Commercial television channels saw a rise in yearly revenues in September, with the exception of Channel 4 and ITV Breakfast, down -1.3% and 0.6%, respectively.
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Thursday saw Emmerdale step up its campaign for national dominance. After Wednesday’s hour long special, last night brought two helpings of small town drama with Coronation Street’s absence creating the perfect storm for ITV.
ITV has warned users with ad-blocking software that it will be preventing them from watching content via ITV Player.
CBBC is about to make watching TV a lot less passive for children after its first commission for a “true multi-platform production”.
BSkyB has seen an 8% drop in profits in the last quarter, but the satellite broadcaster looks unscathed in the pay-TV sports battle with BT.
Wednesday heralded a blockbuster night for soap fans as not just the usual one, but two ITV soaps treated viewers to feature-length specials.
By 2018, the Online TV and Video Forecasts report states that 520 million homes in 40 countries will watch online television and video (both paid-for and ad-supported) – more than three times the number in 2010.
The news follows details of the iPlayer’s evolution announced by director general Tony Hall, in which he described a ‘next generation’ platform that would act as the ‘front door to the BBC’.
Advertisers, agencies and publishers will be able to record how many people, by age and gender, are seeing their ad across TV and online – both combined, or exclusively across either platform.
The first day in a fresh week of TV brought a new episode of Crimewatch (9pm) to BBC One and due to the unprecedented amount of media coverage, helped double its audience compared to recent efforts.