Category Archives: Channel List

The Death of Television – Is it Finally Happening?

Posted on 22nd January 2018 by FaridHusseini

Although year-on-year schedule based UK television viewing, as measured by BARB’s consolidated (Live + 7-days catch-up) Total TV audience, has been in decline since 2012, it was beginning to show signs of levelling off with a very notable slowing in … Continue reading →

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Forecasting the Audience Impact of Sky’s Proposed EPG Reshuffle

Posted on 5th September 2017 by FaridHusseini

The announcement by Sky early last month that it was planning a radical overhaul of the increasingly complex Sky EPG, with a reshuffle target date of March 2018 after an appropriate consultation and adjustment period, will undoubtedly have set alarm … Continue reading →

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EPG Prominence and Channel Performance – It Still Matters

Posted on 14th March 2017 by FaridHusseini

In the late noughties, I was at a conference where one of the delegates noted how EPGs (electronic programme guides) with their ordered lists of channels and schedule information were so archaic that they might as well be considered ‘Victorian’, … Continue reading →

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