The closing Q&A session on the first morning of the 2012 ASI European TV Symposium in Prague
suggested there was a fair degree of cynicism about a profitable relationship existing between social media and TV.

Presentations on Olympic viewing opened the 2012 ASI European TV Symposium in Prague but all the significant rises in audiences across many platforms just accentuated the calls for platform focused, consistent industry measurement.

Commercial terrestrial television channels saw their advertising revenues decline slightly year on year for September.

The number of adults in Britain watching TV on demand via TV sets and mobile devices is growing, while on demand viewing via a desktop or laptop computer has peaked, according to newly released insight from Kantar Media’s futurePROOF study.

MediaTel Group launches its first ever Media Leaders event titled: Spending advertising money in the digital age.

Newsworks, the marketing body for the national newspaper industry, today announces that David Pattison will become its new and first ever independent, non-executive chairman.

The overall national daily newspaper market was down 8.7% year on year for September – 825,000 less copies circulated. Compared to last month the latest data shows a 1.6% drop or 144,000 copies shed.

Newsworks has appointed former MediaTel Newsline editor Liz Jaques as communications manager.

The Future Foundation’s James Murphy and Richard Nicholls on how the disappearance of devices and furnishings re-defines human space and re-shapes buying behaviour.

Commercial television channels saw their network revenue decline in August as the BBC dominated ratings around the London 2012 Olympics.