Sky has today announced a huge step forward in its second screen activity, with the launch of an update to its Sky+ app which lets Sky customers transform their iPad into a remote control.
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Kantar Group has teamed up with social media analytics company Vigiglobe to produce this infographic, which offers minute-by-minute analysis of the tweets containing mentions of the Olympic closing ceremony (in English).
Mustard, a joint venture between Archant and other Norwich partners, has been named by Ofcom as one of two applications to run a new local TV channel based in the city.
Cast your mind back to Thursday 26 July. Back then it’s probably true to say that a fair few people within the media (and some outside of it) were pretty negative about the Olympics. Maybe that’s a slight exaggeration, but we certainly weren’t expecting the spectacular show Danny Boyle laid on for us.
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Mark Thompson, the outgoing director general of the BBC, has been appointed as the new president and chief executive of the New York Times.
The BBC’s Olympic coverage was a huge success, not just for TV but also for digital and mobile. The corporation logged 34.6 million cumulative online users – with a peak daily total of 7.3 million on 5 August – by the end of Saturday, just as the Games came to a close.
Jim Marshall on why TV has never been either more powerful or more intimate: Now that the BBC has proved TV’s credentials during the Olympics, it will be fascinating to see whether Channel 4 can continue this during the Paralympics, but this time with ads…
STV has partnered with Glasgow Caledonian University and Edinburgh Napier University in a bid to deliver two new local television channels in Edinburgh and Glasgow – ETV and GTV.