-- Entone Rolls Hybrid DVR and Streaming Receiver
-- Verizon Launches MY FiOS App for Android Phones
-- CableLabs CEO Paul Liao to Step Down
-- Akoo TV Previews Interactive Programming
-- BBC Releases Red Button Schedule
-- AT&T Rolls ITV App That Lets Subs Pick Camera Angles in Baseball Games
-- Cox Uses thePlatform to Power TV Everywhere site
-- PlayJam to Deliver Social Games to Connected TVs
-- AAMP Survey Calls for Improved Metrics for VOD Measurement
-- BBC Releases Red Button Interactive Programming Schedule
-- BBC's Interactive TV Coverage of Royal Wedding
--LOVEFiLM Lands Disney VOD Movie Agreement
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BBC is using its Red Button interactive TV platform to enhance its coverage of the wedding of Prince William and Catherine Middleton. After Friday's wedding, BBC viewers will be able to watch highlights from the event for up to one week by pressing the Red Button. BBC plans wall-to-wall TV, radio, and Web coverage of the Royal Wedding. Additional highlights from the BBC's Red Button schedule are available here.
--ADB, Espial, Kudelski Release Financial Results
--Kudelski Provides an Update on its OpenTV "Turnaround Plan"
--ADB Says it Has Secured Deals with Two Tier-1 US Cable MSO's in 2011
--Reports: "American Idol" and "The X-Factor" to Support Voting via Facebook
--BBC to Offer "Waterloo Road" Spin-Off through the Red Button
--E! Entertainment Television Teams with Trailer Park on Red-Carpet App for iPad/iPhone/iPod touch
--Liveclicker Enables Interactive Video Shopping via Facebook Pages
--Connected-TV App Developer, MOVL, Appoints Director of Technology, Acquires Interactiva Colombia
--Rdio Social Music Service Launches on Roku
--Report: Samsung May Launch Google TV Devices Based on its own Chips
--140Fire Lets Advertisers Overlay Interactive Ads on Streaming Video in Real Time
Here is a round-up of some other interactive TV-related news we didn't have room for in this issue:
--Also Makes Children's Radio Reports Available through Red Button
--Commissions Second Series of "EastEnders" Broadband TV Spin-Off
The BBC last week announced plans to offer four original "intera ctive episodes" of its long-running scifi series, "Doctor Who." Entitled "Doctor Who--The Adventure Games" and available free of charge on bbc.co.uk/doctorwho, the "interactive episodes" will take the form of downloadable computer games for PC and Mac that will allow players to assume control of The Doctor and his human sidekick, Amy, as they embark on new adventures that complement the latest season of the TV series, the corporation says.
 The BBC has announced the line-up of content that will be available through its red-button interactive TV service through April 16th:
--Will Also Offer Winter Olympics Social/Interactive TV Channels Online
--Huggers: Project Canvas to Feature App Store, Offer SDK
 The BBC has unveiled its multiplatform/interactive TV coverage plans for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver. According to the corporation:
--Public Beta of iPlayer on Freesat Launches, iPlayer to Be Available through Samsung Internet@TV
The BBC has announced the line-up of content that will be available through its red-button interactive TV service for the next two weeks
--New Version of BBC iPlayer Launched on Nintendo Wii
The BBC announced last week the line-up of content that will be available through its red-button interactive TV service for the next two weeks and beyond:
--BBC Exec: One Goal of Salford Move Will Be to Build "Center of Expertise" in IP-Based Interactive TV
 The BBC said Wednesday that "Dreamland," a new, six-part animated series based on its long-running sci-fi program, "Doctor Who" (note: for some background on the show, see the article published on itvt.com, August 24th), will premiere daily on its BBC Red Button interactive TV service and on its "Doctor Who" Web site (bbc.co.uk/doctorwho), starting Saturday, November 21st.
--Freeview Viewers Will Lose Access to BBC News Multiscreen, October 27th
The BBC announced Tuesday that, due to its commitment to launching HD broadcast channels on the UK's free-to-air digital terrestrial platform, Freeview, which involves rearranging the existing SD channels on that platform, it will have to switch off two (including channel 302) of the three interactive streams it uses on Freeview to deliver red-button content.
--Corporation also Launches Audio-Described Programming on the BBC iPlayer
In a posting on the BBC Red Button team's Press Red blog last week, Damian Vicary, interactive TV producer for BBC Children's, announced the launch of a revamped red-button interactive TV service for CBeebies, the BBC's digital channel for children six and under. Among other things, the new version of the service (which is accessed by pressing red while watching CBeebies) features:
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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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ging editor of TV platforms, John Denton