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The proportion of Western European households receiving digital television (DTV) is expected to rise from 19% in 2003 to 42% by 2008, according to a report from IMS Research. The group says a more positive outlook for the European DTV market is now beginning to emerge, despite past failures of digital terrestrial pay-TV services and… Continue reading European Digital TV Market Recovery Underway, Says IMS

The pay-TV sector in Western Europe was worth almost â‚Ź20 billion in 2003 and is expected to grow by 23% to â‚Ź24 billion by 2006, according to a report from Screen Digest. The European Digital Pay TV Revenues report forecasts that during the same period the number of pay-TV subscribers will rise by only 10%,… Continue reading Western European Pay-TV Revenue To Rise 23% By 2006

Five saw revenue increase by 8.9% year on year during December to £18.6 million as its ongoing attempt to distance itself from its downmarket image proved effective in attracting advertisers.The channel recently dropped all remaining softcore pornographic content from the schedules and strengthened its science and history programming in an attempt to establish itself as… Continue reading TV Market Round-Up – December 2003

Personal video recorder (PVR) manufacturer, TiVo, is understood to be considering a return to the UK market just a year after it withdrew following disappointing sales. TiVo stopped producing its boxes in the UK last February after the expiry of a three year contract with its hardware partner, Thomson Multimedia. However, sources suggest the company… Continue reading TiVo May Return To UK Market

Fourteen years of gradual consolidation of the ITV Network this morning came to fruition, with the long-awaited merger of Carlton and Granada to create a single ITV company worth more than £5 billion. ITV plc made its first appearance on the Stock Exchange today with a share price of 143½p. Shares in Carlton and Granada… Continue reading INSIGHTanalysis: ITV plc

The rising uptake of personal video recorders (PVRs) such as Sky Plus and TiVo could transform the media planning and buying process, even by as early as 2006, according to new research carried out by media agency PHD. The ongoing study into the effect of PVRs suggests that viewers’ ability to skip commercial breaks could… Continue reading PVRs Could Transform The Media Planning Process

Lehman Brothers has upgraded its earnings forecast for BSkyB in anticipation of a good set of first-half results next month. Analysts are particularly impressed by recent take-up of Sky’s PVR box, Sky+, and expect the company to announce an additional 90,000 subscriptions to the service in its first-half results on 11th February. The increase in… Continue reading Sky+ Sales Expected To Be Strong In BSkyB Interims

ITV is investing in its interactive television capabilities by appointing Eckoh Technologies to provide interactive telephony services for the channel. Eckoh is one of Europe’s largest speech application service providers. Eckoh offers technology that will build on ITV’s existing interactive elements in programmes including This Morning, CITV and Ant And Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway. Eckoh… Continue reading ITV Builds Interactive TV Platform With Eckoh Deal

ITV’s commercial airtime revenues will barely grow during 2004, as its share of TV advertising dips from 51% to 50%, according to new a forward-looking report from Billetts Media Consulting. Billetts says that ITV’s revenues will rise by a meagre 0.3% in 2004, whilst multi-channel advertising jumps by 11.0% year on year. As a result,… Continue reading ITV Revenues To Remain Flat In 2004, Says Billetts

The number of worldwide cable TV subscribers increased last year but the rate of growth was the slowest in over a decade. Operators are banking on new services to encourage greater uptake in 2004. In-Stat/MDR claims that annual cable TV subscriber growth was tracking around 3% in 2003, despite a 22% increase in digital subscriptions.… Continue reading Cable TV Looks To Capitalise On New Opportunities