Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
–Forms Audience-Measurement Partnership with TNS
US satellite TV provider, DirecTV, continues to roll out interactive TV
services as an integral part of its sports coverage and of its service
offering in general (note: the company is also expected to launch a
VOD service this quarter; a report in the Wall Street Journal stated that
the service will employ a combination [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
Shalom TV, a TV channel devoted to Jewish culture, has launched a
line-up of free programming on Comcast On Demand–marking, the
channel says, the first time that a major US cable operator has offered a
Jewish-themed channel as part of its national VOD line-up–as well as
on Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey’s VOD service.
The [...]
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Posted on May 3, 2008 by itvtwp
Liquidus, a Chicago-based company that has actually been working on
VOD classified advertising with Comcast Spotlight since 2005 (note:
last fall, it signed a five-year deal with the MSO), recently emerged
from semi-stealth mode and officially launched its flagship products for
transforming still images into video-enabled classified ads (via such
techniques as pans and zooms, and the insertion of graphics, [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2008 by itvtwp
Following the UK’s recent participation TV scandal, that country’s
broadcast regulator, Ofcom, has proposed new rules to tighten
regulation of TV and radio programs that rely heavily on premium-rate
telephone services (PRS). The body says that its proposed changes to
the UK’s Broadcasting Code will “ensure that programs that invite
viewers and listeners to interact or participate are not vehicles [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2008 by itvtwp
Time Warner Cable of New York and New Jersey has announced plans
to expand its HDTV programming line-up, which it says will see it
carrying 100 HD channels and “more than 250 HD On Demand
choices” by the end of the year. The company is launching what it is
calling “Enhanced HDTV,” a free offering that includes Start Over [...]
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Posted on April 30, 2008 by itvtwp
–Player Version 2.7 Integrates Microsoft Silverlight, Atlas Ad Server
–Appoints New President and COO
–New Deals with tvtv, CAN Communicate and FIFA, Fox Intl’s BabyTV
Broadband TV infrastructure company, Narrowstep (note: the
company’s telvOS technology has been used to power a number of
high-profile broadband TV services, including the ITV Local service of
UK commercial terrestrial broadcaster, the Independent Television
Network; it [...]
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Posted on April 29, 2008 by itvtwp
The second annual tru2way Developers Conference will be held in
New Orleans on Saturday, May 17th and Sunday, May 18th, just prior
to the NCTA Cable Show. The conference is produced by the NCTA,
in partnership with CableLabs (the originator of the tru2way/OCAP
standard) and premier sponsor, Vidiom Systems, a company that
specializes in tru2way/OCAP technology and that has a [...]
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Posted on April 23, 2008 by itvtwp
In this recorded episode of [itvt]’s talk radio show, “The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow,”
Marcelino Ford-Livene and David Jensen, co-governors of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Interactive Media Peer Group (IMPG), and Geoff Katz, chairman of the IMPG’s Primetime Emmy Awards Working Group, discuss the Academy’s newly issued call for entries [...]
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