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Following a healthy festive period January was a weak month for commercial TV broadcasters, with combined revenue for ITV, Channel 4 and ITV Breakfast down -7.7% year-on-year.
The Observer, Sunday Times and Sunday Telegraph all managed to increase their circulations over the year – the only titles in the market to do so.
The final of Strictly Come Dancing easily beat rival X Factor over on ITV.
The inevitable Christmas slowdown saw most newspapers record minor declines or limited growth in December, with a few exceptions.
A slow month for commercial TV broadcasters meant that total revenue was down -5.6% in November; however, total satellite revenue was up a healthy 13.6%.
The Times is continuing its period of growth and is now the only title reporting both period and yearly circulation gains.
There is something interesting going on at the Times and Metro – but the rest of the market rather struggled last month with most titles recording period-on-period declines.
View the latest revenue figures for the UK’s commercial broadcast market.
Commercial terrestrial channels recorded revenue of £192.81 million in September – down -4.7% year on year.