A list of annual viewing figures (in percentages) for British television stations for the twenty five years from 1981 to 2006.

According to research in Helsinin Sanomat, it appears that “the number of so-called non-traditional families has not increased as dramatically as one might suspect based on the extent and the volume of public discussion on the subject”.

YLE, the Finnish state broadcasting company, has published some statistics about finnish television viewing habits in the first quarter of this year.

Charlene Li at Forrester Research has written a report with Josh Bernoff, Remy Fiorentino, Sarah Glass entitled Social Technographics® Mapping Participation In Activities Forms The Foundation Of A Social Strategy.

Freeview has overtaken BSkyB in the UK digital television market after strong growth during the first quarter made it the main TV provider in 8.2 million homes.

The number of crimes in which a handgun was used in England and Wales has risen from 299 in 1995 to 1,024 last year. There are more detailed figures here too.

According to an article on Yahoo News, taken from Reuters, this morning

Europeans’ interest in watching mobile television is as tiny as cellphone screens, a new study showed on Monday, even though

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Research firm Screen Digest forecasts that mobile TV will put gaming and music in the shade. It predicted that there will be 140 million global subscribers generating revenue of £3.1bn by 2011.

Some facts about Random House, the New York based publishing house. A snapshot from June 2007.

Sony took another blow with Nintendo’s Wii game console outselling its PlayStation 3 by more than five to one in Japan last month, raising doubts over Sony’s nascent earnings recovery.