After being abandoned for the last few weeks, the Commonwealth Games: Opening Ceremony gave people the excuse to escape the long sunny evenings and once again return to gawp at their telly box while coming over all patriotic.
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US media players are increasingly developing a taste for the flesh of British TV companies in what is turning into a very expensive game of musical chairs. What is going on and where will it all end? Raymond Snoddy investigates.
Yesterday saw ITV soap Emmerdale (7pm) treat viewers to a whole hour of ill-fated rural romances and sheep dip-scented backstabbing as the home of doomed relationships played host to yet another pantomime of a wedding.
There were mixed results for commercial television channels in June, with only ITV – on the back of World Cup fever – reporting any significant gains.
With a 300 year print legacy, Johnston Press is undergoing an enormous cultural change as it embraces everything digital has to offer. Here, the publisher’s CMO, Lucy Sinclair, shares what they have learned.
While never quite reaching the ‘outrage’ heights of Channel 4’s Benefits Street, Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole had managed to gain a stagnant fan base over the past six weeks
Set four years after the first series and the introduction of the Poor Law Amendment Act of 1834, the workers of Quarry Bank Mill still wouldn’t be mistaken for Balamory characters.
Newspaper publishers have served notice on the National Readership Survey as they seek a contemporary audience measurement system. Here, the NRS’s newly appointed CEO, Simon Redican, tells us what the future needs to look like.
The new site has been described as a mix of the best of the Independent and its sister title the i and combines new editorial formats including quizzes, voting, user curation and interactive graphics and maps.
The bizarre handling of such a hot topic saw the audience fall by 23% night on night, with a total of 2.7 million viewers watching.
