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BSkyB is hopeful of a deal that will see its five basic-tier channels return to Virgin Media from the start of next year.In March 2007, Sky One, Sky Sports News, Sky News, Sky Arts and Sky Real Lives were taken off Virgin Media’s cable service, following a dispute over costs.The row over how much Virgin… Continue reading BSkyB Set To Strike New Deal With Virgin Media

Worldwide subscriptions to IPTV services are on pace to reach 19.6 million subscribers in 2008, a 64.1% increase from 12 million subscribers in 2007, according to the latest Gartner research. The report found that worldwide IPTV revenue is projected to total more than $4.5 billion this year, a 93.5% increase from $2.3 billion total revenue… Continue reading Worldwide IPTV Subscriptions Are Set To Grow 64% This Year

BBC Ones’s Strictly Come Dancing and ITV1’s The X Factor continued to battle it out for the highest viewing figures this weekend.On Saturday evening, Strictly Come Dancing with Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly, attracted over 9 million peak viewers and an average 41.3% audience share between 6.45pm to 8.05pm.ITV1’s rival show, The X Factor, pulled… Continue reading BBC One and ITV1 Continue To Battle It Out For Weekend Viewers

Virgin Media has announced a massive increase in on-demand viewing, jumping from 34 million views in January to 45 million views in August on its TV platform.This 33% increase – in less than a year – takes total views of on-demand content to 314 million over eight months.For the first time, 50% of Virgin Media’s… Continue reading Virgin Media’s On-Demand TV Tops 45 Million Views

Culture secretary Andy Burnham has revealed that the list of sporting events reserved for free-to-air television is to be reviewed.Giving the keynote speech at the Royal Television Society conference in London, Burnham said that the list – which was last reviewed 10 years ago when Test match cricket was removed – has to “move with… Continue reading Government To Review Free-To-Air Sport List

Channel Five is set to revamp its 7pm evening news bulletin, in an attempt to appeal to more men.The new show will have its own identity, which will differentiate it from the 5pm news bulletin – broadcasting different stories and a new format.The 5pm news slot currently focuses on a daytime audience, while the 7pm… Continue reading Five News Set For Revamp

BBC One’s popular family history programme banked over 6.2 million viewers last night, more than double the figures of ITV1 and other rival channels between 9pm and 10pm.The penultimate Who Do You Think You Are?, which saw the former model Jodie Kidd go to Canada to research her family history, attracted more than 6.4 million… Continue reading Jodie Kidd’s Who Do You Think You Are? Steals The Show

Ofcom has today published the second phase of its review into Public Service Broadcasting (PSB), unveiling plans for an extra £145 – 235 million in replacement funding by 2012.The review found that in order to sustain PSB programmes on channels other than the BBC, “replacement direct or indirect funding is likely to be necessary”.Ofcom also… Continue reading Ofcom Publishes Second Phase of PSB Review

Endemol, producer of reality TV show Big Brother, is to launch a new sports division.The firm has hired two senior executives from sports marketing agency IMG to head the new division, Lawrence Duffy, former head of development at IMG Sports Media, and Gregg Oldfield, former vice-president of network ventures at IMG Media.Duffy and Oldfield will… Continue reading Endemol To Launch Sports Division