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Commercial terrestrial television channels saw an overall decline in yearly revenues in May, with total terrestrial down -2%, and total satellite down -0.6%.

Commercial terrestrial television channels saw an overall decline in yearly revenues in April, with total terrestrial down -8.6% on the previous year. However, total satellite saw growth of 16.3% – over £20 million.

The US market has lost approximately 80,000 subscribers over the past year, evidencing a definite trend of cord cutting.

BBC iPlayer requests were down in April, however tablet and smartphone requests remained, accounting for 30% of all requests in April.

Tablet penetration is rising at a much greater rate than that of laptops and smartphones, peaking at the end of 2012 as a result of the “tablet Christmas”, according to a new YouGov report.

Yesterday’s premium top shelf content kicked off with Emmerdale at 7pm on ITV and garnered an impressive audience of 6.2 million viewers.

As Twitter announces a new TV advertising platform and Facebook comes under fire for driving users away with ‘irritating’ marketing strategies, what does the future hold for the social media giants? Raymond Snoddy investigates, and warns that social media networks have to be very smart and careful if they are not to put at risk what has been achieved…

6.7 million viewers watched as Amy and Andy cemented their new found attraction and settled down for a of spot face to face slobbering, only to be interrupted by Amy’s Mum (and Andy’s ex) Kerry announcing she’s pregnant. Uh oh!

One in six internet users accessed illegal content at least once between November 2012 and January 2013, with TV programmes and films accounting for over 80 million illegal downloads and streams.

The latest KPMG Media & Entertainment Barometer shows that UK media consumption in a range of areas has plateaued in recent months, while media spend is up across almost all categories of media, including traditional TV.