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Video game platforms are set to experience rapid growth in the coming years according to a report by Screen Digest for the European Leisure Software Publishers Association (ELSPA). The study entitled Wireless, Interactive TV & Online Gaming claims that iTV, mobile and multiplayer console games will energise the home entertainment sector and bring about a… Continue reading Bright Future Predicted For Gaming Platforms

Take-up of digital TV has increased by 10% in the UK during the past year, according to a survey conducted by MORI on behalf of the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Approximately 40% of UK households now have access to digital television, up from 30% last year. Moreover, the report found that 71% of… Continue reading Digital TV Take-Up On The Increase, Says Report

The requirements of the viewing public should be a prime consideration for digital terrestrial television licence bidders. So says a report by market research group, Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS), which provides food for thought to those parties applying to take over the DTT multiplexes vacated by ITV Digital earlier this year. The research, carried out… Continue reading DTT Providers Warned To Listen To Viewers

Cable TV subscriptions in the UK declined by 2.0% to 3.5 million homes in Q2 2002, according to the latest figures from the Independent Television Commission (ITC). In Q2 2001 the number of homes taking cable TV stood at 3.6 million; in Q1 2002 the figure was also 3.6 million. The drop in Q2 was… Continue reading UK Cable TV Subs Drop As NTL Struggles With Debt

The digital terrestrial television (DTT) licence bid by ITV and Channel 4 may just have the edge over rival proposals, according to analysts at Merrill Lynch. The Independent Television Commission (ITC) has received four applications for the licence to operate the DTT multiplexes freed up by the demise of ITV Digital earlier in the year.… Continue reading ITV/Channel 4 Digital Bid May Have The Edge, Says Merrill Lynch

The ITC has released its cable TV statistics for the first quarter of 2002. The figures show that cable TV subscriptions have seen a year on year decrease to 3.54m. This is a 1.9% drop on the same period in 2001, when the total number of cable TV subscribers was 3.61m.The drop was experienced by… Continue reading ITC Cable Statistics Show Decrease In Subscribers

Broad-based advertising improvements are beginning to filter through at ITV, with June’s revenue now expected to be up by 10%, well above previous forecasts. Analysts had previously expected the ad boost surrounding the World Cup competition to be mainly a blip, with the dip returning in Q3 2002 and recovery not really beginning to filter… Continue reading ITV Shows Beginning Of Sustained Ad Recovery With World Cup

The UK Government is hoping to achieve a 95% penetration of overall digital television (DTV) by 2010, at which point it plans to cease broadcasting the analogue signal. Indeed, the intention is to cease the analogue signal sometime between 2006 and 2010 at the latest. However, according to recent growth and forecasts, even a 2010… Continue reading Insight Analysis: Digital Struggles

ITV companies Carlton and Granada may have shed themselves of their biggest burden – ITV Digital – and may be witnessing the beginning of a broad upturn in advertising (see ITV Shows Beginning Of Sustained Ad Recovery With World Cup), but they still face some major strategic challenges, according to analysts at Lehman Brothers. The… Continue reading ITV Companies Face Strategic Challenges, Says Lehman Brothers

Almost one third of the UK population is not interested in making the switch from analogue to digital television (DTV), according to a new Sensor survey from Mediaedge:cia. The 29% who are not interested in DTV represents the highest resistance since the Sensor survey began measurement in September 1998 and is a substantial rise on… Continue reading UK’s Interest In Digital TV Dwindles, According To Mediaedge:cia Survey