Category Archives: EPG

The Rise of SVOD and the Future of TV

Posted on 10th December 2018 by FaridHusseini

It’s finally happened, in late September 2018 BARB released the first instalment of Project Dovetail, with census level device-based data (which BARB has been publishing separately on their website since September 2015) being fused with people-based BARB panel data to … Continue reading →

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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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Trends in Commercial Impacts – or How to Get Ahead in Television Advertising

Posted on 6th October 2016 by FaridHusseini

Not only has year-on-year quarterly BARB measured Total TV viewing (i.e. how many people, on average, are watching TV at any given point in time) in the UK risen for the first time in over 3 years from 8.25 million … Continue reading →

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EPG Prominence Back in the Spotlight

Posted on 25th September 2013 by FaridHusseini

The long awaited communications strategy paper (published by the DCMS at the end of July) has reconfirmed the government’s support for the abolition of PSB retransmission fees, which was also the topic of my previous research note. Another topic of … Continue reading →

Posted in Content, DCMS, Drama, EPG, EPG Prominence, EPG Reshuffle, EPG Viewing Impact, Freeview, Impact Assessment, MTV, PBS, PSB, Retransmission Fees, Sky, Sky Platform, Television, TV, UKTV, Viewing, Virgin Media, VOD | Leave a comment

The Retransmission Fees Debate: Terrestrials vs. Sky

Posted on 1st July 2013 by FaridHusseini

The on-going row over retransmission fees (also often referred to as carriage fees) between Sky and the terrestrial PSBs (public service broadcasters) began when former BBC director general Mark Thompson argued that Sky should start paying for carrying PSB channels … Continue reading →

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From MTV to Sky Arts: The Long Term Value of EPG Prominence

Posted on 30th August 2012 by FaridHusseini

Sky’s recent appeal against DMOL’s proposed Freeview EPG reshuffle, citing the likely negative impact on Sky News, has again brought the value of EPG prominence under the spotlight. Perhaps even more pertinent is the fact that DMOL’s proposal does not … Continue reading →

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