Category Archives: Television

The DTT Platform – Succeeding in the Face of the SVOD Challenge

Posted on 8th May 2018 by FaridHusseini

In my previous note I discussed how 2017 was another challenging year for schedule based television in the UK, with the SVOD services (Netflix, Amazon, Now TV, etc.) in particular taking a bigger slice of the total video viewing pie, … 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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Expectations versus Reality: TV Viewing by Age Group

Posted on 8th February 2016 by FaridHusseini

Over the last decade in particular, our industry has been plagued by poor predictions resulting from an overestimation of the disruptive viewing impact of technological change. To counter this, it has been suggested that any new forecast should be accompanied … Continue reading →

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Forecasting the Total TV Audience in 2020

Posted on 24th February 2015 by FaridHusseini

Annual BARB measured television viewing levels in the UK have fallen again significantly for the second year running, further highlighting the end of the exceptionally high and stable levels of Total TV viewing that were a hallmark of the new … Continue reading →

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Total TV Viewing Trends (2010 – 2013)

Posted on 6th February 2014 by FaridHusseini

Annual BARB measured television viewing levels in the UK have fallen significantly for the first time since the advent of the new BARB panel in January 2010. Having fluctuated at just over 240 minutes a day during the three year … 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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