Reports
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ITV 2008 interim results: battening down the hatches
August 5, 2008
$2,500.00Encouraged by the way that Google has come to dominate the global market for online search advertising, Clear Channel and its rival ...
Sector FTA TV. -

Carphone Warehouse Q1 trading update: weathering the storms
August 3, 2008
$2,500.00Carphone Warehouse had a solid quarter on the distribution side given the current environment, with 6-7% underlying organic retail ...
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Sky FY 2008 results: sound progress
August 2, 2008
$2,500.00Another strong quarter of pay-TV and Sky+ growth in the face of a severe retail downturn makes us more confident that Sky will achi ...
Sector Pay TV. -

BT FY 2008-09 Q1 results: wholesale hit compounded by weak perfor ...
August 1, 2008
$2,500.00BT's Q1 results were weak, with declining like-for-like revenue and EBITDA, although cash flow grew strongly thanks to a lull in ca ...
Sector Fixed Line (Internet and Voice). -

Web TV: Project Kangaroo heads to the Competition Commission
July 28, 2008
$2,500.00Project Kangaroo, the planned joint venture between BBC Worldwide, ITV and C4 to pool archival resources and supply video-on-demand ...
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Ofcom’s review of Openreach’s financial framework: BT ...
July 27, 2008
$2,500.00This report explains Ofcom's ongoing review of Openreach's financial framework, why it is important, the myriad factors involved, o ...
Sector Fixed Line (Internet and Voice). -

Vodafone June 2008 KPIs: economic woes… or competitive stru ...
July 20, 2008
$2,500.00Vodafone Europe's service revenue growth dropped by two full percentage points in the quarter to June 2008; Spain plummeted from +5 ...
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Setanta facing the credit crunch
July 15, 2008
$2,500.00The TV advertising sector is haemorrhaging in the economic downturn, but troubles could also be brewing in the pay-TV sector. Sky s ...
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BT Next Generation Access: a one billion pound toe in the water
July 13, 2008
$2,500.00BT's announcement of a project to extend fibre beyond the exchange for some existing homes as well as newly built ones is good PR, ...
Sector Fixed Line (Internet and Voice). -

Tiscali UK – where now?
July 11, 2008
$2,500.00The current process for a sale of Tiscali Spa in whole or part appears to be breaking down, just as the prospects for standalone IS ...
Sector Fixed Line (Internet and Voice). -

UK broadband market Q1 2008
July 6, 2008
$2,500.00The decline in broadband market growth has accelerated, with market net additions in Q1 down on Q4 for the first time in three year ...
Sector Fixed Line (Internet and Voice). -

Cable & Wireless/Thus: a deal worth doing
June 29, 2008
$2,500.00In our view the potential for synergies from an acquisition of Thus by C&W, though more limited than might be supposed, would s ...
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France Télécom premium TV play
June 27, 2008
$2,500.00Having acquired national broadcast TV rights for premium content, France Télécom's Orange TV will launch on satellite on 3rd July ...
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Competition concerns for the TNS-GfK merger
June 27, 2008
$2,500.00We expect the TNS-GfK merger proposal to be examined closely by the European Commission, and anticipate competition concerns to be ...
Sector
DAB radio – nice platform, shame about the take-up
June 21, 2008
$2,500.00Consumer take-up both of DAB receiver hardware and of listening to digital-only radio stations has been slow, in spite of considera ...
Sector Music and Radio.
UK DTV forecasts to 2017 June 2008 update
June 20, 2008
$2,500.00Digital TV growth has consistently exceeded expectations since the launch of Freeview in October 2002, while 2007 saw a record annu ...

French anti-piracy law clears another hurdle
June 17, 2008
$2,500.00France's Council of State gave the green light to the draft law on Creation and the Internet', to combat internet piracy of conte ...

Mobile revenue growth: March 2008 quarter and outlook
June 16, 2008
$2,500.00European revenue growth improved by a whole percentage point this quarter, jumping to 2.2% from 1.2% last quarter. Most of this (0. ...

UK Commercial Radio Q1 2008
June 15, 2008
$2,500.00UK commercial radio revenues increased by 6.7% in Q1 2008 year-on-year, resulting in four consecutive quarters of growth for the fi ...
Sector Music and Radio.
UK advertising: internet to overtake TV this year
June 14, 2008
$2,500.00We expect UK online advertising to reach £3.56 billion this year overtaking TV ad spend which we estimate will be £3.39 billion, ...