Beating Out Netflix
The Montreal Gazette | December 16, 2011
At meetings with investors in recent weeks, senior corporate managers of Corus Entertainment Inc. and Astral Media Inc., owners of the two largest movie networks in the country, said the impact of Netflix and other online content services in the past 12 months has been minimal, and would remain so in fiscal 2012.
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PBS Kids: Ratings Rise Attracts New Sponsors
MediaPost Daily News | December 16, 2011
Nickelodeon may have its problems with inexplicable lower viewer ratings -- but that can't be said of other niche and smaller kids' TV networks.
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Broadcast TV: Still the Medium of Choice
Media Life | December 15, 2011
With a stronger-than-expected upfront and the most promising crop of fall shows in several years, broadcast television once again topped buyers' list of must-have media in 2011.
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NFL Renews Television Deals
ESPN | December 14, 2011
CBS, Fox and NBC renewed their contracts for nine years through the 2022 season, the NFL announced Wednesday. The average fees from the three networks will increase by an average of 7 percent annually, a person familiar with the details said. That will take the total revenue from them from the current $1.93 billion per year to $3.1 billion by 2022.
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Apple TV To Capture 32% Share Of Connected TV Players
MediaPost Online Media Daily | December 14, 2011
According to Strategy Analytics Senior Analyst Jia Wu, Apple TV owners are also heavy media buyers. About 30% of these users rented movies or TV shows, while only 20% did so on other devices. Apple TV taps directly into the iTunes media ecosystem for seamless rentals and purchases.
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Powell: Cable and Broadcast Regs Need Rethinking
Broadcasting & Cable | December 14, 2011
While a speech about communications and jobs is common these days, Powell's was linked to Steve Jobs and his mantra of simplicity. Like the less-is-more approach to Apple products' elegant functionality or rail thin TV sets, regulators should also look to pare back, he suggested.
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The Click Clique: Apple, Microsoft, And Others Don't Care About Your New TV Remote
Fast Company | December 14, 2011
Television remote controls are evolving more than they have at any time in the past 60 years--but where we're going, we may not need them.
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eBay Links Tablets and TV
WARC | December 14, 2011
eBay, the ecommerce site, has launched an iPad app enabling users to buy products featured in TV shows while they are on air.
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Cable's 2012 Prospects: So Very Rosy
Media Life | December 13, 2011
Cable television was one of the first media categories to start recovering from the recession, and this year it was also one of the few categories where ad revenue continued to grow as ad spending on other media dried up.
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Burnett, ATV8 Integrate TV WIth Social Platforms
MediaPost Daily News | December 14, 2011
TV producer Mark Burnett Productions has struck a deal with digital technology company ACTV8.ME, which connects real-time digital content of TV shows supported by special advertising messaging.
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Controversy Drives Advertisers From "All-American Muslim" " Or Does it?
The New York Times | December 13, 2011
At least two advertisers have withdrawn commercials from "All-American Muslim," a new series on the TLC cable channel, since an activist organization called the Florida Family Association condemned the show. But others cited by the organization as pulling out as sponsors are disputing the claim.
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TV Usage On Rise, Print Grabs More Ad $ Than Mobile
MediaPost Daily News | December 13, 2011
Digital media consumption is rising, yet more research shows that traditional TV usage continues to grow.
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FCC Approves CALM Act Rules
Multichannel News | December 13, 2011
The Federal Communications Commission voted Tuesday on rules implementing the Commercial Advertisement Loudness Mitigation (CALM) Act, which prevents TV ads from being delivered at greater volume than the programs surrounding them.
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Pass the Remote-and the Tablet: Media Study Detects Boost in TV, Mobile Use
The Wall Street Journal | December 12, 2011
According to a study of U.S. adult media habits, Americans spent an average of four hours and 34 minutes per day in front of the tube, up 10 minutes from last year. The number includes watching any type of content on TV, including content from streaming video services such as Netflix.
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Microsoft Talks Up Xbox's TV Game
Multichannel News | December 12, 2011
Cable operators won't be tossing their set-top boxes anytime soon. But Microsoft's expanded Xbox strategy exemplifies a broader evolution of how video content is being delivered to the home - and underscores the need for the industry to adapt to the new connected-TV world.
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New Habits Strengthen TV in UK
WARC | December 12, 2011
Television consumption in the UK is being aided rather than damaged by the proliferation of online and mobile media usage, a new study from Motorola has suggested.
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NBA Renews Major Ad Partnership Deals
The Wall Street Journal | December 12, 2011
"Clearly, as a result of the schedule there just wasn't much NBA inventory in the fourth quarter. That inventory went away, but the demand for NBA advertising, from talking to our TV partners, is incredible"people want to be in those Christmas Day games."
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Microsoft Presses Forward on TV Ads
Digiday | December 12, 2011
"We"re not aspiring to blow up the upfront," said Jahn Wolland, Microsoft's senior director of advanced TV. "This is a complementary product that brings digital like accountability and targeting to broadcast."
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Netflix Jumps On Speculation Verizon Might Bid
Forbes | December 12, 2011
Last week, Reuters reported that Verizon was planning to enter the streaming market; buying Netflix would certainly get them into that market in a hurry.
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