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October was a mixed month for the terrestrial channels, with only Five and GMTV increasing their respective year on year revenue totals. Five saw its revenue increase by 2.8% on October 2006 to £28.3 million, while beleaguered breakfast station GMTV posted the best performance of any station (up 20.1% to stand at £6.2 million).The recent… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – October 2007

The number of Mobile TV users has reached 20 million globally, and will rise to over two billion in 2013, according to a new report from Telecom Trends International. The Mobile TV: Executing the Vision report shows that the vast majority of users currently access free-to-air mobile TV, but pay-TV will catch on as high-quality… Continue reading More Than Two Billion To Use Mobile TV Globally By 2013

IPC Media is extending its NME magazine brand with the launch of a 24-hour TV channel.The channel will debut on Friday sometime between 6am and 11am on Sky Digital 377, making it available to 8.6 million households, with content heavily based on the charts and the latest offerings from the UK’s indie and alternative music… Continue reading IPC Launches NME TV Channel

A new report from In-Stat has found that Europe is leading the world in the fast-growing digital terrestrial platform (DTT), though other regions are gaining momentum. In-Stat says that with digital switchover approaching in North America and Western Europe, strong drivers for DTT set-top boxes are on the horizon as consumers move from analogue to… Continue reading Europe Leading The World In DTT Growth

ITV has produced a new entertainment programme made entirely for mobiles, which will be free to viewers via funded sponsorship.The celebrity interview ‘mobisodes’, fronted by former All Saints members Nicole Appleton and Melanie Blatt and two presenters from Channel 4’s T4, Dave Berry and Emma Griffiths, will be called The Hot Desk, with the hosts… Continue reading ITV Reveals Made For Mobile Entertainment Show

More than 16 million TV households in the US may be using their broadband service more than they use their TV sets in the next three years, according to a new report from In-Stat. “Today’s stable and profitable subscription TV services are facing new competition from online and mobile entertainment services, and from new, high-quality… Continue reading Broadband Could Become More Popular Than TV In The US

Average television viewing now stands at almost 3.4 hours a day, with BBC One, BBC Two, Channel 4 and Five all losing viewers in Q3 2007, according to the IPA’s latest viewing report. Terrestrial channels in the UK continue to lose viewers to digital channels as the national analogue switchover becomes a reality, with the… Continue reading Q3 2007 TV Viewing At Almost 3.4 Hours Daily

European internet users are spending an average of 12 hours a week online, an hour more than last year, with youngsters spending more time with their computers rather than the traditional TV set, according to new research from the European Interactive Advertising Association (EIAA). Social networking has exploded, with more than 40% of internet users… Continue reading Young Europeans Now Spending More Time Online Than With TV

Orange is to launch its IPTV service before the end of the year, with plans to offer a hybrid VoD and Freeview package.Tim Pearson, director of IPTV at Orange UK, told Media Week that with the IPTV platform coming on stream, the company is looking at offering clients the ability to run campaigns across its… Continue reading Orange To Launch IPTV Service This Year

Iceland has been confirmed as the sponsor for the seventh series of I’m A Celebrity – Get Me Out Of Here!.The fully integrated deal – the second year running Iceland has sponsored the show – includes broadcast sponsorship on ITV1 and ITV2, interactive, mobile, online, off-screen licensing as well as on air marketing.I’m A Celebrity… Continue reading Iceland Continues I’m A Celebrity Sponsorship