 12 months to the end of June, with 631,000 additions to reach a total of 28.4 million. The broadcaster added 57,000 new Sky households, including 37,000 standalone home communications customers and 20,000 TV customers.
ITV has announced its interim results for the half year ending 30 June, with external revenues up 10% to £1,130 million (2011: £1,027 million), and growth in all areas of the business.
Oddbins has launched an anti-Olympics campaign with censored posters and discounts for customers wearing Nike, paying with Mastercard and carrying an iPhone.
Humax’s new YouView box, the DTR-T1000, will go on sale in UK stores tomorrow.
BT has announced its results for the first quarter to 30 June 2012, with revenue down 6% to £4.48 million.