Now they tell me. Parkland Hospital in Dallas (ya know, where they took JFK when he was shot) participated in a promotion with where new Mom’s received TiVOs with lifetime subscriptions (around a $500 value) as a marketing effort to reach busy mothers. Parkland is reportedly one of the busiest maternity wards in the country at 40 births per day, but I think Atlanta’s own Northside Hospital might give them a run for their money. Trouble is, the TiVO certificates were only in English (Parkland has a high percentage of Hispanic patients) and many recipients had no idea what a TiVO does. Too bad they didn’t do this at Piedmont a few weeks ago, or we could have given birth to TiVO Trotz in the company’s honor. Article at Dallasnews.com (registration required).
Caption: Clad in a TiVo cap, a newborn poses with a plush toy. His mother received a new recorder with lifetime service Friday. Tom Fox/DMN
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More Sam Gallery Updates
Yes, it’s 3:50 a.m. and I’m blogging. I got the 2:45 feeding this morning, and decided to take advantage of a few moments and get some new photos of littlest Sam up on the web. Please take a gander at these – he’s such a cutie, I can barely stand it!
— Sam gets comfortable at home
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— Sam’s Quiet Alert Phase
Babies Coming out of the Woodwork
Our friends Jeff & Paige Diecks welcomed their little one into the world on Friday. Jeff and I have been commiserating at work about preparing for our babies, now we can commiserate about lack of sleep. Woohoo! Mom and baby Avery Lane Diecks are doing fine, and should be home Sunday. She is 5 pounds, 8.8 ounces and 18 inches long. She arrived on Friday, April 29 at 5:48 p.m, not long after Amy and I finished a visit to our peditrician just around the corner from the hospital where little Avery was born. We’d have brought in some Abit and etouffe if we’d only known!
Turner Announces GameTap Broadband Service
Woooo doggy! My employer, Turner Broadcasting, took the wraps off a project which has been in the works for around two years, the broadband gaming service dubbed GameTap. Following the model which has created robust businesses from archival content like Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies, GameTap will be a subscription service allowing users to play hundreds or even thousands of game titles, going all the way back to early arcade classics. Reuters has this quote from my coworker Blake Lewin who created this product:
“We have a brand new network … but Turner’s in the same business it’s always been…We want to program games as if they were TV shows.”
The service will leverage the same infrastructure built by the team I’ve been working with here for years – serving CNN.com, SI.com and NASCAR.com.
In a world where new game titles are often known years in advance of their release, this skunk works project has been in development for over two years, with nary a leak, despite a team of more than 100 members.
Coverage around the web today:
Gametap’s Press Release is here.
The Atlanta Journal Constitution (registration req.)
Gizmodo has a brief as well.
PaidContent.org brief here.
Reuters story on the announcement
Kenny Bunch Programming Tidbits roundup.
Jesse Warden’s Blog sorta gets it.
New York Post coverage.
Hollywood Reporter coverage.
Red Herring report here.