"Saturday Night Live" rehearsals may be webcast
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LOS ANGELES  - NBC is mulling broadcasting Friday night rehearsal sessions of "Saturday Night Live" on the Internet.
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A new series of events will allow their users to submit questions to presidential candidates in real time during Web and TV  broadcasts.
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NBC Universal will be  introducing social networking tools on its Web site later this  year along with streaming episodes of &quot;Late Night With Conan  O&#39;Brien,&quot; NBC Digital Entertainment said Monday.
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It's somehow appropriate that the latest technology will herald the new year as part of the celebrations at New York City's Times Square, including the world's first live webcast of the event, provided by MSN.
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LOS ANGELES  - "Saturday Night Live" has gone mobile.
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Comedian Tom Green has taken his act to the Internet with a talk show that originates from his Los Angeles living room.  The former MTV personality has launched Tom Green Live, a Web-based production that the Los Angeles Times said Saturday draws a nightly audience of about 25,000.
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Lebron James will showcase his sense of humor and burgeoning public persona as host of the season premiere of "Saturday Night Live."
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The Emmy-winning creators of  television show &quot;My So-Called Life&quot; late on Wednesday became  the latest Hollywood players to launch an Internet program,  partnering with MySpaceTV to Webcast the series &quot;quarterlife.&quot;
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TiVo exec to step down in time of fast ups and hard downs. Also: Google unveils mini search engine for small companies to scour intranet and web & hellip;.  Sony's Creation Box might be the photoshop of video & hellip;. and more.
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"The A-Team," "Kojak" and other blasts from television's past will be streamed online, NBC Universal said Tuesday.
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Performers are turning to video sites that share ad revenue or pay by number of viewers.
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MTV Networks said on Friday that it  would launch two dozen new Web sites based on its shows,  including the entire video archives of Comedy Central&#39;s &quot;The  Daily Show&quot; with comedian Jon Stewart.
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With an ongoing writers' strike forcing many TV shows into reruns, tube viewers are wondering what they are missing. Some shows are back in production with or without their writers, placing the strike at the forefront of many comedians' routines.
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In March 2002, I made a bet with Martin Nisenholtz about the relative importance of weblogs and the New York Times. I was and am a blogger, and Martin worked then, as he does now, for the Times. For the actual terms of the bet, read the piece on the LongNow site, and a story I wrote to announce the bet. A few comments.  1. It seems now is the time to decide who won the bet, if either of us did. 2. The world that I hoped would come about did not. While blogs have broken many stories, they have not, in general, turned into the authoritative sources I hoped they would in 2002. When the blogosphere resembles journalism it's often the tabloid kind.  3. I wouldn't mind losing the bet. That is, I wouldn't mind if the Times fully embraced the web, and I suspect Martin wouldn't mind if blogs rose to the quality of the Times. 4. If the bet had been held a year later, it seems there would be a pretty good chance that Martin would have won the bet because they recently took down the firewall at the Times, allowing search engines to index the full content. In the past, articles would remain visible for a couple of weeks then you'd have to pay money to access them. I believe they have a special deal with Google and other crawlers that allow them to get past the membership wall. For most of 2007 the Times articles were behind the firewall, and were less likely to be pointed to (which is how they rise in rank at Google). 5. It certainly is fun to speculate, but the decision about who won belongs exclusively to the Long Now Foundation. They have to decide who determines what the top stories of 2007 are, and imho they should consult with search experts to determine how to do the queries. Apparently it makes a difference how you do it.  But ultimately it's their decision. 6. Whether Wikipedia has more or less results seems to be a sidebar to the bet, which only talks about blogs and the Times. 7. Another interesting sidebar is rich media. In 2002, before podcasting had taken hold, before YouTube existed, it would have been hard to forsee the story of the South Carolina beauty queen, or the Don't Tase Me Bro guy. Questions about the future are always framed in the context of the past. Did the question Martin and I asked have any value in 2007, or did it just say something about the world of 2002?   Update: Paul Boutin who arranged the bet, apparently in conjunction with Google (I didn't know this) in 2002, weighs in.
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Want to catch some real singing on Saturday Night Live? U2 have signed up to perform on the November 20 episode of NBC's long-running comedy show, while Modest Mouse will make their SNL debut one week earlier. Meanwhile, U2 reportedly are...
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NBC Universal announced today it's scheduling the testing of its own "NBC Direct" online download service this October. You might be thinking, didn't NBCU already plan something like that? Indeed it did, in a joint venture with News Corp. So this new service may need a different premise.
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Representatives of older and new media companies detailed their embraces of the Internet Friday at the Web 2.0 Summit conference in San Francisco, with supposed old-line companies emphasizing opportunities and dismissing any threats to longstanding business models.Executives from CBS, Comcast, Joost, and Current participated in panel sessions on media operations and the Internet. While the Internet might be seen as potentially taking viewers away from traditional broadcast and cable television, panelists noted that TV viewership still accounts for several hours per person daily and continues on its 30-year trend upward.Comcast and CBS officials both noted that the Internet can extend their businesses."We love the Internet for a variety of reasons," said Amy Banse, president of Comcast Interactive Media, which is responsible for the cable TV provider's Internet businesses. People use Comcast's pipe to access the Internet and Comcast is the largest residential ISP, she said.But Comcast also believes in cable TV and that it will be around for a while, she said. "People thought that with television, radio would disappear and with cable television, broadcast television would disappear, and we all know that that hasn?t happened," Banse said.The Internet has enabled CBS to extend beyond its largely U.S.-based audience and to gain "new eyeballs," said Quincy Smith, president of CBS Interactive, which covers Internet operations. "We, CBS, have not found the Internet to be cannibalistic to television," Smith said.Persons who see a two-minute clip of a CBS show, such as "How I Met Your Mother," might be encouraged to watch the program, he said. He recalled how a recent clip of David Letterman interviewing Paris Hilton showed up on YouTube and drew a lot of traffic; this was embraced by CBS, which carries Letterman's show.Asked by panel moderator Josh Quittner, of Fortune magazine, if she was worried about Google, Banse dismissed this."You want me to be a dinosaur running scared. I'm really not," she said. Google has been a "wonderful partner" for Comcast, with people accessing the search site via the Comcast pipe, said Banse.?In a subsequent panel session, officials from Joost, which provides broadcast-quality Internet television service, and Current, which blends broadcast TV with interactive Internet communications, shared their companies' visions."We wanted to bring the magic of the Internet to television, not the dumbness of television to the Internet," said Joel Hyatt, co-founder and CEO of Current. A community has been fostered to submit video that can be viewed on Current TV.Joost, meanwhile, is making peer-to-peer-based video distribution software that can run on PCs and the Macintosh, said Mike Volpi, Joost CEO. High-quality is streamed, with some of it professionally created by companies such as CBS and Viacom. Other content is developed by persons who are not so familiar. Joost is trying to develop an advertising-supported model.Both Joost and Current embrace advertising as a business model."I believe advertising is definitely the way to go," Volpi said. Advertising thus far has not blended well on the Internet because it has been offered in the form of banner ads or keywords, he said. But there are plenty of ad dollars to be gained by going after targeted users, he said.