--TNS STB Data Show Channel Retains Viewers for Longer than Disney, CNN, Nickelodeon and Others
 TAG Networks--an interactive TV games company that has developed a games-on-demand channel, called TAG, which it says integrates with existing VOD infrastructures (note: the company has a history of working closely with ActiveVideo Networks and is involved in the latter's deployments with Time Warner Cable and Cablevision)--contacted [itvt] Tuesday to let us know that new TNS data, measuring daily time spent viewing per set-top box, show that the TAG channel topped 43 linear channels available through Time Warner Cable's Hawaiian arm, Oceanic Time Warner Cable, for the most minutes viewers spent watching.
A report by Sam Schechner and Yukari Iwatani Kane in Tuesday's Wall Street Journal claims that Apple is planning to launch a subscription-based over-the-top-TV service, and that CBS and Disney are considering participating. The report, which cites unnamed sources "familiar with the matter" (note: Apple, CBS and Disney all apparently refused to comment), also claims that Apple is hoping to launch the service next year.
Disney-ABC Domestic Television says that it is teaming with Comcast, Charter, Cox, AT&T U-verse, Suddenlink and Verizon FiOS TV to offer what will be the first "free preview" promotion for its Disney Family Movies subscription VOD service (note: the latter offers classic and contemporary films and animated shorts from The Walt Disney Studios, with each title remaining in rotation for around a month and new movies added on a weekly basis).
--Company Said to Be Planning to Launch Streaming Service on iPhone/iPod Touch and Nintendo Wii
 Video rental company, Netflix, announced Monday that it has signed an agreement with Disney-ABC Television Group that will make several of the ABC broadcast network's most popular series available to be streamed instantly through Netflix's broadband video service.
--Disney Purchased an Equity Stake in Hulu Earlier This Year
--Hulu Reported to Be Offering UK Broadcasters Equity Stakes in the UK Version of its Service
 In a posting on its corporate blog, Monday, broadcast network-owned broadband video service, Hulu, announced that it has begun offering programming from ABC.
Hulu, the broadband video venture co-owned by NBC, Fox, and ABC/Disney (note: for more on Disney's recent acquisition of an equity stake in the venture, see the article posted on itvt.com April 30th), has signed deals with three non-US content providers: Digital Rights Group (which will provide it with a line-up of British comedies, including "Doc Martin," "Green Wing" and "Peep Show"), Endemol (which will provide it with reality series such as "I want to be a Hilton") and Saavn (which will provide it with a range of Bollywood movies).
--Deal Will Allow Hulu to Significantly Expand its Programming Line-Up
 The Walt Disney Company announced Thursday that, via its ABC Enterprises subsidiary, it will join NBC Universal, News Corp. (Fox) and Providence Equity Partners as a joint venture partner in and equity owner of the popular broadband video service, Hulu. The deal means that CBS is now the only major US broadcast network not involved in Hulu, which, according to recent figures from comScore is now the third-most popular broadband video site after YouTube and Fox Interactive Media.
At its annual Creative Arts awards ceremony in Los Angeles last
Saturday, the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences announced the
winners of the 2008 Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding
Creative Achievement in Interactive Media. This year, the awards
recognized creative achievement in two areas of interactive media
endeavor: Fiction and Nonfiction:
The winner of the 2008 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
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