{"id":6305,"date":"2017-07-27T10:43:35","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T00:43:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/?p=6305"},"modified":"2017-07-27T10:43:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T00:43:35","slug":"facebook-tv-to-launch-this-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/news\/facebook-tv-to-launch-this-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook TV to launch this August"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Facebook Inc.\u2019s version of television is coming online in mid-August after several false starts, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The company has been asking its partners to turn in the first episodes of their spotlight shows, the people said. Some already have finished these short-form, inexpensive programs. Facebook is also funding higher-end TV-style shows, which will be launched later on the site…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Facebook aims to make something higher-end than Google\u2019s YouTube, but it\u2019s not competing with video producers such as Netflix, HBO and Showtime.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It sounds more like their own version of YouTube Red. What it is in-fact is another opportunity to shove more advertising down your throats as the loosely named “news feed” is now so saturated with it they’ve run out of space.<\/p>\n

I avoid using Facebook at all costs but I’m well aware I’m in a minority there. Could Facebook TV be something that draws me into their ecosystem? Doubtful, but it will be interesting to see what content creators they’ve lulled to the dark side.<\/p>\n

Source: First Facebook TV Episodes Are Said to Be Ready for Mid-August – Bloomberg<\/a><\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Facebook Inc.\u2019s version of television is coming online in mid-August after several false starts, according to people familiar…\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[10],"tags":[386,482],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"reckoner_social_message":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/reckoner.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}