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07/15/16: YouTube and Facebook plan live political convention coverage; Twitter to stream Pac-12 events; Evercore projects YOY drop in Q2 cord-cutting

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 07.15.16 Good morning. It’s Friday July 15, 2016, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. TODAY’S CODEBREAKER Social VR: Social VR refers to a type of virtual reality app designed to create a shared VR space in which users can interact and participate in activities. The social VR startup Altspace VR is […]

07/15/16: Pac-12 dives into Twitter streaming; All-Star Game slides; Valve’s gambling stance

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CYNOPSISSPORTS 07.15.16 Good morning. It’s Friday July 15, 2016, and this is your first early morning Sports briefing.  A big day for Pac-12 Networks, which announced an agreement with Twitter to serve as its premier streaming partner for Pac-12 Plus, a broadband network of live events produced by the conference’s 12 universities. At least 150 […]

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07/14/16: Disney Media hosting commercial-free town hall tonight; Luke Russert exiting NBC News; John Cena strikes a deal with Leftfield Entertainment

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A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM DISCOVERY COMMUNICATIONS DISCOVERY’S SHARK WEEK TAKES A BITE OUT OF SUMMER! DISCOVERY IS CABLE’S #1 NETWORK FOR THE WEEK SHARK WEEK REACHES 36.3 MILLION VIEWERS SHARK AFTER DARK IS BASIC CABLE’S #1 LATE NIGHT TALK SHOW Catch an All-New Naked and Afraid XL Sunday 10p On Discovery Source. CYNOPSIS 07.14.16 […]

07/14/16: ABC re-launches VOD service; Digi-Capital finds $2 billion of AR and VR investment in past year; Apple’s first series to follow developers

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 07.14.16 Good morning. It’s Thursday July 14, 2016, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. TODAY’S CODEBREAKER   Haptics: Haptics, or touch feedback, refers to technology that recreates a sense of touch. Haptic devices might apply forces, vibrations, or motions to a user. A vibrating video game controller is a good example. […]

07/14/16: NBC Sports’ Premier League plans; FOX Fosters new postseason gig; Coca-Cola goes gold for Rio

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A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM UNIVISION WHERE WERE YOU THE DAY THE SPORTS WORLD CHANGED? WE WERE BUSY MAKING HISTORY. In June, Univision Deportes Network beat every other sports cable network in the country. Source: Nielsen, NPM, NPM-H, 5/30/16-6/26/16, Mon-Sun 8-11pm, A18-49, Live data, UDN vs. 14 competitive sports cable networks including ESPN, ESPN2, FOX Sports […]

07/14/16: Pokemon Go smash creates ripple effect; ESPN’s eSports blitz; ESL does the Dew

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CYNOPSISeSPORTS & GAMING 07.14.16 It’s Thursday, July 14, 2016, and this is your weekly early morning eSports & Gaming brief.   With headlines ranging from mammoth sales to AR to data concerns to branding opportunities, Nintendo’s release of Pokemon Go continues to create a ripple effect around the industry. The mobile release generated billions of […]

07/13/16: Newt Gingrich ousted at FOX News; Lance Bass to host Logo gay dating series; Spike TV airing I AM JFK Jr. documentary

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CYNOPSIS 07.13.16 Good morning. It’s Wednesday July 13, 2016, and this is your first early morning briefing. Tonight’s Premieres: Bravo: Flipping Out at 10p Canal Once: Historias de vida at 8:30p CW: Penn & Teller: Fool Us at 8p DIY: Sight Unseen at 9p HGTV: America’s Most Desperate Kitchens at 8p and 8:30p, Property Brothers: […]

07/13/16: Vine loses numerous execs; Twitter teams with Bloomberg Media to live-stream programming; NBC to bring Summer Olympics to connected devices

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CYNOPSISDIGITAL 07.13.16 Good morning. It’s Wednesday July 13, 2016, and this is your first early morning digital briefing. TODAY’S CODEBREAKER   Virtual reality sickness: VR sickness, a feeling similar to motion sickness, is primarily caused by a disconnect between what a user’s eyes are seeing and what the user’s vestibular system – the parts of […]

07/13/16: NBC beefs up Brazilian bytes; ONE Championship cashes in; Whistle works the Open

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A CYNOPSIS MESSAGE FROM UNIVISION WHERE WERE YOU THE DAY THE SPORTS WORLD CHANGED? WE WERE BUSY MAKING HISTORY. In June, Univision Deportes Network beat every other sports cable network in the country. Source: Nielsen, NPM, NPM-H, 5/30/16-6/26/16, Mon-Sun 8-11pm, A18-49, Live data, UDN vs. 14 competitive sports cable networks including ESPN, ESPN2, FOX Sports […]

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