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Last night saw the return of Dragons’ Den to BBC Two at 9pm, and the business reality show picked up a peak of three million adult viewers, a 13.6% share of the audience.The show had an average audience of 2.8 million adult viewers (a 12.5% share) who stuck with it for its hour duration.However, although… Continue reading Three Million Adults Enter The Dragons’ Den

The BBC has become the first UK broadcaster to have all of its online content made available for free via Wi-Fi, it was announced today by BBC director of future media & technology, Ashley Highfield.The non-exclusive venture enables the public to access all bbc.co.uk content for free through the UK’s largest network of hotspots, operated… Continue reading BBC Makes Online Content Available For Free Via Wi-Fi

IPC TX, the TV weeklies publisher, has unveiled a major qualitative research study providing ongoing insight into UK TV magazine reading households.The 18-month research project, The Street, offers detailed insight into the lifestyles, attitudes and aspirations of TV weeklies consumers.The first wave of research has found that the woman in the household rules the home,… Continue reading IPC Unveils TV Magazine Research

The Audit Bureau of Circulations is to provide monthly sales figures for UK consumer magazines in its biannual audit for the first time.The figures will make their first appearance in the ABC biannual audit for the first half of 2008.The changes come following a request from the Periodical Publishers Association board “to allow publishers to… Continue reading ABC To Provide Monthly Consumer Magazine Figures

With the first live edition of The X Factor pushed back a week by the semi-finals of the Rugby World Cup 2007, BBC One waltzed away with the early evening viewers on Saturday.The second week of the ballroom dancing competition attracted a healthy average adult rating of 7.3 million viewers, easily defeating ITV1’s golden couple… Continue reading While The X Factor Cat’s Away …Come Dancing Plays With 7m Viewers

It was an emotional, hard-fought victory, but in the end the script only allowed for one winner, with England drawing on all their reserves of courage and indefatigability to defeat the French in their own back-yard.In a match that gave new meaning to the word tense, England emerged triumphant at the end of 80 minutes,… Continue reading 3.5 Million ABC1 Men Watch England Triumph

The big news in the City last week concerned Emap, with the company completing the first round of its break-up auction.At the start of the week it was reported that Hearst, owner of the UK’s third largest magazine publisher The National Magazine Company, had made a £700 million indicative offer for Emap’s consumer magazine division… Continue reading Media In The City: Emap Auction Moves To Second Round

Up to 20% of households in Whitehaven have not yet bought a digital set-top box, despite digital switchover starting there this Wednesday.A report in yesterday’s Observer quotes figures from Digital UK – the body leading digital switchover in the UK – saying that around 5,000 households in Whitehaven are not yet ready for the analogue… Continue reading 20% Of Households In Whitehaven Not Ready For Switchover

A new report predicts that long-running dramas, magazine and factual programmes will become more popular on television than the current crop of reality and game show franchises.However, TV brands such as Wife Swap and the Idol franchise are set to become more popular over the next five years, according to the report by Oliver &… Continue reading Report Predicts Slow-Down In Reality And Game Show Formats

BBC One won the all-important 9pm ratings battle last night, as Who Do You Think You Are? picked up a peak of 6.6 million adults (a 33.9% share of the audience).The show, which revealed some hitherto unknown parts of Graham Norton, had an average audience of 6.3 million adults for its hour long running time.Over… Continue reading Who Do You Think You Are? Gets 6.6m Adult Viewers