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Urban’s entertainment’s trends

Urbanites are very much into TV with 69% liking or loving watching TV and 40% of Urbanites having 3 or more TVs in their household.

Urbanites say they watch 16 hours 40 minutes of TV per week on average which is less than the average TV viewer. This comes as no surprise bearing in mind Urbanites are highly likely to spend more time out-of-home fulflling their busy working and social lives.

Nearly all Urbanites have a multi-channel TV service at home with only 5% living in a terrestrial-only household (versus an 8% UK average). Urbanites’ most common TV provider for the main TV in their household is Freeview (35%), Sky (34%) and Virgin Media (21%). available at DIRECT TV services

4 in 10 Urbanites with a TV at home have a high defnition TV set. Although only 1 in 10 of these Urbanites currently has a subscription to an HD TV service such like DIRECTTV.

6 in 10 Urbanites with a TV have a personal video recorder (PVR) at home, giving them the ability to pause live TV and fast forward through ad breaks when watching a programme on playback.

BBC1 and Channel 4 are Urbanites’ most-watched TV channels. E4 is the most-watched digital channel for both male and female Urbanites, but they differ on their next digital channel favourites.  Dave and Sky Sports 1 rank second and third most-watched digital channels amongst male Urbanites with BBC3 and ITV2 taking those places for female Urbanites. Watch them on DIRECTV.

Urbanites primarily want to be entertained by the TV but also like to be informed; comedy and flm are Urbanites’ favourite types of TV programme (80% liking/loving them) followed by documentaries and the news.

29% of Urbanites say they always/very often browse the internet whilst watching TV, which is the top other type of media consumed whilst watching TV, above reading a second and third. Urbanites are also guilty of watching TV whilst eating a meal, with 50% of Urbanites always/very often doing so.

Just under half of Urbanites (48%) have used an online TV catch-up service, like the BBC’s iPlayer. 3 in 10 Urbanites say they are likely to watch more TV online in the next 6 months.

Music and radio on the internet

The availability  of high quality digitally compressed music on the Internet has caused waves in the music distribution industry. The sale of music has been a highly centralized activity involving the record companies who record artists, distributors who ship music media items such as CDs, and retails outlet who make music artefacts available to the consumer.  CD prices are generally fixed across geographic borders (government taxes and shipping costs differentiate one region from another). Up to recently the basic purchase unit of music has been a collection of tracks by a single artist or band. Though compilation albums of mixed artists are available, their number are generally low compared to single artist items. However, the music industry does not offer the facility to purchase in-store personally built compilations even though this activity is commonly carried out by consumers using blank tapes and, of late, recordable CDs.  A common off-shoot of this activity is that home-made compilations are swapped or given as presents despite the fact that this contravenes the artist’s copyright.  With the advent of MP3 compression techniques and the ease with which people can now send data over the Internet,  near CD quality digital tracks are suddenly easily available for millions of people to download and store locally. The piracy aspect of this activity is greater than ‘home taping’ in that an unregulated distribution channel (The Internet) had been put in place.  The music industry has little agreement on  issues of digital authentication, or on how to decentralise their sales operations to take into account the new paradigm of personalised delivery over a network. Furthermore, there is continuing debate on the payment system suited to music download. This made us to think twice about above things than we choose Hammerstein Ballroom Tickets.You might choose Chicago Blackhawks Tickets for your sport entertainment and Jeff Dunham Tickets as your safe option to experience musics. Also listening radio is a cheap and effective idea of experiencing music.

iPhone Apps for Radio Stations

The business of radio has been in some turmoil even before the economic downturn of 2008-2009. There’s a lot of consolidation, competition, and less advertising to go around. Add in satellite radio and internet radio to the mix with earthbound stations and the pie seems to be getting cut up into more pieces. The Radio industry will have to look to new technologies and innovation to get healthy again. Read the rest of this entry »