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Is the bathroom verboten when it comes to watching online video? How do you actually pronounce user-generated content—without sounding silly? And what’s the secret sauce that makes Web video a different beast than TV? Daisy Whitney sent Lori Harfenist, the New York correspondent for the "New...
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TelevisionWeek reporter Daisy Whitney has been drinking the mobile video Kool-Aid and she tells you why in this week’s New Media Minute. For starters, TV networks like TNT, A&E and VH1 have all recently launched iPhone applications in a bid to make money in the mobile video and features market, including...
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Can programming producers survive on revenues derived from Web distribution alone? The overwhelming evidence seems to say no. Last week production shop Generate struck a multiyear television development and production deal to create scripted broadcast and cable series for 20th Century Fox Television...
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Having a sponsor attached to a Web series doesn’t mean it automatically will receive a production green light, but it definitely helps build the case for a program, CBS Interactive executive Anthony Soohoo said during a panel at NATPE today. Mr. Soohoo, along with Mark Grossan, producer with Laughcorp...
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The National Association of Television Program Executives is providing live streaming of panels from the convention in Las Vegas this week. Today's panel being streamed via Stickam, "Digital Studios: Where's the $$$?," is moderated by TelevisionWeek contributing writer and new-media...
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What if online video was more like Amazon or Netflix? Imagine video-centric sites like Hulu or NBC.com actively recommending videos just for you. It might not be that far off, because the future of online programming could get a lot more personalized as video sites develop the brains to predict and serve...
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Want to know the next Web-to-TV network deal to watch? Then keep an eye on videoblogger Brigitte Dale, who’s now producing reports for ABCfamily.com. If you want to know why this deal matters, check out the " New Media Minute ." You’ll also learn how Discovery Channel is using its YouTube channel...
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In this week’s "New Media Minute," you’re not going to learn about Web advertising, Web series and if anyone is making money in online video. Instead, you’ll learn how to hammer a nail into your nose, eat fire, and how to do a trick called the human chimney. NEW MEDIA MINUTE We like to call...
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The conventional wisdom from TV networks is that consumers turn to the Web to catch up on episodes of shows they missed. But new research from IMMI says only half of online TV viewers use the computer as a DVR. What does the other half do? Tune in to the “New Media Minute” hosted by Daisy Whitney for...
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This week’s New Media Minute features a special guest star—the set of Dave Navarro’s “SpreadTV.” TVWeek reporter Daisy Whitney visited ManiaTV’s headquarter in Los Angeles during her coverage of the NATPE TV LA Festival and spent some time kicking around ManiaTV’s 15,000 square foot studio. ManiaTV has...
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Digital revenues might be a rounding error today, but they’ll be bottom line items in a few years. And that’s why we need to remember that size doesn’t always matter. But growth does. Let’s take the newspaper business as an example. The Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal and Orlando Sentinel give...
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TVWeek’s Daisy Whitney helms this week’s edition of the New Media Minute from the beaches of Florida. Get exclusive juice on how deeply Hulu has penetrated the American Web consciousness, the significance of Joss Whedon’s Web series “Dr. Horrible’s Sing Along Blog,” and Starburst’s new Web video ad campaign...
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This week’s edition of the New Media Minute offers a concise summary of the recent Lehman Brothers report that sent media stocks tumbling: unless you’re Apple or Google you’re screwed. DAISY WHITNEY'S NEW MEDIA MINUTE You’ll also learn about video search initiatives from Blinkx and Truveo, as well...