Comments on: CBS buys video site Wallstrip

By: Joel Price

Joel Price — Thu, 24 May 2007 03:12:01 +0000

I have been watching Wallstrip from day one. I think it’s very entertaining, some days are better then others. IMO these are the shows local TV stations should be creating for the web. Congrats to the Wallstrip crew!

By: !

Wed, 23 May 2007 21:44:40 +0000

! guess i better not tell you about the weatherman and his sidekick at theindychannel who do something they call ‘off the cuff’ that is one of their most viewed videos every day, eh?

By: !

Wed, 23 May 2007 21:29:00 +0000

it’s not spam. but steve or cory can delete it if they wish.

! was simply pointing out a local station that is actually DOING SOMETHING specially for the web.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 May 2007 21:01:16 +0000

Steve, please delete the pathetic spam messages above [from "!"] for “the pittsbughchannel” nonsense.

By: discreet_chaos

discreet_chaos — Wed, 23 May 2007 20:39:18 +0000

After watching a few of the videos, I can see why the article says Wallstrip attracts a predominately male audience. Obviously, not all of it is due to stock market demographics.

Nonetheless, it’s too bad that CBS offloaded Marketwatch because I could see the two products meshing, somewhat. In the article, they say that they’re going to keep all of their recent investments as separate identities, but based on the experience of TW/AOL and Yahoo!, you’d think they’d rethink that policy before too long.

By: !

Wed, 23 May 2007 18:44:05 +0000

errr, my spelling again!

“thepittsburghchannel”

By: !

Wed, 23 May 2007 18:42:37 +0000

here’s something “well done, original, creative and the two young ladies have a good thing going.

i particularly like ms. emmers’ delivery. (reminds me of a high school sweetheart when she did a shoulder shrug at the beginning of yesterday’s edition).

thepittbughchanneldotcom and clickon links ‘n @ .

all you other affiliates take some notes.

By: Jesse

Jesse — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:38:56 +0000

“What if we did the Letterman GE Building bit?”

“Yeah! Only we staged most of it!”

“And we weren’t, you know, Letterman!”

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:30:29 +0000

See for yourself, the Letterman clip from April 14, 1986 is on YouTube.

(Search: “Letterman GE”). (clip is: VMGPO_Fng9g)

Well done, Wallstrip, original, creative, and brilliant.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 May 2007 18:17:27 +0000

Exactly, a very lame ripoff of a very worn and endlessly repeated Letterman bit done in the GE lobby in NY (done after GE purchased Letterman’s then-employer NBC).

Yet, since the internet has facilitated so much rampant plagiarism by students and writers, perhaps this uncreative, lazy mimmickry is both appropriate and very “Web 2.0″

zzz

By: PhotogOnFire

PhotogOnFire — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:16:53 +0000

Thank you!

By: Anony Mouse

Anony Mouse — Wed, 23 May 2007 07:27:22 +0000

Didn’t Letterman do this 22 years ago in front of the GE building?