--Amino Plans US Debut for its OTT-Enabled IPTV Set-Tops at TelcoTV
--Apple TV 4.4 Released
--Arris to Acquire BigBand Networks
--Avail-TVN Names Laurie Lawrence CMO
--New "Big Brother" Play-Along Game Encourages Viewers to Keep Watching During Commercials
Because the [itvt] editorial team has been working on TVOT NYC Intensive 2011, we are covering stories in this issue in round-up/summary format.
--Mobile Interactive Group Enables "Big Brother" Voting via Facebook Credits
--NBC.com Launches "Summer Videopalooza"
--Netflix to Launch Instant Streaming in Latin America, Caribbean
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:
--Report: Apple Working with Major OEM to Develop iOS-Powered Connected-TV Sets
--"Expedition Impossible" Premiere to Feature Social TV Elements
--Report: Hulu Retains Investment Banks to Help with Possible Sale, Is Being Courted by Yahoo!
--ITV Taps Made By Many to Help Integrate its TV and Online Offerings
--Kaltura Enabling Internet Archive's Video Library to Support HTML5
--Mexico's TotoTV to Use mgMedia's Online Video Platform
--Time Warner Cable, Viacom Put their Litigation over iPad Streaming on Hold
Here are some other stories we didn't have room for in this issue:
--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:
-- Canoe Automates ITV Ad Sales
-- NDS, TRA Tout Ad Accountability
-- Interactive Reality Show Hits Italy
-- Samsung Builds “Smart Living Room” Site
-- Amanita Debuts Interactive Music Video
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Canoe Ventures and its MSO partners are beginning to automate their ad-sales operations for interactive ads, using software from Invision Inc. The firm said Canoe is using its DealMaker Ad Sales System, which does everything from creating ad-sales proposals to allocating spots to brands according to client specifications. More
--Amino Demo's Custom Hybrid-TV UI, Based on MeeGo Open Source Operating System
--bmcoforum Seeks to Enable "Seamless Consumption" of TV on TV Sets, Mobiles and PC's
--Bravo Organizing Social TV Event for "Top Chef" Finale
Due to the huge volume of interactive TV-related news generated over the past few days by the IBC, we are covering stories in this issue in round-up format. We anticipate that it will take a few more days for us to catch up with all the recent news: so if your company has sent us a press release or briefed us on an announcement, and you don't yet see your news covered in this issue, please bear with us. Our regular news coverage will return shortly.
--Finnish Interactive TV Company, Icareus, Launches Object Carousel and Lab Solution for HbbTV
--ITV Live to Enable Two-Screen Interactive TV for "The X Factor"
--LOVEFiLM in Streaming Video Deal with MGM
Due to the large volume of interactive TV-related news generated over the past few days, we are covering stories in this issue in round-up/summary format. Our regular news coverage will return shortly.
In an interview posted on a Verizon blog, Wednesday, Verizon FiOS TV executive, Maitreyi Krishnaswamy, provided some insight into the service's interactive TV widget plans for 2010.
According to Krishnaswamy, the service will roll out more widgets for multicultural audiences, more sports widgets, a wider choice of widgetized games titles, and various program-specific widgets, including widgets for reality TV shows and other series.
--ABC Adding Several Holiday Specials to ABC.com Full Episode Player
--STV's mySTV Integrated with Facebook Connect
 US broadcast network, Fox, on Tuesday launched a user-generated content (UGC) promotion that invites fans of the reality show, "American Idol," to create "video testimonials sharing what they love" about the show, and upload their testimonials to a special "Idol Fans" section of its Web site (http://www.fox.com/idolfans).
--Deal Gives Sprint Presence On-Air, on Mobile and on Broadband Video Spin-Off
NBC Universal-owned cable channel, Bravo, said Tuesday that it has signed up Sprint as the first ever multiplatform ("360") sponsor for its reality franchise, "The Real Housewives," in a deal that will provide the carrier with an on-air, online and mobile presence for the fifth season of "The Real Housewives of Orange County."
--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
 CBS Interactive contacted [itvt] Monday to let us know that its CBS Mobile arm has launched a "Survivor: Samoa" mobile Web site and Palm Pre application for Sprint customers. According to the broadcaster, the new offerings, which were developed by Treemo Labs and are sponsored by Sprint, allow viewers to:
--Beats "Jimmy Kimmel Live," "Last Call with Carson Daly" and "Chelsea Lately" in 18-49 Demographic
Bravo is trumpeting the success of its new, weekly, live, late night interactive TV show, "Watch What Happens: Live." The show, which is hosted by Bravo's SVP of original programming and development, Andy Cohen, is based on a live broadband TV show that aired for several years on Bravotv.com and that focused on eliminated contestants and other personalities from Bravo's stable of reality-TV series. The show, as Bravo describes it, features Cohen chatting with guests from its most popular shows, as well as other celebrities, about "what has transpired on-air and in pop culture that week for a live half-hour full of viewer interaction." It allows viewers to interact with Cohen and his guests via email, phone, video, Twitter and Facebook.
According to Bravo:
Endemol has been tapped by social networking company, Bebo, to produce a second season of the interactive online reality show, "The Gap Year." The show, which will be sponsored by the New Zealand Tourist Board and produced by Endemol's Digital Media arm, will feature five Bebo users as they travel through New Zealand. Each weekday, the Bebo users will post short videos about their travels on the show's home page, and will interact with viewers via Twitter and Facebook. "Working with Endemol and Bebo will allow people from all over the world see young travelers getting the most out of what New Zealand has to offer," Tourism New Zealand CEO, George Hickton, said in a prepared statement.
 Broadcast network CBS announced Wednesday an extensive multiplatform initiative around the 11th season of the US version of the Endemol reality-TV show, "Big Brother" (Premieres July 9th, 8:00PM Eastern/Pacific). According to CBS:
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The 2nd Annual TVOT NYC Intensive
The second annual TVOT NYC Intensive took place on Monday, December 5th at 730 Third Avenue in Midtown Manhattan. We would like to thank everybody who participated and attended for making the event a success!
Read more about the highlights - video and photos to be posted soon.
To find out about future event sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, contact us at swedlow@itvt.com or 415-824-5806
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