Television

Revision3, the San Francisco-based producer and distributor of entertainment Web video, has found that over 40 percent of its viewers watch shows on Web-connected televisions.

Stewart Alsop, veteran venture capitalist, ex-tech journalist, and Apple watcher, says that Apple is developing a smart search architecture and is embedding its newly acquired Siri technology into all its devices and content.

LOS ANGELES –  Cisco is ramping up its support for 3D TV as the industry gears up for the launch of the first slate of 3D networks later this year and early next.

LOS ANGELES — Despite public statements by Steve Jobs last week at the All Things Digital conference that Apple is not building a search engine or an Apple TV, both will happen and his statements are a deception, says Jason Caalcanis, who calls the CEO an "excellent liar."

Alloy Entertainment plans to launch four to six digital series a year and is also inking international distribution deals too for those shows.

Whether you liked the ending of "Lost" or not, the just-ended TV show has generated more buzz than any other show in the social media sphere. 

LOS ANGELES — Cable operator Cox announced that it is rolling out a new program guide for its customers that integrates linear channels,

LOS ANGELES — The Scripps Network, producer of the hugely successful Food Network, will launch a completely new 24/7 cable food channel called the Cooking Channel on May 31.

LOS ANGELES — At the Cable Show, lots of buzz about 3-D programming and the roll-out of TV Everywhere.  Daisy caught up with Discovery's Rebecca Glashow, SVP for Digital Media Distribution, to talk about both.

LOS ANGELES — Yesterday, the Cable Show got underway and the big buzz is interactivity–how cable programmers and operators can make shows more involving to viewers getting used to a Web experience.

LAS VEGAS — Tom Leighton, co-founder and chief scientist of Akamai, says that television content will delivered primarily over the Internet in rich, interactive forms.

LAS VEGAS — At this year's National Association of Broadcasters show, 3-D television continues to be the hot topic both on the show floor and in the hallways, as producers and programmers try to figure out how to convert their shows to the new format.

SAN FRANCISCO — The future of television may be pervasively three dimensional, but the technology could be a passing fascination, says CNET senior editor John Falcone.  It is just too early to say. 

New York-based Canoe Ventures has created a technology for cable subscribers where they can interact with programs and commercials in a more Web-like experience. 

AUSTIN – Fox TV Studios is using its new digital studio 15 Gigs as an incubator for new types of content that might also make the leap to the TV, said  Rachel Webber, director of digital strategy and development at Fox TV Studios. 

AUSTIN — We caught up with digital entrepreneur Mark Cuban at SXSW this weekend to get his take on the whole "free" movement around content.  He tells us that "free everything is a fantasy."

SAN FRANCISCO — Television consumption is going to explode in growth over the next several years thanks to online and mobile video. That’s the conclusion of Jeff Cole, director of USC’s Center for the Digital Future, who studies media habits of consumers all around the world.

SAN FRANCISCO — While the Webisode is not dead, many of the big media players who had made sizable commitments to creating Web-original entertainment content, have thrown in the towel.

SAN FRANCISCO – Jane Goldman, editor in chief of CHOW, the CBS Interactive food site, is finding success with instructional videos as short as 30 seconds.

TV.com, the big online entertainment television portal owned by CBS, derives revenue from sponsorships and advertising sales but could implement a premium, paid model in the future Anthony Soohoo, SVP at CBS Interactive, told me this week.