{"id":1738,"date":"2007-09-26T16:43:27","date_gmt":"2007-09-26T20:43:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/09\/26\/budtv-gets-a-reprieve-and-maybe-thats-good\/"},"modified":"2007-09-26T16:43:27","modified_gmt":"2007-09-26T20:43:27","slug":"budtv-gets-a-reprieve-and-maybe-thats-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mathewingram.com\/work\/2007\/09\/26\/budtv-gets-a-reprieve-and-maybe-thats-good\/","title":{"rendered":"BudTV gets a reprieve — and maybe that’s good"},"content":{"rendered":"

I must admit, when I read that BudTV had gotten a reprieve<\/a> and was going to have its lease extended to next year, my first response was: Why? The site, an attempt to create a Funny or Die<\/a>-style comedy video destination, was so painfully lame — despite the estimated $20-million that went into setting it up and getting various artists to create content for it — that I thought it would be better to euthanize it<\/a>, and put it out of its (and our) misery.<\/p>\n

That was my first reaction. But Chris Albrecht at NewTeeVee has managed to convince me<\/a> that BudTV should live on to fight another day. He makes a number of points, including the fact that Bud has spent a bunch of money on the site, and should give it a little longer to find its feet — and he also notes that people criticize large companies for not experimenting enough, taking risks, etc., and that we should cut BudTV some slack.<\/p>\n

Good points, Chris. I’m going to give BudTV another chance. But at this point, they still mostly suck.<\/p>\n

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I must admit, when I read that BudTV had gotten a reprieve and was going to have its lease extended to next year, my first response was: Why? The site, an attempt to create a Funny or Die-style comedy video destination, was so painfully lame — despite the estimated $20-million that went into setting it … <\/p>\n

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