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Headlines Archive - Week of Jan 03, 2009

CES Shows the Possible Futures for Television Newsfactor \| Jan 09, 2009 The future of television was on display at the Consumer Electronics Show, with 3-D, superthin and bendable sets. - Read the whole story
Cheer Up: Canada's in Good Shape Media In Canada \| Jan 09, 2009 Job numbers out Friday, showing a jump in the national unemployment rate to 6.6 per cent, confirm that Canada has followed the United States into a recession. But the odds are that workers here will come through the downturn of 2009 with far fewer scrapes and bruises than they did during the two previous recessions. - Read the whole story
CTV Online Properties Break Revenue and Traffic Records Media In Canada \| Jan 09, 2009 CTV announced this morning that its online network experienced double-digit growth in both revenue and traffic last year. According to HBX and Omniture combined, it served up 337 million total video streams throughout 2008, up 108% since 2007, when it counted 162 million video streams. - Read the whole story
CES: Mobile TV Service Debuts MediaPostPublications \| Jan 09, 2009 Major TV station groups unveiled a groundbreaking mobile digital TV service under their Open Mobile Video Coalition initiative in an announcement at the International Consumer Electronics Show. - Read the whole story
CES: TV's Future Growth Harder to Target MediaPostPublications \| Jan 09, 2009 Future growth of TV platforms for consumers will dance on a fine line between success and failure, unlike somewhat easier efforts in the recent past. - Read the whole story
CES: What's Ahead in TV Technology Los Angeles Times \| Jan 09, 2009 The latest in television technology is on display at the annual Consumer Electronics Show, with super-thin screens, three-dimensional imagery, wireless connections and ultra-sharp picture quality. - Read the whole story
CES: Audiovox to Boost Availability of TV on Road TVNewsday \| Jan 09, 2009 Audiovox Corp. said Wednesday it will make an in-car receiver for Qualcomm Inc. (QCOM) (QCOM)'s subscription-based mobile TV broadcasts, previously available only on AT&T Inc. and Verizon Wireless cell phones. - Read the whole story
New Study Shows Kids Motivated by TV and Print Ads Media In Canada\| Jan 08, 2009 Results from New York-based Mediamark Research's 2008 American Kids Study show that children between six and 11 years old are increasingly using the Internet to check out products they see advertised in other media. - Read the whole story
WEWS Breaks Browns News on Multiple Platforms TVNewsday \| Jan 08, 2009 WEWS, the Scripps ABC affiliate in Cleveland, says it was the first media outlet in Northeast Ohio to break the news Wednesday that Eric Mangini was named the new Browns head coach. - Read the whole story
CBC Reality Show Taps Social Media to Ramp Up Interest Media In Canada \| Jan 08, 2009 CBC is conducting on-air promotion of its reality TV show The Week the Women Went, and grassroots initiatives like posting blogs for the communities are also in the works. - Read the whole story
Wall Crumbling Between Televisions and Computers CNN \| Jan 08, 2009 The wall between televisions and computers is crumbling and Internet pioneer Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO) is swinging a virtual hammer. - Read whole story
Downloading TV and Watching Video Online Biggest Gainers in 2008 MediaPostPublications \| Jan 08, 2009 According to new data from Mediamark Research & Intelligence, (MRI), downloading TV programs, watching online videos and making online phone calls posted the biggest year-to-year percent increase among adult Internet users. - Read the whole story
CES 2009: Toshiba's Unveils New TV Could End Loud Adverts Telegraph \| Jan 08, 2009 Electronics giant Toshiba has developed a television which can ensure adverts are played at the same volume of everything else. - Read the whole story
CES 2009: Microsoft CEO Says Screens Will Converge Multichannel News \| Jan 07, 2009 Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, in his first CES keynote, said one of the biggest areas of opportunity for the consumer-electronics industry -- even given the current economic recession -- is to converge the capabilities of PCs, phones and TVs. - Read the whole story
CES 2009: Consumers Put the Recession On Hold When It Comes to Their Gadgets Variety \| Jan 07, 2009 Despite the grim economic forecast the CEA is still projecting growth this year for some products. - Read the whole story
ABC Wrangles Widgets for Shows Variety \| Jan 07, 2009 "Good Morning America" and "Lost" may be among the first Disney-ABC shows to get the widget treatment. - Read the whole story
Telegent Offers Advice on How to Launch Mobile TV in Credit Crunch Broadcasting Engineering \| Jan 07, 2009 Consumers love new services with familiar content. Mobile TV that uses an existing broadcast network delivers both, attracting new customers, growing revenues and reducing churn. - Read the whole story
MobiTV Delivers CBS Hits MediaPostPublications \| Jan 07, 2009 MobiTV is delivering full-length episodes and clips from CBS Mobile, which offers prime-time hits like "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," "Numb3rs" and "CSI:NY." - Read the whole story
TV Media Browsing Demand to Rise RBR.com \| Jan 07, 2009 A new study into High Definition TV purchase drivers reveals that the ability to access the Internet from the comfort of the living room in parallel or in addition to watching regular TV programming, is making its way into the purchasing criteria of tech-savvy consumers who plan to purchase a TV within the next two years. - Read the whole story
Coming Soon to Cellphones: Free, Over-The-Air TV USA Today \| Jan 07, 2009 Millions of consumers by year's end should be able to watch free, over-the-air television on cellphones, PDAs and other portable digital devices as the result of initiatives that will be unveiled Thursday by some of the nation's largest TV station owners and electronics manufacturers. - Read the whole story
World Juniors Hockey Final Makes Ratings History for TSN CARTT \| Jan 07, 2009 Team Canada's gold medal victory at the 2009 IIHF World Junior Championship on Monday night checked in as the most-watched broadcast of all time on the network, making ratings history for TSN. - Read the whole story
Sling Media Slings to iPhone In 2009 Sports Video Group \| Jan 06, 2009 Macworld always offers a slew of tech innovations, and one of the first out of the gate is a Sling Media demo of SlingPlayer Mobile for iPhone, which is being developed for the iTunes store and is slated to be delivered to Apple for certification in the first quarter. - Read the whole story
CBS Strikes On-Demand Pact With MobiTV Mediaweek \| Jan 06, 2009 CBS has begun delivering on demand, full-length episodes of several of its most popular prime-time shows to MobiTV subscribers. - Read whole story
TV Advertising Market: Slap, Tickle, and Wait MediaPostPublications \| Jan 06, 2009 The future of network TV is actually the future of TV syndication. There's good news there. - Read the whole story
DVR Habits of Upscale Viewers MediaPostPublications \| Jan 06, 2009 Experts in affluent-adult behavior have conducted research that found that among U.S. homes with incomes of $100,000-plus, more than 63% have a DVR. - Read the whole story
The Top 20 Trends in 2009 trendhunter.com \| Jan 05, 2008 TREND HUNTER Research reveals its top 20 predictions for 2009. - View the list
HBO Is Hiding Little About "Big Love" New York Times \| Jan 05, 2009 HBO"s "Big Love," which last showed a new episode in August 2007, is beginning an aggressive ad campaign to remind its audience just what was happening to the polygamous Henrickson family. - Read the whole story
Resurrecting the WB as a Web Contender New York Times \| Jan 04, 2009 With more than 186 million Web sites on the Internet today, according to the research firm Netcraft, it"s no easy task to start a new one that users are going to find and keep coming back to. - Read whole story
Flat-screen TVs to Face Energy-Efficiency Rules in California Los Angeles Times \| Jan 03, 2009 Starting in 2011, state regulators want retailers to sell only the most energy-efficient models of power hungry LCD and plasma sets. The industry opposes the new rules and warns of higher prices. - Read the whole story

Originally Posted: 1/13/2009 10:25:00 AM

Last Updated: 8/28/2009 4:10:04 PM