Cynopsis: DIGITAL
8/08/07
Good Morning, it’s Wednesday, August 8, 2007 and this is your first early morning digital briefing.
NBC Universal will present over 3,600 hours of coverage of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games, 2,200 hours of which will stream for free on nbcolympics.com. The coverage, which begins exactly one year from today, will include live broadband streaming for the first time ever in the U.S. An additional 3,000 hours of online highlights and replays will also be offered. The NBCU family will air around-the-clock coverage of the 17-day event on NBC, USA, MSNBC, and CNBC, offering high def programming on NBC’s HD affiliates, USA HD and Universal HD. Telemundo will air Spanish-language Olympic coverage. More on On-the-Go wireless coverage will be announced in the coming months.
MySpace and The Onion announced a content partnership that will bring Onion News Network video and audio content, blogs and breaking fake news to MySpace and MySpaceTV viewers. The Onion’s profile page is currently featuring the ONN report on the entire internet crashing from a while back. MySpace even put out a satirical press release to announce the news.
Yahoo signed a programming pact with Rocket Science Laboratories (Temptation Island) giving it a non-exclusive first look at the reality producers’ new interactive series. The deal will likely focus on short form interactive reality concepts, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Rocket Science’s current TV projects include Bull Run for Spike TV and If Women Ruled the World for Fox.
TBS, TV home of the Atlanta Braves and owner of the rights to carry Baseball playoffs for the first time this year, signed a deal to launch a broadband channel on MLB.com in September. TBS Hot Corner will provide daily video news briefs, player interviews, trivia contests and even “dugout cams” during TBS telecasts.
Turner Sports announced it will offer more than 45 hours of live, exclusive coverage of the PGA Championship on PGA.com, complementing 18 hours of coverage on TNT from 2-8 pm ET on Thursday and Friday and 11 am – 2 pm ET on the weekend. Stream #1 will showcase footage before TV coverage starts each day, and stream #2 will follow a designated group around the course each day.
The rival New York Post reported that New York Times has decided to discontinue its two-year-old Times Select online subscriptions service, once again offering all its columns online for free. There is much speculation that The Wall Street Journal will also switch to a free online subscription model under News Corp. ownership, betting increased ad revenue will more than make up for loss of subscription fees.
CBS Sportsline.com announced an array of new features for its Fantasy Football site. CBS Sportsline will produce 4 original video programs each week of the football season to keep players updated on news, rumors and analysis. CBS Sportsline Mobile will introduce cross-functionality with the site to allow users to make moves to their line up from any location. Anheuser Busch, GMC, Toyota and T-Mobile are sponsoring the products.
Oxygen struck a deal with Yahoo! to provide long and short form video programming to the newly revamped Yahoo Video site, in the form of a branded Oxygen channel. Look for clips, outtakes and exclusive footage from Tori & Dean: Inn Love, The Bad Girls Club and Mo’Nique’s F.A.T. Chance.
Music industry video production and rehearsal complex CenterStaging Corp. launched rehearsalsTV on Comcast on Demand, showing behind the scenes jam sessions from CenterStaging’s Burbank campus. Chris Isaak, 8mm, Blessid Union of Souls and Howard Hewitt are among the featured artists.
3DD Production’s music series London Live will appear on Second Life via the cyber channel Virtual Life TV. London Live, known as The Album Chart Show in the UK, showcases major artists album releases performed in front of a live audience at the Koko in London. The deal was brokered by 3DD Digital and Second Life’s creative agency Rivers Run Red, the first agency to establish a working presence within the virtual world.
Apparently Google’s announcement that fingerprinting software would be ready by September hasn’t appeased anyone. Photojournalist Robert Tur and National Music Publishers Association have joined in the lawsuit against Google alleging rampant copyright infringement, throwing in with England’s Premier Soccer League and others. The suit was originally filed in May in U.S. District Court in New York City and still waiting to receive class action certification from a judge.
NewsCorp’s NDS Group acquired streaming video specialist CastUp Inc. for $11.3 million. Israel-based CastUp provides end-to-end acquisition, processing, distribution and video serving to major media companies including HP, MTV and Blockbuster.
Dell has agreed to acquire technology and software start up Zing Systems, which specializes in mobile entertainment applications such as the platform that connects SanDisk’s Sana Connect wireless mobile player with the mobile Sirius Stiletto device.
Healthy lifestyle media and retail company Gaiam, Inc. acquired Steve Case-owned Lime.com and progressive social networking site zaadz.com, in addition to acquiring a stake in socially conscious media and financial services company Conscious Enlightenment. Gaiam plans to integrate the brands under the “LOHAS” principle (Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability) and launch a unified social networking site at Gaiam.com in the fall.
Microsoft lowered the price of the Xbox 360 gaming console by $50 to $349 to try and stimulate demand, as it waits for Halo 3 to hit stores on September 25. The move follows Sony’s decision to trim the price of the PS3 by $100 to $499. Sales of both have lagged behind Nintendo’s Wii console, which retails for $250. Microsoft is also shaving $20 off the price of the HD DVD player, an add-on module from $199 to $179 and throwing in 5 free HD DVDs for purchases made by September 30.
The Federal Trade Commission set a November 1 & 2 date for the proposed Town Hall meeting to bring together proponents and advocates of the proposed Google/Doubleclick merger. Topics to be discussed include how online behavioral advertising works, what types of data will be collected and how it will be used and by whom. Written comments and questions may be submitted by email to behavioraladvertising_comments@ftc.gov.
DoubleClick will work with NBC to develop Rich Media ad campaigns to support its new fall line up of shows, beginning with the remake of Bionic Woman. Full screen video playback and video “sweetspotting” are among the new features, embedding interactive trigger points within the video which audiences can click on to pull up more information. Alpha Channel Video and Video Button techniques, used this spring to promote Grease and Black Donnellys respectively, will also be brought back.
Online advertising will surpass newspaper advertising by 2011 according to a new report by private equity firm Veronis Suhler Stevenson, which predicts an online growth rate of 21% each year over the next four years. The shift to digital is also leading to a decline in overall media consumption, according to VSS, with media usage per person declining half of a percentage point in 2006 to 3,530 hours. However, use of media at the workplace increased by 3.2% last year to 260 hours per worker.
IPTV subscription video revenue will grow exponentially from $779 million in 2006 to $26.3 billion by 2011 not including advertising and value-added TV services, according to a new report from market intelligence firm iSuppli. The company believes IPTV service providers can also cash in by offering access to digital music, on demand gaming, data services and home security features, good for another $1 billion in revenue by 2010.
Veteran producer Bob Bain (Live Earth, Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards) has signed on to executive produce TV Guide‘s inaugural Online Video Awards event, to be held December 1 at the Barker Hanger in Santa Monica.
New York-based design studio FlickerLab upped Franklin S. Zitter to Producer.
UK-based online lead generation firm Clash-Media appointed Christopher Petix as President of its new New York Office.
PBS’ Frontline/World site, nominated for a category-high four News & Documentary Broadband Emmy Awards (tied with washingtonpost.com) created a new page to showcase its summer Rough Cut series. The four clips nominated for NATAS awards are featured – albeit in postage stamp-sized viewing windows – as well as extensive blog entries from the producers of each clip. Some of the user reactions to the clips are very thoughtful and well written. More recent clips from the Rough Cut series are also available.
Later — Wayne
Wayne Karrfalt for Cynopsis: Digital
08.08.07
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