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CBS experiments with streaming ad-laden Price is Right
Now, this makes total sense. We don't expect this show to end up on iTunes. ($39.95 for the Price is Right Entire Thirty-Fifth Season? Um, no...) But giving the show away free on the web is the perfect way to demonstrate how to monetize commercial content without charging the consumer a dime. In this case, the (very) commercial content is all those prize placements seen on the show. How else can the Ridgeway Company expect people to get excited about owning their grandfather clock if not by surrounding their product with beautiful Price model-girls and two-hundred onlookers ooh-ing and aah-ing when prompted?
Indeed, it's the commercial content that's embedded in Price that makes it so much fun. Price is the original TV 2.0 concept--making an hour-long advertisement seem fun. And now that fun is available online. Come on down...
So, just how good at time waster games are you? Think you've got the stuff? Well, The World's Hardest Game 2.0 doesn't think you do.
Yes, amazingly, it's possible to have a sequel to a game called "The World's Hardest Game". It doesn't seem logically possible, since if the first one was actually the world's hardest, how could another one come along and share the moniker? It made me doubt the name in the first place. That is, until I tried the game.
The mechanics of the game are very simple. You are a small red square, ...
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nyirina said 12:57PM on 10-23-2007
Please,please put it out Drew.Hi is gonna destroy your show.Hi talks and nobody understand him,hi looks terrible.Hey producer!Where is your eyes?You wanna be a big looser?I dont think.Bring it right person for the right show.THANK YOU.
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ann streit said 11:44AM on 11-07-2007
An improvement- he only said "man" seven times yesterday. He is not funny,charming clever or interesting. PLEASE find a new emcee. It doesn't have to be someone we even know now.
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ann streit said 11:46AM on 11-07-2007
scrub drew carey
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