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ITV1’s Monroe secured the all-important peak-hour ratings with a high of more than five million viewers last night.

February was a good month for television, particularly for ITV, which not only banked the number one viewing spot with Dancing on Ice, but also enjoyed a 18.6% rise in revenues.

ITV1’s popular Dancing on Ice proved a popular choice once again, coming number one in the top programme rankings for February with a high of 9.28 million average viewers.

Midsomer Murders banked the all-important prime time ratings last night with more than 5.9 million peak viewers.

At the IPTV World Forum event in Olympia yesterday, the panel discussion confirmed that standards and metrics were further barriers to growth currently for video-on-demand.

Channel 4 is to launch an iPad app for its 4oD catch up service in three weeks’ time.

The BBC’s cross-platform measurement system Live+7, which includes iPlayer views, HD and narrative repeats, as well as live and recorded viewing for seven days after TX, has released its first results.

Adam Crozier, the ITV chief executive, has ‘revealed’ that the popular ITV2 show The Only Way is Essex gets as many viewers online as it does on TV.

Raymond Snoddy on the BBC cuts: Blank screens late at night would not be a good idea. You have to show something. The last person who tried blank screens was Prime Minister Ted Heath during the miner’s strike and it didn’t get him very far.

Kathryn Jefferies, head of media at Equi=Media, says as TV ad targeting rises, the challenge for the TV industry will be to use the data they have to target consumers as effectively as online, and as seamlessly.