Free on-demand streaming of CBS Daytime

[Casey Buck]

(WARNING: Variety-speak aplenty)

Daytime is going online at CBS.

Eye  has decided to make three of its top-rated sudsers -- and "The Price Is  Right" -- available for free, on-demand streaming via CBS.com and the  CBS Audience Network.

Serials "As the World Turns," "Guiding  Light" and "The Young and the Restless" are now being posted at 6 p.m.  ET Monday-Friday, right after the net's West Coast daytime feed  concludes. CBS Audience Network includes websites from AOL to Veoh.

"Price"  isn't online yet, but CBS has a deal in place with the show's producers  to begin streaming soon. The Eye is talking to the producers of "The  Bold and the Beautiful" about putting that show online as well.

More info at: http://www.variety.com/article/VR111796759...d=1236&cs=1

[Kevin Prather]

So if CBS is the Eye, and NBC is the Peacock, then what's ABC? The Alphabet?

[Jimmy Owen]

[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'156231\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 02:59 PM\']
So if CBS is the Eye, and NBC is the Peacock, then what's ABC? The Alphabet?
[/quote]

That's correct.  You're catching on to the slanguage quite well.  I'm one of those who don't mind Variety-speak.  It helps to make mundane stories a little more vibrant.

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'156231\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 02:59 PM\']
[T]hen what's ABC? The Alphabet?
[/quote]
Don't know if Variety uses that term, but that's generally what it's known as: The Alphabet Network.

[Kevin Prather]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'156233\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 12:11 PM\']
[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'156231\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 02:59 PM\']
[T]hen what's ABC? The Alphabet?
[/quote]
Don't know if Variety uses that term, but that's generally what it's known as: The Alphabet Network.
[/quote]
Criminy, and I thought I was joking...

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'156234\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 12:28 PM\']
Criminy, and I thought I was joking...
[/quote]
Nope. And they're "webs", not networks, by Gawd. If you're gonna ruin journalism, don't do it half-assed.

/hates Varietyspeak

[dzinkin]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' post=\'156237\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 03:50 PM\']
Nope. And they're "webs", not networks, by Gawd. If you're gonna ruin journalism, don't do it half-assed.
[/quote]
I'm particularly, er, enamored of their term for the WB and UPN: "weblets."  Sounds like a bad appetizer.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'156241\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 02:47 PM\']
"weblets."  Sounds like a bad appetizer.
[/quote]
Or a social disease.

"Dude, I got a case of the weblets."

"Hell, a little shampoo will clear that right up."

[mparrish11]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'156232\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 02:10 PM\']
[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'156231\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 02:59 PM\']
So if CBS is the Eye, and NBC is the Peacock, then what's ABC? The Alphabet?
[/quote]

That's correct.  You're catching on to the slanguage quite well.  I'm one of those who don't mind Variety-speak.  It helps to make mundane stories a little more vibrant.
[/quote]


Wasn't CBS also known as the "Tiffany Network"?  If so, why?

[BrandonFG]

[quote name=\'mparrish11\' post=\'156262\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 09:54 PM\']
Wasn't CBS also known as the "Tiffany Network"?  If so, why?
[/quote]
If I'm not mistaken, didn't it have something with the networks..."dainty" image in the 50s? Wasn't born until the 80s, so I'm prolly just a "tad" bit off... ;-)

[Joe Mello]

[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'156241\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 05:47 PM\']
I'm particularly, er, enamored of their term for the WB and UPN: "weblets."  Sounds like a bad appetizer.[/quote]
I think I've had to do a weblet project for one of my Java classes.

[trainman]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'156266\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 07:13 PM\']
[quote name=\'mparrish11\' post=\'156262\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 09:54 PM\']
Wasn't CBS also known as the "Tiffany Network"?  If so, why?
[/quote]
If I'm not mistaken, didn't it have something with the networks..."dainty" image in the 50s? Wasn't born until the 80s, so I'm prolly just a "tad" bit off... ;-)
[/quote]

More because CBS under William Paley's leadership was such a class act, allegedly, compared to those vulgar loudmouths over at NBC.

[dzinkin]

[quote name=\'fostergray82\' post=\'156266\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 10:13 PM\']
[quote name=\'mparrish11\' post=\'156262\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 09:54 PM\']
Wasn't CBS also known as the "Tiffany Network"?  If so, why?
[/quote]
If I'm not mistaken, didn't it have something with the networks..."dainty" image in the 50s? Wasn't born until the 80s, so I'm prolly just a "tad" bit off... ;-)
[/quote]
The "Tiffany" name was meant as a mark of excellence, to show that CBS had quality programming.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'mparrish11\' post=\'156262\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 06:54 PM\']
Wasn't CBS also known as the "Tiffany Network"?  If so, why?
[/quote]
From the very first graf of the Wiki article:

The network is sometimes referred to as the Tiffany Network, which alludes to the perceived quality of CBS programming during the tenure of its founder William S. Paley. It can also refer to some of CBS's first demonstrations of color television, which were held in a former Tiffany & Co. building in New York City in 1950.

[TLEberle]

[quote name=\'Jimmy Owen\' post=\'156232\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 12:10 PM\']I'm one of those who don't mind Variety-speak.  It helps to make mundane stories a little more vibrant.[/quote]I don't mind vibrant writing at all. I do mind the clubbish "nyah nyah we're in the club and you aren't" thinking behind the "slanguage."

/ooh, gonna need a shower
//right after I finish beating this dead horse