 As you can see above and to the right, [itvt]'s TV of Tomorrow Show has a new logo. The logo was created by Method, our Official Design Sponsor, which is working with us to develop a compelling new visual identity for the show. Based in San Francisco and New York, Method bills itself as a brand experience agency that helps businesses harness the competitive power of design, and that is able to draw on deep expertise in research, strategy, design and technology (its senior staff includes high-profile  interactive TV industry veterans, Geoff Katz and John Gilles).
--Deadline for Submitting Nominations is February 17th
--Awards will be Presented at [itvt]'s TV of Tomorrow Show
--Online Nomination Form Available Here
[itvt] will present our 5th Annual Awards for Leadership in Interactive and Multiplatform Television at an awards ceremony at the TV of Tomorrow Show in San Francisco (March 11th and 12th).
 Fluorescent Media, the UK-based participation-TV company that inherited the assets of Optimistic Media and The Optimistic Network (see [itvt] Issue 7.36 Part 1), says that it is partnering with New York-based production company, Embassy Row, to produce and pitch its new, interactive gameshow series, "The Empire," and that Sony Pictures Television will distribute the new format, under its partnership deal with Embassy Row. Fluorescent describes "The Empire" as a "cross-platform format where thousands of players are "projected" into a gameshow studio (via video or an Internet profile) to compete simultaneously in a live TV contest," and as "transce
--Motorola Chosen as Lead Supplier of Next-Gen BT Vision Set-Tops
--BT Vision Download Store Trials Ad-Supported Movie Downloads
--BT Vision IPTV Service Now Available on Self-Install Basis
--New BT Vision Magazine Represents First Use of New Microsoft Browser
CloverLeaf Digital, a Brooklyn-based interactive TV applications developer that specializes in building and managing localized "walled-garden" services, says that Texas-based competitive  broadband provider, Grande Communications, has signed a three-year extension of an agreement, under which CloverLeaf provides it with a custom version of its walled-garden news and information service, branded as Grande Interactive TV (note: Grande is somewhat of a pioneer in the interactive TV space: in addition to the CloverLeaf-powered walled-garden service, it offers services based on ICTV's ActiveVideo platform).
--Secures $10 Million in Series B Funding Round
--Names Steven J. Heyer Vice Chairman, Jim Anderson SVP of Engineering
--Creates Social Video Services for Chick-fil-A, Meijer
--Teams with Comcast Spotlight on Study of EPG Viewing Habits
--New Deals with Sony, Polaroid, Cox, CZCATV, So-net, Atlantic Broadband
--Begins Patent-Infringement Litigation against Toshiba
A group of prominent Internet and media companies--including CBS, Dailymotion, Fox Entertainment Group, Microsoft, MySpace, NBC Universal, Veoh, Viacom and The Walt Disney Company--recently unveiled a set of "collaborative principles" that they claim will "enable the continued growth and development of user-generated content online" while "respect[ing] the intellectual property of content owners." According to the companies, the principles will function as "guidelines to help user-generated content (UGC) services and content creators work together towards their collective goal of bringing more content to more consumers through legitimate channels" and "acknowledge a collective respect for protecting copyrights and recognize that filte
--BIAP Awarded its Second Patent
--ESPN in Xbox Live Programming Deal
US satellite TV operator, EchoStar, and Disney and ESPN Media Networks recently launched two new interactive TV applications on EchoStar's DISH Network platform: ESPN Interactive Zone and Disney Channel Interactive TV.
--Company Launches Online Entertainment Service, Fancast
--Teams with Panasonic on New tru2way (OCAP) Devices
US cable MSO, Comcast, generated a fair amount of interactive TV-related news at CES in Las Vegas last week:
--SeaChange-Subsidiary ODG Sells Stake in FilmFlex
--Company Unveils New Mediaroom Features, Partnerships at CES
 At CES in Las Vegas last week, Microsoft announced that its Mediaroom IPTV platform is now delivering video services to over a million set-top boxes worldwide and that its operator customers are, on average, adding two new IPTV subscriber households every minute. In addition, the company said, the platform is on track to reach a million subscriber homes in Q1, 2008.
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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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