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The Many Uses of Wood

Monday, July 7th, 2008

Anything that can work Firefly, Buffy, The Simpsons and Battlestar Galactica into a Wikipedia spoof is all right by me.  

NBC To Begin Releasing Show-specific Web Streaming Data

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Update: in the midst of posting this I saw our friend at the Silicon Alley Reporter, Micael Learnmonth had written a blurb for this with the great headline: NBC: Our Shows Are Big Hits, Online Via NBC press release: NBC.com Demographic Data To Be Released Beginning In July, Through Nielsen Online's VideoCensus BURBANK, ...

Hitwise Top U.S. Broadcast Network and TV Show Websites

Wednesday, June 25th, 2008

Hitwise Custom Report for Top Visited U.S. Broadcast Network TV Show Websites (Week ending June 21, 2008) Rank Network Website Market Share Of Visits 1 FOX American Idol 9.62% 2 NBC Deal or No Deal 8.64% 3 FOX America's Most Wanted 8.03% 4 ABC The Bachelorette 6.12% 5 FOX So You Think You Can Dance 5.20% 6 FOX Hells Kitchen 4.82% 7 NBC Last Comic Standing 3.10% 8 NBC America's Got Talent 2.80% 9 CBS NCIS 2.03% 10 NBC American Gladiators 2.03% Source: Rankings based on market share of U.S. visits among custom category of ...

More Fun With Numbers: Shaq and Kobe

Monday, June 23rd, 2008

This is a little off-topic for our website, but it's topical, I saw it on TV and it does involve numbers and to an infinitesimally small degree television viewing habits. This afternoon and I saw a link that said: Shaq Attacks Kobe: You Ruined My Marriage! - TMZ.com I had to see that.  ...

Where You’re Watching Video

Thursday, June 5th, 2008

From our friends at NewTeeVee.  Internet/computer-based viewing of content is up, with television slipping from 75% of viewing to 70%. The trend is especially strong among the youth.  Read the rest on NewTeeVee.

ABC #1 on the Web, But People Spend More Time With Gossip Girl

Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008

On the web, ABC.com, NBC.com, and CBS.com all came in ahead of FOX according to Hitwise. Top Visited U.S. Broadcast Network TV Websites Season Average based on the Average Market Share Of U.S. Visits Rank Network Website 2007-08 Season 2006-07 Season Percent Change 1 ABC www.abc.com 27.14% 29.89% -9% 2 NBC www.nbc.com 27.01% 32.89% -18% 3 CBS www.cbs.com 21.51% 15.24% 41% 4 FOX *FOX Aggregation 17.54% 16.55% 6% 5 The CW www.cwtv.com 6.61% 5.20% 27% 6 MyNetworkTV www.mynetworktv.com 0.19% 0.24% -22% Source: Rankings based on the average market share of U.S. visits among ...

The WB is Back (in Beta)

Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Via our friends at NewTeeVee: The WB private-beta-launched its anticipated new portal of old shows tonight, and I just had a chance to take a look around. The site looks nice enough and promises some interesting features, but there's a lot left unfinished - like the original online shows we'd ...

Social Media Service Reddit Gets A TV Show

Wednesday, May 21st, 2008

From our friends at NewTeeVee: PBS is partnering with social news service Reddit to pilot a television series called YourWeek that combines user-submitted video segments and in-studio commentary. Reddit went public with its plans today in order to solicit user participation for the series pilot, which is supposed to be posted online ...