ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Eddie Muller, one of the five hosts of TCM (Turner Classic Movies). Muller discusses “Reframed: Classic Films in the Rearview Mirror,” a series of movies from the 1920’s to the 1960’s, currently airing on TCM, that feature controversial depictions of ethnic minorities, transgender people and ot...
Jun 09, 2021•47 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Tony Mugavero, Co-Founder and CEO of Rad (formerly Littlstar), a company that has developed an eponymous streaming app that offers free TV, premium esports, gaming, music, comedy, sports, live events, VR and more. The app, which is available on PlayStation 4 and 5, PSVR, Android TV, mobile and ...
Jun 09, 2021•47 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s Friday Fireside guest is Tim Spengler, General Manager of Advanced TV Solutions at Amobee, the advertising solution that integrates TV, CTV, Digital and Social Media into a unified strategy to optimize performance. In anticipation of the upcoming TVOT LIVE! panel, "Is Broadcast The TV of Tomorrow?," Tim offers suggestions on how linear telev...
Jun 09, 2021•24 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s Friday Fireside guest is Philippe Guelton, President of Crackle Plus—a Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment company (Nasdaq: CSSE). Philippe talks in detail about the creation of the Crackle Plus service, its role in the overall CSSE ecosystem, ad insertion technology, content creation and management for a mid-size streaming service, gett...
Jun 09, 2021•20 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Mike Molnar, Managing Partner at social-media agency, GLOW. Among other things, he discusses the company’s work on campaigns for Panera and other brands; explains how it is using augmented reality (AR) for marketing campaigns; and outlines some of the opportunities he sees going forward. https:...
Jun 09, 2021•30 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s edition of The Friday Fireside asks, “When will Comcast acquire Roku?” That, along with the more existential “What's Next for Television?,” are two of the key questions answered by Gerard Kunkel, Chris Falkner and Patrick Donoghue from Next Media Partners, a business, product and technology consultancy led by executives with vast operating e...
Jun 09, 2021•21 min
This week’s episode of The Friday Fireside welcomes television industry veteran Marty Lafferty, Chief Content Officer of StreamSearch LIVE—designed to bring order to the massive amount of user-generated content (UGC) and expand the content pool for platforms and distributors. StreamSearch LIVE’s proprietary technology includes search functionality optimized for live video streams (“Stream Engine”), quality improvement tools for live-streaming content creators (“Streamers”), and linear feed integ...
Jun 09, 2021•25 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s Friday Fireside guest is Courtney Miller, Creative Executive for the newly formed production venture between CBS Studios and the NAACP, the purpose of which is to develop and produce scripted, unscripted and documentary content for linear television networks and streaming platforms. The partnership will focus on producing premium content tha...
Jun 09, 2021•24 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s episode of The Friday Fireside features Claire McHugh, CEO of Axonista, the Dublin, Ireland-based video-commerce company which powers interactive video shopping experiences for global enterprises. Claire explains that while the traditional commercial television model currently depends on a dual-revenue stream of license fees from distributor...
Jun 09, 2021•21 min
https://tvotshow.com/televisionation - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Alice Sylvester and Jim Spaeth of metrics and analytics company, Sequent Partners, discussing the current state and the likely future development of TV attribution.
Jun 09, 2021•43 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. In advance of the 2021 Academy Awards broadcast on April 25th, this week’s Friday Fireside is proud to announce an exclusive interview with Ellen Windemuth, Executive Producer of the Oscar-Nominated documentary, “My Octopus Teacher.” Ellen is the CEO of Waterbear Network, where TVOT LIVE! speaker Claire McHugh’s Axonista is providing interactive capabil...
May 14, 2021•19 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. Can TV entertain without sound? Can TV ads sell without sound? Find out on this week’s Friday Fireside with Leo Resig, CEO and Co-Founder of Atmosphere, described as “audio-optional TV programming for business.” Atmosphere has a business model that combines traditional advertising, point-of-sale retail promotion, e-commerce and more, all in venues where...
May 14, 2021•21 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. We are changing things up a bit on this week’s Friday Fireside. Bob Gold, President, Founder and CEO of Bob Gold & Associates, shares his terrifying story of surviving Covid-19 which, as the good doctor observes, “scared the s*#t out of all of Bob’s friends!” Speaking with his customary humanity and humor, Bob gives a first-hand perspective on what ...
Mar 02, 2021•22 min
https://tvotshow.com/televisionation - Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s Friday Fireside guest is Erica Schmidt, Global CEO of Matterkind, the advertising technology unit of IPG (Interpublic Group). Matterkind (previously Cadreon) offers an expanded and enhanced suite of addressable activation solutions and advisory services, taking a people-first and ethical approach to eng...
Feb 26, 2021•24 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Stefanie Meyers, SVP of Distribution at Starz, discussing among other things, Starz’ distribution strategy, the new platforms and services that it is targeting for its content, opportunities for growth, how the company is addressing the needs of underserved communities, and more.
Feb 26, 2021•29 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Scott McDonald, President and CEO, and Paul Donato, Chief Research Officer of the Advertising Research Foundation (ARF), an organization which was founded in 1936 and which describes its mission as “to further, through research, the scientific practice of advertising and marketing.” They discus...
Feb 26, 2021•46 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features George Ivie, CEO and Executive Director of the Media Rating Council (MRC), an organization which was founded at the behest of the US Congress in the early 1960’s and which describes its mission as being to “secure for the media industry and related users measurement services that are valid, rel...
Feb 18, 2021•44 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s Friday Fireside features Christy Tanner, EVP and General Manager of CBS News Digital. To paraphrase Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove,” CBS News Digital is the reason Americans learned to stop worrying and love the news. With a Billion (with a "B") streams in 2020, the service is on a roll. Christy explains the service’s content structure, ...
Feb 18, 2021•23 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s Friday Fireside features Allyson Dietz, Director of Product Marketing for Neustar, Inc. Allyson discusses her time at Nielsen and her time running the analytics business at Neustar, to help clients measure the impact of their marketing spend. She also helps the good doctor understand the concept of “Digital Arbitration,” and explains the par...
Feb 18, 2021•20 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode, in two parts, features Bonnie Comley and Stewart F. Lane, Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of BroadwayHD, a niche SVOD service devoted to theatrical productions. In the first part (26:15), Comley and Lane discuss their backgrounds, BroadwayHD’s distribution footprint (the service is currently in over 170 countr...
Feb 18, 2021•26 min
ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode, in two parts, features Bonnie Comley and Stewart F. Lane, Co-Founders and Co-CEOs of BroadwayHD, a niche SVOD service devoted to theatrical productions. In the first part (26:15), Comley and Lane discuss their backgrounds, BroadwayHD’s distribution footprint (the service is currently in over 170 countr...
Feb 18, 2021•22 min
http://tvotshow.com/televisionation - Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. Our guest for this week’s Friday Fireside is television industry veteran and scholar Craig Leddy, Founder, President and Senior Market Analyst for Interactive TV Works. We start with an exceedingly timely conversation on the role of media in the January 6th events in Washington DC, and move on to Craig’s amazing wor...
Feb 01, 2021•18 min
https://tvotshow.com/televisionation - Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. If you are in the streaming business, or considering a move to streaming, you need to watch our guest for this week’s Friday Fireside: Andrea Clarke-Hall, Head of Global Business Development at Tubi. Andrea takes us through a fascinating look at the early days of Tubi (she’s been at Tubi for about as long as Tubi h...
Feb 01, 2021•23 min
http://tvotshow.com/televisionation - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Dan Garraway, Co-Founder of Wirewax, a UK company which last month announced the launch of an interactive-TV and television-commerce (tcommerce) app—called INTERACTIVE, Powered by WIREWAX—for Chromecast with Google TV and other Android TV OS devices. The ap...
Feb 01, 2021•35 min
Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. This week’s Friday Fireside features Gary Arlen, noted media and entertainment journalist, analyst, prognosticator and FCC interpreter. In a session recorded on Inauguration Day 2021, we talk about the impact of the pandemic on the industry, including the very thin line between Innovation and Desperation. Gary gives us a sense of the industry’s future t...
Feb 01, 2021•22 min
PART 2 - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This PART 2 episode features the second half of a two-part interview with Mark Aitken, SVP of Advanced Technology at Sinclair Broadcast Group, and head of the team that won the 2020 ITVT Award for Leadership in Interactive Television: Achievement in Local Broadcasting. He explains the importance of O-RAN (O...
Jan 17, 2021•32 min
PART 1 - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This PART 1 episode features the first half of a two-part interview with Mark Aitken, SVP of Advanced Technology at Sinclair Broadcast Group, and head of the team that won the 2020 ITVT Award for Leadership in Interactive Television: Achievement in Local Broadcasting. He discusses Sinclair’s ongoing rollout...
Jan 17, 2021•37 min
http://tvotshow.com/televisionation - ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry in the Coronavirus/Covid-19 Era and beyond. This episode features Greg Diefenbach, Co-Founder and Managing Director of Alliant Content, the company behind the documentary-focused niche VOD service, MagellanTV. Among other things, Diefenbach explains the reasons behind the founding of the service, why he believes there is ...
Jan 17, 2021•33 min
http://tvotshow.com/televisionation - Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. Our guest for this week’s Friday Fireside is television industry veteran and scholar Craig Leddy, Founder, President and Senior Market Analyst for Interactive TV Works. We start with an exceedingly timely conversation on the role of media in the January 6th events in Washington DC, and move on to Craig’s amazing wor...
Jan 17, 2021•18 min
https://tvotshow.com/televisionation - Televisionation: Friday Fireside features Rick Howe, The iTV Doctor, in conversation with prominent figures from the advanced-TV/video industry. If you are in the streaming business, or considering a move to streaming, you need to watch our guest for this week’s Friday Fireside: Andrea Clarke-Hall, Head of Global Business Development at Tubi. Andrea takes us through a fascinating look at the early days of Tubi (she’s been at Tubi for about as long as Tubi h...
Jan 17, 2021•23 min
