Mobile
New Emmy Award for Phones, PC’s, and Portables [News.com]
The National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences has created an award category to recognize original video content for computers, cell phones and other handheld devices, like the video iPod and PlayStation Portable. Entries cannot be from television shows that have already been broadcast. Potential submissions include video blogs, web programs, event coverage, [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )‘Lost’ Deal Hatched for Mobile [Hollywood Reporter]
ABC’s “Lost” is spawning a second series for mobile phones in a deal soon to close with Verizon or another major U.S. carrier. 20 several-minute episodes are expected to hit phones early next year. The project is not produced by ABC or Touchstone Television, but is under the oversight of “Lost” executive producers [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The Clash Over Content Delivery [News.com]
A growing movement among content providers is to market ring tones, music and other digital content directly to consumers so they can buy from content provider mobile portals rather than through the carrier’s portal — which costs 25-30% of the revenue generated. Content owners are seeking direct access to consumers without having to pay [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Yahoo, Google to Launch New Wireless Services [Mercury News]
Yahoo and Google will soon roll out new wireless services, utilizing advanced networks and phones to provide advanced features. SBC and Yahoo are expanding their partnership to merge video, wireless and phone services with an SBC-Yahoo phone to be manufactured by Nokia and released next year priced from $200 to $300. The phone [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )1% of Mobile Subs Now Using Video
A recent survey found that 1% of mobile subscribers viewed video on their phones in September, with 6.1 million subscribers saying they plan to view mobile video in the coming year and males under 35 demonstrating the highest propensity to use mobile video. 39.4 million Americans own multimedia-enabled phones, and ownership of video phones [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )NHL, ESPN Pact on New Media [Media Week]
The NHL reached a new media agreement with ESPN, which had previously televised the league’s games (they are now televised on OLN). ESPN will deliver NHL game highlights via Mobile ESPN, and will re-air recent and archival games on ESPN Classic.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mobile Entertainment Faces Issues
The ring tone business generated $217 million in revenue in 2004 for cell phone providers. Wireless operators, content providers and cell phone makers see huge opportunities in the addition of music and entertainment content, though business challenges loom as they try to create partnerships that will satisfy customers without eroding their existing markets. The [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mobile TV Gaining Traction on Cell Phones
Mobile TV is being promoted as a big new revenue stream for mobile phone operators. Services are gaining popularity in Asia and Europe and U.S. operators are now offering services of their own. 500,000 people subscribe to a mobile TV service today, of the estimated 200 million cell phone subscribers in the U.S.
The [...]
Mobile TV Rundown
Video aggregators including GoTV, MobiTV, RTV on Real TV, and Smart Video are bundling acquired and original live and on-demand video content into mobile TV networks.
Cingular Wireless offers offers MobiTV for $9.99 per month as part of its MediaNet package, priced from $4.99 per month for 1 megabit of traffic to $19.99 for unlimited monthly [...]
Endemol to Launch Mobile TV Channels
TV producer Endemol announced plans to launch 2 new channels for the mobile phone market — the Extreme Reality Channel, featuring “weird” clips from the world of entertainment, and a Comedy Channel. According to Endemol, Big Brother fans in Australia, Italy and the UK viewed 6 million streaming minutes and 500,000 downloaded clips on their [...]
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