ColumnColumn ArchivesColumn: Targeting Key in User-Gen VideoColumn: Size Doesn't Matter. Growth Does.Column: Nonfiction Web Series to RuleColumn: I Want My Michael Phelps and I Can’t Have Him!Last week I caught Michael Phelps fever. And NBC did nothing to bring my temperature down. For starters, there was that little problem of forgetting that all of us out here on the West Coast wanted to watch him race at the SAME TIME as our friends in New York. Which meant it was pretty hard to be surprised three hours later when I was able to tune in to KNTV-TV in San Francisco to see the prime-time coverage of the Games. (When you’re an Internet reporter, it’s kind of tough to avoid knowing he had won race after race even during that three-hour tape delay between coasts.) There is just something a little off about these Games. Here we are in the white-hot broadband video era and yet these Games are incredibly frustrating to watch. Despite the sheer number of hours across broadcast, cable, video-on-demand and the Web, you really can’t watch when you want. For instance, when I wanted to show my kids each morning after that Phelps had won yet another event, the videos weren’t up in the VOD section of the Comcast cable menu. In fact, the VOD service didn’t seem to load its Olympics recaps...More » |
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