Re: Sex in the City WBUR style

["Aaron 'Bishop' Read" <aread@speakeasy.net>]

There are some BU grads working as producers on that show I believe.  But 
I'm surprised they'd do that...putting a distinctly Boston advertisement 
into a New York-themed show.  Esp. when New York already has a strong 
public radio presence.

I wonder if this is a case of advertising in specific areas.  Since SitC is 
cable-only, in theory at least (I say "in theory" because it logically 
makes sense but hell if I know whether it can really happen or not) they 
can deliver specific versions of it to individual markets.  So perhaps 
viewers in Seattle saw KUOW and in DC they saw WAMU.   Video overlays are 
amazingly good these days...I saw a real-time demo of a professional skater 
(like, ballet-style skating in a spotlight) zipping around the ice live and 
they had a second screen next to it that was digitally removing the skater 
but leaving ice chips, skate lines, and - coolest of all - the skater's 
shadow intact.   It was even extrapolating what the shadow should look like 
behind where the skater's body was and filled in the gaps.  All in 
real-time.  This was about eight months ago I think.

- Aaron

At 07:46 PM 1/21/2002 -0500, Dave Faneuf wrote:
>When I got to work tonight I found this email from a co-worker.  I'm not a
>viewer of Sex in the City so I'll have to take her word for it.
>
>df
>
>I was pleasantly shocked last night while watching my weekly
>dose of "Sex in the City"... In one scene, maybe more, Sarah
>Jessica Parker was carrying a WBUR totebag!!
>
>The episode will be on a few more times throughout the week, so
>check it out. It's the scene where she walks up to a stand on the
>sidewalk to buy cigarettes, and plops her bag up on the counter.

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