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News Round-Up:

--Lori Schwartz Elected Co-Governor of ATAS Interactive Media Peer Group
--Ex-Digeo CEO, Greg Gudorf, Resurfaces at Thomson Technicolor
--Free Press: Comcast's "TV Everywhere" Service Poses a Threat to Online Video Competition
--New Online Reality Show Involves Hulu, MySpace
--Jinni Secures $1.6 Million in Series A Funding Round
--Ooyala Provides Live Streaming Coverage of Vans Triple Crown of Surfing
--Report: SeeSaw Secures Content Deals with Channel 4, Five
--Teletext Closes Down
--Thoughts from thePlatform's Ian Blaine and SysMedia's Andrew Lambourne
--Google's Eun: YouTube Mulling Subscription Option

Here is a round-up of some other interactive TV-related stories we didn't have room for in this issue:

Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Launches New Emmys.com

--Site to Offer Exclusive Live Streaming of This Thursday's Primetime Emmy Nominations

[itvt] reported last week that the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences had hired Web development company, Metal Toad, and creative agency, Playground Group, to spearhead a "user-friendly" redesign and expansion of its Web presence that would create three distinct interactive online destinations: Emmys.com, targeted at consumers and fans; Emmys.tv, targeted at Television Academy members and the press; and

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  • Television Academy Taps Metal Toad, Playground Group for Redesign and Expansion of its Web Sites

    --Says Redesign Will Make Sites More Interactive

    The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences said Wednesday that it has hired Web development company, Metal Toad, and creative agency, Playground Group, to spearhead a "user-friendly" redesign and expansion of its existing Web sites. The organization says that the revamp will create three distinct interactive online destinations: Emmys.com, which will be targeted at consumers and fans; Emmys.tv, which will be targeted at Television Academy members and the press; and EmmysFoundation.org, which will be targeted at academics and others interested in the history and culture of television.

    Television Academy Launches Educational Broadband Video Web Site

    --Site to Eventually Offer Social-Networking Features

    The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences Foundation, the Television Academy's charity arm, has launched a broadband video Web site, virtualtvacademy.org, that provides visitors with free access to videotaped panel discussions about the television business, featuring prominent TV-industry professionals. "The Foundation's aim is to enlarge the community that can benefit and regularly use the social networking and information resources of the Virtual Academy," the ATAS Foundation's executive director, Terri L. Clark, said in a prepared statement.



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