It’s been a pretty tough summer for everything that wasn’t the World Cup or Commonwealth Games, with the long-standing soaps dealing with the hardest blows.
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As expected, the Commonwealth Games 2014 (BBC One) dominated the weekend schedules as the successful tournament came to an end after 11 eventful days.
Long gone are the days of sheep shearing and worming troubles, with last night’s action mostly focused on Adam and Robbie’s teatime fun with ketamine.
As Rajar releases the year’s second quarter radio results – revealing what we listen to and how we tune in – Ipsos MediaCT’s Andy Haylett and Carat’s Michael Williamson share their key take-outs.
A little under 6 million viewers tuned in to see the Platt family voice their concern about Gail’s latest romantic entanglement and allowing Les Dennis into their lives (fair enough, really).
Tuesday saw BBC One bring another full day of coverage from day six of the Commonwealth Games 2014 as England and Australia continued to battle it out for all those super shiny medals.
While the station move might confuse some – and perhaps the relative ease and availability of the iPlayer is to partly blame for the drop in live viewing – there is no obvious excuse for the sharp drop this summer.
The clock is now running for Interpublic after the news that ‘activist’ investor Elliott Management has taken a stake in the advertising group. However, as Dominic Mills notes, there are a couple of surprises…
The past weekend saw more and more people across the UK turn their backs on their once-beloved TV sets to, presumably, escape into the increasingly impressive British summer.
Premium ad network Unanimis, wholly owned by Orange, has been sold to ad tech firm Switch for an undisclosed sum.
