BUZZ IN BRIEF

■ RCN last week launched TiVo’s Premiere Q
four-tuner digital video recorder and Preview
HD set-top box, offered together in a multiroom
DVR bundle, in its Washington, D.C.,
market.

■ National Geographic
Channel is experimenting
with delivering synchronized
content to viewers’
iPads using an app from
startup Umami. The network
is using the app with
its fourth installment of “Expedition Week,” a
weeklong programming stunt that premiered
Nov. 7, and for Knights of Mayhem, which debuts
Nov. 15.

■ LG Electronics is teaming with YuMe, a
provider of video advertising software and
services, to let developers and publishers
serve targeted ads on LG broadband-connected
TVs and Blu-ray Disc players. The duo signed
Toyota Motor Sales USA as the charter sponsor,
and they plan to engage more advertisers
in the spring of 2012.