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’.
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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.
BBC One and Two’s Live Golf coverage of The Open Championship at St Andrews in Fife dominated the ratings on Saturday and Sunday.
The government today published plans to scrap local-cross media ownership rules by the end of November.
Spending on new, first-run UK programming by the BBC, Channel 4, ITV and Five fell 6% between 2008 and 2009, new Ofcom figures reveal.
BBC One’s new thriller The Silence secured the highest ratings during the 9pm to 10pm peak-hour once again last night with 4.6 million peak viewers.