LONDON, September 3: Consumers in the U.K. who already own a high-definition television set are twice as likely to purchase a 3D TV within the next year, according to a survey from analyst firm Strategy Analytics.

BAHRAIN, September 1: Annual advertising revenues in the Gulf states are on track to top $10 billion for the first time ever, according to the Pan Arab Research Centre (PARC), with first-half revenues reaching $5.05 billion, up 20 percent on last year.

LONDON, August 27: A new Deloitte study released at the MediaGuardian Edinburgh International Television Festival (MGEITF) reports that television is still considered the most impactful ad medium.

LONDON, August 24: The sale of audio-visual archive content generates 364 million euros in revenues annually, reflecting a compound annual growth rate of close to 5 percent over the last five years.

NEW YORK, August 23: Ahead of DISCOP Africa 4, which kicks off September 1, World Screen offers up a look at buying and selling trends in the region.

MONTEREY, August 23: High unemployment and a weak housing market are among the reasons cited by SNL Kagan for the poor second-quarter performance of the U.S. multichannel industry, which lost 216,000 customers in the period, as compared with the year-ago gain of 378,000.

BOSTON, August 23: A new study on media-consumption trends found that more than 50 percent of individuals who have seen 3D movies plan to purchase a 3-D capable set in the next three years.

LONDON, August 19: Two separate reports indicate that Britons are watching more TV than ever, with Thinkbox reporting that per-week viewership is up by 2 hours in the first half of this year, while Ofcom has found that consumers are spending 45 percent of their waking hours watching TV, using their mobiles and other communications devices.

SINGAPORE, August 18: The number of pay-TV subscribers worldwide will grow from 688 million this year to 854.5 million in 2015, delivering a 5.7 percent CAGR for the next five years, according to a new report.

PHILADELPHIA, August 17: Comcast has released the results of its second annual “TV Pulse Survey,” indicating 62 percent of consumers have watched prime-time TV series through technologies that include VOD, DVR and the Internet.

SCOTTSDALE, August 17: Revenues from web-to-TV video content will rise from $2 billion to more than $17 billion by 2014, at which point there will be 57 U.S. million U.S. broadband homes watching full-length online video on the TV set, In-Stat reports.

LOS ANGELES, August 16: The average median age at the five U.S. broadcast networks is now 52, up from 43 in the 1999/00 season, while the average age in TV homes in the U.S. is just 38.

LONDON, August 12: By the end of this year, more than 50 broadcasters and pay-TV operators will be offering 3D television services to the home, according to a report from IMS Research.

NEW YORK, August 9: The April/MIPTV edition of World Screen has been named the best-printed trade magazine by the Gold Ink Awards, the most prestigious awards ceremony for the printing industry.

SCOTTSDALE, August 4: Revenue from the purchase of HD personal video recorder (PVR) set-top boxes is expected to increase by more than 61 percent by 2014, according to In-Stat.

LONDON, July 19: ZenithOptimedia is forecasting a 3.5 percent increase in global ad revenues this year to $447.5 billion, up from a previous projection of 2.2 percent, with a 1.3-percent increase in the developed markets of North America, Western Europe and Japan and an 8.6-percent growth in the rest of the world.

SCOTTSDALE, July 15: Worldwide shipments of Blu-ray players are expected to more than double between last year and this year, according to ABI Research, which forecasts more than 62.5 million shipments in 2011.

LONDON, July 14: In its annual report on the public-service broadcasters BBC, ITV1, Channel 4, Five and S4C, Ofcom has found that spending on first-run, U.K.-originated content fell by 6 percent between 2008 and 2009, with an overall decline of 16 percent since 2005.

NEW YORK, July 14: TNT drew a whopping 7.6 million viewers to its Monday night premiere of Rizzoli & Isles, the latest in a string of ratings successes for the cable networks this summer.

NEW YORK, July 13: The World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands garnered a total of 24.3 million viewers in the U.S. on ABC and Univision, making it the most-watched soccer game in the country's TV history, according to data from The Nielsen Company.

JOHANNESBURG, July 12: The global television audience for yesterday's World Cup final between Spain and the Netherlands could top 700 million, outrating the 2006 event in Germany.

SAN JOSE, July 9: Multimedia Research Group (MRG) forecasts that the number of IPTV subscribers will reach 102 million in 2014, a 25-percent CAGR, delivering revenues of $46 billion.

LONDON, July 7: As the integration of social media and television continues to take an increasing role in the worldwide market, Facebook and Twitter are battling for multi-billion dollar segments of the TV landscape, according to a new report by research company Futurescape.

BURBANK, July 7: Jimmy Blackburn has taken on the role of VP of programming research for Disney Channels Worldwide, after spending the past ten years at Nickelodeon, where he was most recently senior director of kids and family audience research.

STAMFORD, June 29: Branded entertainment spending in the U.S., including product placement, fell just 1.3 percent in 2009 to reach $24.63 billion, according to PQ Media, with solid growth forecast for this year.

SCOTTSDALE, June 29: By 2013, one in five new TV sets sold in the U.S. will be 3D, according to In-Stat, with a year-on-year shipment increase of 231 percent in the next year.

JOHANNESBURG/BURBANK, June 28: An estimated 14.9 million viewers tuned in to ABC on Saturday to watch the U.S. take on Ghana in the World Cup, with a further 4.5 million watching the match on Univision.

TORONTO/LOS ANGELES/LONDON, June 28: E1 Entertainment's new police drama Rookie Blue opened to more than 7.3 million viewers on ABC on Friday night.

STAMFORD, June 25: The U.S. taking on Algeria in the World Cup on Wednesday gave ESPN its highest ratings ever for a soccer match, delivering some 6.2 million viewers in its 10 a.m. to noon EST broadcast.

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