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According to a new global forecast from the Yankee Group, by 2003, more than half of the broadband revenues in the European, Asia-Pacific and Latin American regions will be come from the Asia-Pacific, but the trend will veer toward Europe in 2006, with 51% of broadband access revenues originating on the continent by that time.… Continue reading Asia-Pacific To Lead Broadband Revenues With Europe Catching, Says Yankee Group

The BBC has pulled out of negotiations for the terrestrial TV rights to The Simpsons after Channel 4 and Channel 5 allegedly bid seven times more than the price currently being paid by the BBC.A spokesman for the corperation today confirmed that Jane Root, controller of BBC2, had walked away from negotiations following “vastly inflated… Continue reading BBC Says Doh! Over Simpsons Rights

There is a strong interest among UK digital TV subscribers in sending and receiving messages such as voicemail, short messages (SMS), email and instant messaging on their TV sets, according to research conducted by Continental Research on behalf of Comverse. The findings indicate a large potential for TVUM (unified messaging over TV), says Comverse. The… Continue reading UK DTV Customers Would Pay For TV Messaging Services, Finds Comverse

TV viewing levels across all “key audiences” are increasing, according to the latest data released by BARB.Figures generated by the new ratings system show that the overall average hours of viewing for the week ending 10 February was just over 25˝ hours per person. BARB claims that this is the highest viewing level of the… Continue reading BARB Data Shows Viewing Increase

An SMS advertising campaign created by Flytxt helped Cadbury to enjoy a near record year in terms of profits and generated around 4 million responses in a two week period, according to Flytxt’s vice president of business development, Pamir Gelenbe.Speaking at the SMS 2002 mobile marketing event Gelenbe announced that the campaign, which invited consumers… Continue reading SMS Campaign Boosts Profits For Cadbury

Liberty Media’s agreed E5.5 billion deal to acquire six cable franchises from German media group Deutsche Telekom looks set be approved by the country’s Government, despite speculation that it might be blocked on competition grounds (see Liberty Media’s Deutsche Telekom Cable Deal Hits Regulatory Snags). The German Cartel Office is known to be concerned that… Continue reading German Government Set To Allow Liberty’s Cable Acquisition

The figures listed in NewsLine’s ABC reports are those reported by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) as at Thursday 14 February 2002. Late submissions and changes may be made after this date, and will thereafter be amended in MediaTel’s Press database. For full notes on how NewsLine’s reports are compiled please see Important Notes:… Continue reading ABC Jul – Dec 2001 Music Titles

Parks Associates estimates that by the end of 2005, US households will have more than 80 million connection points for entertainment-specific applications. “We believe that digital content in the form of video and high-quality audio files will drive certain home networking applications, especially if that content can be aggregated on a platform and sent to… Continue reading US Homes Will Have 80m Entertainment Network Connection Points By 2005

The figures listed in NewsLine’s ABC reports are those reported by the Audit Bureau of Circulations (ABC) as at Thursday 14 February 2002. Late submissions and changes may be made after this date, and will thereafter be amended in MediaTel’s Press database. For full notes on how NewsLine’s reports are compiled please see Important Notes:… Continue reading ABC Jul – Dec 2001: Teenage Titles

The top seven countries will have a third of the global digital TV homes by 2006, according to data from Informa Media Group. The fourth edition of Digital Broadcasting Revolution forecasts that these countries will have 148 million digital homes by 2006, representing 55% penetration. The top seven recorded 41 million digital homes at the… Continue reading Over 450m Digital TV Homes Worldwide By 2006, Says Informa