Post by koenigrules on Mar 9, 2005 13:21:37 GMT -5
Found this at www.zap2it.com today:
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) If you don't know what "podcasting" is, you're probably not the only one. On the other hand, if you don't know what podcasting is, you may not be a regular Sci Fi Channel viewer or a fan the cable network's hit new drama "Battlestar Galactica." Sci Fi is hoping that there's plenty of audience overlap when it partners with "Galactica" executive producer Ronald D. Moore on the first original podcasting content ever offered by a major television network.
Moore has provided DVD-style audio commentaries to accompany the season's final five episodes of "Galactica." Currently available in MP3 format on Sci Fi's website, the audiocasts are meant to be watched in tandem with the episodes leading up to the already-renewed drama's Friday, April 1 season finale.
Podcasting merges the basic principals of a radio broadcast with Apple's iPod, the market's most recognizable digital audio player. Users can download broadcasts in the MP3 format, transfer them to their MP3 players and then listen at their own convenience.
The "Galactica" podcast and Moore's heavily visited Sci Fi blog are just a few of the ways that networks have are attempting to integrate the Internet and technological evolution into their regular programming plans. This Monday (March 7), for example, Showtime offered the premiere of the Kirstie Alley comedy "Fat Actress" as a free download, a strategy somewhat similar to The WB's use of AOL to stream the "Jack & Bobby" premiere this fall.
Already Sci Fi's most popular series, the second season of "Battlestar Galactica" will premiere in July.
In other Sci Fi news, Carmen Electra has joined the vocal cast of the network's raunchy animated comedy "Tripping the Rift." Electra ("Method & Red") replaces Gina Gershon as the voice of brilliant love slave Six.
KR
LOS ANGELES (Zap2it.com) If you don't know what "podcasting" is, you're probably not the only one. On the other hand, if you don't know what podcasting is, you may not be a regular Sci Fi Channel viewer or a fan the cable network's hit new drama "Battlestar Galactica." Sci Fi is hoping that there's plenty of audience overlap when it partners with "Galactica" executive producer Ronald D. Moore on the first original podcasting content ever offered by a major television network.
Moore has provided DVD-style audio commentaries to accompany the season's final five episodes of "Galactica." Currently available in MP3 format on Sci Fi's website, the audiocasts are meant to be watched in tandem with the episodes leading up to the already-renewed drama's Friday, April 1 season finale.
Podcasting merges the basic principals of a radio broadcast with Apple's iPod, the market's most recognizable digital audio player. Users can download broadcasts in the MP3 format, transfer them to their MP3 players and then listen at their own convenience.
The "Galactica" podcast and Moore's heavily visited Sci Fi blog are just a few of the ways that networks have are attempting to integrate the Internet and technological evolution into their regular programming plans. This Monday (March 7), for example, Showtime offered the premiere of the Kirstie Alley comedy "Fat Actress" as a free download, a strategy somewhat similar to The WB's use of AOL to stream the "Jack & Bobby" premiere this fall.
Already Sci Fi's most popular series, the second season of "Battlestar Galactica" will premiere in July.
In other Sci Fi news, Carmen Electra has joined the vocal cast of the network's raunchy animated comedy "Tripping the Rift." Electra ("Method & Red") replaces Gina Gershon as the voice of brilliant love slave Six.
KR
Didn't think we would see season 2 premiering until at least October
