Aereo is coming to Boston in May
Aereo, a service that lets you watch live TV on your phone, is going live in Boston on May 15. Read more at paidContent »
FCC outlines $15B spectrum flip from TV broadcast to mobile
The FCC wants to kick off an incentive auction in 2014 that would buy back TV airwaves from the broadcasters and sell them to mobile operators at a premium. The plan isn’t without critics, but in general it was lauded by both consumer groups and carriers. Read more »
Look Ma, TV! First broadcast TV phone appears on MetroPCS
TV broadcasters are making their own contribution to the growing mobile video market with Dyle, a service that plucks their programming out of the DTV airwaves and renders it on mobile phones and other small-screened devices. A Samsung Galaxy phone will be the first Dyle device. Read more »
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Controversy, courtrooms and the cloud in Q1
In the first quarter of 2012 all eyes were on the screen, both big and small. Apple’s new Retina display pushed video streaming, and broadcast-TV streaming service Aereo’s launch was quickly followed with litigation. These events and more are discussed in a new quarterly report. Read more at GigaOM Pro »
Broadcasters try, try again with mobile TV
Broadcasters have been looking for a carrier guinea pig to test out their mobile digital TV service, and on Wednesday they found one. MetroPCS has agreed to sell an Samsung Android phone embedded with a chip that will pluck digital TV signals directly from the airwaves. Read more »
Video Haunts and Shapes the Spectrum Debate
In the land grab for spectrum, the most frightening specter is Netflix. But as carriers launch their LTE networks, I’m concerned about their marketing efforts around HD video. Both AT&T and Verizon are pitching it on their networks despite video’s ability to cause network congestion. Read more »
Online TV’s Next Big Battleground: Apps With Ads
Countless apps on the iPad and iPhone use ads for monetization. However, if you bring those apps to the TV, these overlay ads might appear up on top of traditional broadcast content, which is a plan that some broadcasters really don’t like at all. Read more »
Syncbak Aims to Bring Local TV Online
Syncbak hopes to enable broadcast stations to take control of their destinies and create new streaming services, by offering a way for them to verify local viewers are in their broadcast area and ensure that devices accessing content belong in households that can receive their signals. Read more »
Call The Lawyers: Bamboom Wants to Be Netflix for Broadcasters
Cord cutters or those who want to watch American Idol in real-time or some of their home sporting events on their connected devices will soon have a new option thanks to Bamboom, a startup that said it raised $4.5 million today in seed capital. Read more »
When All Content Is Personalized, Who Needs TV Networks?
Online video firms, cable companies and social networks are trying to figure out new ways to personalize the content that people watch online and on TV. But in a world where content discovery is backed by an algorithm, what does that mean for TV programmers? Read more »
YouTube Won’t Fix Google TV’s Content Problems
Google is shifting responsibility for Google TV into its YouTube division, hoping that the video site will be able to help the gearheads at Google TV with a lesson in striking content deals. But if that’s the case, it will most likely be disappointed. Read more »
Broadcasters: Keep Viewers On-site, Get More Social
Broadcast networks would do well to keep viewers on their own sites rather than having them watch video through embedded players, according to new research. Viewers watched more broadcast video on-site and viewers that found content through social networking sites were more likely to watch longer. Read more »
Will Google TV Get the Broadcaster Help It Needs to Succeed?
What happens if Google TV, which aims to offer up premium online video content alongside linear and on-demand programming, isn’t able to deliver? That’s a very real possibility facing the new video platform being touted by Google as a revolutionary new way to watch TV. Read more »
Vid-Biz: Veoh-UMG, Broadcast Retrans, KickApps HTML5
Today on the Net: Universal Music Group’s appeal of the Veoh copyright infringement verdict could be a preview of Viacom’s appeal of the YouTube verdict, broadcasters are lobbying for government to stay out of retransmission discussions and KickApps added support for HTML5 in its App Studio. Read more »
Is Web Video Replacing Prime-time TV?
For years online video has been seen as complementary to broadcast TV, but now there are signs that video on the web could be displacing traditional TV viewing during the prime-time hours. So is web video finally starting to replace broadcast TV viewing? Read more »
