Comments on: Good news for people who like bad news http://twoplayercoop.com/2010/03/good-news-for-people-who-like-bad-news/ this is not serious business Sat, 24 Apr 2010 05:14:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: coren http://twoplayercoop.com/2010/03/good-news-for-people-who-like-bad-news/comment-page-1/#comment-44 coren Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:30:30 +0000 http://twoplayercoop.com/?p=177#comment-44 Part of it is that the late night programs (Daily Show, Colbert Report, as well as Letterman, Kimmel, Fallon and the unfunny gentleman who is on instead of Conan) do not tend to make it to the internet via the more dubious methods (torrents) (although that's changing of late). That gives the content owner a bit of a leg up in terms of drawing traffic as well.<br><br>That aside, Comedy Central's website is still atrocious, but I wonder if you underestimate the willingness of viewers to visit their portal if Hulu content is removed. Maybe I overestimate it. Time will tell. But the way I see it - if you (the general public) were viewing it on Hulu, there was a fair chance you couldn't, or had no interest in, seeing it during it's original broadcast. If that's the case, then the difference between Hulu and another site might be so small as to be inconsequential. I guess we'll see. Part of it is that the late night programs (Daily Show, Colbert Report, as well as Letterman, Kimmel, Fallon and the unfunny gentleman who is on instead of Conan) do not tend to make it to the internet via the more dubious methods (torrents) (although that's changing of late). That gives the content owner a bit of a leg up in terms of drawing traffic as well.

That aside, Comedy Central's website is still atrocious, but I wonder if you underestimate the willingness of viewers to visit their portal if Hulu content is removed. Maybe I overestimate it. Time will tell. But the way I see it – if you (the general public) were viewing it on Hulu, there was a fair chance you couldn't, or had no interest in, seeing it during it's original broadcast. If that's the case, then the difference between Hulu and another site might be so small as to be inconsequential. I guess we'll see.

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