Written by Jackson West
Posted Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at 10:41 AM PT

 

Tuesday Morning Vid-Biz Headlines

Goodnight Burbank Rip-off on Fox? Reader Jeff notes the similarity between new Fox show Back to You (preview above) and everyone’s favorite newsroom parody, Goodnight Burbank.

Sped-up Ads Still Effective, with biometric monitoring showing that DVR users who fast forward through ads still respond physiologically. (NY Times)

NBBC Will Shut Down, and be rolled into NewCo operations — as PaidContent points out, this leaves content partners in the lurch. (Multichannel News via PaidContent)

FeedBeat Helps Create Video Channels; new service that compiles a playlist of pre-recorded clips from video-sharing sites into a streaming feed. (Mashable)

Ask Al Gore, the former Vice President will talk global warming in a live webcast Thursday with questions posed for viewers like you before the Live Earth show. (TreeHugger)

 

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  1. Imitation is the sincerest form of…Screw this, where’s my lawyers? :)

    Hayden Black on July 3rd, 2007 at 2:43 pm - Permalink
  2. Is the video any good? all I get is “this video cant be viewed from your country”…or am I the only non-American reading this? :-)

    Duncan on July 3rd, 2007 at 5:07 pm - Permalink
  3. Yeah, the preview is pretty funny. But a laugh track is totally cheating.

    Liz Gannes on July 3rd, 2007 at 5:37 pm - Permalink

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