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(1) BASIS OF PRESENTATION	9 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2011
Business Description and Basis of Presentation [Text Block]	(1)  BASIS OF PRESENTATION Description of Business NTN Buzztime, Inc. (the “Company”) was incorporated in Delaware in 1984 as Alroy Industries and changed its corporate name to NTN Communications, Inc. in 1985. The Company changed its name to NTN Buzztime, Inc. in 2005 to better reflect the growing role of the Buzztime consumer brand. The Company has been in the business of social interactive entertainment for over 25 years.  Its primary source of revenue is the Buzztime Network, which provides media, advertising and consumer marketing services to over 3,900 hospitality venues such as restaurants and bars throughout North America. Basis of Accounting Presentation The accompanying unaudited interim condensed financial statements have been prepared in accordance with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (GAAP) for interim financial statements and with the instructions to Form 10-Q and Article 8 of Regulation S-X. Accordingly, they do not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements.  In the opinion of management, the accompanying condensed consolidated financial statements include all adjustments that are necessary, which are of a normal and recurring nature, for a fair presentation for the periods presented of the financial position, results of operations and cash flows of the Company and its wholly-owned subsidiaries: IWN, Inc., IWN, L.P., Buzztime Entertainment, Inc., NTN Wireless Communications, Inc., NTN Software Solutions, Inc., NTN Canada, Inc., and NTN Buzztime, Ltd., all of which, other than NTN Canada, Inc., are dormant subsidiaries.All significant intercompany transactions have been eliminated in consolidation.   These condensed consolidated financial statements should be read in conjunction with the consolidated financial statements and notes thereto contained in the Company’s annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2010.  The accompanying condensed balance sheet as of December 31, 2010 has been derived from the audited financial statements at that date but does not include all of the information and footnotes required by GAAP for complete financial statements.  The results of operations for the three months and nine months ended September 30, 2011 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be anticipated for the entire year ending December 31, 2011, or any other period. The United States dollar is the Company’s functional currency, except for its operations in Canada where the functional currency is the Canadian dollar.  The financial position and results of operations of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries are measured using the foreign subsidiary’s local currency as the functional currency. In accordance with ASC No. 830, Foreign Currency Matters, revenues and expenses of our foreign subsidiaries have been translated into U.S. dollars at weighted average exchange rates prevailing during the period. Assets and liabilities have been translated at the rates of exchange on the balance sheet date. The resulting translation gain and loss adjustments are recorded as a separate component of shareholders’ equity, unless there is a sale or complete liquidation of the underlying foreign investments. Transaction gains and losses that arise from exchange rate fluctuations on transactions denominated in a currency other than the functional currency are included in the results of operations as incurred. During the quarter ended March 31, 2011, the Company modified certain aspects of its intercompany relationship with the Canadian subsidiary.  Consequently, certain gains and losses that were previously recorded as a separate component of shareholders’ equity must now be recorded in the Company’s results of operations. The Company recorded $5,000 and $12,000 in foreign currency gains for the three months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively, and $30,000 in foreign currency losses and $3,000 in foreign currency gains for the nine months ended September 30, 2011 and 2010, respectively, due to settlements of intercompany transactions, re-measurement of intercompany balances with our Canadian subsidiary and other non-functional currency denominated transactions, which are included in other income (expense), net in the accompanying statements of operations.

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