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Dowden blasts BBC ‘narrow urban outlook’

UK Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Secretary of State Oliver Dowden has suggested the BBC needs to be closer to, and understand the perspectives of, the whole of the UK and avoid providing a narrow urban outlook. Delivering a keynote speech at the Enders Media and Telecoms Conference setting out why the UK’s creative and […]

March 5, 2020By Colin Mann

Freeview Play on Android TV devices

UK hybrid TV platform Freeview Play is coming to Android TV, thanks to a new agreement between Freeview and Google. Now, even more British viewers will easily find and discover the shows they love. Android TV users will be able to access over 85 live Freeview channels as well as 20,000 hours’ worth of on […]

February 28, 2020

STV Player on Apple TV devices

Scottish broadcaster, STV, has launched its VoD catch-up service – the STV Player – on Apple TV devices, bringing their live channels, on-demand content and STV Player+ features to another new platform. STV Player is the exclusive home of channel 3 content in Scotland. Now, Apple TV users can watch the latest STV dramas, including […]

February 28, 2020

Australia: 85% watch broadcast TV weekly

Initial insights from Virtual Australia (VOZ) – the foundation of Australia’s new Total TV reporting standard – confirm that to fully evaluate the performance of television content, it’s essential to have a national view of how that content is consumed over time and across devices. In the first stage of a phased rollout, OzTAM, Regional […]

February 27, 2020

Torchwood returns to iPlayer

Torchwood, the Bafta award-winning sci-fi series created by Russell T Davies and starring John Barrowman, has returned to the BBC iPlayer. Its first season broke viewing records on BBC Three when it debuted back in 2006. Now all 4 season are available on the streaming platform, giving fans the chance to re-visit the Doctor Who […]

February 21, 2020By Nik Roseveare

Nielsen: Streaming now 20% of US TV watching

A Nielsen report has revealed that US consumers love streamed content and want providers to keep it coming. In the survey conducted for its latest Total Audience Report, Nielsen found that, even as the number of streaming services available continues to grow, 93 per cent of respondents would keep paying for the ones they have […]

February 11, 2020

“Novelty, originality & availability” key to content success

The NoTa Conference, reviewing television trends and consumption around the world, has presented research that catch-up and preview viewing for television programmes can significantly add-up to the ratings. In terms of contents, “emotainment” represents a strong trend to unite the whole family around television. Fiction remains the key genre addressing both real events and supernatural […]

February 7, 2020

UK consults on decriminalising TV licence evasion

The UK Government has opened a public consultation on whether it should proceed with the decriminalisation of TV licence evasion by replacing the criminal sanction with an alternative civil enforcement scheme. The Government believes that it is right to look again at decriminalising TV licence evasion in order to ensure a proportionate and fair approach […]

February 5, 2020By Colin Mann

Seinfeld heads to All 4

Seinfeld, the celebrated US sitcom, will be available to stream on AVoD platform All 4 from February 7th, as part of a streaming deal with Sony Pictures Television (SPT). Originally airing between 1989 to 1998, Seinfeld stars Jerry Seinfeld as a stand-up comedian whose life in New York City is made even more chaotic by […]

February 5, 2020By Nik Roseveare

iPlayer exceeds 4bn requests in 2019

The BBC iPlayer surpassed 4 billion requests to stream programmes for the first time ever in 2019, ending the year with an all-time record high of 4.4 billion requests. The figure is up around 12 per cent on 2018. December was BBC iPlayer’s best month of all time, achieving a record-high 447 million requests in […]

January 29, 2020