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Silver surfers are tipped to be the next growth audience on the internet, according to the latest research from Forrester. By 2005, 3.2m retired people will be online in the UK and will present a huge opportunity to advertisers and online businesses. Increased leisure time and a love of communication are helping to push retired… Continue reading Silver Surfers’ Speed Catches Advertisers Unaware

RevenueTerrestrial television including GMTV saw a 0.8% fall in total revenue, year on year, during August, recording an overall figure of £186.8m. According to agency estimates, ITV’s revenue dropped by 5.8% during last month, while the relative newcomer Channel 5 increased 25.7%.Channel 4 and GMTV both made modest increases, while total satellite continues its pattern… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – August 2000

Programmes It’s impossible to talk about August’s top programmes without, once again, mentioning Big Brother. The most watched edition this month was, unsurprisingly, the fallout from ‘Nasty’ Nick Bateman’s eviction. The whole country, well, 6.87 million of it, were on tenterhooks wanting as Craig discovered Nick’s scheming.There wasn’t much on offer in the way new… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – August 2000

Digital viewing figures for this month show that non-terrestrial channels continue to command an impressive share of viewing in homes with digital television. The average share of viewing in digital homes for these channels during August was 52.4%, compared to 50.6% in July. This has corresponded with a growth in viewing share for non-terrestrial channels… Continue reading ITV Slips While Non-Terrestrials Improve In Digital Television Homes

Channel 4 is to launch a raft of new film channels following on from the success of Film Four. The channel’s first pay-tv venture, which launched in 1998 and now has 300,000 subscribers (see Film Four On Air), will be joined by three further channels by the end of this year.With the working title of… Continue reading C4 To Launch Trio Of Film Channels

Programmes It’s impossible to talk about August’s top programmes without, once again, mentioning Big Brother. The most watched edition this month was unsurprisingly the fallout from ‘Nasty’ Nick Bateman’s eviction. The whole country, well, 6.87 million of it, were on tenterhooks as Craig discovered Nick’s scheming.There wasn’t much on offer in the way of new… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – August 2000

RevenueTerrestrial television including GMTV saw a 0.8% fall in total revenue, year on year, during August, recording an overall figure of £186.8m. According to agency estimates, ITV’s revenue dropped by 5.8% to £123.3m during last month, while the relative newcomer Channel 5 increased 25.7% to reach £16.5m.Channel 4 and GMTV both made modest increases, while… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – August 2000

Media Metrix and Jupiter Communications have completed their merger and began trading on the NASDAQ under the new name Jupiter Media Metrix yesterday. President and chief operating officer Gene DeRose said: “We are creating a company like no other.”The two companies, which provide market information about the internet, announced their merger in June (see One-Stop… Continue reading Jupiter and Media Metrix Complete Merger

A downgrade from Merrill Lynch put Telewest amongst the worst performers in the FTSE 100 yesterday. Shares ended down 17¼p at £1.42. Another poor performance was seen at Emap, which dropped 75p to £10.00.Reports yesterday ruled BSkyB out of any equity partnership talks with Channel 4’s new pay-TV venture, E4 (see E4 Equity Partner Discussions… Continue reading Sharewatch

ITV and the ITC have today reached an agreement regarding the rescheduling of the ITV Nightly News. From New Year 2001 a 10pm news bulletin will be restored on the network from Monday to Thursdays, with more flexibility in news programming permitted on Fridays.The decision ends months of disagreement between the two sides after slumping… Continue reading News At Ten To Return To ITV