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Jerry Springer’s Who Do You Think You Are? beat the UEFA Champions League Live last night, pulling in more than 6.8 million peak viewers.The popular BBC One series, which uncovered the American chat show host’s daunting Holocaust past, gained a significant 27% audience share with an average of 6.5 million viewers between 9pm and 10pm.Meanwhile,… Continue reading Jerry Springer Beats Football

Analysts at American investment bank Goldman Sachs have given a boost to media company shares, saying that some stock sell-offs have been overdone.Goldman put BSkyB on its “conviction buy” list, saying that although the ad market is expected to deteriorate moving into 2009, the satellite broadcaster only has limited exposure to this with just 8%… Continue reading Goldman Sachs Provides Boost To Media Companies

ITV has secured the rights to air highlights of the Guinness Premiership English club rugby union matches this season, taking over from the BBC.The new hour-long weekly highlights show on ITV4, which will be presented by Craig Doyle, will air on Sunday evenings at 6.30pm – a similar time to the BBC’s Rugby Special programme.The… Continue reading ITV Secures Rights To Rugby Highlights

BBC One managed to win the battle of the new programmes with ITV1 last night, topping the ratings with the first in the series of Mutual Friends.The new comedy drama, starring Marc Warren and Alexander Armstrong, pulled in more than 4.5 million average viewers with a 19.6% audience share between 9pm and 10pm.ITV1’s rival show,… Continue reading BBC One And ITV1 Came Head To Head With New Shows Last Night

comScore has released a study of global visits to Beijing2008.cn, the official website of the 2008 Olympic Games, revealing a tight race between China and the United States, with China taking the gold.The site offers Olympic content in five languages: Mandarin, English, French, Spanish and Arabic. The study examined the global breakdown of visitors to… Continue reading Official Olympic Website Proves Popular Globally

Online archive shows will make up a fifth of all TV viewing within five years time, according to Ashley Highfield, speaking at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF).Highfield, Project Kangaroo’s chief operating officer, claimed that archive content would make up half of all video-on-demand services in five years time.Highfield, who previously fronted the development… Continue reading MGEITF 2008: Highfield Predicts Bright Future For Online TV

New figures from the Office of National Statistics show that 16.46 million UK households currently have internet access, representing 65% of households and an increase of 1.23 million households since 2007.Of all UK households, 56% have broadband internet access, an increase from 51% in 2007, while of the UK households with internet access, 86% have… Continue reading 16.5m UK Households Have Internet Access

The BBC is set to introduce series stacking to the iPlayer and programme sites from 13 September, allowing viewers to catch up on any episode after it has first been broadcast, for the duration of an entire series.Highlights of the BBC’s autumn schedule being series stacked include new BBC One dramas Merlin and Tess Of… Continue reading BBC To Introduce Series Stacking

Armando Iannucci, the comedy writer and producer behind Alan Partridge and The Thick Of It has said that the BBC should be making more money out of its content by setting up a paid-for subscription service similar to HBO in the US.Speaking at the Alternative MacTaggart lecture at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF),… Continue reading MGEITF 2008: Iannucci Wants The BBC To “Clobber Critics” And Create Its Own HBO Service

It is all about showbusiness and entertainment according to Peter Fincham, who gave a passionate speech at the recent MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF).Fincham, now director of television at ITV after he left BBC One following the infamous ‘Crowngate’ affair last year (see Fincham Quits Following Queen Doco ShockerFincham Quits Following Queen Doco ShockerFincham… Continue reading MGEITF 2008: TV’s Future Is In Entertainment, Says Peter Fincham