Archive for May, 2007

ABC's User-Generated TV show

ABC announced this week that one of its new shows for the summer will be a six-week experiment on user-generated content, specifically user-generated video news. But this isn’t for ABC.com. This is for ABC.
“i-Caught” will have a website where viewers can upload video news to be edited and aired on national television. It sounds like [...]

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Amazon's Kid Correspondent Quest

Is your kid a Harry Potter fan? Send a brief video clip to Amazon of him or her “sharing their love for J.K. Rowling’s epic series and talking about their favorite Harry Potter character” and they might get a chance to be a part of the phenomenon’s final installment, due for release on July 21.
This [...]

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Make Internet TV's DVD

by Zach Jones on May 30th, 2007

Make Internet TV's DVD

Make Internet TV, an online video tutorial site on how to make videos, is still requesting video submissions to be included on their DVD. The free DVD will be distributed to middle schools and high schools across the country, teaching kids what can really be achieved with the technology built into their computers and phones.
The [...]

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TNT and TBS go online

by Zach Jones on May 30th, 2007

TNT and TBS go online

Almost every major series on ABC, NBC, and now CBS can be watched online. But until today’s announcement by Turner Broadcasting that TNT and TBS will be airing their popular shows like “The Closer” and “Saving Grace” online for free, cable television hadn’t yet entered that same level of television on the internet.
Sure, TLC and [...]

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Pick Hillary's Campaign Song

I feel like the phrase “surfing the web” should go away forever. It’s dated, yes, but it’s not a bad phrase. It’s just that surfing implies fluidity. Most of the time, I find myself stumbling into things on the internet.
So when I was stumbling into things on the internet today, I found Hillary Clinton’s “Pick [...]

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Series Premiere of Seduce a Celeb

When popular online network GoFish announced its new straightforward show “Seduce a Celeb,” the obvious first question on my mind was: what celebrity is going to agree to do this?
Now I know.
Mirelly Taylor, who has made a career out of one-episode guest appearances on TV shows like “Las Vegas” and “Lovespring International,” agreed to appear [...]

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CBS Takes Over the Internet

Last year, the buzz surrounding NBC Universal’s forays into online video was like a deafening crop of emergent cicadas. Brilliant But Cancelled, Outzone TV, and DotComedy have become huge success stories, introducing archived, contemporary, and totally new content to the online community from a dominant force in traditional media. Not only that, but they managed [...]

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Check Out The Lot

by Zach Jones on May 25th, 2007

Check Out The Lot

If you didn’t see the endless commercials for it on television (naturally, I’m assuming, because you don’t watch television, you watch internet television), “The Lot” premiered on Fox earlier this week.
The show is a reality competition produced by Mark Burnett (”Survivor”) and Steven Spielberg (E.T.) where filmmakers get a chance to win a production deal [...]

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