As you dive into the Memorial Day weekend on Friday, May 24, Verizon FiOS TV customers can get ready for a true TV watching marathon, with more than 1,700 free movies and over 50 full seasons of TV series from a variety of networks, including NBC, Chicago Fire, Smash, The Voice, Grimm, BBC America, HGTV, Food Network, ...
Netflix Looks to Double Original Content Next Year
on 5.23.13
We're just a few days away from the long-awaited fourth season of Arrested Development, one of the most high-profile Netflix original series to be released. Ted Sarandos, the man behind the company's ever-burgeoning original content strategy, just sat down with The Hollywood Reporter to talk about Netflix' strategy and what ...
Twitter’s TV Partnerships Have Increased Ratings, Profits
on 5.23.13
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo took the stage in Manhattan this morning to talk with a crowd of the biggest advertisers and brands from Madison Avenue. He brought up a slide of a recent tweet, featuring a picture of race cars spinning out of control. "Usually when there is a crash at the Daytona 500 the ratings go down," Costolo ...
Best Buy Begins Carrying 4K TVs
on 5.22.13
Best Buy started offering the high-end Sony 4K Ultra High Definition TV sets in 700 of its U.S. stores on Sunday in an effort to shake up the stagnant TV category. The TVs — which have 8.3 million pixels compared with the 2.1 million pixels on regular high-definition TVs — are purported to have four times as sharp a ...
Microsoft Reveals the Xbox One: One Box to Rule Your Living Room
on 5.21.13
Microsoft unveiled its next video game console, the Xbox One, on Tuesday. Unlike Sony, which spent two hours at its PlayStation 4 reveal in February showing just about everything BUT the console, Microsoft put the console, its re-designed controller and updated Kinect camera at the heart of its presentation. Microsoft said ...
The Platinum Age of TV and the Buzz — All the Buzz — That is Driving It
on 5.16.13
Wired magazine declared that we are witnessing “The Platinum Age of TV” in its April cover story. This boom time for quality TV, it says, is powered by a “hyper-social, data-driven” approach to new show creation and promotion. “It all adds up to a potentially thrilling new era for television, one that values ...
Bing Adds Klingon to Language Translator
on 5.15.13
It's time to brush up on your Klingon, Star Trek fans. Search engine Bing has just added the official language of the series to its language translator. Now, you can translate words from English into Klingon — or the other way around. The addition comes just days before the arrival of J.J. Abram's Star Trek Into Darkness ...
TBS, TNT to Offer Cable Subscribers 24/7 Online Streaming This Summer
on 5.15.13
Time Warner's TNT and TBS are joining the parade of networks offering a live linear feed of their channels online for viewers on the go. "Starting this summer, subscribers will be able to watch TBS and TNT live -- anytime, anywhere, on multiple devices," Steve Koonin, president of Turner Entertainment Networks, said at the ...
Tomorrow Will Be Televised: Final Four Smackdown
on 5.12.13
When Time Warner's Turner Broadcasting unit puts on its annual upfront event in New York Wednesday morning, they'll do so with one sure revenue draw they didn't expect to tout so soon... until last week. Their sure draw, in this case, subtracts one sure draw from CBS and its broadcast affiliates, whose mothership hits ...
ABC to Bring Live TV to Mobile Devices This Week
on 5.12.13
This week ABC will quietly revolutionize its app for iPhones and iPads with a button called “live.” Users around New York and Philadelphia will be able to live stream all the programming from ABC’s local stations there, the first time that any major broadcaster has turned on such a technology. The functionality will ...
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