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Hulu Wins

April 30, 2009 | No Comments | News Stories

The Walt Disney Company has reached a deal on today to become a partner with the popular video website HULU. Disney had been in talks with NBC Universal and News Corp for some time prior to reaching the deal today. Disney is the only other media company to join as an equity partner. They also will gain 3 seats on the Hulu board.

Hulu will add full length episodes of the following TV shows: “Lost,” “Grey’s Anatomy,” and “Desperate Housewives.”

Sex in the Queen’s Yard

A couple in their early 30′s decided that the best place to have sex was on a private grass bank at the Queen’s Palace, while Her Majesty was in the residence.

Unfortunately, the couple were watch by crowds of tourists, due to being in full view of the Castle’s Garter Tower, near by hotels, pubs, and local shops. Some Japanese tourist were able to film the couple for over 20 minutes before they were arrested by Royal Protection Squad Officers.

Mark Robinson, 44, witnessed the event and said, “One window from the guardroom opened up and when a soldier saw what was going on he told his mates – and lots of windows opened. The couple did not care who was looking and just kept going as if they were in their own bedroom. They even ignored the ‘Please Keep Off The Grass’ signs. A few soldiers were cheering them on from above & plenty of young people did the same from the roadside. There were camera flashes going off and people videoing.”

Manhattan Building Collapses

A 5 story building collapsed on a lower Manhattan construction site on today. Fire officials say that no one was inside when it came down.

The collapse happened early in the morning, just before the normal busy flow of pedestrians and traffic. The front half of the building looks like it was sheared off and the interior floors are visible from the street. A car on the street was covered in rubble.

Lewis Largent lives directly across the street said, the bricks started trickling off the top corner. I was thinking was it raining or something. Then within 10 seconds it just all came down like a wave or an avalanche.”

Lisa Schiller has lived in the neighborhood for 20 years and said, “We’re a little freaked out about it.” She saw the rubble when she came out for her morning walk.

Squidling Blackened and Bitten

Octomom Nadya Suleman was question yesterday by local police and child welfare officials, due to her 4 year old Autistic son showing up to school with a black eye and bite marks. Orange County’s Child and Family Services and 2 La Habra Police detectives visited the Suleman’s home, but there were no indications of any actions being taken on the mother of 14.

Police have said that they have made several visits to the Suleman’s home in the last year to respond to complaints about lost, trapped, or poorly cared for children. Orange County Social Services Spokeswoman TerryLynn Fisher said that her department can’t confirm or deny any welfare investigation because of confidentiality laws.

Suleman’s attorney says that the boy looks like the black eye came from a fall and the bite marks may have come from one of her 2 year old twins.

He told the Associated Press, “Poor Aidan, he falls a lot.He jumps at noises and things and bumps furniture and walls. I know CPS takes is very seriously. Nadya’s best option at this point is finding the young culprit and issuing a punishment. Nadya says she grounds them, takes their favorite toys away – the typical things that a mother will do. Aiden is a special case”

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Big Hair and bright colors describe the music and styles of the 80′s. This new age brought an opening to flamboyant, loud, wild, and crazier people than the typical person in society. This is when Wrestling was able to grab a stranglehold of the available sports spotlight and saw some of its characters movie into the everyday media. Wrestling characters like Hulk Hogan, Captain Lou Albano, Andre the Giant, Rowdy Roddy Piper, the Iron Sheik, Sgt. Slaughter, and “Mean” Gene Okerlund were made into a Saturday morning cartoon as part of “Hulk Hogan’s Rock N’ Roll” wrestling. NBC supported the sport with “Saturday Night Main Events,” which would air almost ever 2 months with the ever popular wrestling stars.

Wrestling reached its Pinnacle in 1987 with Wrestlemania III, but slowly faded out of the spotlight. The WWF (now WWE), dropped to rock bottom in the 1990′s due to all kinds of legal issues, ranging from sexual harassment charges to steroid abuse.

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Traditional TV shows are becoming more and more popular on torrent sites. On torrent sites that track which torrents are downloaded, some of the most popular files are the major network shows. Lost, Heroes, and 24 are almost always on the top of the list.  You could estimate about 3 million downloads between these 3 shows, and there are 7 more shows that have more than 350,000 downloads.

All the major studios have been complaining about hardships and lower viewer rates (than previous years) and bigger budgets for shows. What the studios need to understand is that people want to see your shows, but may not be home to see the show when it airs or even worse they have a DVR and skip through those hard to get commercials. Downloading from a torrent is an easier way to get the episode and I can watch it whenever I have the time to watch them. Now I mention this, because I want to help and not just type for sake of typing.

Today’s society is an on demand society or an instant society, depending on whose talking about it. Take a look at Hulu.com and Joost.com (there are plenty more sites) that have integrated using a commercial during the airing of the show. It’s not traditional and it’s not a standard, yet.

These major studios need to stop holding onto the past and need to embrace the future. Use medians like Hulu.com, Joost.com, and Netflix’s (Fox we need to talk about your Netflix selection). Want to increase the value of shows and increase the monetary funds from advertisers? Here is an idea, post shows on your sites immediately after or at the same time it airs on the east coast (Not the traditional wait 7 days before airing or skipping episodes) Adding one or 2 commercials during a 30 minute program so it’s not intrusive. This will drive people to your sites, which will help you market other shows that you want viewers to see.

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