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Golf Channel Swings Into HD The Golf Channel’s high-definition channel has launched in nearly 16 million homes, TelevisionWeek reported. The channel will feature coverage of the first three events of the PGA Tour from Hawaii, marking the first time the events have aired in HD. Other HD programming, including...
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Musician will.i.am’s “Yes We Can” video, about Barack Obama’s presidential campaign, was the most searched-for viral video of the year, according to AOL-owned video search service Truveo. Truveo released data on most popular search trends today. It reported that after the will.i.am video, the most searched...
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NBC Universal’s 2008 Beijing Olympic Games coverage on the NBC Olympics Mobile Web site attracted 6.5 million unique visitors and 36 million page views, according to Omniture. The mobile Web site also garnered 826,000 mobile video views and 300,000 total SMS/MMS alert subscripts between Aug. 8 and Aug...
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Despite reports that Yahoo! Sports outdrew the official Olympics site at NBCOlympics.com, a new study from Digital Life America said Olympics viewers rated NBCOlympics.com as their favorite site for last month’s Games. According to the study, released today, about one-third of viewers picked NBCOlympics...
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NBCOlympics.com earned only $5.75 million in online video advertising revenue, according to estimates released today by eMarketer. The new-media research firm issued the projection based on video streams delivered on the site during the 2008 Beijing Olympics. eMarketer said the figure represents only...
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The ringing endorsement from the Beijing Olympics is that broadcast still takes the gold in media. Despite all the hype about the Olympics being available on digital platforms, broadcast television’s massive reach is dominating the viewership and ratings breakdown. According to NBC’s Total Audience Measurement...
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Online streaming of the Olympics has generated massive traffic for NBC, but the Games are still overwhelmingly a broadcast TV event. That take-away comes not from NBC, but Fox, which on Thursday issued an analysis of numbers that made the case that, whatever gains streaming video has made this year,...
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Based on a new system for measuring viewership on multiple platforms, NBC said more than 113 million people watched Olympic programming on Sunday. NBC is introducing what it calls a Total Audience Measurement Index, which combines into one number the audiences on broadcast and cable television, the Internet...
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YouTube launched a channel today devoted to the Olympics, with video from providers including the Associated Press, Getty Images, the New York Times, Reuters, Sexy Beijing and Travel Channel. The Summer Games YouTube Channel is designed to highlight news, analysis, expert insight, human interest pieces...
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HD programming picks for Aug. 7-13: “Dead Poets Society,” 2008 Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies, “Wright Brothers: First in Flight” “Dead Poets Society” (HDNet Movies). Thurs., Aug. 7, 8 p.m. Robin Williams stars as a boarding-school professor teaching students including Ethan Hawke and Robert Sean Leonard...
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HD Channel Inventory Growing on Cable, Satellite DirecTV said this week that it will add 14 high-definition channels on Aug. 14, bringing its total to 130. The largest U.S. satellite TV service’s new HD channels will include two from Showtime and 23 regional sports networks channels. The company also...
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When the Beijing Olympics starts Aug. 8, NBC will begin a two-week period of offering 2,200 hours of live coverage online, up from two hours at the Turin, Italy, Winter Games just two years ago. That staggering leap in coverage signals the maturation of Web video technology and the business model that...
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With a record 3,600 hours of Beijing Olympics coverage on tap for next month, NBC will bring an army of commentators to the Games, with an unprecedented 106 commentators on tap. The group will be led by Olympics veteran Bob Costas, who will return for his seventh Olympics as prime-time host. Also on...