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A new version of Eyewitness News' mobile app, Tristate On The Go, has been made available for both the iOS and Android operating systems.

According to the app's listing in the iTunes Store, the revamped app has been optimized for improved performance, making the app load more quickly.  Ads are less intrusive, and the landscape layout is now fully supported in most views.  It also supports iOS 6.

As of 2 p.m., the Android version had not yet become available (although the earlier version remains), but it's expected that the updates for that edition will be similar.

Broadcast Interactive Media (BIM) has announced the release of its new free, easy-to-use TitanTV for Android app.

Designed for use in the United States, TitanTV for Android allows users to view the schedules for 14 days of programming on broadcast, cable, and satellite lineups.

Schedules are displayed in the channel lineups in a simple grid format. For optimum readability, the grid is also scalable by device type. A one hour grid is displayed in portrait mode and three hours in landscape on smaller Android devices. On tablets, the grid spans three hours in portrait mode and six in landscape.

A Details page containing a program’s plot summary, cast, ratings and more may be viewed by pressing on the program in the grid.

A powerful and flexible search function is also included.

Users who have created accounts on the free TitanTV.com desktop site may also access many of its advanced features on the new TitanTV for Android app. These include the selected default lineup, grid start time, color scheme and even their customized lineups. A custom lineup might contain only sports channels, children’s channels, premium movie channels, etc.

“Television viewers have relied on TitanTV for programming information since 2000, and the TitanTV for Android app makes it even easier to get that information in a mobile format,” said Mick Rinehart, senior vice president of data services and product development at BIM. “The app is an especially handy choice for tablet or smartphone users who have ‘cut the cord’ and want an aggregated source for TV listings on a separate screen.”

TitanTV for Android is free and available now in the Google Play Store.

Hearst Television is launching Election 2012, a mobile app featuring up-to-the-minute and in-depth election-related national content as well as content from the company’s news stations in 25 markets stretching from Portland, Maine, to Honolulu, including CBS affiliate WLKY-32 in Louisville.

The advertising-supported Election 2012 app is available for free in the iTunes Store for iPhone users and the Google Play Store for Android users.

“This app should come in handy not only for voters in the 25 Hearst Television news markets, but for any political observer interested in the latest developments in closely contested presidential-election states... and in states hosting tight Senate races, like Massachusetts – in all of which states Hearst Television has leading news stations and websites,” said Roger Keating, SVP of Hearst Television. 

Each station’s local content is fed to the app using the content management system of Hearst Television partner company Internet Broadcasting.