Fancast and Federated Media Launch ‘Our TV
Picks,’ a Social Media-Driven Digital Video
Guide
Guide Is Hosted by Leading Bloggers Including ‘Ask
A Ninja,’ ‘Boing
Boing,’ ‘Dooce’
and ‘NOTCOT’
PHILADELPHIA (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) November 12, 2008 --
With so much to watch online, it is now just a little bit easier to
choose. Fancast
(www.fancast.com),
the ultimate, next generation entertainment site where users can watch
premium entertainment for free including over 6,000 TV
episodes and create and manage their personal entertainment
experience, has joined forces with Federated Media and four of the Web’s
hottest bloggers to develop a digital video guide called “Our
TV Picks.”
“Our
TV Picks” brings top bloggers “Ask
A Ninja,” “Boing
Boing,” “Dooce”
and “NOTCOT”
together for a robust and entertaining conversation about the best video
content on Fancast including comedy, horror, drama, and, prime time TV.
Now, on Fancast, through the digital guide fans can engage in
conversation with each other, and with the bloggers about content on the
site. The four bloggers will post regularly on their favorite shows and
will offer their unique perspectives on which shows resonate with them
and why.
On Fancast’s “Our
TV Picks” fans will learn tidbits
like why “Ask A Ninja”
thinks “CSI: Miami”
is “actually a comedy hiding inside a drama,”
and why “Dooce”
blogger Heather B. Armstrong has labeled herself a “reality
show junkie” and longs to be Tina Fey.
“‘Our TV Picks’
is one more way that Fancast is creating the greatest entertainment
experience on the Web,” said Karin Gilford
SVP of Fancast and Online Entertainment, Comcast Interactive Media. “By
partnering with these bloggers, Fancast users can engage in buzz around
entertainment on the site. So not only is Fancast helping them watch
great content online, but we’re helping them
experience it as well.”
Leading Bloggers participating in Our TV Picks include:
-
“Ask
A Ninja”is a pioneering digital video
podcast and one of the most popular video series on the Web. The Ninja
will offer his unique comedic take on Fancast programming.
-
“Dooce”
is written by Heather Armstrong, an irreverent stay-at-home-mom who
entertains her dedicated fans with distinctive family-life photography
and commentary. Heather offers her irreverent in-the-know picks to the
Fancast community.
-
“Boing
Boing” is among the five most-visited
blogs on the web for a reason: they are hard-wired into the Web’s
coolest finds. The original digerati, the Boing Boing crew will point
Fancast users to great digital entertainment.
-
“NOTCOT”
has become the daily sources of inspiration for creatives everywhere.
With their inspired picks, NOTCOT will help the Fancast community
fight against "creative block.”
"‘Boing Boing’
has long been known as 'a directory of wonderful things,'”
said Xeni Jardin, co-editor of the Boing Boing blog and executive
producer of “Boing Boing TV.”
“This project is a perfect fit, because we
intend to help make Our TV Picks a directory of wonderful video. Fancast
makes it easier for fans to find and watch movies and television shows
they love, wherever it happens to live. I applaud their efforts on that
front, and am excited about this joint project.”
About Fancast
Fancast (www.fancast.com),
created by Comcast Interactive Media, is the first and only place where
users can watch, manage and find their entertainment wherever it lives,
on TV, On Demand, online, on DVD or in theaters. On Fancast, users can
view an expanding free library of full episodes and clips from movie
partners and top networks including ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Comedy Central,
MTV, and The WB, find the content they are looking for across multiple
platforms and create a personalized entertainment experience. Fancast’s
technology and deep entertainment database tells users where specific
shows and movies are playing and helps them access the content they want
in any location including the Fancast Store. The site’s
interactive features let users set preferences to receive email
reminders about what they should tune-in to based selections of their
favorite shows. Soon, Fancast will enable certain users to set their DVR
from their computer and interact via the web with their video on demand
preferences.
About Federated Media
At FM, we believe great voices attract great audiences. We're in the
business of supporting those voices by connecting them to great
marketers, as well as providing a suite of services that let authors
focus on what they do best: make compelling media. In so doing, we are
creating federations of respected voices that prosper on their own
terms. Current federations include Sports, Technology, Automotive,
Business & Marketing, Media & Entertainment, Video Gaming, Graphics
Arts, News 2.0, Lifestyle, Parenting and Green. For more information,
please go to http://www.federatedmedia.net.
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