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Out-of-home viewing high for football (duh)
An Arbitron study in Houston found that 24.5 percent of viewers who watched ESPN’s Monday Night Football game earlier this week were somewhere other than their own home. For 18-34 year olds, the number jumps to 35 percent. It’s the first real test using Arbitron’s portable people meters, and I can’t say the numbers are that surprising, especially in Texas, where football is a big event.
6 comments September 22nd, 2006
NBC promo goes meta on YouTube
It’s a promo on YouTube featuring NBC’s “Bill the promo guy” talking about all the reasons why we shouldn’t hate NBC for putting promos on YouTube. Some very funny one-liners like, “Friday Night Lights on Tuesdays, THAT’s not confusing.” Says one person who left a comment after watching it, “I just watched a commercial. On YouTube. Shit.”
8 comments September 22nd, 2006
Amanda Cogden video blogging again
She’s back for the first time since the Rocketboom debacle with Amanda Across America, funded by the NRDC, the Environmental Countdown and Ford. And there are still plenty of rumors flying about potential deals with big media, so if you care, stay tuned… (Link via Pomo Blog)
2 comments September 22nd, 2006
Grey’s Anatomy wins Thursday, now on iTunes
It was the big showdown at 9 p.m. on Thursday, CSI on CBS vs. Grey’s Anatomy on ABC. But Grey’s came away the victor, beating CSI in both the demos and households. Also, the show is now for sale on iTunes…
And if you haven’t downloaded the latest version of iTunes and visited either the TV or movies page, then you’re missing one of the coolest web user interfaces I’ve ever seen. Move the bar at the bottom and search through the titles in animated 3D. Sweet!
4 comments September 22nd, 2006
Atom games channel focuses on on satire ‘newsgames’
Longtime Lost Remoters know I loves me my games (as does our illustrious founder, and a whole hell of a lot of other people), but what I really love is the massive potential in the medium and have been thumping and stumping to get big media companies to wake up and get serious about gettting into the red-hot game marketspace with their content. Well, most of them call me mad and can’t figure out how games can have anything to do with journalism or serious content. Now Atom Entertainment has gotten decidely unserious and is launching a new channel on AddictingGames.com dedicated to satirical “newsgames” which poke fun a current events. Old favorites like “Cheney’s Fury” (you get to be the trigger man on the veep’s quail shooter) anchor the site, but many of the games are the work of amateur designers. Dave Williams, Atom’s chief marketing officer for games, says games are becoming “a form of social commentary” and there is an upswing in games that have political or social opinion built in.
7 comments September 22nd, 2006
Teens tune into TV, web for news
A new study of high school students reveals some fascinating tidbits of where they get their news. While TV ranked as the “best” overall source of news, half of all high schoolers get news online at least once a week. Now here’s where it gets interesting:
Clearly, teens have a broader definition of news from both a content and a brand standpoint, which has serious implications for news organizations.
6 comments September 22nd, 2006
Are lower thirds on Chavez fair and balanced?
The Daily Show calls them “Cavutos”: lower-thirds on news that end in a question mark, usually indicating a strong hint of the channel’s belief. (Cory Bergman: Defiant Despot?) TVNewser rounds up a very funny list of the lower-thirds from Fox News’s coverage of Hugo Chavez’s visit to the U.N. Thursday. Here’s some of Brian Stelter’s timeline: 7:16pm: “Pres Chavez: Narcissistic personality disorder?”; 10:54am: “How dare Hugo Chavez blast the United States?”; 11:02am: “Should we stop buying Chavez’s gas from Citgo stations?”; 11:59am: “Chavez insults U.S.: Where is the outrage?”; 12:29pm: “Should U.S. continue to fund U.N. after applause for Chavez? All those question marks before 12:30? Won’t that spoil your lunch? Question mark journalism: this is news?
19 comments September 22nd, 2006
My next phone: Palm OS or WindowsMobile?
I’m getting a new phone this week, and I am stumped by the eternal struggle: Palm OS or WindowsMobile? As you probably know, I’m a Mac guy - so the Palm OS probably makes more sense. On the other hand, with The Missing Sync, I can apparently (apparently) use a WindowsMobile phone with my Mac - and there are more choices for that platform. I ask you, the LR Faithful: what the heck should I get?
23 comments September 22nd, 2006
Our TVs now outnumber us at home
For the first time, there are more TVs in our houses than there are people. Nielsen Media Research says the average US home has 2.73 televisions and 2.55 people. (That leaves .18 of a television for the dog to watch Animal Planet.) Half of the homes in the US have three or more televisions. In 1975, 57% of the homes had just one TV. And they were forced to watch The Waltons. What a terrible, terrible time.
8 comments September 22nd, 2006
Ricky Gervais puts profitable podcasts on hiatus
Saying that his terrific podcast is “getting ridiculous and someone has to make it stop,” Ricky Gervais is putting the show on hold. For those of you wondering whether the pay-version of The Ricky Gervais show made any money, here’s a hint: “I wanted to see if I could cut out the middle man and make podcasting a commercial concern. Karl never has to work again and I believe that maybe he won’t,” said Ricky. Again, the difference between American and British programming - the Brits do a few terrific episodes, then stop. We’d make Gervais do a podcast a day for the next 20 years. (Thanks, Max!)
9 comments September 22nd, 2006
