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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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.
With the 2012 Olympic Games definitely, properly over the BBC felt that Monday night was the right time to unleash a plan in order to keep the momentum going.
NBC outperformed its own predictions for its Olympic coverage, despite criticisms during the past two weeks.
The YouView homepage now features an app for BSkyB’s Now TV, with films available for as little as 99p.