Apologies to regular readers of this column for not writing about the August ABC’s or letting you know that I was having a short break. I suppose we could have got a guest substitute like they do for Clarkson when he is in Barbados…
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ITV1’s coverage of the UEFA Champions League match scored the top prime time ratings last night with a high of 5.3 million viewers.
The Daily Telegraph has been voted the newspaper of choice for business readers in a poll carried out by YouGov.
The ‘second screen’ tablet market is doing better than ever and they have Apple to thank.
MyVideoRights has secured a funding injection of £2.75 million and is today rebranding as Base79.
Visits to IFA (the massive Consumer Electronics show in Berlin) and IBC, (the almost-as-huge broadcast conference) in the last two weeks shows the staggering amount of emphasis – and money – that is being staked on connected TV.
An IBC debate, ‘Changing the Advertising Paradigm’, convinced few at this week’s Amsterdam confex that the core TV advertising paradigm would change in the short to mid-term, but did illustrate the activity and opportunity growing up around television.
Raymond Snoddy: Could it be that welcoming the embrace of social networks could be the best thing that ever happened to television rather than, as generally assumed until now, a slow march to oblivion?
The X Factor topped the most-viewed programmes listings in August with more than 12 million viewers. The first episode of the new series with judges Gary Barlow, Kelly Rowland, Tulisa and Louis Walsh put ITV1 in the lead.
BBC One’s new prime time drama The Body Farm debuted with 5.4 million peak viewers last night.
