Pandora

An application that will allow Netflix subscribers to watch TV shows and movies from its Watch Instantly library is among the apps Amazon will offer to consumers that buy its Kindle Fire tablet next week.

Because the [itvt] editorial team is on the road this week, we are covering stories in this edition of the newsletter in round-up format:

Internet radio site Pandora expanded into comedy, debuting six free comedy channels. In addition to letting listeners create personalized comedy stations based on their favorite comedians, Pandora has created comedy channels for genres such as political comedy, working class comedy and PG comedy.

Pandora's comedy channels are also available on TV to Web surfers with connected devices such as Roku's over-the-top video receiver and TiVo's Premiere DVR. More

DVR vendor/service provider, TiVo, continues to add to the line-up of OTT content that can be accessed through its broadband-connected set-tops. The company said Monday that Pandora's personalized Internet radio service is now available on all broadband-connected TiVo Premiere DVR's. "Just as TiVo revolutionized your television and personalized your viewing content, the Pandora application brings additional music customization to the all-in-one TiVo box," Jim Denney, TiVo's VP and general manager of product marketing, said in a prepared statement.

A number of pieces of connected TV news came across [itvt]'s desk, Tuesday. Here is a brief--and by no means exhaustive--round-up (note: also see "Vudu Unveils Vudu Apps OTT Service," "ActiveVideo Networks in Deal to Provide Blockbuster with Cloud-Based User Interface," and "Showtime Networks, Betfair Launch Interactive TV Widgets"):