Social Media Complicates the Olympics

The Breakfast Meeting: Social Media Complicates the Olympics, and a Digital ...
New York Times (blog)
NBC's reliance on tape delay for the biggest Olympics events may be a time-tested strategy for maximizing the prime-time audience, but in the Tweet-it-now world of social media those frustrated by the practice have a place to complain, Richard Sandomir writes. ... That's what everybody wants now. They want reality TV. They want the instant photographs. The cameras are there, in our locker rooms, huddles, interviewing coaches during games. What happens on the bus was once sacred. Now, it's part of what the fans ...

Twitter exec: What TV and social will learn from the Olympics
Lost Remote
Twitter's brand new head of TV, Fred Graver wrote a blog post on Sunday — which he clearly labeled as his own opinions — about some of the lessons he expects will come out of the 2012 Olympics for both TV and social media. As we all know, this is the first ...

Lost Remote

Tweets are trouble for Olympics on TV
Columbus Dispatch
An explosion in the use of mobile phones to access the Internet and take and send photos and video has made London 2012 the first true “social-media games,” but also put pressure on the networks. Mobile operators and infrastructure companies had said ...

Columbus Dispatch

NBC saves prime Olympic action for primetime
USA TODAY
Updated. We live in an era of such high-speed new media that a decades-old approach that delays information for hours would seem to be laughable. No spoilers ... It never contemplated changing the Olympic TV formula of holding the most-mediagenic action, no matter when it occurs, off TV until prime time, which produces over 80% of NBC's Olympic revenues. Here's the verdict, so far: ... That 15.8 rating came as NBC gave for the first time digital access to all live action it held for primetime. NBCOlympics.com is ...

USA TODAY

New breed of digital media worker required as companies go online
The Australian
Leading the demand for digital media skills are traditional and online retailers, banks, fast moving consumer goods and digital media agencies. Companies want to engage their customers by harnessing social media tools such as Facebook, YouTube and ...

Is your vote secure? Many digital systems lack paper backups
WNEM Saginaw
At the same time, 31 states have adopted new Internet-based systems intended to allow troops and other citizens abroad to transmit their vote home electronically. But while six of those states place some security restrictions on how completed ballots can be ...

Media to rely on online TV subscriptions for growth
Sydney Morning Herald
WITHIN four years, more than a quarter of Australians will have signed up to an online television subscription service, a new report says. And Internet Protocol Television (IPTV), other subscription entertainment services and new mobile media apps will drive ...

Connect TV increases IP channels on Freeview
Digital Spy UK
Connect TV debuted on all compatible IP-connected Freeview receiver equipment with an initial lineup of 45 internet-delivered channels, offered in addition to the main Freeview programme guide. The channels included high-profile names such as Racing ...

Pakistani TV show converts non-Muslims
Deutsche Welle
To the shock of Pakistani rights activists and progressive people, a 20-year-old Hindu boy, who goes by the name of Sunil, was recently shown being officially converted to Islam on a live TV show aired by the ARY Digital, a private TV channel. It was a special ...

Deutsche Welle

New TV Companion App Gives Kids Something to Talk About
mediacaster
Co-created by award-winning digital media studio Tactica Interactive, the app is modeled after interactive storybooks, 'choose your own adventure' stories, and role playing games. Tactica is a Winnipeg, MB-based developer of cross-platform digital media ...

Content Hurdles Remain in the Smart TV Game
Broadcasting & Cable
When smart TVs with a built-in Internet connection first hit the market a few years ago, they immediately caught the attention of a number of major sports networks and professional leagues. Using the sets' Internet connection seemed an ... TV universe is extremely fragmented. “There are all these platforms out there, but you have to chase the ones where you can reach the most people and be careful about how you spend your money,” says Clark Pierce, senior VP ofdigital media at the Fox Sports Media Group.

Bonded Service Group Acquires Inception Digital Services
TV Technology
IDS provides digital master creation, digital conversion, restoration and repair, quality control, metadata, artwork, chapter creation, electronic storage and global delivery for online, mobile, television, VOD, cable and satellite content distributors. Clients include ... In addition, the IDS central facility is integrated with the ISWEST data center in Los Angeles, assuring maximum security and abundant connectivity to the digital media ecosystem. Bonded ... Repealing must-carry would be “fatal to many Christian TV stations.

Connect TV bests Freeview in channel numbers
Rapid tv news
UK connected TV platform provider Connect TV is claiming to have passed a milestone by providing more channels to its domestic viewers than the Freeview FTA Digital Terrestrial (DTT) service. ... Connect TV launched its connected TV service with an initial bouquet of 45 internetdelivered channels in February 2012, bringing internet delivered content to the Freeview Electronic Programme Guide (EPG) and is said to work on all compliant Freeview devices, offering live streaming and on demand services.

Former SEGA Chief Joins Digital Media Startup
Spong
... Digital Media Startup. Former SEGA West head, Mike Hayes, has been appointed non-executive director of Caperfly, a new digital entertainment business aiming to deliver "high quality interactive titles to the iOS, Android and emerging Smart TVplatforms".

Spong

Start-up of the week / Digital TV straight to your mobile device
Haaretz
Start-up of the week / Digital TV straight to your mobile device. Israeli company Siano has a new product that lets users play digital television on their iPhone or iPad. By Amitai Ziv | Jul.29, 2012 | 1:42 PM ...

Haaretz

What is Connect TV? More channels through your Freeview HD box or TV
Recombu
Connect TV's main selling point is works with a handful of existing Freeview HD boxes and TVs, meaning you don't have to shell out for any new equipment. So long as your Freeview HD box orTV has an internet connection and was bought in the last 18 ...

Stars from Hanks to Seinfeld Enter Digital Fray
Sci-Tech Today
Larry King Now on Hulu, Tom Hanks' Electric City on Yahoo, and Jerry Seinfeld's Comedians in Cars on its own web site represent the latest stage in the slow but sure evolution of digital television. Though none is exactly must-see TV, each has its charms, ...

Sci-Tech Today

ACCESS all multiscreen areas
Broadband TV News
ACCESS is to showcase its range of advanced software technologies around mobile, internetand digital TV through TV-centric browsers, connected TV products, DLNA technologies and cloud-based solutions. The company, famed for its NetFront browser, intends to demonstrate how operators can address current industry trends through the deployment of initiatives such as an HTML5 advanced UI engine and DLNA media sharing of high quality content such as pictures, music and premium video and seamless ...

BarkWorld Expo 2012 Unleashes an Exciting Line-Up of Social Media Experts ...
Equities.com
Although the world increasingly depends on social interactions to build brand awareness and connect the most socially-aware consumers together, online social media influencers also benefit from building face-to-face relationships and seeing favorite and ... sessions and roundtable discussions, and new for 2012 will be instructions on gaming and pet mobile apps, entrepreneurship for pet professionals, video and video editing, podcasting, Google+, Pinterest, and lifestyle sessions like “Digital Scrapbooking for Pet ...

Olympics fans told to stop tweeting if they want TV
CNET (blog)
During that very race yesterday, the fine TV commentators had huge problems getting information from GPS systems that accompany the cyclists. That meant they couldn't tell us how many ham sandwiches the cyclists had consumed in the last 40 kilometers.

10 Ways to Boost Your Game for Back-to-School
MindShift (blog)
For teachers gearing up for the new school year, here are some instructive articles that may help get new ideas flowing — everything from using free online games, free digital media tools, cell phones, Pinterest and Learnist, and creating your own textbooks. 14 FREE AND ... This is just one example of many featured in this second episode of Infinite Thinking Machine, a Web TVshow for teachers produced by Computer Using Educators (CUE), which shows how to use students' mobile devices in school. Examples ...

NBC gets Twitter backlash, but record TV audience
Chicago Tribune
LOS ANGELES -- NBC on Sunday announced more record audiences for its prime-time TVcoverage of the London Olympics, even as the Twitterverse erupted in complaints about the U.S. network's online streaming efforts and delays in broadcasting key competitions. Contributions to the ... Brad Adgate, media analyst for Horizon Media in New York, told Reuters on Sunday: "Whatever NBC does they will receive criticism, especially in the Social Media Olympics, you can't please everyone. TV though remains the big ...

Dutch digital TV penetration reaches 76%
Telecompaper (subscription)
Around three-quarters (76%) of Dutch households have one or more TVs with digital TV service, according to a regular survey by TNS-Nipo for the TV audience measurement groups SKO, NLO, JIC STIR and NOM. The survey questioned 3770 households in ...

Kenshoo Social Illuminates Value of Social Media Through Impression ...
IT News Online
Kenshoo.com), a global leader in digital marketing software, today announced impression-level measurement capabilities through Kenshoo Social across Facebook Premium and Marketplace Ads. "We're always looking for new ways to help brands understand the impact that social mediaprograms have on key business goals," said Erica Barth, VP, Products and Partnerships at Resolution Media, an Omnicom Media Group company. "To date, Kenshoo Social has helped our teams drive positive return on investment ...

Tech That will Redefine Your TV Viewing Experience
PC Quest
Recently, Amkette launched something in the similar line which they call EvoTV, to enable users to surf Internet on TV. Priced at Rs 9995, EvoTV is a digital mediadevice which allows users to access content like videos, games and websites using Wi-Fi and ...

PC Quest

How the London 2012 Olympics opening ceremony audience became a giant ...
Digital Arts Online
Part of the immense spectacle of the Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony was seeing 70800 people in the audience become a massive TV screen displaying animations designed by the London arm of Chinese animation powerhouse Crystal CG. If you watched the show live (or, ... In 14 weeks, 50 designers fromdigital media company Crystal GG created the animated images for the show, working at a secret London office where they used extra air conditioners to cool computer processors. More than 70 minutes of ...

Digital Arts Online

ARTS BEAT: Ex-Courier & Press reporter's crisis of faith resulted in a Web TV ...
Evansville Courier & Press
Joe Atkinson credits his own crisis of faith with providing the foundation and the focus for "The Book of Dallas," an Internet television series set to go into international distribution in September. Atkinson, the University of Evansville's digital media director, wrote ...

Media Planners Open Their Playbooks
Broadcasting & Cable
Though they are not as prominent as media buyers -- particularly during the upfront, when buyers negotiate billiondollar deals over cold pizza late at night-planners help decide how muchTV their clients need and pick which networks' ideas they believe will engage consumers and which .... The media landscape seems to change every day, mostly driven by advances in technology and digital media. ... Although still small vs. traditional TV, time spent with, for example, online mobile and tablet video is growing rapidly.

Connect TV surpasses Freeview channel count
Advanced Television
Connect TV, the UK's connected TV platform, has revealed that its recent launches means it now provides more TV channels to UK viewers than Freeview and is on track to have double the number of channels of the UK's terrestrial operator by the end of 2012 ...

Marketing and Advertising Management program incorporates ...
By Sara Underwood
Development of content for digital media is becoming increasingly important to companies already juggling the demands of preparing creative content for traditional media channels such as newspapers, magazines, household mail-outs, radio and television. Marketers are now charged with the task of creating and disseminating digitalized content online for websites,social media channels such as Twitter and Facebook, audio and video for live streaming, and blogging. The list is long, ...
Holland College Blog

Business Insider: building a 'real' digital business
By eMedia Vitals Staff
Business Insider has become a test case for the future of independent online business journalism. In the past year, the site has boosted its monthly unique visitor count by 32% to 5.4 million in June, estimates comScore. But while revenue this ...
eMedia Vitals - Online magazine...

India Get Its First Full – Time Digital Media Programme ...
By james
With a significant jump in the number of web based portals, social networking websites, internet ready smart phones along with tablet devices, Connectivity has become a 24×7 Phenomenon. The DM industry demands professional ... Classes ranging from Marketing Strategies andOnline Analytics to Web Design and Digital Storytelling assure that by the end of the programme students become experts in all aspects of digital media communication. The course involves eight months of ...
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Zenga TV Appoints Abhishek Joshi As CEO - MediaNama
By Anupam Saxena
Mobile TV service provider, Zenga TV, has appointed Abhishek Joshi, as the company's new CEO. He will be responsible for identifying and developing new revenue channels for the ZengaTV platforms, for reaching out to different advertisers, ...
MediaNama: Digital Media in India

How can Twitter make a Web series interactive? - Insights into ...
By futurescape.tv
Here are three key principles that we believe can be effectively applied, based on our analysis of Web TV show formats and our own experience of integrating digital media with a TV soap for Microsoft and ITV, the UK's biggest commercial broadcaster. (For more insights on ... Online sit-com In The Motherhood, starring Leah Remini, had considerable success inviting viewers to contribute their real-life stories of parenting as the basis for the show's storylines. Co-sponsored by Sprint ...
Futurescape

ACCESS all multiscreen areas - Broadband TV News
By Julian Clover
ACCESS is to showcase its range of advanced software technologies around mobile, internet and digital TV through TV-centric browsers, connected TV products, DLNA technologies and cloud-based solutions. The company, famed for its NetFront browser, intends to demonstrate how operators can address current industry trends through the deployment of initiatives such as an HTML5 advanced UI engine and DLNA media sharing of high quality content such as pictures, music and ...
Broadband TV News

Mobile tweets are breaking Olympics' TV data - paidContent
By Robert Andrews
But mobile social media users are proving so voluminous at some Olympic venues that they are now interfering with mobile networks on which the games themselves depend, the IOC says. During Olympic ... “The demands that will be placed on the networks will be like having four royal weddings per day for 17 consecutive days,” Stuart Newstead, chair of the Mobile Experience Group, which represents TV and internet broadcasters and mobile networks at the games, told Bloomberg.
paidContent

Time to start measuring the real results of online ... - The Media Online
By Nikki Cockcroft
Over the past 11 years, new online advertising elements have come into play including: campaign web or mobile sites, video advertising, search advertising, social advertising, viral advertising, and most recently, video production. In order to truly understand the ... Nikki Cockcroft is the chairperson of the Digital Media and Marketing Association and the head of the Bookmark Awards (the digital media industry awards). This story was first published in ... Social media & tech news from ...
The Media Online

Global Digital Media Marketing Revenues to Reach US$352 Billion ...
The global market for Digital Media Marketing is projected to reach US$352 ... Onlinemarketing/advertising is expected to garner increased focus in terms of ...
www.prweb.com/releases/digital.../prweb9748504.htm

Local TV Still in Dark with Digital | Mel Taylor Media
Insane. After all these years. After all that investment. After all those smart consultants providing direction and expensive research. After all those conferences.
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25+ ways to watch and keep track of the Olympics

Here are 25+ ways to watch and keep track of the London Olympics like a digital ...
The Next Web (blog)
Not only is there the official website but but the organisation has developed mobile applications for those who can't get their fix from mainstream media alone. There are three ... A quick glance at the schedule will tell you that many competitions take place at the same time on the same day, so having laptop or tablet handy means that you can indulge your Olympic tastes by watching one on TV and following another on a second screen. schedule2 Here ... Naturally social media is a common topic around the Games.


The Next Web (blog)
Amazon's digital video drive | TechCityInsider.net
By david jenkinson
Paula Byrne, chief of Amazon's newly announced VoD-focused development centre in London, tells Andrew McDonald about the online giant's digital plans. ... However, it is Amazon's move, rather than Facebook's, that promises to have a big impact on the digital video space, with the development teams from Amazon-owned VoD service LoveFilm and interactive TV specialists Pushbutton coming ... “Platforms are constantly evolving; the digital media business is moving constantly.
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Judge Ruling Good for TV Cord Cutters | Inside Digital Media
It's increasingly evident a growing number of Cable TV subscribers want to discontinue Cable service. They object to the high monthly fees required for fixed ...
insidedigitalmedia.com/judge-ruling-good-for-tv-cord-cutters/

Online piracy halves in New Zealand after sanctions imposed ...
Online piracy halved in Zealand following the government introducing heavy fines for those caught on three occasions, but 41% of consumers still download ...
www.strategyeyedigitalmedia.com/.../online_piracy_halves_in...

digital media | British Politics and Policy at LSE
Their continued legitimacy will depend on improving online digital services ... Blog Admin Tagged with: Digital Era Governance, digital media, online provision ...
blogs.lse.ac.uk/politicsandpolicy/tag/digital-media/

50 Digital Media Resources You May Have Missed
Catch up on the latest digital media resources with our weekly ...
mashable.com/2012/07/28/digital-media-resources-50/


Free-to-air TV to share print's pain
The Australian
Free-to-air TV advertising revenue would rise by an average of 1.8 per cent annually to $3.53bn in 2016, losing just a share point to other media, but PwC said TV would feel the pain digital media had inflicted on other sectors, with viewers increasingly watching TV on the ...Recommended Coverage. The Hub - IPTV television ... Internet advertising is expected to surpass both newspapers and free-to-air television next year to be the biggest advertising medium in 2016, growing by $2bn to reach $4.7bn by 2016.

Organizers and Teams Launch Digital Media Products for the #Olympics
NY Convergence
Joe Morgan, Team GB digital marketing manager and online editor told paidContent in a video interview that, “In previous Olympics, the power has been in the broadcasters to tell the fans what they should consume. This is the first Olympics where we see the ...

Watch TV without paying the high costs of cable
The Courier-Journal
Those who ditch the expensive pay-TV bundle in favor of free, over-the-air signals and Internetvideo — so-called “cord cutters” — make up a small demographic. But a fast-growing one. According to a February report by Nielsen, only 4.5 percent of TV ...

Tampa Web design company, Leverage Digital Media is proud to announce the ...
Melodika.net (press release)
Tampa Web design company, Leverage Digital Media is proud to announce the recent completion of a new custom Web site to represent Wise Property Management, the foremost community association management company in Tampa Bay. ... to have the opportunity to help Wise Property Management, a company that has been serving the Tampa Bay community for over 30 years, develop an online marketing strategy to complement their overall marketing efforts,” stated Jay Taylor, CEO of Leverage Digital Media.

Review: IOGear 3D Complete + a costly 3D TV toy you don't need
Los Angeles Times
The IOGear 3D Complete + is a box for your 3D TV that comes with the promise of converting any of your digital content into 3D. But it also comes with a $200 ... This includes Blu-ray players, game consoles, digital media receivers such as Apple TV or a Roku and computers, too. The actual device is a box, .... Justin Ravitz, Us Weekly's Senior Online Editor, says Robert Pattinson is likely "wrecked" over Kristen Stewart's affair with her "Snow White and the Huntsman" director Rubert Sanders. (July 26). Expand. Email ...

Retailers embrace social media to lure young customers
Worcester Telegram
Ms. Beaudoin hired James Maxim, director of client services for KD Linked, a subsidiary of Kreative Dezign in Fitchburg, to manage her company's online presence. His clients are often the baby boomer owners of businesses to whom the rise of social media ...

Social Media Offers Comfort During Tragedy
PennLive.com
Bu Zhong, an associate professor in Penn State's College of Communications who teaches and researches social media, said a correlation exists between how much information people shareonline and their social media experience. ... Agger, the social media expert at the University of Texas at Arlington, said generating support for worthy causes and digital memorials on Facebook are unintended benefits from the social networking site, which was started by a Harvard undergraduate looking to help students find ...

Apple TV 3 Review (2012 1080p Version)
HDTV Test
Until that day arrives however, the “Apple TV” moniker is still reserved for an inconspicuous box – barely the size of a portable hard drive – that primarily functions as a media streamer. ... Apple TV 3. Adhering to the “less is more” theme, the back of the unit houses only two useful connections: a HDMI port and an opticaldigital audio output. There also exist a Micro-USB socket (for Apple technicians to carry out diagnostics and service updates) and an Ethernet port for LAN connection, although for most owners this is ...

HDTV Test

NBC Suggests Live-Stream Problems Are Your Fault
SB Nation
2012 Summer Olympics, Day 2: Events, TV Schedule, Streaming For Sunday · DALLAS, TX - MAY 14: ... If you, like many, had trouble with NBC's online stream on Saturday, it's probably your own fault. Your computer is outdated, ... No, really, it's your fault. Rick Cordella, vice president and general manager of NBC Sports Digital Media, said from London that extensive troubleshooting so far suggests that the technical problems might be with the bandwidth provided by cable operators, or users' computers or devices.

New Apple Ads Aired During Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony Earn ...
International Business Times
New Apple Ads Aired During Olympics 2012 Opening Ceremony Earn Widespread Criticism On Digital Media (VIDEO) ... However, the company description of the new campaign on YouTube stated: "The "Apple Genius" TV spots harken back to the "Get a Mac" campaign created by ad agency TBWA Media Arts Lab where actor Justin Long was cast as the human embodiment of a Mac while John Hodgman played a PC in a series of comical comparisons between the two .... Social Mediacelebrates Olympics 2012 ...

International Business Times

"9.9 School of Convergence Believes in Bringing in the Right Kind of Media ...
PR.com (press release)
A successful media entrepreneur, Gunjan is the co-founder of ESquared – a leader in digital media marketing and branding solutions to more than 30 clients across the globe. ESquared covers the entire gamut of new media to provide online PR, content creation, design, recruitment, corporate engagement, search engine optimization and social media management, for its clients. Over the years, Gunjan has developed almost an instinctive insight into client behavior that has helped her create media strategies that ...

Aereo CEO challenges TV 'ecosystem'
Washington Post
Aereo CEO challenges TV 'ecosystem'. Smaller Text Larger ... Aereo, a little-known upstart funded by media titan Barry Diller, wants to dismantle the television as we know it. ... The New York-based online video streaming company only has 3500 customers.

Google Fiber: Pros and Cons
PCWorld
... and Fiber TV products. This is huge, especially for people who live in places where cable hasn't yet arrived (still true in many rural areas) and can only get high speed Internet access through a cellular carrier. ... But not only is Kansas City the envy of every other metropolis in the U.S., people there who ante up for the Google Fiber with TV get a free Nexus 7 that they can use as a remote, or for consuming media all on its own. While there's no word on if .... See also: Network Storage Devices, Digital Media Receivers ...

'Modern Family' kid stars set to negotiate new deals
Examiner.com
If you have been wondering why the "kid actors" on the hit TV show "Modern Family" haven't been renegotiating their contracts, as their elder brethren did, the answer is: they will ... soon. Negotiations are not expected to be as contentious as with the seven ...

Examiner.com

Martin Sheen to join son Charlie on 'Anger Management'
Examiner.com
Get TV alerts! E-mail *. do not change. Contact Email. Contact Email2. Contact Url. Subscribe to Blog. Remember my Info. Charlie Sheen. Credits: Wikimedia Commons. Charlie Sheen ... Michael Santo is a media fanatic living in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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IPTV, apps to 'drive' viewing growth
Sydney Morning Herald
12:07AM Monday Jul 30, 2012; 1361 online now; See today's paper ... The annual PwC mediareport forecasts a compound annual growth rate for the industry of 4.1 per cent, but warns that revenues will continue to decline in newspapers and magazines, despite the partial offset of new digital subscriptions. ''However, these new ... ''While we expect IPTV to provide an attractive alternative to the more expensive cable or satellite-delivered subscription TV service, its success will depend on what content IPTV offers.

Prioritising Customer Needs
AllAfrica.com
Star Times is one of the key players in the pay TV industry. Simon Arinaitwe, the company's country sales manager, spoke to The Independent's Julius Businge about their operations. Excerpts. StarTimes is one of the pioneers of digital TV broadcasting in ...

The Net Generation and the Future of Social Media Marketing
Business 2 Community
social media innovation. I saw Don Tapscott speak at SXSW and was inspired to read his excellent book Grown Up Digital. Through extensive research, he identified... norms is essential to the future success of our organizations. So here are the trends he identified with a few of my thoughts on the impact this might have onsocial media marketing. ... They have an expectation that their lives and careers will progress at the same fast pace as their online lives. Impact — To this group, delays of any kind result in irritation, ...

Business 2 Community

Ostrow: Aurora shootings confirm the value of local news, steady journalism
Denver Post
A friend, identified only as Caitlin on Twitter, posted messages on the social media network early Friday from the Century Aurora 16 theater, and wrote on Twitter early Saturday that Alex Teves was, "One of the best men I ever knew. ... TV can be a place to debate, too. It can be a forum to discuss the things some people would rather duck. Gun control. Mental health. "Now is not the time to discuss ____," say those with already entrenched opinions. They shy away in deference to the mood of mourning. But why not ...

[Photo] Creative Convergence: the future of the development of ...
By james
by Glyn Lowe Photoworks Creative Convergence: the future of the development of digital media -digital media, IPTV, Article by hi joiney Creative. ... Fixed network is broadband, high-speedInternet network can carry high-quality TV content rich; mobile networks to broadband and multimedia are evolving, new services, new technology after another; and cable networks are growing and digitized, interactive transformation, is providing a more extensive channel program. Users are ...
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Everybody speaks, few understand digital media/social media | vivid
By Alexandros Novicov
Everybody speaks, few understand digital media/social media. A lot of people speak about social media, online media, digital strategies and how you should make it work. People Speak aboutsocial media, but do they actually understand it?
vivid

The 2012 Olympics and the NBC Faux (Live) Event | Digital Dorr
By Chris Dorr
Digital Media Strategy and Ideas. Skip to content. Home · About ... The Super Bowl shows us every year, that no matter how “new” media advances in our lives, there is nothing like a live sporting event to get us to gather around the old fashioned TV and have a great time. Everybody seems to win (except the losing ... Bring to us the Super Bowl style broadcast–in real time withsocial media wrapped around it, so we can all experience it together. We want the real drama of the event as it ...
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Google Fiber: Amazing Internet! Same Old TV

Google Fiber: Amazing Internet! Same Old TV. - AllThingsD
By Peter Kafka
The pay-TV part, though, is going to seem very familiar: They'll pay Google $120 a month, and they'll get a bunch of TV channels, whether they want all of them or not. Which isn't to say it won't be cool. The TV service should offer a bunch of ...
AllThingsD

Google Fiber TV fixes everything that's wrong with basic cable ...
By Tom Cheredar
Because Fiber TV promises to fix everything that's wrong with the current crop of cable TVservices. The Fiber TV service, which is paired alongside Google's new ultra-fast broadbandInternet service, means Google will now compete with the ...
VentureBeat

Roku Receives News Corp Cash Boost - Internet TV
By Matt
High-profile set-top box streamer Roku have revealed that they have taken in a large windfall this week, as they announced $45m worth of 'strategic investment' given to them from a consortium led by media giant News Corp. ... s chief digital officer Jon Miller (who now joins Roku's board of directors) said of the developments: “We have watched Roku maintain market leadership since the launch of its streaming platform four years ago and we look forward to deepening our relationship, ...
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Google Fiber: Super Speed Internet Service + Digital TV
TheStreet.com (blog)
Hardware for Google Fiber/TV will include a “Network Box” with Wi-fi (to interface with the fiber-optic cable), a pair of “TV Boxes” with DVR, Wi-fi, mobile apps and voice search features. The remote control unit for the system is an Asus/Google Nexus 7 tablet.

Google unveils ultrafast Internet/TV in Kansas City
Chicago Tribune
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Google Inc made its foray into the market for bundled Internet and television services on Thursday, promising access speeds more than 100 times faster than those of traditional U.S. cable and telecommunications companies. The Web search leader ...The package includes popular networks owned by major media companies such as Comcast Corp's NBC Universal, Discovery Communications and Viacom Inc. Premium movie networks are available from Liberty Media's Starz for an extra fee.

Google adds TV as it rolls out Fiber in Kansas City
Computerworld
IDG News Service - Google Fiber broadband service in Kansas City will cost US$70 per month for 1Gbps Internet access and $120 per month for that service plus TV, the company said Thursday. Even residents who don't want to pay for the fast service will benefit from the project: For a one-time $300 construction fee, which can be paid in installments, they will be able to get free broadband at speeds comparable to DSL (digital subscriber line) service -- 5Mbps downstream and 1Mbps upstream. But neighborhoods ...

Kevin Smith: A new kind of digital media mogul
Marketplace.org
Jeff Horwich: Today marks kind of a quiet digital media milestone: A show created for the video website Hulu is making the jump -- in reverse, you might say -- to an actual cable network. The movie review show "Spoilers" debuts on Canada's SPACE channel.

Marketplace.org

Kansas City's VML updates Team USA's online, social media presence
Kansas City Star
It's also the first social media games where athletes tweet, text and blog, make smartphone videos and post personal updates to Twitter and Facebook. And when it comes to capturing this daily digital discourse for Team USA, millions of Olympic fans can ...

Kansas City Star

Google Fiber TV: Google now offers live TV service
Digitaltrends.com
Kansas City residents will now have the option to bundle 1 gigabit Internet access with Google's new Fiber TV, a set-top box that gives users access to more than 160 live-TV channels, plus TV and movies on-demand and, of course, Internet-based video ...

Digitaltrends.com

Google Fiber Gigabit Internet and TV Officially Launched
Tom's Hardware Guide
The TV service consists of around 160 channels and includes what cable subscribers would find in their Digital TV service as well as local channels (see below). The Nexus 7 tablet is promoted as the customer's "new remote," offered free of charge with this ...

Zynga, Facebook losses battle with others' gains
MarketWatch
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Declines from social-media stocks claimed the tech-sector spotlight Thursday, with online gaming company Zynga Inc., social-media giant Facebook Inc. and Internet-based daily deals company Groupon Inc. all posting big losses. The declines flew in the face of what still was a mostly upbeat day for tech stocks, fueled by gains from the likes of Akamai Technologies Inc. and Western Digital Corp. Read more about U.S. stock trading. The Nasdaq Composite Index (US:COMP), ...

Microsoft layoffs come as Vancouver worries about future as digital media hub
Vancouver Sun (blog)
Microsoft's decision to lay off 35 programmers in Vancouver and axe two of its gaming products underscores concerns that the digital media business in B.C. is having trouble. It's also not good news for Mayor Gregor Robertson, who has made the expansion ...

Google Fiber TV disappoints in Kansas City, but will spur innovation in cable ...
FierceCable
Supplying subscribers with free Nexus 7 tablets to use as a remote control will help differentiate Google Fiber TV from Time Warner Cable's digital cable and AT&T's U-verse TV services, as will its faster Internet service. But Google isn't revolutionizing the ...

Seven's TV ad share tops 40pc
The Australian
THE Seven Network has managed to snare more than 40 per cent of commercial TV revenue for the first six months of the year while Ten has slipped to its lowest share since 1992, with just 25.53 per cent of the market. ... Industry observers say big advertisers are diverting more of their revenue to online advertising, leading to a continuing slide in commercial TV revenue. ... The real structural change is happening in digital and pay TV -- they are, if you like, the stars of what is in effect a changing media landscape." ...

DirecTV, Viacom end disagreement, but Digital Landing continues to offer ...
Sacramento Bee
For those that choose to watch TV shows online, XFINITYAuthorizedOffers.com offers deals on High Speed Internet as well, allowing people to get the fast downloading speeds they need to watch movies and TV shows online. Other alternatives to consider ...

Google Fiber: 5 Things To Know Including Pricing, Full TV Channel Listings, More
iDigitalTimes.com
Google Fiber is an internet service that will be offered in many parts of Kansas City in both the Kansas and Missouri portions of the city. It promises to have ... The final component being sold with Google Fiber TV is a device called a "Storage Box," which is a 2TB digital video recorder that allows customers to record up to eight television shows at once. Every device will be ... Greek Athlete Voula Papachristou Banned From Olympics After Posting Racist Tweet Marking First Time Athlete Is Expelled For Social Media Use ...

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Google officially launches Google Fiber, Google Fiber TV service in Kansas City
SYS-CON Media (press release) (blog)
Google on Thursday lit up its highly-anticipated fiber network in Kansas City, promising to bring residents of the city world-class Internet and television service with projected maximum theoretical speeds of 1Gbps. Google vice president of access services Milo ... He is Fox 5′s (WNYW-TV New York) Tech Expert and the host of United Stations Radio Network's, MediaBytes, a daily syndicated radio report that features insightful commentary and a unique insiders take on the biggest stories in technology, media, and ...
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Amazon warns of loss in third quarter as retailer spends big
Telegraph.co.uk
The company has been investing a lot in digital content to deliver over this platform, including movies, TV shows, music, apps and games. This has intensified competition with Apple, Google and even Microsoft and Facebook. During a conference call with ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Zee's Ditto TV to air BIG CBS Prime and BIG CBS Love
Bollywood Life
Ditto TV, India's first OTT (Over-The-Top TV) distribution platform from Zee New Media (thedigital arm of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEEL), announced the addition of BIG CBS Prime, a general entertainment channel and BIG CBS Love, India's first ... leading content genres like GEC, Sports, Lifestyle, Regional and News, along with rich on-demand video capabilities, Ditto TV offers a unique and compelling experience, delivering seamless video viewing experience to a range of Internet-enabled devices.

After Classic Media purchase, DreamWorks mulls TV (but not comics)
Comic Book Resources
DreamWorks Animation's $155 million purchase of Classic Media was inspired, at least in part, by the record-shattering performance of Marvel's The Avengers, DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg told Reuters. And similar to Marvel's pre-Iron Man days, ... on the Classic Media characters. But the small screen may be another matter: The studio is setting up its own television or Internet channel, but whether this is to re-run classic episodes, like Cartoon Network does with Boomerang, or for new series is still unknown.

Comic Book Resources

Raila unveils new Chinese TV provider
The Star
The Crowne Plaza Hotel in Nairobi's Upper Hill area on Wednesday evening played host to the newest pay TV company StarTimes Media. The main aim of the company from China is to enable every household to have access to digital TV, afford digital TV, ...

Roku raises $45m to spread smart TV streaming
FT.com (blog)
The money indicates industry acceptance that Roku has built an impressive internet TV platform – it has more than 500 channels of internet content compared to less than a dozen for Apple TV.... Roku says it will use the funding “to build further brand awareness through advertising, develop new international markets, and increase engineering and production to support sales growth of both hardware and digital media services on the platform including advertising, games, transactional and pay-per-view video as well ...

Google Fiber TV Just Jumped into the Cable TV Business
The Atlantic Wire
Along with the announcement of its high speed Internet service, Google introduced Google FiberTV, its own television service, which works a lot like an old-school television provider. Unlike Google TV, which is a streaming box, Fiber TV is a fancied up cable ...

WGBH Boston acquires Public Radio International
WNEM Saginaw
"Looking at the way media is changing and that we really work across platforms - TV, radio, web and mobile - and really all the ways people access content, we think strengthening organizations that produce and provide content will be good for the audiences," ... "With WBGH as a large national producer of television content and PRI as a producer of radio content - both of our organizations have digital experience and aspirations - and to be able to bring that all together we feel makes for a very strong position in this ...

TV Ad Retention Holds, Some Cablers Dip
MediaPost Communications
August 19 - 22, 2012, Tahoe · Social Media Insider Summit ... Watching-TV-AB Commercial retention of TV has change little in 2012 versus 2011 -- though some cable networks have seen some declines. The average commercial retention -- is around 85 index for the four networks, according to the Discovery ... Much of this good news comes from new video-on-demand metrics, which are now included by Nielsen in the C3 ratings -- commercial ratings plus three days of DVR playback -- for the first time this year. VOD ...

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New York Times reports higher revenue, stock jumps
WBOC TV 16
WBOC-TV 16, Delmarvas News Leader, FOX 21 - New York Times reports higher revenue, stock jumps. Homepage · News · Delmarvawide News · National News · International News · Politics · Business News · Closings · Entertainment News · Healthbeat ...

TalkTalk launches service it claims will 'revolutionise' pay TV
The Guardian
The cornerstone of the new service is a YouView set-top box, which combines adigital video recorder with a Freeview channel receiver and an internet connection for television on demand. It offers a classic series archive and a seven-day TVcatchup service.

The Guardian

France Passes New Tax on Resale of DTT Channels
Hollywood Reporter
France's senate has passed a new law: a five percent tax on the resale of digital terrestrial TVchannels awarded for free by Gallic broadcast regulator the CSA. It's called the "Bollore amendment," in reference to French media giant the Bollore group, which ...

Bollywood Star Remakes Himself Into TV Conscience
New York Times
Mr. Khan, 47, highlighted a seven-year-old sting operation by two TV reporters who had broadcast film of more than 100 doctors offering to illegally abort female fetuses. While the legal cases against them languished in India's notoriously slow courts, the ...

Marketers to spend big in social media during Olympics
USA TODAY
The Big Question for sponsors entering the 2012 Summer Games: Is the enormous amount of time and money that Olympic marketers are pouring intosocial media a brilliant investment — or a gigantic waste? Answer: Yes ... •Digitalcheers. Visa is asking Olympic fans to create and send "global cheers" — viasocial media — to some 60 Olympic athletes. To nudge them on, Visa is promising to include snippets of the best cheers it receives in TV commercials that it will air during the London Games. The cheers can be ...

USA TODAY

2 Crore Mobile Internet Users have Cut their Newspapers and TV consumption ...
IT News Online
2 Crore of the estimated 4.8 crore Mobile Internet users have shifted 50% of their newspaper and TV time to their mobile screens and what's being consumed is – entertainment, all categories of news, travel and sports content. This got ... With access to email (99%) and social media (95%) being the primary drivers of mobile internet, consumption of content is starting to shift in favour of the 2 new screens – Mobiles and Tablets and the categories which see frequent or daily consumption include News, Games and ...

Analogue reduction helps Telenet
Broadband TV News
Telenet has enjoyed a 24% increase in the number of subscribers taking its advanced service of digital TV, broadband internet and fixed line telephony. Liberty Global's Belgian arm said the increase represented a “solid achievement” give the current ...

Broadband TV News

NY Times digital subscribers pass 500000
By eMedia Vitals Staff
The digital paywall The New York Times put into effect in March 2011 continues to gain traction. Approximately 509000 people now subscribe, up 13% year over year, according to the company's quarterly earnings report. The paywall's growth ...
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Social TV: The Biggest Screen in Your Home is Going Social
By Pooja Gupta
Social TV has provided brands an opportunity to target their ads and products to viewers when their sentiments are the highest. ... Wasn't TV supposed to be the one entertainment device free from all this internet and social media hassle? ... Posting views or discussing TV content on Facebook, Twitter, or any other online social media sites. ... User Acquisition: The prime target ofTV channels is getting new viewers and digital media has increased the discoverability of TVcontent.
Social Samosa | Indian Social...

Your social media guide to the Olympics, more Twitter updates and ...
By Verity Barber
Social Media PR | Online PR agency | Digital PR | Wolfstar Consultancy · What we do · About ...Your social media guide to the Olympics, more Twitter updates and online snooping – it's Wolfstar's social media round-up. Happy Friday all.
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Competitors Gear Up For Google's Challenge | fox4kc.com – Kansas ...
By John Pepitone
... away the internet giant's competitors. The metro area is considered an extremely competitive market where many consumers already have more than one choice for television and internetaccess. ... on this subject. Cancel Submit. fox4kc.com – Kansas City news & weather from WDAF TV – FOX 4 ... The best introductory price for broadband internet, digital cable t.v. and home phone service from dominant provider Time Warner Cable is $90 dollars a month. That's less than Google's ...
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Enjoy good life with this new Western Digital media player ...
By james
digital media by National Media Museum. Enjoy good life with this new Western Digital mediaplayer. Article by Sophie. DinoDirect China Limited (www.dinodirect.com) is one of the biggest global online retailers. It offers a great quantity of ...
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IFB's Ask the Brand Series: Arrojo's Digital Marketing Strategy | PR ...
By PR Couture
... Fashion Blogger's 'Ask the Brand' series. For more information about digital media, marketing and technology, visit. ... At what point in your marketing strategy do you incorporate Social Media– is it considered from the beginning, or do you find ways to fit it in later? It is part of the big picture of building the ARROJO ... However, as part of the brand strategy, the whole creative team is involved in developing our presence and success online. We also work with Socialyte, a social media ...
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Why Mountain Lion Just Became the Ultimate Cord-Cutting OS

Why Mountain Lion Just Became the Ultimate Cord-Cutting OS
Wired News
By Roberto Baldwin The TV show Eureka on a MacBook and a big-screen TV. Photo: Peter McCollough/Wired Mountain Lion, the latest version of Apple's OS X desktop operating system, went public Wednesday to the delight of Mac users everywhere. 

Roku Nabs $45 Million From News Corp., BSkyB in Strategic Investment - Kara Swisher - News - AllThingsD: "Roku, the maker of a nifty device that plays a variety of content over televisions, is getting $45 million in a new round of investment from News Corp. and British Sky Broadcasting. (News Corp. owns this Web site.) Current investors Menlo Ventures and Globespan Capital Partners will also be part of the new funding." 

Digidev Group Announces Launch Date of "OTT" Internet TV Channels
MarketWatch (press release)
LOS ANGELES, CA, Jul 26, 2012 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX) -- The Digital Development Group Corp. (OBB:DIDG) ("Digidev," "Digidev Group" or the "Company"), a development stage company aiming to offer an in-depth portfolio of content for Internet TV ...

Global Digital Media Spend Forecast to Grow 18% in 2012
Search Engine Watch
Global measured digital media spend, previously expected to grow 16 percent in 2012, will actually increase 18 percent, representing a 20 percent share of total advertising spend. In 2013, analysts from GroupM expect an additional 16 percent increase in ...

WiLAN Signs New Digital TV and Display Licensee
SYS-CON Media (press release)
"We are very pleased that UPSTAR has elected to license a number of WiLAN's digital TV and display patents, including our V-Chip patent," said Andrew Parolin, Senior Vice President, Licensing. "We are continuing to identify opportunities to expand this ...

Discovery Channel to Launch SHARK WEEK Digital & Social Media Campaign
Broadway World
In 2011, SHARK WEEK viewers dominated social media, nabbing the top spot on Trendrr's social TV chart and generating more than 750000 SHARK WEEK Tweets throughout the week. As Americans prepare to celebrate the 25th anniversary of summer's ...

Twitter turns TV station
Telegraph.co.uk
Twitter turns TV station. Twitter has set its sights on hosting unique TV content in its latest step towards becoming a media company, writes Emma Barnett. Twitter. Photo: ALAMY. Emma Barnett. By Emma Barnett, Digital Media Editor. 1:00PM BST 26 Jul 2012 ...

Telegraph.co.uk

Roku Becomes Pay TV's Streaming Box Of Choice, Raises $45 Million From ...
TechCrunch
Ryan currently works as a writer for TechCrunch. → Learn More. roku 2 xs. When Roku first entered the streaming video market, it was seen as a boon for cord cutters, who could watch streaming content from online distributors like Netflix and Hulu Plus on TV.

TechCrunch

How Roku Could Beat Apple to Finally Cracking TV
Gizmodo
The Roku is a hell of a media streamer: its only real competitor is the Apple TV, but it costs half as much. No brainer. And when News Corp ... The stick, which packs all the features of the small box currently available, will shove straight into the back of your TV. Completely unobtrusive, and... Toss in the fact that News Corp's Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller will join the Roku board, and you see two companies whose future is likely more intertwined than a simple monetary investment would indicate. And that our content ...

Chinese Firm, Startimes Launch Digital Pay-TV in Kenya
AllAfrica.com
Chinese firm StarTimes Media on Wednesday officially launched its digital pay television service in Kenya after a month-long successful signal testing. StarTimes Media, which has a global subscription base of over 7 million viewers in China and Africa, will ...

Stars from Hanks to Seinfeld enter digital fray
WNEM Saginaw
Their three new series - "Larry King Now" on Hulu, Hanks' "Electric City" on Yahoo, "Comedians in Cars" on its own website - represent the latest stage in the slow but sure evolution of digitaltelevision. Though none is exactly must-see TV, each has its charms ...

Competition heightens among digital TV providers
The Star
This has prompted stiff competition between the two main digital service providers GoTv and StarTimes Media, who are also in the pay-tv business. GoTv which is a product of MultiChoice officially launched its services in Kisumu on Tuesday night, just two ...

GroundFloor Media Expands Digital & Social Media Strategy Team with Addition ...
MarketWatch (press release)
As part of GFM's Digital and Social Media Strategy team, Cook and Woods work with clients to develop and implement blogger and social media influencer outreach; online reputation management and crisis response plans; social media metrics, ROI tracking and analytics; corporate social media policies and ... In addition to her work in social and digital media, Cook serves at the vice president and co-founder of Project Spark Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to finding a cure for Parkinson's Disease in our lifetime.

Columbus media conglomerate plans to unplug Ohio News Network in 38 days
Examiner.com
Turn out the lights, the party is over for the Ohio News Network, whose slogan was "Ohio's Channel for News, Weather and Sports," according to the AP, which reported Wednesday that The Dispatch Printing Company, parent of ONN-TV, announced it will shutter ONN on August 31, 2012. Subscribe. It's free. Just do ...Some papers are bucking the trend and generating digital revenue, based on selling targeted digital advertising customized to customer online behavior, a pathway for growth. Most papers studied, the ...

Examiner.com

WWE's Raw 1000 breaks TV, social media records
Newsday
WWE on Tuesday announced that Monday Night Raw's historic 1000th episode broke records for television viewership and online engagement, making it the most watched three-hour Raw in history by reaching more than six million viewers, amassing a 3.9 rating and accumulating 52 worldwide Twitter trends. Monday Night Raw's historic episode was the most watched program on cable ... 1 program on cable and broadcast last night. Additional social media and digital highlights include: -- Social activity for Monday ...

Newsday

Ninemsn launches social TV app Jump-in
The Australian
Seven unveiled its Olympics plans for Fango earlier this week to the chagrin of digital mediaexecutives at the official broadcasters Foxtel and Nine, who quietly claimed Seven was ambushing their plans. Pay TV operator Foxtel is sharing the Olympics ... Television broadcasters are investing in social TV because the apps facilitate online interaction about their programmes on a platform they can own and can monetise as opposed to a social network like Facebook. There are also growing opportunities for creating ...

Digital TV aids Orange
Broadband TV News
The performance of Orange's digital TV business was one of the few bright spots in what otherwise a challenging first half of the year for the company. In Europe, its IPTV and satellite subscriber total rose by 19.7% year-on-year to 5.5 million at the end of June, ...

BBC Olympics connected device coverage goes Primetime with Adobe
Rapid tv news
On the eve of the London Olympics, digital media technology giant Adobe has unveiled the BBC as the first customer of its Project Primetime integrated video technology platform. ... stream events on desktops, smartphones, tablets and internet-connected TVs, including iOS, Android, Mac OS, Windows and SmartTVs; and Primetime Highlights which will be used to create video on demand (VOD) coverage of key sporting moments as they happen and immediately publish them to desktops, devices and connected TVs.

Delhi Duty Free invests in social media presence
DFNIonline.com
Travel retailer Delhi Duty Free Services (DDFS) has invested in increasing itsonline presence and described itself as the most active duty-free operator worldwide in the social and digital media space in order to consolidate its presence in the travel-retail ...

DFNIonline.com

Orange counts 5.5mn pay-TV subs
IPTV News
This continued success in its home market is no doubt due in part to the introduction of a unifiedTV delivery platform in France earlier this year, capable of serving both its IPTV and satellite TVsubs with one common middleware and content protection ... In Poland, the number of digital TVcustomers (IPTV and satellite) continued to climb, with 677000 customers at the end of June, a year-on-year increase of 14.2%. ... Spanish video-on-demand company Wuaki.tv is now finding that making its service available.

MaxLinear Tuners Power New DVB-T2 Set-Top Boxes in Europe
EON: Enhanced Online News (press release)
The MxL603 tuner features an integrated LNA, on-chip loop-through, and exceptional sensitivity performance that enables robust reception of weak signals, even in the presence of multiple strong interferers such as LTE/4G, WiFi or adjacent analog and digital ...

Roku's Big Investment Means More TV on Its Box
The Atlantic Wire
Streaming TV box maker Roku just got $45 million and a "strategic relationship" from big media players News Corp. and British Sky Broadcasting, a sum and connections it can use to give us more streaming options (mostly) without cable. In the company press release, via AllThingsD's Kara ... Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller assured The Wall Street Journal's Don Clark that the service doesn't intend to replace the existing pay-TV model, calling it an "additive." We don't want additive, because then we might as well pay ...

The Atlantic Wire

Ditto TV partners with BIG CBS Networks
exchange4media.com
Ditto TV, an OTT (Over-The-Top TV) distribution platform from the digital arm of Zee Entertainment Enterprises Limited (ZEE), Zee New Media, announced the addition of two premium English TV channels to its basket of offerings – BIG CBS Prime, a general ...

exchange4media.com

Roku raises $45 million investment round
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
The investment also includes a partnership that will eventually bring more movie and TV content from News Corp, the media conglomerate that owns movie studio Twentieth Century Fox and the Fox TV operations. News Corp Chief Digital Officer Jon Miller ...

BBC Taps Adobe for Digital Delivery of London 2012 Olympic Games, Streamed ...
Beet.TV
SAN FRANCISCO - (Via Skype Video) Adobe will power live streaming and on-demand delivery todigital devices of the London 2012 Olympics for the BBC, says Ashley Still, Director of Video Solutions at Adobe Systems in this interview with Beet.TV.

TV Land to Honor Sherman Hemsley With 'JEFFERSONS' Marathon, 7/28
Broadway World
... distributor of filmed entertainment. Viacom operates a large portfolio of branded digital mediaexperiences, including many of the world's most popular properties for entertainment, community and casual online gaming. Click Here to Visit the TV Home Page ...

3 curation sites that media companies should watch (and emulate)
By Rob O'Regan
As media companies experiment with curation models, they would do well to keep on eye on non-traditional publishers that are using content curation to edge into their space. Here are three that are pushing innovative approaches to curation ...
eMedia Vitals - Online magazine...

BSkyB will spend £30 million cutting its own cord through Now TV ...
By Robert Andrews
BSkyB has disclosed the startup costs for its new over-the-top internet TV venture. The amount tells us how much the UK pay-TV leader will invest in seeking new online customers and protecting its satellite business from IPTV challengers.
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Solution combines social media, online shopping ...
In addition to receiving product pricing, Wajam Shopping offers users alternative shopping destinations from more than 3500 online merchants through its partnership with Shopping.com, David Bruce, head of Business Development for .... http:// 

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HomeShop18 Appoints Rashmi Berry As Chief Marketing Officer ...
By Apurva Chaudhary
She will be responsible for building 'HomeShop18' brand across TV, web and. ... Prior to joining Homeshop18, Berry was at The HT Media Group, where she was the Business Head for Hindustantimes.com, Livehindustan.com & HT Mobile. She was part of the team responsible ...HomeShop18 is a retail brand that operates in a multimedia environment including Internet, TVand via mobile. It launched its ... shakeel on Hungama & ITC Launch Digital Talent Hunt MOBisur · US & India ...
MediaNama: Digital Media in India

Is Twitter TV winging its way? | Digital Times | Digital Times
By Fergal Gallagher
Last month DigitalTimes.ie reported how Twitter was entering the publishing business with by partnering with media companies to create rich content tweets and the company now appears to be entering a new medium as rumours of Twitter TV ...
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'Burn Notice' casts 'The Shield' star Kenny Johnson as villain - TV ...
Johnson will play a master assassin in the USA drama's mid-season finale.
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The social media Olympics - Digital Strategy Consulting
With the Olympics less than a week away, which sponsors have made the best use of social media? This infographic from Gorkana shows that ... The social media Olympics: Which sponsors are creating the most buzz online? 26/07/2012 ...
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