1 days ago
Rod Begbie : Early Dave: The Letterman Tapes - Compilation of interviews David Letterman gave between 1978 and 1993 -- from his LA stand-up days to the end of Late Night. [via] #
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2 month ago
nelson : Olympic fireworks fake - The video of the fireworks over the stadium was a digital fake. Very Orwellian, creepy.
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2 month ago
nelson : Hulu search: "Olympics" - Awesome! NBC's video site has all sorts of video for the Olympics; mostly history lessons about the 1980 boycott of Moscow
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6 month ago
Rod Begbie : MILF Island T-Shirt - I think the NBC marketing department are onto a winner here. [via] #
deusx : 30 Rock MILF Island T-Shirt, NBC New Arrivals , NBC Universal Store - "The TGS staff is obsessing over the new ''reality'' hit 'MILF Island'. With 20 super-hot moms, 50 kids, and no rules... it's easy to see why."
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9 month ago
gleuschk : What I learned about network television at Dateline NBC. - the United States is arguably more isolated and less educated about the world than it was a half-century ago. In a time of such broad technological change, how can this possibly be the case?
Ethan Marcotte : "You Don’t Understand Our Audience": What I learned about network television at Dateline NBC - "To me, the term 'shareholder value' sounded like Mao's 'right path,' although this was not something I shared at the employee reëducation meetings." ∞
philgyford : "You Don't Understand Our Audience" by John Hockenberry - "...a series of lessons I learned about how television news had lost its most basic journalistic instincts in its search for the audience-driven sweet spot, the 'emotional center' of the American people." (via Oblinks)
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13 month ago
wearehugh : Playlist: Network dreckwork - outstanding
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13 month ago
adamrg : An Open Letter to NBC re: Leaving Apple’s iTunes Store | iLounge - Right on. This is 100% true.
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13 month ago
plasticbag : Rumour is that Heroes is no longer going to be sold through iTunes in the US - If this is because of rising tensions between iTunes and the industry over pricing, then the only thing that the industry has to do is find and support a plausible alternative, not demand more control over the iTunes model.
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14 month ago
Rod Begbie : NBC Recharges 'American Gladiators' - Redo of '90s syndicated show on midseason track - Zap2it - YES! When I was flying on JetBlue last week, I happened upon a Gladiators rerun on "ESPN Classic" and loved it. Not quite as awesome and deliberately campy as the British version, but still ridiculously fun. #
deusx : NBC Recharges 'American Gladiators' - Redo of '90s syndicated show on midseason track - Zap2it - ""American Gladiators" is returning to television, bringing all its spandex-clad glory not to syndication but to network primetime."
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17 month ago
jimray : NBC buys R|Mail, RSS to email gateway - Man, that's weird. Seriously, this feels like the brainchild some TV person who doesn't understand RSS. Not that there's anything wrong with being a TV person - I love TV people! Especially you.
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19 month ago
jimray : NBC decided to host some HD Spider-Man 3 footage for 24 hours, which is about the stupidest idea ever - This is retarded and shows exactly why TV people just don't get the web. IT'S NOT FUCKING TV, YOU MORONS, STOP TRYING TO MAKE IT JUST LIKE YOUR PRECIOUS IDIOT BOXES!
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jimray : NBC News Launches Video Podcasts on MSNBC.com - Launches the same day as the zune. Yay, synergy
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Rod Begbie : 'Office' Works Overtime Online - 'Producer's cut' will stream after Thursday's episode - Zap2it - NBC will stream an extended version of The Office on their website this week after the normal-length episode airs on TV. Considering how good (and plentiful) the deleted scenes are on the DVDs I'm watching, this'll be worth checking out. #
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jimray : Job losses, big changes coming at NBC News - MSNBC East (Cable and dotcom) moving to 30 Rock, consolidation of news divisions (CNBC, MSNBC, NBC News), layoffs. Ride the wave!
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jimray : NBC UNIVERSAL ANNOUNCES 'NBCU 2.0' - 2.0 means "congratulations, you're redundant!"
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24 month ago
Rod Begbie : Nobody's Watching offical site - As part of their development deal with NBC, the creators of the sitcom "Nobody's Watching" got some cash to make online videos. This is their site, chock-full of amusing videos, as they wait to find out if they're getting picked up for midseason. [via] #
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27 month ago
Rod Begbie : MediaGuardian.co.uk | Broadcast | NBC signs up YouTube sitcom - NBC's commissioned six episodes of the sitcom "Nobody's Watching", after the rejected pilot garnered good reviews on YouTube. #
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27 month ago
Rod Begbie : YouTube - Nobody's Watching Part 1 - Breaking-the-third-wall-tastic sitcom pilot co-created by Bill Lawrence (creator of Scrubs). (Quick summary: Two sitcom-obsessed guys live on a sitcom set, and try to create their perfect sitcom) The WB turned it down last year, but since being posted t [via] #
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28 month ago
Rod Begbie : Video Player - 30 Rock - NBC have posted a preview of Tina Fey's new sitcom, 30 Rock. Tracy Morgan, Rachel Dratch and, oh yes, Alec Baldwin co-star. Looks good based on the three minute highlights reel. [via] #
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31 month ago
deusx : "The Office" Working Overtime - Yahoo! News - "NBC has announced that 10 mini-episodes of The Office will premiere this summer not on the mothership network but only on NBC.com."
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32 month ago
Andy Baio : NBC demands YouTube remove "Lazy Sunday" video - biting the hand that feeds you; they should have paid for that kind of amazing promotion
deusx : Boing Boing: NBC nastygrams YouTube over "Lazy Sunday" - "NBC issuing a C&D to YouTube makes about as much sense as NBC sending attorneys to the homes of every blogger or Livejournaler user who posted a link to a torrent somewhere -- not to mention the fan-made AIM icons and web banners."
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34 month ago
jimray : Brian Williams on the TypePad outage - "We have come to treat the Internet like a public utility... our lives are predicated on computers... until it all crashes down around us."
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35 month ago
jimray : Apple teams up with NBC to offer shows online - Including lots of old Hitchcock, the Office and Battlestar Gallactica - woo! It's also quite interesting considering NBC's close ties to another certain giant online network (*cough* MSN *cough*)
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