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Forty-one percent of online households in the US will subscribe to a broadband internet connection service by 2006, according to two US broadband reports released by Jupiter Media Metrix last week. The data show a fast rise in broadband Net access from the 9% of homes currently connected in 2000. The term broadband refers to… Continue reading US Broadband Internet Penetration To Reach 41% By 2006

Week on week analysis reveals a week of mixed fortunes for media companies, despite the IPA’s Bellwether report suggesting that the current advertising slowdown could be shortlived (see IPA Bellwether Says Downturn Will Be Brief).Granada and Carlton saw shares rise in week on week analysis, despite the Government rejecting calls made by the ITC to… Continue reading Sharewatch

ITV is moving The Premiership from its 7pm slot to a later time of 10.30pm, after the sports highlights programme failed to attract enough viewers. A move of this nature has been predicted by media-watchers ever since the timing of the new show was announced, and disappointing audience figures have added weight to the argument… Continue reading ITV Relegates Premiership

ITV’s chief executive Stuart Prebble has warned that the future of digital TV in the UK depends on the success of ITV Digital.Writing in today’s Media Guardian, Prebble said that the pay-per view platform is essential to Government’s plans to provide a “level playing field” between the three competing digital platforms, satellite, cable and digital… Continue reading Digital TV’s Future Depends On ITV Digital

Carlton is closing its pay TV channel, the Food Network, at the end of the year because of falling advertising revenues.Carlton’s director of business development, Matthew Kearney, said: “Carlton’s Food Network, in common with many specialist niche channels, has experienced weaker than expected advertising and e-commerce revenues. We do not see a realistic prospect of… Continue reading Carlton’s Food Network To Close

ISBA and the Consumers’ Association have launched a new set of best practice principles for commercial activities in schools, which has received endorsement from the Department for Education and Skills. The new guidelines reflect the more relaxed approach to branding on teaching materials and corporate-sponsored activities which is evolving.The concept of companies sponsoring teaching materials… Continue reading ISBA Launches School Sponsorship Guidelines

Programmes This month’s viewing can best be described as a game of two halves, with half time being the precise moment people found out about the terrorist attacks on 11th September. The beginning of the month started well with the nation carried away with the euphoria of that football match between Germany and England. BBC1’s… Continue reading TV Viewing Round Up – September 2001

UK internet users turned away from chat rooms, e-commerce sites and entertainment portals during September in favour of news and official government sites, according to web monitoring company, Hitwise.The latest figures for September reveal the inevitable shift in usage habits of UK users after the terrorist attacks in the US led to an increase in… Continue reading UK Internet Usage Habits Shift

The first run episode of Coronation Street, shown on ITV2 on Wednesday evening due to football being shown on ITV1, gained the highest audience yet achieved for the channel.During the 7:30-8pm slot, the channel was the 6th most popular channel in all homes, attracting 673,000 viewers and peaking during the second half of the programme… Continue reading ITV2 Achieves 6.6% Audience Share

A new report from Jupiter MMXI has highlighted the growth seen in internet usage since it began its research at the end of 1999. The number of monthly at home users in the UK has grown from 7.8 million in October 1999 to 13.5 million in January 2001. The number of minutes spent online each month… Continue reading Jupiter Charts Internet Growth