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Cynopsis: DIGITAL

10/18/07

Good Morning, it’s Thursday, October 18, 2007 and this is your first early morning digital briefing. 

A show known for utilizing HD to get the most out of its gross-out effects is now turning to 3D web imagery to satisfy its fans. CSI creator Anthony Zuiker has signed on to create a multimedia crime lab in virtual world Second Life that will intersect with a storyline on the linear CSI: New York, to be introduced in the Oct. 24 episode. Users can join Gary Sinise’s avatar chasing the killer into Second Life or visit a virtual crime lab, created by digital content creator Electric Sheep, to recreate experiments from the show and help solve the murder. Mr. Zuiker will also host an interactive blog that will allow users to postulate about what happened to a dead body, personally ranking the responses.
 

 
Gannett is buying a controlling interest in Schedule Star, which operates HighSchoolSports.net – a local athletics site that counts over 6,500 schools as subscribers. The site features popular social networking features including a photo and video posting section called The Bleachers and a message board named The Chalkboard.
 
BravoTV.com is inviting viewers to come and vote for the “20 Most Outrageous Bravo Moments.” Top vote getters will be packed into an hour-long special in February hosted by Andy Cohen.
 
Weather.com introduced a new geo-targeted tool allowing users to wave their mouse over 200,000 points of interest and pull up weather information for that area. The interactive map includes such locales as schools, parks, golf courses and beaches.
 
PBS and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation launched the MediaShift Idea Lab blog to showcase the work of 36 innovators who have reinvented community newsgathering for the digital age. The writers, winners of the Knight Foundation News Challenge, will use the Idea Lab to explain their projects, share intelligence and interact with the online community.
 
Cynopsis Weekender College Edition returns on November 15th!  Here’s how it works — if you’re currently a college student here or abroad, submit to Cynopsis your essay of 350 words or less on any topic relating to television.  If your essay is one of four chosen as the most insightful, original, humorous and/or well-written, it will included in a special College Edition of Weekender.  All four winning essay writers are awarded $350. Entries must be emailed no later than Friday, November 9th to me at [email protected], subject Weekender College Edition.  Students – be sure to include your name, age, college, college year, and major (if you know it), and how you can be contacted.   Good luck!

 
Knocked Up writer/director and Superbad producer Judge Aptow joined Will Ferrell and Adam McKay as principle partners of FunnyOrDie.com, the video sharing site that brought us The Landlord, viewed more than 47 million times online. Look for more outtakes from Aptow’s movies on the site as well as exclusive content shot with all three comedians. 
 
The aforementioned The Landlord is one of the nominees for Funniest Web Video (aka LOL Award) in the inaugural TV Guide Online Video Awards, one of 18 categories represented. The list tends to favor network creations (NBC leads with 11 noms, followed by CBS, ABC and FunnyOrDie.com with 7 each.) Online votes will determine the winners, to be announced at a Dec. 1 event at the Baker Hanger in Santa Monica, CA. TV Guide plans to televise the event a few days later.
 
IAC‘s user generated video site Vimeo will begin offering videos this week in the 1280 x 720 HD format as a way to attract filmmakers concerned with image quality. The site has about 250,000 registered users and attracts 900,000 unique visitors a month. 
 

 
Apple became the latest to technology giant to adopt open standards, announcing it would allow third-party applications to be developed for the iPhone. In an open letter posted to Apple.com, CEO Steve Jobs wrote that a software development kit should be ready by early next year. The move is quite a reversal for Apple, which has been extremely protective of its operating systems over the years, a policy that has helped protect Macs against viruses, malware and software conflicts.
 
eBay‘s revenues spiked 30% to $1.89 billion during the third quarter and net income, the Skype writedown not withstanding, increased by 53% to $564 million. CEO Meg Whitman admitted the company had focused too much on trying to monetize Skype while under-investing in the technology itself.
 

 
Contextual online advertising exchange ContextWeb has opened its ADSDAQ ad exchange to all site publishers. The exchange allows websites to name the CPM they would ask for their inventory, opening up opportunities for even the smallest of online publishers. Until today, the ADSDAQ exchange had only been open to a select group including A&E’s History.com, Biography.com and AETV.com.
 

 
Nielsen and ESPN are collaborating to measure how consumers use media across multiple platforms including television, the internet and digital mobile devices. A new TV/Internet Covergence Panel will integrate TV and internet usage within the same home liking data from People Meters, Nielsen/NetRatings metering and Nielsen Mobile. ESPN advertisers will be able to view combined metrics such as time spent watching across multiplatform ESPN promotions.
 
The number of DVRs in the US has doubled in the past year exceeding 20% of the Nielsen‘s National People Meter sample for the first time. Local tune-in remains strong with the average US household watching an average of 8 hours 14 minutes of TV a day.
 
IFC commissioned an online poll by Ipsos Insight to gage the impact of Al Gore’s selection to win the Nobel Peace Prize on the 2008 Presidential Election. While only 18% of the 1,073 voters surveyed said they had seen An Inconvenient Truth, 71% said they were aware that Gore won the Nobel Prize and why.
 
Top Visited US Broadcast Network TV Show Websites (Week ending October 13, 2007)
 
Rank     Network     Website                           Market Share of Visits
  1           NBC         Deal or No Deal                          16.78%
  2           ABC         Dancing With The Stars                 9.49%
  3           NBC         Heroes                                         5.80%
  4           NBC         The Office                                     3.34%
  5           FOX         America’s Most Wanted                  2.98%
  6           ABC         Women’s Murder Club                    2.78%
  7           ABC         Grey’s Anatomy                             2.69%
  8           ABC         The Bachelor                                 2.33%
  9         The CW      America’s Next Top Model               2.19%
 10          FOX         Prison Break                                  2.16%
Source: Custom report from Hitwise
 

News Corp.’s Fox Interactive Media reportedly extended the contracts of MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe and President Tom Anderson after a period of protracted negotiations.
 
Online P2P video content and services company BitTorrent appointed Doug Walker as its new CEO, replacing founder Bram Cohen, who will become Chief Scientist. Doug’s latest job was as CEO of Alias Systems.
 
Douglass Craig was upped to SVP/Digital Media Operations for Discovery Communications, reporting to Josh Freeman, EVP/Digital Media. Craig is responsible for managing content strategy for Discovery On Demand and Discovery Mobile as well as developing content distribution partnerships within the digital space.
 
Matthew Braatz was upped to SVP/Technology for the NBC Universal Television Stations, overseeing engineering operations, IT and technology efforts. He reports to John Wallace, President.
 
YES director Michael Spirito has added digital media to his plate as Director, Digital Media and Business Development. Michael will try to make YesNetwork.com a more robust destination for Yankees and Nets fans.

Scott Bailey is named SVP and GM/Comcast.net, Comcast Interactive Media (CIM).  As GM, Bailey will be responsible for the overall management and growth of the portal. He will report to Amy Banse, President, CIM.  Most recently Bailey was with Turner Sports Interactive where he was VP and GM of a collection of websites including NASCAR.com, PGATour.com and PGA.com.
 

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Kurt Andersen, founder of Spy Magazine, and Michael Jackson, President, IAC Programming have co-founded a new website and “it” daily e-newsletter called VeryShortList.com, providing information on the latest under-hyped gems. VSL uncovers and recommends one excellent, but under-hyped, entertainment tidbit before the rest of the world has taken (much) notice. Among other things it provides some cultural perspective to new trends, like recommending Ingmar Bergman’s TV miniseries Scenes From A Marriage to fans of HBO’s Tell Me You Love Me.
 
Later — Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
10.18.07

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