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CES 2012: Showtime Anytime iPad app is finally here
After a long wait since the original announcement, Showtime Anytime, the network’s second-screen on-demand app has arrived (for iPad). Showtime now boasts a catalog of impressive shows ranging from Dexter to Homeland to the recently-premiered Shameless, Californication and the brand new House of Lies. The free iPad app features more than 400 hours of original shows and movies.
Miso announces $4 million investment from Khosla Ventures
Social TV startup Miso has been having a great fall. They’ve secured partnerships with two MSOs (DIRECTV and AT&T U-verse) and now they’ve added another $4 million in funding from Khosla Ventures to their original $2 million, which, Google Ventures and Hearst Interactive Media participated in.
At the recent Social TV Summit, founder Somrat Niyogi continued to remind everyone that Miso is now more than just a check-in. For Showtime’s Dexter (their first launch partner last month) they synchronized, “interesting tidbits, facts, quotes, and more,” almost like an opt-in pop-up video for the show…
TV network execs say social ‘undeniably’ a part of strategy
An impressive group of TV programming executives took the stage at Variety’s Entertainment and Technology Summit at Digital Hollywood to discuss the state of the TV business. Ted Chervin, Head of Worldwide Television at ICM, Michael Wright, EVP and Head of Programming at TNT, TBS and TCM, Nick Grad EVP of Original Series at FX [...]
