Interviews

[itvt] has just published the second in a new series of columns, collectively entitled PERSPECTIVE, from the iTV Doctor, Rick Howe. The series explores ground-breaking interactive TV efforts, and the impact those deployments still have on interactive television today.

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of our new regular column, "Jet Set," which is authored by Brian David Johnson, consumer experience architect at Intel Corp. "Jet Set" (the first two editions of which can be seen here and here) explores the future of TV through the prism of the places, people and conversations that Johnson experiences as he goes on a global tour for his new book, Screen Future.

[itvt] has just published an INTERVIEW with Matt Apfel, VP of content, East Coast, at Coincident TV.

[itvt] has just published the first in a new series of columns, collectively entitled PERSPECTIVE, from the iTV Doctor, Rick Howe. The series will discuss Full Service Network (FSN), QUBE, Video Jukebox, Sega Channel and other ground-breaking interactive TV efforts, and the impact those deployments still have on interactive television today.

[itvt] has just published an INTERVIEW WITH DUSTIN CALIF, head of digital content at Los Angeles-based interactive production company, Tool of North America. Callif discusses "Touching Stories," a free application for the Apple iPad that Tool developed in partnership with creative agency, Domani Studios.

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of Rick Howe's regular column, "The iTV Doctor Is In!" In this edition, the good doctor explores the emerging 3D TV space--among other things, interviewing Hitesh Shah, CEO of The Z Effect, a company that turns existing 2D programming into stereoscopic 3D.

[itvt] is pleased to announce the winner of--and reveal the answers to--the iTV Doctor's Interactive TV Trivia Challenge. For more, please click here.

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of Rick Howe's regular column, "The iTV Doctor Is In!" This edition focuses on the potential of the smartphone as an interactive companion device for television, and features detailed scenarios provided by Paula Suthern and Roger Demuth of ThirdWave Interactive.

(Note: The [itvt] editorial team will be on the road this week and next, so we will be publishing on a reduced schedule. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience to our readers.)

[itvt] has just published an interview with Chris Pizzurro, co-founder and principal of Leap Media Group, a digital media agency that offers media planning, creative, research and other services to advertising agencies looking to develop interactive TV campaigns for their clients. Pizzurro discusses Leap Media's origins, the kinds of clients it serves, how well advertising agencies understand the potential of interactive TV, strategies for approaching interactive and multiplatform ad campaigns, and much more.

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of Rick Howe's column, "The iTV Doctor: PROFILES." This edition features Steve Necessary, VP of video strategy and product management at Cox Communications. Necessary discusses, among other things, Cox's ongoing work in implementing SelecTV/EBIF and tru2way/OCAP, and reveals what happened to "On Ramp to OCAP."

[itvt] has just published interviews with Mark Garner, SVP of distribution, marketing and business development at A&E Television Networks (AETN), and with Mike Pohl, CEO of "mood-based" search-and-recommendation company, Jinni.

ActiveVideo Networks has sent [itvt] a series of videos that it shot both in its own and in various other companies' booths at the recent NCTA Cable Show.

[itvt] has just published an interview with Mike Fitzsimmons, founder and CEO of Delivery Agent, a company which specializes in developing digital commerce solutions for entertainment/media companies (its clients include ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, Discovery, HBO, Showtime, A&E, MTV, among around 200 others), and which earlier this week announced that it had acquired The Band, an interactive media agency that develops and deploys advanced media campaigns across the full spectrum of TV platforms, including cable, satellite and telco.

[itvt] has just published the latest edition of Rick Howe's regular column, "The iTV Doctor Is In!" In this edition, Sangita Verma, co-founder of TAG Networks, the interactive TV games company that earlier this week announced that it had been acquired by ActiveVideo Networks, discusses plans to open up TAG's games platform to third-party developers.

[itvt] has just published a video interview in which Bob Perry, SVP of Panasonic Consumer Electronics Company, provides an overview of Panasonic's connected TV and 3D TV product strategy.