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 ...
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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 ...

MediaPost Communications

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.
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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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