Wednesday’s Social TV Must-Reads (Feb. 27)
The first Latin Social TV Awards gala will be held tomorrow night in Miami and Social TV Daily and the Social TV Summit crew will be there for an inspiring night saluting excellence and leadership in the Hispanic market, followed by Friday’s Social TV Summit Miami conference.
Finalists will be arriving at the Miami-Dade International Airport over the next 24 hours and heading to Miami Beach where the red carpet starts at 6:30 at the Fontainebleau. Check out Social TV Daily for our coverage.
Meantime, read about tonight’s TV highlights, ABC’s win over CBS on Monday night ratings, Cablevision’s spat with Viacom, the second screen and so much more in our daily roundup of must-read articles from across the Internet.
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TV Today
‘American Idol,’ ‘Cosby’ reunion
“We’re one week away from the first live show of what is still TV’s best singing contest, which means we’re also one week away from seeing the judges as they really are, rather than how the show wants them to be seen.”
Read more, via USA Today http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/tv/2013/02/27/bianco-critics-corner-feb-27/1949125/
TV Ratings
‘The Bachelor’ and ‘Castle’ help ABC beat CBS Monday
The two shows combined to give ABC a ratings win in both viewers and adults 18-49 Monday night.
Experts Mull State of Second Screen
“If you’re going to revitalize home entertainment, you’re going to have revitalize sellthrough. The question is whether the second screen is a part of that,” said Chuck Parker, chair of the 2nd Screen Society and former chief commercial officer for Technicolor, speaking Feb. 26 at the 2nd Screen Summit.
Read more http://www.homemediamagazine.com/digital-evolution/experts-mull-state-second-screen-29740
Now on ‘Idol,’ Viewers Can Tweet While Contestants Sing
For “Idol,” which pioneered viewer participation more than a decade ago with toll-free phone numbers for voting on singers, the Twitter-powered “fan meter” is another way to excite viewers — particularly those who watch live and who tend to be most valuable to Fox and its advertisers.
Read more, via NYTimes http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/arts/television/american-idol-fans-can-now-tweet-their-views.html?_r=0
Apple reportedly rolls out movie, TV show access to iTunes in the Cloud in France, Holland and Sweden
Scattered reports are emerging that Apple is rolling out movie and TV show support for iTunes in the Cloud in Europe, namely France, the Netherlands and Sweden.
Read the article http://thenextweb.com/apple/2013/02/27/apple-begins-rolling-out-movie-and-tv-show-access-to-itunes-in-the-cloud-in-france-holland-and-sweden/
Cablevision Sues Viacom Over Bundled Channels
Cablevision, a New York-based cable TV provider, filed an antitrust lawsuit against Viacom on Tuesday in federal court hoping to stop the media conglomerate from forcing Cablevision to pay for channels its customers don’t watch. In order to secure rights to broadcast Nickelodeon, Comedy Central, and MTV, the company states that Viacom has unfairly bundled less-popular ancillary channels.
Read the article, http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2013/02/cablevision-sues-viacom/
Shazam: ‘TV advertising is going to become our primary revenue stream’
“For the time being, second-screen is supporting the ads on the first screen, but there will come a time when second-screen revenues start to become significant enough that the television networks and advertising sales groups will really start to take notice,” says Shazam’s executive vice president of marketing David Jones.
Read the article http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/appsblog/2013/feb/27/shazam-tv-advertising-future?CMP=twt_fd
With Help From Watchwith, Fox Syncs Social TV Content With Second-Screen Apps Shazam, Viggle, ConnecTV, And NextGuide
Fox realizes that not everyone is going to download and use its app, because there are plenty of other second-screen apps that they might like better. And so, in its desire to get its companion content — and its companion ads — where the people are, the broadcasting company is launching a syndication network of second-screen content
Read the article http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/26/with-help-from-watchwith-fox-syncs-second-screen-content-with-social-tv-apps-shazam-viggle-connectv-and-nextguide/
Blockbuster brings its on-demand movie rental service to US Roku boxes
Roku has announced that the all-new Blockbuster on Demand service is now live on its video-streaming platform (US only), and will be available on the Roku Streaming Stick, Roku 2, Roku LT, and new Roku HD players (model 2500X).
Fresh research points to long-awaited merger of TV and online advertising
The disparate fields of online and television advertising could finally be in process of alignment, according to new research published by online video advertising company Adap.tv and Admonsters.
Read the article http://www.thedrum.com/news/2013/02/27/fresh-research-points-long-awaited-merger-tv-and-online-advertising
New ‘Dancing With the Stars’ lineup
“Turns out people didn’t want to see people who could dance. They wanted people who couldn’t dance. . . . It’s not easy to be a taste-master in programming at a network,” Jay Rasulo, chief financial officer of ABC parent Disney said in December at the UBS Global Media and Communications Conference.
Read the article http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/tv-column-new-dancing-with-the-stars-lineup/2013/02/26/f236ae28-8046-11e2-a350-49866afab584_story.html
Console Wars 2013: Sony PS4 and its competitors
The current hot topic in console gaming, the just-announced PlayStation 4, is still largely an enigma. We don’t know how much the PS4 will cost, when it’s being released (beyond “holiday 2013″), or even what it looks like. For now, it’s still the next-gen hardware to beat, but 2013 will take the traditional three-way console race and add several new players.
Read the article http://reviews.cnet.com/8334-9020_7-57571424/console-wars-2013-sony-ps4-and-its-competitors/
Sports
New Orleans Saints Named Finalist for Best Sports Team Twitter Account
Along with the Saints, the Pittsburgh Steelers, New Jersey Devils, Sheffield Wednesday, New England Patriots and Chennai Super Kings were named finalists for the award.
People
- Hilary Smith to Head Communications for USA, Jean Guerin Named Group SVP
NBCUniversal’s Hilary Smith has been appointed SVP Communications for USA Network. She succeeds Jean Guerin, who has been named SVP of Corporate Communications for the newly formed NBCUniversal Entertainment Cable Group under chairman Bonnie Hammer.
Read the article http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/hilary-smith-to-head-communications-for-usa-jean-guerin-upped-to-group-svp/
- Oscars 2013: ‘In Memoriam’ snubs carry over from telecast to web
Comedian Phyllis Diller, actress Lupe Ontiveros and “The Jeffersons” star Sherman Hemsley were snubbed in the Oscars’ time-restricted “In Memoriam” montage on Sunday night. And they didn’t make the cut for an online slideshow, either.
Read the article http://www.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment/sns-rt-us-inmemoriam-snubsbre91p120-20130226,0,2923706.story
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