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December 16, 2004blinkx launches search for TV
Fire up some other browser than Opera and check it out, blinkx has launched a search engine for television programming. The new tool is called blinkx TV and it's available, strangely enough, at http://www.blinkx.tv . The beta tool recommends that...
October 22, 2004Saturday Night Live Transcripts
They're not all here but there are alot of transcripts of Saturday Night Live here -- relive the glory days when you were actually physically capable of staying up past 11:30 on a Saturday night! The transcripts are at http://snltranscripts.jt.org/...
August 30, 2004TV Guide Offers Movie and Sports Guide
To keep up with my beloved Cubbies I usually use tv.yahoo.com, but sometimes I find that the site doesn't respond, or it only has a day's worth of sports listings. Because of that I was glad to see that TV...
June 28, 2004BBC Launches their Motion Gallery
The BBC has launched the BBC Motion Gallery, with over 10,000 video clips, and I am stoked. Now if I can just keep out of the timesink long enough to write the review... You can see the Gallery at http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/customer/index.jsp...
May 10, 2004Not What's On TV, Who's On TV?
Sometimes you're less interested in TV shows than you are in TV stars. You want to see when so-and- so is on TV, or when whoosis is guest-starring somewhere. In that case you want TV-Now, which lets you track TV...
April 24, 2004They Won't Leave Your Head Evah -- Happy Songs Friday
In my 6+ years doing ResearchBuzz I've never had to have a surgical procedure as a direct result of reviewing a Web site. But that may change. After reviewing http://www.wohmart.com/tec/ , I'm afraid I need a Yards and Yards of...
Continue reading "They Won't Leave Your Head Evah -- Happy Songs Friday" » March 03, 2004More Details Emerge About BBC Archive
The BBC is reporting ( http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3525455.stm ) on the first stage of getting the BBC's archives online. According to the BBC article, clips of up to three minutes, including natural history footage, will be available on the site starting this...
August 07, 2003Commercial Archive Offers Commercials in a Variety of Categories
Isn't it weird how when you're watching a television show, you can't stand the commercials, but you can happily explore an online commercial archive for hours? Maybe it's just me anyway, there's a very extensive commercial archive at http://www.ad-rag.com. There...
Continue reading "Commercial Archive Offers Commercials in a Variety of Categories" » January 28, 2003Super Bowl Ads at IFILM
Since my Super Bowl choices didn't make it, I watched the 'Bowl mostly for the commercials this year. If you missed 'em, IFILM has a site up for 'em at http://superbowl.ifilm.com/superbowl/ . I'm not sure that they're all here...
December 20, 2002CBC Radio And Television Archives Now Available
There are over a thousand news and current affairs radio and TV clips at the CBC Radio & Television Archives Web site at http://archives.cbc.ca/ . The site is searchable by keyword or browsable by categories. Categories include sports, life &...
Continue reading "CBC Radio And Television Archives Now Available" » September 10, 2002Twilight Zone
How much Twilight Zone can you stand? Find out at The Fifth Dimension, a site dedicated to all things Twilight Zone ( http://www.thetzsite.com/ ). I suppose the best place to start is the episode guide. The site has a quick,...
June 14, 2002TV Acres Is The Place to Be...
... weeeebbbbb surfin' is the life for me! TV trivia fans will like http://www.tvacres.com/ , a huge collection of TV show facts. There are a couple of ways to view this site. You can search it, which uses a Webglimpse...
November 28, 2001Speaking of TV -- Almost 700 Theme Songs on One Site
If going through the previous site made you all nostalgic for those days when you laid in front of the TV for, oh, just HOURS at the time, chowing down pinwheel cookies and absorbing Doctor Who, then take another trip...
Continue reading "Speaking of TV -- Almost 700 Theme Songs on One Site" » March 26, 2001Huge Television Commercial Archive
Fulfill your pop culture jones at http://www.televisioncommercials.com/ . This site contains a database of over 30,000 TV commercials, findable in many different ways. ... though let me say that I couldn't get the keyword search to work. I tried it...
December 18, 2000Go Go Couch Potato
Thanks Scout Report for pointing me to Epguides ( http://www.epguides.com/ ) which has episode listings for approximately fifty million television shows -- okay, over 1500. I went to the main site listings and threw some fairly obscure stuff at it...
July 12, 2000Pandia Creates Radio/TV Search Engine
Pandia has an online radio/tv station directory at http://www.pandia.com/radio/. It's a little hard to understand the page layout at first, but there's a lot of useful information here. On the left side of the page is a frame that gives...
January 28, 2000More commercials?
Media Researchers! Check out http://www.commercial-archive.com/ , which is an archive of commercials -- over 950 of 'em. You can view them by category of product or item brand. The commercials go back to the '80s and require either QuickTime or...
Super Bowl commercials
UPDATE: Speaking of ads, Yahoo! has announced that they will be showcasing the Super Bowl ads on their Web site immediately following the Super Bowl (around 10pm EST.) A Yahoo spokesperson tells me most of the ads will be available...
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