DALLAS, April 16: The number of people subscribing to TV services worldwide will top 1.4 billion by 2013, Parks Associates forecasts, with prime-time catch-up services seen as key for platforms in gaining and retaining customers.

PORT WASHINGTON, April 15: The NPD Group's Entertainment Trends In America study has found that most American consumers plan to maintain or increase their spending on movies, video games, digital downloads and other forms of entertainment this year.

LOS ANGELES, April 15: Overall on-location television production in Los Angeles soared 76.4 percent in the first quarter of this year as compared with the same period last year, when scripted programming had ground to a halt as a result of the writers' strike, while feature film production fell 56.3 percent in the period.

LONDON, April 14: Global ad expenditure is expected to fall 6.9 percent this year to $453.2 billion, according to ZenithOptimedia, which also forecasts a "slight recovery" of 1.5 percent in 2010 to $460 billion, followed by a 4.5-percent increase to $480.7 billion in 2011.

LONDON, April 14: The premiere of the new Red Dwarf series on Dave scored a total of 2.66 million viewers, which is being billed as the largest audience ever for a British commission on non-terrestrial TV in the U.K.

NEW YORK, April 13: While CBS won Thursday night in total viewers thanks to Survivor, CSI and the new drama Harper's Island, NBC had reason to celebrate with the promising debut outings of the John Wells drama Southland and the Amy Poehler comedy Parks and Recreation, particularly in the key 18-to-49 demo.

BURBANK, April 13: For the second month in a row, ABC.com outperformed the competition for online video viewing, delivering nine out of the top ten series viewed on broadcast websites.

ALVISO, April 10: Research on the viewing habits of TiVo subscribers reveals that shows in 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. slots experienced a marked increase in timeshifted viewing over programs in the 10 p.m. slot.

LONDON, April 9: A new Microsoft report, Europe Logs On: Internet Trends of Today & Tomorrow, predicts that the Internet will overtake traditional TV as the most-consumed form of media in June 2010, averaging 14.2 hours per week, versus 11.5 hours per week spent on TV.

BURBANK, April 8: NBC has relegated its new drama Kings to Saturday nights, after lackluster ratings in its Sunday night slot.

UNIVERSAL CITY, April 6: The series finale of NBC's long-running medical drama ER notched up 16.4 million viewers, the largest audience for a drama series finale since Murder, She Wrote in 1996.

STRASBOURG, April 1: New data from the European Audiovisual Observatory's MAVISE database reveals that there are now almost 5,600 channels available in the 29 EU countries, with 200 new additions in 2008 alone.

LONDON/NEW YORK, April 1: GroupM has revised its ad forecasts for the year, predicting a 4.4-percent drop in spending to $425 billion in 2008, as compared with its previous estimate of a 0.2-percent fall to $458 billion.

BOSTON/ALVISO, April 1: A new study from TiVo and Innerscope Research reveals that there is a "clear and strong" correlation between how emotionally engaged viewers are with an advertisement and their fast-forwarding behavior on DVRs.

NEW YORK, March 27: A new study released by the Council for Research Excellence (CRE) has found that young baby boomers—those aged between 45 and 54—spend more time with media platforms than any other demographic, at an average of 9.5 hours per day across live TV and DVRs, computers, mobile phones, games and other screens.

SAN JOSE, March 25: The number of IPTV subscribers worldwide has hit 21.8 million, a 63-percent increase on the 13.3 million recorded at the end of 2007, according to industry analysts Point Topic.

NEW YORK, March 25: The final episode of Battlestar Galactica scored 2.4 million live viewers for SCI FI, while HBO drew 2.7 million viewers for the third season finale of Big Love.

NEW YORK, March 24: A new study from IBM reveals a "growing rift" between advertisers, consumers and content owners, as media companies "struggle to keep pace with" new demands from tech-savvy viewers and marketers.

WASHINGTON, March 17: The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in News Journalism has released its State of the News 2009 report, chronicling the effects of the economic crisis and changing consumer habits on news outlets, with the Internet and cable TV being the only platforms to have seen an increase in usage.

NEW YORK, March 17: NBC's much anticipated new drama Kings premiered on Sunday night and averaged just 6 million viewers, with CBS winning the night overall, and ABC taking the top spot in the 18-to-49 demo.

BURBANK, March 16: ABC's online video player was home to nine out of the top ten series viewed on U.S. broadcasters' websites in February 2009, according to Nielsen VideoCensus data, led by Lost with 2.5 million unique viewers in the month, up 41-percent on January.

LONDON, March 16: Recently released figures from the Quarterly Survey of Advertising Expenditure, compiled by the World Advertising Research Center (WARC) for the Advertising Association, show that British ad spend fell 3.9 percent last year, with a 9.6-percent fall in the fourth quarter alone.

DALLAS, February 27: Newly released data indicates that 43 percent of broadband users are interested in having access to cable TV channels via their PCs, with 29 percent of those respondents indicating they would be willing to shell out an extra $10 per month to pay-TV platforms for that added benefit.

NEW YORK, February 25: Private-equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson (VSS) has revised its 2009 forecasts for the media and communications industry, predicting a 0.4-percent decline in the U.S., versus its previous projection of 4.9-percent growth.

NEW YORK, February 27: The value of merger and acquisition activity in the U.S. media and entertainment sector was $150.8 billion in 2008, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers' 2009 M&A; Insights on the Entertainment and Media Industry report, with 1,000 completed transactions, down 17 percent from the 1,202 completed deals in 2007.

HONG KONG, February 23: For the first time since the 1998 financial crisis, advertising revenue in the Asia Pacific will fall this year, according to Media Partners Asia, by 1.1 percent, but will rebound to a 5.3-percent growth rate in 2010.

MUMBAI, February 18: The Indian media and entertainment market is projected to rise by 12.5 percent in the next five years, reaching 1.05 trillion rupees ($21 billion) by 2013, according to a new report from the Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) and KPMG.

MARINA, February 17: The viewing of professionally produced content online gained 24.3 percent in 2008 to 41.6 billion views, led by the streaming of prime-time shows as well as kids' fare, according to AccuStream iMedia Research.

MENLO PARK, February 13: Knowledge Networks reports that 21 percent of Internet users aged 13 to 54 are watching full episodes of TV programs online, up from 10 percent in 2006.

NEW YORK, February 13: Lost, Saturday Night Live and Grey's Anatomy were among the most-viewed shows from U.S. network online video players in December, according to data from The Nielsen Company.