Radio

[itvt] has just published an INTERVIEW with Steve Greenberg, founder and CEO of S-Curve Records (the record label responsible for "Who Let the Dogs Out," and "Stacy's Mom").

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.

The [itvt] editorial team is on the road this week, so we are covering most stories in round-up/summary form, and we anticipate that there will be some additional interruptions of our regular news publishing schedule beyond that. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience to our readers.

The [itvt] editorial team will be on the road this week and next, so we will be covering most stories in round-up/summary form, and we anticipate that there will be some additional interruptions of our regular news publishing schedule beyond that. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience to our readers.

The BBC last week announced plans to offer four original "interactive 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.

Hybrid Television Services, the Seven Media Group subsidiary that holds an exclusive license for TiVo products in Australia and New Zealand, is launching a podcast service today for Australian TiVo customers, following a deal it struck with dmg Radio Australia last December. According to the company, the new service--which all TiVo users in Australia will automatically receive on their TiVo devices at no additional charge--provides highlights of all seven regional breakfast and drive-time shows on dmg Radio Australia-owned radio networks, Nova and Vega, and will be updated on a daily basis. The podcasts will stream "on-demand," Hybrid TV says, meaning that they will start playing immediately once the end-user selects them.

In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "The TV of
Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow," Silicon Valley pundit and
author, Andrew Keen ("The Cult of the Amateur"), discusses his

skeptical take on user-generated content and other participatory media,
why he is not a fan of the Creative Commons movement, his views on
the economics of broadband video, and more.

In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "The TV of Tomorrow
Show with Tracy Swedlow," a panel of high-profile interactive TV
experts--Patrick Donoghue, VP of interactive TV product management at
Time Warner Cable; industry analyst, Leslie Ellis (author of the column,

"Translation Please"); Bill Niemeyer, chief of analysis and research at
BlackArrow; David Preisman, VP of interactive television at Showtime
Networks; and Lori Schwartz, SVP and director of the Interpublic Emerging

--The Interactive TV Month in Review

In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s new talk radio show, "The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow," Ashwin Navin, co-founder and president of peer-to-peer technology provider, BitTorrent, discusses that company's recently announced agreement with Comcast, which calls for them to work together to address infrastructural issues raised by the growing popularity of video and other rich media on the Internet.