Ridiculous Content Restrictions Mean NBC Loses Viral Buzz For Emmy Clips
from the how-to-fail,-ungracefully dept
I'm not a big fan of award shows and can't remember the last time I watched one, so it's no surprise that I missed the Emmy's this past weekend. However, in an age where mocking the hosts of these shows for doing a terrible job is considered common practice, apparently a lot of people were impressed by some of Jimmy Fallon's work hosting the show. Too bad NBC can't let people see why. Staci Kramer, over at PaidContent notes that the opening musical sequence (a play on the TV show Glee with Fallon and various other TV personalities singing a Springsteen song) got a really good response online... but NBC can't post it online due to "restrictions." That is, NBC didn't secure the rights to repost the song online, losing out on any potential benefits from helping make the video go viral.Of course, it's not clear who's "at fault" here, but either way NBC ends up looking clueless (yet again!). It had to know that there would be value in getting such things online, and while the license holders might not have wanted to license it, NBC should have made the point that if it wasn't put online legally by NBC, surely plenty of others would put it online elsewhere for all to see, without NBC or the rightsholders getting any direct benefit. It's really a tremendous "head-in-the-sand" approach to dealing with these issues. Anyone who says they can license music for the show on TV, but not online, is missing the point, and NBC's inability to explain this to them coherently is a negotiating blunder. And, because of that, others get all the benefit of the viral content, and NBC looks clueless online.
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no clue?
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newsworthy?
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Really not surprised they are missing the boat on this.
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And why not the whole show on Hulu?
So why can't I just go to Hulu this week to watch the damn thing?
NBC, Hulu, the Emmys and all the unions, etc. are missing the point.
TV shows should not have a regularly scheduled time any more. People want to view them when they can.
Advertisers would have made more money for the show on Hulu. How stupid to not have these things online.
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THE EMMYS??
Why didn't I know about that??
I'm on the internets all the time. Surely I would have heard.
Poo.
CBMHB
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