An influential group of UK MPs has said it sees no long-term future in the BBC licence fee and set out advantages of a broadcasting levy. It considers the BBC still a valued and important feature of national life but in need of stronger governance and more challenging, independent oversight if it is to be […]
Digital UK – the body supports the UK’s terrestrial TV service and its viewers – and DTT platform Freeview have announced that Panasonic will be the first manufacturer to launch TVs featuring the Freeview Play connected TV service. The news follows the recent announcement of Freeview Play as the brand for the service as part […]
The growing investment in broadband infrastructure, with the improvement in network speed and performance, has opened up new opportunities to provide video over IP, not only in more advanced, developed economies but also in emerging markets, according to Pyramid Research. OTT video is mostly advertising-funded across emerging markets, but paid models are gaining traction within […]
Catch-up television in France is now an established practice but its business model is still a work in progress, according to a new study from TV watchdog Conseil supérieur de l’audiovisuel (CSA). Revenue for the 25 free-to-air TV channels offering catch-up services assessed by the CSA rose 26 per cent in 2013 to €76.2 million […]
French catch-up TV activity fell by 9.2 per cent last December to 366.8 million views after breaking records in November with 403.8 million views. According to figures by CNC which is compiled from 21 channels, catch-up TV, generated 3.7 billion requests over the whole of 2014. Online TV viewing followed the same pattern with a […]
Sony aims to make it easier than ever for UK viewers to catch up on favourite TV shows with the inclusion of on-demand platform YouView to its range of 2015 BRAVIA TVs. In partnership with YouView it will be the first manufacturer in the UK and Ireland to include the service. From Summer 2015, UK […]
According to part two of the results from the second NATPE||Content First and the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) joint research study on consumer attitudes toward television viewing, greater opportunities exist for content creators and content rights holders as consumers continue to embrace and seek out streamed content. The study found that viewers who stream TV […]
BBC iPlayer and BBC iPlayer Radio saw a record-breaking 3.5 billion TV and radio programme requests in 2014 – up from 3.1 billion in 2013, with over 2.6 billion TV requests and over 860 million radio requests across all devices. The much-anticipated return
After years of being told that ‘family viewing time’ around the television will become a thing of the past, data from KPMG shows that the typical British family continues to congregate around a TV set. Today’s modern family is, however, drawn towards catch up – rather than real-time – viewing. According to KPMG’s latest Media […]
The controversial Top Gear special in Argentina was the most popular iPlayer show over the UK’s Christmas period. There were more than two million requests to view part one of the show, shot in Patagonia. BBC figures showed a 25 per cent rise in demand for its iPlayer catch-up service, year on year. There were […]