Monday’s Social-TV Must-Reads
Facebook has a plan to decimate TV, and lots of sports over the weekend with threats and fines for one NBA player and a freshman winning the Heisman and, just maybe, getting a chance to tweet.
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Facebook Is Quietly Implementing A Plan To Destroy Television
Facebook’s management has recently adopted a new mantra: Facebook’s audience is the equivalent of three Super Bowls every day. It turns out that this mantra is a clue to how Facebook intends to start stealing the advertising dollars that currently go to television.
Via Business Insider, http://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-is-quietly-implementing-a-plan-to-destroy-television-2012-12
Viewers talk about TV shows online, and advertisers want in
“Twitter has become the second screen experience for television,” said Deirdre Bannon, vice president of social media at Nielsen.
AP via Tampa Bay Online, http://www2.tbo.com/news/tech/2012/dec/09/social-media-tv-link-studied-ar-580324/
Monday’s TV Highlights
A packed night of television. Fox has the American Country Awards, NBC debuts Take It All, SyFy celebrates 20 years, and the LA Basketball Wives close out their second season.
2 Broke Girls at 9 p.m. on CBS followed by Hawaii Five-o at 10 p.m., The Voice on NBC with Michael Bublé at 8 p.m. then, at 10 p.m., a double dose of Michael Bublé with home for the holidays. On Fox, the American Country Awards. On ESPN, the Houston Texans visit the New England Patriots.
Via TV Latest http://www.tvlatest.com/article/3444/Monday+TV%3A+American+Country+Awards,+Take+It+All,+Basketball+Wives+LA,+SyFy+20th
TV Ratings
- (Saturday)
UFC tops American Giving Awards, The Borrowers and Frosty the Snowman.
Via TV by the Numbers http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2012/12/09/tv-ratings-saturday-ufc-beats-up-american-giving-awards-the-borrowers-frosty-the-snowman-specials/160894/
- Suspense Builds Over Fox TV Ratings
There are signs that growing viewership of online video and other alternatives is hurting traditional television. Viewership also is declining for other major networks. Still, Fox appears to have been hit the worst. Its average overall prime-time audience this season is 6.9 million viewers, down 27% from a year earlier.
Via WSJ http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323316804578165801889900368.html
Sports
- Yahoo, NBC in Content Sharing Deal – Analyst Blog
The partnership is expected to benefit both companies over the long term. The alliance will broaden the reach of both the companies going forward. According to comScore, Yahoo! Sports came in second to ESPN in November rankings with approximately 40 million online users while ESPN had 42 million visitors. However, during the same month, NBC had only 11 million unique visitors, which put it into the #8 position. Both the companies expect that their traffic will be measured together, which will make them the No. 1 sports website in the United States.
Read the article, via NASDAQ http://community.nasdaq.com/News/2012-12/yahoo-nbc-in-content-sharing-deal-analyst-blog.aspx?storyid=197447#.UMYhguRJMlo
- Sunday NFL Twitter
Vince Young takes to Twitter to ask Larry Fitzgerald for a job with the Cardinals
- NFL Week 14 as told by tweets
CBS curates the NFL tweet stream.
Via CBS Sports http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/blog/eye-on-football/21338777/nfl-week-14-as-told-by-tweets
- College Basketball
Today’s Specials: Finals Week means light slate
Via CBS Sports http://www.cbssports.com/collegebasketball/blog/eye-on-college-basketball/21346695/todays-specials-finals-week-means-light-slate
- College football
Heisman winner Manziel keeps his wit about him
Johnny Manziel, a Texas A&M freshman who won College football’s Heisman Trophy Saturday night, said he tried avoiding the budding Heisman hype that started in November, “but as much as I thumb through Twitter,” that was almost impossible. He added that when he saw something whiz by on Twitter that was Heisman- or Manziel-related, he would “get off of it real quick.” Texas A&M coach Kevin Sumlin has no-media policy for first-year players.
Via Houston Chronicle http://www.chron.com/sports/aggies/article/Heisman-winner-Manziel-keeps-his-wit-about-him-4104040.php
- NBA
NEW YORK (AP) — San Antonio Spurs forward Stephen Jackson was fined $25,000 by the NBA on Sunday for threatening Oklahoma City’s Serge Ibaka in a Twitter post.
Via Yahoo http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/spurs-jackson-fined-twitter-message-035914416–nba.html
Social Media
Abiding fixation: U.S. social media use clocks 121 billion minutes
2012 report shows Facebook claimed almost 20 percent of Americans’ computer time
Via Chicago Tribune http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-talk-2012-social-media-1210-20121210,0,5860067.story
Releases
Sysomos Reports on Social Media Market Share for Smart Phones
On Twitter, Android had the most amount of talk, barely edging out the iPhone with a mere 1,768 mentions.
Read the release http://www.melodika.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=515946&Itemid=55
