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Waking The Dead continued to be a big success for BBC One in the 9pm slot last night, easily grabbing more viewers than ITV1 show The Duchess In Hull.The crime drama had an average of 6.2 million adults tuned in for its hour long running time.The Duchess In Hull, over on ITV1, had a peak… Continue reading Waking The Dead Continues To Pull In Viewers

Saturday saw the FA Cup Final between Portsmouth and Cardiff on BBC One, with the lads from the south coast running out 1-0 winners.A peak of 7.6 million adult viewers – a 52.7% share of the audience – tuned in to the action, with an average of 4.6 million watching all the coverage.Later on Saturday,… Continue reading 7.6m See Portsmouth Lift The FA Cup

Judges have thrown out Sky’s appeal to prevent confidential documents being seen by lawyers for Virgin Media.Virgin Media is in the process of suing Sky for abusing its market dominance in negotiations over channel carriage deals between the two companies.Three judges threw out Sky’s request that there would be restrictions placed on who saw confidential… Continue reading Judges Throw Out Sky Appeal

Kangaroo – the joint internet TV venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and Channel 4 – is now likely to launch this autumn, months earlier than expected.The project was reported to be in the final stages of development in March (see Kangaroo “In Final Stages” Of Development) and is now being prepared for a beta launch… Continue reading Kangaroo Could Launch This Autumn

Sky has relaunched its PC on-demand download service, Sky Anytime, with a new name, Sky Player.The updated version sees a number of enhancements to the service, including immediate playback of content and added live channels, such as Sky News and Sky Sports.Further improvements include a redesign of the service’s look and feel, updating the site’s… Continue reading Sky Renames Its Catch Up TV Service Sky Player

A new forecast from MRG predicts that IPTV subscribers will grow from 24.4 million in 2008 to 92.8 million in 2012, with IPTV service revenue totaling $37.1 billion by 2012. The global forecast says that while Europe’s subscriber size in 2012 will remain dominant, Asia’s subscriber base will nearly equal Europe’s in 2012, followed by… Continue reading IPTV Subscribers Forecast To Reach 92.8m In 2012

TNS has rejected a second bid from WPP, which values the group at just under £1 billion.The TNS board said that it unanimously rejected the improved offer as it substantially undervalued the company.WPP approached TNS with a revised cash and stock bid worth 241.5p per share.At around £996 million, the offer marked a 5% premium… Continue reading TNS Rejects Second WPP Bid

ITV has forecast that it will outperform the UK television advertising market in the first half of 2008, for the first time since 2000.The broadcaster also revealed that its first quarter revenues rose 3% to £492 million while advertising revenues grew 2%.It added that online growth is continuing, with video views up 76% since the… Continue reading ITV Expects To Outperform UK Ad Market

ITV has appointed Chad Wollen, formerly of AOL Europe and Yahoo!, to the new position of director of marketing strategy.Reporting to David Pemsel, group marketing director, Wollen will front the development of the marketing and brand planning strategy.He has the key responsibility of embedding audience understanding into ITV’s marketing planning and brand activity as well… Continue reading ITV Announces New Director of Marketing Strategy

BBC One, ITV1 and Five all saw their weekly viewing shares remain relatively static year on year in April.Other channels saw the largest increase in share for the month, up by around 1.5% year on year.BBC Two and Channel 4 meanwhile, were both down over the same period.All ViewingBBC One remained ahead in all homes,… Continue reading Television Viewing Round-Up – April 2008