BET Launches 106 & PARK App For iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad
BET Networks today unveiled the most interactive television app the U.S. has ever seen for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad now available on the App Store.
Developed as a companion to the wildly successful music countdown and variety program of the same name, the app allows fans to enjoy a deeper and more interactive experience who have it open while the show airs every weekday from 6:00-8:00 P.M.
106 & PARK is dedicating this entire week to the launch of the app, where it will introduce a new key feature every day.
“This app is the first of its kind to fully integrate a real-time mobile user audience with a live TV show,” said Denmark West, President of Digital at BET Networks. “We wanted to create a meaningful socially integrated experience that captures the spirit of the 106 & PARK show, the pulse of youth culture.”
106 & PARK attracts an average of 791,000 viewers per day, many of whom are early adopters of technology and heavy users of smartphones.
The 106 & PARK app includes several groundbreaking features, including:
- Location-based ‘Fame Lottery’: Users logged into the app will appear on the “106 Nation” live heat map on the show’s set. Hosts zoom into a city and call one lucky app user in that city.
- ‘Twitter Wall’: Users can pan around to see who is watching the show and what they’re saying about today’s trending topic. Users can also post Tweets which have the chance to be read live on the air.
- Mobile barcodes: Users can unlock special content and prizes by scanning the “Code106″ mobile barcodes that appear regularly during the show.
- Amateur competition voting: Users can vote for their favorite performer and see how individual votes stack up against the rest of the country’s in real-time.
- Countdown video voting: Users scratch a record like a DJ to rack up votes for their favorite countdown video. The more a user plays, the more votes are cast.
The 106 & PARK app also contains over 70 artist bios, each containing articles, photos, videos and recent tweets. High-quality video clips from previous episodes are also available within the app for users to enjoy. The app is available for free from the App Store on iPhone, iPod touch and iPad or at www.itunes.com/appstore.
Keep the music going. Reppin the atl
i love yall show yall keep it a 100 dats wat it do im a oklahoma
What about Droids :O
Yeah what about Droid phones like HTC……omg
Love 106 & park is the best show you could
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You think I’m wrong you tripin hard…..
Hello!!!!!
That’s just like band wagoners… Jump on the iphone train. That phone sucks droid is like dodge you see the take over… Oh yeah and watch what happens in november… I phone killer in a verizon near you… But you ain’t heard ish from me tho… Make the app exclusively for apple only… I’m boycotting bet… See now I got to go to mtv….arrrrrrggggggguuuuuhhhhh..
I luv u guys n I would luv to go to da show n have lots of fun
I Love the show and would love the app but I dont have a iPhone I have an Android so I can’t. That sucks. It would be great if you make the app for Androids.
Y’all slow as hell most of your viewers have android devices the ratio of an iphone to any android device is enough to the point where it should have been in the android marke first.
Ok why the hell anit no droid app for this dame ner everybody are #TEAM DROID dnt nobody fuck with iPhone . Common sense
ima big fan of 106 but whats up with that app for droid phones
That really sucks I have the HTC evo & HTC is way better then iphone, #ANDROID will take over. Get it together 106!
Ummmm ITS SUMMER NOW!!! Where is the 106 and park app?? I could’ve won tickets!!!!:(
Omfg man #TeamDroid …!! Iit need a b on droid market A.S mutha fuqkiin A.P yhuu hear mhe ..!!
I love the show ! But I wanna have the app too but its jot available on the Droid ): bummer !