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On-demand TV revenues from movies and TV programmes (and excluding revenues from other sources such as sports and adult and also excluding SVOD packages) will reach US$6.0 billion in 2017, up from US$3.9 billion in 2011 and US$2.3 billion in 2007, according to a new report from Digital TV Research.

Shazam has revealed that there were several million interactions with its Shazam-enabled NBC Olympics broadcast in the US and more than a million from the Closing Ceremony alone.

Jim Marshall on why TV has never been either more powerful or more intimate: Now that the BBC has proved TV’s credentials during the Olympics, it will be fascinating to see whether Channel 4 can continue this during the Paralympics, but this time with ads…

NBC outperformed its own predictions for its Olympic coverage, despite criticisms during the past two weeks.

The YouView homepage now features an app for BSkyB’s Now TV, with films available for as little as 99p.

NBC’s Olympic ‘TV Everywhere’ coverage used 34% of total bandwidth across major US networks in the first seven days of the London 2012 Games.

HBO in the US has teamed up with UK’s blinkbox service to allow their portfolio of programming to be available on the service.

Net US subscriber additions for pay-TV operators fell by nearly 350,000 in Q2 2012, the largest subscriber drop in history, as weakening economic conditions and strengthening competition from over-the-top (OTT) players like Netflix continue to work against cable operators and even against the satellite segment, according to recent research from IHS Screen Digest.

BSkyB’s share price briefly reached a nine-month high yesterday following news of the Sky Sports victory against Ofcom.

Julia Lamaison, insight director at GfK Media & Entertainment, asks: How do broadcasters ensure they are not left behind in a world that puts the control in the hands of the audience?