Monday night saw Long Lost Family’s (ITV, 9pm) penultimate episode up the stakes by devoting an entire episode to one person’s search for her mother, so you just know the precious tears were in plentiful supply.
Shareholders, which include the BBC, ITV, BT and TalkTalk, have already begun discussions to expand the service to connected TVs, smartphones and tablets.
Want to know how to ‘kill’ the traditional TV industry? It’s easy, says Jeremy Toeman, CEO of Dijit Media. Come up with a cash flow of roughly $70 billion. That’s it. Pure and simple.
ITV has today reported that TV ad revenue for the first half of the year was down 3%, but the company expects a good third quarter with an anticipated 9% boost as total revenues increase by £30 million.
Mobile and tablet devices accounted for 32% of all requests in June, while PCs made up a record low of 44%.
New York’s Pivotal Research Group has cautioned that media owners whose revenue base is skewed towards advertising – and especially those whose advertiser base skews towards large brands – are likely to see negative impacts from the Publicis and Omnicom merger.
Titles including Front, Loaded, Nuts and Zoo have been given until 9 September to cover their front pages, or they will be taken off sale.
Absolute Radio, formerly Virgin Radio, was bought by Bennett, Coleman and Co in 2008 for £53.2 million, and was recently valued at £10-15 million.
Revenue was up 7% to over £7 million, while the corporation’s services saw strong growth too, with paid-for subscription up 3.3 million to a total of 31.6 million.
Chromecast allows anybody with a smartphone, tablet or computer to play shows from certain sites and apps on home television sets.
