4 posts and columns on NBC.com

Conan Who? NBC Disappears “The Tonight Show” From the Web.

in Media on February 6, 2010 at 10:01 am PT

Remember the whole Conan O’Brien/Jay Leno imbroglio from last month? Perhaps NBC wishes you didn’t. It has removed every episode of the show’s seven-month run from its NBC.com site, as well as Hulu. YouTube is pretty barren, too.

Video of the Day: Tina Fey Channels Steve Jobs

in Media on April 10, 2009 at 7:56 am PT

I get the feeling many folks aren’t working today. Which means that those of who you are can probably sneak in an extra couple minutes to entertain yourselves with Web video. So here’s Tina Fey on last night’s episode of “30 Rock,” doing her best Steve Jobs imitation.
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Sarah Palin, Please Come Back! Hulu Traffic Drops in November

in Media on December 12, 2008 at 12:43 pm PT

File under “interesting, but understandable”: After a flurry of election-related interest in October, traffic to red-hot Hulu fell off in November. Blame Sarah Palin–or the lack of her.

YouTube Votes Thumbs Down on “Saturday Night Live” Sans Tina Fey, Sarah Palin

in Media on October 27, 2008 at 4:47 am PT

That was fast. The recent resurgence of “Saturday Night Live,” spurred by Republican VP candidate and Alaska governor Sarah Palin and her comic doppelgänger, Tina Fey, may already be over. How do I know? Well, there’s the gut check–I watched most of Saturday’s show, which didn’t feature Palin or Fey, and it was a snoozer (the absence of new mom Amy Poehler probably didn’t help either). But we can also gauge the reaction of Internet users, thanks to the good folks at TubeMogul, a small start-up that specializes in tracking Web video views. And the results are not so good.