ITV plans to wait for Competition Commission’s ruling on the contract rights renewal (CRR) system before giving the green-light for its one-hour time-shifted channel ITV1+1.
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The return of ITV1’s hitman drama The Fixer brought in a peak of 4.3 million viewers last night.
ITV1 is getting its own +1 timeshifted channel in October after being given the go ahead by regulator Ofcom.
In his latest weekly column, Raymond Snoddy looks back at the weekend’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival, where Murdoch Jr gave both barrells to the BBC and Ofcom and various rumours turned out to have a bit of weight.
ESPN has acquired the rights to show the new Uefa Europa League – which replaces the Uefa Cup – previously held by Setanta.
ITV is understood to be on the verge of appointing former head of BSkyB Tony Ball as its new chief executive.
The X Factor second live audition show on Saturday evening pulled in a peak of 10.6 million viewers in its 7pm timeslot, making it easily the most watched terrestrial programme on Saturday.
New research has found that almost 160 million US internet users watched online video during July, the largest audience ever recorded.
Top-slicing the BBC’s licence fee would not only destroy the corporation in the long term, but would also be a “catastrophe for British democracy”, according to the BBC’s chief operating officer Caroline Thomson.
As the downturn continues to seriously impact TV advertising revenues – which are predicted to fall by as much as 33% by 2010 – panellists at this year’s MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival asked whether relaxing the rules on product placement could ease broadcasters’ troubles.