Posts Tagged ‘CBC’

CBC Distributing Show with BitTorrent

// March 19th, 2008 // 1 Comment » // technology

I don’t blog about work often. This is pretty much a personal blog and posts about work seem out of place. Still, I gotta blog about what we announced today because I’m so excited about it. First, I gotta say that these are MY personal opinions and do not reflect those of CBC.

Today on the Canada’s Next Great Prime Minister blog, we announced that we’ll be the first major broadcaster in North America to distribute a high-quality non-DRM copy of a prime time television show. The blogosphere has exploded over the news. I’m happy because I’ve shot my mouth off before about how BitTorrents should be relevant to broadcasters. And now, we’re finally doing one– the right way.

All credit for the idea goes to my boss Tessa Sproule, who got the idea about distributing the show this way when reading this story on BoingBoing. The show producers Sarah Kapoor and Stuart Coxe were instrumental with their enthusiastic support.

We’ll be talking more about the process that everyone went through to make this happen. For now, I’m excited that I got to be a part of this and that people are really excited about what we’re doing.

The show is this Sunday at 7 pm on CBC Television. Watch!

UPDATE (3/24/08): the show is ready to download.

Test the Nation Tonight

// January 20th, 2008 // 3 Comments » // entertainment, stupid quizzes

I’m working this weekend ’cause Test the Nation: Trivia is on live tonight (this is one of the shows I support). I really like the teams they’ve picked for this episode:

  • Chefs (a lot of really famous ones from FoodTV too)
  • Celebrity Look-alikes(The Celine Dion look-alike is hilarious! Check out her workout video)
  • Cab Drivers (Mr. Geography is on the team!)
  • Backpackers
  • Flight Crews
  • Bloggers

I personally think the Bloggers will win (because we’re such information hounds) and the public seems to agree according to the poll I put on the site. Disclaimer: no this is NOT inside information, simply my personal opinion (skewed badly ’cause I’m a blogger myself).

Anyway, check out the show. It’s tonight at 8 PM on CBC and the quiz is really fun. You can play along with the broadcast or take the test online now.