Last night’s BBC One coverage of the men’s 200m semi-final with Usain Bolt and Yohan Blake attracted a peak audience of 10.5 million viewers at 8.15pm.
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Channel 4’s new viewer engagement strategy has signed up five million people, up from two million at the end of 2011.
Facebook’s share price is down to an all time low of $19.82 after the company announced that 83 million of the social network’s 995 million profiles are fake.
According to Reuters, US pay TV subscriptions have dropped by more than 400,000 this year. In Q2, Time Warner Cable saw video subscriptions fall by 169,000; Comcast 176,000, Dish 10,000 and DirecTV 52,000.
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