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BBC One’s new five-part Torchwood – Children of Earth programme, which is due to air every night this week, started on a high last night with more than 6 million peak viewers.The sci-fi drama, a Doctor Who spin-off starring John Barrowman, pulled in 5.9 million average viewers and a 25.8% audience share during the all-important… Continue reading Overnights: New Torchwood starts on a high

The Susan Boyle inspired ratings success of Britain’s Got Talent (see 18.5m watch Britain’s Got Talent results show), wasn’t enough to arrest ITV’s continued downturn in revenue. Despite the programme attaining ratings of over 11 million viewers from the initial audition stage, the commercial network broadcaster recorded a 16.7% year on year fall in revenue… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – May 2009

The Digital Britain Report has only widened the gap between the BBC and commercial operators, says Jim Marshall, Starcom Mediavest’s executive director and chairman of the IPA Media Futures Group.“As interesting is the rumour that the original Digital Britain Report was originally much tougher on the BBC, but was ‘watered down’ by nervous politicians, at… Continue reading Jim Marshall: Digital Britain…Did the BBC get off lightly?

US broadcaster ESPN is launching a new UK channel on 3 August to show its 46 Premier League football matches.ESPN bought the rights for the games after Setanta failed to keep up its payments to the league (see ESPN wins rights to 46 Premier League matches).The channel, which will also show some US sports which… Continue reading ESPN to launch UK sport channel in August

Telegraph Media Group has unveiled plans to trial a new free newspaper in a bid to attract younger, more upwardly mobile readers.The Friday, which will have a distribution of 150,000 copies and will launch in conjunction with Gordon’s gin, is Telegpraph Media Group’s first free title.The Daily Telegraph publisher plans to hand out copies of… Continue reading TMG to launch a free newspaper

Roger Federer’s record-breaking victory at Wimbledon pulled in an impressive 11 million peak viewers yesterday.BBC One’s Wimbledon 2009 coverage ended on a high as Federer won his 15th Grand Slam title after beating Andy Roddick in this year’s final.More than 7.1 million average viewers tuned in to see Federer come through 16-14 in the final… Continue reading Overnights: Federer’s victory attracts over 11m viewers

New figures from BARB for June 2009 show that 25% of all UK adults have watched TV on the internet, an 8% year on year increase, while 10% watched TV online in the past week.The figures, revealed by BARB chief executive Bjarne Thelin at last week’s IEA Future of Broadcasting Conference, also showed that 38%… Continue reading 25% of UK adults have watched TV online

BT has dropped Phorm’s targeted ad service amid claims that it needs to focus resources on “other opportunities”, including developing next-generation super-fast broadband.However, BT’s decision to pull-out of Webwise, a controversial system that tracks the internet habits of customers to deliver targeted ads, is thought to have been affected by on-going privacy complaints.Phorm’s technology has… Continue reading BT drops Phorm

The global ad market is forecast to decline 8.5% this year, with the UK set to suffer a 10.5% fall, according to a new forecast from ZenithOptimedia.This global figure is revised down from its April forecast of a 6.9% decline, after Q1 came in below predictions.China is forecast to grow 5.4% this year, overtaking the… Continue reading ZenithOptimedia revises down global ad forecast

The European Commission has revised the rules on public funding for broadcasters to ensure that commercial broadcasters are not at a disadvantage.Commercial broadcasters have argued for more public money in recent months to offset the decline in ad revenues, which has had an impact on the industry across Europe.Additional funding is a necessity for most… Continue reading European Commission to change rules on public funding for broadcasters