changer After all the hoohay saying that the live internet tv is killing tv, could it in fact be the opposite. Is the internet helping old school tv grow?
Viewing figures for TV events have been growing. From the winter olympics to the Grammies and the super bowl events have been attracting their biggest audiences figures for decades. And now telecasting executives are begrudgingly thanking the Internet for its change in destiny.

A lot of it is thanks to swarming(a) networkings sites.The Nielsen Company reported that one in seven people who were observation the Super Bowl and the Olympics opening ceremonial were surfing the internet while they watched.  “The Internet is our friend, not our enemy,” said Leslie Moonves, head word executive of the CBS Corporation, which broadcast both the Super Bowl and the Grammy Awards this year. “People want to be attached to each other.”
 

“People want to have somecount to share,” Alan Wurtzel, the head of explore for NBC Universal, said from Vancouver.  The Recording Academy, which presents the Grammys, mounted a digital campaign to promote the awards show this year, signing up Facebook fans and monitoring Grammy-related Twitter messages.
 

 “increased usance of social media is definitely driving the ratings,” said Jon Gibs, a vice president at Nielsen. He said the Olympic data display simultaneous TV-and-Web viewing signaled the growing importance of interactivity to the television experience.
 

TV companies are now working to incorporate the ‘web effect’ for more television shows.  The network’s Web site also features a gadget that tracks Twitter tweets about the event.
 

 So if your a fan of a failing show, get on Twitter and Facebook, tell the world how great it is, and you may, with your thousands of friends save the day and the show.
 

 The rise has been attributed partly to the grim UK brave, with snow, hail and rain keeping a majority of the population inside watching tv . iPlayer streams accessed by viewers television sets via the Virgin Media TV network accounted for a fifth of that number.
 

This marks the third month on the trot that the BBC has seen record breaking iPlayer viewing figures, the major milestone of 100 million streams was hit in December 2009. Prior to that in November 2009, the iPlayer saw figures of 88.2 million stream requests
Most viewed BBC iPlayer successions for January 2010:-

1. Top Gear Series 14, Episode 7 – 1,135,000 requests2. Doctor Who: The End of Time Part 2 – 831,000 requests3. Gavin and Stacey Series 3 Episode 6 – 700,000 requests4. Mock the Week Series 8 Episode 1 – 658,000 requests5. Tracy Beaker Returns Episode 1 – 565,000 requests
Viewing figures peaked between the hours of 8-10pm in January, echoing traditional tv peak viewing time. During the mean solar day is when most radio streams were downloaded.

The iPlayer has been a terrific success since it was defined and is available on iPhone, game consoles and via internet enabled television sets.

BBC IPlayer Smashes Viewing Figures For January
BBC IPlayer Smashes Viewing Figures For January
BBC IPlayer Smashes Viewing Figures For January
BBC IPlayer Smashes Viewing Figures For January

BBC IPlayer Smashes Viewing Figures For January