Google announces TV line up Editor ©RapidTVNews | 05-10-2010
Nearly five months after announcing that it was to enter the world of TV, Google has unveiled more specific details about the programme line up. The search giant says that one of its goals with Google TV<http://www.google.com/tv> is to open up the living room and enable new innovation from content creators, programmers, developers and advertisers. The first of these partners has now been announced. Turner Broadcasting will be optimising some of its websites for viewing on Google TV, including TBS, TNT, CNN<http://behindthescenes.blogs.cnn.com/2010/10/04/coming-soon-cnn-on-google-tv/>, Cartoon Network and Adult Swim. Its competitor NBC Universal has collaborated with Google TV to bring CNBC Real-Time<http://www.cnbc.com/id/39418634>, an application that allows viewers to track stocks and access news feeds while watching financial news from CNBC directly on the TV screen. For its part, HBO has announced that it will bring access to hundreds of hours of programming to Google TV with HBO GO<http://www.facebook.com/notes/hbo/hbo-gosm-to-be-featured-on-google-tv-platform/107744769288642> giving authenticated subscribers on-demand access to HBO content in an enhanced website for Google TV. Amazon Video On Demand<http://www.armchaircommentary.com/2010/10/what-google-tv-means-for-movie-fans.html> will offer access to over 75,000 titles for rental or purchase, and increasingly influential OTT movie service Netflix<http://blog.netflix.com/2010/10/netflix-on-google-tv.html> will offer the ability to instantly watch unlimited movies and TV shows, anytime, streaming directly to the TV. Other technology and media companies that has announced plans to optimise their content for Google TV include news sites like The New York Times and USA Today<http://content.usatoday.com/communities/socialmedia/post/2010/10/usa-today-and-google-tv/1>; VEVO<http://blog.vevo.com/the-music-evolution-revolution-comes-to-google-tv/>, Pandora<http://blog.pandora.com/pandora/archives/2010/10/an-update-on-pa.html> and Napster<http://blog.napster.com/napster/2010/10/googletv.html>; blip.tv<http://theblog.blip.tv/post/1242862052/google-tv-and-blip-tv> and Google's own YouTube Leanback<http://www.youtube.com/leanback>. In addition to content owners and broadcasters, the US National Basketball Association is contributing NBA Game Time<http://www.nba.com/2010/news/10/04/gametime.google/index.html?ls=iref:nbahpt2>, an application designed to allow basketball fans to follow game scores in real-time and catch up on highlights in HD. http://www.rapidtvnews.com/index.php/201010058105/google-announces-tv-line-up.html ________________________________ José A. López Globomedia, Dpto. de Documentación-Comunicación jalo...@globomedia.es<mailto:jalo...@globomedia.es> ---------------------------------------------------- Normas para el correcto uso del correo electrónico: http://www.rediris.es/mail/estilo.html ----------------------------------------------------
