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According to the latest market data from ABI Research, global pay-TV markets will expand by a quarter from 2009 to 2014.

BBC One’s new five-part mystery drama series secured the highest peak-hour ratings last night, despite losing out to the ITV1’s football coverage on Wednesday evening.

ITV1’s coverage of the Live International Football scored a high of more than 9.5 million viewers during prime time last night.

BBC Worldwide has acquired the extra 40% share of its joint DVD operation 2entertain for £17 million.

RTL Group’s CEO Gerhard Zeiler took to the stage at the FT Digital Media & Broadcasting Conference yesterday to discuss the impact of the recession, consolidation of TV channels, VoD opportunities, Apple’s iPad, the BBC’s strategic review, and what he thinks of current TV landscape.

Ofcom CEO Ed Richards was quick to support the BBC’s new strategic review at this morning’s FT Digital Media & Broadcasting Conference.

Raymond Snoddy on the BBC’s “beautifully crafted” Strategic Review, designed “to give critics as few grapple holds as possible”.

ITV has reported pre-tax profit of £25 million for 2009, a big improvement on the £2.7 billion loss in 2008.

“The BBC will not retreat into an analogue past”, the Corporation’s director general Mark Thompson told delegates at today’s Financial Times Digital Media and Broadcasting Conference.

The BBC’s director general Mark Thompson has unveiled the corporation’s much-anticipated strategic review.