More Tv articles

Britain’s Got Talent topped the TV ratings again last night, beating England v USA on Match of the Day Live.ITV’s third live semi-final of Britain’s Got Talent attracted 8.1 million adult viewers, ahead of BBC One’s Match of Day with only 6.5 million.George Sampson bagged his place in Saturday’s final with his ‘Singing in the… Continue reading Britain Scores Against England

April was a mixed month for the terrestrial stations, with Five and GMTV posting year on year increases, while ITV1 and Channel 4 recorded losses. The best performance came from the breakfast station, which saw its revenues grow by 8.2% to stand at just over £5 million.Revenues for Five went up by 3.3% during April… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – April 2008

Gustavo Antonioni is join the recently merged Granada Ventures and Granada International in the newly created role of commercial brand director.The former Marvel Entertainment and Warner Bros executive will be responsible for driving the global marketing and licensing strategy for ITV’s key commercial brands such as Coronation Street, Dancing on Ice and Hell’s Kitchen. He… Continue reading International Brand Chief To Join ITV’s Global Division

Although the IPTV market will continue to gather momentum over the next four years, competition from other video delivery platforms will make it increasingly difficult for service providers to convince consumers to invest in services, according to a new report from Canalys. The report says that established cable, satellite and terrestrial digital TV offerings will… Continue reading IPTV Providers Must Continue To Develop Services

Last night saw The Apprentice go head to head with the second Britain’s Got Talent live semi-final, with the ITV1 show emerging the victor in the ratings war.Britain’s Got Talent, which ran from 8.30pm to 10pm, had a peak audience of 8.6 million adult viewers, a 36.5% share of viewing.Appearing again on Saturday’s final will… Continue reading Britain Beats The Apprentice

A new report reveals that consumers spend more than £4 billion a year on digital TV but six million households are not satisfied with the overall service.Nearly nine out of 10 homes in the UK now have digital services, a rise of 14% since 2007.However, the first ever digital TV customer satisfaction survey by uSwitch.com,… Continue reading Digital TV Disappoints Customers

Virgin Media has unveiled artwork of the nation’s favourite TV shows made entirely from food to mark the full launch of the BBC iPlayer on its on-demand television service next week.The iPlayer is available to Virgin Media’s digital TV customers at no extra cost and is launching from next week through its EPG as well… Continue reading Virgin Media Launches Edible Art Exhibition To Promote iPlayer

The first semi final of Britain’s Got Talent proved to be a big hit with the viewers, making ITV1 the most watched channel last night.Nearly 10 million adults tuned in to see dance act Signature as well as Kate Nicholas and her dog Gin make it through to the final. An average of 9.7 million… Continue reading Britain Gets Viewers

A new report from Screen Digest reveals that total pay TV penetration will increase rapidly in Central and Eastern European countries, from 40% at the end of 2007 to 60% by 2012 with a total of 63 million homes subscribing to pay TV services. The impressive growth will be driven by a strong pay TV… Continue reading Eastern European Pay-TV Penetration To Increase Rapidly

Channel 4’s documentary The World’s Smallest Man And Me performed well for the channel, getting higher viewing figures than News At Ten.The show, featuring Mark Dolan travelling to Nepal and Mongolia to check out rival claims to the title, was watched by 2.9 million adults.ITV1’s News At Ten, shown during the first thirty minutes of… Continue reading Smallest Man Does Big Against News At Ten