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The new user interface will feature a greater emphasis on images and video, following more of a standard desktop browsing behavior with multiple images and videos with each story, along with live HTML links and the addition of related story links.

Looking to push the focus to the “primary” screen, Dish Network has started a social media app connected to its Hopper DVR unit. Dish says the Social app is the first set-top-box app where viewers can watch TV shows and follow social media posts on the same screen.

The DVR company updates its iPad app with real-time recommendations that will mix in social data and critics’ picks.

The network, staking a claim to growth in online video ads, will brief advertisers next week on a service providing live shows on mobile phones and tablets, people with knowledge of the plan said. Watch ABC, a first-of-its-kind application from a broadcaster, will stream live and archived shows to pay-TV subscribers, said the people, who sought anonymity because the plans aren’t public.

AdLarge Media has introduced its Broadcast Calendar App for iPhone and iPad, and is providing it free to the broadcasting and advertising industries. The AdLarge Broadcast Calendar App was conceived […]

BuzzBoard, a tablet-based sales tool app tailored to media companies offering SMB-targeted digital marketing services, does all the homework for sales reps, evaluating a client’s current Web presence and performance and allowing reps to pinpoint digitally needy local businesses.

Gray Television’s new Moms Everyday app, the app version of its four-year-old moms vertical site, can be localized for each of the TV company’s 32 stations. The company expects the app, launched in January, to generate $5 million this year.

Mobile Viewpoint’s WMT Live lets users live stream video directly from their iPhones to website or broadcast TV. The app is designed to be used by reporters or non-journalists, making it possible for anyone with an iPhone to contribute news to websites or TV stations.

The new Truth Teller app was developed with funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation’s Prototype Fund and will combine video and audio extraction with a speech-to-text technology to search databases of facts and fact checks.

Univision is rolling out its TV Everywhere service, UVideos, as an app on smart TVs and connected devices (including Internet-enabled Blu-ray players) manufactured by electronics giant Samsung.

Publishers, in particular broadcasters and newspapers, were quick in releasing apps for the first-generation iPhone and Android handsets, but 2012 was remarkable for the number of great mobile apps that were developed to disrupt news consumption.

Telecom giant Comcast said its Xfinity TV Player app now allows customers to download TV shows and movies from the Web onto their mobile devices.

Broadcast Interactive Media has released a new, free, easy-to-use app, TitanTV for Android. Designed for use in the United States, TitanTV for Android lets users view the schedules for 14 […]

The apps, designed to offer viewers enhanced interactive and social capabilities around Fox shows, are launching on iOS, Android, Windows 8, Xbox, Samsung Smart TV and other digital platforms. They also include “T-commerce” capability and exclusive offers for American Express cardmembers with New Girl. Other brand partners will include Mazda and T-Mobile.

Washington all-news powerhouse WTOP’s relaunched news app, which combines a native app home page with the station’s mobile site, streamlines advertising and makes it easier for the newsroom to make changes on the fly. The app has helped boost WTOP’s mobile traffic, which now makes up 10% of its total digital traffic.

StepLeader Digital reported that mobile usage for its local news partners’ mobile sites and apps skyrocketed during coverage of Hurricane Sandy and Election Night.

The Capitol Broadcasting Raleigh-Durham, N.C., CBS affiliate’s new tablet app is moving away from a text-heavy scrolling interface to a swipeable, visually driven minimalist approach. The company sees the StepLeader-designed app as an important piece of its larger mobile strategy.

ACTV8.ME’s new In the Huddle app offers an innovative second screen predictive experience designed to enhance the nationally televised pro football games on Sunday and Monday nights. Fans are able […]

Hearst takes its award-winning political coverage mobile with a new app that allows users to dig into information about national campaigns and local races. The app also invites engagement with Facebook sharing and user-generated photos and video.

YouTube has launched its own iOS app, bringing advanced features such as social sharing, access to the site’s channel guide and thousands of previously unavailable music videos to the iPhone. The application replaces a system app developed by Apple that won’t be part of iOS 6. The company also says an iPad app is in the works.

By refashioning the site as  a general sports programming hub, NBC hopes to hang on to users. The new NBC Sports Live Extra will have live feeds of events airing on multiple NBCUniversal properties, including the NBC Sports Network and Golf Channel.

Available at no charge from the iTunes Store and the Google Play Store, Election 2012 features up-to-the-minute and in-depth election-related national content as well as local content from the group’s 25 markets, many of which are in key presidential swing states.

Signalnoi.se, a new app for desktops, allows publishers to track in real time the social performance of their stories and their competitors stories across Facebook and Twitter, giving them the opportunity to fine-tune their editorial and social strategies around that data.

Taptu lets users select from more than 200,000 news streams — ranging from coverage of presidential politics to cuddly kittens — and use its mixing board-like interface to “DJ the news.”

Scripps’ new Storm Shield app lets users customize the type and number of severe weather warnings they receive for as many as five locations, essentially turning their smartphones into emergency weather radios.

ABC’s new alarm clock app, launched at its KTRK Houston in May and the broadcaster’s seven other O&Os in June, gives users a morning wake-up call and a shot of local news headlines all before they’ve had their first cup of coffee.

The new ABC News app for Amazon’s Kindle Fire tablet includes news headlines, video and integrated social media tools.

Comcast and Disney/ABC Television Group announced that Xfinity TV customers can now access three new authenticated TV+ products — WATCH Disney Channel, WATCH Disney XD and WATCH Disney Junior — […]

PressReader draws on newspapers from around the world to deliver content to users, and the arrangement benefits all involved: Readers sign up for a paid subscription to the app to get the news they crave, and publishers receive fixed royalties from PressReader.