CBS
CBS Local among new ‘Save to Foursquare’ partners
Foursquare rolled out a new feature today than enables users to save their favorite restaurants, bars and other spots to their “To Do Lists” with the click of a button. Foursquare announced several publishers who are adding the “save” button on their sites, including CBS Local’s TV websites.
Inside look at Amazing Race’s use of Foursquare
CBS has unleashed a brand Foursquare page for the 10th season of the hit, award-winning reality show, The Amazing Race. The show lends itself perfectly to Foursquare’s new explore and list building features, since contests travel all round the world during the show. While there is no financial partnership yet between CBS and Foursquare around [...]
Inside look at CBS’s second Tweet Week
CBS must have been happy with the results from their first Tweet Week back in April since they’re now underway with two full “Tweet Weeks” involving exclusive chats with shows from their upcoming launches. This is an innovative move from the network that tends to skew towards older generations. Each night this week fans could [...]
CBS drops ‘What’s Trending’ after Steve Jobs tweet
Updated: CBSNews.com abruptly removed the weekly webcast “What’s Trending” from its website after the show sent an embarrassing tweet on Friday that mistakenly reported the death of Steve Jobs. As you might imagine, the tweet spread quickly despite a quick retraction. “Last Friday, a miscommunication in the newsroom resulted in a junior staffer at ‘What’s [...]
Social news show ‘What’s Trending’ debuts online
The new show What’s Trending premiered live on CBSNews.com, YouTube and Livestream today. As we previewed a week ago, What’s Trending is a live, weekly webcast infused with social media. “It’s not just a show with a social strategy added on to it — it’s powered by the community and social media,” host Shira Lazar [...]
CBS cancels first Twitter show, $#*! My Dad Says
The first network TV show based on a Twitter account has been cut due to struggling ratings. CBS has canceled $#*! My Dad Says, the comedy based on Justin Halpern’s popular Twitter account @shitmydadsays. “The cancellation of $#*! is a win for creativity,” argues TV.com’s Tim Surette. “CBS was eager to cash in on the [...]
‘Two and a Half Men’ gets social media boost with Kutcher
The Hollywood Reporter has confirmed a rumor swirling around today: Ashton Kutcher will join “Two and a Half Men” on CBS, replacing Charlie Sheen. For CBS, they’ve just inherited arguably Hollywood’s biggest social media star. With 9.3 million Facebook fans and 6.6 million Twitter followers, @aplusk even created his own social media production company. Combine [...]
CBSNews.com to debut social show ‘What’s Trending’
Next week, CBSNews.com will debut a new show called “What’s Trending” that bridges a live, weekly webcast with social media interaction. “What’s Trending fills the gap as a broadcast show for the internet generation,” explains host and executive producer Shira Lazar. “It’s not just a show with a social strategy added on to it — [...]
How social will Scott Pelley’s CBS Evening News be?
It’s implicit in what’s been said so far that CBS views Katie Couric’s departure as a plus in terms of TV ratings, but what will happen to CBS Evening News’ social presence when Scott Pelley takes over? Couric has made social media a major part of her tenure at the Evening News and has used [...]
‘Tweet Week’ at CBS gets underway
It started Sunday night with the Academy of Country Music Awards, and Monday night CBS “Tweet Week” was in full swing with the NCAA Championship game. CBS Sports analysts Greg Anthony and Seth Davis tweeted during the game, answering questions along the way. One of the worst NCAA final games I’ve ever watched, Twitter became [...]
CBS Interactive acquires social TV guide Clicker.com
More acquisition news on a busy Friday. CBS has picked up Clicker.com for an undisclosed sum and named its co-founder, Jim Lanzone, as president of CBS Interactive. Clicker is a Facebook-integrated social TV guide that recommends TV shows and offers links to (legal) places to watch them on the web. Clicker’s Facebook integration attracted a [...]
CES: Boxee inks CBS deal, working on iPad app
It’s amazing to watch how (good) content is still king, even at CES. Boxee has signed its first network content deal: beginning later this year, Boxee viewers will be able to buy full episodes of current and past CBS shows. Boxee is already working on launching Netflix and Vudu on the service — both of [...]
CBS planning 3 more Twitter-based TV shows
After launching $#*! My Dad Says earlier this year, CBS is working on three more TV shows based on Twitter accounts. The latest, Mother of All Something, is a comedy project under development based on the Twitter feed of Kelly Oxford, a stay-at-home mother of three in Canada. There’s also Dear Girls Above Me (pictured) [...]
TBD, NBC and moving beyond TV on the web
Visitors to WJLA-TV’s website in Washington DC were greeted this August with a story that started with the line, “Reader warning: Do not get too comfortable on this website.” A short time later, WJLA.com redirected to TBD.com, an aggressive local startup news site launched by Allbritton, the owner of WJLA-TV. Its sister cable channel, Newschannel [...]
’60 Minutes’ asks for YouTube questions
The news magazine 60 Minutes has launched a channel on YouTube featuring the segments that air every Sunday night. The new channel also includes a franchise called “Ask 60 Minutes” where users can upload questions on a particular story of the week, like Lara Logan’s story from the Afghanistan/Pakistan border that aired last night. “60 [...]
