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A series of blogs about the broadcast industry, narrated by David Brennan…”I’d always back analogue businesses to win out in the long term; because the world may be turning digital but people are fundamentally analogue in nature.”

Specific Media has boosted its VOD credentials with the hiring of Graeme Hutcheson as Head Of Video.Hutcheson is currently Associate Director, Futures & Implementation at MediaCom, where he oversees MediaCom’s buying and planning activity in VOD and explores commercial opportunities across new broadcast platforms. Initially he joined MediaCom as a Buying Manager, heading up TV… Continue reading Hutcheson Leaving Mediacom for Specific

Second episode of the detective show made another dent in Silent Witness’s audience.

Investment bank Morgan Stanley believes that BSkyB will report around 10,000 new pay television subscribers and 140,000 new high definition customers when it announces its third-quarter financials on Wednesday.This would take total TV subscribers to 10,260,000, with 4,203,000 subscribers to the Sky Plus HD service.BSkyB is expected to launch a number of new services in… Continue reading Formula 1 expected to have boosted Sky HD subs

Freeview looks likely to go head to head with YouView by launching a backwards electronic programme guide.

Warc has released its latest Consensus Ad Forecast today, which shows the US ad market receiving the largest upgrade in forecast growth (4.1% this year, a rise of +0.8pp from the January forecast) of the 13 markets measured by the research.

James Whitmore,managing director at Postar, says these are “heady times for any seeker of consumer truth”…

David Hellier, deputy editor at City AM, anticipates a tougher future for BSkyB.

Aegis today announced a trading update for the first quarter of 2012, from 1 January 2012 to 31 March 2012, with total group revenue for the first quarter up 16.3% on 2011 in constant currency.

Mother-daughter bickering brought 7.8 million viewers to EastEnders last night.