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The Game Show Forum => The Big Board => Topic started by: Casey Buck on June 28, 2007, 02:55:24 PM
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(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 (http://\"http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117967598.html?categoryid=1236&cs=1\")
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So if CBS is the Eye, and NBC is the Peacock, then what's ABC? The Alphabet?
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[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?
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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.
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'156231\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 02:59 PM\']
[T]hen what's ABC? The Alphabet?
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Don't know if Variety uses that term, but that's generally what it's known as: The Alphabet Network.
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[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?
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Don't know if Variety uses that term, but that's generally what it's known as: The Alphabet Network.
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Criminy, and I thought I was joking...
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[quote name=\'whoserman\' post=\'156234\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 12:28 PM\']
Criminy, and I thought I was joking...
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Nope. And they're "webs", not networks, by Gawd. If you're gonna ruin journalism, don't do it half-assed. :)
/hates Varietyspeak
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[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. :)
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I'm particularly, er, enamored of their term for the WB and UPN: "weblets." Sounds like a bad appetizer.
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[quote name=\'dzinkin\' post=\'156241\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 02:47 PM\']
"weblets." Sounds like a bad appetizer.
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Or a social disease.
"Dude, I got a case of the weblets."
"Hell, a little shampoo will clear that right up."
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[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?
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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.
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Wasn't CBS also known as the "Tiffany Network"? If so, why?
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[quote name=\'mparrish11\' post=\'156262\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 09:54 PM\']
Wasn't CBS also known as the "Tiffany Network"? If so, why?
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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... ;-)
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[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.
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[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?
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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... ;-)
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More because CBS under William Paley's leadership was such a class act, allegedly, compared to those vulgar loudmouths over at NBC.
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[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?
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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... ;-)
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The "Tiffany" name was meant as a mark of excellence, to show that CBS had quality programming.
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[quote name=\'mparrish11\' post=\'156262\' date=\'Jun 28 2007, 06:54 PM\']
Wasn't CBS also known as the "Tiffany Network"? If so, why?
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From the very first graf of the Wiki article (http://\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiffany_network\"):
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.
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[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
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Actually, it wasn't NBC who were the vulgar guys--in fact, during the Pat Weaver era, it was to the contrary. It was ABC that played the brash card, with their deals with Disney and Warner Bros. for exclusive programming when Hollywood didn't want anything to do with television, that put on "American Bandstand" when most of mainstream show biz wanted to treat rock and roll as a fad and most importantly, decided to aim their programming at younger demographics because they thought it was the only way that they could stay afloat. (And for our purposes, they were the ones that gave Chuck Barris the greenlight to do a game show that could've come from Hef's place and to take a dowdy little format concept about newlyweds and tart it up into a hit.)
What happened was that ABC's innovations became so imitated by everyone else. A lot of people who have studied business have come right out and said that every broadcast network today is working out of the ABC 50s and 60s playbook. If you don't believe me, try to find "Omnibus" or Leonard Bernstein (or "WML?", for that matter) in the current network lineups.