Commercial terrestrial television channels saw an overall decline in yearly revenues in June, with total terrestrial down -8.7%.
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The latest ABC figures show that the Daily, Free and Sunday markets were all down overall, both period on period and year on year, with the biggest PoP change belonging to the Sunday Post (5.1%).
the Independent’s digital platform saw the biggest percentage growth across the month, up 6.4%, according to the latest ABC figures.
The latest ABC figures for May show small circulation gains for the London Free Press, while the majority of the titles in the daily and Sunday markets experienced declines.
The UK’s online population witnessed a slight decrease in April, down by just over half a million users month on month.
Commercial terrestrial television channels saw an overall decline in yearly revenues in May, with total terrestrial down -2%, and total satellite down -0.6%.
Commercial terrestrial television channels saw an overall decline in yearly revenues in April, with total terrestrial down -8.6% on the previous year. However, total satellite saw growth of 16.3% – over £20 million.
Only the Daily Express, Financial Times and the Independent platforms saw any increase in readership across print and online, period on period. However, the results still show the continuing dominance of the Daily Mail platforms and the considerable impact of online to a newsbrand’s readership figures more generally.
April saw the return to ITV of Simon Cowell’s other cash cow TV project, Britain’s Got Talent, proving there is still an appetite for watching members of public make fools of themselves, as original drama has a great month across all the major channels.
Despite significant declines recorded in March, all digital news platforms experienced good growth in April, except for the Independent.co.uk, which saw a -7.4% decline to just over one million daily users.