Televisionation

July 5, 2022

ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry.This episode features Josh Ellingson, a San Francisco-based artist whose work employs and explores television and video in multiple ways. Among other things, he discusses why he is passionate about experimenting with analog television sets and archival video in his art; explains how he creates “floating” video objects using an old technique called “Pepper’s Ghost”; shows us multiple examples of his artwork; outlines some of the projects he’ll be working on in the future; and more.

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August 12, 2022

The Friday Fireside welcomes Madeleine Noland, President at Advanced Television Systems Committee. In a very personal conversation, Madeleine shares how she first came to the television industry, then to advanced television, to LG Electronics and finally to ATSC. We discuss the creation of the NEXTGEN TV branding, the importance of CONTENT to the successful deployment of NEXTGEN TV and the broad future of ATSC 3.0 and its place in the future of the television industry. A glimpse inside TV from a true TV Insider.

August 26, 2022

Today’s guest on The Friday Fireside is Jeff Greenfield, CEO of Provalytics. Provalytics unifies all media, including walled gardens, CTV, TV, OOH, radio, direct mail, and print, providing deduplicated, privacy-compliant reporting which includes synergies, carryover, ad stock and consumer sentiment, and separates incrementality from the baseline. With an extensive advanced advertising background at WideOrbit, C3 Metrics and 1st Approach, Jeff is truly prepared to help his expanding list of customers to fix what’s broken!

August 11, 2022

Today’s episode of Talk Back to Television, sponsored by Mediaocean, welcomes Jon Giegengack, Principal at Hub Entertainment Research. Jon addresses a comment from Lisa in Los Angeles: “I have all these channels AND I CAN’T FIND ANYTHING!”

August 18, 2022

Today’s guest on Mediaocean’s Talk Back to Television is Matthew Durgin, Senior Director/Smart TV Business Team Leader for LG Electronics North America. Matthew picks up on the conversation started last week with Jon Giegengack, answering the concerns of Lisa in Los Angeles, who has a ton of channels and services AND STILL CAN’T FIND ANYTHING TO WATCH!

November 3, 2022

Talk Back to Television welcomes Serena Xu, product designer (and one of the winners of the 2014 TVOT Hackathon). Serena gives us pointed CONSUMER feedback on the state of the streaming business: Who’s doing it wrong, and who’s doing it right—with specific recommendations for how to fix the whole mess! Instructive and fun!

November 18, 2022

The Friday Fireside welcomes popular media veteran, Larry Samuels, who after a career in advanced advertising for Kenzan, GroupM, DISH Network and Cablevision, is venturing into the world of podcasting. It’s actually a return to “radio” with a group of friends which whom he had successful sports talk show on Sirius XM. A fun and informative conversation.

Welcome to the August 4th edition of “Talk Back to Television,” sponsored by Mediaocean. Our guest is Scott Ehrlich, Chief Innovation Officer for Sinclair Broadcast Group. The format is simple: One question from a TV viewer. One answer from an industry expert. About 5 minutes in length. Published by Tracy Swedlow and The TV of Tomorrow Show.

LOTS OF VISUALS!

This episode features Svana Gisla, Co-Producer, and Baillie Walsh, Director of ABBA Voyage, a hybrid virtual/IRL concert series centered on “ABBAtars,” digital avatars of the Swedish super-group, ABBA, which portray its members as they appeared in 1977, the group’s heyday. The concerts take place in the ABBA Arena, a purpose-built facility at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London’s East End.

Gisla and Walsh provide us with an in-depth overview of the ABBA Voyage project, which employed a range of motion-capture and graphics technologies, was “filmed” with 160 cameras, took five years to realize, involved collaboration with ILM and many other partners, and cost $175 million. They also tell us why they think this shared, immersive experience has proven so popular with audiences; describe how those audiences “fall in love” with the ABBAtars, share their thoughts on the project’s implications for the future of storytelling, and more.

ITVT/TVOT is pleased to present a new episode of “Televisionation,” our video/audio podcast exploring the advanced/interactive-TV industry.

This episode features Jason Kyle, co-founder of the Creators Writing Room (the other co-founder is Lee Aronsohn, co-creator of the sitcom, “Two and a Half Men” and Executive Producer of “The Big Bang Theory”) and Head of Development at CWR Productions, discussing the process of pitching content to the networks and other outlets, and explaining how the CWR trains writers to do this.