Posts Tagged ‘cbs’

April 15, 2008

CBS and Mark “Survivor” Burnett Team Up for Shill-a-Thon Gameshow

According to the TVSquad:
“Mark Burnett has a new unscripted project, greenlighted by CBS, called Jingles. It’s a competition show in which contestants have to create tunes for products, commercial jingles.”
Yes, my friends, you read that right.  The best part is that there will be actual commercials between the gameshow segments, which, one imagines, will be [...]

March 31, 2008

Does Live Video Matter?

SAI has some numbers on the users and viewers of the many free live-streaming options that have been popping up and sucking up VC rather rapidly.
Turns out the numbers are quite equaling the investment, yet.
“The biggest site, LiveVideo, had 1.13 million unique viewers in February, according to Nielsen’s VideoCensus. That’s enough to earn it 49th [...]

March 22, 2008

Dear CBS Sports, Welcome to Fail

The lovely folks over at TechCrunch have assembled a nice gallery of comments left on the CBSSports NCAA Facebook application that has not quite performed up to snuff.  With a whole bunch of problems being reported, users around the country are sounding off.
As TC points out:
“But it is an even more serious issue for CBS [...]

March 12, 2008

Closer to Cutting the Cable

As a big fan of the internet and all it has to offer I have been close on a number of occasions to canceling my TimeWarner cable subscription.  This would save me close to $1000/year.
The biggest thing standing in my way has always been the lack of live sports.  I don’t mind waiting to see [...]

March 6, 2008

Joost About Out of Time

I’m hard-pressed to imagine the circumstances under which the (over)hyped video player Joost could become successful but, according to CNet, the backers are CBS are confident:
“Speaking to a small gathering of tech and media reporters at CBS’ New York headquarters Thursday, (CBS Interactive president Quincy) Smith gave a firm “no” when asked if Joost–which requires [...]

February 22, 2008

Networks Open the Floodgates

I’m actually kind of amazed it took so long for this to happen, but both NBC and CBS (can ABC be far behind) are offering streaming video of classic shows from their archives.
From TVSquad:
“Like the NBC fodder, the CBS offering is gangbusters: full-length episodes of classic Star Trek, Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone, MacGyver, Hawaii [...]

February 22, 2008

Pilot’s Finding New Paths

NewTeeVee has a really interesting look at the path of NYU-student created UNDER THE ARCH - a web video which caused a fair amount of buzz when it was first released last year.
“The YouTube version has since been taken down, and now that Murray has changed his privacy settings on Facebook, it’s no longer available [...]