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The Death of Television – Is it Finally Happening?
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 →
Posted in 2020 Forecast, Adults 16-34, Age Groups, Amazon, BARB, BBC 3, BBC1, Catch-Up TV, Channel 4, Channel List, Channel Schedules, Children, Death of Television, EPG, EPG Prominence, EPG Reshuffle, EPG Viewing Impact, HD, HD/SD Channel Swap, ITV, Linear TV, Netflix, PSB, Smart Phones, Smart TV, SVOD, Tablets, Television, Total TV, TV in 2020, Virgin Media, VOD
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EPG Prominence and Channel Performance – It Still Matters
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 →
Posted in 4Seven, Amazon, BARB, Channel List, Death of Television, DTT, EPG, EPG Prominence, EPG Reshuffle, EPG Viewing Impact, Forecasting, Freeview, Internet TV, Linear TV, Live TV, Netflix, Ofcom, PVR, Sky, SVOD, Tablets, Television, The Grand Tour, Total TV, TV in 2020, Virgin Media, VOD, YouTube
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Expectations versus Reality: TV Viewing by Age Group
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 →
Posted in 2020 Forecast, Age Groups, BARB, Catch-Up TV, Children, Death of Television, Digital Switchover, DVR, Employment Rate, Forecasting, Future TV, HD, High Definition, Internet TV, Live TV, Millennials, Project Dovetail, PVR, Smart Phones, Smart TV, Tablets, Television, Timeshifted TV, Timeshifting, Total TV, Total TV audience, Total TV Viewing, TV, TV in 2020, Viewing, VOD, Weather
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Forecasting the Total TV Audience in 2020
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 →