Bob Schieffer Sings! ‘(I Wanna Be) A TV Anchorman’
This is the only version I can find of this fantastic appearance by Bob Schieffer singing the original song “(I Wanna Be) A TV Anchorman” a fun country & western ditty that pokes fun at TV news, anchors and – yes – consultants. If anyone knows where I can find a longer, better synced version, [...]
MSNBC.com to stream ‘The Razzies’ live
Saturday night at 7:30 p.m. PT, MSNBC.com will stream the annual, irreverent awards show, The Razzies, which celebrates the worst picture of the year. And there’s a twist: “In the spirit of the Razzies, the production team will forego traditional video cameras and instead use their cell phones to capture and transmit the action,” reads [...]
A Machead in the land of Vista: a not-entire-slam on MS
I got a Vista PC recently. I’ve been playing with it, and that alone could explain my absence from LR for the past two weeks. (Well, that and vacation). I’m not going to spend a lot of time Vista-bashing. First, as a known Machead, I’m biased. Second, the “Hey – Vista is almost like a Mac!†shtick has been done. Third, there is no third, but you’re supposed to write in threes. More, after the jump. (Are you sure you want to click that jump link? Yes… No… Never…)
Weekend Funny: ‘Why I Got Fired from Apple’
Hint: Don’t refer to them as “Stupid, rude, American customers” in front of the Apple CFO. Even at a private corporate event. Still – great poem.
VH1′s new ‘Acceptable.TV’ combines TV, web
The folks behind the site Channel101.com are teaming up with VH1 and Jack Black for an innovative video show called Acceptable.TV (watch the hilarious promo). In a nutshell, users upload their own three-minute mini-shows. The user shows are combined with “professional” shows produced by the Acceptable.TV team. Users then vote for the shows they want [...]
Most innovative media job posting ever
The Roanoke Times is looking for an editor, so they posted this. (Thanks, Rod!)
Fox News to test blog show
Airing this Sunday after the news comedy show The ½ Hour News Hour, Fox News Channel will test run It’s Out There, a show that will discuss stories pulled from political blogs. Conservative blogger-columnist Michele Malkin and former Clinton administration operative Kirsten Powers will host the show. By the way, The ½ Hour News Hour [...]
Surprise! People still buying tube TVs
Last year, old-fashioned CRT TV sets accounted for 46 percent of all shipments to North American retailers, partly because they’re so affordable compared to pricey flat screen sets. The Consumer Electronics Associates predicts that CRT sets will no longer be sold in the U.S. in two years time, but perhaps that’s a little optimistic. Unless, [...]
MTV, Ask team up for ‘Road Rules’ contest
MTV.com visitors can enter to win a place on the Road Rules RV pit crew in a unique contest with search engine Ask.com. To enter, users must fill in the blanks with Road Rules trivia — which changes every week — and the answers can be found by searching for suggested keywords on Ask.com. A [...]
Revver video coming to Verizon FiOS
The user video site Revver has inked a deal with Verizon’s rapidly-expanding IPTV service, FiOS TV. “We’re joining with Revver to bring the user-generated video phenomenon to the TV set,” said Marilyn O’Connell, Verizon SVP of video solutions. “This is just another way that FiOS continues to distinguish itself from old-fashioned TV.” Revver will also supply clips to Verizon’s broadband entertainment portal.
Adds Lenny in comments: “The Maryland county where I live is one of the first to approve the FiOS TV franchise and everyone I know who has it loves it. In January, crews came to the neighborhood to lay the fiber and install below-ground junction boxes at the curb. It seems to take a few weeks before they are ready to actually install the service to the houses but I plan to be first on my block to schedule an appointment.”
Verizon’s press release after the break…
Dwight to host Saturday Night Live
Rainn Wilson from The Office will host SNL this weekend. Be very afraid. Adds Laurie in comments: “Please SNL writers, don’t let me down. This is the first time all season I’ve been excited about an episode!”
Cover what you do best, link to the rest
Jeff Jarvis makes an excellent point in this blog post that urges news organizations — especially newspapers — to focus their dwindling resources on their strengths instead of trying to duplicate coverage that’s widely available elsewhere. Newspaper sites are already posting more national wire and syndicated stories to free up their reporters to cover more [...]
‘Countdown’ leads DVR ratings in cable news
No surprise here, but MSNBC’s Countdown is the most time-shifted cable news show on TV, according to Keith Olbermann in this interview with TVGuide.com. I’ve been recording the show religiously since the moment it launched. Plus, watching it on a DVR makes it a snap to fast-forward through the interviews. Ah, if they only made [...]
Lost Remote going to NAB-RTNDA 2007
As always, the Lost Remote team will be in Las Vegas this April 15-18 for television industry’s biggest technology event. It’ll be our 7th year blogging NAB-RTNDA — this time we’ll be shooting a lot more video — and we’ll be holding our annual RTNDA panel session. This year, it’s called “Redesign your Web Content [...]
NYTimes.com debuts first user video feature
Couples who submit wedding announcements to NYTimes.com can also upload their own videos explaining how they first met. “How We Met” is NYTimes.com’s first user-created video feature (and most likely not the last), and it’s powered by Brightcove. Beet.TV interviewed NYTimes.com Nicholas Ascheim about the project, and you can watch the video here. A few more details in the press release below…
Best examples of local original video?
The Yahoo post below got me thinking about local TV stations’ efforts to produce original video online. My definition of original video doesn’t include anything repurposed or repackaged from TV, such as having an TV anchor host a web newscast. Has anyone had any success with a unique concept using video shot exclusively for the [...]
Singing anchor coming to Yahoo News
In its first original video project since In the Hot Zone with Kevin Sites, Yahoo News will soon launch Odd News Underground, a unique take on the news that features a singing anchor. Yahoo isn’t saying much about it, but says the host has experience both in news and as a musician, and is not [...]
