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Revenue from digital television (DTV) subscriptions will hit nearly $30 billion (E31.6 billion) in Europe by 2006, according to figures from Datamonitor. Last year, subscriptions accounted for 94% of revenues, or $8.7 billion, in the European DTV market. Whilst this revenue is expected to rise at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 28% between… Continue reading European DTV Subs Revenue To Hit $30bn By 2006, Says Datamonitor

The failure of a number of European digital pay-TV platforms has been caused by their strategy of offering exclusive content – a move which is ‘bringing them to their knees financially’. This the finding of a report published by economic analysts BIPE. The group says that Europe’s pay-TV industry, currently reeling under losses and bankruptcies… Continue reading Bad Business Plans Caused Digital TV Failures, Says BIPE

Global digital television (DTV) is set to break the 100 million home barrier this year and cable will become the fastest growing platform according to the latest research from Strategy Analytics (SA). After a difficult 12 months, which has seen the demise of ITV Digital in the UK and Quiero in Spain, the research firm… Continue reading Digital TV In 103m Homes Worldwide, Says Strategy Analytics

The future of digital television has again been thrown into question with the release of a new report claiming that only half of the UK population will be able to receive the medium through their existing aerials. Research carried out by Logica on behalf of the ITC indicates that the digital TV signal is currently… Continue reading Signal Failure Threatens To Halt Digital Progress

Advertising revenues at Granada were up by 14% in May, the company told a Merrill Lynch conference this morning. The group also said that there is now limited forward visibility, something which has so far been unavailable according to most media groups. June will show revenue up 7%, with July rising 6%. The strong US… Continue reading Granada Sees Forward Visibility As Revenues Rise

Video on-demand (VOD) will generate more than $1.9 billion in revenues worldwide by 2006, according to a new report from In-Stat/MDR. As the number of cable modems and digital subscriber line (DSL) services continue to increase throughout the world, VOD services over internet networks will grow to a total of more than 17 million users… Continue reading Global Video On Demand Revenue To Reach $1.9bn By 2006

Revenue from interactive television (iTV) has been slow to materialise and underneath the high expectations there is a sense of disappointment. This is according to a new outlook report from analysts at Accenture. Interactive services were first launched in Europe in the late 1990s, but so far the medium has pretty much failed to live… Continue reading Interactive TV: Disappointingly Slow Start, But Potential Is There, Says Accenture

“The broadcast networks have regained virtually all of the sales they lost in last year’s upfront, which represented the industry’s worst ever year-to-year decline, and the final 2002 upfront revenue tally could surpass 2000’s record-setting $8 billion level,” says Jack Myers in today’s Myers Report on the US upfront advertising markets. Myers says that the… Continue reading US Upfronts Outpace Even Most Bullish Expectations, Says Myers

An advertising recovery is ‘brewing’ but is ‘percolating’ slowly, according to Lauren Rich Fine, an advertising and publishing analyst with Merrill Lynch. The broker says that most media (in the US) are doing better than it had expected, although this still represents a ‘crawling out of the hole dug last year, rather than true incremental… Continue reading Slow Ad Growth Percolating, Says Merrill Lynch

Analysis of TV revenue estimates for April shows that, overall, the UK’s terrestrial TV channels experienced a year on year decline of 8%. Channel 5 was the only commercial broadcaster to see revenue increase, rising 9.7% year on year during April to £19.6m. ITV1 suffered the greatest year on year decline, with revenue slipping 11.5%… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – April 2002