CourtTV rebrands to truTV
Cory Bergman July 11th, 2007
What’s the deal with these funky TV brands, lately? I wonder how much of it has to do with the struggle to secure good domain names and trademarks — which are extremely expensive and in short demand these days.
10 Comments Add your own
1. tdc | July 11th, 2007 at 10:49 am
i don’t know about “extremely” expensive.
most domainers i have dealt with just wanna make a buck. to which i say “good luck, here’s your check”.
instead of insulting them just make them an offer they can’t refuse.
the alternative is to adopt a “funky tv brand”.
yuck.
2. Michael Gay | July 11th, 2007 at 2:53 pm
trutv.com is pointing to a nameserver of foxinc.com. tru.tv isn’t registered to Turner either. That almost looks like they forgot to secure a domain name.
3. ! | July 11th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
good call!
that’s why you get the big bucks.
4. Safran | July 12th, 2007 at 3:33 am
At last! A channel dedicated to our 33rd president.
5. matt arronson | July 13th, 2007 at 8:10 am
Wait. I was told to my face by Hilary Schneider — then CEO of the FAILED Knight Ridder Digital — that the name of your site and URL didn’t matter.
She said it DID NOT MATTER. AT ALL!!!
And, was very adamant about it. Rude, to be exact.
Since she knows everything, obviously, why are we even having this discussion?
Just look at how successful KRD was, right?
And, of course, someone who thought up Sunspot.net must know that a name doesn’t matter in the least. Right? It was so successful, right?
6. Neo L Poe | November 24th, 2007 at 4:17 pm
Things that get better(like Court T.V.),sometimes need a new name change in order to let people know;that there is something ‘different’,with us.It’s just like a women putting on a new dress,or new make-up. . it might be the same woman;but she’s looking much,much,better!
7. Ida | November 27th, 2007 at 9:29 pm
Will you continue to have live court trials under this new name “TruTv”? I am a faithful fan of CourtTV. If live court trials end on 1/1/08, I will switch to cable.
8. james davis | December 9th, 2007 at 1:19 pm
i like to watch the live court programs are they going to stay on after the name change i hope they do stay on and please put body of evidence back on if it is still on iam missing it thanks james
9. mike fingerhut | December 13th, 2007 at 3:59 pm
i don’t care what they call it. when they eliminated catherine crier, they lost it all. she was the greatest.
10. Vickie | December 27th, 2007 at 6:52 pm
I sure hope we aren’t losing the live trials. I have been a faithful follower since the inception of Court TV, and I hope this name change isn’t indicitive of a whole change in format. I for one will probably quit watching if this is the case
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