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Sunday at Scripps Networks. A Prime Time for “Star” Gazing.
Sunday’s Next Food Network Star season finale …
–Achieved the highest ratings in Food Network history: 3.0 HH; 2.8 W25-54; 2.4 W18-49; 2.1 A25-54
–The week’s #1 Sunday primetime show in all of television with Women 18-49.
Sunday’s HGTV Design Star …
–Delivered a 1.74, the highest primetime Women 18-49 rating in HGTV history.
–Tune in Sunday, 8/3 at 9p ET for the Design Star season finale!
Source: The Nielsen Co. Qualifications on request. Visit http://scrippsnetworksadsales.com
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08/01/08
Good morning, it’s Friday, August 1, 2008, and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
As the FCC prepares to censure Comcast today for throttling its customers’ usage of peer-to-peer networks, some lawmakers are warning the agency not to overstep its bounds. In a letter addressed directly to FCC Chairman Kevin Martin, Republican minority leader Rep. John Boehner said any attempts to chastise Comcast would be akin to “regulating the internet.” He asked the agency to let the market sort out the problem.
More bad news came in from the print side yesterday as the New Jersey Start-Ledger announced it will be forced to sell the newspaper if a large number of union employees don’t accept buyouts in the next two months. The Ledger is hoping to eliminate 200 of the paper’s 756 non-union jobs by Oct. 1.
NBCU rolls out a new “Date Night” category today on its PPV VOD service with a selection of romantic comedies perfect to cuddle by: About Definitely, Maybe, Along Came Polly, The Break-Up and Bridget Jones: The Age of Reason.
Sundance Channel will make six new films from the upcoming season of its Asia Extreme block available on Sundance Channel On Demand beginning today, one month prior to the launch of the new season on the linear channel. Old Boy, Re-cycle, The President’s Last Bang and The Red Shoes, will be available in HD in addition to standard-def versions of The Maid and The Ghost of Mae-Nek.
Online subscribers to Turbine‘s Massively Multiplayer online game The Lord of the Rings Online can look forward to volume II of the game, Mines of Moria, in the fall, co-produced by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. The game will feature a new dual height map technology to give gamers the illusion of vast space as they trudge through Mines. The companies also plan to release two retail versions of the game this fall.
Tennis.com partnered with NBC to provide live text commentary for 2008 Olympic tennis matches streamed online at NBCOlympics.com. Tennis.com Editor Ed McGrogan will provide play-by-play and analysis for early round matches and Senior Editor Steve Tignor will cover the semi-finals and finals.
What’s in a name? The social networking app Scrabulous has resurfaced on Facebook under the moniker Wordscraper. The game also made slight changes to its scoring system and its look – the tile shapes are now circular instead of square. We’ll see if Hasbro is mollified. Hasbro’s officially licensed version is beginning to catch on – signing more than 60,000 users to date, but well under the 500,000+ players Scrabulous had been averaging.
Google is launching its own venture capital arm headed by SVP/Corporate Development and top legal officer David Drummond, reports The WSJ.
S.A.R.A.H., the all-knowing house on Sci Fi Channel‘s Eureka, has its own Twitter account and more than 1,300 fans have already signed up to receive updates from the house via the microblogging service. Perhaps S.A.R.A.H. get figure out how to keep Twitter up and running more consistently …
The iPhone app economy is up and running and VC guys are already starting to back application providers. Ngmoco, a new publisher of games for iPhone, raised an undisclosed amount of Series A round of financing led by Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) with participation from Maples Investments. Bing Gordon, KPCB partner and former Chief Creative Officer for EA, will join the Ngmoco board.
Call for Content: The Tribeca Film Festival announced a Call for Submissions for narrative and documentary features as well as for short film entries. The Tribeca Film Institute also announced a call for entries for its 6th annual Tribeca All Access (TAA) program, which will take place next year April 20 – April 25, 2009. Email [email protected] for more details.
Online music recommendation/streaming service Pandora is really beginning to spread its wings, now integrating with around 30 mobile devices including the iPhone and, new this week, Logitech’s home audio streaming gizmo the Squeezbox. Because the Pandora player is based on an open source platform these integrations are easy to pull off. The company already introduced an update to its iPhone app, improving the search and navigation functions and supporting birate stereo streaming when connected to a WiFi hotspot.
Here’s Cyn Digital’s first restaurant review: I grabbed lunch yesterday at uWink, Atari founder Nolan Bushnell’s new digitally-enhanced diner in the Hollywood & Highlands complex in L.A., the newest of 3 locations. (It’s not Bushnell’s first crack at the restaurant biz–he also founded the Chuck E. Cheese franchise.) Touch screens encased in stainless steel allow you to browse the menu and order your food directly from your table. Watch movie trailers, take virtual tours of exotic locales or choose from more than a dozen casual games while you wait for your food to arrive. The user interface is elegant and simple. One of the cooler things about the process is the ability to customize your order - swapping out sides, choosing different sandwich toppings, etc., without having to pester the wait staff. Then when you finish eating, you swipe your card and check out from the table as well. The next generation of screens should add printers though, so you don’t have to wait around for the receipt. The food could also use an upgrade. The chicken club was a little on the dry side and my side salad was unremarkable.
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Nielsen Mobile and Mediamark Research & Intelligence (MRI) are teaming up on a new mobile research tool Mobile-MRI to track behavioral, psychographic, demographic and product usage information on mobile users. The researchers will create an integrated database of consumers’ mobile and offline media usage to help media planners more precisely target and track audience behavior as it relates to their cross-platform buys.
Online measurement firm comScore had another stellar quarter reporting revenues up 34% to $27.8 million without factoring in its M:Metrics acquisition. The company says it added 64 new customers during the quarter for a total of over 1,000 clients.
MySpace announced five key hirings expanding the company’s senior executive team across several key fields including Marketing, Advertising, Business Development, Engineering and Customer Care, each reporting to Amit Kapur, Chief Operating Officer for MySpace.
- Former VP of Marketing for MTV Networks Angela Courtin was hired as SVP/Marketing, Entertainment, and Content
- A VP/Business Development position was created for Jason Oberfest responsible for negotiating deals and supporting the launch of new products. Jason comes most recently from Los Angeles Times Interactive
- Abe Thomas serves as VP/Online Marketing, responsible for developing the overall strategy for acquiring new customers through online advertising, affiliates and search marketing
- Former Yahoo engineer Manu Thapar joins as SVP/Engineering, responsible for overseeing the company’s infrastructure, security and high priority projects
- Tish Whitcraft recently joined MySpace as SVP/Customer Care
Scripps Networks upped Jen Goforth to SVP/SN Digital Operations, a newly created position overseeing the company’s family of home, food and lifestyle web properties. She reports directly to Deanna Brown, President of SN Digital.
Victor Zaraya has been promoted to EVP/Finance & Operations for Razor & Tie Entertainment, based at the company’s headquarters in New York City. Victor will report directly to Razor & Tie Co-Owners Cliff Chenfeld and Craig Balsam. He will be responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations of the company’s children’s business, record label, publishing division and digital and media businesses.
It’s a bittersweet day for fans of the long-running web series lonelygirl15, as the creators at EQAL studios will finally put Bree and her supporting cast to bed after more than 550 episodes. (O.K., they’re short episodes, but still; to compare, Gunsmoke did 635 episodes.) To commemorate the occasion, LG15.com will be uploading a new segment every hour today beginning at 11 am ET/8 am PT for 12 straight hours. If you’re one of the fanatics don’t worry – all is not lost. The studio says the convoluted mythology behind the show will live on in a new series premiering next month. Check out some of the mashups and tributes fans have uploaded to give the show a proper send off. The key takeaway that came from the Crowdsourcing panel I hosted at NATPE’s LATV event on Wednesday was that passion is what drives users to pour their blood, sweat and tears into collaborative sites and projects. These are certainly passionate folks!
Later — Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
08.01.08
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