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Setanta has lost the rights to show 46 live Premier League football matches, with rival broadcasters given a deadline of today to lodge bids for the games.Setanta was unable to meet the Friday deadline for a £10 million payment to the Premier League, which was part of £30 million it owed the organisation (see Premier… Continue reading Broadcasters to bid for Setanta football rights

UKTV completes its 18-month portfolio rebrand today with the launch of its final channel Good Food.Formerly known as UKTV Food, the channel relaunches following an agreement with BBC Worldwide to license the ‘Good Food’ name.It is UKTV’s tenth and final channel to be relaunched after an 18-month-long overhaul of the broadcaster’s entire portfolio, assisted by… Continue reading UKTV completes portfolio rebrand with launch of Good Food

BBC One’s three-part war drama ended on a high last night with 3.4 million peak viewers during the all-important 9pm to 10pm slot.Occupation, starring James Nesbitt and Warren Brown, attracted 3.3 million average viewers and a 15.4% share over the course of the hour, a slight increase on its ratings from Wednesday night.Elsewhere, BBC’s rival… Continue reading Overnights: Final Occupation secures the top spot

MTV is set to rebrand its MTV One channels as MTV and MTV+ from July 1 as part of a wider overhaul of the brand.MTV One, which features programmes including Kerry Katona: What’s the Problem?, The Hills and My Super Sweet 16, was originally rebranded from MTV in 2007 with its time-shifted sister channel MTV… Continue reading MTV to rebrand MTV One and MTV One+

ITV1’s new two-part documentary series looking at the stories of British expats now living in Spain knocked BBC One’s Occupation off the top spot last night with 4.3 million peak viewers.Spain: Paradise Lost pulled in 4.2 million average viewers and a 19.7% audience share during the all-important 9pm to 10pm peak-hour, while BBC One’s new… Continue reading Overnights: ITV1’s new real-life documentary pipped BBC One’s war drama

The BBC is currently in the process of testing a new audience measurement tool, which takes into account timeshifted and online viewing.The corporation’s Cross Media Insight system has been dubbed as “pretty special” by a BBC source as it includes cross-platform data, including iPlayer figures, red-button, mobile access, recorded programmes and viewings via third-party sites… Continue reading BBC develops new cross-platform audience measurement system

New Nielsen data reveals that 2.5 million American households – 2.2% of the US television market – are unable to receive digital TV broadcasts since last week’s analogue switchoff.The markets with the most unready households tend to be in the Western United States, where cable penetration is lower, said Nielsen.Also, some viewers in border states… Continue reading America turns off analogue TV signal – millions still not switched

New US research has found that games consoles are the most used devices for bringing web video to the TV and will remain so through 2013.The research, from In-Stat, predicts that by 2013 over 10.7 million consoles will be used as web-to-TV mediation devices in the US.US revenue from web-to-TV streaming services will grow to… Continue reading Games consoles top choice in US for streaming TV

Five has partnered with online video platform Brightcove to allow viewers to embed episodes of Five shows on their websites, social networks and blogs.Partner websites and Five’s own online properties, such as Five.tv, will be the first websites to benefit from the deal, with third-party websites and consumers following later this year.Paul Thornton-Jones, Five’s digital… Continue reading Five to allow viewers to embed shows on websites

BBC One’s new war drama starring James Nesbitt started with a bang last night, securing a high of 4.4 million viewers during the all-important 9pm to 10pm peak slot.The first episode in the three-part drama, Occupation, about the lives of three friends and soldiers during the British forces’ five-year occupation of Iraq and its aftermath,… Continue reading Overnights: BBC One’s new war drama kicks-off with a bang