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[01/08/08 - 03:26 PM] Bravo to Premiere 'L-Bar' Technology During Network's 'A-List Awards' Show "This innovation will help drive viewer engagement and involvement with both the programming and its commercials," said Bravo's Lisa Hsia. |
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BRAVO TO PREMIERE 'L-BAR' TECHNOLOGY DURING NETWORK'S 'A-LIST AWARDS' SHOW
Bravo To Go Wins First Tech & Engineering Emmy at 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards
LAS VEGAS � January 8, 2008 � Bravo announced today it would debut its innovative "L-Bar" technology during the network's inaugural "A-List Awards" show later this spring. This first-ever live technology where viewers can interact with both the television program and the commercials, allowing sponsors and advertising to become completely interactive, giving viewers the opportunity to participate in sweepstakes, real-time polling and coupon offerings, as well as advertiser text messaging and web/wireless offerings. The announcement was made by Lisa Hsia, Senior Vice President, Bravo New Media.
"This innovation will help drive viewer engagement and involvement with both the programming and its commercials," said Hsia. "The 'L-Bar' allows the consumer to seamlessly interact with the show, as well provide an added value experience for the advertiser."
The 'L-Bar' provides the consumer that much more information about a product that seamlessly integrates and expands on the creative content in the show, giving an added value viewing experience."
A graphical, on-screen overlay (in the shape of an "L"), the "L-Bar" can be used to solicit viewer comments about their favorite shows and characters, answer trivia and poll questions and respond to various calls to action - all via text message or online throughout the broadcast and commercial breaks.
Additionally, Bravo's continues to be recognized for its wireless content as the network earned its first Technology & Engineering Emmy at the 59th Annual Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards presented at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas on Tuesday, January 7. Bravo won the "Best Use of Personal Media Display and Presentation" category for Bravo To Go, a mobile platform that offers engaging interactive content wherever and whenever the consumer wants it. Bravo To Go allows users to take part in robust text messaging campaigns, go to the wireless website WAP.BravoTV.com to read blogs, take polls, play games and view programming on mobile video while giving users instant access to anything and everything Bravo. The Emmy award-winning Bravo To Go also recently won a coveted Webby Award for Best News & Entertainment Wireless Website.
Bravo is a program service of NBC Universal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBC Universal one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news, and information to a global audience. Bravo has been an NBC cable network since December 2002 and was the first television service dedicated to film and the performing arts when it launched in December 1980. For more information, visit www.BravoTV.com.
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[08/17/26 - 11:01 AM] Video: First-Look at the "Reality Villains" Season Premiere of "Celebrity Weakest Link" In each themed episode, eight celebrities from the worlds of television, sports, film, and entertainment's next generation compete to win up to $1 million for the charity of their choice.
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[08/17/26 - 10:59 AM] ESPN's Exclusive Coverage of the 2026 Little League Baseball World Series, Presented by T-Mobile Begins Aug. 19 ESPN, ESPN2 and ABC will combine to present all 38 games throughout the tournament, culminating with the Little League Baseball World Series Championship Game on Sunday, August 30, at 3 p.m. on ABC.
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[08/17/26 - 10:38 AM] FOX Sports Set to Serve Up More Women's College Volleyball on Broadcast Television Than Any Network in History The eight FOX contests mark the most women's college volleyball matches ever aired on broadcast television by any network in a single season.
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[08/17/26 - 10:16 AM] ABC News Live Premieres New Multiplatform Streaming Programming on Disney+, Hulu and ABC News Live "All Access with Linsey Davis," "Searched," "Burden of Proof" and "Doctor's Note" will stream on Disney+, Hulu, ABC News Live and across ABC News digital platforms and will be available on the ABC News Podcast Network.
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[08/17/26 - 09:31 AM] Video: NBC Debuts Official Trailer & First Look Images for "The Traitors: New Blood" The first two episodes will debut Thursday, September 17 with a special two-hour extended premiere (Episodes 1 & 2) on NBC from 8:00 - 10:00 PM ET/PT.
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[08/17/26 - 09:24 AM] Guests Announced for Season 13 of "Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr." Following the Third Consecutive Emmy Award Nomination for the Acclaimed Series The new season lineup includes actors Elizabeth Banks, Carrie Coon, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Ilana Glazer, Nikki Glazer, David Alan Grier, Ashley Judd, Randall Park, Wendell Pierce, Danny Ramirez, Natasha Rothwell, Allison Williams and Noah Wyle.
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[08/17/26 - 09:01 AM] HBO Renews "It: Welcome to Derry" for a Second Season Brad Caleb Kane will serve as showrunner.
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[08/17/26 - 09:00 AM] The CW Network Sets Monday, October 5 Premiere for "Private Eyes West Coast" and "Law & Order Toronto: Criminal Intent" Season 2 Jason Priestley and Cindy Sampson star in the former, a spin-off of the popular "Private Eyes" series that ran for five seasons and licensed in more than 180 territories worldwide.
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[08/17/26 - 08:31 AM] Netflix and Spotify's The Ringer Sign Tom Pelissero to Multi-Year Agreement Across NFL Content & Coverage Pelissero will join Netflix's broadcast team as sideline reporter, in addition to NFL Insider, across the streamer's full slate of games this season.
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[08/17/26 - 08:01 AM] Pluto TV Launches New Format, Double Feature Fridays, in Partnership with "Entertainment Tonight" Each pairing is connected by shared talent, genre, or theme, and introduced through original "Entertainment Tonight" segments hosted by correspondent Emily Curl.
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[08/17/26 - 08:01 AM] Video: "A Different World" - Official Trailer - Netflix "A Different World" returns to Hillman College with a new class stepping onto campus - and beloved faces coming home.
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[08/17/26 - 07:01 AM] Video: "Hollywood Arts" - Official Teaser - Netflix The next chapter in the "Victorious" universe is coming only on Netflix, October 15.
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[08/17/26 - 07:01 AM] Video: "The Drop: A Snowfall Saga" - Official Trailer - FX The series follows "Snowfall" characters Wanda Bell (Gail Bean) and Leon Simmons (Isaiah John) as they fight to reinvent themselves in '90s Los Angeles, where the fallout from the crack epidemic is fueling a new game: the rise of West Coast rap.
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[08/17/26 - 06:31 AM] Video: "The Diplomat" Season 4 - Official Teaser - Netflix In season four, two marriages threaten to eat each other alive.
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[08/17/26 - 06:01 AM] Prime Video Debuts "The Terminal List" Season Two First Look Images, Starring Chris Pratt All eight episodes, executive produced by Chris Pratt, Antoine Fuqua, David DiGilio, and author Jack Carr, will premiere on Wednesday, October 21, 2026, exclusively on Prime Video in more than 240 countries and territories worldwide.
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