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The UK television market is trading much more strongly than had been anticipated, according to early indications and forecasts from buying agencies and brokers. ITV is now expected to show year on year growth of 7.0% in August and 2.8% in September. This compares to forecasts from Merrill Lynch of 3.0% and 0.5% respectively. October… Continue reading UK TV Trading Looks Strong With ITV Showing H2 Pick-Up

Analysis of June’s TV revenue figures for the UK’s main terrestrial channels reveals an overall 9.3% year on year improvement in revenue. The exception was GMTV, which saw a 11.9% year on year decline. Channel 5 saw the most significant year on year increase and revenue was seen rising 12.1% in June. ITV was not… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up June 2002

Billetts, the advertising and marketing consultancy, has compiled an overview of the UK television industry’s first half of the year, including speculation on how the remainder of 2002 may pan out. Here are some of the key assessments of the year so far, broken down by broadcasting group. ITV1 Despite a boost in advertising surrounding… Continue reading Billetts’ Outlook For The UK Television Sector

The enticing combination of entertainment content and networking technologies could provide a huge boost to internet service and content providers, as well as to electronics manufacturers, as consumers seek to create ‘networked digital entertainment homes’. This is the premise of a report to be released next month by Parks Associates, which finds that the transfer… Continue reading Digital Networked Entertainment Homes Could Have Mass Appeal

Interactive television (iTV) users are ill-educated about the benefits of the platform and consequently its availability has little impact on consumers’ digital television (DTV) purchasing decisions. This is one of the findings of a new report from Van Dusseldorp & Partners, which says that operators need to make consumers aware of the services which iTV… Continue reading Consumers Need Better Education About iTV Services, Says Report

A new study from Ipsos-RSL has revealed a lack of growth in the UK digital TV sector although conditions are ripe for further expansion in the coming year. The quarterly DART (Digital Audience Research Tracker) survey shows that, as in October 2001, 35% of UK homes have access to digital TV services. Stagnation has been… Continue reading UK Digital Market Stands Still For Now

ITV’s advertising revenues are looking set to be up by 6.0% in August, better than Merrill Lynch analysts’ expectations, which had put the growth at 3.0%. Early figures for September show ITV up 0.5% in a strong TV market which will be up by 7.0% to 9.0%. ITV says that it had very few cancellations… Continue reading Second Half Forecasts Put ITV Revenue Down 1.4% In 2002

Consumer uptake of the personal video recorder was overestimated and will remain slow until the introduction of integrated PVR technology, according to a new report from Screen Digest. The number of European homes with a PVR system is set to increase from 100,000 to 5 million in the next five years. However, this is equivalent… Continue reading PVR Penetration To Remain Low, Says Screen Digest

Despite the well documented failures of ITV Digital and Quiero, European consumers will spend E13.4 billion on digital and interactive television services in 2002, an increase of 31% over last year, according to Strategy Analytics. Interactive Digital TV Market Forecast – Europe is produced by the Broadband Entertainment Strategies (BES) service of SA and examines… Continue reading Advanced Television Services Set To Take Off

The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has taken steps to boost the widespread adoption of digital television (DTV) in the country by requiring that new TV sets have a digital tuner built in to them. The FCC has imposed a deadline on electronics manufacturers to include the receivers in new sets by 2007 at the… Continue reading FCC Imposes Deadlines For DTV Sets