Einar Thorsen

Professor of Journalism and Communication at Bournemouth University

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Guardian digital revenue down slightly

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Leah McBride Mensching:

In the year ending March 28, GNM's revenue fell by £32.6 million. However, as long as revenues stabilise, the group stated that continuing cost reductions will reduce operating losses for the current financial year, 2010-2011.

"The recession has driven steep declines in advertising revenues across the media industry, and has been a real test for all our businesses. These unprecedented and very challenging market conditions have gone hand-in-hand with continued structural change, in particular the ongoing transition of readers and advertisers from print to online media. This made 2009/10 a tough year for GMG and many of its businesses," CEO Carolyn McCall stated in her "CEO's review of operations."

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Election debate seen by 50,000 online – Broadcast

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    Election debate seen by 50,000 online – Broadcast

    Online viewing figures for first (main) party leaders election debate:

    "Nearly 50,000 people watched a live stream of the debate on itv.com, while a further 200,000 users expressed their views on the showdown in the commercial broadcaster’s biggest ever online chat. The web page hosting the stream received over 600,000 hits in total.

    […]

    The UK’s first television election debate peaked with 10.3m viewers (40% share) – with ITV1 holding on to an audience of more than 9m for almost all of its 90-minute running time from 8.30pm.

    The First Election Debate between Gordon Brown, Nick Clegg and David Cameron averaged 9.5m (37.3%), according to overnight figures from Attentional.

    It was well ahead of the slot average of 5.5 million (22%)."

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Leaders’ debate TV ratings: 9.4m viewers make clash day’s biggest show – guardian.co.uk

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    Leaders’ debate TV ratings: 9.4m viewers make clash day’s biggest show – guardian.co.uk

    "The first ever UK televised leaders' debate attracted an impressive 9.4 million viewers on ITV1 last night, beating Coronation Street and EastEnders to become the most watched programme of the day.

    Last night's historic 90-minute debate between Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg also proved more popular than the BBC's controversial Question Time featuring the British National party leader, Nick Griffin, which was watched by 7.9 million viewers back in October in a later 10.35pm Thursday slot.

    The First Election Debate on ITV1 averaged 9.4 million viewers between 8.30pm and 10pm, a 37% share of the total TV audience over that period.

    Only soaps, reality shows such as Britain's Got Talent and major live sporting events attract these sort of figures on a regular basis nowadays, with the fragmentation of viewing across hundreds of digital channels."

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