ITV Doctor

[itvt] has just published interviews with Mark Garner, SVP of distribution, marketing and business development at A&E Television Networks (AETN), and with Mike Pohl, CEO of "mood-based" search-and-recommendation company, Jinni.

[itvt] has just published an interview with Mike Fitzsimmons, founder and CEO of Delivery Agent, a company which specializes in developing digital commerce solutions for entertainment/media companies (its clients include ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, Discovery, HBO, Showtime, A&E, MTV, among around 200 others), and which earlier this week announced that it had acquired The Band, an interactive media agency that develops and deploys advanced media campaigns across the full spectrum of TV platforms, including cable, satellite and telco.

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of Rick Howe's regular column, "The iTV Doctor Is In!" In this edition, Sangita Verma, co-founder of TAG Networks, the interactive TV games company that earlier this week announced that it had been acquired by ActiveVideo Networks, discusses plans to open up TAG's games platform to third-party developers.

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of Rick Howe's regular column, "The iTV Doctor Is In!" This week, the iTV Doctor examines methods for solving a problem inherent in interactive TV advertising: how to ensure that viewers who interact with ads during commercial breaks do not miss any of the program they were watching before they initiated their interaction.

[itvt] has just published a new edition of Sound Off!, our new column from the iTV Doctor, Rick Howe. The column features HDNet chairman, Mark Cuban; Cox Communications' VP of video product development and support, Steve Necessary; and Bob Greene, currently managing director of TCM Partners, and formerly EVP of advanced services at Starz Entertainment, discussing over-the-top (OTT) vs. cable.

[itvt] has just published a radio interview with David Del Beccaro, founder, president and CEO of multiplatform music programmer, Music Choice.

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of Rick Howe's regular column, "The iTV Doctor Is In!" This week, high-profile cable industry figure, Clayton Banks, CEO of Zap On Demand, discusses his company's new iTV-to-mobile technology, which uses interactive TV to sell a product, and mobile phones to complete the order.

[itvt] has just published the first in a new series of columns from Rick Howe, author of our popular column, "The iTV Doctor Is In!"

Entitled "Sound Off!" and sponsored by ActiveVideo Networks, the new column series will, Howe ("The iTV Doctor") promises, "skewer some of the sacred cows of our business, with industry notables taking positions on either side of the arguments."

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of Rick Howe's regular column, "The iTV Doctor Is In!" This week, NBC Universal's VP of digital distribution, Michael Aaronson, provides a detailed overview of how the broadcaster brought interactive TV coverage of the Winter Olympics to AT&T U-verse TV, Cablevision, Comcast, DirecTV, DISH Network, Oceanic Time Warner Cable, and Verizon FiOS TV.

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[itvt] has just published the first in a new series of columns from "The iTV Doctor Is In" columnist, Rick Howe. Entitled "The iTV Doctor: Profiles" and sponsored by HSN, the columns will profile various prominent figures in the interactive TV industry, starting with Joan Gillman, president of media sales at Time Warner Cable.

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of Rick Howe's regular column, "The iTV Doctor Is In!" This week, Sangita Verma, founder and CEO of TAG Networks, explains how that company's interactive TV games channel on Oceanic Time Warner Cable is beating major linear programming networks in terms of average daily viewing minutes. (Note: [itvt] would like to thank Rick for moderating the highly praised panel, "The iTV Doctor Is In!: The Operating Room," at the TV of Tomorrow Show last week.)

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of Rick Howe's regular column, "The iTV Doctor Is In!" This week, Tyler Slocum, senior director of advanced services at DirecTV, discusses the satellite TV operator's app store and its line-up of widgets.

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of Rick Howe's regular column, "The iTV Doctor Is In!" Last month, the good doctor announced a new feature called Looking for a Gig, that sees him inviting readers who are looking for a new job "whether full-time or part-time, permanent or temporary, salaried or contract," or who are just interested in seeing what's out there, to email him a brief description of their capabilities.

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of Rick Howe's regular column, "The iTV Doctor Is In!" This week, the iTV Doctor is launching a new feature called "Looking for a Gig," in which he invites readers who are looking for a new job "whether full-time or part-time, permanent or temporary, salaried or contract," or who are just interested in seeing what's out there, to email him a brief description of their capabilities. He will then publish these in his column as he receives them.

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of Rick Howe's regular column, "The iTV Doctor Is In!" This week, various interactive TV industry notables--including Mike Bloxham of Ball State University's Center for Media Design, Allison Dollar of the iTV Alliance, Jaspal Bhasin of itaas, Glen Friedman of Ideas & Solutions, and Gary Arlen of Arlen Communications--weigh in on the buzz around 3D TV at the recent Consumer Electronics Show.