talkSPORT will broadcast sport content 24 hours a day, seven days a week from Monday 2 April – becoming the only full time sport station in the UK.
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EastEnders was the most watched programme on Tuesday night, bringing an audience of 8.1 million to BBC One. The episode went out at 7:30pm and 36% of the available audience watched as Mandy accused Lorraine of stealing money from Walford’s version of Lord Sugar, Ian Beale.
Total TV advertising revenue in the UK increased by 2.2% in 2011 to reach a new record high of £4.36 billion, according to full year revenue figures provided to Thinkbox by the UK commercial TV broadcasters.
iPlayer general manager Daniel Danker has called on consumer electronic manufacturers to “go back to basics”.Speaking at the DTG Summit 2012 in London, the BBC manager said he believes that connected TV can make TV better – but manufacturers need to simplify products and services to make them more TV-like than PC-like.By 2015 he expects… Continue reading iPlayer boss urges manufacturers to simplify connected TVs
RTL has reported a 4.6% increase in pre-tax profits to €1.19 billion (£0.99 billion) for 2011 – mainly based on higher revenues from FremantleMedia.
Virgin Media has now added red button functionality to its TiVo service, starting with Sky Sports Red Button services.
A survey by the British Retail Consortium said retail sales remained sluggish last month – with like-for-like sales (a measure that does not include changes in floorspace and is favoured by equity analysts) down 0.3% year on year in February.
The second Sunday edition of The Sun sold in the region of 2.7 million copies. This is down just over 17% on the launch issue last week.
Monday night’s TV viewing was dominated by the build up to Frank Foster’s murder in Coronation Street, which brought in a massive 10 million viewers.
Although no official announcement has come for YouView’s actual launch date, a speaker at the Digital Media Group’s summit yesterday let slip that it will launch on 14 May.
