Monday’s Social TV Must-Reads
As we start the third week of the year, we face the first Monday night of the TV season without the NFL. What’s to watch? Check out the highlights as well as other selected news articles, including hardware and technology, the Golden Globe awards, sports and our daily look at the latin market. Give our Monday noon report a read and let us know what you think!
Top Story
The End of ‘Social TV’
The headline is probing, but Simon Dumenco doesn’t plow a lot of new ground here.
Read the article, via Ad Age http://adage.com/article/the-media-guy/end-social-tv-socialtv-jumped-shark/239125/
Today’s TV Highlights
“The Carrie Diaries” premieres at 8 ET on CW, going against “The Bachelor” at 8 on ABC, and against the “Untold History of the United States” on Showtime. This is a Monday after the NFL season ends.
- Read the article, NYT via Seattle Times
http://seattletimes.com/html/television/2020113976_tvbriefs14xml.html?prmid=head_more
- Read the article, via LA Times
TV Ratings
Miss America hits nine year high on NFL playoff dominated Saturday
FOX led the night with 22.8 million viewers and a 12.5 rating/20 share in households. CBS followed with 14 million viewers and a 8.3/13 share. ABC managed 5.7 million viewers and a 3.7/6, while NBC was out of the game entirely with 1.6 million viewers and a 1.1/2.
Read the article, via Zap2it http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/01/tv-ratings-miss-america-hits-nine-year-high-on-nfl-playoff-dominated-saturday.html
Awards
- Jodie Foster Earns Twitter ‘Respect’ At Golden Globe
For most of the show, #GoldenGlobes held it down on Twitter Trends, with #ShowUsYourGlobes making a guest appearance.
Read the article, via MTV http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1700114/golden-globes-2013-jodie-foster-twitter.jhtml
- Golden Globes quick hits: Twitter talkers, J-Lo train nearly derails
GG notes.
Read the article, via Dallas News http://www.dallasnews.com/entertainment/headlines/20130113-golden-globes-quick-hits-j-lo-train-nearly-derails-olympians-join-the-fun.ece
- Golden Globes 2013: Tina Fey, Amy Poehler raise the bar
(W)hen Tina Fey and Amy Poehler took the stage at this year’s Golden Globes. Lovely, brilliant and utterly fearless, they made awards-show hosting an art form again, helming three hours of occasionally hilarious, occasionally emotional and surprisingly enjoyable TV.
Read the article, via LA Times http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/tv/la-et-st-golden-globes-review-fey-poehler-20130114,0,1389506.story
- Golden Globes 2013: A big night for HBO’s ‘Girls’ and Lena Dunham
This year marked the first time that no show on one of the four major broadcast networks received a Globe — including NBC, which aired the ceremony live.
Read the article, via LA Times http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/tv/la-et-en-golden-globes-tv-20130114,0,3712516.story
Hardware/Tech
- With cable-cutting on the rise, so is mobile streaming live TV
If this year’s CES is any indication, mobile TV options will be plentiful in 2013.
Read the article, via PC World http://www.pcworld.com/article/2025169/with-cable-cutting-on-the-rise-so-is-mobile-streaming-live-tv.html
- Comcast TV Program Guide Goes From Clunky to Cutting-Edge
Comcast officials demoed the new guide for KYW Newsradio at Comcast Labs at their headquarters in Center City.
Read the article, via CBS Philadelphia http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2013/01/14/comcast-tv-program-guide-goes-from-clunky-to-cutting-edge/
- Black-and-White TV sets still thrive in the UK
The BBC is widely regarded for its technology prowess, but nearly 13,000 households in the United Kingdom are still opting to watch television in black-and-white. Be it nostalgia, neo-luddism, or thriftiness – the old medium is hanging on for certain segments of society.
Read the article, via Smart Planet http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/black-and-white-tv-sets-still-thrive-in-the-uk/10072
Advertising
How Big Data Keeps Cable TV Watchers Hooked
Big Data is one of 2013′s most popular buzz terms. It’s also transforming the cable television business, which is in ongoing disarray as cord-cutters and competition from phone companies change the rules of the game.
Read the article, via Fast Company http://www.fastcompany.com/3004619/how-big-data-keeps-cable-tv-watchers-hooked
Content
Blogs become potent source for film, TV
A string of recent TV development deals has proven that no blog, Tumblr or Twitter feed is too obscure or too new to escape notice in Hollywood, so long as the voice behind the content is compelling enough to expand into other media.
Read the article, via Variety http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118064580/
Sports
- From Twitter to TV, initiative helps NASCAR listen
Monday, NASCAR will unveil its Fan and Media Engagement Center, a technology initiative that collects and aggregates what’s being said about the sport in both social and traditional media and disseminates that information to the proper channels. The center, housed on the eighth floor of NASCAR’s executive office building in Charlotte, is believed to be the first of its kind in professional sports.
Read the article, via N & O (Raleigh, NC) http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/01/14/2605755/from-twitter-to-tv-initiative.html
- WWE’s ‘Raw’ still running wild at the 20-year mark
“Raw” has become as much a fixture on Monday nights as the NFL and remains one of the highest-rated weekly shows on cable television. The 20th anniversary show Monday on USA is about as big as two behemoth Big Shows — episode No. 1,025 — and the promotion has long outlasted its closest competitor.
Read the article, via Norfolk Daily News http://www.norfolkdailynews.com/news/national/feature_national/wwe-s-raw-still-running-wild-at-the–year/article_72de62a0-5c02-11e2-a082-001a4bcf6878.html
- Sharapova finally joins Twitter
Who is Sharapova chasing for social media supremacy? She’s already the most “liked” WTA player on Facebook with 9.28 million to Serena Williams’ 1.36 million. But when it comes to the universe of English-speaking social media, a caveat added simply because Li Na dominates the Chinese version of Twitter with 13.9 million followers (via Sina Weibo), Rafael Nadal is king, with 11.46 million Facebook followers and 3.62 million Twitter followers.
Read the article, via SI http://tennis.si.com/2013/01/14/maria-sharapova-twitter/
Latin Market
- Univision to Form an Internal Advertising and Media Unit
The new unit, Univision Agency, will create promotional content for all Univision properties, including broadcast, radio and digital, and provide research and creative services for internal and external clients.
Read the article, via NYT http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/01/13/univision-to-form-an-internal-advertising-and-media-unit/
- In memoir, Sonia Sotomayor reveals childhood struggles and fighting spirit
In Sonia Sotomayor’s “My Beloved World,” the first Hispanic Supreme Court justice provides a vivid and evocative window into a truly bicultural household, one of two languages and two places of importance in her life; New York and Puerto Rico. In her book, which is released today in English and Spanish, Sotomayor says she faced “not uncommon” challenges — serious illness, poverty, and a one-parent household. “But neither have they kept me from uncommon achievements,” she writes.
Read the article, via NBC Latino http://nbclatino.com/2013/01/14/in-memoir-sonia-sotomayor-reveals-childhood-struggles-and-fighting-spirit/
