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Britain’s smallest terrestrial broadcaster, Five, continued to perform well during November, notching up an impressive 9.5% revenue increase year on year to just under £29.3 million. November saw Five announce a massive £17 million boost to its programming budget, designed to boost the broadcaster’s profile and increase overall viewing share.Elsewhere Channel 4 managed a respectable… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – November 2004

Sales of digital televisions (DVTs) in the US look set to reach the 27.05 million mark by 2008, increasing by 20.08 million, from 6.97 million units in 2003, according to the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). The total number of DVT units sold so far this year is 6.3 million, with almost 844,000 units sold in… Continue reading US Digital TVs To Top 27 Million By 2008

All five terrestrial TV channels failed to achieve growth in weekly viewing share during November, with only Five staving off a decline and managing to retain its 6.6% share.BBC Two was the hardest hit by November’s declines, losing 1.5% points to achieve a total viewing share of 9.6%. BBC One fared better, but also struggled… Continue reading Digital Television Round-Up – November 2004

Financial analyst Merrill Lynch has predicted a hopeful 2005 in advertising revenue and audience trends for ITV1. Despite disappointing results throughout most of 2004, advertising looks strong for January 2005. Overall audience share figures were down by 4.0% for the year to date, despite a couple of strong months in the latter part of the… Continue reading Disappointing Year For ITV1 Says Merrill Lynch

By the end of the decade, a third of all pay TV subscribers in Europe will be DTH customers, says a new report by Screen Digest. The media researcher predicts there will be around 76.5 million pay TV subscribers in Europe by the end of 2004 and that a further ten million subscribers will be… Continue reading DTH To Account For One Third of Pay TV Market In 2008

Penetration of high definition televisions will be four times greater in Europe than industry forecasts have previously predicted, Sony said yesterday. Chris Deering, European president of Sony said that by 2008, 20 million European households will have high definition television (HDTV). Sony’s prediction sees Europe following the trend of Japan and the US in consumers… Continue reading Sony Sees Vast Expansion For HDTV

More than half of the active internet audience in Europe is making a high speed connection, up from just one-third a year ago, says new research from Nielsen//NetRatings. The internet research group claims the number of people in Europe surfing the internet at high speed from home increased from 34.1 million to 54.5 million, an… Continue reading Broadband On The Rise In Europe

Television is losing out in the face of an increasing threat from the internet, with more than a quarter of Europeans claiming they are now spending less time watching TV in favour of spending more time surfing, according to a new report from JupiterResearch. The new research – Evolution of Media Use in Europe –… Continue reading Broadband Eats Into Television Viewing

Britain’s smallest terrestrial broadcaster, Five, put in a strong performance during October, notching up a revenue increase of 11.6% year on year to just under £29.6 million as the broadcaster explored merger possibilities with rival Channel 4.The revenue increase is more than double that of Channel 4, which rose by 5.6% in the same period… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – October 2004

All five terrestrial TV channels saw a decline in weekly viewing share during October, with BBC One and Two bearing the brunt of the downturn, losing 1.7 and 1.1% points respectively.BBC Two’s slip in viewing share pushes it below the 10% mark, a situation which the Corporation will be keen to remedy in the typically… Continue reading Digital Television Round-Up – October 2004