NBC.com Scores at the 2009 Emmys
NBC.com took home a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Nonfiction for “The Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Digital Experience” at the Creative Arts ceremony in Los Angeles tonight. We had six nominations overall this year, bringing our Emmy tally to three wins and fourteen nominations in just the past three years.
Congratulations to the entire Late Night with Jimmy Fallon team and all the behind the scenes contributors.
Check out why we won here: http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon.com/
The other Primetime Emmy nominations this year for NBC.com included:
Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Fiction
- The 30 Rock Digital Experience • NBC.com
- The Office Digital Experience • NBC.com
Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Nonfiction
- The Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Digital Experience • NBC.com
- The Saturday Night Live Digital Experience • NBC.com
Outstanding Special Class - Short-format Nonfiction Programs
- Jay Leno’s Garage • jaylenosgarage.com • NBC.com
Outstanding Special Class - Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Programs
- 30 Rock’s Kenneth the Web Page • NBC.com • Universal Media Studios
NBC.com is Nominated for SIX Emmys
The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences just announced nominations for its 61st Annual Primetime Emmy Awards, including a record SIX nominations for NBC.com. This is in addition to a whopping 67 nominations for NBC’s on-air shows, the most of any broadcast or cable network.
Congratulations to our entire team at NBC.com and everyone at NBC Universal for all the GREAT work!
Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Fiction
- The 30 Rock Digital Experience • NBC.com
- The Office Digital Experience • NBC.com
Outstanding Creative Achievement in Interactive Media - Nonfiction
- The Late Night with Jimmy Fallon Digital Experience • NBC.com
- The Saturday Night Live Digital Experience • NBC.com
Outstanding Special Class - Short-format Nonfiction Programs
- Jay Leno’s Garage • jaylenosgarage.com • NBC.com
Outstanding Special Class - Short-format Live-Action Entertainment Programs
- 30 Rock’s Kenneth the Web Page • NBC.com • Universal Media Studios
Tonight Show with Conan O’Brian Premiere!
The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien premiered last night on NBC with Will Ferrell as the first guest and Pearl Jam as the inaugural band. The show moved into a brand new star-of-the-art studio on the Universal Studios lot in LA and is using a completely digital, tapeless workflow.
In preperation for this launch, I worked with show engineers and our Digital Delivery departnment to implement a very efficent, tapeless delivery workflow. Highlights and full episodes are speed through the systems and viral clips can be published immediatly after the show airs on the east coast when needed.
Check out the Cold Open for the Premiere episode or visit the full site at: http://www.thetonightshowwithconanobrien.com/
xSAN Production Lab
24 terabytes of production storage, five fiber channel workstations, Signiant based automated delivery workflows, LikeWise Enterprise active directory integration, and a compete overhaul of NBC.com’s Video Production Lab.
Working with NBCU’s Broadcast Technology Initiatives group, I planned, executed and provide on-going support for a significant upgrade to the xSAN based production system used to edit & process ALL of NBC.com’s video offerings. Completed over the course of a nine days, this upgrade involved a total archive/backup/restore of ALL current system data, restripeing of the xSAN volume, workstation image build & deployment, server configuration and end-to-end speed testing.
This upgrade inculded the following software packages:
- Apple OS 10.5 Leopard (workstation & server)
- Apple xSAN 2
- LikeWise Enterprise (AD Integration)
- Signiant (Accelerated Delivery Workflows)
- Adobe Creative Suite 4
- 25 additional pieces of production & productivity software
Addationally planning is currently underway for a major hardware overhaul and expansion including new storage, workstations, Final Cut Server, and addational backup/redundancy systems.
NBC.com Wins SIX Webby Awards
It was announced this morning that NBC.com was awarded six Webby Awards. The site had seven nominations overall this year. This brings the grand total of Webbys awarded to NBC.com to ten in just the past three years. Among the winners announced this morning were the “Heroes” and “The Office” webisodes as well as the “Late Night with Jimmy Fallon” web series and NBC Rewind, the site’s full episode player.
As a member of the NBC.com Broadband Operations team working with the Rewind Player is a significant part of my daily workload, prepping and delivering videos to ensure the highest quality user and advertiser experience. Currently I am responsible for ALL full episodes for The Office (highlighted as part of the Webby win), Heroes, The Celebrity Apprentice, Parks and Recreation and many more.
Heroes Webisodes: Nowhere Man
With season 3 of Heroes coming to a close, NBC.com is filling the gap with a NEW round of webisodes. I just finished posting the first one, check it out:
President Obama on the Tonight Show
Just finished posting President Obama’s interview with Jay Leno. Check it out:
Watchmen Campaign
In anticipation of Warner Brother’s 2009 release of “Watchmen”, NBC.com provided several unique solutions as part of the films extensive marketing campaign. This included a custom micro-site, streaming of the trailer and individual character clips and an extensive on-air integration.
For this campaign I lead the online video efforts, coordinating asset delivery, reformatting the video for web specifications, and overall preparation of seven high-profile clips for distribution.
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- Campaign Homepage
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- Synopsis
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- Dr. Manhattan
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- Silk Spectre II
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- Header
Unfortunatly the site is no longer live as the campaign ended in March 2009.
NBCDirect 2.0 Launch
Earlier this week I helped launch the beta of NBCDirect 2.0. This product allows viewers to download and watch HD quality full episodes of their favorite NBC’s shows anytime, anywhere, for FREE.
This launch is a major leap forward, as NBC is currently the only major broadcaster to offer almost their entire primetime lineup online in High Definition for free.
For this launch I prepped and deployed over 100 HD episodes and helped refine & QC the final transcoding profiles.
Take a look, download & watch a full episode and let us know what you think! We’re all very excited about this new launch.
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- Home Screen
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- Full Screen
Superbowl XLIII
Watch ALL the commercials online at NBC.com/super-bowl
For Superbowl XLIII, NBC.com supported the biggest broadcast in television history (151.6 milltion total viewers) with a micosite covering the flavor-of-the-event including the parties, celebrity interviews and of course the commercials!
Throughout the weeks leading up to the event and on gameday, I took the operational lead for ALL of the over 130 video clips posted to the site - including almost 70 on game day alone. This involved setting up initial asset delivery workflows, collecting and entering metadata, deploying assets in real-time on gameday and managing the presentation and organization of the content.
Additionally I coordinated the video component of our “Jumbo-Tron” experience, designed to share exclusive video clips (featuring NBC talent) shown in-stadium during the actual game.
Checkout sample videos after the jump or visit NBC.com for the complete library:
GREAT NBC Shows Coming this Spring!
Check out some of the GREAT promos from NBC shows premiering this spring:
Southland
From Emmy Award winners John Wells, Ann Biderman and Chris Chulack comes a raw and authentic look at the police unit in Los Angeles. From the beaches of Malibu to the streets of East Los Angeles, “Southland” is a fast-moving drama that will take viewers inside the lives of cops, criminals, victims and their families.
Michael Cudlitz (”A River Runs Through It”) plays John Cooper a seasoned Los Angeles cop assigned to train young rookie Ben Sherman (Benjamin McKenzie, “The O.C.”). Cooper’s honest, no-nonsense approach to the job leaves Sherman questioning whether or not he has what it takes to become a police officer.
Parks And Recreation
From Emmy Award-winning executive producers Greg Daniels (NBC’s “The Office,” “King of the Hill”) and Michael Schur (NBC’s “The Office,” “Saturday Night Live”) comes a new mockumentary that looks at the exciting world of local government. The new half-hour comedy will examine the mundane but necessary ways that people interact with their government, and ask why it’s frequently so complicated — as everyone knows from standing in line at the DMV, applying for home construction permits, or trying to get the city to fix a pothole.
The documentary cameras follow Leslie Knope (Amy Poehler, NBC’s “Saturday Night Live,” “Baby Mama”) a mid-level bureaucrat in the Parks and Recreation Department of Pawnee, Indiana. In an attempt to beautify her town — and advance her career — Leslie takes on what should be a fairly simple project: help local nurse Ann Perkins (Rashida Jones, NBC’s “The Office,” “Unhitched”) turn an abandoned construction pit into a community park. Opposing them are defensive bureaucrats, selfish neighbors, real estate developers, and single-issue fanatics — whose weapons are lawsuits, the jumble of city codes, and the very democratic process that Leslie loves so much.
Day of Days 2008
NBC.com takes you inside Day of Days 2008 with exclusive interviews, sneak peeks and behind-the-scenes footage you can’t see anywhere else! Working as the Lead Producer / Editor for NBC.com’s coverage of this event, our team interviewed most of the Days of our Lives cast, talked with fans, and captured the flavor of the event. Additionally I produced, edited, designed branded graphics, and wrote accompanying copy for the video preview above. Complete coverage of the event can be found on the NBC.com Days of our Lives website.
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- Red Carpet
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- Maggie & James
