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According to recent forecasts from Jupiter MMXI more European households will be watching digital TV than will be using the internet by 2006. The growth take up of DTV services will be driven by several factors. The migration of pay-satellite and cable subscribers from analogue to digital as analogue signals are switched off will be… Continue reading Low-Cost Set Top Boxes Will Boost Digital TV Growth

According to a new Yankee Group report Up in the Air: The Future of Broadcast Television, the transition to digital television (DTV) broadcasting ‘remains stalled’. Equipment manufacturers, service providers and content producers are all blaming each other for the slowdown in digital take-up although the Yankee Group forecasts that digital television monitors will be in… Continue reading DTV Monitors In 24 Million US Homes By 2006, Says Yankee Group

French television broadcaster TF1 has released 2001 financial results which show a 4.7% decline in advertising revenues for the flagship TF1 station, according to ABN Amro. The rest of the company’s results are in line with expectations, suggesting that there is an improving outlook for the French television advertising market, according to the analysts. TF1’s… Continue reading TF1 Figures Show Possible Improvement In French TV Ad Market Outlook

There is a ‘continued underlying weakness’ in the US network television advertising marketplace, according to a survey by Jack Myers Report of media planners and buyers. Amongst the 125 respondents to the Myers survey, conducted in mid-February, only 16.5% expect that network upfront budgets will be greater than last year; 44.7% forecast that budgets will… Continue reading US Network TV Marketplace Remains Weak, Finds Myers

By the end of 2002 10% of the world’s homes, almost 100 million households, will be receiving digital signals according to a new report Global Digital Television from Informa Media Group. This represents almost twice as many homes as in 2000 and by 2010, 548 million digital homes, 53% of the world’s total TV households,… Continue reading 10% Of Homes Worldwide Will Be Digital By The End Of The Year, says Informa

Telewest Communications has signed up more than 107,000 broadband internet customers – representing an annual growth of 1,135%, the cable operator announced this morning. At this point last year Telewest was selling 380 broadband connections a day on average; now it is shifting 900 per day. This shows a burgeoning interest from UK consumers in… Continue reading Telewest Signs Up 107,000 Broadband Internet Customers

US broadcast network TV advertising will decline 7.4% in 2001, to $15.5 billion, with a further 3% decline in 2002, according to analysts at ABN Amro. The broker cites the ongoing economic downturn as the cause of the decline. Over the long term it expects broadcast networks to see further audience erosion, as the average… Continue reading Economics Of US Network TV Are Becoming ‘Untenable’ As Revenues Drop, Says ABN Amro

Carlton Communications chairman Michael Green, today told the company’s AGM that the advertising market remains weak and that he is unable to predict with any uncertainty the timing of a resumption in growth. Nevertheless, Green reassured that Carlton is well-positioned to benefit from a recovery in demand for advertising, when it does transpire. ITV revenues… Continue reading ITV Revenues Predicted To Be 12% Down In Five Months To February

The Boards of Carlton Communications and Granada last night said that a “fundamental restructuring of ITV Digital’s cost base must be concluded as a matter of urgency in order to secure the long term future of the business.” The financial viability of the troubled digital terrestrial business has been the subject of speculation for some… Continue reading ITV Digital Requires ‘Urgent Fundamental Restructuring’ Say Owners

Combined revenue generated by the ‘big three’ US television – ABC, CBS and NBC – networks dropped more than 10% in 2001 – the largest annual loss in network history, according to a Hollywood Reporter story published today. Quoting the Broadcasting Cable Financial Management Association, the site says that this decline is a further indication… Continue reading ‘Big Three’ US TV Networks Suffer Record Revenue Falls