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A feature length episode of Wire In The Blood drew more than 5.9 million adults on average to ITV1 last night, giving the channel an audience share of 27% between 9pm and 10.30pm.The show, which whet the appetite of fans ahead of the new series, of course starred the indefatigable Robson Green as eccentric clinical… Continue reading Movie Length Wire In The Blood Attracts Over 5.9m To ITV1

David Brennan, research and strategy director at Thinkbox, argues that the digital age has not signalled the death knell for television advertising, but rather allowed audiences to view more…Ad avoidance has always been a worry for our industry. We have assumed that if consumers can avoid advertising, they will. This assumption may betray a lack… Continue reading Misplaced Fear of Ad Avoidance

November saw across the board increases for all the terrestrial channels, with Five attaining the best year on year revenue total. Five saw its revenue increase by 13.3% on November 2006 to £29.8 million with the next best performance coming from breakfast station GMTV (up 13.1% to £6.7 million).Across the whole ITV1 network revenue posted… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – November 2007

Men’s magazine FHM is to launch a compact, travel-sized edition in a bid to bolster its sales amid a generally declining market.The new incarnation of the Emap title, which recorded the highest ABC in the men’s sector for the first half of last year despite shedding more than a quarter of its sales year on… Continue reading FHM To Launch ‘Travel-Sized’ Edition

GCap Media has seen its shares rise another 23%, with rumours flying that Charles Allen’s Global Radio could make another bid for the company. At one point today, Gcap’s share price hit 215.75p, before later slipping back to 208p. Yesterday GCap announced that it had rejected a £310 million takeover bid from Global Radio, which… Continue reading Speculation Sees GCap Share Price Rise

December saw the Nielsen Company publish a report which said that younger adult viewers in the US are two-and-a-half times more likely than older viewers to be technologically proactive in catching up on television shows they missed. The study reported that more than half of older viewers will do nothing or wait for reruns if… Continue reading INSIGHTanalysis: Media Healthcheck – December 2007

Tiscali is planning to launch a mobile phone service this year by rebranding ToucanMobile, which it bought last year.The group is in talks with UK mobile phone operators about renting space on their networks to carry the service, according to the Daily Telegraph.The service, which will be SIM only, is expected to launch in the… Continue reading Tiscali To Launch Mobile Phone Service

GCap Media, owner of Capital Radio and Classic FM, has rejected a takeover bid from Global Radio, thought to be worth about £310 million.In a statement released today, GCap said that Global Radio had made an offer of 190p per share.However, the group added that the board had rejected the offer as it “believed that… Continue reading GCap Turns Down Global Radio Takeover Bid

Japanese manufacturer Sharp has said that the average size of an LCD TV in a European home is set to rise in the next ten years, potentially reaching 60 inches by 2015.Tommaso Monetto, Sharp product manager Aquos LCD TV, said: “The growth in the popularity of larger screen TVs is underlined by the fact that… Continue reading European LCD TV Sizes To Increase

Microsoft and BT have teamed up to bring together the BT Vision service and the entertainment system Xbox 360, giving all BT customers the opportunity to experience high-definition gaming, television and movies through the console.BT Vision, powered by the Microsoft Mediaroom Internet Protocol TV (IPTV) platform, plans to make this service available to customers in… Continue reading BT Vision And Microsoft In Xbox 360 Partnership