tv troughThings are hopping in TV land pre-NAB and my email is overloaded with press releases, meeting requests and offers of cash for coverage - all this even though I've opted not to attend this year's show. Wading through the wasteland, there are a few sad glimmers of interest this week, starting with E! Founder Alan Mruyka's new entertainment portal play, celebstreet.com, and Former HBO chairman Michael Fuchs' jump to MyTurn .com (both of which are interesting only because they again reiterate that the future, in the eyes of many old cable dogs, is online), Game Show Network premiered its first consumer marketing campaign, the Sinclair Broadcast Group and WaveXPress announced an agreement to test WaveXpress' datacasting services over digital TV, CBS got in trouble for “blurring ethical lines” in a deal with iWon.com (Leeza Gibbons will give a way $10 million to someone who has used the service over the past few months), Harris converted its Augusta CBS affiliate to digital for HDTV broadcast of the 2000 Masters, EchoStar became a working girl with the unveiling of DISHLink, an intranet appliance that hooks up customers' Local Area Networks with EchoStar's DISH Network satellite TV system to serve broadband content to office desktops. Actually, the most interesting thing in TV this week is the whole row over whether Leo DiCaprio was supposed to interview President Clinton or not, which lovely Leo insists he was assigned by ABC to do. Oh, all the caustic one-shots I could write… |
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