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Archives for May 2006

Upfronts: CBS? More Like CBZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ

May 18, 2006 by Jim Connelly

The original plan for this week’s look at the upfronts was to single out a single interesting thing that each network was doing with one of its more interesting shows.

That plan worked out fine for NBC, who are pinning their hopes on Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip, and ABC, who have responded to rerun-crazed Losties by putting the kibosh on repeats.

But when I got to CBS, I realized that from where I sit, they really don’t have any interesting shows.

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Filed Under: Television Tagged With: 60-Minutes, CBS, How-I-Met-Your-Mother, Television, Upfronts

Hillary Rosen vs. the RIAA

May 17, 2006 by Kirk Biglione

According to today’s LA Times the RIAA is suing XM over it’s new device which allows subscribers to record up to 50 hours of XM broadcast on a portable player. It’s sort of like TiVo for radio, but it’s also the digital equivalent of what many of us did as kids back in the pre-digital era.

You’d think that the battle against taping music off of the radio would have been settled long ago but, as we all know, content is so much more valuable once it’s been digitized. Apparently all pre-existing licensing and copyright law must be abandoned in an effort to save content from pirates consumers who simply want to time-shift and consume content on their own schedule.

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Filed Under: Music, Radio Tagged With: Hillary-Rosen, Music, Radio, RIAA

See You Next Year!

May 17, 2006 by Kassia Krozser

Probably one of the quaintest holdovers in television history is Season Finale Season. You know, that point in time when all series wind down and head off on summer vacation. See you in the Fall and all that.

Possibly, and I’m not one for apocryphal thinking (ha!), this could turn out to be the worst year ever for the major networks to take a summer vacation. Think about it — the general public is thinking, “Hmm, I’ve been hearing good things about that YouTube. Now might be the time to become addicted.”

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Filed Under: Mediacratic, Television Tagged With: HBO, Television, YouTube

The Daily Loper – May 17, 2006

May 17, 2006 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • Why does it take Wes Anderson so long to make a movie?
    And not just him, but many of those other young-ish American directors whose movies you like.
  • Something weird going on with the clock on 24
    Ah, obsession, sweet obsesssion. What would the world be without you?
  • Screw the Digital-Rights Bugaboo
    John Dvorak sez: Just opt-out of the entire entertainment industry if they can’t get their DRM shit together.
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Filed Under: The Daily Loper

Upfronts: I Was Lost And Now I Am Found

May 17, 2006 by Jim Connelly

ABC, who once was blind, now can see.

ABC has announced that Lost, a show that is either (take your pick):

  • intricately plotted by insidious masterminds
  • completely cobbled together by panic-stricken monkeys
  • both

will air next season with no repeats, the plethora of which this season has taken some of the wind from its sails.

Good! Of course, FOX has been doing this with 24 for a couple of seasons now. However, unlike 24 — which derives at least part of its adrenaline rush from the fact that the airing of its episodes is as relentless as the beep-boop! beep-boop! beep-boop! beep-boop! that powers it — next season of Lost will air in two disparate chunks.

Some people see that as a problem. I don’t.

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Filed Under: Television Tagged With: 24, ABC, FOX, Lost, Television, Upfronts

The Daily Loper – May 16, 2006

May 16, 2006 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • Discovery Channel programs on iTunes
    A gaggle of new Discovery Channel shows debut in the iTunes Music Store — including Mythbusters! Now maybe I can finally watch the end of the ‘Is Yawning Contagious?’ show. I fell asleep the first time around.
  • Guitar Hero For the PC, With Any Music
    I wonder if this works with Metal Machine Music?
  • AOL to Release YouTube Clone
    Next up, AOL is reportedly working on a Human-Animal hybrid of Flickr.
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Filed Under: The Daily Loper

Upfronts: Will Studio 60 Be The Greatest Thing Ever?

May 16, 2006 by Jim Connelly

It’s a rhetorical question, I know, but has any TV program in the history of Television been so overly publicized six months prior to its debut than Studio 60? Yeah, I’m looking forward to it, too, but this Wall St Journal headline might be a bit too much:

Can ‘Studio 60’ Save NBC?

No! No single show can save any network!! Period!! Well, except for Veronica Mars, that might save the CW . . . OK, that was just plain wishful thinking, which is what this is.

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Filed Under: Television Tagged With: 30-Rock, Aaron Sorkin, NBC, NBCU, Studio-60, Television, The-West-Wing

The Daily Loper – May 15, 2006

May 15, 2006 by Lopy

Today’s links of interest:

  • I don’t want my MTV — and then some
    A columnist delineates his choices were a la carte cable available. My choices would be completely different — which is the point.
  • SkypeOut Now Totally Free in US and Canada
    ALL calls within the US and Canada are free until the end of the year. Is it any wonder the telcos want to eliminate network neutrality? As a bonus, Skype-to-Skype calls are encrypted. Take that NSA!
  • MTV to Launch Online Music Service
    Sigh. Double sigh. Triple sigh.
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Filed Under: The Daily Loper

Serve This!!

May 15, 2006 by Jim Connelly

If you click on the links over to the right of this site, you’ve probably come across this page at some point:

Help Us Serve You Better.

These pages — which stand between you and the article you really want to read — ask you for three things:

  • ZIP Code (which they totally misspell: “ZIP” is an acronym).
  • Year of Birth
  • Gender

I dunno about you, but I always lie. Every single time. I type any five numbers in as a ZIP code; I use 1965 as my year of birth (because it is their example); and I say that my gender is “female.”

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Filed Under: Unexpected Results Tagged With: advance-internet, online-advertising

The Daily Loper – May 14, 2006

May 14, 2006 by Lopy

[Special “Hi Mom!! edition]

Today’s links of interest:

  • "West Wing" Terms Out
    Seven seasons, and only a single crap one: Season 5, right after Sorkin was shown the door. Those of you who checked out at that time missed the rebirth of a slightly different show — call it "The Campaign Trail" — which never hit the previous heights, but was a pretty damn compelling show in and of its own self. And in a 2 for 1 nod to the ‘shippers gave us Josh & Donna and Danny & CJ. Though not enough John Spencer. Never enough John Spencer.
  • Breaking the PC/TV Barrier
    Yet another reason to love TiVo: they are working with a company called Brightcove to converge Web and TV video.
  • Ruling near on ban of video game sales to minors
    Is the ban an infringement on free speech or necessary forrrr theeeee chillldreeennnnn? A Federal judge will rule soon.
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Filed Under: The Daily Loper

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