News for Week of: 7/24/2001

 

Interactive Systems Worldwide Licenses ITV Betting Software to GIG
Interactive betting alongside sports programming will become a hot area of development as platforms evolve
.		 Gist delivers Scoop via OpenTV
Gist Communications has debuted TV Scoop, an on-screen TV magazine, on OpenTV's interactive TV service for USA Media's Half Moon Bay, Calif. cable system
.		 German Firms, Forsa & SevenOne Media, Use ITV for Market Research
German collaboration yields new interactive television market research tool application
HBO to try its hand at Internet-based show
Broadcasting pioneer HBO will try to do for the Internet what it did for cable television two decades ago when it debuts its first online-based series.
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BBC Launches New ITV Golf Apps on UK Platforms
BBC launched their latest ITV applications to
accompany their extensive UK coverage of the British Open golf
tournament.

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  • ORAD DEBUTS SOFTWARE TO REPRODUCE BROADCAST SOCCER GAMES IN 3-D COMPUTER
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    http://www.nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com/wcs/frm/leaf?CID=onair/asabt/moren/135490

  • KSWB/ Campbell Mithun/RespondTV Produce ITV Ads for San Diego Attractions

    Tribune Entertainment's WB broadcast station affiliate in San
    Diego, KSWB, has created with ad agency, Campbell Mithun, 2
    ITV commercial advertisement apps for the San Diego Zoo and Wild
    Animal Park. These single screen, enhancedTV-style ads will be
    viewable on all ATVEF-compliant set-top boxes - such as WebTV
    Plusses, AOLTVs, and Microsoft's UltimateTV units - in the region.
    App/data hosting, serving, reporting and transaction-processing
    services will be managed by RespondTV in San Francisco. No
    details were available concerning the financial arrangements between
    the various parties. Screenshots: http://www.itvt.com/kswbres.html


  • Austar Investing in New ITV Series "Fat Cow Motel" OpenTV Middleware Being Used

    In an unusual move, Australian MSO, Austar, has invested $1.7
    million in a new ITV 13-part series (production starts in October)
    called "Fat Cow Motel." "Fat Cow Motel" features a mystery the
    viewing audience must solve. Clues arrive over a single screen
    OpenTV enhancedTV application or via email. The show has
    been produced by Brisbane-based production company, Hoodlum
    Entertainment, and funded partly by the Queensland Government's
    Pacific Film and Television Commission (PFTC). Austar satellite
    uses OpenTV EN2 modular middleware for ITV services in general.
    Though the MSO distributes programming to over 300,000 homes,
    it's not clear how many homes will test this show.


  • TV Show Mimics ITV Applications in New Content Format

    I.DetectiveOne new television show strangely mimics/foreshadows a full-blown
    ITV application without being interactive at all. We thought you should
    check it out if you can. The show is called "I.Detective" on CourtTV
    (to be televised August 3rd). "I.Detective" does not offer a syncTV
    application. Rather, it offers the viewing audience a series of
    multiple-choice questions on screen that feature actual clues from
    evidence related to the real 1992 kidnapping of Exxon executive,
    Sydney Reso, from his New Jersey home. Video interviews of
    law-enforcement officials who participated in that case will also be
    shown. Though the case was eventually solved, it will be interesting
    to see if viewers figure it out for themselves. Unfortunately, CourtTV
    will not be tracking responses.



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