Business Development Manager, Roo Media
New York, NY
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Business Dev. Manager, CBS Stations, Digital
New York, NY
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Account Services Manager, CBS Stations, Digital
New York, NY
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National Sports Producer, CBS Stations, Digital
New York, NY
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National News Producer, CBS Stations, Digital
New York, NY
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National Account Executive, CBS Stations, Digital
New York, NY
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Sneak peek of NBC’s new newsroom
Today Brian Williams gave a behind-the-scenes video tour of the construction that’s underway at 30 Rock to combine NBC Network News, MSNBC and WNBC facilities in the same mega facility. It’s slated to open by the end of the year.
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Disney Internet expects $1.5 billion in revenue
The digital side of Disney is starting to bring in some serious revenue. The Walt Disney Internet Group says it will hit $1.5 billion in revenue for 2006 driven largely by ecommerce ($800 million) such as travel and merchandise. WDIG President Steven Wadsworth says the company is pursuing a range of revenue models, yet the overall strategy is to use free, ad-supported content to lure consumers into subscription deals.
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TiVo ‘Idol’ viewers botched
When the live finale ran 9 minutes long, TiVo viewers who time-shifted American Idol were left hanging when the recording abruptly ended at the top of the hour. The winner was announced three minutes later. “We’re sorry that DVR users may have missed the conclusion of the “American Idol” broadcast,” said a Fox statement. “It was always our intention to bring the show in on time, but just as with any live sports, variety, awards or entertainment event, there is no way to absolutely guarantee that the show will end exactly on the hour. Fox and the producers apologize to those viewers who were inconvenienced.” But Fox went on to advise people to set “pad” on their DVRs next time. Um, isn’t there a way to automate this, folks?
Adds Zack in comments: “I work at a FOX affil., and all affiliates got screwed. If you start your newscast past 7 minutes 30 secs it doesn’t count in the book. So all affils, with a great lead-in, had to throw their best night out.”
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Rebel Alliance wins: New ‘Star Wars’ site invites mashups
The official “Star Wars” website is relaunching to mark the series’ 30th anniversary (damn, I’m old) and with the relaunch comes something of a warming in George Lucas’s attitude toward online use of his stuff. The notoriously protective, some might say imperial approach Lucas has taken toward people who use his clips will thaw a bit, as the new site invites video mashups that use scenes from the “Star Wars” films. Lucas will have official screeners watch each clip (good luck with that) before they post, to make sure there is no pornography. We’re cool with that, so long as they allow the Princess Leia golden bikini scenes. Plus, any occasion I get to mention the Vader Sessions is worth blogging. Best. Star Wars mashup. Ever.
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I get ‘Beet’ by Andy Plesser
Beet.TV’s Andy Plesser took me aside at Streaming Media East for one of the cool online live shots he was doing throughout the day. Here’s his edited version, made to make us both sound a little more coherent than we did in the live version of the conversation about YouTube, CBS and hyper-localism. Thanks for the PR, Andy.
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Blogs and niche video big winners of 2007 EPpy Awards
Editor and Publisher has announced the winners of this year’s EPpy Awards for interactive media. There are awards in 32 different categories. Of note to the LR crowd… A surprise winner in the Best Newspaper-Affiliated Web Site (fewer than one million uniques/month) category: The Lawrence (Kansas) Journal-World’s BoomerGirl.com, a site that targets baby boomer women, took the honors. Best big paper site went to the NYTimes.com, while Best Weekly Newspaper Site went to WickedLocalPlymouth.com here outside Boston. Best Network TV/Cable Site went to ESPN.com, with BBC News picking up the Best News Site (more than one million uniques/month.) The Chicago Tribune’s DC politics blog, The Swamp, won Best Media-Affiliated Blog, and Best Community Website honors went to HorseCity.com and IndyMoms.com. Best Use of Video in a Web Site with fewer than one million uniques/month was a tie, with AppealTV.com (The Commercial Appeal) and Studio 55 (Naples Daily News) sharing the win. CNN.com won best use of video by a big site. Screen grab of BoomerGirl below…
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Young Mr. TVNewser graduates
TVNewser.com Founder/Editor Brian Stelter is graduating from college! Geez, I feel old.
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CBS gets 2.0 with video partnerships
CBS has already inked a big list of video distribution partners, and today it announced relationships with technology partners to allow users to share video in various ways: Automattic, Clearspring, DAVE Networks, Goowy Media, meebo, MeeVee, Musestorm, Ning, RockYou!, Slide, VideoEgg, Voxant and vSocial. “Today, we are taking the CBS Audience Network directly to the user,” said Quincy Smith, President, CBS Interactive. “We now want to empower our audience to be creative and deepen their experience with our content by allowing them to share and embed CBS-provided clips to their blogs, wikis, widgets, community sites and whatever else gets thrown our way.” CBS is certainly embracing a “video everywhere” approach that shares two strategies: 1) Video syndication on a non-exclusive basis with large sites to grow revenue and 2) Open video sharing among users to build buzz and loyalty. Tons of details follow in the press release…
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MSNBC.com posts live video ad
That’s right, a live video ad from GE. As of this writing, it’s on MSNBC.com’s home page as a medium rectangle ad. Mouse over and the video loads for a second and begins to play. Interestingly, it’s a live stream of GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt chatting about the environment with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger at a “ecomagination” event at Universal Studios in L.A. (Thanks for the heads-up Michael!)
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