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Emmy Nomination, Part Deux

Posted on November 2, 2006 by jetrotz

Well, it’s deja vu all over again, folks! CNN Enhanced on Echostar (launch, interview) has been announced as an Emmy Finalist for Outstanding Achievement in Advanced Media Technology for the Non-Synchronous Enhancement of Original Television Content, this time by the … Continue reading →

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C|Net: CNN.com getting jiggy with UGC

Posted on August 1, 2006 by jetrotz

From a story on Sunday on C|Net, pointing out new move towards adding an outlet for ‘citizen journalism’ to the flagship CNN.com site, called CNN Exchange. On Monday, CNN is expected to announce the launch of CNN Exchange, a page … Continue reading →

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Maybe next time…

Posted on July 28, 2006 by jetrotz

Although it was an honor to be an Emmy finalist, the CNN interactive television project I led for Dish Network called CNN Enhanced lost out to the entry from TiVo. Having never won an Emmy, Tivo was announced as the … Continue reading →

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Emmy Nomination

Posted on July 11, 2006 by jetrotz

Wow – I’m thrilled this morning to learn that one of the big projects I directed for roughly 18 months has been announced as a finalist for the 2005-06 Emmy Awards for Outstanding Achievement in Interactive Television (exclusively reported Tuesday … Continue reading →

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Helping out at CNN Digital

Posted on June 22, 2006 by jetrotz

CNNd – it’s where all the cool kids hang out. And today, that included Sam and Amy. As you can see above, Sam helps out Lauren Golus in ad operations. I tell ya, that kid is a natural. More pics … Continue reading →

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[itvt] on CNN Enhanced

Posted on May 24, 2006 by jetrotz

Since the February launch of the CNN Enhanced interactive television product, there has been very little trade coverage of what I think is one of the most interesting and widely distributed domestic ITV projects around – it reaches over 11 … Continue reading →

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YouTube as News Aggregator

Posted on May 10, 2006 by jetrotz

C|Net.com reports on a new feature user-generated content play YouTube rolled out yesterday – the ability to recieve and post content sent directly from mobile devices. As evidenced by the role Flickr has played in events like the London 7/7 … Continue reading →

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CNN Enhanced on Dish is in the Wild…

Posted on February 13, 2006 by jetrotz

TVWeek (free registration required) may have been the first to report this, under the headline ‘Interactive TV Gets a Big Boost’ – CNN has launched their first major one-screen interative TV application. I was the product manager on this effort, … Continue reading →

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Instead of spending New Year’s with my family to welcome in 2006, I’ve joined my other extended family in the Time Warner Center in NYC as we launch CNN.com on our very own ad server, DoubleClick’s Dart Enterprise system. We’ve … Continue reading →

Posted on January 1, 2006 by jetrotz | Leave a comment

PC Magazine has just published a review of CNN Pipeline – the closing sentence has a really nice ring to it: CNN Pipeline isn’t perfect, but it’s certainly the most impressive video offering the Web has ever seen. technorati tags: … Continue reading →

Posted on December 6, 2005 by jetrotz | Leave a comment