1. Organization of Company	12 Months Ended
Dec. 31, 2013
Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]
1. Organization of Company	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 provides an entertainment and marketing services platform for hospitality venues that offer games, events, and entertainment experiences to their consumers. The Company’s interactive entertainment network helps its network subscribers to acquire, engage and retain their consumers. The Company generates revenues by charging subscription fees for its service to its network subscribers, leasing equipment (including tablets used in its BEOND line and the cases and charging trays for such tablets) to certain network subscribers, hosting live trivia events, and from selling advertising aired on in-venue screens and as part of customized games. Currently, approximately 3,200 venues in the U.S. and Canada subscribe to the Company’s interactive entertainment network. Basis of Accounting Presentation The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of NTN Buzztime, Inc. 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. Unless otherwise indicated, references to “NTN,” “we”, “us” and “our” include the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries. Reclassifications The Company reclassified the consolidated balance sheet for the period ended December 31, 2012 to conform to the 2013 presentation.

1. Organization of Company

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2013

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

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 provides an entertainment and marketing services platform for hospitality venues that offer games, events, and entertainment experiences to their consumers. The Company’s interactive entertainment network helps its network subscribers to acquire, engage and retain their consumers. The Company generates revenues by charging subscription fees for its service to its network subscribers, leasing equipment (including tablets used in its BEOND line and the cases and charging trays for such tablets) to certain network subscribers, hosting live trivia events, and from selling advertising aired on in-venue screens and as part of customized games. Currently, approximately 3,200 venues in the U.S. and Canada subscribe to the Company’s interactive entertainment network.

Basis of Accounting Presentation

The consolidated financial statements include the accounts of NTN Buzztime, Inc. 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. Unless otherwise indicated, references to “NTN,” “we”, “us” and “our” include the Company and its consolidated subsidiaries.

Reclassifications

The Company reclassified the consolidated balance sheet for the period ended December 31, 2012 to conform to the 2013 presentation.

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The entire disclosure for the organization, consolidation and basis of presentation of financial statements disclosure, and significant accounting policies of the reporting entity. May be provided in more than one note to the financial statements, as long as users are provided with an understanding of (1) the significant judgments and assumptions made by an enterprise in determining whether it must consolidate a VIE and/or disclose information about its involvement with a VIE, (2) the nature of restrictions on a consolidated VIE's assets reported by an enterprise in its statement of financial position, including the carrying amounts of such assets, (3) the nature of, and changes in, the risks associated with an enterprise's involvement with the VIE, and (4) how an enterprise's involvement with the VIE affects the enterprise's financial position, financial performance, and cash flows. Describes procedure if disclosures are provided in more than one note to the financial statements.

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