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Conversation starters for the last Convergence Conversation, food for thought....
This is a set of selected figures for various aspects of the television market, covering
global and UK markets, and spanning devices and digital platforms, culled from a diverse
set of published and presented sources. They are shared here not as a set of definitive
answers, but rather as a starting point for thinking about the topic of our Convergence
Conversation.
Global TV Trends
TV Trends, UK
• Trending towards 2TVs per TV household, 1.7 by 2013 (UK) (Screen Digest)
• 30% of homes in the UK have some means of catch up
• 50% of home TV access will be digital by 2012 and 70% those will be paying for
digital TV
• TV ad revenues expected to fall by £198m, or 6%, in 2009; ITV ad revenue down
16%
• 23.5% ad budget on online, compared to 21.9% on TV (2009)
• Sky+HD 1.3 million customers. Opening HD Box to broadband content in 2010.
• 49% Pay-TV buyers - Cable, DTH, etc. 12.5m homes
Digital Radio
• Digital Radio still only 20% of total Radio listening figures (Guardian 2010)
• Potential delays in the Digital Switchover targets
Ref : http://www.convergenceconversation.com/posts/colin.batten.2/the-future-of-
broadcast---conversation-starters