NBC News taps @InsideCongress for special
Updated: Talk about timing, Obama announced the debt crisis deal in between the East and West Coast airings of NBC’s Inside Congress special. Brian Williams and team quickly updated the show, which of course, was captured in a photo and RT’d on the @InsideCongress account. Earlier: Several months ago, NBC News scheduled a massive, one-day [...]
IntoNow teams with Project Runway, launches on Android
Lifetime’s Project Runway is pulling out all the social TV stops this season, from Twitter voting to a partnership with the TV tagging app IntoNow (which we first broke on Twitter last week). App users who “tag” a Project Runway show through the season (IntoNow listens to TV audio) will unlock extra content, participate in [...]
How do people watch Netflix and Hulu (chart)
Nielsen has released some terrific data that compares how people watch Netflix and Hulu — and what they watch when they do. I was surprised a bit by this chart, especially the computer-to-TV number: Apparently, there are more tech-savvy people out there than some may think. Also, the Xbox number feels a little low to [...]
Lessons from the fake Piers Morgan tweet
A parody Twitter account for the former News of the World showbiz editor Dan Wootton fired off this salacious tweet today: Which set of a flurry of RTs, one by Channel 4 anchor Jon Snow and a few other journalists — including two Reuters journalists on their personal accounts — giving the rumor a more [...]
Jon Stewart jokes about Twitter and TV news
A hilarious clip on last night’s Daily Show investigates Twitter call-outs on TV, from those silly Twitter handles to one persistent pundit: Have you ever skipped a Twitter reference because of a racy-sounding account name? By the way, @ladybigmac is still tweeting all her favorite CNN tweeps but appears oblivious to why she’s picking up [...]
Sports fans will love revamped ESPN3 app for Xbox
ESPN3 will launch a new Xbox app next month that takes sports TV to a new level with dual-screen games, real-time scoreboards and instant replay. ESPN3 allows authenticated Xbox Live users (you have to subscribe to a participating cable TV/internet service) to watch a variety of live games, such as the Women’s World Cup Final [...]
‘Arrested Development’ movie is a go
If there ever was a TV show that social media could’ve saved, it’s Arrested Development. And after months of rumors, today Will Arnett confirmed that an Arrested Development movie will hit the big screen sometime next year, written by Mitch Hurwitz himself. AD, as the kids call it, aired its last episode in February 2006, [...]
Storify wins top journalism innovation award
The social media publishing tool Storify has won the 2011 Knight-Batten Award for innovation in journalism. The award comes with a $10,000 prize. “Scarcely a year into its existence, Storify has become so essential the word storify has become a verb,” said Jan Schaffer, director of J-Lab, which administers the awards. Adds judge Amy Webb, [...]
‘Project Runway’ to add Twitter voting in new season
When the new season of Project Runway debuts Thursday night on Lifetime, fans will be encouraged to cast their votes via Twitter for their favorite designers. Using unique hashtags for each contestant, Project Runway will track the votes from viewers throughout the season to designate “Fan Favorites.” It’s the first time an A+E Networks show [...]
Fox to stream newest shows only to paid subscribers
In a huge move that could signal the beginning of a reversal of free, timely programming on the web, Fox is planning to institute a eight-day delay on streaming its shows on Fox.com and Hulu, reports the WSJ. Paid subscribers to Hulu Plus ($7.99/month) and DirecTV Dish subscribers will be able to watch episodes the [...]
‘Mad Men’ hits Netflix on Wednesday
Netflix shares plunged as much as 11% today (but have rebounded to around a 5% loss) after its announcement yesterday that a fair number of subscribers really are leaving after the price hike was announced. Needing some good news, Netflix just announced this afternoon that all four seasons of the hugely-popular Mad Men will be [...]
Mass Relevance partners with MTV Networks
One company that continues to emerge as the behind-the-scenes facilitator enabling TV brands to become more social has been Austin-based Mass Relevance. Today, the fourteen person company announced a partnership with MTV Networks to “to curate and analyze real-time social content across a wide range of brand experiences,” including web, mobile, tablet and live shows. [...]
Legality delays Netflix’s Facebook integration in US
Netflix released its quarterly earnings (.pdf), and stocks plunged as much as 10% in after-hours trading because the company admitted its recent pricing change will slow subscriber growth — in fact, essentially flat for Q3: “We hate making our subscribers upset with us,” Netflix said. “In Q4, we expect domestic net additions to return to [...]
NYTimes, TV stations among ‘most social’ companies
The New York Times is the most social company in the U.S., and local TV is the top industry on Twitter, finds a report by NetProspex (.pdf). The report measures the number of employees with social media accounts (using a company email address) and their total connections — which by definition, favors larger companies. After [...]
Xbox rolls out ‘Avatar’ for Kinect
Looking for a geeky way to produce your own TV talk show? The new virtual chat experience Avatar is rolling out on Kinect-enabled Xboxes, and you can easily record and share your own conversations — either individually or with guests, all decked out in Xbox Live avatars. GeekWire reviewed Avatar on Avatar (how else?), which [...]
Putting your top web story to a Facebook vote
Back in May, WSB-TV in Atlanta let its Facebook fans decide which of two stories a consumer reporter should cover. Now, KGO-TV in the Bay Area is experimenting with asking its fans to pick the top story on its website using Facebook Questions: This question is especially interesting since the debt crisis — a story [...]
How the BBC lost 60k Twitter followers to its competitor
Who owns a media company’s social media accounts? That may seem like an easy answer, but what if the accounts are a mix of the media company’s brand and a person’s name? Take @BBCLauraK, for example, the Twitter account for BBC’s Chief Political Correspondent, Laura Kuenssberg. She just took a job at rival ITV, and [...]
SnappyTV wins ‘best social TV idea’
Out of 10 companies that pitched the crowd at the Social TV Summit — with just two-minute demos — SnappyTV won the award for the best social TV idea. While people love to share their reactions while watching live TV, “what’s missing from that conversation is the video,” explains CEO Mike Folgner. Typically, video clips [...]
GroupMe adds social twist to Dexter app
The group messaging app GroupMe has opened up its technology to other app makers, and today, Showtime’s Dexter app launched an update that shows off the integration. If you haven’t heard of GroupMe, it’s allows you to set up your own text-messaging group — a private group chat on your phone. You can share your [...]
Guest Post: Google Plus pulls TV station account
UPDATE: +BreakingNews, one of the first brands to join Google Plus, has had its account pulled as well. It had 20,000 followers when it was shut down. +CoryBergman and +StephanieClary are posting the Breaking News updates on their personal accounts until Breaking News is re-established on Google Plus. This is a guest post from Kimberly [...]
