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Apple Unveils Video iPod, iTunes TV Shows [Fortune]
Apple unveiled its new video iPod featuring a 2.5in color screen, video-output port, and access to the iTunes store now stocked with 2,000 downloadable music videos for sale at $1.99 each, short films from Pixar, and current episodes of Desperate Housewives, Lost, and 3 other shows from ABC. A 30GB video iPod is priced [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Smaller Video Producers Seek Audiences on Net [The Ledger]
Dan Myrick, co-director of “The Blair Witch Project,” is launching an Internet-only series called “The Strand of Venice,” a moody drama set in Venice, CA. Visitors to strandvenice.com may watch the 50-minute pilot episode for free. Future episodes will be 30-minutes and cost 99 cents to view. The show is using new [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Video-laced Websites Evolve into Pseudo-TV stations [USA Today]
Online news and entertainment video is booming, with video traffic doubling every 6 to 8 months on average at websites that offer video. When UPN pre-empted WWE’s “Friday Night Smackdown” series for Hurrican Katrina coverate, WWE put the show on its website. The webcast attracted 500,000 viewers for a show that averages 5 [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Mag Rack to Offer Classic Children’s Show, New Zoo Revue [ITVT]
Rainbow Media’s announced it has secured exclusive VOD rights to 12 episodes of the classic children’s TV show, “New Zoo Revue,” for the “Kids Club” category on its on-demand video magazine service, Mag Rack. Kids Club is the third-most popular of Mag Rack’s 20-plus content categories, which has seen significant growth driven by pre-school [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Web Video Comes of Age [Motley Fool]
Video-rich websites see video traffic double every 6 to 8 months. Gross billings from streaming video ads are expected to reach $321 million in 2005 (up 75% from 2004). 2006 gross billings are expected to grow 41.7% to $455 million. Buyers of streaming video ads include brand advertisers such as General Motors [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )TiVo Offering Broadband Programming Content from CSTV [ITVT]
TiVo is offering content from College Sports Television (CSTV) during the run-up to the upcoming Navy-Air Force football game. A new listing on TiVo’s TiVo Central menu takes subscribers to a TiVo showcase where they can schedule a recording of the game and download an hour of bonus content including interviews with coaches [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )TV To Go [Broadcasting & Cable]
Unlike cable VOD operators, wireless-phone companies are willing to pay to license content. Mobile syndicator SmartVideo pays programmers from a few cents to $1.50 per subscriber monthly. By comparison, MTV collects an estimated 27˘ per sub from cable and DBS operators. Analysts expect it will be at least 5 years before TV networks [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )MTV, Sprint in Mobile Programming Deal [ZDNet]
Sprint announced an agreement with MTV to deliver music, comedy and other TV segments to Sprint PCS Vision Multimedia Services subscribers. The programming will include short segments from MTV, Comedy Central, VH1 and Nickelodeon, as well as content offered exclusive for mobile phone viewers. Sprint is working with Walt Disney to develop phone [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )RealNetworks to Run Cingular Mobile Video Service [Washington Post]
Cingular Wireless announced it will use RealNetworks video streaming technology to deliver video to mobile phones. Cingular will also offer a mobile version of RealNetworks RealArcade video games. RealNetworks will put its media player software in Cingular phones and host Cingular’s video programing content on its media servers. Verizon Wireless uses Microsoft’s [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )MTV, Warner Music Cut Mobile Pact [Media Week]
MTV announced a deal with Warner Music Group to include its library of music videos in original mobile programming. MTV will offer clips from various MTV programs along with music video content for distribution through major cell phone carriers and subscription-based mobile content aggregators.
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