TV 3.0 Summit at the Paley Center

TV 3.0 Summit at the Paley Center | KIT digital
By Alan Wolk
Punch lines aside, Gottlieb made an excellent point about how the average American has a completely different relationship with technology than the media types who make up most TVinsider's inner circles. This point was echoed by TiVo ...
KIT digital 

NBC Entertainment Names Robert Hayes to Lead Digital Media Push
Hollywood Reporter
NBCUniversal's NBC Entertainment arm has named former Showtime executive Robert Hayes to the new position of executive vp, digital media "to more closely align its digital and programming strategies." The company said the executive shuffle, ...

Cable TV operators seek more time to go digital
Times of India
Chennai: Chennai television viewers, it seems, may have to wait longer for a digital viewing experience. Stakeholders like government-run Arasu Cable TV Corporation and Sun TV Network's Sumangali Cable Vision are still not prepared to meet the July 1 ...

Robert Hayes Named Executive VP, Digital Media at NBC Entertainment; Vivi ...
Broadcasting & Cable
By George Winslow -- Broadcasting & Cable, 6/6/2012 6:20:38 PM NBC Entertainment has hired Robert Hayes to the newly created position of executive VP of digital media, where he will report to Len Fogge, president, NBC Entertainment marketing and ...

Content Media nabs stake in Jigsaw: Film, TV, digital divisions to distrib ...
Chicago Tribune
Content Media Corp. has bought a 50% stake in Alex Gibney's New York-based Jigsaw Prods. Content's film, TV and digital divisions will serve as the international distributor for Jigsaw's projects "where appropriate," and aims to expand development and ...

NBC Hires Executive VP Of Digital Media
AllYourTV.com
In jointly making the announcement, Robert Greenblatt, Chairman, NBC Entertainment, and Ted Harbert, Chairman, NBC Broadcasting, emphasized the strategic role of digital media in a highly competitive television landscape. “It's critical that we do ...

WD TV adds streaming options, tunes televisions near and far to your Slingbox
Engadget
By Steve Dent posted Jun 6th 2012 7:04PM A raft of goodies has been tacked on to WesternDigital's TV Live and TV Live Hub media players including new streams and Vudu movie downloading, but the addition of SlingPlayer might be the most intriguing.

Shake-up at NBC Digital; Vivi Zigler departs
Los Angeles Times
Robert Hayes has joined NBC as executive vice president for digital media. He will be responsible for several initiatives and properties, including NBC.com, social media campaigns, mobile applications, digital marketing and multi-platform programming.

Mexico approves plan to auction TV frequencies for 1st time
Fox News
"The awarding of these frequencies is aimed at fostering diversity of content, driving competition in the sector and boosting digital terrestrial television, or DTT, infrastructure," the Cofetel said. These frequencies will enable "two DTT broadcast ...

TV networks use muscle to win rate increases in upfront ad sales
Los Angeles Times
Fox, which finished the most recent TV season in first place among the advertiser-friendly demographic of 18-to-49-year-old viewers, kicked off the "upfront" market late last week. The News Corp.-owned network should finish selling its prime-time ...

Pule announces specs for digital TV set-top boxes
Times LIVE
The minimum requirements for the production of TV set-top-boxes were announced in Cape Town on Wednesday. "It is one of the milestones that we have reached in the broadcasting digital migration process," said Communications Minister Dina Pule.

Times LIVE

VIZIO Licenses Digital TV Patent Portfolio to ON Corporation
Sacramento Bee
By VIZIO, Inc. IRVINE, Calif., June 6, 2012 -- /PRNewswire/ -- VIZIO announced that ON Corporation, which sells digital televisions in the United States under the RCA brand, has become a licensee under VIZIO's QAM patent portfolio.

Pakistani TV channels to be delivered by IPTV in Canada, Africa
Rapid tv news
North American internet protocol television (IPTV) provider TV-Desi is to add Pakistan's ARY channels to its south Asian content for viewers in both Canada and Africa. General entertainment channel ARY Digital, the 24 hour Urdu and English ARY News, ...

5 Key Video Marketing Findings From New comScore Report
Search Engine Watch
by Greg Jarboe, June 7, 2012 Comments Earlier this week, comScore released a report entitled Surviving the Upfronts in a Cross-Media World, a guide for navigating the cross-media landscape during this year's TV and digital upfronts.

BMO Study: One in Three Canadian Businesses "Likes" Social Media
MarketWatch (press release)
TORONTO, ONTARIO, Jun 07, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- A new BMO Bank of Montreal study released today suggests that a third of Canadian businesses have a social media presence. The same number of entrepreneurs suggest that social media has helped ...

Digital Tonto: The biggest digital media company you've never heard of
Kyiv Post
America is famous for its media giants. Facebook, even after the disastrous IPO, is still worth $60 billion. Google already trades at $200 billion. So called “old media” companies are massive too. Disney is worth $80 Billion; Time Warner about $35 ...

North American pay TV revenues to peak next year
Broadband TV News
Pay TV revenues in North America will peak in 2013, before gradually falling by $2.6 billion to reach $88.2 billion in 2017, according to a new report from Digital TV Research. The Digital TV North America report concludes that TV ARPU is being forced ...

Twitter CEO Keynotes at 2012 Online News Association Conference
MarketWatch (press release)
21, by Emily Bell, Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Journalism School and Director of the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, in a luncheon conversation exploring the social media giant's cultural and economic impact on digital media and ...

TV 3.0: TiVo Will Get 'Very Substantial' Revenue From Patent Deals, Rogers Says
Broadcasting & Cable
"We were flatly rejected by the cable industry when it came to the DVR," Rogers said, noting that MSOs opted for generic digital video recorders. Now, with the need to meld live TV, recorded content, video-on-demand and Internet-delivered video, ...

Wayfinding, Media Education and Storytelling
Huffington Post (blog)
The recent transit of the planet Venus across the Sun again demonstrated the power of social media. NASA, which produced hours of live coverage from Hawaii on Ustream, had more than two million views. Sharing of the link to the site on Facebook, ...

Western Digital adds SlingPlayer functionality to WD TV Live media streamers
Digitaltrends.com
Detailed in an official press release earlier today, Western Digital has updated the software within the WD TV Live and the WD TV Live Hub media streaming set-top boxes to offer SlingPlayer connectivity. Assuming that a WD TV Live owner also has...

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Elvis Presley Will Be Resurrected as Hologram for Film, TV
Mashable
Digital production company Digital Domain Media Group — which brought the life-sized digitalTupac to life for a performance with Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre at Coachella in April — has partnered with Core Media Group to resurrect the “King of Rock 'n' ...

TV the main source of news for Irish people… but websites are catching up
thejournal.ie
A NEW SURVEY has revealed that Irish people are increasingly turning to digital media to get their news. BBC Worldwide research has shown that newspaper websites are now beating their hard copy equivalents by about 2.5 per cent as a source for news and ...

North American pay-TV revs rise but will hit peak in 2013
Rapid tv news
The cash-cow that is the US pay-TV market is set to stop rising by the middle of 2013 a new survey from Digital TV Research is suggesting. In its latest round up of the US pay-TV sector, the analyst found that despite no movement in the penetration ...

UCLA film school taps McDonald: Cinematopgraphy head will lead dept. of film ...
Chicago Tribune
William McDonald has been named chair of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA's School of Theater, Film and Television. McDonald will assume his new position July 1. Appointed by dean Teri Schwartz after a department faculty ...

Ireland's RTE Connected TV App Coming to Samsung - A First For National ...
APP Market
Samsung Electronics and RTE Digital have released a free connected TV app that will allow SmartTV users to access content from the national broadcaster dirct on their Internet-connected TVs. The new offering adds to RTE's existing online presence with ...

Rovi Wraps Analytics For Online And Advanced TV Together
By David Kaplan
As ad tech companies make inroads in doing that, Rovi Corp., the company that both serves as theTV Guide of smart TVs and the operator of an ad network on connected sets, is unveiling a data product that's designed for cross platform deals ...
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Privacy is not Private - Digital Media Theory & Trends
By Troth
However, the more integrated social media becomes into our culture the greater the consequences are for what once seemed to be harmless activities. As noted by Mitch Joel in “Your Digital Footprint is Muddy” we are constantly leaving behind information about our identities online. As technology progresses and more sites become connected with Facebook and Twitter, it is hard to fathom just how much information we are leaving behind online. Good, bad, or otherwise it is all there ...
Digital Media Theory & Trends

Elvis to “Appear” in Film & TV, IFC Midnight Goes Antiviral: Biz Break ...
By Brian Brooks
William McDonald, award-winning cinematographer and professor, has been appointed the new Chair of the Department of Film, Television and Digital Media (FTVDM) at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television (TFT) and will assume his new position on July 1st. GKids Takes Rights to Japan's From up on Poppy Hill GKIDS is handling theatrical, home video, television and VOD rights and will qualify the film for the Academy Awards in the Best Animated Feature category.
Movieline

ABP Launches Bangla App For iOS With Paid Subscription ...
By Anupam Saxena
ABP (Anandabazar Patrika) Group, the media conglomerate that publishes dailies such as The Telegraph and Anandabazar Patrika, runs periodicals and a news TV.
MediaNama: Digital Media in India

Everyone's doing it: watching online video | get.buto.tv
The dominance of the 15-34 year-old male segment in emerging digital media markets such as Russia and Turkey further confirms the idea of demographic evolution in online video viewing. If you're a marketer in the UK – or anywhere ...
Buto.tv

International Entertainment News: Rentrak Makes Research Industry ...
By EntertainmentNews
On June 1, the Chinese Government awarded Sinotrak a license to measure all forms of video screens from digital devices in China. The initial screen to be measured will be linear TV through set-top-boxes. The headquarters for Sinotrak will ...
International Entertainment News

Quixey closes $20m for finding apps based on ... - Digital Media Wire
By admin
Lost your password? Digital Media Wire | connecting people & knowledge — ... It does this by collecting data from blogs, review sites, social media outlets and elsewhere online, in a process it calls Functional Search. The company says this ...
Digital Media Wire | connecting...

Twitter CEO, Emily Bell to keynote at 2012 Online News Association ...
By Jennifer Mizgata
The 2012 Online News Association Conference & Awards Banquet. ... 21, by Emily Bell, Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Journalism School and Director of the Tow Center for DigitalJournalism, in a luncheon conversation exploring the social media giant's financial and cultural impact on digital media and plans for the 2012 Presidential election in November. “When we ... While at Google, he was Group Product Manager on the Ads team responsible for social media ads.
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All the media moves | The Media Online
By TMO Reporter
Media Moves… TheMediaOnline's weekly round up. Plascon appoints in-house team. New head of national digital trading at Aegis Media; Sicelo Siyangaphi joins Automobil; The Big Issue looks forsocial media intern; Wyeth renews with TLC ...
The Media Online

How Many Decades until we Understand Digital Media and Children's
The first television station in the U.S. began broadcasting in the 1920s. ... the mid 20th century, and we're much more attentive to the need to study digital media.
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NBC Makes New Hire to Support Digital Media Strategy
NBC Makes New Hire to Support Digital Media Strategy . UNIVERSAL CITY, June 7: ... TOP STORIES ». TV Remains Dominant in Time Spent, Engagement ...
www.worldscreen.com/.../2012-6-7-nbc-digital-media-robert-...

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