Filed under: BROADCAST/CABLE | Tags: Battlestar Galactica, Disney Channel, DisneyXd, Dow Jones Industrial Average, Lee Adama, NBC Universal, Time Warner Cable, Toon Disney
Bravo offers viewers a glimpse into the lives of rich, privileged teenagers residing in Manhattan with its new docu-series NYC Prep opening June 16 at 11p. NYC Prep chronicles the lives of six wealthy high school students who lead sophisticated yet pressure-filled lifestyles. Under the surface of exclusive parties, luxurious vacations and shopping sprees, there are college applications and high expectations for each of these teens. (Cynopsis 4/10)
Gossip Girl The Reality Show.
Wednesday’s season premiere of Real World/Road Rules: The Duel 2 on MTV posted a 1.76 rating with P12-34 and averaged 1.78 million viewers. (Cynopsis 4/10)
Kids cable nets Cartoon Network and Disney XD, formerly Toon Disney, are adding more live-action fare to their production slates in hopes of attracting a larger audience of boys between the ages of 6 and 14, according to this report. “Animation as a genre channel seemed to be very limiting,” said Rich Ross, chief of Disney Channel Worldwide. “We had an opportunity to broaden our voice to get more kids, and certainly boys, by re-engineering what Toon Disney was.” USA TODAY (4/9)
MLB Network on Saturday night will add a new wrinkle to its programming strategy: live Saturday evening games. The move will allow the network, which already had scheduled 26 Thursday night telecasts, to double the number of games it will carry in its freshman season. TVWeek.com (4/9)
SCI FI Channel Battlestar Galactica fans and collectors will have one last chance to buy a piece of show memorabilia during a live auction weekend May 8-10. NBC Universal Television, DVD, Music and Consumer Products Group is partnering with Propworx to again offer more than 900 items from the show. Some of the items include: Admiral Adama’s desk chair, a full-size Viper Mark II ship and Lee Adama’s bomber jacket. The auction, with a portion of the proceeds benefiting United Way, will be held at the Pasadena Convention Center and a preview will be open to the public on May 7. The auction will also stream live at the Auction Network site at www.auctionnetwork.com , allowing fans to watch and bid in real time. For more information and to view the auction catalog, please visit www.battlestarprops.com. (Cynopsis 4/10)
Cable stocks rallied Thursday as the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 246 points. Cablevision shares led the charge with an 8.6% increase, while Mediacom posted a 7.9% gain, Time Warner Cable rose 3.2% and Comcast increased 2.5%. Multichannel News (4/9)
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Filed under: ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA | Tags: Business model, comScore, Google, Sony, Unique visitor, us, Veoh, YouTube
ONLINE SERVICES/INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Sony‘s entertainment unit is negotiating with Google to become the first major U.S. film studio to post full-length movies on YouTube. No other details on the possible deal were provided by Sony. YouTube did not comment on the talks. Bloomberg (4/9)
As video sites on the Web struggle to find a business model that will pay their mounting bandwidth and storage bills, many of them are trying to reinvent themselves. Veoh
, which has raised a total of $70 million, had to cut 35 percent of its staff earlier this month and the site seems to be losing steam. Unique visitors are down 18 percent from their high a year ago to 15.2 million worldwide, and users of its desktop app VeohTV are down 40 percent to 7.2 million worldwide, according to comScore (see chart below). (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/10/veohs-hail-mary-spreading-video-search-across-the-web-with-video-compass 4/10)
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Filed under: WIRELESS | Tags: AOL Instant Messenger, Apple, AppStore, Facebook, iPhone, Myspace, Tap Revenge, Tapulous
Apple is really, really close to hitting 1 billion app downloads across the world, according to its new countdown page. If you download an app, you’ll be enrolled in a contest to win a $10,000 iTunes Gift Card, an iPod touch, a Time Capsule, and a MacBook Pro. (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/10/when-will-apple-hit-1-billion-app-downloads 4/10)
Tapulous‘s Tap Tap Revenge ranked as the top penetrated app on the Apple App Store in Feb., according to a new report from ComScore, which now measures audience size, demographic profile and online behaviors of Apple app users. Twelve out of the 25 most popular mobile apps were games. Among non-gaming applications, Stylem Media’s “Backgrounds” applications had the highest installed base, followed closely by the top social networking apps Facebook and MySpace Mobile. (Cynopsis 4/10)
Tapulous is like Guitar Hero on a cell phone if you’ve never played it. I still am shocked that people love playing it as much as they apparently do.
ComScore analysis of Apple app users also found that:
- 35% of all app users make $100,000 or more
- 54% of app users are in households make at least $75,000 per year
- iPhone users were at least three times more likely to visit several popular gaming sites, including Ultimate-guitar.com, IGN Entertainment, GameStop, AddictingGames, Xbox.com, Blizzard Entertainment, SourceForge and EA.com
- They were also at least three times more likely than average to visit several popular social/communication/entertainment sites, including: AOL Instant Messenger, Hulu, Twitter.com, Digg.com, iMeem and MTV.com
(Below) And car accidents waiting to happen.
Wireless operators see installing Internet service in cars as a “billion-dollar opportunity,” with 10 million automobiles expected to be sold this year in the U.S., according to industry executives and analysts. Carmakers see wireless services — including TV — as a way to differentiate themselves from competitors as access to the networks has become cheaper and more widespread. BusinessWeek (4/9)
Amazon.com on Thursday introduced software for BlackBerry handsets that will give trackball model owners access to its shopping application, which is already available for the iPhone. “All the pieces of the puzzle are coming together” for mobile commerce, according to one Amazon executive. CNET (4/9) , The Wall Street Journal/Digits blog (4/9)
Virgin Mobile USA is trying to show its compassion offering an unlimited prepaid voice plan for $50 covered by up to 3 months of “Pink Slip Protection.” (Cynopsis 4/10)
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Filed under: TECHNOLOGY | Tags: Apple, Elon Musk, Franz von Holzhausen, HD Radio, iPhone, iPod Touch, Land Rover, Tesla Model S
Techcrunch rode in the new Tesla Model S sedan yesterday and were captivated by the massive 17-inch touch screen (so was Gizmodo) featured in the center console of the car. Both Tesla CEO Elon Musk and chief designer Franz von Holzhausen didn’t say much about the on screen system, except that it does have touch capability, it is an “entertainment center” and that it is a prototype which is still undergoing changes and improvements (see what both Musk and von Holzhausen said in our video). (http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/04/09/a-look-at-the-tesla-s-17-inch-haptic-entertainment-and-navigation-system 4/9)
Land Rover is the latest automaker to offer factory-installed HD Radio, which will be made available for its 2010 models. HD Radio is offered by 13 auto brands in more than 70 lines of vehicles, according to iBiquity. Radio Ink (4/8) , Radio Online (4/8)
The rumor mill continues to churn about how Apple will update the iPhone and iPod Touch this summer. A persistent one is that it will feature a new Broadcom chip what would allow it to connect to WiFi using the 802.11n standard. This would not only boost the quality of video streaming but it would also give the gadget FM radio streaming capabilities. (Cynopsis 4/10)
Hitachi Japan is preparing to ship a new series of HDTVs called the UT800, an LCD that’s just 1.4 inches thick. The sleek model is part of a major product release for the company, which encompasses 11 new sets in two separate series that will begin to roll out next month. Electronista (4/9)
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