Comments on: Granite TV sites relaunch with Broadcast Interactive http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/20/granite-tv-sites-relaunch-with-broadcast-interactive/ Where TV Finds the Future Fri, 21 Nov 2008 23:11:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Charles http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/20/granite-tv-sites-relaunch-with-broadcast-interactive/#comment-633452 Charles Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:12:18 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/20/granite-tv-sites-relaunch-with-broadcast-interactive/#comment-633452 It looks like a glorified news site from 1999. I agree with DB, it's bright and colorful, BUT... my eyes go everywhere, can't focus on any central element and become bored very, very quickly. I hope they like it in their market, though. It looks like a glorified news site from 1999. I agree with DB, it’s bright and colorful, BUT… my eyes go everywhere, can’t focus on any central element and become bored very, very quickly.

I hope they like it in their market, though.

]]> By: Rob http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/20/granite-tv-sites-relaunch-with-broadcast-interactive/#comment-632645 Rob Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:24:31 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/20/granite-tv-sites-relaunch-with-broadcast-interactive/#comment-632645 I noticed on some of their videos they are using a similar lower-third in-video ad serving technology that YouTube has started using. Lots of branding across the site ... it certainly has WEEK written all over it. I noticed on some of their videos they are using a similar lower-third in-video ad serving technology that YouTube has started using.

Lots of branding across the site … it certainly has WEEK written all over it.

]]> By: Rocker http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/20/granite-tv-sites-relaunch-with-broadcast-interactive/#comment-632638 Rocker Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:17:52 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/20/granite-tv-sites-relaunch-with-broadcast-interactive/#comment-632638 My take on User-submitted video/news...good to have, may eventually amount to something. But for now, don't hang your hat on it. My take on User-submitted video/news…good to have, may eventually amount to something. But for now, don’t hang your hat on it.

]]> By: Hussman http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/20/granite-tv-sites-relaunch-with-broadcast-interactive/#comment-632525 Hussman Fri, 21 Dec 2007 14:37:09 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/20/granite-tv-sites-relaunch-with-broadcast-interactive/#comment-632525 Not real sure about the YouNews. Doesn't seem to really be taking off in our market. If it works for them though... Not real sure about the YouNews. Doesn’t seem to really be taking off in our market.

If it works for them though…

]]> By: DB http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/20/granite-tv-sites-relaunch-with-broadcast-interactive/#comment-632124 DB Fri, 21 Dec 2007 07:30:02 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/20/granite-tv-sites-relaunch-with-broadcast-interactive/#comment-632124 Wow, that's a yawner. Let me count the things that I don't care for: 1) Four columns of information at the top of the page 2) Constantly moving Flash ads/promotion 3) Pushing the page down for an ad at the top 4) Flash player on the top story that dominates the page 5) Poor alignment and styles all over the place 6) The entire right half of the page looks like a bargain bin at a discount clothing store: lots of colors and flashes in giant tangled heaps, but nothing worth a closer look 7) The strange but funny popup that results from clicking on the 3-day forecast It just feels like yet another TV web site; I might go there if they had run a news story that featured someone I knew, but I won't go there for a daily, much less hourly, hit of news. Wow, that’s a yawner. Let me count the things that I don’t care for:

1) Four columns of information at the top of the page
2) Constantly moving Flash ads/promotion
3) Pushing the page down for an ad at the top
4) Flash player on the top story that dominates the page
5) Poor alignment and styles all over the place
6) The entire right half of the page looks like a bargain bin at a discount clothing store: lots of colors and flashes in giant tangled heaps, but nothing worth a closer look
7) The strange but funny popup that results from clicking on the 3-day forecast

It just feels like yet another TV web site; I might go there if they had run a news story that featured someone I knew, but I won’t go there for a daily, much less hourly, hit of news.

]]> By: uh...sorry... http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/20/granite-tv-sites-relaunch-with-broadcast-interactive/#comment-631602 uh...sorry... Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:00:59 +0000 http://www.lostremote.com/2007/12/20/granite-tv-sites-relaunch-with-broadcast-interactive/#comment-631602 I think you meant BIM shoved WEEK.com into the same template it's using in several other places!!! :) Now WEEK.com looks like everything else! Progress? Or not? I think you meant BIM shoved WEEK.com into the same template it’s using in several other places!!! :)

Now WEEK.com looks like everything else!

Progress? Or not?

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