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BBC One’s Silent Witness continued with more than seven million peak viewers during last night’s all-important 9pm to 10pm slot.

Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt said that he intends to refer News Corporation’s BSkyB takeover bid to the Competition Commission. However, he plans to delay his referral until he has considered undertakings from the Rupert Murdoch-owned company.

ITV1’s Sunday night line-up secured the all-important peak ratings once again, with Dancing on Ice attracting a high of more than 8.6 million viewers.

ITV1’s three-part Kidnap and Ransom series was forced to share the peak-hour ratings with BBC One’s Come Fly with Me last night.

Total television revenues were up across the board in November, with no exceptions.

Push will beat pull in the battle for television viewers; DVRs will proliferate; the 30-second spot will not die; TV’s ‘super media’ status will strengthen; and gaming will go online, according to Deloitte’s tenth anniversary predictions for 2011.

News Corp has told the government that it might be prepared to sell Sky News to in a bid to gain full control of BSkyB.

Channel 5’s new commercial sales director Nick Bampton is set to bring in “some of the best talent” from his former company Viacom Brand Solutions, IDS and Digital Cinema Media in a bid to strengthen the broadcaster’s new sales team.

Raymond Snoddy says one thing is clear, the patently decent, sincere politician (Jeremy Hunt) is committed to retaining impartiality rules for news whether on national or local television. Nothing like a big, bold new Communications Act to take his mind off things when local television goes tits up in 2014…

BSkyB is expected to come under pressure from new on-demand TV services, namely YouView, according to a new report by Evolution Securities.