| Xbox 360 to Deliver Digital TV & Movies to Gamers | | Posted Friday, November 10, 2006 7:33:53 AM by Blog57 Team | | "Microsoft Corp. today announced agreements with CBS, MTV Networks, Paramount Pictures, Turner Broadcasting System Inc. (TBS Inc.), Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment to bring an initial lineup of over 1,000 hours of hit TV shows and movies to Xbox 360 gamers in the U.S. by the end of the year. Furthermore, Xbox 360 will be the first gaming console to bring standard and high-definition TV shows and movies via digital distribution over the Internet directly to the consumer. Beginning Nov. 22, on its first anniversary, Xbox 360 will be the first gaming console in history to provide high-definition TV shows and movies directly to gamers in their living rooms. more @ source. .... | |
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| | | TV Networks Hope YouTube Mocking Stays As Marketing | | Posted Sunday, November 05, 2006 1:07:46 PM by Blog57 Team | | Now part of the Google team, YouTube is trying to go legit. Some content providers are demanding it. But TV networks should be careful–they could be shooting themselves in their marketing feet. Viacom demanded early this week that all that illegal copyrighted content of Comedy Central video like that of "The Daily Show" and "The Colbert Report," as well as from networks like MTV and BET, be taken off the site. Interestingly, at the same time Viacom is demanding this, it is negotiating a content deal with YouTube. YouTube recently made content deals with CBS and NBC. YouTube is getting its ducks in a row–something you figured it would have done before striking a $1.65 billion deal to be bought by Google. Last week, YouTube took off 30,000 clips of TV shows, movies and music videos after the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers cited copyright infringement.... | |
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| | | Saunders: Networks play money games | | Posted Monday, October 16, 2006 11:13:40 AM by Blog57 Team | | The networks love to play games with viewers, particularly when traditional programming isn't producing audience ratings. Latest example: 1 vs 100, NBC's new big-money giveaway extravaganza, which premiered at 8 p.m. Friday, right after Deal or No Deal, which has already established a solid audience in other prime time periods. The two series, produced by the same company, have at least two more things in common. Both give away buckets of money and are produced in huge, arena-like studio settings that could lead to fractured eardrums. The noise level makes Duke's famed basketball arena seem like a public library. By, the way, contestants don't need a master's degree from Duke to compete on 1 vs. 100. An early-round question Friday night: In the 2003 film Seabiscuit, what type of animal was in the title role ? one with a) fins b) paws, or c) hooves? The scheduling of two Friday night money give-away series before the dramatics on Law & Order doesn't seem designed to create the traditional audience flow the networks say is essential.... | |
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| | | Spike TV Cancels 'Blade' TV Series By Nolan Strong Date: 10/3/2006 6:30 pm | | Posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 7:10:01 AM by Blog57 Team | | Despite a successful launch, Spike TV has canceled the Blade television series which starred rapper Sticky Fingaz. Blade was Spike TV's first original scripted action-adventure series, which featured Sticky Fingaz as Blade, an immortal half-man made famous by actor Wesley Snipes in the movie of the same name. The series drew record ratings for the cable TV network, pulling in 2.5 million viewers when it debuted in June 2006, but Spike reportedly declined a second season. "What can I say," Sticky Fingaz told AllHipHop.com. "It was a great experience while it lasted. The show is being pitched to other networks, so it's possible that it might return in some form." Blade the television series featured Blade (Sticky Fingaz) joining forces with Krista Starr (Jill Wagner), to help her get revenge on another vampire that killed her twin brother.... | |
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| | | TV networks betting on serial dramas | | Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 1:40:03 PM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES - The shorthand theme for the fall television season: "To be continued ... maybe." Inspired by the creativity ? or at least the ratings ? of "Lost," "Desperate Housewives" and other shows with open-ended episodes that carry viewers from one week to the next, the broadcast networks have become serial junkies. And therein lies the problem. "There?s been a lot of backlash about shows that viewers get invested in and then they end before the ending, like (last season?s) Threshold? or Reunion,?" said analyst Shari Anne Brill of ad-buying firm Carat USA. "I?m still annoyed that I never knew who the hell John Doe? was." Brill?s chagrin over the truncated 2002-03 Fox series about a mystery man with encyclopedic knowledge (starring Dominic Purcell , now on the run in Fox?s "Prison Break") shows how long viewers can hold a grudge.... | |
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| | | Local TV Networks Raise Rivalry Bar | | Posted Friday, September 01, 2006 11:20:08 AM by Blog57 Team | | KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 30 (Bernama) -- The print media Wednesday reported results of polls on which local television network emerged the winner in keeping audiences glued to their TV sets on Monday night when live broadcasts of the stories two celebrity couples were aired. The scale tipped in favour of TV3, which telecast live the grand wedding of popular singer Siti Nurhaliza Tarudin and her beau Datuk Khalid Mohamad Jiwa better known as Datuk K, which drew an estimated audience of 6.3 million during the more than two-hour show. Government-owned Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) and its partner, satellite TV operator, Astro, attracted 4.8 million people with its rival broadcast of the failed love relationship between current male singing sensation, Mawi or Asmawi Ani and his ex-fiancee Nordiana Md.... | |
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| | | Adult movies pulled off TV after court order | | Posted Saturday, August 26, 2006 9:10:26 AM by Blog57 Team | | Mumbai: Movies shown on Indian television will be monitored for violence, nudity and bad language and yanked off the air under a court order if deemed unsuitable for children broadcasters said on Thursday. The Bombay High Court earlier this week ruled that all movies shown on TV networks in western Maharashtra state must be approved for general TV by India's government-appointed Censor Board. Since movies can't be broadcast separately for one state, key broadcasters Star and Sony networks said the ban on adult rated movies would apply nationwide. Police will monitor TV broadcasts and prosecute those who show movies not approved by the Censor Board, under the order. The order covers all broadcast, satellite and cable channels, foreign and domestic, operating in India.... | |
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| | | The next big thing in TV? YouTube | | Posted Sunday, August 20, 2006 3:12:31 PM by Blog57 Team | | The fall TV season is about to begin. The push is on from the broadcast networks to tempt you into watching what they spent the past year pounding into shape. At a moment when the networks would like nothing more than to make a splash -- another "Lost" or "Desperate Housewives" would be nice -- the biggest news in TV is the escalating instances of mutiny by viewers. Watching what the networks set before them is fine. But more and more viewers want to cook as well as dine, which makes the TV story of the year the story of a Web site: YouTube. Officially launched last December, this video-sharing service already plays more than 100 million clips per day with more than 65,000 video uploads added to its mammoth inventory. And those rates are skyrocketing.... | |
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| | | TV networks tune in to the appeal of internet video clips | | Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 1:40:14 PM by Blog57 Team | | THE incident, captured by Russian television cameras, is one of exquisite awkwardness ? magnified ten-thousandfold by the status of those involved. It takes place at the circular table of the G8 summit in St Petersburg, when President Bush sneaks up behind Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, to give her a neck massage. Frau Merkel flinches, then throws her hands up into the air, as if to say: ?Ewww. Gross.? .... | |
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| | | Serial-killer networks are risking a bad end | | Posted Tuesday, August 08, 2006 3:18:41 PM by Blog57 Team | | Chances are, last season, at least one of the TV networks broke your heart -- dumped you suddenly and mercilessly and left you hanging, like a jilted lover dismissed by text message. Chances are even better that this season, they'll do it again. Because of the success of "24" and, more recently, of "Desperate Housewives" and "Lost," the broadcast networks are developing and televising more serialized dramas, hoping that their intricate, season-long story lines will hook viewers. Last year, it worked with "Prison Break" on Fox, and it worked well enough with WB's "Supernatural" to earn that show a reprieve on the new CW network. If, however, you were drawn into last season's murder mystery on "Reunion," you were out of luck. Fox canceled the drama abruptly without revealing the identity of the killer on the air.... | |
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