A new poll by ComRes on behalf of the Whitehouse Company reveals that 40% of the UK oppose the current licence fee system and over a third are in favour of abolishing it completely.
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Monday saw TV viewers being treated to a second consecutive football-free day, with normality returning for a short while as the nation’s top soaps battled it out for ratings dominancy.
Global sporting events and a recovery in recruitment advertising see upward revisions for Q2 adspend in the latest expenditure report from AA and Warc.
Pay TV subscribers are continuing to grow as providers embrace multi-screen services to offer subscribers more viewing options, according to informitv.
A new YouView study reveals the influence that Facebook and Twitter have on the nation’s TV viewing, and how Brits are using the platforms to discuss – and avoid talking about – their favourite shows.
Samsung has announced that it will be discontinuing the sale of plasma televisions at the end of 2014, and instead focusing on ultra-HD and curved TV models.
During Q1 2014 there were 4.6 million new subscriptions, taking the total number of subs to 100.9 million.
BBC Two kicked off a highly ambitious new series, bagging Maggie Gyllenhaal for the lead role for the political thriller The Honourable Woman (9pm).
Three quarters of British TV viewers are not aware that a local channel could be launching in their region this year, with a further 15% claiming to have heard of ‘local TV’ but don’t know where the channels are due to launch.
For only the second time since the FIFA World Cup 2014 kicked off three weeks ago, Wednesday brought a football-free schedule and allowed TV viewers a short but merciful return to programming normality.