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Sky Networks managing director, Dawn Airey, has categorically denied accusations that beleaguered digital music channels, The Amp, Scuzz and Flaunt, will be forced to close following a wide-ranging review of their performance.The future of the channels, which launched less than two years ago, was called into question in July following a shake-up that saw BSkyB’s… Continue reading MGEITF 2004: Airey Denies Beleagured Music Channels To Close

ITV chief executive Charles Allen has revealed ambitious plans to launch a raft of new channels over the next five years in an effort to compete more effectively against the BBC in the burgeoning multi-channel environment.The UK’s largest commercial broadcaster currently has one digital channel in the form of ITV2 and is planning to launch… Continue reading MGEITF 2004: ITV Reveals Plans To Launch Range Of New Channels

Influential BBC broadcaster and journalist John Humphrys has delivered a scathing attack on the corrupting influence of reality television, accusing shows like Big Brother and Wife Swap of being “meretricious, seedy and cynical”.Humphrys, presenter of BBC Radio Four’s flagship Today programme, criticised some of the most senior executives in British television for producing too many… Continue reading MGEITF 2004: Mind-Numbing Reality Television Comes Under Fire

Bluewin, a division of Swiss telecoms group, Swisscom, is set to become the first European commercial trialist of the new Microsoft television system, which will initially provide 600 homes with 25 channels via broadband telephone lines. As well as receiving multiple new channels from September, participants will also have access to five pay-television channels and… Continue reading Trials Of Microsoft TV Begin In Europe

Informing Interactive Television has launched a survey investigate what issues would arise if Europe adopted a standard platform to deliver interactive television. The TV Standards Survey, is designed to gather opinion from those working in the interactive television market and establish what problems they face when delivering services to more than one platform. It is… Continue reading Survey To Investigate Delivery Of Interactive TV

By the end of 2007, the number of US households receiving digital television services will rise by over 60% to 70.3 million, says a new report from eMarketer. According to the just released US Digital TV: On-Demand and High Definition report, digital television household penetration will grow from 44.2 million households at the end of… Continue reading Digital TV Penetration To Overtake Broadband

Television advertising continued to go from strength to strength in July with total terrestrial revenue rising by a solid 9.8% year on year to almost £198 million, according to the latest agency estimates compiled by MediaTel Group.The figures reveal a particularly impressive performance for Channel 4, which saw revenue rise by 9% to more than… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – July 2004

Channel 4 saw its average share of weekly viewing in all homes inch up by 0.6% points year on year during July to just under the 9.8% mark as the latest instalment of Big Brother continued to deliver an audience of die hard reality-TV fans.This year’s Big Brother has been the most successful so far… Continue reading Digital Television Round-Up – July 2004

A new project looks set to revolutionise the way we use mobile phones, as it aims to find a way to send television broadcast signals to 3G enabled telephones. The â‚Ź96 million study, named INSTINCT (IP-based Networks, Services and Terminals for Converging Systems), is being undertaken by West London’s Brunel University and hopes to bring… Continue reading Digital Television Could Be Received On Mobile Phones By 2010

In the latest Eurovision V report, Merrill Lynch has said that the European broadcast market is performing well below historical trends, with many companies trading at only 20% above their all time low. However, the Olympic games continues to give a much needed boost to the sector this summer and as a result it has… Continue reading Latest ITV1 Forecasts From Merrill Lynch