Category Archives: TV in 2020

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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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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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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