Posts from
November 2005
Monday 28 November 2005
Sky supremacy a 'marketing trick' According to researchers from the University of Cardiff, 79.4% of stories which Sky News labels as "Breaking News" are in fact, 'routine, predictable events'. In contrast, ITV News Channel had 32.1% whilst BBC News 24...
Read all of 'Not Quite Broken Yet'.
Roll up, roll up for multichannel television's latest moneyspinner Many of the numerous quiz channels that can now be found on digital TV may not exactly be breaking the law but some of their working practices are morally dubious to...
Read all of 'The great quiz ripoff'.
Friday 25 November 2005
or, in other words, "Give us money!"...
Read all of 'BBC "News"'.
Tuesday 22 November 2005
BBC audience share slides further These audience share figures are fairly predictable given the circumstances from which they are taken. ITV1's decline has slowed because what remains of its less discerning core audience loves watching what's left (ie. soaps and...
Read all of 'Treading water'.
Saturday 19 November 2005
'Closure' plan causes panic at ITV News Just under three weeks ago, the ITV News Channel saw its hours on Freeview - the platform where it gets most of its viewers - cut in half to make way for ITV4...
Read all of 'ITV News Channel Gloom'.
Friday 18 November 2005
RTL Group announces strategic relationship between Five and Top UP TV "Five is confident that this relationship will present a number of opportunities to launch new free-to-air services during the course of 2006. " The words of an RTL press...
Read all of 'Investing Five Style'.
Monday 7 November 2005
The Register: ITV favourite for Friends Reunited buy-out Why is ITV so interested in Friends Reunited to the extent that it has bid £150m for it? Surely local broadband TV services aren't worth *that* much, especially as ITV itself has...
Read all of 'Lonely broadcaster seeks viewers'.
Media Guardian: TV on mobiles proves a turn-off When it comes to mobile phones, I'm a bit of a luddite. Mine gets used about once a week, primarily for sending text messages. So watching TV via my handset hasn't exactly...
Read all of 'Watch me on the mobile'.
Wednesday 2 November 2005
Channel 4 set to overtake BBC2 It's no real surprise to discover that Channel 4 has been doing well recently, with ITV having fallen asleep on the job (it's only now finding some potential) and the BBC suffering more than...
Read all of 'Success at their expense'.
ITV News hours cut on Freeview for ITV4 I'm sure you were all glued to the set last night for the launch of ITV Bore, sorry ITV4. But spare a little thought for the old ITV News Channel. For the...
Read all of 'And finally... Is this the end of the ITV News Channel?'.
Tuesday 1 November 2005
Homechoice 'not for sale' BSkyB is belatedly trying to catch up with the whole idea of video on demand via broadband services, which is the technology that's best placed to seriously disrupt BSkyB's monopoly of pay-TV by satellite in the...
Read all of 'Panic buying'.
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