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Four out of the five main terrestrial channels saw declines in viewing share in December – Five was the only channel to buck the downward trend, recording a 0.1 percentage points increase year on year.All ViewingBBC One and ITV1 both experienced a year on year decline of 0.5%, taking their shares down to 21.9% and… Continue reading Television Viewing Round-Up – December 2008

Big online stories of 2008 included the uncertain future of Project Kangaroo, the end of JICIMS, and the three-way wrestling match between Microsoft, Google and Yahoo!.Microsoft launched a $44.6 billion takeover bid to buy Yahoo! at the start of the year, saying that it was confident of delivering up to $1 billion in cost savings… Continue reading 2008 round-up: Online

November was a difficult month all round for most of the terrestrial stations, with only Five recording a year on year increase in commercial revenue. The newest of the terrestrial commercial channels pulled in £29.91 million, an increase of 0.4% compared to November 2007.Among the other terrestrial channels there were double digit falls in year… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – November 2008

Guardian.co.uk has become the first National Newspaper website to break the 26 million unique users mark, according to data released by ABCe.The digital arm of the Guardian News & Media owned paper attracted a record amount of readers in November, although it was only up 67,000 compared with the record breaking figures from the previous… Continue reading ABCe: Another Month, Another Record for Guardian.co.uk

Big stories in radio in 2008 included the uncertain future of DAB, Global Radio’s takeover of GCap Media and the birth of Absolute Radio.The year began with GCap rejecting a bid from Global Radio, thought to be worth about £310 million (see GCap Turns Down Global Radio Takeover Bid DAB Dealt A Blow As Gcap… Continue reading 2008 round-up: Radio

Daily Newspaper MarketThe national daily newspaper market suffered an overall circulation fall of more than 5% year on year in December.The Independent saw the largest fall of the national titles, down 12.3% year on year, followed by the Daily Mirror, down by almost 10% year on year. National Newspaper ABC Figures – December 2008 Daily… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: December 2008

December saw business title City AM‘s distribution decline by a significant 14.5% month on month, to around 87,000 copies, due to the Christmas period.However, the Evening Standard also experienced a relatively large month on month dip of 5.2%, taking its circulation to just over 287,000 copies last month.Meanwhile, London’s morning freesheet only slipped by 0.8%… Continue reading City AM sees month on month circulation dip

There was a lot going on in the TV industry in 2008, with major players moving jobs, Channel 4’s funding gap and the rapid growth of digital TV just some of the big themes to emerge.At the end of January, the Office of Fair Trading began its review of the Contracts Rights Renewal (CRR) mechanism,… Continue reading 2008 round-up: Television

It was a year of contrasting fortunes for the magazine industry in 2008, with titles closing and circulations falling for many, although there were signs of where the future could lie as digital mags began to take off and free titles showed their worth.There was big news at the start of the year as Emap… Continue reading 2008 round-up: Magazines

All of the five main terrestrial channels saw declines in viewing share in November, with ITV1 experiencing the largest year on year fall, of 1.0 percentage points.All ViewingBBC One saw a relatively large year on year decline of 0.9 percentage points, taking its share to 21.6%, despite its weekend rating winning show, Strictly Come Dancing.Strictly… Continue reading Television Viewing Round-Up – November 2008