Television

Keep an eye on how the growth in online video will shift this year into the mobile world via smartphones like Google’s Android and Apple’s iPhone, said Will Richmond, the publisher of daily news site VideoNuze.

LAS VEGAS — Producers of Fox’s super-popular freshman hit “Glee” will host an open casting call online for a few new roles in the Glee club. The roles are open to both amateurs and professionals.

LAS VEGAS — As one of the top-rated cable networks, USA continues to bet heavily on digital extensions to grow and nurture audiences for its programs, said the network’s digital strategy VP Jesse Redniss.

LAS VEGAS, NV–One of the first television networks to announce plans to launch a 3-D network, Discovery told Beet.TV the new network will likely launch later this year or early 2011.

LAS VEGAS, NV –  Yahoo has expanded the scope of its "Connected TV" with several new television and consumer electronics manufactures and expects the platform to be in as many as 5 million Internet-enabled television sets by the end of June, we have learned.

Comcast's much anticipated launch of its its "TV Everywhere" service, which allows subscribers to Comcast to watch selected video on their computers, has gone live in beta, today.

"Bet on TV Everywhere." Those are the parting words of CBS' outgoing digital chief Quincy Smith.

SAN FRANCISCO — Comcast, the nation's biggest cable system, will launch an online offering of its television service to 14 million Comcast "double play" subscribers next month. Comcast's Interactive Media President Amy Banse told Beet.TV's Daisy Whitney in this video interview.

The online television listing serving Clicker launched last week, entering the crowded business of online television listings.

Boxee, a software program which allows users to connect Web video to a television set, created a lot of buzz last week when the company announced it was providing a consumer electronics device,  the Boxee “Box.” 

Roku, the the alternative set-top box provider in the video market and is now expanding its line of players today from one to three, the company announced this morning.

CNN.com has taken notice of the Huffington Post and the Daily Beast as "opinion destinations" and wants to be a "horse in that race," CNN.com General Manager KC Estenson told me last night, after the industry introduction of the revamped CNN.com site.  (transcript below)

Earlier this summer, the Verizon FiOS, the Internet/television/phone service, integrated Facebook and Twitter into its platform, allowing subscribers to initiate Twitter alongside their favorite shows. Here's the story by CNET's Maggie Reardon.

SAN DIEGO, CA — Internet as an advertising vehicle can drive brand sales by more than four times when compared to television, said comScore chairman Gian Fulgoni at the iMedia Brand Summit in San Diego Monday morning.

HOLLYWOOD, Calif — With many more entertainment choices for consumers, television producers have to work harder to keep up, the noted TV showrunner Greg Berlanti told Beet.TV at the NATPE LA TV Fest.

Showtime’s top-rated comedy “Weeds” has seen strong online results for its newly launched original companion Web series, Beet.TV has learned.

As the lights go out today on analog television broadcast as part of the long-planned transition to digital, frequencies in several markets carry television signals to mobile phones.

What do women want? It’s an age old question and it’s getting a lot tougher for TV networks to answer because evidently a lot of women are tuning out the TV, according a report released recently by Solutions Research Group.

LAS VEGAS — 3D viewing, currently a growth area for Hollywood's theatrical business, will come to a significant number of homes in two to three years with the adoption of a new cable box from Motorola and new encoding processes, we have been told.

SAN FRANCISCO — Online video is replacing television for consumers 25 years and younger  as part of a dramatic demographic shift.  Watching video on a personal computer is becoming the principal way young adults consumer video.