Thursday’s Social TV Must-Reads

The awards season starts to heat up with last night’s People’s Choice and today’s Oscar nominations topping the list. Today, we gather all of the lists, take a look at what is going on in Las Vegas as CES winds down as well as lots of sports news and a look at what’s hot in the latin market.

Today’s TV Highlights

The awards season continues tonight with the Critics’ Choice Movie Awards playing against such scripted shows like “Big Bang Theory” on CBS, NBC’s “30 Rock,” and “1600 Penn” against a new “Kathy” special on Bravo, or the designers go to Paris and create couture “Project Runway All Stars” on Lifetime.

Read the LA Times article, http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-thursdays-tv-highlights-two-and-a-half-men-on-cbs-20130109,0,383206.story

TV Ratings

• ‘NCIS’ hits a season high Tuesday while ‘Go On’ stumbles

CBS averaged 16.5 million viewers — more than the other four nets combined — and a 10.4 rating/16 share in households for the night. NBC (5 million, 3.2/5) was the best of the rest, beating ABC (4.2 million, 2.8/4) for second place.

Read more, via Zap2it http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethebox/2013/01/tv-ratings-ncis-hits-a-season-high-tuesday-while-go-on-stumbles.html

• Nielsen nears decision on TV household definition

If a viewer watches a TV show on a tablet, should that be reflected in its Nielsen rating?

That’s a question at the heart of a complicated decision Nielsen hopes to make by the end of the first quarter regarding a new definition for what constitutes a TV household.

Read the article, via Variety http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118064419/

CES

• App makers highlight TV’s utter failure to help you find anything good to watch

While little news was announced at the 2nd Screen Summit, It’s never been more obvious that “the future of television has arrived, and it’s called the iPad.”

Read the article, via The Verge http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/8/3849698/tv-guides-suck-tablet-apps-second-screen-summit

• CES 2013 ushers in TVs built for waving, pointing, and tapping (+video)

In the not-so-distant future, couch potatoes will be waving, pointing, swiping and tapping to make their TVs react, kind of like what Tom Cruise did in the 2002 movie “Minority Report.” That’s the vision of TV manufacturers as they show off “smart TVs.”

Read the article, via Christian Science Monitor http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Latest-News-Wires/2013/0109/CES-2013-ushers-in-TVs-built-for-waving-pointing-and-tapping-video

• More Redbox Instant details revealed at CES; Vizio, LG and Google TV clients coming

Engadget checks out beta Redbox, streaming service with focus on movies, not TV

Read the article, via Engadget http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/09/redbox-instant-ces-2013/

• Looking beyond 4k to the TVs of the future

Screens with 33-megapixel resolutions, projectors that blend their output to go as large as you want and screenless displays hint at the future of TV at CES.

Read the article, via BBC http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20965404

Awards

• People’s Choice Awards a feast for ‘Hunger Games’

“Hunger Games” was named favorite movie, action movie and movie franchise, and stars Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth had fans’ favorite on-screen chemistry. Lawrence also won favorite movie actress and “face of heroism.”

Read the article, via Detroit Free Press http://www.freep.com/article/20130110/ENT03/130110015/People-s-Choice-Awards-a-feast-for-Hunger-Games-

• DGA TV nominations include “Girls,” “Homeland” and “Mad Men”

See the complete list of nominees.

Read the article, via CBS News http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-207_162-57563119/dga-tv-nominations-include-girls-homeland-and-mad-men/

• Academy Releases ‘Social Media Cheat Sheet’ for Oscar Nominations

In advance of this morning’s nominations, with list of sites, handles and apps to use in lead-up to Oscars.

Read the article, via ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/entertainment/2013/01/academy-releases-social-media-cheat-sheet-for-oscar-nominations/

• Twitter taps stars to take fans backstage at the Golden Globes

Julia Louis-Dreyfus (@officialJLD) and David Spade (@davidspade) will be tweeting from the red carpet, the banquet hall, the kitchen, maybe even the bathroom as part of Twitter’s behind-the-scenes program.

Read the article, via The Verge http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/10/3859460/twitter-taps-stars-to-take-fans-backstage-at-the-golden-globes

Sports

• Catholic 7 discusses TV deal

Fox officials reaffirmed a $500 million rights fee offer that would be predicated on a 12-year deal with the Catholic 7 (DePaul, Georgetown, Marquette, Providence, Seton Hall, St. John’s, Villanova) adding five additional teams to the league.

Read the article, via ESPN http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/8831345/catholic-7-talk-tv-deal-commissioners-sources

• Who is king of social media in NASCAR?

Jimmie Johnson is the answer. Check out the list.

Read the article, via USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nascar/2013/01/09/nascar-social-media-jimmie-johnson-brad-keselowski-joe-gibbs-racing-dale-earnhardt-jr-danica-patrick-jeff-gordon-kyle-busch-hendrick-motorsports-twitter-facebook-youtube-instagram/1820227/

• Players react to Hall of Fame vote on Twitter

No one was elected by writers. No one. Players on Twitter share their opinions.

Read the article, via Yahoo Sports http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mlb-big-league-stew/players-react-hall-fame-snub-twitter-212205657–mlb.html

Latin Market

• Pols probe pay TV in Mexico: Government backs fine against Televisa

President Enrique Pena Nieto’s newly inducted government ratified a $4.2 million fine against Televisa for monopolistic practices with its subsidiaries and is pushing for the passage of “must-carry” and “must-offer” laws that would pave the way for Mexico’s top two broadcasters, Televisa and TV Azteca, to charge cablers for content.

• Fox News Latino Adds Former NPR Correspondent as Senior Editor

Fox News Channel’s Hispanic-targeting website Fox News Latino is adding Hernán Rozemberg as its senior editor. Rozemberg was a senior correspondent for National public Radio, on its “Fronteras: The Changing America Desk.”

Read the article, http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/fox-news-latino-adds-former-npr-correspondent-as-senior-editor_b161142