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Ofcom’s PSB report – signifying nothing
In the crazy mental world I inhabit, I actually like media regulation. UK TV, excepting the BBC, is regulated by Ofcom. You can read their annual report on public service broadcasting here. The report is what a regulator’s report that didn’t want to regulate would look like. In this parallel world of non-regulation, this is…
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From the New York Times According to new data released yesterday by the Nielsen Company, people who own digital video recorders, or DVRs, still watch, on average, two-thirds of the ads. One big reason is that many people with DVRs still tune in to watch about half of their shows at the scheduled start time,…
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Numbers…
Via J D Lasica: – Only 27% of the public said they were satisfied with the news but 76% of people inside it are satisfied. – Only 12% of the public read newspapers but 26% of the industry reads them. – 32% of the public get their news from TV but only 5% of the…
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Gallup poll no cause for cheer…
US: Decline in newspaper readership haltsThis is not good, it’s great news for any editor or manager in the newspaper business.It’s a Rocky Balboa-style comeback for U.S. old media, according to various upbeat interpretations of a recent poll survey. Gallup started doing the survey in 1995. The headlines over that period? Network news is the…