Television & Media Intelligence
An Intelligence Practice Built for the Audiovisual Industry
TV.com.gp exists because television decisions are now taken with partial visibility: the information exists, but it is scattered across markets, languages, regulators and platforms.
We are an independent monitoring and analysis practice working exclusively on television, video and the industries around them. We do not sell content, we do not represent rights and we do not act as an intermediary in any transaction, which is what allows us to describe a market without having a position in it.
Our clients are the people who have to arbitrate: programming and acquisitions teams, distribution and rights departments, strategy and development functions, advertising sales houses, media agencies, producers and public institutions that need an accurate reading of a sector in movement.
Seven disciplines behind every assignment
Television intelligence sits at the intersection of several practices. None of them is sufficient on its own, and the quality of a deliverable depends on how they are combined.
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Digital engineering
Building and maintaining the collection systems that follow thousands of public sources continuously, detect changes and deliver them in a usable structure rather than as an undifferentiated feed.
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Research
Documentary and industry research: tracing the history of a format, reconstructing a chain of rights, finding the original announcement behind a widely repeated claim.
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Data analysis
Working with catalogue data, schedule data, published measurement and financial reporting, including the methodological caveats that determine whether two figures can be compared at all.
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Media expertise
Knowing how the industry actually operates: commissioning cycles, windowing, output deals, carriage and prominence, sports rights cycles, public service obligations and the vocabulary that goes with them.
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Strategic intelligence
Turning observation into something usable: identifying what a competitor is preparing, where a market is opening or closing, and which signals deserve a reaction rather than a note.
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Artificial intelligence
Used where it performs reliably: classification, multilingual processing, similarity detection and summarisation of large volumes, always under human verification before anything is asserted.
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Editorial synthesis
Writing so that the reader reaches the decision quickly. A monitoring deliverable that requires a second reading to be understood has already failed at its main purpose.
Independence as a working condition
We hold no rights, distribute no catalogue and represent no producer, broadcaster or platform. That absence of position is not a neutral detail: it determines whether an analysis can be trusted when it concerns a player who might otherwise be a commercial partner.
It also means we describe strategies we consider fragile as readily as those we consider solid. A client who commissions monitoring on a competitor is entitled to a reading that is not softened by our own interests elsewhere in the sector.
- No rights holding, no distribution activity, no intermediation in transactions.
- No paid placement of any player in a benchmark or a sector report.
- Analyses reviewed for factual accuracy before delivery, whoever they concern.
Precision before volume
It is easy to deliver a great deal of material and call it monitoring. It is much harder to deliver the six things that mattered this month and explain why the rest did not. We work towards the second outcome, which is also the harder one to justify by weight.
That requires a scope narrow enough to be meaningful and sources selected for the subject rather than assembled once and reused everywhere. It also requires the discipline to report that nothing significant happened when nothing significant happened.
- A written perimeter agreed before any collection begins.
- Sources chosen for each subject, documented and revisable.
- Explicit statements of uncertainty rather than confident approximation.
Built around the decision, not the tool
Monitoring platforms produce feeds. Decisions need arguments. Between the two sits the work of qualifying, comparing and writing, which is where an assignment either becomes useful or becomes another dashboard nobody opens.
We therefore start from the arbitration to be made and design backwards: what would change the answer, where that information appears, how quickly it has to arrive and in what form it can be read by the people who will act on it.
- Deliverables shaped for their readers, from programming desks to executive committees.
- Frequency aligned with grid planning, market seasons and negotiation calendars.
- Regular review of what was genuinely used internally, and what was not.
A specialised practice, deliberately
TV.com.gp works on television, video and the industries that surround them. That specialisation is a choice: understanding a windowing decision, a carriage negotiation or a measurement change requires knowing how the sector functions, not simply how to search it. An international perimeter is the default, because programmes, formats, technologies and business models cross borders faster than the organisations that use them.
- Operator
- Développeur Expert
- Founder
- Jean-Yves FRIXON
- Working languages
- English and French, with source monitoring in other languages on request
- Geographical coverage
- International, adjusted to the territories defined for each assignment
Full company details are published in the Legal notice.
Four commitments
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Confidentiality
What you ask us to watch is itself sensitive information. Requests, scopes and deliverables remain private, and no engagement is displayed, quoted or used as an illustration of our work.
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Traceability
Every factual statement is attributable to an identifiable source with a date. If an item cannot be traced back, it is presented as unverified or not presented at all.
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Honesty about limits
We say what we could not establish. A monitoring assignment that never reports a gap in the available information is not describing the real state of public knowledge.
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Work agreed in advance
Nothing is engaged before a written scope has been discussed and validated. That protects the relevance of the work as much as it protects both parties.
Tell us what you need to monitor
Describe your subject, your markets and your decision timeline. We study every request individually before proposing a monitoring set-up.
Every request is reviewed confidentially. No commitment is required to discuss a scope of work.