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COMM 3353: Communication Web Technologies I . Chapter 4b: Television, Entertainment, and the Web, Continued…. www.class.uh.edu/comm/classes/comm3353/ppt/_Pres4b.html. Television Entertainment, Continued …. Television and the Web: Content Cyberprograms: Network and Web-Only
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COMM 3353:Communication Web Technologies I • Chapter 4b: • Television, Entertainment, and the Web, Continued… www.class.uh.edu/comm/classes/comm3353/ppt/_Pres4b.html
Television Entertainment, Continued… • Television and the Web: Content • Cyberprograms: Network and Web-Only • Online TV and Web Listings • The Web on Television • Television of Tomorrow
Television and the Web: Content • Although changing rapidly, the WWW is still in early stages of development. • Most of what is seen on the Web is adapted from other media. • Most early sites are primarily static in nature, and mimic printed and radio media.
Television and the Web: Content, Continued… • The WWW, similar to TV in the 50’s, is still in its early days of development • Technologies to come. . . • Some unimaginable potential (Client, Server, and Delivery) • Some popular, early Web Sites: • The X-Files, ESPN SportsZone, MTV Online, David Letterman’s Late Show • Web programming mimics broadcast programming in some ways… • What’s popular today is history tomorrow.
Television and the Web: Content, Continued… • Popular Web sites today. . . • CSNBC, Comedy Central’s South Park, web authoring sites, business analyst sites, public information sites, etc. • The popularity of the web is such that new technologies give rise to more and more web sites being “mainstream” or visited on a regular basis
Television and the Web: Content, Continued… • Broadcast Networks on the Web • Nearly every TV Network has a cyberspace counterpart • ABC.com • One of the most popular and visited network sites. • Views site as mostly informational with little user interaction • NBC.com • The only network site that considers the web a “business” • CBS.com • Boasts over 1.2 million hits per week
Television and the Web: Content, Continued… • Cable Networks on the Web • Cable networks, like broadcast networks, recognize the inherent value in a notable Web presence. • Comedy Central Online • Nick-at-Nite • CyberKitchen • PBS Online
Television and the Web: Content, Continued… • Cable Networks on the Web, Cont. • Cable Companies have a dual interest in the development of Internet technologies. • On the one hand, the web (inherently) brings new viewers by a “static” presence on the web. • On the other hand, Cable companies themselves recognize the need for fast network connections and likewise will attempt to fill that niche. • WebTV as well as ISP service
Cyberprograms: Network and Web-Only • While most network sites are promotional, some have created distinction and forged new beginnings in the Web-only arena. • Web-only sites offer unique, additional programming otherwise not available to the viewing public
Online TV and Web Listings • Checking Web Programming is similar to checking “TV Guide.” • NetGuide Live • Provides hourly updates to Web programming. • Checking TV Programming on the Web • TV Guide Online • TV and Web Programming online
The Web on Television • TV and Online Media: A Perfect and Necessary Team • C/Net and the 24 hour Cable Network • E! Online, and all the E! Channels • TV.com • Interactive and technical program designed to introduce the public to new and exciting web based technologies. • Also advertise other network web sites based on 30, 60, or 90 min. timeslots.
Television of Tomorrow • People love TV • Because of this “love,” it’s unlikely that people will give up the ritual of TV viewing. • The Internet, specifically the WWW, will find ways to accommodate this ritual • Using the Web in becoming more and more like watching TV. The limits of tomorrow’s TV are equal to the limits of one imagination.
The Internet and theWorld Wide Web • End Chapter 4, Part II.