Mediagazer: Apple's Television: Wave Your Hands To Change The Channel (Dylan Love/Business Insider)

7:25 AM ET, February 7, 2012

Top News:

Brian Stelter / Media Decoder:

No Ads, No Madonna But NBC Calls Live Stream A Success — It had never been tried before: a live, legal Internet stream of television's biggest event, the Super Bowl. — Despite some complaints from users, NBC declared it to be a success on Monday and said it would report the total number of streams on Tuesday.

Discussion: Digital Spy, Media Week, Forbes, Streaming Media, Washington Post, AllThingsD and Media News

John Koblin / WWD:

Vogue Wins Big With Super Bowl Halftime Show — VOGUE'S SUPER NIGHT: Other than Eli Manning and the Giants, the other big winners on Super Bowl Sunday turned out to be Anna Wintour and Conde Nast. — Madonna began her halftime performance Sunday night with her 1990 hit, “Vogue.”

Discussion: Forbes, The New Yorker Blog, mUmBRELLA, Fast Company, Hillicon Valley, NetNewsCheck Latest and rbr.com

Richard Deitsch / Sports Illustrated:
Super Bowl XLVI sets viewership records

Discussion: Yahoo! News, USA Today, Hollywood Reporter, Variety, SB Nation St. Louis, TVbytheNumbers and MediaPost

Michael Kozlowski / Good E-Reader:

Amazon in the Process of Launching a Retail Store — Amazon sources close to the situation have told us that the company is planning on rolling out a retail store in Seattle within the next few months. This project is a test to gauge the market and see if a chain of stores would be profitable.

Laura Hazard Owen / paidContent:
Another Chain Says It Won't Carry Amazon Books, But Does It Matter?

Discussion: .info., Bookseller news, GeekWire and eBookNewser

Wall Street Journal:

Disney's ABC, Univision Mull News-Channel Launch — Walt Disney Co. and Univision Communications Inc. are in talks to create a new 24-hour cable-news channel that will broadcast in English, in an effort to keep pace with changing demographics among U.S. Hispanics and reach a new audience of English speakers …

Discussion: New York Magazine, TVNewser, Deadline.com, Inside Cable News, Politico and Media Decoder

Erin Griffith / PandoDaily:

IAC Trying to Sell Vimeo, Seeking $300M Valuation — Barry Diller's IAC is testing the waters on a partial exit of Vimeo, according to two sources familiar with the situation. The company is hoping to raise a $50 million round of funding in conjunction with a spin off of the hipster online video business.

Eric Savitz / The Tech Trade:

Coinstar's Redbox To Buy NCR's Video Kiosk Unit; Q4 Tops Ests — Coinstar's Redbox DVD kiosk unit has agreed to buy NCR's entertainment line of business, which includes DVD rental kiosks and related assets, for up to $100 million. As part of the deal, Coinstar will buy products and services …

Discussion: Yahoo! Finance, Dow Jones Newswires and Forbes

Matt Brian / The Next Web:
Verizon and Redbox enter joint venture to create new Netflix rival

Discussion: PR Newswire, Epicenter, VentureBeat, Electronista, @ingridlunden, SlashGear and Fast Company, more at Techmeme »

Peter Kafka / AllThingsD:
Verizon Teams With Redbox for a Netflix-Style Video Service

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Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider:
Yahoo Looked At Buying Netflix When The Stock Was In The Toilet

Discussion: AllThingsD

Dylan Love / Business Insider:

Apple's Television: Wave Your Hands To Change The Channel — The Apple television rumor mill is working overtime, and now we learn the device might support hand gestures and voice commands according to sources cited in The Globe And Mail. — We'd certainly expect Siri integration …

Discussion: Globe and Mail, MacRumors and The Next Web, more at Techmeme »

Maureen Morrison / AdAge:

AOL Seeks New Agency to Convince Consumers to ‘Care About AOL Again’ — Branding Campaign to Reintroduce Company to Public In a Way That Captures Emotion, Shows Relevance — AOL is searching for an agency to help it devise a new brand campaign in the hopes of reconnecting with consumers, Ad Age has learned.

Felix Salmon:

Elizabeth Spiers and the reinvented New York Observer — There are three main reasons that I like entering into bets with people. The first is, simply, that it's fun. The second is that I love to win bets. And the third is that I love to lose them. I don't ever trade the markets …

Discussion: @espiers, bookforum.com, The Corsair, Fimoculous.com and Capital New York

Antonia Senior / Guardian:

Ebook sales are being driven by downmarket genre fiction — Publishers face secrecy over sales and an absence of industry-wide data to help them plot strategy — Kindle-owning bibliophiles are furtive beasts. Their shelves still boast classics and Booker winners. But inside that plastic case, other things lurk.

Discussion: Forbes, Melville House Books and eBookNewser

Mathew Ingram / GigaOM:

Debunking the “original sin” of online newspapers — Whenever newspaper executives get together to bemoan the fate of their industry, someone inevitably brings up the so-called “original sin” of the online news business — namely, a failure to charge for content when the web was new.

Discussion: the Econsultancy blog, Thanks:@mathewi

Susan Decker / Bloomberg:

Barnes & Noble Backed by U.S. Agency Staff in Microsoft Case — Barnes & Noble Inc. should win a patent-infringement case brought by Microsoft Corp. (MSFT) that threatens to halt imports of the bookseller's Nook e-reader, according to staff of the U.S. trade agency hearing the dispute.

Discussion: ZDNet, SlashGear, Electronista, PC Magazine, FOSS Patents, Business Insider and mocoNews

Steve Myers / Poynter:

Miami-Dade police spokeswoman arrests photojournalist — Photojournalist Carlos Miller, who runs the blog Photography Is Not a Crime, says that police deleted video from his camera when they arrested him last week as he covered Occupy protests in Miami. After recovering some of the video …

Discussion: Ars Technica and Pixiq

Erik Wemple / Washington Post:

At CNN, is homophobia a ‘viewpoint’? — Roland Martin, the soccer thing isn't working. — The CNN analyst was apparently watching the Super Bowl last night, when that ad of David Beckham modeling underwear came over the airwaves. To a sea of tweets, Martin added a dash of homophobia plus an incitement to violence:

Discussion: Erik Wemple, Show Tracker, Politico and GLAAD

Rebecca Shapiro / The Huffington Post:
CNN Pundit Under Fire From Gay Rights Groups

Discussion: mediabistro.com

Andrew Pugh / Press Gazette:

Paul Dacre: Bad journalists should be ‘struck off’ — Britain's longest-serving national newspaper editor has outlined radical plans to create a register of journalists under a new press regulator that would also have the power to strike them off. — In evidence to the Leveson Inquiry this afternoon …

Discussion: Guardian, themediablog.typepad.com, FleetStreetBlues and Guardian