By Ben Homer, August 19th, 2008
So. Let’s recap 2008’s Olympics coverage. NBC got Microsoft to front a good portion of the development costs for a video platform that didn’t meet expectations, and they forced those who wanted to watch in high quality on-demand to view on Television or on Vista.
That’s good for NBC, their TV ratings have been stellar. While [...]
By Ben Homer, July 22nd, 2008
NBC has soft launched their Silverlight powered Olympics portal and it’s pretty cool. There should be more to play with as we get closer to the games so it’s not entirely fair to judge it at this point but overall the interface is clean and user friendly, and for the moment at least [...]
By Ben Homer, July 21st, 2008
Jimmy Fallon will begin his Late Night run on the web this Fall before to taking over for Conan O’Brien who will move to the Tonight Show next year, reports The Times.
5-10 minute shows will be posted nightly, likely on Hulu and its distribution partners giving Fallon time to “find his show.” The web offers [...]
By Ben Homer, July 3rd, 2008
Less than two months away from the beginning of the summer Olympics, NBC has yet to announce their complete technology plans for the games. Here’s what we know:
Microsoft paid a hefty portion of NBC’s development costs to get them to use Silverlight, and is still working to remove the beta from Silverlight 2.0 ahead of [...]
