The weekend daytime saw BBC One’s Formula 1 coverage secure top ratings from 12pm until 3.15pm on Sunday afternoon, with an average viewing figure of 4.1 million, and an average share of 38.4%.
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ITV1’s reality show Homes From Hell banked the 9pm to 10pm peak-hour top spot last night with a high of 3.5 million viewers.
Plans to add the Ashes to a list of sports reserved for free-to-air broadcasting have been put back until at least 2013, by sports minister Hugh Robertson.
ITV1’s Midsomer Murders won the 9pm to 10pm slot last night, securing a peak of 4.1 million viewers.
On Monday 2 August, Top Up TV will bring Sky Sports 1 and Sky Sports 2 to over 10 million Freeview homes in the UK, joining ESPN to form the new ‘sports pack’.
BBC’s Holby City and Outnumbered achieved the top ratings for the peak slot of 9pm to 10pm last night.
TV Everywhere is a proposal from pay-television service providers to extend access for authorised subscribers to premium programming over the internet.
BBC One’s Who Do You Think You Are? managed to secure the peak slot of 9pm to 10pm last night, with the first episode of a new series.
According to culture secretary Jeremy Hunt, the new government is considering cutting the cost of the TV licence fee, based on the ‘extraordinary and outrageous’ waste of the BBC.
June viewing was dominated by the FIFA World Cup, which kicked-off on Friday 11 with a spectacular opening ceremony showcasing the best of host nation South Africa.