Televisionation

Zodiac Interactive executives, CEO Brandon Brown, and Alex Libkind, speak to InteractiveTV Today's editor-in-chief, Tracy Swedlow, about all the activities at the company where they are involved in the EBIF revolution and the emergence of interactive TV. Read more news, set up your profile, and upload media at http://www.itvt.com

Corey Ferengul, Executive Vice President, Product Management and Marketing, at Macrovision (the largest purveyor of EPG software and search/guide data in the world), will speak to Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today about their ongoing EPG and ITV strategy, new products, and the emerging market overall. For more news, interviews, research and media, go to http://www.itvt.com wher...

Avner Ronen, CEO of boxee, speaks to [itvt]s' editor-in-chief, Tracy Swedlow, about his company, new developments, forward strategy, the over-the-top market opportunity, and why company achieved cult status and is currently the focus of attention at every content studio, advertiser, and cable operator. Read ITV news, interviews, and create a profile at http://www.itvt.com

Starz' Rebecca Lim, senior director, advanced services, will speak to [itvt]'s Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief, about their new "Enteract Now," a new ITV application appearing on the Starz Network. She will also discuss her views, opinions about the most recent NCTA conference held in Washington D.C and how well interactive TV was received, discussed, or thrashed. Check out our new site at http://w...

Tracy Swedlow, [itvt]' editor-in-chief, speaks to independent content developer and producer, Marque Cornblatt (also a digital artist), who talks about the challenges of producing an original on demand online series and getting distribution and what he thinks about social TV, interactive TV opportunities, and much more now that he's been to [itvt]'s TV of Tomorrow Show 3 times in a row. Read more...

Concurrent, long known as a video server company, has recently announced it will embrace a multiplatform play. Tracy Swedlow, editor of [itvt], talks to James Brickmeier about this new strategy and what it means for delivering interactive video on demand, social and commercial services to the TV, and providing new ways to demonstrate real metrics.

Mitch Berman, CEO of Zillion TV, joins Tracy Swedlow, editor of InteractiveTV Today, to discuss his new company and why he is going to compete in the "Over the Top" market. Will Zillion TV be able to compete with other earlier entrants or find the need to collaborate with cable and satellite? http://www.itvt.com

Mike Ryan worked at Comcast's TVWorks R&D and develoment house in the Bary Area until just recently. We have the scoop on why he left and what he's going to do now. Editor, Tracy Swedlow, will talk with Mike about his TV of Tomorrow plans.

Geoff Katz, who is now at iWidgets, is also co-governor of the Interactive Media Peer Group of the Emmy's organization. But, what many people don't know is that he has worked at a number of companies in the Bay Area and, therefore, has a special perspective on how the interactive television industry works from the inside out. Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today, talks to Geoff ab...

Kevin Chou is founder and CEO of an interesting company called Watercooler Inc., which provides a platform to enable and connect large networks of online fan communities around sports and TV entertainment on top social networking sites including Facebook, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, and hi5.

Tracey Scheppach, SVP/Video Innovation Director at Starcom USA (a well-respected ad agency), talks to Tracy Swedlow, Editor-in-Chief of InteractiveTV Today, about her "5 Flashpoints for 2009." Scheppach, an expert on interactive advertising across all platforms (broadband TV, IPTV, cable, satellite, DVR, mobile, etc.), provides her insights on hot button topics and technologies that she believes w...

Dan Hassan, Co-CEO and Chairman (his title on the name of the show was incorrect) at Backchannelmedia, talks with Tracy Swedlow, Editor-in-Chief of InteractiveTV Today about their work to bring local TV news broadcasters into the interactive television present. Not many companies are doing this kind of work, so Hassan will provide an interesting perspective. For more: itvt.com and blog.itvt.com an...

Mio Babic, CEO, and Randy Levine, SVP of business development for iStreamPlanet, join Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today to discuss how they streamed the Innauguration of President Obama for CNN in coordination with Microsoft Silverlight technology. Read more: itvt.com and blog.itvt.com

Invidi Technologies is in the center of all the action when it comes to developing the technologies and systems the cable operators are deploying through their Canoe Ventures joint venture. Howard Fiderer will talk about their new Advatar platform enabling EBIF interactive TV addressable advertising. Tracy Swedlow, editor of itvt.com, tvot09.com and blog.itvt.com, is your host.

Tracy Swedlow, founder of [itvt], talks with Steve Hawley, princpal of tvstrategies and expert in IPTV trends and technologies, about the newly formed joint venture called the [itvt] Industry Intelligence Program. This new Program offers in-depth research, analysis, insight and marketing benefits for companies interested in IPTV developments.

This show features a panel of experts talking about all the interesting stories, trends, screwups, and launches that made the year great. It also includes predictions for 2009, important trends, and news headlines of importance. The panel includes execs. from Time Warner Cable, tvstrategies, billniemeyer.tv, VisibleWorld, and Translation Please. Tracy Swedlow, editor of itvt.com and blog.itvt.com,...

EXCLUSIVE NEWS!: Itaas is a well-respected provider of multi-platform solutions for MSOs, programmers and interactive application developers focusing on interactive television technologies. Once such technology is EBIF or Enhanced Binary Interchange Format, an interactive TV specification that is being deployed on millions of set-top boxes all over the country by the cable operators that will enab...

Vidiom is going through some big changes as the ITV industry makes a few seismic shifts. David Housman, now CEO, is taking over the helm from Tim Wahlers who started his own company. We learn about Vidiom's new focus and how Housman expects the newxt few years to go as they deliver services to the cable and IPTV industries. Your host is Tracy Swedlow, editor-in-chief of itvt.com and blog.itvt.com

The American Film Institute DigiFest and Digital Content Lab took place November 6-7 in Los Angeles. Here on [itvt] Radio, we host 2 shows back to back featuring participants that demo'ed some of the most innovative prototypes of new interactive media work being done today. In this show, we hear from Marc Johnson (ABC.com), Jaime Levy Russell (HUGE), and Nonny de la Peña (documentary filmmaker). Y...

The American Film Institute DigiFest and Digital Content Lab took place November 6-7 in Los Angeles. Here on [itvt] Radio, we host 2 shows back to back featuring participants that demo'ed some of the most innovative prototypes of new interactive media work being done today. In this show, we hear from Phillipe Couteau (EarthEcho), Yaoshiang Ho (MGM), and Chris Jacobs (United Future). Your host is T...

Today's show is about The Weather Channel's work with interactive television. Tom is responsible for localized programming on The Weather Channel® (TWC) including the teams responsible for Local on the 8s® for cable and satellite viewers, localized on-channel overlays Weatherstrip and Weather Frame, severe weather bulletin messages, the digital channel Weatherscan® and interactive television produ...

IPTV middleware and ITV applications provider, Orca Interactive, is ramping up its offerings this Fall through various initiatives that include an end-to-end hybrid solution over the open internet, social TV platform for recommendations, fingerprint recognition for better personalized TV viewing/selections, social TV apps, and a deployment in Russia, a still emerging market. Vice president of Sale...

Gary Traver, SVP and COO of Comcast Media Center (CMC), which provides multiplatform content development and distribution solutions for cable system operators, joins Homer Gonzalez III, product manager for HITS AxIS, CMC’s centralized content services bureau for supporting the development and delivery of advanced interactive video services. We will discuss their latest ITV deployments and talk abo...

Today, we will be speaking with 2 executives from the well-known and always busy interactive TV technology company, BIAP Inc. The company has announced a new development in their partnership with Time Warner Cable. Specifically, they have made a 5-Year agreement for use of its ETV User Agent in Time Warner Cable’s advanced advertising platform, which will enable anybody to submit 3rd party EBIF ap...

BlackArrow offers an ad-management platform that delivers live or on-demand advertisements to broadband TV and video-on-demand offerings on cable. Delivering targeted advertising to VOD assets is still an emerging business and BlackArrow is demonstrating some traction in the market. For example, they recently picked up $20 million in VC funding in the current economic climate; signed the children’...