"It's a wonderful thing for TV viewers, but it's a very challenging thing for people who do what I do for a living, " said FX Network President John Landgraf to a gathering of television reporters at the Television Critics Association's summer press tour in Los Angeles.
Naziah works as a news reporter for Fiji TV 1 and Sangeeta produces Sitara, a TV series for Hindi speaking viewers in Fiji.
In Manhattan, for example, cable TV viewers were able by mid-afternoon to tune back in to their favorite soap operas on WABC.
The percent of U.S. households with a television set fell to 96.7 percent from 98.9 percent, said Nielsen, which tallies viewers for TV networks and advertisers.
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She says she's frustrated because she feels her viewers are ready for digital TV.
Three different pay-TV technologies are thus competing for viewers.
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Another 68% of reality TV viewers thought it was natural for girls to be "catty and competitive" with each other, while only 50% of non-viewers did.
Clearcast, the company which approves TV adverts for broadcasts, said they believed viewers would be able to distinguish between weapons in a fantasy setting and the reality of urban gun crime.
Launched in December 2007, the BBC iPlayer allows viewers to watch selected TV programmes for up to seven days after broadcast.
Digital terrestrial is likely to act as a shop window for its pay-TV satellite service and drive more viewers towards BSkyB.
For the past 11 years, Chernin has been given enormous latitude to run the company's entertainment and technology divisions as he sees fit, resulting in hits like American Idol, the purchase of MySpace and, more recently, Hulu, a Web partnership with NBC where viewers can watch TV shows and movies for free.
Viewers can also ask their TV to search for content currently available by actor, title or genre, and it will provide recommendations.
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For more traditional viewers, the update also brings a standard TV guide users can pull up by selecting "TV" on the home screen, the ability to schedule and manage DVR recordings from antenna on the box itself (previously only possible via webpage for the still-in-beta feature), notifications for upcoming recordings and even 3D support in the Vudu app.
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By making it easier for viewers to record shows and skip commercials, pay-TV companies may provide an incentive for studios to stream more of their content on the Web, where they can easily force viewers to watch ads in their proprietary video players.
In the constantly changing technological landscape, TV companies have to decide how easily they want to make it for viewers to watch their shows.
For nine days this summer, viewers across the globe were glued to their TV sets watching the 23-year-old swimmer break Mark Spitz's 36-year-old record at Beijing's Olympic Games.
While some pay-TV executives say that full "a la carte'" could be overwhelming for viewers, others say that such an offering would be "the dream" but not practical, considering the reality of relationships with entertainment companies.
Lost viewers found their way to TV sets Tuesday night as the epic drama came roaring back for its final season.
The nature of the business is symbiotic--clubs don't compete for market share a la Coke and Pepsi, they rely on each other to fill stadiums and draw TV viewers.
Nielsen hinted at changes two years ago when TV ownership dropped for the first time in decades, which may turn around since the new definition includes viewers with internet-connected TVs, and could go further to include viewers with just a tablet or laptop.
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Usage of all "non-linear" formats, such as Internet, DVDs, and video on demand, in addition to DVRs, accounts currently for one-third of mass-market TV viewing, but as much as 57% for "early adopters, " those future-defining viewers who have a greater propensity to use leading-edge products and services.
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The principle behind YouView is that it should make it easier for viewers to catch up with programmes from the BBC iPlayer, ITV.com and 4OD on their TV set, rather than on a laptop, desktop, or smartphone.
"The race for viewers became a race for local programming, " says James, who has worked for TVB and STAR TV.
Viewers are scattering to tiny cable networks and Internet-delivered video, cutting average audiences for many traditional TV programs, including morning shows.
August 4, 2008 - Appointment TV -- tuning in at specific times to watch scheduled shows -- is no longer the norm for many viewers, and that presents a threat to the value of ad-supported programming, according to new consumer research by Oliver Wyman.
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