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November saw across the board increases for all the terrestrial channels, with Five attaining the best year on year revenue total. Five saw its revenue increase by 13.3% on November 2006 to £29.8 million with the next best performance coming from breakfast station GMTV (up 13.1% to £6.7 million).Across the whole ITV1 network revenue posted… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – November 2007

2007 saw television’s dirty laundry hung out after numerous TV phone-in scandals, beginning with Channel 4’s behemoth reality franchise, Big Brother, being thrust into the spotlight following tens of thousands of complaints about racist abuse on Celebrity Big Brother (see Big Brother Racism Complaints Reach An Estimated 20,000).Carphone Warehouse pulled its sponsorship, and complaints soared… Continue reading End Of Year Round Up: Television

BBC One was the only terrestrial channel to enjoy an increase in viewing share in November 2007, while multichannel options were also up for the month.BBC One added 0.3 percentage points year on year to its total, while the largest drop was suffered by Channel 4, down 1.1 percentage points.All ViewingITV1’s viewing share fell to… Continue reading Television Viewing Round-Up – November 2007

The total number of people using the internet over the third quarter of 2007 comes to 30.6 million according to figures released by BMRB. This is a 7.9% increase on the same time last year.Internet users in the UK broke the 30 million mark for the first time in Q2 of this year. In the… Continue reading Online Usage Round-Up Q3 2007

Daily Newspaper MarketThe latest ABC figures for the main daily national newspapers show that there was an overall fall in circulation of around 1% for November.The Financial Times was the only Quality daily to enjoy an upturn in circulation, of more than 2.5% year on year.In the Mid-Market, the Daily Mail performed admirably, adding around… Continue reading ABC National Newspaper Round-Up: November 2007

thelondonpaper remained ahead of the London Lite in November, with a total circulation of almost 496,000.It recorded a month on month rise of 300 copies, while the London Lite‘s circulation fell by almost 500 copies over the same period, leaving its circulation at more than 400,500.The Evening Standard was down by around 550 copies month… Continue reading thelondonpaper’s Circulation Stays Ahead Of London Lite

Daily Newspaper MarketIn the six months to September, the daily newspaper market showed an overall fall in readership of 0.7% year on year, although some titles did manage to post healthy rises in their reader numbers.For the Quality dailies, only one title managed to record year on year growth.In the Mid-Market, although both the Daily… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: September 2007

The European Parliament has approved plans to allow some product placement on TV and has also introduce rules on advertising in children’s programming.The new rules will see product placement allowed in a limited range of programmes, and then only under strict rules. It would be prohibited in news and current affairs programmes, children’s programmes, documentaries… Continue reading European Parliament Approves Plans For TV Product Placement

ITV1 was the only terrestrial channel to see an upturn in its viewing share in all homes for October 2007, largely bolstered by the Rugby World Cup, whilst multichannel options continued to increase their share.ITV1 added 0.6 percentage points to its total year on year, whilst Channel 4 recorded the largest slide, of 1.5 percentage… Continue reading Television Viewing Round-Up – October 2007

Guardian Unlimited has continued to attract more visitors than its competitors, according to the latest figures from ABCe.The Guardian‘s online presence in October rose from September’s already impressive 16.7 million Unique Users* to over 18.4 million. This could be due in part due to the relaunch of its Society, Media and Money sections as well… Continue reading Guardian Continues Online Growth