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NATPE has scheduled its third annual LATV Fest for July 8-9 at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza in Los Angeles. Jordan Hoffner, director of content partnerships for YouTube, will give the opening keynote address. Confirmed speakers and panelists for the conference include RDF Media USA’s Chris Coelen...
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The slumping economy is forcing the new-media business to grow up fast. New-media producers and creators at last week’s NATPE conference in Las Vegas said they’re shedding some of the more speculative financial practices that defined the early days of digital production. Translation: They’re not going...
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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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ABC has learned that doubling the ad load from four to eight in its online primetime shows doesn't decrease consumer interest in watching shows online, said Albert Cheng, executive VP of digital media with the Disney-ABC Television Group, during an afternoon panel at NATPE. During its research, the...
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Online video producers who want to develop an audience online should reach out to the thousands of Web sites and blogs that attract 10,000 or more visitors per day. That's the advice from Keith Richman, CEO of online property Break Media, shared during an afternoon panel at NATPE in Las Vegas. "Small...
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One of the keys to online video success is to create videos that fit with what people are already talking about. That's the advice of Ben Relles, creator of the popular BarelyPolitical Web series, delivered during a panel at NATPE this morning. "My thinking about online video is if you can figure...
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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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Online television studio Generate struck a multiyear television development and production deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television, one of a growing number of partnerships between a new-media shop and a traditional television studio or network. The companies announced the deal at the National Association...
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When TiVo CEO Tom Rogers gives his Newsmaker Address on Wednesday at the 2009 National Association of Television Program Executives conference, he’ll be hoping it serves as an urgent call to arms for the television industry to avoid the Internet pitfalls that are currently swallowing the print and music...
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Monday, Jan. 26 Sixth Annual Brandon Tartikoff Legacy Awards 6-8 p.m., Ballroom F Disney-ABC Television Group President Anne Sweeney, NBC Entertainment & Universal Media Studios Co-Chairman Ben Silverman, actor-writer-director-producer Tyler Perry and Chuck Lorre, executive producer/co-creator of...
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The National Association of Television Program Executives will present two content panels at the MacWorld Conference & Expo in San Francisco this week. The panels, which mark NATPE’s first foray into presenting panels at MacWorld, will offer first looks at new interactive mobile video technologies...
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TiVo President-CEO Tom Rogers will deliver the 2009 National Association of Television Program Executive Newsmaker Address during the organization’s conference on Wednesday, Jan. 28, NATPE President-CEO Rick Feldman announced today. Mr. Rogers’ address, entitled “Avoiding the Demise of Advertising,”...
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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 media is “not all about video,” MTV Networks Entertainment Group executive V{ of digital media Erick Flannigan warned content producers and creators at NATPE’s LATV Festival on Wednesday. Mr. Flannigan participated in the panel discussion “Social Media: Strategies in Content and Commerce.” His...
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The National Association of Television Program Executives has announced a master class with writer-producer Chuck Lorre and a keynote by the William Morris Agency’s John Ferriter to the speakers and panelists at its upcoming LATV Festival. The second annual festival will include multiple panels, sessions...