AFI BLOG: Media and Technology

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Ovation TV Teams With Major Museums

June 10th, 2008 · No Comments

AdAge.com
Ovation TV is finally ready for its close-up. Ten years after its birth, and one year after a major overhaul and rebirth under new ownership, the now-national arts and culture TV channel has lined up marketing partnerships and integrated promotions to boost subscriber cable systems and attract more marketers by partnering with the [...]

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Tags: content · education · exhabition · partnership · philanthropy · television

Blinkx Starts Searchable Web TV Service

April 4th, 2008 · No Comments

Business Week
Blinkx, the online video search site, launched the world’s first searchable web-based television channel yesterday.
Users will access the peer-to-peer service using downloadable software to view TV-quality news and entertainment content from the firm’s 250 existing partners such as ITN and the Ministry of Sound. The channel will also include a library of 40 feature [...]

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Tags: World Wide Web · media · online streaming · software · television

Discovery announces many changes

November 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Discovery’s Got a New Manager, a New Brand and a New Ad Model - Ad Age
NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — The times they are a-changin’ for Discovery. It’s got a new general manager, a new name for one of its networks and new ad model.
Jane Root, president-general manager of Discovery Channel and the Science Channel, left [...]

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Tags: television