Posted on November 17, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Tom Pratt, VP of programming and product development at The Weather Channel, discusses the channel’s interactive TV offerings and strategy. Topics covered include why The Weather Channel views implementing interactive TV as a high priority; the channel’s [...]
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Posted on October 7, 2008 by itvtwp
–Company’s European Arm Begins Major Push for the EMEA Region
EchoStar Technologies, a subsidiary of EchoStar Corporation (note: EchoStar Corp. was spun off earlier this year from satellite-TV company, DISH Network–formerly called EchoStar–and retains the latter’s hardware business and certain of its infrastructure assets), has signed CableLabs’ tru2way Host Device License Agreement. The agreement gives EchoStar [...]
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Posted on October 2, 2008 by itvtwp
–Apps Accessed by over 41% of Operator’s Subscriber Base
–DISH Network Signs VOD Deal with Sony Pictures Television
US satellite TV provider, DISH Network, offered two interactive TV applications to enhance NBC Universal’s coverage of the Beijing Olympics: a multiscreen mosaic and an “NBC Olympics Showcase” app. During the Olympics, the multiscreen mosaic that is a regular [...]
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Posted on September 9, 2008 by itvtwp
Ben Bennett was named CEO of OpenTV in March, after serving as the company’s COO and acting CEO since August, 2007 (he has been at OpenTV since March, 2000). He recently spoke to [itvt]’s Tracy Swedlow about the three-phase strategy he is implementing, which, among other things, has seen OpenTV jettisoning a number of peripheral [...]
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Posted on August 14, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of
Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Dalen Harrison, CEO of
Ensequence; Peter Low, president and COO of Ensequence; Bill
Niemeyer, chief of analysis and research at BlackArrow; Gowri
Shankar, SVP of sales and business development at
SinglePoint; and Rachelle Zoffer, director of interactive TV at
Verizon FiOS, discuss [...]
Filed under: Content, Interviews, Technology | Tagged: digital tv, dish, ebif, ensequence, fios, interactive tv, nbc, olympics, singlepoint, verizon | No Comments »
Posted on June 19, 2008 by itvtwp
–Company Offers Multiscreen Apps for US Open Golf, French Open Tennis
–Expands its DISH Decision 2008 Application
Satellite TV provider, DISH Network (formerly EchoStar), has signed
an interactive TV advertising agreement with NBC Universal that will
see it providing interactive trigger capabilities to the latter’s 14
television networks and channels and to 10 NBC owned-and-operated
TV stations. The capabilities will allow [...]
Filed under: Content, Technology | Tagged: Advertising, nbc, dish, echostar, french open, tennis, nbc universal, us open, golf | No Comments »
Posted on June 17, 2008 by itvtwp
–Company Opens New Indian Office, Prevails in DISH Litigation
–Integrates Jungo Middleware with TI’s Puma 5 Chipsets
News Corp.-owned conditional access and interactive TV technology
provider, NDS, has been tapped by the US’s third-largest cable MSO,
Cox Communications, to design a new interactive user-interface for its
legacy and next-generation set-top boxes. According to NDS, the new
UI, which will replace the [...]
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Posted on May 30, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of
Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” Michael Finn, VP of
advertising sales at DISH Network, and Scott Higgins, the company’s
director of interactive programming, discuss DISH’s new interactive
TV advertising deal with NBC Universal, and the company’s plans to
make increasing use of the DVR hard drive for its [...]
Filed under: Content, Industry, Interviews, Technology | Tagged: Advertising, digital television, digital tv controler, dish, dvr, echostar, interactive tv, itv, itvt, satellite | No Comments »
Posted on May 28, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of
Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,” sponsored by TiVo, Jim
Louderback, CEO of Revision3, provides an overview of his
company–which bills itself as “an actual TV network for the Web,”
and which produces its own original, broadcast-quality programming.
Topics discussed include funding, download numbers, revenues,
demographics, distribution strategy, content [...]
Filed under: Content, Interviews, Technology | Tagged: Advertising, broaband tv, cable, david prager, diggnation, digital tv, dish, dish network, echostar, interactive, interactive tv, iptv, itvt, louderback, microsoft, nbc, qik, revision3, tekzilla, tivo, veronica belmont, zune | 1 Comment »
Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
–Company Signs Broadband Video Deal with YouTube
–Omnicom, CBS to Use Company’s StopWatch Research Service
–Company’s Service, Now Offered by Comcast, is in Tech Trials with Cox
–Company Secures Two More Favorable Rulings in “Time Warp” Case
DVR vendor/service provider, TiVo, has generated a fair amount of
news over the past few weeks:
Last week, it was revealed that [...]
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