Televisionation

Earlier this week (see the article published on itvt.com, May 12th), Delivery Agent, a company that specializes in developing what it calls "shopping-enabled" entertainment (i.e. ecommerce marketplaces) for entertainment/media companies (note: it claims to have developed such services for over 200 major entertainment properties, including broadcast networks ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, as well as Discovery Communications, HBO, Showtime, A&E Television Networks, MTV Networks, Univision, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, The Weinstein Company, the Boston Celtics, and the Chicago Bulls), announced that it had acquired The Band, an interactive media agency which claims to have a proven track record of developing and deploying advanced media campaigns across the full spectrum of TV platforms, including cable, satellite and telco.

In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "Radio [i]tvt," Delivery Agent's founder and CEO, Mike Fitzsimmons, explains the strategy behind the acquisition, and how his company plans to leverage The Band's capabilities going forward. Topics discussed include a new software offering that Delivery Agent plans to release to the market later this year; the various deployments the company is currently engaged in; the current status and future of the tcommerce space in general; and much more.

SWRV CEO David Del Beccaro on New 24-7 ITV Network

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In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "Radio [i]tvt," Braxton Jarratt, co-founder and CEO of Clearleap, an Atlanta-based company which offers a technology platform for bringing Internet-sourced video content to television sets, discusses his company's cloud-based approach to on-demand and interactive TV; its recently announced project with FourthWall which saw the companies developing a video-centric, unbound EBIF interactive weather application featuring content from The Weather Channel (see the article published on itvt.com, February 3rd); how its technology interfaces with EBIF; its product roadmap for the coming year or so; and more. Read our daily news at http://itvt.com and more on our conference at http://www.tvot2010.com

Ladies of ITV: Ellis, Otto, Rusk Lim, and Swedlow Review 2009 and Predict 2010

Earlier this week (see the article published on itvt.com, November 24th),[itvt] reported on how the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (note: generally known as Calit2, the institute is jointly run by the University of California, San Diego and the University of California, Berkeley) is using JVC's GD-463D10U 46-inch 3D HD LCD monitors as part of its new 3D immersive visualization system, NexCAVE (short for "new micropolarized panel-based cave automatic virtual
environment").

In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "Radio [i]tvt," the principal scientist behind NexCAVE, Tom DeFanti (who, in addition to
serving as a research scientist at Calit2's UC San Diego division, is distinguished professor emeritus of computer science at the University of
Illinois at Chicago), and Dave Walton, JVC's assistant VP of marketing communications, discuss the NexCAVE system and its significance. Read our daily news and get more interviews at http://itvt.com

Earlier this week, Sezmi, a company that has developed a set-top box-based offering which it bills as "combining traditional TV content, movies and Internet video in a single, easy-to-use product and service," announced
that it had secured $25 million in new funding and had launched a three-month public pilot in Los Angeles, in preparation for a nationwide
launch next year. In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "Radio [i]tvt," Sezmi co-founder, chairman and president, Phil Wiser,
discusses with editor-in-chief of InteractiveTV Today, Tracy Swedlow, the company's platform, its programming partnerships and its various interactive, social and content-discovery capabilities; the company's monetization strategy and roadmap for the platform; why the company believes the platform could "replace" cable and satellite; and much more. Read our daily news and get more interviews and TV of Tomorrow Show at http://itvt.com

In this episode of Radio [i]tvt, we speak with Robert Hayes, Senior Vice President, general manager of digital media at Showtime Networks and Andre Sala, who is behind the YouTube annotations projects. We discuss the launch of 2 applications on YouTube - one for their popular series with David Duchovny called Californication and the other for the Michael C. Hall vehicle, Dexter, in which they've created interactive games by manipulating YouTube's annotations platform and doing a great job in the process. Rob also speaks about some of their other digital initiatives and why Showtime puts so much priority on delivering interactive television experiences on all platforms. Read our daily news on ITV at http://itvt.com and get info about our upcoming TV of Tomorrow Show conference March 3-4 in San Francisco.

TV Commerce: ConciseClick's Nick Alt on Mattel Project

Earlier this week (see the article published on itvt.com, October 29th), 180Squared--a company best known for providing software and integration services for Microsoft's Mediaroom IPTV platform--announced that SureWest Communications and Reservation Telephone Cooperative (RTC) had selected its v.Allegro solution set in order to plan, integrate and launch their implementations of the Mediaroom platform.

In this recorded episode of [itvt]'s talk radio show, "The TV of Tomorrow Show with Tracy Swedlow," 180Squared's co-founder and VP of business development, Amir Littman, provides an overview of the company's products and services and of the IPTV integration services space in general; explains how the company believes it adds value to Microsoft Mediaroom; describes the kinds of interactive TV applications it sees coming down the pike; and more.