CBS wants to make sure its shows are all over the web
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Stumbled across this news on Mashable — CBS Interactive has become the first “major customer” for iWidgets. What’s that mean? Well, CBS will enable folks to watch full episodes of its shows “directly within popular social networks.”
They will also be able to socially engage viewers with features such as sharing, polls, ratings, and contests.
Fans of Jericho, among others, will find this bittersweet — or, perhaps just bitter — news.
Jericho had decent, but not “great,” Nielsen numbers for traditional viewing. They went up considerably when you took DVR (time-shift) viewing into consideration. Take into account the folks who watched the episodes online, on CBS’ own website and the numbers were unknown. But based on the online chatter, it was not insignificant.
If folks could watch CBS content without even having to go to the CBS site (or using BitTorrent or other — generally illegal — download sites), imagine how many people would watch shows online.
Mashable has an important point, though:
The big question will be whether or not iWidgets will be able to handle the incredible bandwidth requirements this endeavor will demand, especially when it comes to High Definition content down the road.
Too little, too late, some fans (Moonlight?) might say. But maybe, just maybe, this means future Jerichos won’t suffer the same fate.
Speaking of Jericho, the Blackjack Fairgrounds Jericho Blog Carnival is alive and well, and this month’s installment is hosted over at Kricka’s blog, Short Story Life. The theme this month is “Jericho Minstrels: Fan Fiction, Videos, Poems and Songs.”
Thanks to Kricka for an excellent hosting job, to Gwen for keeping the carnival alive and to all those who contributed their considerable creative talents. For past and future hosts and to submit entries, go here.
Photo courtesy of CBS.
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on Monday, September 8th, 2008 at 3:59 pm by Amy Vernon.
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Thanks Amy!! Interesting how CBS now wants to embrace what we have been saying all along…. Hope this helps!!!
Hmmmm, CBS, why must you make me so angry? Sheesh. Stupid ol’ CBS….
Jericho fans are relentless! We will not go quietly into the night!
Thanks, Amy. You’re continued coverage of things JERICHO is very much appreciated.
Just to let you know… we have a Virtual Season 2 of Moonlight going on now at Moonlightfans. Next episode Friday September 19th 9EST.
Tune in—the writers of VS2 invite you
Amy – Thanks for keeping Jericho in the news. But I guess I am bitter. But we were trying to tell this to CBS over a year ago. Leave it to them to just now want to jump on the train. Well, it may be too late for Jericho (on CBS that is) but hopefully another show won’t get cancelled just because the “Nielsen numbers” are low. Times are changing, just like when women finally got the right to vote, Network TV is not the future, but the past. The internet is alive and well, and that is the new future of programming