According to Digital TV Europe, BSkyB will offer a subscription to the Premier League from as early as next month.

A recent report from Nielsen claims that game consoles increase the amount of time young men spend in front of the TV, helping rebalance the gender divide.

Finally, something other than the soaps captured Friday’s biggest audience! Also, fans of over-long, bombastic and superfluous talent shows were in for a real treat and Homeland returned with a second series of hyber-paranoid fun.

A report by Credit Suisse, which looks into the current state of Europe’s satellite industry, predicts that broadcasters in the US and Europe will begin broadcasting Ultra HD test channels by 2013.The report states that Ultra HD (commonly known as 4K, due to the 4,000 pixel resolution display – double the amount of current HD) would… Continue reading Broadcasters could launch Ultra HDTV test channels ‘next year’

BBC One came out blazing in the battle for Thursday’s 9pm slot with a heavily publicised new series. Last night saw the launch of hyber-paranoid espionage thriller Hunted, starring Angel from Home & Away.The plot saw Samantha return to work at a private intelligence agency, after an attempt on her life by members of her… Continue reading TV Overnights: BBC One’s Hunted uppercuts 4.5m in to submission

Virgin Media has finally previewed their second screen offering, two years after it was originally announced at TiVo’s launch.The iPad app is imperative to the company’s Virgin TV Anywhere service, which was announced in early September. The new offering, which is expected sometime this year, will give customers web and iPad access to a TiVo-style… Continue reading Virgin Media previews TiVo second screen experience

TalkTalk has unveiled its YouView package, which includes a free YouView box.

Just weeks after hitting the creative stratosphere with envelope-pushing The Audience, last night saw Channel 4 outdo themselves once more.

The availability of connected televisions is changing the way Americans are streaming videos to their homes. According to market research company NPD Group’s Digital Video Outlook report, the TV has become the primary screen for viewing paid and free video streamed from the internet.Q2 2012 saw consumers that use the TV as their primary screen… Continue reading More Americans are watching home internet video on TVs than PCs

UPC, Ireland’s largest digital cable television provider, has launched TV Buzz app.