Twitter's always-on video programming plans didn't take long to come to light: The company's COO and CFO Anthony Noto discussed the idea just last week, and then late Sunday The Wall Street Journal revealed that it would make good on this first with new media company Bloomberg, which will offer 24/7 video news broadcasts on Twitter starting this fall.
They are also vocal in their insistence that they do more than enough to make passengers aware of the condition, with measures like posting information on their Web sites and offering tips in in-flight magazines or on video programming on minimizing risks.
ON Wednesday, CBS announced a partnership with Eqal, the company that came up with the online video hits lonelygirl15 and KateModern, to work on video programming thats integrated across broadcast television, online and mobile media platforms.
To fully equip a 10,000-mile strand costs $3.5 billion, says Nayel Shafei, who just left Qwest to found Enkido and work on video programming and other new bandwidth-gobbling uses for fiber.
The new service, using a $299 digital video recorder, will initially focus on offering video programs in eight foreign languages when it is available in December.
The video had mediocre success on music video programs.
Soon after its premiere the video was also running on other video programs including BET's Video Soul, SuperStation WTBS's Night Tracks, and NBC's Friday Night Videos.
Leslie Moonves, the chief executive of the CBS Corporation, said in a statement that Clicker was "one of the leading navigation and discovery tools for video programming on the Internet".
"In just over a year, Jim has created one of the leading navigation and discovery tools for video programming on the Internet," added Moonves.
