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Digital television (DTV) adoption will show strong growth over the next two years as consumers demand enhanced features, greater breadth of content and bundled communications offerings, according to a new report by Datamonitor. The Western European and US Digital TV Adoption, 2008 (Strategic Focus) report found that a further key driver in the transition to… Continue reading Strong Growth Forecast For Digital TV Adoption

BBC One’s second episode of the family roots programme, Who Do You Think You Are? featuring Boris Johnson, proved to be a winner with more than 7 million peak viewers last night.The hour-long show, which uncovered details about Johnson’s Turkish great-grandfather, pulled in over 6.8 million average viewers with a 28% audience share between 9pm… Continue reading Boris Johnson’s Who Do You Think You Are? Proves Popular

Daily Newspaper MarketThe latest six monthly NRS figures, for January to June 2008, show that overall, Britain’s national daily newspaper market was static year on year in June.In the daily Quality sector, the Guardian and Times were both up by almost 8% year on year, with the Daily Mail in the Mid-Market and the Sun… Continue reading NRS National Newspaper Round-Up: January – June 2008

According to traffic figures released today by ABCe, the Guardian website increased its unique users* to 20.6 million over the month of July.There was also good news for Times Online and Sun Online as they too reported record usage. However, the figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulation show mixed results over July with three… Continue reading Guardian.co.uk Sees Record Traffic In July

All of the main terrestrial channels recorded a year on year decline in viewing share according to the July figures, with the exception of BBC One, which increased its share by 0.5 percentage points year on year.Other channels saw a year on year increase in viewing share of 2.3 percentage points.All ViewingBBC One enjoyed a… Continue reading Television Viewing Round-Up – July 2008

The Secret Millionaire banked more than 4.5 million peak viewers for Channel 4 last night, ahead of BBC One and ITV1 for the last 45 minutes of the show.The popular reality programme saw property tycoon and millionaire, Nick Leslau, help people with severe disabilities in Glasgow.However, BBC One’s one-off documentary, Pedigree Dogs Exposed, came a… Continue reading The Secret Millionaire Banks The Top Spot

The Outdoor Advertising Association (OAA) has announced that outdoor ad spend has slipped 1.6% year on year, falling for the third consecutive quarter.Outdoor ad spend fell by 6.9% in Q1 compared with the same period in 2007, which was the biggest decrease in the sector in the last six years.Alan James, chief executive of the… Continue reading Outdoor Ad Spend Falls Again

BSKyB is adding seven new high-definition channels to its Sky+ HD service next month.The seven channels will take the satellite broadcaster’s total number of HD channels to 26, with six of the new offerings bolstering Sky Movies, while the seventh will be an HD version of Sky Real Lives.Genres covered by the new movie channels… Continue reading Sky To Launch Seven New HD Channels

BBC Radio 1 has announced a number of line-up changes to its schedule, with Sara Cox and Edith Bowman returning and Dick and Dom leaving.The station said the pair would leave their Sunday morning show next month to “pursue other projects”.Their departure has made way for a number of changes, including the introduction of two… Continue reading Radio 1 Shakes Up Its Schedule

Nielsen Online has unveiled new figures on how fans around the world have used the internet to follow the Olympic games in the first week of competition.Fans from across 10 countries* measured by Nielsen Online visited the official website of the Beijing games, at a rate of nearly 930,000 per day, with traffic exceeding one… Continue reading Fans Following The Olympics Online