TV Everywhere

More than 20 million customers of the satellite service nationwide Now Have Out-of-Home Streaming Access to Full Episodes of Fox, FX and Nat Geo series on the Web and mobile devices.

NBC is now providing access to live broadcast feeds over the Internet — but only if viewers already subscribe to a cable or satellite TV provider that has a deal with the Comcast-owned programming group, and only if they happen to be in the right part of the U.S. Initially, NBC’s authenticated 24-hour live-streaming feeds are available via the Peacock’s 10 owned stations. NBCU said it is “working with its TV affiliates to offer additional local launches moving forward.”

It launches Bravo Now and Telemundo Now apps on Microsoft’s Xbox One, joining earlier USA Now and Syfy Now apps.

ABC, CBS, Fox and NBC are deploying TV Everywhere technology. While they differ in specifics, each product equips the respective network with a way to reach viewers on their smartphones, tablets and computers with linear programs, live presentations and video-on-demand content. CBS and Fox have turned to Syncbak, NBC is using Avanto, while ABC has turned to upLynk.

Entertainment Studios Inc. has reached an agreement with AT&T U-verse TV to make its Justice Central.TV cable television network available on the U-verse App for tablets and smartphones. Justice Central.TV […]

With a complete redesign of the user interface and user experience, this re-launch offers the new social features as well as more sponsorship opportunities for advertisers.

CNNgo is the network’s attempt to break the linear model for broadcast television.

In a colorful rant aimed at the media executives gathering in Sun Valley this week for Allen & Co.’s annual mogulfest, media analyst Rich Greenfield of BTIG blasted the current state of TV Everywhere — the five-year-old concept introduced by Time Warner that was supposed to save the media ecosystem as we know it.

It’s the ads — or, rather, the same ads over and over — BTIG analyst Richard Greenfield says in a report, and documents in a video of his experience when he caught up with The Americans on FX’s FXNow site.

Dina Juliano joins from HBO to oversee consumer product strategy at the expanding unit.

Overall, TV Everywhere content consumption grew 246% year-over-year, excluding data from the Sochi Olympics, according to a new survey from Adobe. More consumers search and consume TV content on devices running Apple’s operating system. iOS apps now surpass browsers for the first time as the most popular access type for TV Everywhere, taking 43% market share in 1Q 2014, up from 41% in the year-ago quarter.

TV Everywhere is too complicated and fragmented to be really popular — but it has nonetheless been a success in an unlikely area: It has forced networks and operators to think more like Netflix, and radically change their development to embrace mobile devices and much shorter release cycles — all of which is helping them to prepare themselves for a streaming future.

Cox Communications has launched Showtime Networks’ Internet-video service, which lets subscribers of the premium cabler watch live and on-demand access to programming on a range of devices.

“Finding ways to drive awareness, make it easier for [consumers to use], and then eliminating the friction is the key to success,” said Michael Angus, SVP general manager of video at Time Warner Cable.

Alison Moore, the former GM-EVP of Daily Candy and HBO exec, will will be responsible for NBCUniversal’s TV Everywhere initiative, and will work with Ron Lamprecht.

The logistics and costs associated with participating in the network’s TV Everywhere initiative topped discussion at a closed-door affiliates meeting Tuesday in Las Vegas. According to the affiliates board chairman, Hearst TV’s Jordan Wertlieb, the mood among the stations is “overwhelmingly very positive,.

At a closed-door meeting with more than 100 affiliates Monday at the NAB Show in Las Vegas, NBC showcased its plan to launch its TV Everywhere app, which has not yet been named, and how affiliates can participate in the initiative, sources say.

The agreement is the first step toward Dish offering a cable-like service online, but before it launches it’s going to need similar deals with the ABC affiliates as well as with CBS, Fox, NBC and their affiliates. All the affiliates stand to make a little more on retrans and they get their signals onto the Internet where they can be watched by young viewers on mobile devices.

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Adobe has published its 4Q 2013 U.S. Digital Video Benchmark report, finding that authenticated TV Everywhere streams more than doubled in 2013 to 574.2 million, up from 222.5 million in 2012. 73% of authenticated views occurred on mobile devices, 22% on desktop and less than 5% each on gaming consoles and connected TVs.

The network said Monday it will give subscribers a 30-minute “free pass” to Olympics video before they are asked to verify that they are paying customers. On subsequent days, the access will be limited to five minutes before verification.

If TV’s copyright infringement arguement is rejected by the High Court, it doesn’t mean the end of over-the-air broadcasting as we know it. The doomsday scenario is flawed and broadcasters could counter with their own OTT service. The only certainty for broadcasters is the need to think it through and be prepared if they do come up short in court.

Valari Staab, president of NBCUniversal Owned Television Stations, says it’s developing an app called “NBC Now” that it’s “looking to launch on the Owned Television Stations in May or June, then the affiliates would launch in September.” Her enthusiasm for TV Everywhere was shared by the other TV station group members of a NATPE panel who outlined their plans to let viewers watch local TV no matter where they are.

TV station CEOs at a NATPE panel in Miami Beach, Fla., said Monday that TV Everywhere is making serious headway. “Like everything else in this business, it’s evolutionary, not revolutionary,” said Perry Sook, CEO of Nexstar Broadcasting Group. And Jordan Wertlieb, president of Hearst Television, said there’s plenty of evidence that TV viewers want to watch local TV no matter where they are.

Joe Marchese, CEO of true[X] media: “I would argue that the real problem with TV Everywhere is that it’s an unwanted solution to a problem that people don’t really have. Despite what the pundits say, people don’t want a “TV” experience everywhere. Seriously, who honestly likes the user interface of their TV? Even video-on-demand leaves us wanting a better solution. Consumers take their content with them around the house — and beyond. That doesn’t mean we want to port the remote + set-top-box experience everywhere as well.”

The programming of TV stations in Los Angeles and San Diego is now available to Time Warner Cable subscribers who are also TWC Internet customers and are on their home Wi-Fi networks. They must live in an area that runs from Ventura on the coast to San Bernardino inland and south through San Diego. The addition of the local ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox affiliates, among about 50 other stations, rounds out a lineup of more than 100 live TV channels that can be watched on smartphones, computers, tablets, Roku streaming devices, Samsung smart TVs or Xbox 360 consoles.

Since the inception of TV Everywhere, critics could confidently claim that the authentication of subscribers on non-TV devices was failing to materialize. Over the past year, however, authenticated video viewing grew 217% — and now comprises 14% of all ad views on long-form content.

The NBA is poised to become the first major U.S.-based sports league to allow its games to be streamed live locally. The league is finalizing TV Everywhere deals with Fox Sports Media Group and NBC Sports Group, the country’s two biggest owners of regional sports networks.

Its Telemundo Now mobile app and Web player make available full-length episodes of hundreds of programs on the Web, iPhone, iPad and Android smartphones and tablets to subscribers of participating cable, satellite and telco providers.

Among all TV content companies, NBCUniversal leads in the effort when it comes to second-screen “TV Everywhere” efforts, providing more channels than any other premium or basic cable TV group. A report from market researcher IHS, says NBC provides 15 video-on demand channels to “TV Everywhere” initiatives.

In two recent high-profile retrans battles, TV everyewhere streaming rights were on the table but eventually taken off as networks and affiliates further develop streaming strategies.

The new NBC app, which will focus on full-episode video content, will be the foundation for NBC’s TV Everywhere offering, which is slated to launch in 2014.