Televisionation

Widgets, for those who have been following [itvt]’s coverage over the last year or two have become a intriguing business. For example, we recently did a show all about the Widget Channel from Yahoo and their plans to create a channel devoted to offering widgets of all kinds – you just select one and download to your set-top box device. But what are widgets for video programming on the Internet? We...

Perry Wu, CEO of BitGravity and Angelo Fernando - Communications and Outreach Manager at Arizona State University are here to discuss the new Decision Theater which incorporates video, interactivity, big graphic screens, dynamic data. It's the 3-screen room of Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451" come alive! Your host is Tracy Swedlow, editor of itvt.com

SCOOP!: Finally, ActiveVideo is able to be public about its relationship with Time Warner Cable. In this show, we spoke with CEO, Jeff Miller, who described their interactive TV deployment in Hawaii at TWC's Oceanic installation. Your host is Tracy Swedlow, editor of http://www.itvt.com

We will be discussing the availability and use of tools to develop interactive TV apps and how they lead to the playout of the apps. Ensequence is well-represented, but we will talk about competitive tools and whether any of them really accomplish the task. We will also be interested in how they sell and how they are marketed. Do tool developers work with designers to ensure that the tools are app...

NDS VP of Broadband and Interactive talks to [itvt]'s Tracy Swedlow about their latest comprehensive survey on Digital Video Recorder usage. DVRs, PVRs, and TiVos, of course, are widely used, but how are they used and when? Your host is Tracy Swedlow, Editor-in-Chief of InteractiveTV Today www.itvt.com Join our discussion by calling 646-595-4343.

EXCLUSIVE! - Emmy winners and executive officers of the Interactive Media Peer Group (American Academy of Television Arts & Sciences) assemble to discuss their ITV applications and why they won. Your host is Tracy Swedlow, Editor-in-Chief of InteractiveTV Today www.itvt.com

This special long show features an incredible panel of the most experienced, best, and Emmy-winning designers and thinkers in the ITV industry. Last names only: Donoghue, Herigstad, Otto, Green, Preisman, Stefanac, Gilles. We will talk good and bad design and how certain technologies and industry pressures affect the design process. Your host is Tracy Swedlow, www.itvt.com

TVOT will speak with the hosts of a new conference in October focusing on ITV design issues but from a more academic perspecitve. Papers presented will be from around the world. Your host is Tracy Swedlow www.itvt.com

Intel and Yahoo! just announced they are developing the Widget Channel. We will speak to Patrick Barry, Yahoo!'s VP of Connected TV - the person whose team was in charge of buiding the Widget Channel's widget engine.

Various executives will be on the show to discuss their various interactive TV applications in use currently for the Olympics. Those include Ensequence's DISH app, Verizon FiOS' EBIF app, and SinglePoint's Text Alerts. Your host is Tracy Swedlow www.itvt.com

Meredith Flynn-Ripley will talk about their new social IPTV platform, MediaFriends, and the latest news about their Tier 1 customer which is deploying their suite of products. Integra5 enables television not only to be interactive, but telephony-friendly. Your host is Tracy Swedlow www.itvt.com

Anystream, CEO, Fred Singer will discuss the work his company is doing to provide on-demand video to NBC for all their Olympics coverage online. Your host is Tracy Swedlow, www.itvt.com

CEO Patrick Koppula is head of an innovative company called ffwd or "fast forward." In this show, he will reveal his beta broadband TV Electronic Programming Guide and other apps possibly that can be manipulated by a Nintendo Wii wand. Your host is Tracy Swedlow www.itvt.com

Five members of the Academy's Interactive Media Peer Group (all highly-experienced experts) stop by to discuss the finalists for this year's Emmy Awards Interactive categories.

Tom Morgan, chief strategy officer at Move Networks, has been in the ITV advertising business for a long time. He'll be here to talk about all the devleopments industry-wide and keep us up to date with Move Networks' developments (note: Move provides high quality streaming to major networks and new ad insertion methodologies). Your Host is: Tracy Swedlow www.itvt.com

Expert veteran ITV industry guests talk about the latest news of the month including the fact that the ITV Network is sending Cease & Desist letters to companies for using the initials "iTV" and "ITV." Other topics: conferences, tru2way, David Verklin of Canoe Ventures. We also have a sci-fi bonus question featuring an old movie. Your host is Tracy Swedlow www.itvt.com

David Sarnoff Library, Director, Alex Magoun, will discuss Sarnoff's legacy; how the early days of developing TV technology are similiar or different from today's work with digital and interactive TV; various interesting projects at the Library including the recreation of the "War of the Worlds" radio broadcast; The Farnsworth Invention; and his book, "Television: The Life Story of a Technology,"...

Sangita Verma, co-founder and CEO of TAG Networks--a company that has developed a games-on-demand service, called TAG, that integrates with existing VOD infrastructures and supports community features and multi-device interaction--will discuss the company's trial deployment of the service with Time Warner Cable in Dothan, Alabama.

The next live broadcast of "The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow" is scheduled for Tuesday, June 3rd at 10:30AM Pacific/1:30PM Eastern. Steven Roberts, SVP of new media and business development at DirecTV, will provide an update on that company's interactive TV offerings.

Michael Finn, VP of advertising sales at DISH Network, and Scott Higgins, the company’s director of interactive programming, will discuss DISH’s new interactive TV advertising deal with NBC Universal, and provide a general update on its ITV ‘deployments and strategy.

Jim Louderback, CEO of Revision3, will discuss his company--which bills itself as "an actual TV network for the Web," and which produces its own original, broadcast-quality programming--and the current state and future of the broadband video space in general.

TV of Tomorrow Show - NCTA 2008 Post Show Review

Richard Baker is responsible for driving demand for ANT’s next-generation TV applications targeting cable and satellite operators who want to deliver TV across a range of consumer devices from gaming platforms to the TV set. He also advises advertisers on the opportunities enabled through the convergence of the Internet, TV, social media and advertising.

Silicon Valley pundit and author, Andrew Keen ("The Cult of the Amateur"), will discuss his skeptical take on user-generated content and other participatory media. Tracy Swedlow is your host. www.itvt.com or blog.itvt.com

Veteran panel of expert executives from various industries (cable, broadcasting, research, and advertising) discuss the most important interactive TV industry stories of the last month and critique developments. It's always a good "Wrap" group. Tracy Swedlow is the host www.itvt.com or blog.itvt.com