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06.24.08

Networking Audio/Visual: TiVo Announces New Channels for TiVo Video Downloads

We ran across this interesting bit of information at TiVoCommunity.com. TiVo has added several new channels to it's TiVoCast service. The channels are free and available to broadband-connected Series2 and Series3 units. Here is the list and a brief description: * City By City (launched 6/23) has been added to the Lifestyle category of the Video Download service. An On Networks channel, City By City is "a travel show with a twist, your virtual little black book for the swankiest cities across Europe." This show will publish on Mondays along with the other five series from On Networks.

06.23.08

The Associated Press: Check out free travel videos online

NEW YORK—Free videos of all types of destinations are just a click or two away. You can watch them on your computer or download to a Web-enabled phone or video iPod. Many are available for free at Apple's iTunes store. Click on podcasts and then on the category "Society & Culture." Scroll down the category list on the left to further limit your choices to the "Places & Travel" subcategory. Before you download a show, look for the little icon of a TV set next to the name to figure out whether it's a video or an audio-only podcast.

05.19.08

TV Week: FiOS Puts ON Networks' Web Shows on TV

Online video studio ON Networks’ shows will now be available on traditional television sets, under a deal the Web shop inked a deal with Verizon’s FiOS TV service.

The deal calls for Verizon to carry ON Networks’ shows on FiOS' video-on-demand service. The shows will be available in high-definition for free.

ON Networks programs available to Verizon FiOS customers include “Backpack Picnic,” “Dinner With the Band,” "Food Science,” “Golf Tips With Joe Beck” and “Proper Ollie.”

03.15.08

The Austin Chronicle: TV Eye: Redefining TV

Austin's ON Networks has even gotten a slice of the awards portion of the SXSW Festival, when it announces the winner of its first Greenlight Awards, the "industry's first competition to recognize the next great, original and episodic digital series."

03.11.08

Wired Magazine: SXSW: The Guild, Wingmen Compete for Funds to Produce Digital TV Series

Media company ON Networks teamed up with South by Southwest to offer a groups of backyard professional filmmakers a 10,000 dollar grand prize a distribution deal through Xbox Live.

03.08.08

KUT 90.5: Changing What We Watch and How

On March 9, 2008 one of four finalists will be crowned the 2008 Greenlight Award winner. The competition is sponsored by ON Networks and South By Southwest Film Conference and Festival. As KUT’s Erika Aguilar reports, organizers are calling it the industry’s first competition to recognize original digital television series.

03.07.08

The Austin Chronicle: Greenlight Awards Premiere at SXSW

Austin-based ON Networks seeks to make "digital TV" a household word by sponsoring the first-ever Greenlight Awards, which were created to encourage more digital-TV production and to further ON Networks' mission to "change the way traditional TV programs are created, distributed, consumed, and monetized."

03.02.08

The New York Post: The Next Broadcast

Web entertainment enters prime time, as Internet networks start modeling themselves on real-world broadcasters.