{"id":1723,"date":"2007-09-22T10:24:40","date_gmt":"2007-09-22T14:24:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/09\/22\/blogtvca-good-riddance\/"},"modified":"2007-09-22T10:24:40","modified_gmt":"2007-09-22T14:24:40","slug":"blogtvca-good-riddance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/09\/22\/blogtvca-good-riddance\/","title":{"rendered":"My BlogTV.ca eulogy: Good riddance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want to spend a huge amount of time on it, because frankly it isn&#8217;t worth it, but I thought I should take note of the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtv.ca\/\">BlogTV.ca<\/a> &#8212; the video-streaming experiment from Alliance Atlantis that launched with much fanfare (or at least a big, fancy party) in March &#8212; is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.playbackmag.com\/articles\/daily\/20070919\/aac.html\">getting the chop<\/a>. According to an internal memo from CanWest, its new part-owner:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;When the site first launched back in March, initial traffic surged, but then declined and over the past quarter we&#8217;ve seen a steady decline, indicating that high usage is not likely. <\/p>\n<p>Moreover, the site has not produced the sales interest we expected, and as such we felt that winding the site down was the most fiscally responsible option.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, it tanked. I don&#8217;t want to be accused of saying &#8220;I told you so,&#8221; but well&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/21\/blogtv-is-cool-except-for-the-bars-on-the-door\/\">I told you so<\/a>. Before the site was even out of beta, it seemed clear to me that it wasn&#8217;t going to work &#8212; primarily because it was restricted to Canadians only (in part because of a licensing agreement with the Israeli company that developed the platform).<\/p>\n<p>As much as spokespeople for BlogTV and Alliance tried to argue (as they did in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/06\/21\/blogtv-is-cool-except-for-the-bars-on-the-door\/#comments\">the comments<\/a> on my post) that the restrictions were a feature rather than a bug, and that Canadians wanted a kind of playpen\/ghetto where they could share with other Canadians, that just never proved to be the case.<\/p>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t want to spend a huge amount of time on it, because frankly it isn&#8217;t worth it, but I thought I should take note of the fact that BlogTV.ca &#8212; the video-streaming experiment from Alliance Atlantis that launched with much fanfare (or at least a big, fancy party) in March &#8212; is getting the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/09\/22\/blogtvca-good-riddance\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;My BlogTV.ca eulogy: Good riddance&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crsspst_to_mathewingramblogwordpresscom":false,"mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}