Viacom, which owns channels including MTV, Nickelodeon and VH1, has announced that it will buy TV broadcaster Channel 5 from Richard Desmond for £450 million pounds.
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BSkyB television subscribers were up 74,000 in the three months to March, according to the company’s latest financial report, released today. However, growth in customers signing up for Sky broadband dropped by more than a third.
Global pay-TV subscribers increased over 5% in 2013 to reach 901.1 million, according to ABI Research
Last night BBC One’s Panorama (9pm) helped traumatise the midweek prime time audience with its latest shocking expose on some particularly worrying care facilities.
Paxman told the BBC of his decision last summer, but with the appointment of a new editor and following the Jimmy Savile scandal, agreed to stay to help the new team bed down.
Good Morning Britain and London Live have started out suffering in the television ratings, writes Raymond Snoddy – can there be any chance to win audiences over?
According to analysts, BSkyB lost approximately 5,000 TV subs between December 2013 and March 2014 – the first quarterly fall since 1999.
In the second of our exclusive articles digging deeper into the latest Advertising Association/Warc Expenditure Report, Suzy Young, Warc’s data and journals director, looks at the resilience of the traditional TV spot.
BBC’s Breakfast (6am) show somehow managed to remain unsullied by the flashy commercial experience on the other side.
In place of a straight-laced Anna Ford and David Frost, viewers were instead treated to a line-up of friendly chit chat, news and reassuring facial expressions.