Posted on November 21, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Maha Ibrahim, general partner at venture capital firm, Canaan Partners, discusses her company’s investment strategy. Among other things, she explains why Canaan is interested in early-stage HD broadband video providers; outlines the criteria that guide the company’s [...]
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Posted on May 27, 2008 by itvtwp
As VP and general manager of content services at TiVo, Tara Maitra
is in charge of the company’s broadband content strategy–which
sees it aggregating a line-up of downloadable movies and
programming through partnerships with Amazon and around 60
other content providers, and also enabling subscribers to its
service to access video from the open Internet via a PC connected
to their [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by itvtwp
Santa Monica, Calif.-based two-screen interactive TV specialist,
Jacked, Inc. (note: the company’s flagship product, Jacked SportsTop,
is a browser-based virtual desktop that features a dashboard of widgets
and that is designed to provide synchronized two-screen ITV
experiences specifically for sports broadcasts), recently signed a deal
with Los Angeles TV station, KCAL 9, that sees it providing the latter
with a two-screen [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by itvtwp
–Teams with NBC on Two-Screen App for 2008 Figure Skating Championships
LiveHive Systems, an Ontario-based company that specializes in
two-screen interactive TV solutions, said last week that it has signed an
agreement with Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment to provide a
synchronized interactive experience on www.raptors.com to
accompany broadcasts of the Toronto Raptors’ NBA playoff games.
Dubbed “Raptors Shot Caller [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by itvtwp
Sports programmer, ESPN, is syndicating its video content through a
third-party Internet portal for the first time, thanks to a new deal with
AOL that sees it offering short-form video on AOL’s AOL Video and
AOL Sports services (note: ESPN.com’s own video portal has proven
fairly popular: according to ESPN, consumers viewed its videos over
1.2 billion times last year, [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by itvtwp
Multiplatform children’s programmer, PBS KIDS Sprout (offers
programs on linear TV, VOD and online), has announced plans to
launch an original afternoon programming block that “makes viewers
the stars.” Entitled “The Sprout Sharing Show” and scheduled to debut
May 5th in the 3:00PM-6:00PM Eastern timeslot, the block will be
hosted by a group of hand puppets, who will introduce
viewer-submitted [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by itvtwp
–Also Launches Premium Broadband Programming Service
Premium programmer, HBO, recently launched a branded promotional
channel on YouTube. The channel features promotional clips from
HBO’s own feature and documentary films, and from such HBO series
as “Flight of the Conchords,” “The Wire,” “Def Comedy Jam,” “Real
Time with Bill Maher,” “Real Sports” and “Entourage.” It also features
full-length episodes from the [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by itvtwp
–Company Commissions its First Film
Babelgum–a company that operates a service it describes as an
“interactive Web TV portal” featuring ” only professionally produced
content spanning film, news, sports, documentaries, music videos,
concerts, lifestyle and trends, animation and scripted programs”–last
month launched a new version of its platform that includes a
completely redesigned interface and various Web 2.0 features and
social-networking tools. [...]
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Posted on May 8, 2008 by itvtwp
San Francisco-based video search company, blinkx, has launched a
broadband TV service, dubbed blinkx BBTV, which it says leverages
the company’s patented speech and visual recognition technology to
link programming to relevant information on the Web. The service,
which launched April 2nd and which is available free of charge (it
requires end-users to download a 1.8MB file), currently offers a [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
Shortly after unveiling a new “featured services” strategy at CES 2008,
and announcing alliances with four companies–Flickr, Finetune,
Accedo Broadband and CloverLeaf Digital–that it said would be
providing content services for its flagship Moxi platform, Paul Allen-
owned Digeo announced a major restructuring that saw CEO, Mike
Fiedler, leave the company, along with half of its staff, and president
and COO, [...]
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