Speaking at O’Reilly Media’s Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco yesterday, Google Chairman and CEO Eric Schmidt appears to have done little to douse the fires he started by referring to “dumb TV.”
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ITV has announced an increase in advertising revenue – up 16% for the first nine months of 2010, while group revenues are up 11% year on year to £1,456 million (2009: £1,312 million).
informitv’s William Cooper says “with the end of analogue television and teletext services in sight, the role of the red button in providing rapid access to news, sport and weather information services should not be underestimated or undervalued”
Fox has become the fourth major US network to block its content from Google TV. ABC, CBS and NBC have also blocked access to their online video portals from the Google TV browser.
ITV1’s impressive weekend line-up certainly set the standard for the pre-Christmas ratings drive, with Sunday night’s X Factor attracting a high of more than 15.2 million viewers.
I attended two events on connected TV last week, and, accepting natural bias, one (our own!) enthused me and left me scratching my head at the number of “hedging your bets” alliances that are going on out there across numerous exciting platforms; whilst the other left me, well… just plain concerned.Let’s start positive. Our second… Continue reading The future of TV excites us… rather more than our millionaire MPs!
Will YouView be the catalyst for consumers and their understanding of connected TV opportunities? Quite possibly.
Connected TV might be dominating industry discussion, but has VoD really altered TV viewing? The subject divided opinion at yesterday’s ‘The Internet Comes to TV’ event, run by MediaTel Group and Rovi.
Read the latest from MediaTel Group’s The Internet Comes to TV event…
BT Group plc announced its results today for the second quarter and half year to 30 September 2010, with revenues down 3% to £4,977 million.