Monday’s Social TV Must-Reads
The second week of the year starts with a tent-pole event — tonight’s BCS Championship game from the Orange Bowl in Miami, on ESPN. Today, we have TV highlights, ratings, content deals, sports, the hispanic market and so much more for our daily noon report.
Tonight’s TV Hghlights
Tonight’s BCS Championship football game may break a 7-year-old ratings record if more than 30 million homes tune into the game on ESPN. Alternatives include the reworking of “The Insider” as “omg! Insider,” as well as the “The Bachelor” on ABC.
- Read the article, via LA Times http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-mondays-tv-highlights-most-expensive-hollywood-divorces-on-tv-guide-20130104,0,5288750.story
- TV highlights for the week, AJC http://blogs.ajc.com/radio-tv-talk/2013/01/07/tv-best-bets-with-golden-globes-return-of-the-bachelor-cougar-town-justified-girls/?icid=buzzlink
TV Ratings (Saturday)
NFL Wild Card Game Boosts NBC
The NFL Wild Card Game between the Green Bay Packers against the Minnesota Vikings boosted NBC With an average 26.0 million viewers for the night. CBS came in second via a repeat of “The Mentalist,” and two new episodes of “48 Hours,” while FOX landed at third with “Cops” and “The Mob Doctor.” ABC brought up fourth place for the night with an average 1.9 million viewers for back-to-back repeat episodes of “Once Upon A Time.”
Read the article, via Zap2it
http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/01/tv-ratings-nfl-wild-card-game-scores-touchdown-for-nbc.html
Hardware
Roku Set-Top Boxes to Stream Live TV in Time Warner Cable Pact
Roku said it’s adding 300 live television channels through a partnership with Time Warner Cable Inc. to allow access to live TV and Internet video from sites such as Netflix and YouTube from the same set-top box, the companies said in a statement.
Read the article, via Bloomberg http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-07/roku-set-top-boxes-to-stream-live-tv-in-time-warner-cable-pact.html
Sets
The Smart TV Revolution
“What you’re going to end up with is 3 billion televisions, 2 billion desktops, 12 billion tablets, and 6 billion phones, all wound together by either iOS, Android, or Windows, and I think Apple’s going to be No. 1, Google’s going to be No. 2, and Microsoft will be a somewhat distant No. 3.”
Read the article, via Daily Finance http://www.dailyfinance.com/2013/01/06/the-smart-tv-revolution/
Content
Netflix Secures Deal With Warner Bros. for Slate of New TV Shows
Netflix today announced a new deal with Warner Bros. involving some of the studio’s top-tier content. T
Read the article, via PC Mag http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2413915,00.asp
Deals
Dish Mulls Letting Advertisers Bid on Shows in Real Time
Dish Network Corp. (DISH), the second- largest U.S. satellite provider, is developing a feature that would let advertisers see what people are watching in real time, setting the stage for last-minute auctions of ad space.
Read the article http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-01-07/dish-mulls-letting-advertisers-bid-on-shows-in-real-time.html
Apps
DISH Launches DISH Explorer App for Second-Screen TV Viewing on iPad
DISH is launching a new app for the iPad tomorrow called DISH Explorer that will work with existing consumers’ Hopper DVRs.
Read the article, read the article, via Starpulse. http://www.starpulse.com/news/Alan_Danzis/2013/01/06/dish_launches_dish_explorer_app_for_se
YouTube
Inside YouTube’s Plan to Dominate Your TV
During interviews at YouTube HQ in San Bruno, Calif., the company tried its best to convince Mashable that a Minority Report-style future — one where the majority of us will simply flick videos off our phone screens and have them appear on our TVs, without a second thought — was just around the corner.
Read the article, via Mashable http://mashable.com/2013/01/07/youtube-future-tv/
Sports
NHL lost battle with players on social media, McMaster prof says
“There’s been this giant conversation that’s happened about this lockout that has never happened before because there was never the venue to do that.”
Read the article, via CBC http://www.cbc.ca/hamilton/news/story/2013/01/07/hamilton-twitter-nhl-lockout.html
Hispanic Market
US Hispanic TV market bolsters Televisa outlook
Zacks Equity Research has reaffirmed its long-term Neutral recommendation on Grupo Televisa SA, noting that the US Hispanic TV market is “highly lucrative and growing at a remarkable pace.”
Read the article, via Rapid TV News http://www.rapidtvnews.com/index.php/2013010725703/us-hispanic-tv-market-bolsters-televisa-outlook.html
‘La Patrona’ Telenovela Premieres January 8th on Telemundo
On Jan. 8, Telemundo will air the first chapter of a new soap opera “La Patrona.” The telenovela marks the new partnership between Telemundo and star Aracely Arambula.
Read the article, via LatinosPost http://www.latinospost.com/articles/9105/20130106/la-patrona-telenovela-premieres-january-8th-telemundo.htm
