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Fighting for market share, an executive with RIM says upcoming BlackBerry devices will finally incorporate streaming video, a camera and integration with sites like Flickr. Hey, now all of us middle-aged executives will enjoy the same perks as our teenage daughters, while still being tied to the office around the clock.
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Interesting thought from Intel VP and GM Donald McDonald of the Digital Home Group. McDonald was talking about how home media centers will keep moving in as an alternative means of entertainment. “Are we your competitors?” he asked a room of traditional cable system operators. “Absolutely,” was his candid reply. And he’s right. The cable hasn’t been the only pipe into the home for some time. Now with more powerful processors, the PC doesn’t even have to look like a PC anymore and an Intel-based home media center can out-cable cable.
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MySpace is certainly helping the YouTube effort. MySpace SVP Shawn Gold tells CTAM that 40 percent of YouTube video plays come off of their MySpace pages. It’s not about your site - it’s about the ease of sharing that will boost your video views. Another tidbit: MySpace grows by two million members every day.
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Easier to say for a television brand that has always been synonymous with reinvention and innovation. Judy McGrath also showed CTAM attendees an old MTV promo from the 80s of a roller-skater with a boom box TV on her shoulder blaring MTV. The tagline, “Take MTV to go.” She said, “We always knew our audience would take MTV with them if they could and now they can.” Read about other interesting nuggets and stats from McGrath’s keynote, after the jump…
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The user-created news site will soon launch Swarm and Stack, two real-time visualizations of how people are interconnecting with stories.
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CBS Digital Media prez Larry Kramer says he saw “a huge amount of interest” at the upfront, but he doesn’t have any specific numbers on the internet’s contribution. “I don’t think anybody knows yet how much of what we do is going to be part of the [TV] upfront.” Early predictions speculate as much as 2 percent of revenue would shift from TV to the internet. (Free reg. required).
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Starting in August, Logitech will include a link in its webcam software that will allow users to record video directly to Grouper.com. The move will eliminate the time-consuming step of saving and uploading video — a feature that Grouper will promote as the easiest way to post video on the web.
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Hearst Newspapers and MediaNews Group are in talks with Yahoo about a possible online partnership involving classifieds, local news and content packages based on general themes, like travel.
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By shrinking page sizes by one and a half inches and closing a plant in 2008.
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In what may be the company’s first lawsuit, YouTube has been sued by Bob Tur, owner of the Los Angeles News Service. Tur is well known in media circles for, well, suing for just about everything when it comes to his precious video of the 1992 LA riots. In this case, the video of the beating of Reginald Denny was posted on YouTube and viewed (gasp!) 1,000 times. Tur alleges that works out to $150,000, and he’s suing under the MGM vs. Grokster umbrella.
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Ad spending rose 5.6 percent in Q1 of 2006 compared with the same quarter of 2005. A good gain - but nothing compared to the gain in ad spending on the internet. Ad spending online in jumped an astonishing 46.4 percent over the first quarter of ‘05. Spanish-language TV was the second-biggest gainer, with a 14.3 percent jump. But online ad buyer beware: click fraud is up, too.
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Early Nightly is a video blog from Brian Williams that previews the day’s coverage. The short clip is available on MSNBC.com every weekday, and NBC is offering affiliates the option of posting it on their sites, as well. Meanwhile, check out The Daily Nightly’s coverage of the Middle East conflict. Some compelling, behind-the-scenes reporting in there.
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No surprise. A Microsoft source says the new service will launch “imminently.”
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Got a great idea for a TV show, but never thought a network exec would give you the time of day? Well the New York Television Festival is finally giving you that chance! NYTVF has just launched a TV pitch contest. (If anyone doubts the public’s desire to produce and share their own video content, check out the YouTube post below.) Anyone can submit a 1-minute video of themselves pitching their idea for a TV show to NYTVF. Deadline is August 4th. Finalists will get to go before a panel of celebs and TV execs this September to pitch their show. The winner lands an $8,000 development deal to produce a pilot for the Independent Film Channel. What’s your great idea for a TV show?
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GE released its second quarter earnings on Friday, showing a 45% decline in operating profits for its broadcasts businesses versus the same period a year ago. Over the past 2 years NBC’s audience has shrunk by 30%. Analysts estimate third quarter revenues to be as bad as the second quarter.
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Lots of juicy YouTube news today. First, CBS CEO Leslie Moonves sat down with YouTube founder Chad Hurley for a 45-minute meeting at the Allen & Co. media conference in Sun Valley. Several reporters witnessed the meeting and said Moonves “marveled” at YouTube’s audience. “He asked how YouTube might be able to direct more traffic to Web sites owned by CBS,” reported AP’s Michael Liedtke. “The meeting ended with Moonves concluding that CBS should start posting daily snippets of its programming on YouTube.” Meanwhile, coincidentally, CBS News President Sean McManus said the network shouldn’t have hit a milestone of 100 million videos served every day. The company says that makes up 60% of all online video traffic. Now you believe that number, YouTube serves up more video online than Hollywood, the networks, cable channels, local TV and the major portals combined. Hey, maybe this user-generated video thing has some legs, eh? (Thanks, Don!)
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Yup, that’s right. Friendster may be able to charge licensing fees to MySpace and hundreds of other social networking sites. But will it?
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CBS-Paramount is building parallel storylines into its upcoming drama Jericho for inclusion on CBS.com, iTunes and/or wireless. And the network is considering doing the same for other new shows in development.
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