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Interactive TV News Round-Up (VI): Sigma Designs, "The Voice," Time Warner Cable

Submitted by tracyswedlow on June 20, 2011 - 7:10pm
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--Sigma Designs Unveils Reference Design for Ultra-Thin Set-Top Box
--NBC Reality Show, "The Voice," Offers Extensive Social Media Integration
--Time Warner Cable to Launch Version 2.0 of its iPad App Later this Month

Due to the large volume of news generated over the past few days, we are covering today's stories in abbreviated round-up/summary form:

News Round-Up:

Submitted by tracyswedlow on December 17, 2009 - 2:55am
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--Lori Schwartz Elected Co-Governor of ATAS Interactive Media Peer Group
--Ex-Digeo CEO, Greg Gudorf, Resurfaces at Thomson Technicolor
--Free Press: Comcast's "TV Everywhere" Service Poses a Threat to Online Video Competition
--New Online Reality Show Involves Hulu, MySpace
--Jinni Secures $1.6 Million in Series A Funding Round
--Ooyala Provides Live Streaming Coverage of Vans Triple Crown of Surfing
--Report: SeeSaw Secures Content Deals with Channel 4, Five
--Teletext Closes Down
--Thoughts from thePlatform's Ian Blaine and SysMedia's Andrew Lambourne
--Google's Eun: YouTube Mulling Subscription Option

Here is a round-up of some other interactive TV-related stories we didn't have room for in this issue:

Live Streaming Interactive Reality Show Centers on Development of New iPhone App

Submitted by tracyswedlow on December 14, 2009 - 1:38am
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Italian software company, Command Guru, recently produced an interactive, live streaming, fly-on-the-wall reality TV show, centering on the efforts of an international team of 10 developers, led by Cocoa guru, Aaron Hillegass (author of "Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X"), to develop a free, open source, social networking iPhone application in seven days ("from start-to-publish on the App Store").

Ustream Launches Live, Interactive Celebrity-Driven Reality Series, "Ustream All Access"

Submitted by tracyswedlow on December 8, 2009 - 3:08am
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--Featured Celebs Include Will.i.am, Snoop Dogg

Live Internet broadcast service provider, Ustream, contacted [itvt] Monday to let us know that rapper Snoop Dogg will be featured today (Tuesday afternoon, Pacific Time) in the second episode of a new, live, interactive reality series, entitled "Ustream All Access." The series, which is billed as giving online viewers a "live peek into the daily lives of celebrities," premiered December 1st with a live stream featuring Black Eyed Peas frontman, Will.i.am, backstage at the Grammy Awards nominations in Los Angeles. According to Ustream, it garnered over 250,000 viewers.

Israeli Cross-Platform Interactive Reality Show Lets Viewers Control Every Aspect of Contestants' Lives

Submitted by tracyswedlow on October 26, 2009 - 1:43am
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--Viewers Decide What Contestants "Wear, Eat and Hear, Whom they Sleep with" and More

Dori Media Group, an Israeli TV formats, production and distribution company best known for its telenovelas, announced last week that its interactive cross-platform "control game"/reality show, "uMan" (known in Israel as "Megudalim"), has won three Accolade Awards: an Award of Excellence for reality programming, an Award of Merit for creativity and originality, and an Award of Merit for viewer impact and entertainment value (note: according to Dori Media, the awards recognize "film, television and videography professionals who demonstrate exceptional achievement in craft and creativity, and those who produce standout ent

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