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Forecast: Online Demand For Movies, TV Shows Will Top DVD Sales This Year
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“The year 2012 will be the final nail to the coffin on the old idea that consumers won't accept premium content distribution over the Internet,” said Dan Cryan, senior principal analyst, broadband & digital media at IHS. “In fact, the growth in online ...

Bloomberg TV slashes 30 jobs in digital push
Media Life Magazine
By Louisa Ada Seltzer Bloomberg TV is pushing harder into the digital arena and in the process will eliminate roughly 30 positions, according to The Wall Street Journal. The network will then fill 13 new digital positions, hoping to move more ...

Opinion: Why TV fears the Apple iBroadcast 'revolution'
Computerworld (blog)
By Jonny Evans "Our program is cultural revolution through a total assault on culture, which makes use of every tool, every energy and every media we can get our collective hands on." -- John Sinclair Change. Change hurts. This is a truism.

Social media aids angst over Trayvon Martin case
The Olympian
It started a couple of weeks ago with just a few cryptic messages on Twitter and other social media websites: Where is the justice? and RIP TrayvonMartin. A day later, nationally syndicated radio host Michael Baisden sent out a message to his 65000 ...

Bloomberg TV Shifts Focus to Digital
Wall Street Journal
By RUSSELL ADAMS Bloomberg TV laid off nearly 30 employees, as the upstart cable network seeks to make its work force more focused on digital distribution. The network, a unit of financial-data provider Bloomberg LP, plans to add at least 13 digital ...

CASBAA India Forum: On Track for a Digital India
MarketWatch (press release)
New Delhi, Mar 23, 2012 (ACN Newswire via COMTEX) -- This week's CASBAA India Forum mapped out the direction of the multichannel TV industry across India's market of 120 million cable TV subscribers. Almost 200 delegates, speakers and media were on ...

100 million TVs will be Internet-connected by 2016, report predicts
CBS 21
Soon, the living room TV will become as hyper-connected as the people watching it. A new report from researcher NPD In-Stat predicts that 100 million homes in North America and Western Europe will own television sets that blend traditional programs ...

Pope Benedict XVI's visit to Cuba to be a social media event
Sun-Sentinel
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Cuba has also set up a website with links to Facebook and Twitter accounts such as @benedictocuba to supplement the country's controlled-TV and printmedia. The sites provide background information and photos of the ...

The Power of Social Media in the Trayvon Martin Case
Huffington Post
Yet, it wasn't until after his family, friends and network of supporters spread the word onlineabout his death that mainstream media, and finally, the justice system, took notice. After protests outside the Seminole County Courthouse, ...

Adobe: Online Marketers Selling Social Traffic Short
Enterprise Apps Today
Shifting to a first-click attribution measurement model could raise the value of social mediaoutreach efforts by up to 94 percent, according to an Adobe study. Social media efforts can be a tricky proposition. And measuring their effectiveness is even ...

SES and Samsung unveil Africa's first TV with integrated free-to-air satellite ...
WebWire (press release)
SES has announced collaboration between it and Samsung to deliver Africa's first TV with an integrated free-to-air satellite receiver. SES (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG) announced at the Samsung Africa Forum in Cape Town, ...

Cabinet approves TV subsidies
iAfrica.com
The Cabinet had approved the framework for providing subsidies for television set-top boxes to poor households for the switch to digital terrestrial TV, government spokesman Jimmy Manyi said yesterday. Set-top boxes will be subsidised for 5-million ...

Report: Milestone in Use of Digital Media Will Take Place This Year
Television Week (blog)
The changing of the guard in digital media use is on pace to occur this year, according to new research. Online movie streaming will exceed digital video disc and Blu-ray usage for the first time ever, Bloomberg reports, citing researcher IHS Screen ...

Media-Minded: Online TV is Apple's for the Taking
Mobiledia
But they hit a major obstacle, with the stinginess of content providers licensing rights to their movies and TV programs. This has exposed a content shortfall making their services incomplete and leaving consumers to wrestle with which one to pick, ...

Classic Warner Bros. TV celebrated in new exhibit
Arizona Daily Sun
LOS ANGELES -- For fans of TV history, a walk through the "Television: Out of the Box" show at the Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills is like a grand stroll through our collective past. Visitors to the exhibition, which celebrates nearly 60 years ...

Social Media Analytics Summit Set for April in San Francisco
Graphics.com
Conference organizers describe the event as the first two-day business conference to have a complete focus on social media analytics. Using website analytics has long been a tool to measure the effectiveness of traditional online marketing initiatives.

'Battlestar Galactica' prequel will not be TV show
Chicago Tribune
"We are actively pursuing it as was originally intended: a groundbreaking digital series that will launch to audiences beyond the scope of a television screen." The action-packed trailer for "Blood & Chrome," which hit the Internet after the WonderCon ...

Ezra Kucharz Wins Borrell Merit Award
All Access Music Group
CBS Local Digital Media Pres. EZRA KUCHARZ was named the recipient of the 2012 BORRELL Award of Merit. KUCHARZ, who oversees the development and expansion of digital ventures at CBS's 158 TV and radio stations, was recognized for "intelligence, ...

Online Movie Viewing To Outpace DVD, Blu-Ray Views This Year - IHS
Wall Street Journal
By William Launder Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK (DOW JONES)--Movie viewingonline is expected to exceed combined viewing on DVDs and Blu-Ray devices for the first time this year, according to a report from research firm IHS Screen Digest.

Americans now watch more online movies than DVDs
Fortune
"2012 will be the final nail to the coffin on the old idea that consumers won't accept premium content distribution over the Internet," Dan Cryan, IHS's senior principal analyst of broadband and digital media, said in the report.

Adobe Study Shows Social Media Impact Undervalued by Nearly 100 Percent
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
SALT LAKE CITY--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ:ADBE) today announced findings from its second Adobe® Digital Index report, which provides marketing, e-commerce and retail executives with critical digital marketing ...

SMBs Leverage Web And Social Media To Achieve Growth, Says Citibank
Small Business News from Gaebler.com
Small businesses are becoming more willing to rely on digital sales and marketing strategies to connect with consumers. For years, marketers have been pushing small businesses to embrace technology and multichannel marketing strategies to forge ...
Small Business News from Gaebler.com

Fact or Myth: Social Media has an Effect on SEO
Business Insider
Everspark has started to pay more attention to our clients' holistic presences online – including their social media mastery. You may be asking, “You guys are all about SEO. What could social media have to do with anything?” Our answer is that social ...

Don't Lose Sleep Over Financial Challenges
TV News Check
Media Finance 2012, MFM's upcoming annual conference, has put together a series of sessions designed to ease the minds of finance execs by tackling tough issues including: interactive and digital media, mobile video, retransmission consent, ...

FlixFling Partners with Orb to Offer Streaming, Set-Top Subscription Streaming ...
Virtual-Strategy Magazine
Streaming movie service FlixFling and streaming digital media leader Orb partner to provide first bundled streaming service and set-top box subscription package. Streaming movie service FlixFling and Orb Networks, a leader in digital media streaming ...

Americans will pay more for online videos over discs in 2012: report
ZDNet (blog)
By Rachel King | March 22, 2012, 12:57pm PDT Summary: The proliferation of online, digitalvideo content is significantly shifting sales away from DVD and Blu-ray discs, according to a new report. The move to digital media content is all the more ...

Making The Switch To Online Video Advertising | Social Media ...
By Jason Falls
Editor's Note: This is a guest post written by Samantha Peters, an avid blogger who writes about social media, digital marketing, and online communications. The internet is still populated with the numerous banner ads that were a hallmark of ...
Social Media Explorer

Philips media player makes TV smart
By Robert Briel
The Philips HMP7000 connects via HDMI to the TV and will receive Smart TV features such asTV apps and VOD services, which vary by country. This includes premium VOD, catch-up TVfrom commercial and public broadcasters and access ...
Broadband TV News

2012 TV Summit: Despite the Platforms, Audiences Matters | Emmy ...
By Archive staff
TV Guide's Christy Tanner revealed findings touting the benefits of interactive online forums:social media, TVGuide.com's programming Wishlists, and online check-ins have all proved enormously fruitful for the company. Hearing friends ... Original digital programming allows for flexibility in program length, a quicker development period than broadcast, and a chance for those who have traditionally been aggregators (Yahoo!, Google) to create content of their own. 4.Social media ...
Emmy TV Legends Blog

Developing Social CRM | Online PR and social media agency ...
By Lloyd Gofton
Audit your SEO - can your digital touch points be found online? • Audit/build social channels - are you open and available for customer engagement and listening outside of your direct website?Social Media monitoring - Social CRM is often ...
Online PR and social media agency...

High court affirms digital media's role - Lowell Sun Online
The state's highest court picked the right time to shed light on the press' attempts to bring our judicial proceedings into the Internet age. On March 14, the state ...
www.lowellsun.com/.../high-court-affirms-digital-medias-role

Intel preps streaming TV service, own media hub | Electronista
Intel has been involved in TV device support before, producing all-in-one Atom chips for cable boxes and digital media hubs. Its most recent attempt to ...
www.electronista.com/.../intel.to.try.hand.at.tv.content.hardwa...

Sky launches internet TV offering to battle Netflix, LoveFilm ...
Sky has announced its first Internet TV offering NOW TV today. ... For selective viewers, this makes more sense than paying £30+ for Sky TV. NOW TV appears to ...
contentmanagement.cbronline.com/.../sky-launches-internet-tv...

Digital Media Mash Up Highlights | CIMA Media Blog
Mapping Digital Media: Digital Television, the Public Interest, and European Regulation The Open Society Media Program has commissioned background ...
cima.ned.org/blog/2012/.../digital-media-mash-up-highlights-...

Social TV Panels Discuss the Future of Media at SxSW Interactive ...
Here are a few of my favorite social TV panels that I attended during SxSWi 2012. ... Panelists included Senior VP of MTV Digital Media Colin Helms, Executive ...
infospace.ischool.syr.edu/.../social-tv-panels-discuss-the-future...

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With the terrestrial antenna, you can receive free-to-air digital terrestrial TV ... It lets you enjoydigital media content throughout your connected home network.
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