Sunday, August 3, 2008

4 choices

That's what you get from Orange for your €39,90 ... 4 English language TV Channels (oh and about 100 other channels of various languages plus VOIP and Internet). I guess that's a pretty good price for the package.

And these are the 4 choices:

CNN















Sky News















BBC World News:















And .......

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CNBC Europe















.... who will evidently take anybody's advertising Euro.

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

I'm watching Bush's War on Frntline.

look you can too...
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/

JBlog said...

Who WON'T take anybody's advertising Euro?

And technically, it's not advertising -- it's advertorial, which is a somewhat different, skankier (IMO) variant.

Craig Bob said...

Ah - does that come from the hybrid category that also includes infotainment and coopetition?

JBlog said...

No, infotainment is Oprah or First Edition -- shows that purport to offer information, but really are just entertainment vehicles. They usually usually supported by advertising.

Advertorial is itself advertising -- long-format paid programming (15-60 minutes, usually) that is supposed to look and feel like regular program or news program, but is actually an ad where they're trying to sell you something. I put most TV preachers and "programs" about miracle diet programs and exercise equipment ("You can have abs like THIS is just 10 minutes a day!)in that category.

Coopetition is when two companies that are normally adversaries cooperate in some fashion -- like when TV networks share "pool" footage that they all chip in for because it's too expensive for each of them to send their own TV crews to East Bloatavia, or Ford licenses hybrid engine technology from Toyota, or Microsoft writes software that runs on IBM servers.

Zeke said...

Holy shizz, is that new title photo awesome or WHAT?! I'm putting it in my Flickr account.

Craig Bob said...

Thanks Zeke. I have to hand it to Junior ... he only has one tooth but he knows how to work it.