Both companies are working to create an integrated solution that will let broadcasters send out video highlights on Twitter and Facebook through a LiveU bonded cellular device. For now, both companies are promoting each other’s services as referral partners.
Streaming music service Pandora today rolled out a new HTML5 app for Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 that allows users to stream music over through their televisions. The company plans to eventually expand the service to other Web standards-based devices.
A successful test with Nielsen brings broadcasters another step closer to monetizing content using Syncbak’s streaming technology.
Users who downloaded or updated ABC’s new app that allows for a live linear stream of local and network content are complaining about technical glitches and too many commercials before live content begins.
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NBC, Affils Working On Streaming Plan
The network and its affiliates have almost worked out an “agreement on a general framework” that would let the stations stream a combination of network and local content to smartphones and other wireless devices.
At its affiliate meeting today in Las Vegas, the Fox network is expected to unveil a plan that would allow its affiliates to stream online Fox sports and entertainment programming, according to two affiliate sources. More to come after the meeting adjourns around 4 p.m ET.
For the past few months, CBS has been using Syncbak to stream the signals of its duopolies in New York and Los Angeles to smartphones and other devices without requiring a dongle or antenna. Syncbak uses the GPS embedded in smartphone and tablets and another proprietary system to make sure that only users within a station’s market can receive the station’s programming.
Total spending on television and film in home entertainment formats rose ever so slightly in 2012, to about $18 billion, up 0.23% from $17.96 billion a year earlier, the Digital Entertainment Group trade association said on Tuesday.
Netflix and CBS aren’t disclosing terms of the deal they announced Tuesday, but an analyst said it’s worth $200 million. CBS will get that amount, according to a Wednesday research note from Barclays Capital analyst Anthony DiClemente, over two years for nonexclusive rights to stream such shows as The Twilight Zone, Star Trek, Family Ties, Twin Peaks, Cheers and Frasier.
