Timeline of significant events for integrated TV & new media
I'm listing some of the major concepts in play and significant events to have taken place in the last several weeks relative to what's becoming a very active market: integrated television in the Digital Age. This is basically a reference list for those of us really into this stuff. I expect this to be a document that'll undergo several updates in the future, so bookmark this URL.
The future of TV is dictated by several emerging technologies and technological concepts:
The future of TV is dictated by several emerging technologies and technological concepts:
- The Internet is more powerful than any satellite or cable provider
- Multimedia has better convergence potential for those companies already involved in it than plaintext (TV networks/affiliates stand more to gain than newspapers and magazines)
- Platforms that are changing TV: DVRs/PVRs, video-enabled mobile phones/PDAs, mobile media devices
- Consumption of mainstream media is in major decline
- UPN makes "Everybody Loves Chris" available through Google Video
- WB streams "Supernatural"
- Comedy Central rolls out "Motherload", it's new broadband service
- ABC e-tails certain popular programs through the iTunes Music Store for $1.99
- CBS webcasts "Threshold", considers plan to sell select program in iTunes
- NBC streams "Nightly News with Brian Williams" on NBC.com
- NBC Universal partners with DirecTV to sell select programs through PVRs for $0.99
- CBS partners with Comcast to sell select programs through PVRs for $0.99
- The Emmy committee announces a new "Best Video" category targeting mobile devices like cell phones & iPods
- MSN and The Associated Press collaborate on a custom video player to feed the former's news video to the latter's network of 3,500+ sites
- The NBA announces an ad-supported broadband service, featuring by-half highlights of games
- A service in the UK lets PSP users download select TV shows 24 hours before they air
- CBS inks agreement to distribute CBS News video through AOL
- CSTV (college sports TV), acquired by CBS, will podcast sports-related programming in the iTunes Music Store
- AOL announces a "reruns on-demand" service for older shows like "Welcome Back Kotter" and "Chico and the Man"
- Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network offer shows for $2.99 only on Hasbro's HuGo video player
- The largest shareholder for Knight Ridder, the nation's second-largest newspaper chain (next to Gannett), wants the firm sold
- The Wall Street Journal reports that national newspaper circulation is falling by an aggregated 2.5%
- ...but Internet traffic for newspaper sites up 11%
- Google Print tests ad service in Chicago publications
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