1. BASIS OF PRESENTATION	6 Months Ended
Jun. 30, 2015
Accounting Policies [Abstract]
BASIS OF PRESENTATION	Description of Business The Company provides an entertainment and marketing services platform for hospitality venues that offers games, events, and entertainment experiences to their patrons. The Company’s interactive entertainment network helps its network subscribers to acquire, engage and retain their patrons. The Company generates revenues by charging subscription fees for its service to its network subscribers, by leasing equipment (including tablets used in its BEOND platform and the cases and charging trays for the tablets) to certain network subscribers, by hosting live trivia events, by selling advertising aired on in-venue screens and as part of customized games and from the premium products the Company began offering via its BEOND platform in 2014. These premium products currently include an arcade and a digital music jukebox. Currently, over 2,900 venues in the U.S. and Canada subscribe to the Company’s interactive entertainment network, of which approximately 50% are using its BEOND platform. 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. 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, 2014. The accompanying condensed balance sheet as of December 31, 2014 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 and six months ended June 30, 2015 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be anticipated for the entire year ending December 31, 2015, or any other period. Reclassifications The Company reclassified the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss for the three and six months ended June 30, 2014, and the consolidated statement of cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2014 to conform to the 2015 presentation. Reclassifications had no impact on net loss or cash flows.

1. BASIS OF PRESENTATION

6 Months Ended

Jun. 30, 2015

Description of Business

The Company provides an entertainment and marketing services platform for hospitality venues that offers games, events, and entertainment experiences to their patrons. The Company’s interactive entertainment network helps its network subscribers to acquire, engage and retain their patrons. The Company generates revenues by charging subscription fees for its service to its network subscribers, by leasing equipment (including tablets used in its BEOND platform and the cases and charging trays for the tablets) to certain network subscribers, by hosting live trivia events, by selling advertising aired on in-venue screens and as part of customized games and from the premium products the Company began offering via its BEOND platform in 2014. These premium products currently include an arcade and a digital music jukebox. Currently, over 2,900 venues in the U.S. and Canada subscribe to the Company’s interactive entertainment network, of which approximately 50% are using its BEOND platform.

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.

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, 2014. The accompanying condensed balance sheet as of December 31, 2014 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 and six months ended June 30, 2015 are not necessarily indicative of the results to be anticipated for the entire year ending December 31, 2015, or any other period.

Reclassifications

The Company reclassified the consolidated statement of operations and comprehensive loss for the three and six months ended June 30, 2014, and the consolidated statement of cash flows for the six months ended June 30, 2014 to conform to the 2015 presentation. Reclassifications had no impact on net loss or cash flows.