Vinca Jarrett. Why Television Is Trouncing Film at Major Media Companies. Annual reports from Viacom, News Corp., Time Warner and others show television can drive more than 80 percent of a company's profits Movies are fast becoming the ugly stepchild for major media companies, while television continues to be the cash cow that drives profits. That’s the message that emerges from an analysis conducted by TheWrap of the annual reports of five major media companies in 2011. And it's a dramatic change from the way things used to be, when movies were the straw that stirred Hollywood's drink. “I remember when international buyers had to be forced to take TV product, and they only wanted movies — now it's the other way around,” Jeff Sagansky, former president of CBS Entertainment and a former senior executive at Sony, told TheWrap.
The latest annual reports show that film has become a very small piece of the overall revenue pie. Read the full data comparison here: By the Numbers: Television Trounces Film (Slideshow) Movie Moguls Tap into Television Production. Can MundoFox reproduce Fox's success - en Espanol? Preserving Cabrini-Green's images In the sharp sun of an April afternoon, Nate Lanthrum walks through the remains of Cabrini-Green giving away what he has taken. He looks out of place, a white guy carrying a $1,500 Nikon D700 camera, but the residents are used to him by now and greet...
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Tue Aug 14, 2012 8:26pm IST (The author is a Reuters Breakingviews columnist. The opinions expressed are his own.) By Raul Gallegos NEW YORK, Aug 14 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Rupert Murdoch is banking on U.S. Latinos going all-American. News Corp’s (NWSA.O) new MundoFox, a Spanish-language joint venture with Colombia’s RCN Television TRR.CN, should have little trouble piquing the interest of America’s fastest-growing minority with the Latin American country’s television soap operas. Murdoch knows he needs something different. Changing demographics should justify more sophisticated programming. What’s more, ad revenue has room to grow. More than half the 120 advertisers that buy time on News Corp’s Hispanic-targeted Fox Deportes, Utilisima and Nat Geo Mundo are already on board with MundoFox, which launched across the United States on Monday. SIGN UP FOR BREAKINGVIEWS EMAIL ALERTS: www.breakingviews.com/TOPNewsSubscription (Editing by Richard Beales and Martin Langfield) (C) Reuters 2012.
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They don't often think of independently produced movies like Sex, Lies and Videotape, Reservoir Dogs or Sideways. Indeed, it's rare that people think of independent movies as investments at all-because it's rare that they make any money. The vast majority of filmmakers outside the Hollywood orbit never find distribution for their work, and all that risk of hiring actors, scouting locations, doing the makeup and paying for the catering usually goes down the drain when the theatrical distributors say no to the finished work, which they do 95% of the time. Only a handful of indie movies make their investors whole. What most people don't realize is that the cost to shove a movie down the public's throats often costs more than the movies themselves.
IndieVest works on a private placement model. High-Risk Glamour: A Piece of an Indie Flick. EMMYS: Made For TV/Miniseries Economics. Ray Richmond is a contributor to AwardsLine Just when everyone assumed that the original television miniseries was either dead or restricted to being the loss-leader indulgence of HBO, up pops History Channel’s Hatfields & McCoys in May to show the world that if you make a three-night event on a compelling subject with big stars (Kevin Costner, Bill Paxton) and a quality pedigree, the masses will still flock.
Hatfields averaged nearly 14 million total viewers nightly, building to 14.3 million on Night 3 to become the most-watched entertainment telecast of all time on ad-supported cable. Despite that success, so few miniseries are being done that the TV Academy last year was obliged to merge TV movies and miniseries into a single category. There simply is no longer close to the number of ambitious, big-budget minis as were commissioned in the days of Roots (1977), Jesus Of Nazareth (1977), The Winds Of War (1983) and War And Remembrance (1988-89). Top Ten Christian Movies by PrayerFoundation.Org « Yohana Ekky's Blog. Religious - Box Office History. Box Office Results for Movies by Genre. Mapping America — Census Bureau 2005-9 American Community Survey. Venezuela’s judiciary: Whistle-blown. Ex-judge: Venezuelan government manipulates rulings. People walk in front of Venezuela's courthouse headquarters in Caracas on April 9, 2012. NEW: Ex-judge said the nation's prosecutors had asked him to "orchestrate cases"Venezuela's foreign minister says the ex-judge "sold his soul to the devil"Costa Rican official: The DEA flew Eladio Aponte Aponte to the United States this weekVenezuelan officials accuse him of connections with an alleged drug trafficker (CNN) -- An ex-judge accusing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez of manipulating court rulings is a fugitive who "sold his soul to the devil" when he agreed to talk with U.S. investigators, the nation's foreign minister said Thursday.
"People like him will keep being defeated and his lies will be unveiled," Foreign Minister Nicolas Maduro said. "They just asked for favors that I complied with. And woe be the judge that refused to cooperate. ... CNN has not independently confirmed the former justice's accusations. In recent years, the U.S. The U.S. Mauricio Boraschi said U.S. The U.S. Independent Film Production, Distribution, Sales and Marketing. Feature Film Investment. Independent Film Investing, a how to guide. Indie Films Suffer Drop-Off in Rights Sales.
Pasantias. Welcome to Comigo. Nielsen and comScore chart rise in online video. Americans still spend more than 33 hours a week watching television. While nine in ten households in the United States pay for a television subscription, over 5 million homes subscribe to broadband and receive only free broadcast television. A report from Nielsen says that this group tends to watch half as much television and twice as much online video as the general population. Data from comScore show that Americans are watching more online video than ever, with over a hundred million viewers a day in the United States.
However, online video viewing still tends to be measured in minutes, rather than hours a day. The number of homes subscribing to cable television in America has decreased by 4.1% over the past year, while telco television services have seen increases of 21.1% and satellite television subscriptions are up 2.1%. There are now 5.1 million homes in the United States that subscribe to broadband and receive only free broadcast television. ¿De dónde provienen las ganacias de Google? (Reveladora Infografía) CBS Corp. May Create Original Series for Netflix | MediaWorks. 2011 U.S. Media Universe.
The Future Of Television. The Future of TV: About This Website. New technology and consumers' viewing habits are changing the face of TV. What was once thought of as a mere possibility is now a reality, as consumers like you want more choices and flexibility in your viewing experiences. And even now, with so many options for entertainment, broadcast TV is still the top choice among consumers. From local weather reports to the high school football game, digital broadcasting is bringing consumers hyperlocal content they care about, while seamlessly integrating the latest technologies in TV entertainment. And advancements such as mobile DTV will put this free TV in the palm of your hand. Sporting events, breaking news coverage and the best quality HD – all of the things you love available for free and anywhere you are. The future of TV is now. Share your vision Sign up to stay on top of new technologies, developments, and legislative issues that will shape the future of television. help shape the future.
The Future of Social TV – Dastardly Airlines. The Future of Social TV – Dastardly Airlines. Named last year as one of the ten most important emerging technologies by the MIT Technology Review social TV is fast rising as one of the hottest topics since group buying. Ynon Kreiz, CEO of the Endemol group the largest independent production company in the world responsible for Big brother said Social TV is going to be huge. “The ability to create content that will enable people to interface with each other, to connect, to recommend, to share and experience over television, is going to change the landscape of the industry.”
But will social TV really live up to the hype? In this article we take a look at what social TV is, what the main trends are shaping TV, the challenges and the opportunities going forwards for media companies, businesses and marketers alike. What is social TV? Simply put, it’s about merging your social media networks to the TV. Figure 1 The Core elements of Social TV The Drivers shaping Social TV 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 1. 2. Google TV relaunches with Android Market (video) Google is finally rolling out its long-awaited update to the Google TV platform this weekend, which comes with a completely revamped UI as well as access to the Android Market. The update will be rolled out to Sony devices first and reach Logitech Revue set-top boxes soon after.
On both, consumers can expect access to up to 1,800 apps at launch. Google TV VP of Product Mario Queiroz and Google TV Product Lead Rishi Chandra sat down with me the other day to talk strategy as well as give me a tour of the new platform. Check out a first video of Google TV below, or skip down to read about the major updates and many more things to come. Lessons learned Saying that Google TV hasn’t been a success story is being very polite. That’s been a humbling experience for the Google TV team, and both Queiroz and Chandra went out of their way to point out that they got the message.
Features added That being said, the new version offers a lot of improvements. What does the future have in store? Google TV Group News. g0xcbnj Shared by npoler. Sony's Wiesenthal: The Future of TV Is the Tablet | Special: Digital Conference. Social TV. Social Video Apps powered by Mobovivo - Home. Flingo dives into social TV with synchronized TV apps. With CES inching closer, the connected, smart, Internet-enabled TV market continuing to heat up. In fact, the Connected TV Marketing Association (CTVMA) just launched this week, which strives to promote and grow the quickly-emerging connected TV business.
One company that’s already been developing connected TV apps for three years is Flingo, a company that builds “super apps for smart TVs,” on Insignia, LG, Samsung, Vizio, Sanyo, Western Digital, and Netgear devices. Last month the company announced they’d be working with Collective Digital Studio to bring YouTube celebs The Annoying Orange, Fred, iJustine and FreddieW delivered straight to connected TV sets — a step to create a new kind of primetime on TV for these stars. For their first appearance at CES (they’ll be at booth 74106), they’ll be announcing new technology — called “syncapps” — that they hope will catapult the company into the forefront of the social TV market. LR: What’s your business model? Apple, Amazon, Google or Comcast -- Who Will 'Win' TV 2.0? | Bob Garfield.
TVOT NYC Intensive 2011 Speakers | The TV of Tomorrow Show. (2) Home on GetGlue. Yap.TV Helps Networks Reach Your Second Screen. The social TV app yap.TV is launching Live Pulse, a button that informs users that live synced content is available while they are watching a show, the company announced today. Besides Live Pulse, the startup is also introducing a CMS that lets broadcasters and content owners manage their own second screen experience. According to its co-founders, this is fairly unique in the second screen space. Yet it doesn’t mean that yap.TV doesn’t have competitors. As we reported, TV companion apps have mushroomed over the last few months, with players such as GetGlue, Miso, TVCheck, Umami.TV and Zeebox all fighting for eyeballs.
So what is it about yap.TV that caught Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak’s attention enough for him to come on board as an advisor? AH: Can you tell us about yap.TV and its team? Shawn Cunningham: I am one of the company’s three co-founders, together with Trevor Stout and Marius Seritan. As for the product itself, the best way to describe it is as a social TV guide. Youtoo.com. Youtoo and Mark Burnett launch first social TV network. Compra Telemundo. Experienced YouTube Producers Topping Big Media Companies As YouTube's Original Content Strategy Kicks In. Guess which companies are having early success as part of YouTube’s massive 96-channel rollout? The ones that have done it before. YouTube natives like Maker Studios and Vlogbrothers are off to strong starts since launching new channels backed by Google’s much-hyped $100 million production fund. Conversely, less experienced (and perhaps more substantive) content producers like Slate and The Intelligent Channel are struggling to attract large numbers of subscribers, as least according to the early view numbers they're generating on YouTube.
And so far, Madonna’s celebrity, along with her well-received Super Bowl halftime performance, has failed to translate into a mass audience—though it’s still early. Similarly, but perhaps more unexpectedly, Vlogbrothers' SciShow, which discusses such topics as lake discoveries in Antarctica and solar storms, has landed about 100,000 subscribers while generating 1.7 million views.
Like Maker, Vlogbrothers is a YouTube fixture. Publications Digital Viewing Of Traditional TV Rises 02/16. Digital viewing of traditional TV shows is rising. Video plays on tablets, mobile devices and connected TVs nearly doubled in the fourth quarter pf 2011 over the third quarter. At the same time, video plays on Google TV grew 91% in fourth-quarter 2011 over previous periods, per Ooyala, a digital video technology and analytics company.
All this is good news for new video and TV-related businesses. New tablet users continue to eat into the share of those with desktop and laptop computers when it comes to video consumption -- with 45% more likely to complete at least 75% of videos played. Both iPhone and Android grew rapidly quarter-over-quarter in terms of videos played and hours watched. iPhone grew share by 156%; Android devices, up 61%. Bigger screens still mean more time for video to be watched. 'Watch With eBay' App Helps Viewers Shop While Watching TV. By Natasha Baker TORONTO (Reuters) - Looking for the dress you saw on a hit television show or the jerseys worn during a football game or soccer match? An iPad app aims to help viewers shop while watching TV.
Unlike television shopping channels, Watch with Ebay is a new feature in eBay's iPad app that lets users buy items related to the program they're currently viewing. "The idea is to provide a new form of TV watching entertainment that includes the possibility of shopping and discovering interesting products people never would have discovered otherwise," said Steve Yankovich, vice president of mobile at eBay.
After entering the network provider and channel, items related to the TV show, the actors, guests or teams in a sporting event surface within the app. "We've seen that guys sitting around watching a sporting event will buy jerseys for the team they like," Yankovich said. Purchasing the item in a particular scene of a TV show isn't possible yet, but that could change. Comenta.TV - Compartí lo que estás viendo ahora en TV. SecondScreen Networks, The Ad Platform to Monetize Social TV. Disney Second Screen | Main Page. The Future of TV: About This Website. Apple television display could transform experience. Apple's Core Question: Whither Its Cash? 'And One Last Thing . . . '
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