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| From
USA Today: "MTV next week becomes the latest network
to hop the trivia-quiz rocket launched by 'Who Wants to Be a
Millionaire...' The |
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weekday webRIOT, which premieres Monday at 5 p.m. ET/PT, tests
players on their knowledge of music minutiae. Internet players
compete simultaneously, with top online scores displayed on
MTV as the show airs. No special equipment, other than a computer
with Internet access, is required. And unlike many other interactive
TV shows, the game's design gives everyone -- from those with
slow dial-up modems to those with high-speed direct connections
-- an equal chance to register the fastest answer." Click
here
to read the full story from Friday's issue of USA Today
or here
to go to the "webRIOT" section of MTV's website.. |
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Ahmet
Zappa is a game show host, contestants sit in bubbles hanging
in mid-air, and 25,000 viewers can play along on the Internet. |
| Spiderdance
is the firm providing the technology that lets players on 14.4K
(i.e., slow) modems and on T-1 lines compete on equal footing;
their |
website is here.
The New York Times printed a long story on the show on October
25th which is posted on the Spiderdance website here.
Electronic Media's take ("'It's certainly fun and is,
something I'm always reluctant to say, maybe the first of it's
kind,' said Ed Martin, analyst for the Myers Report. 'It's not
just responding or sending e-mail but actually competing live
with the TV show') is here.
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Click
image above to go to
www.spiderdance.com |
Has your radio station ever linked your website to an on-air
contest in real time? Was it successful? Tell us about it here
and we'll profile you later this week.
| From
Radio Ink: "Sinclair Broadcast Group, Inc. (Nasdaq:
SBGI) announced that it has reached an agreement with NetFanatics,
Inc., |
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privately held strategic Internet development and integration
company, to acquire an 80% stake in NetFanatics in exchange
for $2,000,000 in cash and other services....'Sinclair, through
NetFanatics, will have the ability to construct and host sophisticated
web sites that will create consistency between our clients'
on-air ads and their Internet presence,' stated Mr. Ostroff..."
Click here
for Radio Ink's story or here
for Sinclair's
full press release (on PR Newswire). |
Click image
above to go to
www.NetFanatics.com |
RELATED
LINKS: Click here
to see a list of the Sinclair radio stations on their corporate
website. (Includes links to station websites.) Some of NetFanatics's
clients include a franchise called The
Cleaning Authority, an investment holding company called
JPB Enterprises, and a
Baltimore real estate developer called
Lonnegan Homes. (Click the company name to see the site
that NetFanatics developed for them.)
Media industry outlook is bright and the Net is no cannibal: "The
Internet is 'emphatically' not cannibalizing on traditional media.
It is, in fact, accelerating their growth, according to the just
released 1999 edition of Veronis, Suhler & Associates Communications
Industry Forecast. The report paints an extremely rosy picture for
all forms of media, especially online, which it says will contribute
not to the erosion of print, TV, radio and outdoor, but will help
boost them all to new record levels. Veronis cites five primary
drivers..." Full article from AdTalk.com is here.
CD
Radio gets Sirius: "The company decided that CDs were
old technology, so it named itself after the brightest star
in the sky -- Sirius, the 'Dog Star.' Next January, the company
will change its ticker symbol from CDRD to SIRI. Word of the
changes came as the company celebrated the completion of its
national broadcast studio..."
Click here for
story in R&R Online (subscription required) or a longer
version in Radio Ink here.
And to visit the Sirius website, which opens with a
nice Flash animation ("50 channels of commercial-free music
and up to 50 channels of news, sports and entertainment (for
$9.95/month). A driver's best friend"), click here.
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Mitsubishi Electric, signs manufacturing agreement with XM:
"XM Satellite Radio (Nasdaq: XMSR) announced today that it
has signed an agreement with Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America,
Inc., (MEAA) to design, develop, produce and market radios capable
of receiving XM's new band of radio. MEAA, with its parent company
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, is the largest Japanese manufacturer
of factory-installed car radios for the US market...." Click
here
for full story from Individual.com (per PR Newswire).
If wireless Internet gets into cars soon, thousands of radio
stations will become available to drivers -- which is a lot more
than the 100 channels that Sirius and XM each plan
to provide. If that happens quickly, will there be a need for satellite
radio? (On the other hand, will wireless Internet always have a
per-minute charge and thus be too expensive to use for music
listening?) And what will be the impact of either eventuality on
local broadcast stations? Tell us what you think here.
MONDAY 11/29/99
Now you can look at last week's content by clicking a menu option
in the left-hand column (or, to make it even easier for you, here.)
We've also added links to more publications (eRadio, Industry Standard,
Red Herring) in the right-hand column. And we've added our first
guest column, by consultant Tom Barnes, which you can read by clicking
here.
Our first "Site of the Week" -- a Los Angeles radio
station's website that has a three-person full-time staff and lots
of cool features.
Please let me know what you think of this site. I'm trying
to avoid using those annoying forms that require you to provide
lots of information to get a password to access the site. If you'll
just drop me a quick line via e-mail here,
maybe my plan will work! Thanks.
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