Prediction: 1 billion TV tweets will be sent this year
While many forms of printed media continue a downward trajectory, a new forecast says TV will continue to grow in dominance as the “super media” of choice. Deloitte projects TV advertising will continue to grow share, and TV viewing to increase yet again. One of the drivers is “TV shows will be the most common [...]
Glenn Beck’s ‘The Blaze’ set to ride social wave
Regardless of what you believe about Glenn Beck’s politics, you have to admit he’s a multimedia powerhouse, from TV to books, radio to events. And you may be surprised about his social media following: he has more Facebook fans (1,597,000) than Fox News itself (1,580,000). That’s one reason why former Huffington Post CEO Betsy Morgan [...]
Comcast deal means NBC loses management of Hulu
NBCU will have to relinquish its “management rights” at Hulu under the newly-approved joint venture announced by the FCC and the Department of Justice. The agreement took more than a year to reach. One of the issues to those who were concerned about the deal was that Comcast would have too much control over both [...]
We love you too, Twitter
I’m going to invoke editor’s privilege here for a second. Twitter’s media team (@twittermedia) has given Lost Remote a thumbs-up. Sweet. (Thanks for the heads up, @radiofreegeorgy.)
Golden Globes ratings flat despite Gervais Twitter fire
Updated: Ricky Gervais quit Twitter last year, right before his last Golden Globes performance. “I am sorry, but I am going to stop these tweets because I don’t see the point. Please follow my blog at rickygervais.com,” he sent as a parting tweet. He had started a Twitter account in December 2009 at the behest [...]
CNN’s Piers Morgan puts Twitter to work for TV debut
With a taped interview with Oprah as the premiere episode of “Piers Morgan Tonight” on CNN on Monday night, the show’s host and staff gathered in the Presidential Suite of Mandarin Hotel in New York to watch the show’s debut. “God, hope the tape worked,” Piers Morgan tweeted 20 minutes to air. As the broadcast [...]
MTV aims for social media hit first, TV after
In one of the cable network’s biggest show launches in recent memory, Skins debuted Monday night on MTV. But for several months, the show has already debuted in bits and pieces online, thanks to an aggressive social media campaign. “We did the reverse of what we usually do with a show,” Damon Burrell, VP of [...]
REPLAY: Should we delete incorrect tweets?
UPDATE: The live chat is over, but you can watch the rerun here by hitting “play.” (Nothing more exciting than watching a rerun of text posting occasionally…) The big thing to come out of this? People want some way of editing tweets, whether it’s by rewriting the text (my choice) or having a strikethrough (popular [...]
New York Times social strategy: the numbers
Cory hinted at this story in the briefs below, and now we’re fleshing it out a bit because it’s so interesting. The website for the The New York Times, like so many other sites, continues to see the majority of its traffic (50-60%) going directly to the front page. But an ever-increasing number of views [...]
Netflix to ‘regroup’ with Facebook strategy
While sites like Clicker and RottenTomatoes have integrated Facebook recommendations for movies and TV shows, the feature has been noticeably absent from Netflix. Now there’s word they’re clearing the decks to work on it. Netflix posted on its blog this week that it’s discontinuing a two year-old Facebook Connect feature that lets you share movie [...]
Tweet briefs: NYTimes, IB+Cox, Conan, The Daily
A few interesting links to share over the last 24 hours: – How NYTimes.com is growing its Facebook and Twitter presences – Cox Media buys the network sales arm of Internet Broadcasting – A sneak peek at The Daily iPad app, which is now delayed “weeks” – Conan’s younger demographics holding up well in the [...]
News Corp considers MySpace sale, what happened?
After slashing 47% of its staff earlier this week, News Corp is considering selling the struggling MySpace, among other strategic options, Bloomberg reports. MySpace relaunched as an entertainment hub in October, and a month later, News Corp said MySpace’s financial losses “are not acceptable or sustainable,” setting July of this year as a deadline for [...]
Facebook creates local AMBER alert pages
AMBER Alerts will now be available on a state-by-state basis on Facebook. There are 53 U.S. AMBER Alert pages, one for each state plus Puerto Rico, The U.S. Virgin Islands and DC. There are also pages for the alerts in New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Ontario. You can choose to “like” whichever state’s AMBER Alerts you [...]
Cutting the cable: Hulu Plus on our TV set
A few months ago, we cut our cable service, but kept our Comcast internet connection. We’ve been experimenting with different ways to replace our traditional viewing on the TV set, and yesterday we added the Samsung BD-C6900 Blu-ray player ($244 on Amazon). That model number is important, because it’s the only Samsung player with Hulu [...]
The careful art of booking interviews via Twitter
It all started when @caitieparker retweeted a breaking news alert about the Tucson shooting adding, “All which took place 2 minutes from my house.” Then she tweets: As you might expect, it was retweeted around, and Reuters’ Anthony De Rosa was the first to message her, conducting a short-form (and polite) interview. It didn’t take [...]
MSNBC releases social TV app for ‘Maddow Show’
MSNBC has just announced the launch of a new iPad app for “The Rachel Maddow Show.” The free app integrates many social features, including an in-app forum for discussing the show on Twitter, as the show airs. Explains the MSNBC press release: “The ‘Watch Party,’ a live viewing experience featured on the app, gives consumers [...]
ESPN3 breaks new ground with live BCS stream
If you didn’t have ESPN on cable TV last night, there was a new way to catch the BCS Championship Game: via ESPN3.com. While the broadband channel has streamed many games before, this game was arguably the biggest live football event streamed directly to TV sets, via Xbox Live and the brand new Google TV. [...]
Social media storm over weatherman’s firing
It used to be that when you got rid of popular on-air talent, you might get a few angry letters and a few more angry calls. Those were usually handled by low-level staffers. Later on, in the same situation, stations started to get a bunch of emails. Still, those could be either ignored or answered [...]
